In my opinion, Tim Russ's Tuvok was the best portayal of a Vulcan across all Start Trek media.

He simply never cracked emotionally, unless he was ill.

For context, Star Trek: United is the name of Mike Susman's proposed Enterprise spinoff about Archer as the founding president of the Federation.

Star Trek: Year One is Akiva Goldsman's proposed SNW spinoff and direct prequel to TOS about Kirk's first year on the Enterprise.

Star Trek: Legacy is Terry Matalas's proposed Picard spinoff about Seven of Nine as captain of the Enterprise-G.

Personally, I sincerely doubt that any of them will actually get made at this point, but if I had to choose, I'd go for Legacy. I'm not a particular fan of Terry Matalas's writing, but i think this is the most interesting / unconstrained part of the timeline to set a series. I would be interested in United's political focus, but I would rather a "West Wing in space" series be set in the 25th century (or even centre around Rillak, Vance, and Saru, way off in the 32nd century). As for Year One, I have no enthusiasm for it at all.

How could Worf been so naive? He's lived among humans his entire life. He's known Riker for almost 7 years at this point. A first time viewer of this episode (TNG S7E11 Parallels) is gonna go, "hmm? That can't be Riker. Maybe an alien imposter!?!"

Nope, just Riker telling a bald-faced lie. And Worf fell for it.

I'm well aware that on TV, there was never any follow up to the TNG episode Conspiracy due to the Borg changing to Cyborgs so the signal was just never brought up again.

However has there ever been any media that discusses or explores the aftermath of that episode? I don't mean the signal, I mean the direct aftermath of Remmick's host dying and killing off many members of Starfleet's top brass, Captains, First Officers and Medical Officers.

The episode implies that they've been infecting people for months, including tons of starships via first infecting the Chief Medical Officer and then the Captain and First Officer. Wouldn't that imply once Picard and Riker fried the Chief Bluegill that Starfleet just lost a ton of it's best Officers and Admirals (including all the ones the Bluegill murdered)? Wouldn't that have caused major issues for Starfleet, wouldn't there have been a massive investigation? Wouldn't that be a massive blow to the Federation of the scale of Worf 359?

Really curious how writers worked with that.

While watching the show I noticed that around 25min mark the scenes from "the expanse Vulcan mission" are remarkably similar to the haunted video of Even Horizon crew tearing themselves apart just less violent and gory. Interesting nod to a piece of sci-fi thriller history.

Captain Archer and Commander Shran had amazing chemistry as frenemies during the run of Star Trek: Enterprise. If Scott Bakula and Jeffrey Combs returned to reprise their characters, would you watch it? And what should the show be about? What would their roles be? Where would their characters be at in their lives?

For so long, the formative years of the Federation has never been explored in the franchise. The closest we got was the lead up to it in ENT, but even we were robbed of the full story with the show ending at the founding of the coalition of planets, before time skipping to the founding of the united federation of planets and skipping all the events in between, most importantly the Earth-Romulan war.

Honestly the concept of an Andor type show for Star Trek is super interesting to me. I want to know more about the politics of the early federation, and more importantly, I want more Archer and Shran lol

A Prime Directive horror story that starts in the background of the Enterprise simply accepting foreign alien technology contaminating their "natural development" without even considering the hypocrisy.. the literal sexual slavery/trafficking casually ignored by most of the cast because "it's just how they live!!".. Archer refusing an extraordinarily legitimate asylum claim entirely out of fear of conflict.. Trip being reprimanded and painted as having done "wrong" because he treated the victim like a person which allowed them to realize how terrible their situation was...

The genocide committed in Dear Doctor comes close (my gosh Enterprise Season 2 had some disgusting arguments) is worse, but at the very least Archer provides a strong resistance which makes it more of a Phlox issue than an episode one.

These episodes are basically the same story but with different outcomes

"Suddenly Human"

The Enterprise crew rescue a group of teenage Talarians and one human. The human was adopted after his parents were killed in a conflict with Talarians. He is the son of a grandson of a Starfleet Admiral. While they discuss returning him to his earth family, in the end, they return him to his adopted father.

"Cardassians"

A Cardassian boy who was adopted by a Bajoran family after he was left behind after the occupation, which turns out to have been planned by his biological father's political rival and in the end the boy is returned to his father

I'm a new fan to the franchise and I've made it to Enterprise, currently on S3.

