This was shortly after Turnabout Intruder wrapped, and it was all over. Complete with Hamlet's soliloquy, and his reading of It Was A Very Good Year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8oi6jVy2Mk&t=9s

I have always been puzzled by the decision to create the concept of a Borg queen, and a recent YouTube video has renewed my doubts on the subject.

The strength of the Borg was largely due to the immateriality of their collective consciousness. Their purpose was carried out by interchangeable drones, which made tactics targeting central installations or subjects impossible, simply because everything was distributed.

The most frightening aspect for me has always been the idea that the Borg were an "it" rather than a "them". A single, galaxy-spanning consciousness, with the drones merely its temporary, interchangeable limbs, in overwhelming numbers.

By creating a queen, the writers also created a single point of failure, depriving the Borg of their key distinction from any other villain, and giving their enemy a central, physical individual upon whom billions of drones would depend.

Since I really can't see any advantage to having a queen, what were the positive aspects that her existence would bring to the collective?

What if, instead of focusing on tactical upgrades, the Enterprise-D refit prioritized science and diplomacy to an extreme level? What kinds of add-ons and modifications would make it the ultimate vessel for exploration, research, and peaceful relations with new civilizations?

On mobile, sorry for formatting. This week I have to present my boss a sales plan for next year. I’ve used a relevant Rule of Acquisition for a bunch of sections.

Are there any good quotes on Star Trek and teamwork?

We are a small company and there is no one below me and only the directors above me, otherwise I would use Captain Pike from Disco S2 saying “it’s an honour and a privilege watching his crew grow and realise what they want in life”

Maybe one day I’ll have my own crew.

I love every aspect of the universe we already have. I genuinely thinks it’s time to move beyond it. I know there are shows in production that need to be finished like SNW.

Personally I’d prefer a movie to close the current (TNG, DS9, VOY & LD) era and look forward to another era of Star Trek. Then like TOS did for TNG pass the torch to a new crew. We don’t have to turn our back on the actors we know and love, there are ways of involving them in a new Star Trek.

I don’t want to continue where Picard s3 left off. I’m talking 50-60 years beyond that. Since the early 2000’s instead of moving forward there has been a fascination with going backwards and writing more history. I believe we need to move forward and embrace a new generation.

As Kirk said “Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew…”

Do you want to make a new future Star Trek with another crew?

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Any love here for Tholian Web? After a lacklustre season 3 so far (with few standout episodes) this is feeling like a return to form!!

Those suits at the beginning look pretty bitchin too!

Unfortunately, my name isn’t Fred 😋

https://imgur.com/a/ERiNyeM

Ok so Illyrians bioform themselves so they don't have terraform world. So bioforming adaptation beside her immune system does Una have? She also seem to have enhanced strength so I'd guess she has heavy worlder adaptation too, but what else does she have?

I find it endlessly amusing how it's gone from the Cerritos going "Ow! Nope, not in the mood" to "Uhhhhhhhh... yeah, we are not prepared to deal with that mess."

New viewer here. I just watched 4.21 “The Drumhead,” where one of the crewman is revealed to be mostly human but have a Romulan grandfather… but how is that possible?

In TOS, humans never even knew what the Romulans looked like before Kirk encountered them. And they’ve always been at war or far away from each other, on opposite sides of the neutral zone. So I’m confused how it would ever have been possible for a human to mate with a romulan, let alone have offspring that returned to the human side of the boundary? Anyone have any thoughts? (Or is this explained somewhere in the future?)

Category: Seven of Nine is a B*tch

you know how they said in TOS doctor daystrom invented the duotronics computer systems that were used on the enterprise since 2245 and beyond. then by 2329 duotronics were replaced with this new fangled computer called the isolinear computer systems. which continued to be used throughout the 24th century even with the advent of bioneural gel packs.

so 2 questions

what would you call the computer systems we've seen on screen being used in the mid 22nd century earth starfleet ships like the nx-01 to say the early 23rd century ships like the uss kelvin?

also by the picard era 2399-2401 are the computer systems we see on screen still isolinear computer systems or it's an entirely different computer system?

what do you think? for sure i don't think they ever mentioned on screen what kind of computer systems they called the nx-01 era computers.

I appreciate might have only been for a day maybe less, but still he's been in enemy hands, probably tortured. So even if Dr crusher was able to heal his injuries, and give his some medications, surely he shouldn't have been back on duty straight away. In the film, Dr Crusher said she still needs to run more test, so in that case why did she let him leave, surely be better want keep him in observation for a while. the Duras the use his visor to spy on the Enterprise and obtain the ships should frequency, why did they not just remodulate or rota shield frequencies when they get hit, as they knew how to do this from when they encountered the Borg. I get maybe the 1st torpedo hit may have done damage which meant they weren't able to, but they could have done something??

