I’m someone who doesn’t really play video games, but would love to play a good Startrek game. My wife has a Wii. Any suggestions to get me started? Do I need a different console?

I might get downvoted for this hot take, but Disco Season 5 has been fun so far! There is a clear overarching goal for the crew with room to have episodic stories as well. They are using original canon without severely retconning it imo. The acting is decent and there’s some good character development too! I’m intrigued by Saru and T’rina. My only beef is that they tried to hard to reinsert Book into the Disco crew. It doesn’t feel like he genuinely belongs there. What do you guys think?

900 TV episodes, 13 movies. Totally 668 hours of content.

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Do we know of any audio producing technology in the present that emits sound by ways other than a speaker driver flexing back and forth? I've read the entire tng technical manual in my lifetime and don't recall this aspect of living quarters being covered? And what's the sound dampening like? Voyager shows that Harrys' neighbor can overhear his flute easily, yet I can't imagine anything other than walls on a starship being able to keep sound in.

I think there seems to be three* major 'eras' for Star Trek:

Original series era.

TNG era (which includes DS9, VOY, and ENT).

nuTrek era (Discovery, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy).

But I've seen good arguments for a fourth era: the TMP era.

That is, the six films with the TOS crew, could be seen as a story encompassing their own era.

After all, the motion picture starts with a lot of changes: Kirk is an admiral, Bones is retired, Spock is on a kind-of spiritual retreat, the others have been promoted. It's been years since they were last together. Even Walter Koenig wrote "This may be Star Trek, but it isn't the old Star Trek."

What do you think? Do the first six films exist in their own era, or are they an extension of TOS?

*I'm ignoring the Kelvin films since they really stand apart.

The episode Nemesis in season 4 really gets me. You can follow just how easy it is to buy into indoctrination. It reminds me of a lecture my New Testament professor gave on the movie Gladiator, and how it informs your view of justice. On one hand you have this intellectual aversion to violence, and yet you can see yourself in that arena chanting “Maximus, Maximus.” Chakotay’s motivations never falter from beginning to end; he is acting on moral principles…and yet he is manipulated into supporting the side that is ultimately the enemy of reason. On one hand, you have to consider yourself…how are you being manipulated by those bad players, and on the other hand you have to consider how many people with good intentions get manipulated into supporting the “wrong” side. It is so easy to paint with a large brush, and I think if we stop and consider the lesson of this episode l, perhaps there are conflicts that could find common ground. But as Chakotay says “I wish it was easier to stop hating than to start.”

Considering they literally make a meatball of crew members Tuvixed together, I just think it’s an apt title and a better joke.

Goosebumps. That is SUCH a cool design. Vulcan warp ring on a movie-era ship and 80's warp effect.

https://youtu.be/8ApBlFpYHNE?si=qzSmka6UUVSLQaWj

I keep finding all these amazing indie artists out there doing these things, we COULD have flawless 80's-era ships in new stories if they would hire some of this talent.

Who are your bridge crew and department heads made up entirely of officers with parent's or grandparents from existing Star Trek Canon?

• Captain Jack Ransom (based on the assumption that he is Rudy Ransom's son from the Voyager episode Equinox)
• First Officer Tom Paris
• Tactical Officer Jack Crusher (the younger)
• Helm Officer Sydney La Forge
• Operations Officer Demora Sulu
• Science Officer Molly O'Brien
• Chief Engineer Alandra La Forge
• Chief Medical Officer Noah Ogawa