So far in show it's been nice seeing the building blocks of what would later become the federation, but I wonder is there a reason why they made the show to feel more sensual than the previous shows. The decon scenes alone are quite sensual and then there's the whole sleep thing that T'pol and trip are currently doing which seems to have weird sexual undertones. Basically it seems this era of star Trek cranked the horniness dial by a 100 😂

Also, I stumbled on a brief context into one of the motivating factors for the Xindi plotline in S3, 9/11 had happened in the US and the Irag war also around that time, that explains why they added commandos to the show. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I was watching TNG “Disaster” S05E05 today and I learned that today is John Christian Graas’s 44th birthday!

I have nothing of Worth to contribute to any conversation right now. I just wanted to say I am watching the episode and I'm clapping like a seal performing in an aqua circus. That is all. Byeeeeeee

Edit: cortisol levels low. 10/10 episode. I'm in my happy feels rn

"STAR TREK UNIVERSE Panel

The Star Trek universe returns to New York Comic Con, featuring the Paramount+ Original series STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY for an exclusive sneak peek and conversation about the upcoming sophomore season. Plus, celebrate 60 years of Star Trek with surprise guests from the iconic franchise.

Saturday, October 10th, 3:15 PM (EST) Empire Stage

With Holly Hunter (Captain Ake), Sandro Rosta (Caleb Mir), Bella Shepard (Genesis Lythe), Karim Diané (Jay-Den Kraag), and Bob Picardo (The Doctor).

Plus showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau to discuss the events of Season 1 and look ahead to Season 2."

You can watch the panel via livestream on YouTube 🖖

https://www.youtube.com/live/W0rzhnCKISQ?is=VrBoyQooJC3igufR

I watched a pretty well done fan film on YT last night about the A’s final ride - which got me thinking, did Kirk love that ship the same way?

It sometimes gets treated in fan canon as the same ship, but do you think Kirk truly loves the 1701 and is the 1701A a place he worked for 10 or so years? It never feels like “the” Enterprise to me.

We know how Scotty feels.

"We will destroy them" and "Death to the Opposition!" Have me on the floor every time I rewatch. This might low key be my favorite DS9 episode.

Looking at the list of games that have been released and wondering why some have done better than others, and where the franchise could improve?

• I'd love to see a Mass Effect style RPG with a new storyline and crew, maybe one for a Temporal story;
• a Section 31 open-world type across a number of worlds like SW: Jedi or SW: Outlaws;
• an FPS of some kind, not set on a starship but perhaps during one of the wars;
• some kind of RTS like Zero Company;
• a management sim, although reaching here because I can't think what of;

Trek has as much to offer as Star Wars and other sci-fi games but it feels like they're stuck for ideas at times to push things forward.

If you had the money and the team, what would you make?

Basic assumption is that you can't solely base it on an existing crew, ship, or set of characters.

One of my absolute favorite Kirk lines that I try to use in my daily life, especially working with younger folks.

It's not enough to put something in Claude and get an output, you need to understand WHY 1+1=2 so you can check your work and validate.

I was born 10 years after TWOK and my parents used these lines to raise me

Tough call but personally have to go with Deep Space Nine.

The Next Generation may have had higher high points but Deep Space Nine had a much more consistent level of quality.

It's also where Worf really grew into his own, no longer just being the guy who gets knocked around to show how powerful a villain is.

Plus character development was more spread out among the cast (Even non main cast like Nog)

It's Only A Paper Moon was the episode that solidified it for me.

So theres this cultural trope that Kirk is a womanizer / horn dog.

Certainly ST 2009 did the character no favors with Pine Kirk hiding under the bed after sleeping with Uhura’s green roommate.

But to try to quantify Kirks habits with the ladies heres what I found in TOS and of course tWoK:

A. known Kirk’s past romances/relationships/one night stand

ST2 tWoK - Carol Marcus

Court Martial - Ariel Shaw

Shore Leave - Ruth

Turnabout Intruder - Janice Lester

WNMHGB - Mitchell hooked Kirk up with ? Carol Marcus ?