Basing this on appearance alone. Maybe different members of the species "shepherd" different things - sentient comets, augments, what have you. If so I'd love to learn more about them - are there shepherds for androids? For entities? What else? That would be cool :)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Shepherd_(species)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jago Pls share other headcanon about alien species here!

It seems like the Vulcans are always looking down at humans and poo pooing our ideas.

Sometimes some episodes are so inconsistent with the established canon or the tone of the series that I feel like we should all pretend they never existed. In fact sometimes the writers themselves seem to pretend that as well since those concepts are never mentioned again. For a reason or another here's a few episodes that I think should probably never have been made or made differently.

Amok Time (Original series)
Vulcans have always been established as the farthest a species can be from irrationality and barbarism. The whole reason Leonard Nimoy devised the Vulcan nerve pinch is precisely because he felt that brawling didn't fit Spok's character. Then we get to this episode and suddenly we find that Vulcan people still have "mortal kombat!" as part of their rituals. I feel this doesn't really fit with the image that was generally established for the Vulcans. When even our current society (that is regarded as barbaric by the humanity of Kirk's time) rejects fights to the death and banned them, it's hard to imagine how Vulcan could still have them. There's hardly any valid argument on how that would be "logical" and the only possible explanation is "tradition", which however isn't something that Vulcan people should care about, especially when traditions are not logical and needlessly violent.

Conspiracy (TNG)
While I don't think the episode is bad per se, albeit very different in tone from the usual Star Trek story, the fact remains that the writers themselves decided to pretend it never existed and the whole situation remained unresolved. Funnily enough the concept was more or less reprised in several episodes of DS9, with the changelings instead of parasitic aliens infiltrating starfleet command and threatening planet Earth.

Trials of Tribble-ations (DS9)
I get the idea, and I suppose the writers wanted to have fun, but one particular revelation in the episode is simply too absurd to consider canon. Basically they addressed the fact that Klingons in the original series look quite different (in fact pretty much like normal humans) than how they look in every other series. I always thought that that we were supposed to pretend that Klingons always looked like they do from TNG onward, but here the characters themselves acknowledge that Klingons did in fact look different in the past and even start making theories about how that could have happened. Which means, according to what we see in this episode, not only some strange phenomenon occurred through an entire species spanning several worlds, but it also was kept secret and never explained to the general public. Nah...

For the Uniform (DS9)
While there are inconsistencies to be found in plenty of star trek episodes I feel that this one more than any other is egregious in not making any sense with the rest of the established canon. In the first place the reason the whole Maquis situation came to exist is because Starfleet didn't want to use force to relocate the colonists from the planets they ceded to the Cardassians. Had they acted otherwise, perhaps they'll have a lot of dissidents inside their territories, but certainly not Cardassians harassing and killing humans and the latter retaliating through terrorism jeopardizing the whole peace treaty. Starfleet must have known the danger involved and so their decision not to force relocate the colonists on Cardassian planets must have had some very good reason. It must mean that they were so strongly opposed to deportation that they preferred this very risky situation. So the idea that Sisko could just fire weapons on one of such planets and essentially force everyone living on it to relocate shouldn't logically have come with absolutely no repercussions. And I'm not just talking about the fact that Starfleet should have court martialed him, but the Maquis themselves should have made him their enemy number 1 considering he singlehandedly and in just a few seconds managed to do what Cardassians have been trying to do to them all along. And let's disregard the fact that it was by treaty a Cardassian planet in Cardassian territory and in a demilitarized zone, and Sisko just went in with a strictly military vessel and fired weapons at it.
What's even more absurd is that the humans that were forced to relocate, relocated to another planet inside Cardassian borders... Why? Starfleet had offered to relocate them to another planet in a federation space before, surely the offer must still be valid. I assumed that the reason they refused was because they were very strongly attached to their homes, but apparently what they were really attached to was fighting Cardassians and defying the federation.

Anyway this is my list and my thoughts, what about yours? Which episodes do you think shouldn't be canon?

Deep Space Nine novels

Can someone recommend some stories? I'm looking for something to fill the void left by the series finale. I would love to find novels exploring before or filling in the lame-finale, bc I'm sure there are a lot about before the dominion war and it's fallout :/

Bajor is an interesting topic. Benjamin and Kasidy learning how to live with the religious obligations to bajor was interesting. What exactly was going on with Dukat? He wanted everything from everyone, a true conquerer, but it wasn't fleshed out enough imo. Why? Really illustrate what truly compels a Cardassian to be "evil" as opposed to just being Cardassian. I thought it was interesting to watch Cardassia rebel, because of how it played off the narrative of Bajorans through the whole show. But they didn't go as far into it bc the show was winding down.

