Loved TNG, STV, DSN, and even STE. I haven't watched any new star trek stuff except for [some of?] the movies. I finally have a paramount sub and started watching discovery...

I've been trying to find some character that I like and can somewhat, mildly associate with, and 5 episodes in, there hasn't been one.

TBH, i just enjoy the old series so much, ive just just rewatched old stuff.. or something else. I'm starting to think that's the strat- just rewatch good stuff. But I was hoping someone could recommend one or more of the newer series which have some decent male role models? Or maybe which season of discovery they encounter a strong positive male 😅

Finally was able to wrap my head around the little new continuity things and let the old ones go. To let go of my old complaints and embrace the things I liked. Like all the characters. There's no weak ones like Neelix or Wesley. (And its not even those actors fault. They had huge hills to climb)

I give it a 9/10. I was a little confused when Khans relative and Pike were having the convo about trust. I thought it was clumsy exposition. I GREATLY enjoyed that a lot of tropes were avoided and its always fun when an episode cuts The Gordian Knot. And most importantly, I'm looking forward to the next ep.

I'd say its best first ep of any Trek series except Man Trap, and thats just because I like Man Trap a lot more then others, Of course SNW had DISCO to work out the kinks.

Edit: La'an is my fave because she seems to most greatly resemble a TOS character in seriousness

when watching the picard series finale when raffi sees on her console that the enterprise-D is in the system she says the enterprise-d? "that ship is ancient" so the enterprise-D crashed in 2371 and in series finale of picard it's 2401. so 30 years have come and gone. if the galaxy class was the cream of the crop at the time wouldn't it have been so cutting edge that sure it's 30 years behind chronologically but it was so ahead of the curve that at worse it's like maybe 15 years behind the current stuff.

but then we have seen starfleet use some class of ships for ever like the miranda class (2255 to 2370s) or the excelsior class (2285 to 2380s) yet no one says these ships were old derogatively in the shows

or in star trek III when kirk asks if the enterprise will be refitted when arriving at spacedock to admiral morrow. Admiral morrow said the enterprise is 20 years old and they feel her day is over. but during TOS era they were using daedalus class ships or in disc era the shenzou was like 30 years old.

so im just wondering in your opinion how old does a starship or starship class need to be before it's "old" ? it's just all over the place in terms of ships being cosidered old in universe

I feel like the Enterprise must have increased sensor efficiency by at least 1m%. Sometimes they do it multiple times an episode and it’s always by a percentage.

Correct me if I am wrong, but emotion is a tool used as a means of the brain to control behavior in order to stear our selves into a direction most likely to lead to continued servival or our benifit. (I mean if you think about it you can probably trace any time you felt an emotion back to your brain wanting survival and continued servival and benifit of your family.) For instance laughing at each others jokes and telling jokes for creatures with emotion will probably make them like you more even if subconsciously, and if they like you more they are more willing to help you in a bad situation, and form emotional bonds to you so that your danger becomes their danger.

Sadness tells ua to prevent something from happening again and in the presense of people around us who are also sad strngthens our bonds etc. Although emotion isn't always good like sometimes anger making you punch a person you could have had diplomatic relshionships with. But to claim all emotion is illogical is like saying you're the worst person ever for doing a single thing wrong.

In addition emotion can build up like pressure in a bottle and potentally at the wrong time it can burst. To prevent it from releasing at a bad time or being much worse it would be logical to realease that emotion in a controled manner. Instead of just never trying to show emotion. Instead of taking away all signs of emotion we should cleverly decide when to and when not to realease it. and recognise when we have kept that emotion inside so it can be release later in a controlled and safe manner.

I feel like a culture based on logic would understand logically speaking that emotion is not completely illogical.

My boyfriend keeps saying that Vulcans are literally space elves from lord of the rings and Skyrim. I need help how to say they’re not because they aren’t. This debate is simply for fun.

I know there are threads about this already but…is it just me or do the Klingons on Discovery look and even kind of sound like Orcs? It’s really taking me out of the show. Also did they all have to be bald? I think hair might have helped make the differences less extreme.

