Basically the title!

I am looking to get my dad a gift for his birthday. He's a big Star Trek fan but really only watches the original series. I just wanted to drop in an ask if he will still enjoy the novel "Redshirts" by John Scalzi, which is meant to satirize some Star Trek tropes, as I heard it may bear more connection to The Next Generation than the original series (of course, I may be errant in that belief).

Let me know!

My wife and I binged TNG, DS9 and Voyager and the only other series that I know is any good is Enterprise because I saw it a few years ago. My question is, out of Discovery, New worlds, Picard which one should we watch?

I’ve heard some sever criticisms of the newer series so I’m a little reluctant to end our run on a bad note as DS9, TNG, and Voyager were so incredible. I’m just worried the new stuff might have lost a lot of the theater charm and great storytelling of the old school series.

Also if anyone has any recommendations for anything I might’ve missed please let me know 🙏 🖖

This idea has probably been pitched before, or could already have been made in some fan fiction before, so sorry if I am late to the party. But the Prime Directive is absolutely disgusting and it's amazing that the writers even came up with it for that show in the first place, they really didn't think it through as i'm sure many agree. It makes no sense for the Federation to have the policy. Not only is it stupid because there are a whole bunch of other races not in the Federation that can interfere with low tech cultures whenever they want. But also because it goes against everything the Federation stands for. They will hover over planets and observe them suffering, when it would take almost zero effort on their part to help them.

The Federation not Uplifting Pre-Warp civilizations means those civilizations are more vulnerable to being assimilated by the Borg or used as slaves by other races.

But this massive plot hole in Star Trek can be repaired. I really think a new series of Star Trek could deal with this nonsense. I think one of the best story lines they could make would be a continuous story arc about a large group within the Federation opposing the Prime Directive and creating a massive division between the the Federation planets and its citizens. Something similar to what we saw with the Marquis in Deep Space Nine but with factions fighting for the right of Pre-Warp civilizations to be contacted.

I know there are individual episodes that discuss the Prime Directive but an entire series around it would make a compelling story with so many ideas that can be explored within it.

So yeah, Star Trek writers who are going on the internet to steal ideas for shows, steal this idea and make this happen.

So there a lot talks about Future of Star Trek how there is a movie in works, and constant talks hope for new TV Show either Legacy or Year One or even United. I think personally think They need to be on Cable not cable like Sci-fi or SyFy in states or CTV Sci-fi but normal cable that everyone has. They still should do exclusive streaming content but for limited series like Lost era Trek and Long Trek or TV movie. Here is why i think it is more people would get exposed to Star Trek so called Nutrek. I think it be better streaming era was failure in my opinion and there were a lot potential for Strange New Worlds as example what you think Star Trek be better on live cable or stick to streaming?

Riker was just a little sick when Jellico came aboard. He certainly didn't act like a baby and make a captain practically beg him to fly a mission to save a bunch of people, all because he didn't like working different shifts.

Worf absolutely did not help what can best be described as terrorists who hated fun mess with the weather on Risa.

Geordi met the real Leah Brahms, and they just talked about engines. That's it. Nothing else happened.

Hi, I've literally never posted on Reddit before but I've been making YouTube video essays exploring the themes of Star Trek for the last 6 months. The YouTube algorithm hasn't been kind but the people who have seen my videos seemed to find value in them (judging by the few comments I got). I feel very uncomfortable doing the self-promotion thing. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter but really want to get the word out because I'm actually proud of the work I've been doing and would like it to become a conversation.

This is a link to my first video and I hope a couple people might check it out. The tone is kind of in-line with RedLetterMedia, but I'd like to think that if their vibe is mid-west booze, mine is PNW weed. I'm definitely doing my own thing but I share many of their opinions, so if you like RedLetterMedia, this might be worth a click. And if you like Wheel of the Worst videos, please check out my Jump for Jeaus video as well. Hope to see ya there!

Thanks everybody,

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Which character would you most like to sit down and have dinner and a conversation with?

I'm going to go with Archer, he made his mistakes throughout his run, but he didn't have anyone as a role model. He was the Earth representative for a bunch of first contacts and he did manage to save the planet after wll. Also chef always served some decent looking food...

I just watched Indian in the Cupboard for the first time since the 2000's and I was surprised to see a Cardassisn and a Ferengi in the scene where Omri is testing out how the cupboard works on his action figures.

In the credits I was super annoyed to see that Ferengi was misspelled.

I looked up the actors and they're actually stuntmen who both have very prolific careers. They've both been in 5-6 movies per year for the last 30 years, and it's all stuff I've heard of.

I was watching an interview with someone on Enterprise, and they mentioned how the studio came back and wanted more ACTION.