This story is set in the Star Trek universe, some time before the TV episode “Balance of Power.” There is unofficial Star Trek lore that the Romulans had been held as slaves – so I kind of took that idea and ran with it. The rest is pure fiction from my deranged imagination.
The Romulans
Captain’s log: Day of Freedom 3,174
The first proper flight of the new Bird of Prey has gone very well. My highest praise to the engineers who have dedicated their lives to this ship and to our freedom. My praise to the proud men and woman have built it and my praise to the young men who ride within.
The ship has preformed beyond expectations and so has its crew. We are only days out on our first mission when we came across a Deni colony. Is it too much to ask for be allowed to look surprised? The Deni, still this close to us.
The children on board have never seen a Deni up close. They were born after they left Romulus, after the Deni left our world, but they have heard the stories. And that is the heart of the problem now. The children have heard the stories of the Deni, but I have lived them.
They are young, full of life and vigor! They want to destroy the colony, claim a victory to boast of back home. Take revenge on behalf of their parents, their uncles, their aunts. Their grandparents.
I must admit that I, too, twitched when we realized who lay beneath our feet.
An ancestor of mine once said: “The needs of the many outweigh needs of the few.” This is, of course, logical, but I wonder what my ancestor would have said had he been one of the few, serving as a slave to the many. If his needs were ignored for the desires for those who enslaved us. Would he have been as logical? Or would his anger have run cold?
“The needs of the many.”
The needs of the many in the colony below … I ask, do they outweigh the needs of the few on board my ship. These children under my command need purpose. They need honor and glory, but can it be found by destroying these pitiful and abandoned farmers below?
We shall leave a satellite in orbit to monitor their transmissions. I tell the crew it is so we can determine who they spy for, and how strong the Deni still are.
But the truth is, I had no heart to kill them. I had no heart for war anymore.
But that didn’t matter. A new face had shown up on our borders. Ships of humans, with enslaved crew of other races. The Federation.
The Federation will learn. Never again will a Romulan knee kneel. Never again will a Romulan lower eyes and never again will a Romulan say to an outsider… “I obey.”

Jadzia had a habit of making frequent snarky jokes and wisecracks, even during pitched battles and crisis situations. Maybe other viewers found her amusing and I guess the writers thought so too. But for me, the one-liners got old pretty fast. Most of the time, Sisko eats up her quips and sarcasm with good cheer. Maybe Sisko thought Jadzia was witty, or maybe he was just humoring her because he did the same for "Old Man" Curzon's dad jokes.

But there came a time when even Sisko couldn't pretend to be amused. In the episode "The Ship," the DS9 crew seizes a wrecked Jem'Hadar warship but are buckling under stress after suffering casualties, fighting off Jem'Hadar attacks and caring for injured fellow crew members. O'Brien is really distressed over crewman Muniz, who is dying. Worf says O'Brien should kill Muniz to spare him a painful dishonorable death, which disgusts O'Brien and the two start fighting and Sisko has to break it up.

And Jadzia thought it was a great time to drop one of her zingers:

DAX: Tough guys. A little pressure and they buckle.

Yeah, Jadzia, your fellow crew are dying and at the point of physically attacking each other and you think belittling them further will take the edge off.

Well, this one time, Sisko did not chuckle at Dax's joke. Instead, he did a slow turn and locked a thousand yard stare at her and said:

SISKO: Dax! Maybe you haven't noticed, but no one's laughing.

This is the only time I can remember anybody reacting unfavorably to Jadzia's snark or calling her out for it but it seemed a long time coming. Maybe "Old Man" Curzon could never read the room either.

Does anyone else agree? Sisko with hair feels less, how do I put this, “Avery Brooksish”. It’s hard to put into words. Bald Sisko feels more aloof, a little more aggressive/mysterious.

When I watched DS9 for the first time during the pandemic I thought they were going to try & pull a “Bald Sisko is a changeling” on us. But nope.

Or maybe it’s not the baldness at all. Maybe it’s the goatee.

Or maybe it’s all the differences in the show that occur when Sisko goes Bald. The dominion becomes a real threat, his relationship with Kassidy becomes more serious, the uniforms changed between seasons.

Am I alone? Bald Sisko is different, right?

How and where do you stream star trek in Spanish?

I would love to wear Manua's outfits from the episode of TNG called 'A matter of perspective.' They're really pretty. But what about you guys?

Hey gang, I'm getting into Star Trek and I wondered if there was a website for fans to post reviews of episodes?

For Doctor Who I use: The Time Scales and I would love something like that for Trek. Being able to see which episodes are highly or lowly rated is super interesting and useful. I am especially a fan of how the site lays out its data per episode.

Thanks!

EDIT: Here's an example of an episode on TheTimeScales.

First off, this is not for mockery.

I was watching a clip from "Body Parts", where Rom is comforting Quark after Brunt confiscates his bar's assets. The way Max Grodenchik plays Rom seemed very peculiar. Thinking about it, it hit me.