Did some googling today and spring/summer 2025 was the most I could find on a release date for SNW S3. Any good rumors I missed? Anyone got any good theories or guesses? I want to plan a rewatch of S1 and S2 ahead of the release. My anticipation is growing!

Is there a Star Trek equivalent to a contingency or policy where a fleet needs to glass a planet for whatever reason?

So HAVE FUN WITH THAT fan fic writers!

Seriously, canonically he's gotta be like 30 by Picard, what happened to him? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!

ALSO-Joanna McCoy and Peter Kirk, but I'm less stressed about them as I believe they do have apocryphic stories.

What are some of your favorite snarky lines from Vulcan characters? I love every one of T’Lyn’s lines, and T’Pol got lots of great ones. Spock was hilarious in A Piece of the Action. But my favorite line has to be from Tuvok: “Mr. Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast.”

Like for example a lost era show with a crew full of characters we’ve never met before who aren’t all related to Spock or anyone else. Just new crew, new ship, mission of the week, morality plays and some action. Will we ever get that again? Honest opinions only pretty please. Also pls let’s not let this devolve into a gripe session about new Trek… plenty of those already.

if you were a 50 year old Star Trek obsessed man what gift might you want for Christmas...

my ideas so far:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1820367861/table-lamp-vulcan-salute-star-trek?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=star+trek+gifts&ref=sr_gallery-1-36&pro=1&content_source=2b10f80f395b57dceb70e1b6dcf1df7178fb59c2%253A1820367861&organic_search_click=1

All comments about the place of children on the bridge of a Federation starship being aside, I find myself very disappointed in the path Wesley Crusher chose for himself (before becoming a Traveler) and the choice to make him a Traveler. I mean, here is a kid who is literally born to be a Starfleet officer. It's something he wanted his entire life, and something he devoted his entire youth to...sometimes even at the cost of it.

He busted his ass to be the best his whole life, and he clearly was making it happen. By the time he made it to the Academy, it was essentially just a walk in the park for him. He had an insane amount of experience aboard a starship and had already been acting as an Ensign for years.

As for his Academy behavior, I understand that teens and young adults have a way of doing stupid stuff that risks their future, and that's perfectly acceptable...but to risk throwing away what you've worked your whole life to be because of some stupid peer pressure doesn't seem right to me. AND to let down Picard the way he did? I just don't think Wesley would ever have made that decision. Nothing about him prior to that would suggest it.

As for becoming a Traveler, from a TNG writing perspective, as I watch all these episodes with Crusher crushing it all I can think it is, "Well that was a waste of time and effort". I mean his entire arc was basically thrown out. Going and being a Traveler would be cool, yes (and obviously a high honor), but it makes everything he did growing up seem like a waste of time.

Shouldn't have Wesley graduated from the Academy with high honors and be respected for his achievements? Did the writers REALLY need to have him nearly destroy his planned future before making him a Traveler anyway? Couldn't they have found a way to keep him in Starfleet AND be a Traveler? Did we really need to be disappointed in Wesley?

Looks interesting.

https://trekmovie.com/2016/11/28/gene-roddenberrys-abandoned-star-trek-ii-film-concept/

I got for Black Friday the BluRay DVD of Batman 66 series and first episode had Frank Gorshin. I recall he was in the episode Let This Be Your Last Battleground a very heavy handed episode about the evils of racial bigotry. On one hand I liked how it called out the absurdity of bigotry but it was also a bit too almost cartoonish in delivery.

It’s not a heavily talked about episode and Frank Gorshin was only memorable aspect. I always thought this should have been a 30 minute cartoon episode. What are your thoughts of this episode?

Ok when George Takei came out in 2005, I remember Shatner being interviewed on a show like Entertainment Tonight, for a project he was working on that might have been Tek War? And because Takei had just come out the interviewer asked him, “so did you guys know he was gay back in the day?”

