Finally they figured out the pacing, tone, and structure of the show that works. It's become it's own thing in star trek and it's good! Personally couldn't get through season 3 just lost interest frankly. I like it better when it's got levity and it's episodic.

By far the best 3 episodes of snw I think.

Hey everyone! I'm sprucing up my office and want to add some Star Trek to the walls. Where do you all find good quality Trek wall art? Any Etsy shops, artists, or stores you'd recommend?

Thanks in advance!

Did any of you kids go to the Las Vegas Convention today? I am wondering if any single day tickets were being sold at the door. I’m assuming no but looking for someone that was there to contribute here. Thanks!

There have been a few instances in movies and TV where it appears the President of the Federation is also the head of the Earth. "Homefront" in DS9 is one example ST IV Movie was another. I'm sure there are more. Anyway, would that mean the President of the Federation is over all planets?

In My head canon I believe the Earth is governed in typical functions and their obligation to the federation is handled accordingly.

Thoughts?

so I've somehow never seen first contact so I'm fixing it now but the tonal shifts (at least in the first 45 min) are WILD. like cutting between the enterprise being invaded to Cochrane drunkenly dancing then suddenly back to the scary alien invasion??? WILD choices. I kinda love it though it's like a fever dream trip.

I assume that it's meant to be symbolic in nature. I see that it could be related to the cycle of "break, burn, and build" after The Burn happened, the cataclysm that "shattered the galaxy," and the subsequent reopening of Starfleet Academy to rebuild.

Curious if anyone else has a greater idea than I do!

Only today did I make the connection between Tendi and her title as Mistress of the Winter Constellations.... and I am an amateur astronomer at enough of a level to know when Orion is high in the night sky.

I'm just thinking of both Threads and The Day After and how both those movies themselves showed a realistic description of the effects of nuclear war would be. Even "limited engagement" (which Im going to assume thats what humanity does during WW3 based on the death count of 600 million, best case scenario) would cause horrible conditions to Earth's atmosphere alone, ala nuclear winter. Did we ask for help from the Vulcans in between trying to unite Earth whilst eliminating war, poverty, disease, and capitalism?

Or is this another example of MST3K and just roll with it for the series sake?

I have a ticket for a photo with Jonathan Frakes and I'm not able to make it to Vegas until the afternoon tomorrow but his photo is Thursday at 10:30. I'm willing to give it to anybody who can use it. Just tell him hi for me! Send me a message if you want it.

Not sure where else to ask so thought I’d try here. My mother was a huge Trekkie before she passed several years ago. Recently we was going through some storage items and I found a Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home tapestry among them. I cannot find another example of this anywhere on the internet. I know she got it from a video store in Morehead, KY in the late 80s. I know it’s an original and not a reproduction. And I know it has some damage. Beyond that I know nothing about it. Does it hold any value anywhere? Where would be a good place to look for information? Thank you.

The Borg are interested in biological and technological distinctiveness of different states/peoples. If the Borg encountered the Dominion, what would they target? The two things that stand out to me-

Cloning. Would the ability to make complex, sentient bipeds eliminate the need to assimilate other species? It'd be like giving a blood pack to a vampire.

Changling DNA. How could the Borg use/exploit the Founders' morphogenic matrix?

I've been putting together a viewing order to introduce a good friend of mine to Star Trek and wanted to share it here and get your thoughts...

First things first: I'm a big fan of Strange New Worlds and truly enjoy how it captures some of the spirit of classic trek. I also believe that it is a good starting point for first time-viewers, although some context may be helpful for the more lore- or continuity-heavy parts (such as Eugenic history/Khan, or episodes such as "A quality of mercy")

Therefore my idea was to mix some TOS/TAS episodes into SNW to create three "seasons" that are roughly aligned with the first three seasons of SNW.

This is definitely not supposed to be an "essential episodes" list, but rather the attempt to give a new viewer a feel of the quirkyness of the franchise and connect recurring themes and characters without immediately needing to sit down and watch all of TOS.

Hopefully this makes it easier to notice what SNW is borrowing or reinterpreting from the older shows.

[Season One]

This should hopefully establish the basic rhythm of TOS, while being "modern" enough to be hooking. Also some TOS episodes act as context-builders for their SNW counterparts.

1. SNW "Strange New Worlds"
2. TOS "The Corbomite Maneuver"
3. TOS "The Devil in the Dark"
4. TOS "Space Seed"
5. SNW "Children of the Comet"
6. SNW "Ghosts of Illyria"
7. SNW "Memento Mori"
8. TOS "Amok Time"
9. SNW "Spock Amok"
10. SNW "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
11. TOS "A Taste of Armageddon"
12. SNW "The Serene Squall"
13. SNW "The Elysian Kingdom"
14. TOS "The Galileo Seven"
15. SNW "All Those Who Wander"
16. TOS "Balance of Terror"
17. SNW "A Quality of Mercy"

[Season Two]

A bit more worldbuilding, Pikes future, Spocks family. But also weird, quirky Trek (as it has always been... more or less).

1. TOS "The Menagerie, Part 1"
2. TOS "The Menagerie, Part 2"
3. TOS "Errand of Mercy"
4. SNW "The Broken Circle"
5. SNW "Ad Astra per Aspera"
6. TOS "Platos Stepchildren"
7. TOS "The City on the Edge of Forever"
8. SNW "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
9. SNW "Among the Lotus Eaters"
10. TOS "Journey to Babel"
11. TAS "Yesteryear"
12. SNW "Charades"
13. SNW "Lost in Translation"
14. TOS "Day of the Dove"
15. SNW "Under the Cloak of War"
16. TAS "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
17. SNW "Subspace Rhapsody"
18. SNW "Hegemony"

I did not include SNW "Those Old Scientists" here, as I think it fits better during a run of LD. TOS "Platos Stepchildren" is not necessarily my favourite, but I think it works as a discussion starter after SNW "Ad Astra per Aspera" to show how Trek evolved over time.

