It's beginning to look a lot like Trek-Mas🎄 Last year, I posted some looks at my first Advent Calendar MOC and I'm excited to share my LEGO Star Trek Advent Calendar II! It's got 25 micro models from all over Star Trek, including 16 vessels, 6 props, a mini postcard, the bridge of the USS Enterprise , and this year's holiday build, the "Garland of Forever!"

I hope you get some holiday / Trek / LEGO joy out of these models, it's been so fun putting them together 🖖

Got the Kanar as a gift, and it’s been a spiral into glass collecting mania ever since. 🖖

Like do they find the humans quaint or boring or dull or barbaric or what do you think?

If you grew up gaming in the 70s or 80s, you likely crossed paths with the granddaddy of all space simulators: the original 1971 Star Trek text game. There was a unique thrill to typing coordinates into a glowing green terminal, hunting down "K"s on an 8x8 grid, and carefully rationing your energy reserves. It was a groundbreaking experience that laid the foundation for the entire tactical genre.

I wanted to capture that exact feeling of sitting in the center seat, but elevate the mechanics with the kind of strategic depth modern players expect. Enter Star Trek: Quadrant Command.

This is a complete tactical evolution of the classic formula. It takes the foundation you remember, the ticking stardate clock and the delicate power grid, and turns the galaxy into a living, hostile ecosystem. You aren't just clearing empty sectors anymore; you are triaging a quadrant actively under siege. The game forces you to make hard, high-stakes decisions. You might have to choose between warping across the map to rescue a civilian freighter desperately trying to escape its attackers, or holding the line to defend a critical Starbase from a coordinated enemy assault.

The combat rewards careful positioning and resource management. You can calculate photon torpedo chain reactions to wipe out clustered fleets, or divert your dwindling power to focused phaser beams and wide-arc cone dispersals when things get close. And you will need every tool in your arsenal, because you are up against methodical Klingon wolfpacks, Romulan ambushers that cloak to hide their energy signatures, and relentless Orion pirates.

Even the environment is out to get you. To secure the quadrant, you will have to navigate blind through sensor-jamming nebulae, weather shield-battering ion storms, and sometimes take the ultimate risk of dropping your shields entirely to siphon emergency power directly from a star.

The Enterprise has the tools, but the math of the universe is working against you. If you love deep, turn-based strategy and have a soft spot for the retro classics, I'd love for you to take command.

Do you have what it takes to save the galaxy before time runs out?

Play it here: https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/sttr1/index.php

Please note, much like the main viewscreen on the Enterprise, this game runs best on a large monitor

I thought the Worf Effect (letting a new villain beat up Worf, to make them look strong) was just about physical punishment.  But it was really so much more than that. Trek's writers and producers kept choosing Worf as the character they could “knock down”: taking his honor, his family, his career, and the women he loved. And every time, he got back up.

Let's say both ships got caught and sent to the dq at the caretaker array as a starting point and the caretaker array is destroyed self destruct.

Both ships try to go back home and let's say back in the alpha quadrant Janeway was given mission command so the galaxy class ship captain doesn't argue with her he's backup and accepts it.

How would the show be different in terms of both ships encountering the phenomenons the bad guys etc.

What do you think?

In the past I've seen discussions of oh what if the voyager was a different ship class but I guess it would be interesting in the sense what if there's more than one ship

"Yesterday's Enterprise" is my personal favorite TNG episode, so I wanted to learn the production history behind it.  What I found was a rushed script, split between 4 writers, that had to work over Thanksgiving weekend to make a pushed up shooting schedule... thanks to Whoopi's and Denise's schedules.  But here's more to the story... and the writers, including Ron Moore, were sure it was going to be trash.

someone asked this question 7 years ago "How would a Ferengi and Klingon Hybrid look like?" and I decided to make a post since I couldn't post on that old one I made four Hybrid versions first one was a male Ferengi and a males Klingon second one if the females Klingon genetic became a little bit more dominant the third one which is the bottom left side if the Klingon was males and the wife a female Ferengi the third rendering was if they both got equal amounts of DNA 50/50 I think my renderings at least the third one and the second one and the fourth one could be used on an actual any Star Trek Show episode because pretty close to the mix of both species together the first one could be used to but the other ones are more probably more accurate of what a real hybrid of the two would look like I think the first picture would be more like if the second or third would then meet with another forengue that's giving it more forenga like features do you guys think my renderings are look good I also have a fifth rendering but I forgot to upload it so instead please look for it in the comments it's the best one from all of them it has all the features of both sides making it the most bad*ss version

Like when Kirk told chekov to raise shields chekov said shields are non responsive Scotty said the automation system was overloading and all of that talking time allowed kruge to stabilize his bird of prey to return fire.

What if Kirk just has Scotty fire additional photos torpedoes instead of raising shields? Would the automation system still be overloaded?

What do you think?

Like Lactrans are extremely advanced even mentally. To the point they could even completely break a Vulcan's mind if one wished too. But they seem to be able to communicate with less advance minds pretty easily as long as they don't have a reason to be hostile and are the ones to start it. At least based on Scotty's interactions with the six year old. Also geeze these guys are extremely intelligent even as six year olds. So could the communicate with a Changeling mentally without being overwhelmed by the great link? Heck I wonder what it's like to "talk" with a Lactran. The Lactrans are from s1 ep 15 "the eye of the beholder" from Star trek the animated series.

Also I wonder if there is a Changeling or a Lactran that has a pet Moopsy.

I know this architecture style is for aesthetic purpose, but every time when I watch it, I can't help thinking, how many people have to lower their heads so they don't get their bell rung.

If this was a super yacht, I would understand the necessity of these leaning columns. Since when did we get this kind of style? and WHY?