And without skipping a beat Shatner said, “well, I suspected as much, cuz he used to set his phaser, on fabulous!” Haha! The pause before fabulous and the slight emphasis on the word was hilarious. It was one of the best comebacks I’ve ever heard to what someone thinks is a dumb question. It seemed like he made it up on the spot!

PS I’m gay and found this hilarious and not offensive at all, the way he said it haha. But I’ve never connected with anyone who actually heard this interview!

I am wondering if anyone knows where I can get an approximately 8" model of the Enterprise that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I am looking for one as a wedding cake topper and I have not been having much luck. They are either too big, too small or out of my budget. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Patiently, waiting in a tight cat suit…

Much is made of the regular design updates to Klingons which are largely ignored until a pathological need to overexplain canon discrepancies creates weird stories but do you think we're ever going to have explained why Romulans developed weird ridged foreheads or do you think we're going to ignore that?

My personal theory is we know that Klingons and Romulans had an alliance that allowed them to swap technology like ships and cloaking and whatnot, but what if the same biotechnology that Klingons used to restore themselves from TOS Klingons was also shared and it just had a weird side effect on Romulans?

Is there a list of all the episodes that were based on fan submitted scripts? And maybe one about scripts that made it far but were never produced?

I wish there were a Star Trek Christmas special. Not just any Star Trek, but a Christmas special in The Animated Series. With all its oddly charm so bright, it'd make a trekkie Christmas one dark night.

Like, pretty much ALL humanoids have the same ancestry for the most part, and are all equally human for the most part barring some biological and cultural differences, what makes Earth people more human? Its honestly why I prefer it whenever they're called Terran in universe.

My dream is to have an anime series that follows Enterprise during the Earth-Romulan War or a movie with a crew carrying out an important mission during the Dominion War.

Books in bold have not been on sale in a long time:

Star Trek: 13 The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane on 1983-12-01

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An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive, and the U.S.S. Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew, and time becomes meaningless. Captain Kirk and his friends must repair the fabric of the Universe before time is lost forever.

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Star Trek: 23 Ishmael by Barbara Hambly on 1985-05-01

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The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12, and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born.

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Star Trek: 25 Dwellers In The Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonanno on 1985-09-01

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DWELLERS IN THE CRUCIBLE Warrantors of Peace: the Federation's daring experiment to prevent war among its members. each Warrantor, man or woman is hostage for the government of his native world -- and is instantly killed if that world breaks the peace. Now Romulans have kidnapped six Warrantors, to foment political chaos -- and then civil war -- within the Federation. Captain Kirk must send Sulu to infiltrate Romulan territory, find the hostages, and bring them back alive -- before the Federation self-destructs!

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Star Trek: 80 The Joy Machine by James Gunn on 1996-09-01

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Timshel was once the vacation spot of the galaxy, full of culture, natural beauty, and friendly, hospitable inhabitants. But now Timshel has cut itself off from the universe. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Concerned, the Federation has sent agents to investigate, but none have returned. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are shocked to discover the truth: the people of Timshel have succumbed to an insidious new technology that guarantees every citizen total pleasure, a soul-destroying ecstasy that has enslaved their entire civilization. Kirk and Spock have faced many threats before, but now they face the most seductive menace of all: perfect happiness. And the rest of the Federation may soon fall under the irresistible control of the Joy Machine.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ascendance by David R. George III on 2015-12-29

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On the original Deep Space Nine, Captain Kira Nerys watches as the nearby wormhole opens and discharges a single, bladelike vessel. Attempts to contact its crew fail, and the ship is soon followed by another vessel of similar design. When an armada subsequently begins to emerge from the wormhole, it seems clear that DS9 is under attack. Kira orders her first officer, Commander Elias Vaughn, to board the U.S.S. Defiant and defend the station, and alerts Starfleet to send additional forces as her crew prepares DS9’s shields and weaponry for the onslaught to come. Meanwhile, on the lead ship, Iliana Ghemor considers launching an attack on DS9 and finally ending the life of Kira, the fountainhead of all the ills in her miserable life. Her vengeance demands more than mere death, though—it requires pain. Ghemor refocuses, choosing to follow her plan to mete out her revenge on the captain by first decimating the population of Bajor…

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Star Trek: Section 31: Control by David Mack on 2017-04-25

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No law…no conscience…no mercy. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, and answering to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group pledged to defend the Federation at any cost. The discovery of a two-hundred-year-old secret gives Doctor Julian Bashir his best chance yet to expose and destroy the illegal spy organization. But his foes won’t go down without a fight, and his mission to protect the Federation he loves just end up triggering its destruction. Only one thing is for certain: this time, the price of victory will be paid with Bashir’s dearest blood.