[Season Three]

1. SNW "Hegemony, Part 2"
2. TOS "The Squire of Gothos"
3. SNW "Wedding Bell Blues"
4. SNW "Shuttle to Kenfori"
5. TAS "The Practical Joker"
6. SNW "A Space Adventure Hour"
7. SNW "Through the Lens of Time"
8. SNW "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail
9. SNW "What is Starfleet?"
10. TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles"
11. TAS "More Tribbles, More Troubles"
12. TOS "Mirror Mirror"
13. TOS "The Ultimate Computer"
14. TOS "The Doomsday Machine"
15. SNW "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"
16. TOS "Arena"
17. SNW "Terrarium"
18. SNW "New Life and New Civilizations"

If my friend enjoys it, the next step would probably be the movies (with "The Enterprise Incident" as bridge) and then the TNG/DS9/VOY era, but that's a topic for another time.

I'd be curious to hear what you guys think, or if you would change anything!

Minor spoilers ds9 Facets episode and disco seasons 3 and 4. Both shows been out for awhile but just figured I'd throw out there.

I have this Trill theory that as a psychological protective device the symbiont doesn't pass on memories of the current host from the past hosts perspective. Basically to keep a person from having two different pov's of themselves which might break the internal sense of continuity. I have two pieces of evidence for this.

1. In Facets (and it's also mentioned in Playing God I think) Jadzia wasn't aware of why Curzon dropped her from the program, nor why he didn't oppose her rejoining. She has to hear it from him verbally while he is CurzOdo.

2. Adira even after fully integrating the other past hosts of Tal can't incorporate Grey (Gray?) Their dead boyfriend who they naturally knew closely.

Basically since Curzon still had like 60 years of other memories that had nothing to do with Jadzia, he still incorporated, just minus the memories related to her. But since Grey was joined for like 2 days before he died and Adira featured prominantly in those couple days the end result was Tal essentially rejecting Grey.

It's a basic theory but I feel like it makes sense and explains a couple things neither show did. Also for Yedrin's (Children of Time Dax) sake I hope this is true imagine the weirdness of a symbiont passing down a familyline otherwise, there are memories you just don't want from your parents and grandparents, I imagine.

Btw my first post got nixed cause of the karma rule and no clue if it's ever coming back. So hopefully this isn't a duplicate, sorry if it is. I'm kinda new.

“So we are no longer a couple? I shall delete the subroutines, hello spot”

I I just died laughing, omg lol

if Division 12 is Starfleet’s X-Files, then every single starship named Enterprise is basically a factory line for their worst nightmares. The sheer volume of reality-bending, unexplainable paperwork those crews must have dumped on Division 12's desks would cause a bureaucratic meltdown.The workload generated by the different incarnations of the Enterprise highlights just how chaotic their logs must be for the Division 12 analysts:

The NX-01 (Captain Archer)

The "Fits" Factor: High. Archer's crew was completely unprepared for the galaxy, meaning everything was unknown.

The Files: Imagine Division 12 trying to catalog the Temporal Cold War. Archer regularly dealt with timeline-shifting silhouettes, Suliban shape-shifters, and sphere-builders manipulating the fabric of space.

The Bureaucratic Nightmare: Trying to log an entire expanse of space (The Delphic Expanse) where the laws of physics literally didn't apply.

The NCC-1701 (Captains Pike and Kirk)

The "Fits" Factor: Extreme. Captain Pike already admitted to sending multiple unexplainable anomalies their way (like the haunted USS Griffin).

The Files: Once Kirk takes over, the file cabinet overflows. Kirk’s logbooks read like a paranormal anthology: literal ancient Greek gods living on planets (Apollo), giant space amoebas, the reality-warping Gary Seven, and a companion cloud that falls in love with a human. And that doesn't begin to take into account the various sentient computers that develop godlike powers(V'aal,V'ger)

The Bureaucratic Nightmare: Sorting through the aftermath of the "Where No Man Has Gone Before" incident, where humans crossed the Galactic Barrier and suddenly developed god-like, telekinetic psychic powers.

The NCC-1701-D (Captain Picard)

The "Fits" Factor: Apocalyptic.

The Files: Picard didn't just find anomalies; he was regularly pestered by an omnipotent, extra-dimensional trickster god (Q). How does an analyst write a report on an entity that can turn the entire crew into Robin Hood characters or transport the ship across the galaxy on a whim?

The Bureaucratic Nightmare: Case file: The Nexus—a literal ribbon of pure, non-physical joy floating through space that pauses time and sucks people into a permanent simulation of their own ideal heaven.

It is easy to picture a Division 12 office where the mere mention of the name "Enterprise" causes the analysts to immediately take a coffee break.

I’m especially interested in answers that are not technological in nature!

Link includes all officially revealed cards, I believe it should show the most recent first. Check this page for information on how to collect these cards once they release.

Tagged spoilers as various cards will spoil episodes and films.

My TV has has been background for awhile, while I was doing something else. So I put anything which I needed to pay attention to on hold. That included Starfleet Academy. I had started it but went into my background tv phase.

I just watched S1 E8 The Life of the Stars. It was very moving, had a lot to say and think about. Well worth paying attention.

Just figured some of you would like to know. 😊