What if Rom has some form of hyper-intelligent special needs? (Again, this interpretation is coming from someone born with it.)

His speech patterns are very similar to those with autism-spectrum disorder, he has a huge knack for engineering (the self-replicating mines, anyone?) and he did a great deal for the DS9 war effort, but he is bad at economics and doesn't fit in with his own people. He also has a very great sense of justice and morality.

Rom isn't stupid or unintelligent. He's the open-armed/highly-adaptable side of autism, but as a Ferengi.

If this wasn't what Grodenchik was going for, it's certainly a very close coincidence.

I want TNG on Blu-ray for sure. It's currently $110 on Amazon. I haven't seen any of Picard yet, but I hear the final half of it was pretty good. The Picard set is on sale for $150 right now. It has all of TNG (assumedly the same as the complete Blu-ray release?), the 4 TNG movies, and all of Picard.

At a price difference of $40 is there any reason why someone wouldn't want the Picard set over the TNG complete collection?

Someone asked how many violations there were in the entire star trek series. So far I've watched 12 season of Star Trek. That's all of Deep Space 9, Lower Decks, start of Voyager, and some TNG.

First I'm going to try to explain the Prime Directive. The rule is the Federation cannot interfere with non-federation races. The first part is the Federation cannot get involved in developing species that are underdeveloped and haven't created warp technology or discovered any alien races, Federation officers need to keep their very existence a secret from the aliens. Violating this can jeopardize the development of the species and culture and is known as Cultural Contamination.

The second part is more complicated and requires the Federation refraining from the uninvited manipulating of the internal affairs of a non-federation group, or partisan aid of legitimate non-federation groups.

There's probably a better explanation, but it's really a vibe over a written rule.

I did Lower Decks here. Counted 5 violations.

For this one I'm going to do most of Deep Space 9 and and make a reference of any noteworthy cases that are worth mentioning. The saving graces for this series is 2 features. Firstly the presence of multiple characters who aren't affiliated with the Federation means less people capable of violating the Prime Directive. Second, the wars between the Federation and Cardassia vs the Klingons and the Federation alliance vs the Dominion means the Prime Directive is null and void for these conflicts.

Season 1 Episode 1-2) Prime Directive Violation, Commander Sisko becomes the commanding officer in charge of a Bajor's Deep Space 9 station. To relieve tension between the Bajoran Provisional government and the Federation, Sisko and his science officer, Lieutenant Dax discover a wormhole and Sisko makes first contact with the residing aliens. The wormhole is recognized as a religious monument for Bajor and the aliens are recognized as the deities of Bajor's religion. Sisko's contact with them results in him gaining the title of Emissary and becoming a religious authority figure for Bajor who repeatedly uses his religious authority to influence Bajor.

E3) No violation, but a Bajoran terrorist attack is foiled by Bajoran, Major Kira.

E6) Prime Directive Violation, Chief O'Brien encounters Tosk, The Hunted. He is pursued by his home planet's hunters who take appeal for custody of Tosk. An offer of Asylum is presented for Tosk, but Tosk rejects it and surrenders to the hunters' custody. O'Brien sabotages the weapon scanners to incapacitate the hunters and allow Tosk to escape capture. Note: Tosk's culture notes being captured is undesirable for both hunter and hunted.

E7) No violation, but near unlawful sale of an alien life form.

E8) No violation of Prime Directive, but violation of Bajoran sovereignty by the Klaestron's unlawful extradition of Dax and a violation of the sanctity of Ardelon Tando's marriage by Dax.

E10) No violation, but a diplomatic incident with the Wadi.

E12) No violation as Odo is not an agent of the Federation nor is he acting as one.

E13) VIolation of Prime Directive, Commander Sisko and crew crash land on a prison planet where two sides at war. Sisko and crew attempt to end the incarceration and the internal conflict under humanitarian desires.

E14) Prime Directive Violation, Chief O'Brien and Doctor Bashir are invited to aid the village reported to be under distress on Bajor. The village's Story Teller and community leader dies while appointing O'Brien the next story teller. O'Brien and Bashir pick the next Story Teller for themselves and appoint the apprentice storyteller, Hovath despite the previous storyteller rejecting Hovath becoming the next story teller after a failed performance. Note: O'Brien and Bashir speculated the Story Teller decided to appoint O'Brien as a plan to allow Hovath to redeem himself and become the next Story Teller.

