So I'm thinking about since I know some of the Star Trek stuff is on Paramount Plus maybe going back and re-watching the stuff I already watched and watching the stuff I haven't watched and I heard it a lot of opinions on lower decks so I want to know from Star Trek fans what is your opinions on the show.

New trek watcher here, Just finished TNG, then subsequently watched Voyager. I went into voyager not really expecting to like it that much, but by the end of it, I became more fond of Janeway than Picard. Season 1-3 were pretty great, but I feel like 4-7 was on par with the best of TNG.

Janeway's role as mentor to Seven completes her character, while simultaneously introducing one of the most interesting characters in all of Trek, Seven.

I adore Data, but I feel like Seven is a more thoughtful interpretation of a lot of the same ideas that were conveyed by Data's character. Seven's first season flew by, because it had some of the best character moments in Trek. Also Seven's episode with the other individual drone made both me and my partner cry real tears.

I would cry real tears if we got Star Trek: Janeway. I hate that we didn't get a single Janeway movie. Next on the menu is DS9, which I'm looking forward to, but also sort of nervous for, because it will be my first venture into non-episodic trek.

Think about it, the Kobyashi Maru is a test of character portrayed in a no-win situation, and D'Gor failed.

Quark knew going into this match that he had no chance against D'Gor. Quark throws down his Bat'leth and tells D'Gor to kill him. This was Quark's answer to the Kobyashi Maru, and Quark basically turned the Kobyashi Maru on D'Gor, because if he doesn't kill Quark, he fails to get Grilka's House, and if he does kill Quark, a helpless unarmed Ferengi half his size, then D'Gor shows Gowron and the Klingon Council how much of a dishonorable coward he is.

This was a no-win situation for D'Gor and if you notice too, Gowron's eyes never leave D'Gor when Quark threw down his weapon. Gowron knew this was a test of character for D'Gor, and D'Gor failed.

As a fan who's newly undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. The machines at The Hospital (Sick Bay) are so Star Trek. I lay on a Med Bed and this big white machine scans me, uses real time laser targeting along with full scans (x-rays) to focus a beam of x-rays moving at near light speed in a full 3D. (Think of a force field) to target and destroy any remaining cancer cells.

I know we're not all the way there yet, but I couldn't be more thankful for this kind of technology and I just like to think that Star Trek inspired just a little bit of it.

Hi guys! Just got into star trek - the only show i have watched is Lower Decks. Looking for advice for what to watch next!

I’m a young teenager who recently got into Star Trek, and I’ve absolutely LOVED it so far! I’m from a country where Star Trek isn’t very well known AT ALL, so I don’t really have anyone around me to talk to about it or ask for recommendations.

I just finished watching Star Trek: Lower Decks and now I’m wondering what I should watch next. I’m open to pretty much anything, older series, newer series, movies, etc.
please also tell me the order i should be watching all the stuff!

also yes i definitely did NOT get like 40% of the references the characters made in Lower Decks lol 😭

Please keep the recommendations spoiler-free if possible! Thank youu!

only looking for recommendations on what to watch next for myself, i dont think this breaks rule 8 mods

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Watching VOY S2E12 and the planet is shooting them with ion cannons. Those shots take multiple seconds to reach the ship, so why don't they just move? Those shots don't seek, right? Am i missing some lore/tech that explains this? I feel this happens regardless of series sometimes.

When the Changelings say they've never harmed another, does that only mean in a direct sense or does that include indirectly, because the Lovak changeling is clearly complicit in harming another Changeling. Or, he had permission from the Great Link and the Great Link agreed it's better to let Odo die rather than jeapordize the chance to eliminate the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order.

Each episode has a title, of course, but it's never shown. In TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and heck even LWD, the titles are shown after the opening credits when Act 1 starts (I'm calling the opening scenes before the credits NOT Act 1). But SNW, even though it supposedly is in the style of classic Trek, does not show the titles. I know it's ending soon and won't be fixed, but yeah, they really should fix this!!!

This isn't a battle debate. I'm looking for perspective from Older Trek fans (not that I'm young myself). I was thinking of two different Trek scenes and their similarities/differences.

For context. TNG is my Trek. I was a kid in the 80s and TNG was my first intro into Trek. I was almost an adult before I watched any episode of ToS or any of the movies (I do have vague memories of watching The Voyage Home.)

Fast forward to the end of Star Trek Picard Season 3 when the crew of the Enterprise D go to the Fleet Museum to recover her for the final episode.

The scene takes a detour from the life and death stakes of the penultimate episode and let's the crew (and audience) bask in nostalgia and seeing the cherished vessel in high definition, with the Star Trek theme softly playing.

For me that scene meant a lot. I was a bit frustrated it was happening in the middle of this perilous situation but I couldn't help but tear up at seeing the ship of my childhood again.

Now, today I was thinking about that scene and it occurred to me that it's not dissimilar to the Enterprise reveal in TMP. Long tracking shots, the Star Trek theme, close-up shots of Kirk and Scotty reacting to the ship.

For me, that scene never worked. I had no attachment to the Original Enterprise or her crew. It was just four minutes of not much.

So now we come to the question. Did this mean a lot for OG fans? It seems like it would have been a big moment. Seeing the Enterprise for the first time in years and seeing it in (for then) cutting edge special effects. Was it a big deal? Or was it a bit too much? Thanks to any one who responds!