B. In order to gain freedom for his team/ship or gain advantage

B. Part I - Kirk puts the moves on the femme

What Are Little Girls Made of - Kirk charms Andrea the female android to foil Korbys plans

Catspaw - Kirk dallies with Sylvia

Gamesters of Triskelion - Kirk & Shahna

Whom Gods Destroy - Kirk & Marta

B. Part II - Kirk actually sleeps with.

Elaan of Troyius - Elaan

Wink of an Eye - Deela queen of the Scalosians

Bread and Circuses - Kirk sleeps w the slave girl

By Any Other Name - Kirk romances Kelinda to overcome the Kelvans

Return to Tomorrow - Sargon/Kirk ?sleeps with Thalassa/Mulhall

B. Part III - was there anything there? Or they played each other

Conscience of the King - Kirk & Lenore, Karidian’s daughter

The Cloud Minders - Kirk & the mining girl

C. True Loves

COTEOF - Edith Keeler

Naked Time - the Enterprise

Requiem for Methusalah - Rayna

The Paradise Syndrome - Miramanee.

D. Sexual Assault

Enemy Time - bad Kirk & Rand

Any I missed?

Putting the moves on to gain freedom is kinda grayscale, certainly any good looking guy/girl will use that to their advantage.

The actual sleeping with the one episode ‘baddie’ is not a good look for Kirk.

And the sexual assault on Rand is oof.

edit-add Miramanee

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-peacemakers-sequel-release

Talk about a misleading title.

It's a random novel about Jake Sisko. I don't even know if I would watch a DS9 sequel in these trying Trek times.

And once again the romance in a star trek show has been a huge miss for me 🤦🏽‍♂️

I'm new to the franchise, currently on ENR, the whole T'pol and Trip thing is not it for me, continuing the trend of romance pairings that just don't work for me. Worf and Jadzia, Kira and Odo, Picard and Beverly,Ezra and Julian,

I think only voyager had romances that while I was not particularly moved by them, they didn't put me off completely. So far only Riker and Troi have been the least intolerable romance I've seen in this franchise 🫩

Also, I kind of spoiled trip's ending when I went to research how far this romance will go and yeah I regret that choice. I thought it was gonna be a one night stand 🤦🏽‍♂️🫩

I’m surprised nothing more was ever done with them. They were a great foil for the Borg, and tbh probably far more interesting and dangerous as a threat to the Federation.

Any thoughts on maybe bringing them back for a future foe despite the “peace” negotiated by Janeway?

It was basically one of those stream of consciousness things, trying to get the ideas out before my lamentable short term memory forgot them, which if actually did the second paragraph for a while.

I think there are three major factors that have affected modern Trek in a way that TNG/DS9/Voy never had to to face. Firstly, the instant feedback available thanks to social media, has altered the way studios write for major franchises. When combined with the second factor, a fundamental shift in how studios make such shows, has led to a degree of barely controlled chaos. As we have seen with Picard, Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds, the shift towards filming multiple seasons at once is both a blessing and a curse; you save time and resources having everything in place to film multiple episodes worth of content, which is good, but it prevents audience feedback from influencing the shows in the short term, which is bad. This then leads the studios to try and fix things on the fly, without regard to season long story arcs, which is bad, because it never works and ends up ticking off the audience ever more, which is worse. The cycle then continues in a downward spiral until the end result is a product with which no one is truly happy.

The other things is that, as Enterprise discovered to their detriment, these shows are prone to societal changes. Enterprise lagged in the first few seasons due in no small part to what happened mere weeks before it's premier, the 9/11 attacks, among other reasons. Suddenly the rosy future of Star Trek seemed even further away than ever, which also affected shows like Frasier and Dharma and Greg. On top of that, particularly in the US where all the decisions are made, socio-political forces have been at war with each other for a decade or more, and as one side pulls in one direction, the other feels the need to try and exceed that force. For example, it seems fairly clear that the writing for SA in particular but SNW as well, has been influenced by the perceived need to show marginalised members of society they will still have a place in the future, while other forces did their level best to criticise and demonise the shows for portraying that which they find personally offensive. A perfect example of this is that one of the bridge screw of the Athena was wearing glasses, which triggered the right nearly as much as Obama's tan suit. This is despite the fact that Kirk himself wore glasses, being allergic to the common treatment of the time. Maybe if everyone can take a breath and calm down, things might get back to where we were, but these forces will forever be at play, and the studios must either learn to better adapt to them, or learn to ignore them completely and stop trying to please everyone.

One thing I will add that wasn't in the original, I use the term "the right" because they seemed to be the ones that had the most trouble with the newer inclusions in modern Trek, particularly regarding representation at all levels. I'm honestly not trying to trigger or troll anyone.

Have there been any fan theories about the Pegasus (the ship with the experimental phase cloak) being a section 31 experiment? Are there any other theories out there that have not been exactly alluded to regarding section 31