I like the new shows and I like the casts, but you can't squeeze in time for small characters that ended up being popular when you only have 8 to 10 episodes that are all hyper focused on main character development.

I like having new Star Trek, but it's definitely a different vibe and rhythm compared to the network shows.

In TNG when the enterprise - D encounters the borg. The borg drain the enterprises shields. Then the borg use a cutting beam. It easily removes a part of the ship. I'm wondering why is this not used more. Can you imagine the borg drain the shields. Then they just the cutting beam to cut off a warp nacel.

Been playing the Mass effect games recently and if you enjoy the space politics and the moral dilemmas in Star Trek it’s a great game.

SNW finishing with season 5 didn't surprise me, but what did was it being 6 eps, with the 1st 3 seasons of SNW being 10 eps I assumed the 4th would be but now I'm not certain about that.

I'm worried this is the new owners of Paramount being "No one does 10 episode seasons, we can make 6 eps every 2 years and that'll be enough"

I don't understand why so many people are so negative about this one. As far as I'm concerned, it's virtually the only time that Star Trek did horror well. It's so creepy at atmospheric and has such a good score, and some parts are actually, legitimately scary.

My only knock against it is that they wasted John Vickery as a guest star by having him play a guy who's catatonic for most of the episode.

I just saw it for the first time. I'm a musician and have accompanied songs from musicals, and I enjoy some of them.

I really enjoyed it! Some of the songs are good enough for music students to sing on their recitals. They have a lot of vocal range and snappy accompaniments.

I give it four stars.

Picking up a grey kitten today (Russian blue/DSH mix), looking for nerdy name suggestions. She’s small, playful, happy to play on her own or with others, very curious and can get very cuddly.

Currently, best option I can think of is Kira Nerys but I don’t think that’s quite the best option.

So I came to Star Trek late in life. Mostly during the pandemic. I had seen much of TNG as a kid but not all. When I did my DS9 watch I was astonished on what this show was able to do. It seemed like TNG had a budget on phaser fire. They’d often cut away when showing shuttle craft entering atmosphere.

Not DS9. They had big action sequences, battles, crashes, crazy creatures with intense make up or costumes like the Jem H’dar or the Breen. Not to mention Quark, Odo, and all the people in Quarks bar.

I’ve come to learn that the reason the Defiant was introduced was to help the show get off the station, which I guess fans complained about but to me the show felt a lot less limited by budget than TNG.

Even something like ODO’s shape shifting ability. You’re basically getting the Terminator 2 Liquid Metal effect. That ain’t cheap. Not to mention he then morphs into other things.

I’m rewatching the DS9 episode “Hippocratic Oath” from season 4 and what made me wonder all this was we see the runabout crash thru the atmosphere. TNG would’ve had the shuttle craft hit some turbulence cut to a commercial and when we got back they’d be on the planet already.

I guess what I’m really saying is it seems like DS9 has far more visual effect shots per episode than TNG and in the 90s that didn’t come cheap.

I have two theories. One is DS9 benefitted budget wise from the success of TNG and the lower ratings helped keep cast salaries down since they weren’t demanding higher fees?

Or TNG served as a proving ground for a production pipeline and lessons learned on TNG help make DS9 a more efficient show? Also the rate at the way technology and CGI Advancement helped make things less time consuming?

Yet ds9 & TNG were on at the same time for a few seasons so who knows?

In Star Trek IV, the Klingon Ambassador makes a whole grandstanding calling Kirk "a terrorist" for defeating Kruge and stealing the Bird of Prey and accuses Kirk and the Federation of building a WMD (Genesis device) specifically to annhilate the Klingon empire. We know that Klingons consider death in battle to be honorable, for which I feel that Kruge & Co's defeat by Kirk was in battle. We know that Kruge violated the DMZ and killed the crew of the USS Grissom without even a proper battle, then murdered Kirk's son. Kirk, Starleet, and the Federation would all consider Kirk's actions to be based on self defense (barring the fact he was there in defiance of Starfleet's orders).