But also if someone can point me to "the badass adventures of Molly O'brien, the engineer-botanist going to other planets and saving them from life threatening diseases, like her uncle Julian :p but with plant juices or something... lol

Is there a special place for trekkies to write these fanfics? TIA

I got into Star Trek about 3 months ago, starting with TNG. Then Deep Space Nine. Now on Voyager.

Then I discovered that there's BOOKS TOO?

Consuming Star Trek is basically my life now

Opinions of the actual shows aside (for the record I'm a huge fan of all of them), I have to say we are in a golden age of themes and intros. I honestly love them all, and do feel like a lot of thought and love have gone into them, and I'm here for it.

Discovery: I can't pick out the perfect word to describe it, but the theme has such an air of... Discovery to it. Sort of what I would expect to play during a scene of some inventor researching and coming up with an idea for something new and novel. The backdrop of inventions and schematics fits the theme of discovery and newness perfectly, and pairs the music so well to me.

Lower Decks: The contrast of the regal musical themes of the 90s era Trek shows with the visuals of the amusing shenanigans the Cerritos is going through is just perfect. No notes.

Prodigy: Giacchino's theme had no business going that hard for a show "for kids," but it's so good and I'm here for it. It fit the shows theme to me of a crew that's new embarking on both a race against time and new adventure, and the backdrop of the Prodigy moving along the cosmos that's shapes of the crew was really cool.

SNW: Shoots out of the launch bay and makes it clear it means business. Taking the TOS theme's A major key and moving it to a G minor (if my ears aren't mistaken) gives it a familiar feeling, yet a completely different tone and mood. Have that with a throwback of the Enterprise doing fly by's, which in my mind is a nod to the TOS fly by's, and you know what you're in for.

And of course, Picard. Probably the most controversial of the latest round of shows, but I thought the openings were great. Season 1 had a theme and backdrop that was more wistful and gave the vibe of "old man looking back at his life," and the backdrop fit that too, and in a way is what the show was about. Season 2 kept the same theme, but the tone was more urgent and serious, which is where the story went as well. And season 3, well, if you're going to have a throwback nostalgia fan service-fest for TOS fans, using the First Contact theme with shots of the bridge consoles (yes it's the end credits, but it didn't really have opening credits) is absolutely going to do the job.

Anyway, I just thought I'd note how great I think they all were. One thing that struck me is how varied and different they all are. They were all going for something different, probably because each show was also going for something really different. And if you ask me, you can see the thought and love that went into all of them and they all absolutely nailed it and I appreciate it as a fan. Can't wait to see what they cook up for Academy.

That's all. 🖖

https://imgur.com/gallery/4VTQ0a2

For Halloween this year, I wanted to put together a video based in the Star Trek universe, with a sort of liminal space/horror adjacent feel to it. So, drawing inspriation from The Backrooms, I present "Deck Zero". Please let me know what you think!

Long thought a myth by most experienced Starfleet officers, Deck Zero is said by crew on the lower decks to be a liminal space, occupying a unique pocket of subspace on every ship capable of generating a warp field. The deck will not appear on any blueprints, and if you're unfortunate enough to find your way there, you may never be able to get out. The Department of Stellar Cartography have been organising expeditions trying to find and study the elusive phenomena. This recording is from one such expedition.

https://youtu.be/Cb8zpxui7eE?si=bB36iz9gVCSimEWI

To whom in your life would you trust with your katra?

I’m by no means a Trek historian, but I remember it being mentioned that the Vulcan records, I believe stated by Spock in TOS, are unclear on when the Romulans left Vulcan to start a new world. It’s also, to my knowledge, not clear if the Vulcans had interstellar travel before adopting the philosophy of Surak. My best estimate is that the Vulcans had space travel, then adopted logic, then Romulans separated, then warp travel. However, as stated, the Vulcans have sparse understanding of the de-unification.

Am I overthinking a throw away line, or did I miss something. It is probably the former, but it would be interesting if it was the later.

I just remember this one scene that made me go "yeeeeeaaaaa!!!!!" But can't remember anything else about the episode.

Security are called to someone quarters, I think it was Diana's. Someone is assaulting her, like holding her from behind. Amd when the door opens, Worf immediately knocks the guy out with a palm to the chin. It was glorious lol.

Any idea what episode that was?