E17) No violation, as a conspiracy between Federation faction and Bajoran faction to claim exclusive ownership over the station was a result of psychic infection.

E18) No violation, but a conflict between the Bajoran religious fundamentalist, Vedek Winn results in the Bajoran militant attempting to assassinate Winn's rival, Vedek Bareil who was likely to win the position of leader of the Bajoran faith.

S2E1-3) Prime Directive Violation, Bajor experiences a nationalist uprising and The Federation's invitation to manage Deep Space 9 is rescinded. Sisko refuses to leave and uses a work slowdown on evacuating the station as a justification to stay during the Bajoran assault.

E5) No violation, A Cardassian child custody dispute on Deep Space 9 threatens to end the Cardassian politician, Kotan Pa'Dar's career. Doctor Bashir and Cardassian exiled tailor, Garak investigate the Bajoran orphanage and determines Kotan's son was intentionally abducted and left in an orphanage by Gul Dukat for the political fallout.

E10) No violation, Skrreean refugees are given aid by the Federation and Bajor on Deep Space 9, but Bajor's refusal to provide the them residence on Bajor after the Skreean leader, Haneek deemed Bajor the planet their holy land leads to an armed conflict by a rogue Skrrean refugee.

E14) No violation, Chief O'Brien suspects the members of Deep Space 9 and other Federation officers are involved in a conspiracy to interfere with a Pradan peace talk. All evidence of any federation officer willingly being involved was disproven.

e17) No violation, but a desire to destroy a universe occurs.

E18) No violation, but a political prisoner exchange between Cardassia and Deep Space 9 is foiled by Quark, Garak, and Odo. All parties are not Federation officers and cannot violate the Prime Directive.

E19) Prime Directive violation, Science officer Lieutenant Dax participates in a Klingon raid against an Albino alien to honor the previous Dax's blood oath.

E20-21) Substantial Prime Directive Violation, Lieutenant Commander Calvin Hudson and multiple Federation officers form the Maquis and participate in an armed gorilla campaign against the Cardassian government and colonies for removing Cardassian influence from the Demilitarized Zone in response to opposing Cardassian custody of former Federation planets.

E23) No Directive violation, but in Doctor Bashir's escape of the Mirror Universe's Klingon Cardassian Alliance the mirror universe's humans start an uprising.

E25) No violation, but Chief O'Brien is suspected of Maquis affiliation and put on trial on Cardassia. He is found guilty but released without punishment after the Cardassian agent responsible for framing him is found.

E 26) No violation, Sisko and Quark are captured during a first contact with Jem'Hadar soldiers and a Vorta agent, both being members of the Dominion and erroneously claim the Federation is trespassing in Dominion territory by entering the Gamma Quadrant. It's apparent the entire encounter is failed attempt to establish a mole in Deep Space 9.

Season 3 E9) Prime Directive Violation, Lieutenant Riker impersonates Commander Riker after joining the Marquis steals a the Federation ship, USS Defiant and uses it to raid Cardassian outposts to invade the Cardassian intelligence agency's territory in the Orias System to prove the existence of covert ship yards.

E11-12) No violation of Prime Directive, but a violation of Temporal Directive with the death of a historical figure during a time travel encounter to 2024. Sisko prevents changing history by replacing the historical figure's contributions to a historical riot.

E17) No violation of Prime Directive, but several temporal Directive violation occur when Chief O'Brien starts traveling hours through time and changing history. These changes include preventing his death multiple times, participating in a bar fight, and preventing the station's destruction.

E19) No Prime Directive Violation, Sisko is abducted by the mirror universe's O'Brien and forced to aid.

E26) No violation, the USS Defiant almost attacks Tzenkethi settlement while the ship is taken over by a Dominion infiltrator.

Season 4 E1-2) No Violation, Cardassia experiences a political revolution after the downfall of their intelligence agency's fleet against the Dominion. The Klingon empire invades Cardassia under grounds the Cardassian leaders are Dominion shape shifters. The Cardassian government leaders requests political asylum on the Bajoran space station Deep Space 9. The Klingons invade the station despite blood tests proving the Cardassians were not Dominion shapeshifters.