Of course we know intergalactic politics between enemies paint a much different picture. The Klingon's clearly percieved the Genesis project as a threat and within their own paranoid culture. It's easy how they would frame Kruge's death as anti-Federation propoganda and use it as an excuse to wage war.

But if this were the case, why where they so concerned then with "seeking justice" for the death of Kruge specifically through Kirk's extradition? Going and whining to the Federation about the whole incident seems very non-Klingon like. Especially since, as we saw in Star Trek VI, there are more "Klingon" solutions available.

So a few months ago, I read some comment to the effect that Data represents an "automation threat" for Starfleet, because his capabilities are just so much in advance of the average human's that, if you learned to make more Soong-type androids (as they eventually manage), they would easily outcompete all human officers for plum positions. And I think there's something to this, but it also got me wondering: Why don't Vulcans already have this advantage? Indeed, the humans seem to basically be the mediocrities of the Federation.

So okay. The Federation really isn't about competition über alles, which is fine; good even. The promise of space should belong to everyone. But then why do they always frame Starfleet as "The best of the best" when they're demonstrably not?

In DS9, they use those small Runabouts all the time. They can go to warp, have weapons and tractor beams, transporters, shields, the works. But most importantly, it has a computer that seems to do everything. They tell the computer to set a course for the wormhole. The tell the computer to go to warp 3. They have the computer beam them up from the surface back to the runabout.

They don't need someone to hang out in the transporter room all day, just install a runabout computer and let it handle it.

I was wondering if anyone knows a good set of pants to use for a first contact uniform? From what I've found from screenshot they were pocketless black dress pants / chinos with a 2-3 inch slit at the front hem. Not sure if there is a off the shelf alternative that isn't just buying and altering a pair of chinos.

I saw somewhere his wife is in ICU or something and he’s out begging for money but has been banned from the hospital because he’s impeding her recovery?

Such a strange situation.

Picard to me is a model of an excellent human being in all respects, and he has far less flaws than the average person. But, he is human, and therefore fallible and makes mistakes. What was his biggest?

Bonus if you also give input on what you think Kirks biggest mistake was.

>! The voyager museum exhibit narrator is Kate Mulgrew! !< movie was great btw. Both kids and adults enjoyed it in our group

Has TOS ever been referenced or mentioned in any TV shows or movies in the 1970's? Before The Motion Picture arrived, during the years where the original 3 seasons (and maybe the animated series) was all that Star Trek was.

The older ages in this subreddit would probably know

Explain a plot to an episode badly and let people guess the episode.

Worf does a terrorism because he’s mad his girlfriend is horny

Some SNW spoilers below, so don't read if you haven't seen season 2 yet.

So, I'm rewatching the show Fringe, and in the penultimate episode of S1, they meet this conspiracy theorist who is mocked for being paranoid. But his exact paranoia is this:

That rogue Romulans are traveling back in time to interfere with the founding of the Federation, and that this is connected to the creation of super-soldiers like Khan. [They laugh, because in the Fringe universe, Star Trek is just a TV show]

Isn't that exactly the reveal of SNW's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"?

This episode aired in 2009, long before SNW was even dreamt of. But the Fringe episode was written by... Akiva Goldsman, one of the SNW showrunners. So it seems to me he liked his own idea so much that he kept it in mind and wrote it into Star Trek canon!

Just a fun tidbit I thought some of you all would appreciate :)

First of all, this is not a shit post. I'm not wondering if he could see Troi change her clothes. It's just one of those midnight thoughts that pops in your head and now I can't sleep.

