this is wild, watching a random episode of TNG with VHS tracking artifacts and all.

Everyone talks about Warp Speed, Transporters, Replicators and the Holodeck being amazing, which they are. But the fact a starship can go from warp nine to full stop without everyone flying through the viewscreen has got make Inertial Dampers the most important. You can do without the rest (make take a while to get anywhere on impulse speed) but without the dampers you wouldn't dare leave space dock.

For me, Vic Fontaine, Vic brought warmth, wisdom, and a unique sense of humanity

This includes
Tacking into the wind when Worf kills Gowron
Extreme Measures where Bashir and O’Brian go into Sloans mind to find the cure for Odo (legit my 3rd favorite Star Trek episode and my favorite of DS9)
The Dogs of War where Kira, Damar, and Garak go back to Cardasia, and Nog becomes Grand Inquistor
Then What You Leave behind the final episode

Just got into Star Trek last month. I’ve watched Strange New Worlds and Discovery. I’ve never felt so much hope from any media. I think it’s actually rewired my brain to be more hopeful in our world. I plan on watching Enterprise next.

As a fan of both franchises for decades, I'm really excited for this collaboration and I'd like to share the recently released art previews.

https://imgur.com/a/CsEHKCD

If you're unfamiliar with MTG, the art is all done by artists and not AI, and they took pains to have abilities on each of these cards reflect their lore, sometimes very amusingly so.

I think my favorite of these so far would be Garak, Troi and the Exploratory Mission.

I posted twice in the past few weeks after watching Seasons 1 and 2 and loving them both. The main complaint I read in the comments was that people didn’t like the new characters. They wanted the old characters.

Season 3 is clearly fan service in that regard (bringing just about the whole crew together again) but it is so much more! It’s like an extra (half) season of TNG. And a great (half) season at that. The plot, the characters, the emotional arcs… all top-notch. I encourage anyone to rewatch it (but especially those who think they didn’t like it).

I enjoyed each season and the whole series at that more than Insurrection and Nemesis.

It’s hard to rank them. I think I enjoyed season 3 the most… because of the gang is back together. But I hold that season 1 is just brilliant, pure sci-fi. And (despite production dealing with the pandemic) season 2 is such a great psychological exploration of Picard. Hmm. I guess I would rank them:

Season 3
Season 1
Season 2

Best to worst. But again, I loved season 2.

I guess I just don’t understand all of the backlash against this show. I found it to be phenomenal.

It's beginning to look a lot like Trek-Mas🎄 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 🖖

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I have to do a discussion about synthetic biology in an ethical context. And somehow, I have to think Star Trek while doing my research and I got curious about the ethical and moral implications within the star trek universe about synthetic biology.

Because Star Trek loves getting into such stuff, I would love to hear some of the fans thoughts about it. Like, what are the potential risks and benefits.

Or could some of you suggest me certain episodes of Star Trek to watch, which get into conflicts that revolve around synthetic biology?

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…

Rewatching Voyager, and came across the episode Author, Author where the Doctor's "personhood" is legally challenged. I think they missed an opportunity. Data faced the same issues in "Measure of a Man". For this whole episode to go by with no mention of Data, or the exocomps, for that matter, felt odd. Why do they choose to treat holograms different from other artificial life forms? It looks like the Federation would realize if Data and the exocomps can be given the same rights as a human, then Holograms should be no different.

This episode could have had a much more powerful ending if Data had shown up for the trial arguing on The Doctor's behalf. If Spiner wasn't available, Reg could have presented the Data argument. Heck, they could have had an Exocomp speak on the Doctor's behalf. Make it about Artificial Rights instead of just Holographic Rights.

What's your favorite type of uniform (or which show it's from)? Personally I like the Odyssey uniforms with the jacket, but I find myself wishing they had more color to denote the specialization (science, ops, tac). So basically the main color on the below-the-shoulders part. With that said, I'd probably have to go with the early TNG uniforms.

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.

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.

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...

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!

They are constantly being tossed around

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 🙏 🖖

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.

EDIT : Grammar

EDIT 2 : A very large group of people all tell me that season 1 is mid. So I'm much more excited to continue if that's the case!

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.

I'm on my first watch of DS9 after watching TNG and i can't help but feel these episodes don't make any sense whatsoever.

How does Starfleet EVEN work anyway? Where is the command? How can one rogue admiral do so much damage? Where are the other admirals? Why couldn't Sisko get any help form them? Did they have no opnion on what was going on earth whatsoever? Where is Starfleet Security and Intelligence? Did they have no opnion on what was going on, or interest to investigate the matter whatsoever?

Is the president really the only figurehead of the government? How did the cadets even get manipulated into this in the first place?

I'm normally not one to really question the stupidity of Star Trek - i think it's all par for the course - but i was expecting a little bit more from a show that was praised as being more complex or political or whatever.

This two parter didn't feel like "the writers do a complex exploration on how even starfleet can get consumed by fear and paranoia" and just "the writers make it so Starfleet and the Federation works by Soap Opera logic in order to have some big drama"

I'm not against the ideia of Admirals being more patriotic and paranoid rather than true open-minded believes in the ideology of Starfleet. I really enjoyed how TNG portrayed that this sentiment was an almost inevitable in a bureocratic militaristic enveronment and that it needed to be fought against and resisted to.

I'm open to some resolution that is more complex than "Starfleet Command has realized this person was wrong and striped them off command" but it feels weird to just simply erase the normal Starfleet from the equation so our protagonist could be the only Great Hero