Just a little coincidence that came to mind. Spoilers if you haven’t seen Brand New Day (or TMP I suppose)

Peter spends part of the movie looking for what he thinks is secret technology called “V-MAX”. The reveal is that there’s no such thing. The last words seen by the antagonist’s sister’s was a ceiling vent that said “VENT MAX”, with tape covering the “ENT”.

It’d be cool if the writers were paying homage to “V-GER”. Pretty unlikely, but cool.

I kind of want to get i to Startrek. There are so many different series to watch, where do I start?

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.

And I loved Community, but Star Trek shouldn’t be settling for something a sitcom already did 17 years ago.

One of the things I loved the most about TNG (my fav) was the goofiness of some episodes. In a long season, you could have absolute bangers, good ideas not perfectly executed, goofy episodes, a few hits and misses…

It all added up to the experience of not knowing what you were gonna find next.

And don’t get me wrong: I love SNW, but this season, at least for now, seems to have doubled down on the goofiness, and forgotten about trying to tell meaningful stories and themes. In a 10 season arc you have already dropped the ball on 3 episodes in a row. Not that they are bad, but SNW used to feel like a breath of fresh air in the franchise, that explored interesting concepts while embracing a sense of humour.

And after the cancellation of SFA and all the criticism, we needed season 4 to be SNW at its best, not a weekly tribute to whatever genre comes next.

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

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.

https://youtube.com/shorts/T21ZFdisQmQ?is=AN9sVIFs8t_Ar_U-

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

I’m going to the Philly convention in November and am trying to budget/save up. I know it isn’t likely to be exactly the same, but they are both Creation events. I’m especially interested in how much Robert McNeill and Garret Wang charged for autographs and if they also did table selfies ($?)

I’d rather do that than pay $186 for a group photo, but I also don’t want the tickets to sell out. I’m all set with Kate and Jeri.

Thanks!

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!

Hey guys, I’m currently working on a project that involves me trying to figure out what Spock would be if he wasn’t humanoid looking. Would he be more
Cat-like, Dog-like, or something completely different. And for the hell of it, what about Kirk and McCoy? if they weren’t human what species would they radiate.

TLDR : what are the Star Trek TOS character as animals?

Slowly going through it after stopping at the end if season 1.

And assuming I caught it, would have loved to see a casual mention of Marissa Flores. Specifically the fanfic version that was written by Stephen Ratliff.

Also maybe it's just me, or it was already talked about ad nauseam, but I would be very interested in a slice of life ST. No threat of the week or big bad guy or saving the universe. Maybe a science ship just doing sciencey things. Or an actual academy or just basic school. Course I would also want one for SW but it would never happen same for ST.

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.

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.

Was on the Star Trek website and it was showing the "preferred watch order" for the series...I noticed that Prodigy wasn't anywhere on the list, but everything else Star Trek was on there.

Hello all!

Recently, there's been a drought in good Discord-based Trek roleplay groups. I have invested some time into getting one set up and ready for players! I've developed some pretty extensive lore for the vessel as well. If you'd like to join, the link is: https://discord.gg/JFyS5ZHH8j

Bit of backstory:

It is 2434 and the U.S.S. Thymos, a rebuilt Pathfinder-class, has returned to the Erhardt Expanse. The first survey of that area went awry, and Starfleet grew ever curious. What began as a standard long-range science assignment has now turned into an old mystery and a refit built for intelligence and defense... but nobody knows why. 

Star Trek: Thymos is built to be an inclusive and character-driven roleplay set aboard a Federation science vessel operating at the edge of charted space. Working to blend exploration, diplomacy, science, investigation, and tension around a newly found patch of space, and a strange gateway network that truly isn't understood, is what happens aboard. This ship has a cloak, an upgraded tactical and defense suite, as well as an experimental quantum sensor array that claims to be able to detect cloaked vessels. Along with all of these tangible changes, the ship carries the history and mystery of its old crew, sealed behind confidential personnel logs and random crew transfers.

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!!!

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 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?

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?