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Star Trek: Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno on 1987-07-01

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In the twenty-first century: Years before the formal first contact that would be recorded in Earth's history, a Vulcan space vessel crash-lands in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise.... In the twenty-third century: A new novel called Strangers from the Sky reveals the truth about this heretofore unknown first contact. Reading the novel leads to nightmares that torment Admiral James T. Kirk -- dreams of his dead comrades, Gary Mitchell, Lee Kelso, and Elizabeth Dehner, from his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise visions of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: 13 The Eyes Of The Beholders by A.C. Crispin on 1990-09-01

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After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the U.S.S. Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space. At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the Starship Enterprise.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: 36 Into The Nebula by Gene Deweese on 1995-07-01

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While exploring an unknown region of space, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a strange nebular dust. Upon further investigation, they discover a planet called Krantin on which the plant and animal life, as well as the civilization are dying. A series of explosions and a ship that simply disappears into thin air lead the crew to believe another group is causing the devastation of the planet. The leader of the planet's society, however, is wary of trusting the starship Enterprise crewmembers, and has the away team arrested. With time running out, Data must find a way to save his crewmates or watch as two worlds are destroyed.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: 39 Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt on 1996-03-01

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While its own saucer section receives repairs, the Enterprise tests a new experimental saucer that can, in theory, survive a crash landing on a planetary surface. Riker, Data, Worf, La Forge, and Starfleet's Admiral Nechayev will risk their lives to test this new sauce. But that dangerous test turns even more perilous when hostile forces seize control of the new saucer, and turn it against the Enterprise.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: 7 Masks by John Vornholt on 1989-07-01

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The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world with a feudal culture where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. Captain Picard and an away team don masks of their own to begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission is to establish diplomatic relations. But shortly after transporting, Picard and his party lose contact with the ship, and Commander Riker leads a search party down to the planet to find them. Both men, are unaware that their searches, indeed, the ship's entire mission are part of the plan of a madman, a madman who is setting the stage for a trap that will ensnare both U.S.S. Enterprise landing parties, and leave him to seize control of the awesome Wisdom Mask as well as the planet Lorca itself.

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Star Trek: The Original Series: Savage Trade by Tony Daniel on 2015-02-24

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An all-new Star Trek: Original Series novel from noted sci-fi author Tony Daniel, featuring James T. Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise! The U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk is en route to the extreme edge of the Alpha Quadrant, and to a region known as the Vara Nebula. Its mission: to investigate why science outpost Zeta Gibraltar is not answering all Federation hailing messages. When the Enterprise arrives, a scan shows no life forms in the science station. Kirk leads a landing party and quickly discovers the reason for the strange silence—signs of a violent firefight are everywhere. Zeta Gibraltar has been completely raided. Yet there are no bodies and the entire roster of station personnel is missing…

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Upon their return at the start of next gen, Romulan Gul Dukat said the following:

“Matters more urgent caused our absence.”

Was it ever established what he meant by this, or was it simply bluster?

He’s jealous, possessive, creepy, and sometimes basically a sex pest. It's one of the things that annoys me the most about Voyager.

Look, I know I'm a weirdo but my favourite era within Star Trek is the Beige Era. Around the time when Kirk becomes an Admiral but before the Red Plague (the uniforms of the later movies in 2278).

Does anyone have resources for this era? Art? Specs? I've seen Admiral Nogura's star fleet Command booklet.

(this is for a face-to-face Star Trek Adventures game I'm planning for the new year set just after The Motion Picture)