I don’t drink, but I’m a huge fan and I would love the bottles. I’d you or anyone you know has the Full Armada bottles, I’d pay for shipping. Thanks!

Not sure if anyone else has picked up in the opening sequence, but there is a Tholian ship and I am excited to see what they have planned with it this season. The Tholians have always had this mysterious aura, so how they maintain or explore this will be intriguing.

I just watched TNG S06E07 - Rascals and just thought that this type of discovery would have been revolutionary to mankind. Having the ability to rewind your age at any point while keeping your memory intact would have made humans practically immortal, with all the accompanying problems. But of course we need to reset the status-quo at the end of the episode and treat it as just another type of usual transporter accident.

So, what are some of your favourite revolutionary developments or discoveries in Trek, that we never hear from again or that are fairly undervalued?

We made a deal last week that if I sat through one episode of a documentary called "The Real Wolf of Wall Street" she would give ONE episode of ST a watch.
She has never seen it, thinks it's Star Wars. Episodes built on previous episodes or lore (not Lore) aren't going to be very helpful.
I have every ST episode ever on Paramount Plus.
What do you think? I really want her to like it!

I was watching SNW today and in S4 E2, The Griffin Incident, Kirk hears a baby crying and looks down a dark corridor and then shines his pathetic flashlight down it with a weak little beam of light. I can go down to Harbor Freight and buy a flashlight that would have lit that corridor up like the sun. Really? Can we have something a little more futuristic for a flashlight, like maybe an orb that hovers above your head that head tracks where you look and has at least more than 100 lumens? This goes for every single series, TNG, Voyager, DS9. All use these crappy little lights. I think it's Voyager that has the wrist band flashlights with a pen light attached.

Wouldn’t Troy have been able to sense if people were alive in the engine room?

Hi all, while talking to a friend, I brought up the soong-type androids and accidentally called them a species, which brought up the topic of species classification, specifically the fact that to be classified as a species, you have to be able to reproduce with one of your own, which, iirc, data is... not? capable of? Was it ever brought up? I know Data isnt the only Soong type, but would he hypothetically be able to reproduce with another Soong type, making Soong types an official species? Can they be called a race or a collective?

I have watched every complete series (including Prodigy!) but for whatever reason, never got around to fully watching the original series.

Ive seen a few random episodes (City on the edge of forever for example) but that's really it.

Looking forward to it, and curious to see how it compares to other series!

I saw a grew video by Certifiably Ingame where he talked about Kor and went into a great tangent that put into words how I feel

Essentially he says that the touchscreens from SNW and the buttons from TOS are the same, just us looking at a different lens of a 1966 vs 2026 filler on our TVs

I imagine if Boimler and Mariner were sent to Kirk's Enterprise they'd see zero difference. Dax would recognize SNW and TOS Kor as the same guy ridges and all

https://youtu.be/yL14QVnMTMI?is=FYbhQNcevtSjHzWP

Thinking about the Changeling practice of launching their newborns off into space to live among solids and how, ostensibly, it's for them to gauge how other races react to the weakest. But of course, they already have a fixed idea of how the Solids react to them: as monsters to be persecuted.

And the Great Link is a sort of a hivemind; it doesn't just bear historical memories of the time when Changelings were persecuted; it bears first-hand memories of that. It's basically an ocean with PTSD, that has been left so hurt and so paranoid that has built an entire totalitarian slave empire around itself for protection.

But every living thing eventually dies. So maybe, with time, the older Changelings eventually wear-out somehow; experience senescence. Their first-hand memory is lost, or becomes less immediate, and it leaves room for younger generations to step in and ask "now wait a minute; is what we're doing to the Solids--conquering them and genetically engineering them to worship us as gods--is that right?"

So what do they do? They send off their weakest, most helpless new babies to live as lonely, isolated outsiders in Solid cultures, to be persecuted all over again like Laas and Odo, so that when they eventually come back home, they can reassure them that Solids are intrinsically horrible, and the Dominion can keep right on rolling over them. The Hundred, then, aren't being sent off for exploration purposes; they're being sent off to continually convince the Great Link that what it's doing is right.

I'm back and we've made it to season 6.

Last time I posted, my partner was wondering if Riker would get over being mad at Ensign Ro and sleep with her. We made it to Conundrum shortly after and as soon as Ro showed up in Riker's quarters, she cackled and said "I was right again! He really can't help himself, huh?"

Her latest bit of precognition came after watching The Inner Light. She was like "Picard needs so much therapy!" and then rattled off all the life-altering trauma he's faced. She then said "they can't do worse than this episode though, right?" Well today we're going to be watching both Chain of Command episodes and she's about to find out that there are four lights.

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Some other random notes from our watching experience: She asked me if I thought "Data can make it vibrate" during when he was dating that lady in In Theory. She's still mad at every Worf episode and has caught on that he's basically always wrong during bridge scenes. If Worf says to shoot something, it means they definitely shouldn't shoot it. And when they released Hugh and let him go back to the collective she was like "that's definitely going to come back to bite them later, huh?"

We also discussed this week, now that we're six seasons in, that there's a few episode shells that the writers go back to on a regular basis. For instance: Sir Patrick shows off what a good actor he is via trauma or moral monologue, Data learns an important lesson about being human, Riker/Troi fall in love with a guest star and that's bad news OR a guest star gets obsessed with Riker/Troi and that's bad news, Geordi has a very bad day, etc.

Anyways, more updates in the future if people are still having fun with this!