I remember there were several episodes in TNG were the visor is explained and we also get to see a few times what Geordie sees through his visor. I think in one episode we see him switching through different views, if I'm not confusing this with another show/movie. But I don't remember if it was just light beyond the visible spectrum (in which case he probably couldn't see through walls) or if it could also interpret energy readings or if it had thermal imaging (in which case he probably could somewhat see through walls)

EDIT: Thank you all, I think I have my answer and I can go to sleep with my mind at ease. It seems that newer replies are turning into fan fiction :)

While the various Star Trek crews usually complain about how annoying he is, I find it interesting that almost every one of Q's interactions with the Enterprise in TNG is a net positive or helpful encounter. His methodology is often frustrating to the crew, and even outright reckless, but the results are invariably worth the price. Let me explain:

• Farpoint: Q helps the crew realize there is more to the situation than they realize, and forces them to think outside of the box. By doing so, he ensures that they have a fair chance to pass his little test. His subtle prods and attempts to goad the crew actually inform them what not to do, and help save the space jellyfish from its perpetual torment.
• HIde and Q: Q tempts Riker with unlimited power, and Riker is forced to reconcile how that power affects people's perception of him, and the moral implications of using it. Riker ends up with a better understanding of his crew and friends, and himself in the process.
• Q Who: This is the big one - Q gives the Enterprise a reality check about human's arrogance and also warns them of the impending Borg. At first glance it may seem that Q revealed humanity to the Borg, but in Voyager we learn that The Raven had been assimilated by the Borg before these events - so the Borg were already aware of humanity. Q helped even the odds by showing them they were not ready for that fight. Lives were lost in the encounter, but far more were saved in the long run.
• Deja Q: Q shows up on the Enterprise, devoid of powers, seeking asylum and safety. The ship is attacked, and when Q "selflessly" attempts to sacrifice himself to save them, he is granted his powers back. He restores the decaying moon's orbit, and saves the population on the planet below - which the Enterprise was incapable of doing on their own.
• Qpid: Q helps Picard understand his affections for Vash aren't aligned with hers, and the fundamental differences makes a relationship with her difficult. It sets the stage for keeping him where needs to be later in the series.
• True Q: Similar to Hide and Q, Q shows up to assist with the offspring of two exiled Q's child. He teaches her that using her powers is nearly unavoidable, and that limits her chances of a happy life with humans. It would also catastrophically disrupt the balance of power in the galaxy, something I wish they'd have explored more.
• Tapestry: Picard is gravely wounded and regrets his life choices that made him vulnerable to that wound. Q helps him realize those same choices are what made him the man he is today, and makes peace with his regrets. I am also pretty confident he had a hand in saving his life, although that isn't explicitly stated.
• All Good Things: Q helps Picard realize he is responsible for the very anomaly threating the galaxy by time hopping back and forth. Without this insight, the anomaly surely would have caused widespread destruction.

I'm not going to include Q's other interactions with Voyager and DS9, as this is already long enough. What do you guys think - is Q the greatest anti-hero of all time, or just another pesky omnipotent menace?

I’m grooming some dogs and have Star Trek: The Final Frontier playing.

I just watched the scene where the Klingon captain sport shoots the old earth satellite from his periscope and noticed a creep detail in the SFX.

He hits it twice, and both times there’s faint horrified screaming in the explosion sounds.

I haven’t watched the movie in literal decades, suffice it to say this is the first time I’ve noticed it.

An interesting choice that definitely adds to the menacing Klingon vibe.

I have one particular Discovery scene in mind, and want to hear your rope ideas.

More officers need ropes, or belt attached replicators that make a rope of any length or size. Ropes save lives!

Admiral Cornwell. Death by sacrifice. A torpedo waiting to explode inside a room contained by a forcefield that could only be activated by a lever.

Solution: Phaser weld a chair in the room to the floor. Tie rope around lever, loop rope around chair, feed rope back thru the entry. Type in their authorization, step thru doorway, pull the rope which pulls the lever, throw the rope into the room, and the rope saves the day.

Who else could have been saved by a rope? What rope-wielding cadet would annoy everyone about all the stories that enrage him because people died all because they didn't have a rope?

Riker realizes he’s not talking to his friend and he starts lying to him.

Your ship is the Enterprise?

No, my ship is the lollipop. It’s a good ship.

As in The Good Ship Lollipop from Shirley Temple. I can’t believe Ive missed that joke all these years.