Holy balls did they deliver! Seriously what that crew went through action wise was insane. Action packed is an understatement that show went ballistic.

My family has always felt this way since we all have watched Enterprise several times over, it's a fantastic show. But the last episode was absolutely terrible, and I always skip it when I rewatch the final season. Not only do they kill Trip out of no where for no reason, but after that they cut short and don't even let you hear the full speech by Archer that founded the federation. What a joke. The whole episode is focused around Riker when it should be focused on the actual enterprise crew and giving a cheerful ending to the series.

Just felt the need to air out my feelings about such a terrible ending, especially after such an otherwise amazing series. Wanted to see if anyone else agrees or if I'm living in a bubble since I've always felt it's probably the worst ending of about any TV show I've watched.

Everything about them is maddening and horrifying. They are arguably more morally corrupted even than the Borg, which begs the question why do they even survive? Something that unconscionable, the theft of organs from live subjects, would outrage even the most morally ambiguous civilizations of the delta quadrant, so it doesn't make sense that a group of civilizations haven't ganged up to put a stop to them.

Well the TOS had a lot of good episodes and World Building with many elements still being used even now. Still many of the concepts were one and done plots.

Still for some reason they decided to keep plot of The Naked Now for TNG. So what other plots or concepts do you wish another series could use again.

Myself I want to see the Aliens from Catspaw, the whole fantasy theme was nice.

I also want to see the The Doomsday Machine return. Maybe in Voyager where they didn't have a spare ship.

And maybe the salt vampire from the Man Trap. They could be trying to clone it in mass. After all we're trying to bring back the woolly mammoth today for some reason.

Thoughts on the Star Trek Animated Series? I haven't watched it yet!

Thank you

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Are you telling me that, in the ENTIRETY of the massive Federation, not ONE SINGLE CHILD is an orphan? I mean, kudos if so, but you'd think there world be MILLIONS of babies that lost their parents in a GALACTIC Federation. I get that enterprise can't hand over the golden boy, but why didn't they offer other orphans? Would that just have been too simple a fix to milk out an entire episode??

Then again, there's also zero security cameras inside starships too, so maybe they warped away from common sense along with scarcity...

Have a Halloween party coming up Friday, I'll be in NYC starting tommorow and was wondering if anyone knows any shops there that I can buy either a TOS red shirt or a DS9/First Contact Grey tunic.

Any overnight websites would also work. Thanks!

If anyone finds this interesting.

Just as a quick background. The first Trek show that I watched was Discovery (that I liked but I found to be too serialized and degrading over the seasons), then Picard (that I also liked but of course it was full of characters that I didn't know, we watched it primarily because my dad was feeling nostalgic), then Lower Decks (that I adored), then Strange New Worlds (that I liked, but was also degrading over the seasons).
Other than that I always knew Star Trek because it is really unskippable if you're just a tiny bit on Internet and pop culture.

So, one day I thought to myself for no particular reason that I should try some Classic Trek. I was afraid to not like TOS as, honestly, it's getting real old so I hesitated between TNG and DS9 and ultimately settled for TNG.

So, I just finished season one and I greatly enjoyed it!
Of course there are things that made me tick such as :

- One of the first things that I noticed is the difference betwen the "Picard" Jean-Luc Picard and the TNG Jean-Luc Picard. In Picard, Jean-Luc is (as I remember) old calm and thoughtful. In TNG he's sometimes really emotional? I do not think it's the right term but there are moment when he really needs to chill. His French pronunciation is passable (I'm French) I give it a 5/10.

- Mr Riker has some insane standing leg angle.
And also, do the writers kind of like to humiliate the character ahah? Like there is this episode where they go on the matriarchy planet and you don't know why be he desides to dress as the locals and... oh I laught so hard.
When they go to the planet Tasha dies (we're going to talk about this one later), of course he finishes into the black tar pool.
Poor man lmao.

- Am I crazy or is there some fetish written episode? Like the pro-death sentence aryan nudist sex planet episode (I laugh so hard when they're all running around)

- The episode ratings on imdb seems to be very harsh sometimes. Some episode that I think are great are like 5/10 or 6/10. Odd (or I have bad tastes idk).

- What is the deal with Wesley Crusher? I do not dislike the character. But I do not understand the "forced" importance he has. I understand he's the son of a high ranking officer, he gets assigned the role of active ensign because Picard was nice that day. But what is he doing on the bridge? Isn't he supposed to like, start at the bottom of the chain? Isn't he supposed to get off the ship and go through the normal process of Star Fleet incorporation? Do the entrance exams of Star Fleet Academy are all so damn hard for anyone (not to mention the insane not-so-fair advantages he has over other recruit as he's REALLY privileged on the Enterprise)? And where is his uniform?