E3) No violation of Prime Directive, but Jake Sisko and Benjamin Sisko violate the Temporal Directive by preventing Benjamin Sisko from being flung decades throughout time and preventing the Bajoran Cardassian Alliance.

E4) Prime Directive Violation, Dr. Bashir tried to mass produce an immunity to Ketracel-White even when an escape route is established.

E6) No violation, Science officer Lieutenant Dax nearly violated the Trill joining laws regarding not resuming relations with past life spouses.

E9) No Prime Directive violation. Lieutenant Dax and Lieutenant Commander Worf participate with Dahar Master Kor's hunt for a legendary Klingon sword. Ownership of the sword could be considered a claim to ownership of the Klingon Empire. Worf and Kor both conspire to keep the blade for themself while Dax planned to hand the sword over to the Klingon Emperor to diminish the Chancellor Gowron and General Martok's authority in the Cardassian Klingon war. The sword was later abandoned. Edit (Klingons were in armed conflict with Bajor, Cardassia, and Federation regardless of if it was just the Cardassian Vs Klingon War)

11-12) Extremely egregious act of Prime Directive Violation. Luther Sloan infected Odo with the Morphogenic virus to infect the Dominion's leading population, The Founders/Changelings/ Great Link with a fatal virus that would kill the species.

15. No violation, An illegal Klingon Minefield is disabled after Worf and his brother infiltrate the Klingon ship with classified information.

16) Not a Prime Directive Violation, Rom starts a trade union after Doctor Bashir and Chief O'Brien encourages him to violate Fergengi Law. Captain Sisko pressures Quark to violate the law by agreeing to the union's demands. This would lead to the Downfall of Quark's financial standing and an economic downturn for Ferenginar that resulted in the ousting of the Grand Nagus. Edit: (Removed from list, Sisko has every right to mediate a labor dispute involving merchants on his station using outstanding debts)

E17) Violation of Prime Directive. Sisko becomes the Emissary after resigning briefly. He ended his replacement, Akorem Laan's career by taking the replacement to the Wormhole aliens to send him back in time after opposing the return to Bajor's cast system.

E20) Prime Directive violation. Jake Sisko is abducted and brought to the mirror universe to compel Benjamin to aid them. After obtaining an escape from the dimension he chooses to continue aiding them.

E21) No violation. Odo participated in Lwaxana Troi's plan to escape her husband when she is pregnant by marrying her.

E22) A Prime Directive Violation. Lieutenant Commander Eddington joins the Maquis and steals Federation Replicators meant to aid Cardassia.

E24) No Prime Directive Violation. Doctor Bashir provides aid to a planet by developing a vaccine to prevent fetus from being born with a fatal virus.

E23) No violation, The USS Defiant's crew participate in subduing rogue Jem'Hadar soldiers who attacked Deep Space 9.

E24) No violation of Prime Directive, but a violation of Fergangi Law when Quark violates a contract.

E26) Sloan's Genocide plan beggins.

Season 5 E1) No prime Directive Violation, Federation officers oncover a Dominion spy in the Klingon empire.

E5) No Violation, Chief O'Brien is forced to aid a demon alien known as a Pah-Wraith to kill the Wormhole aliens who are known as the Prophets. O'Brien manages to defeat the Pah-Wraith instead.

That's 15 14 13 Prime Directive Violations in the first part of Deep Space 9.

Curious to know what are your guy's picks for the most Beautiful Ship in Star Trek. It can be federation, kingon, romulan, whatever.

For me, nothing could probably top the NCC-1701-A. I think it is possibly the most beautiful ship in all of Sci-Fi and totally holds up today after all these years.

I'm trying to find the most reliable calculator for current dates to Stardates. Does anyone know where I can find one?

Simply asking, how would Kirk surviving Generations affect the other Star Trek series?

She may have thought the series a failure, but the resurgeance in the 80's before she died may have inspired her. I wonder if she ever made any public comments?

** if you have not started watching the recent season, do not continue**

I've been watching all the shows and it's been a hot minute but in the past the “founders” were or are known as changelings but in discovery they are referenced as regenerators.

Shouldn’t they still be called changelings and shouldn’t the discovery crew be able to access that information? Or were there different factions that I’m not connecting. Shoot there could be another explanation that I’m oblivious to.