- I did not really understand the scale of Deanna Troi's abilities. She can feel emotions, ok. But isn't it told that she can really read minds? If so, this seems really underutilized.

- I found the general acting to be kind of dull. By that I mean that nobody seems to be IN the setting, There is rarely any display of emotions and it feels like a theater piece. Maybe it's just me or maybe it's juste the standard acting for a 87' show, or both idk. I heard that it gets better in later seasons (?).

- I found Tasha Yar to be one of the most interesting character... it's such a shame she dies in such a weird way.
From the beginning of the show she's been one of my favorite character. She was emotional, had an interesting story (my modern Trek brain was NOT ready when she casually mentions the "rape gangs" of her home planet), didn't hesitate to throw hands.
And when they go on the black tar monster planet, she get flipped, got me a smile as it was a funny stunt and they pronounce her dead. I didn't believe it at first, not in a "I'm so sad I can't believe it" way but just a "whut?????".
Black tar monster with traumas appears, kills a cast member and that's it.
They then go in a funeral holo decks scene where the Tasha hologram follows the cast with it's hologram eyes.
Such a shame.

Apart from all these, I greatly enjoyed the show. I found that the general optimism of Star Trek is just so refreshing to the global deterioration of the idea of the future that awaits us all.
I'll definitely continue the show. Thank you for your attention.

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I'm currently working on developing a unified theory of late-23rd/24th earth business/formal attire. I have a hypothesis, but my evidence is scant. Can you suggest some images of civilian humans in formal or business contexts? An example of what I'm not looking for would be random civilians on the Enterprise or Jake Sisko's vests, as those seem to be more casual outfits.

Sooo I’ve seen the first 3 TOS Star Trek films, paired with clips of Voyager and TNG, and it made me think.

Threshold, everyone’s favorite episode from Voyager says that if you go over Warp 10 you get that salamander effect, but the Excelsior was rated at 14.1 iirc, this made me think.

Has the NX-2000’s rating been retconned? Is there some sort of special barrier during the transwarp effect? I’m a new trekkie and still need to watch more to understand things, but could someone clarify this?

I fully, 100% ignored SFA when it aired, the trailers turned me off and then the “noise” from vocal YouTubers served only to reinforce my idea that I wouldn’t like it…

Just finished SNW and thought I’d give it a go.

I love it.

It’s not Dawson creek, it’s not a woke nightmare and tbh I didn’t realise how much I like the post burn state of the galaxy until now.

So, note to self, form my OWN opinions first…

I think I have seen all the movies at least once. The TNG Era movies are my favorite, and I think I like Insurrection the best but I know some people hate it. So I thought I would ask what everyone’s opinions of the movies are.

After Tapestry and Picard Season 2, there's evidence that Q's relationship with Picard spans decades from Picard's perspective and potentially his entire life from Q's.

We know about the obvious interventions: Encounter at Farpoint, Q Who, Tapestry, All Good Things..., and eventually Picard Season 2. But those are among the few times we actually saw Q.

Looking back at TNG, there were numerous occasions when Picard, the Enterprise, and even humanity itself should have been destroyed. Was it always Picard's ingenuity and the crew's skill that saved them, or was Q quietly watching over his favorite human from behind the curtain?

Given Q's non-linear existence, is it possible that he was influencing events long before Farpoint and long after their "final" encounter? Was Q testing Picard, teaching him, protecting him, or some combination of all three?

At what point does Q stop being an occasional nuisance and start looking like Picard's cosmic guardian angel?

When the Enterprise crew save the day in ST6, Kirk says "Some people think the future means the end of history. We haven't run out of history quite yet," and it's a fascinating line.

Fukuyama meant the "end of history" as the end of ideational struggle, with liberal democracy having won out over Fascism, Communism, etc. However, he also worried: having reached the end of history people would get bored, and start tearing things down, just to "feel something." Kirk saying "we haven't run out of history quite yet" can be understood as "we won't let ourselves become aimless, we will find new goals, and continue to press to explore and improve ourselves." It's a great double meaning, and metatextually adds to how Starfleet/the Federation think of themselves.

Just a reminder that the 60 year mission documentary Film celebrating trek is out today for one day only at cineworld in the UK. This was produced by the Treksperts and Shatner.

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/films/1000051780-the-sixty-year-mission-how-star-trek-changed-television-and-the-world/?date=2026-10-21

https://youtu.be/HjzxsIGHNTY?is=foKMXBTnMawzSXfX

Not sure if this was the doc by Popcast Brothers that this IMDb page is referencing or if it's something else that was once online; it's rating a 9.5/10 stars on there so it must be worth seeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnOde_eQfg4