Teleporters? Stun settings on the new iPhone? Mind probes? Androids?

I've only seen bits and pieces of The New Generation TV-show, saw a couple of motion picture movies and that's it.

Would it be ill-advised to jump into Picard with some base knowledge only or it could just fine?

She seemed very taken with him. It might have been a good match, if only for a brief time.

So I’m watching Trek with my coworker, who is a season Trekkie. We watched WoK over the weekend. We were talking about Ricardo’s chest. She swears it’s fake but everyone involved with the movie says it was real. She swears Ricardo was on Johnny Carson and said his chest was fake. She said, "And he used to do these commercials for Chrysler and he’d always talk about the upholstery being fine Corinthian leather and he made a joke about his chest piece being fine Corinthian Leather and it was hilarious.” She said he said it was all glued together - the necklace and jacket - and it tucked into the front of his pants.

We looked online and couldn’t find anything. The only interview with Johnny I found was from the 70’s, and that can’t be it.

To add to the mystery, she had dinner with a friend last night and he also remembered this interview. Anyone else here remember it?

EDIT since I’m being downvoted - I believe it’s real and have read all the articles online. She swears it’s not real because of the interview. We’re having a friendly debate so I thought I’d reach out here for help.

EDIT 2 - she says the BTS picture where you can see his nipples is just really good makeup. I think that proves it was real. Still, it’s interesting that she remembers this interview so clearly.

Now I should clarify right now before I get into it i am aware of the mirror universe and it's portrayal throughout the Star Trek Series and how it essentially fell in Star Trek discovery. Now then here is my idea on a spin off series for the Terran empire Instead of following the universe, known as the Mirror universe It could potentially take place in another alternate universe where the Terran Empire exists and succeeds, but instead of a being so xenophobic, it actually allows species into its fold as citizens or residents. More or less, my thoughts on it is to be a more militaristic form of humanity who is out for conquest but not Enslavement of the Galaxy, but instead an authoritarian militaristic control while allowing other species to flourish within it's dominion. In this hypothetical spin off exploration could still be a plot point within this hypothetical spin-off but instead of it being peaceful exploration it is essentially more aggressive and a scouting mission to determine species be it primitive or FTL capable for conquest or something along those lines At the same time, it doesn't need to follow the plot point of mirror universe in the way that all the species and nations within the Star Trek universe are conquered instead there still could be nations that resist and are able to stand their own against the Terran Empire.

Now this is my opinion and I don't expect anyone to agree.However I would find an interesting if they would delve further in to the other alternate univers that exist.

To those who took the time to read this. Thank you for reading my shower thoughts for a potential spin-off.😊

I’m obsessed with birds and have been for practically my whole life. Naturally, I wanna see if Vulcan has any birds of its own but I can’t find any info stating that they do.

I'm doing a rewatch of all of Trek. DS9 first (my favorite), then TNG (reminded why it was such a strong show), and now I'm on VOY and ... the amount of technobabble (and how much it relies on it) is hard to get through.

While some people try to fit Trek into more of a hard sci-fi paradigm, I have always found it was never worth scrutinizing the science too heavily. The best you can hope for in sci-fi is that the "rules" surrounding in-universe explanations are at least consistent, and Trek violates that in a number of different ways. (Inevitable, maybe, given the number of generations of writers that have worked on it). But the best of Trek doesn't rely on the science part of it, but uses it to posit interesting dilemmas and showcases interesting characters dealing with them.

I'm fine with the suspension of disbelief. Holodecks and transporters have so many inconsistencies and holes that trying to find a consistent in-universe explanation just leads you down the technobabble hole to explain things away.

But Voyager (at least the first couple of seasons) seems to relish on the technobabble, spending lots of screen time trying to explain or figure out a technical problem or explain a technical solution thats simply taking up air time without adding anything to the story. This is my 3rd rewatch oft the series, and I remember thinking that before but now (for me) it really distracts from what is such a fascinating and compelling plot device - being stranded in the Delta quadrant far from home and far from Starfleet principles.

I think it gets better later on in the series (and Seven joins the crew), but perhaps one of the reasons the show had a harder time finding an audience was related to this.