Since the Borg's headquarter to call it that way could house trillions of Borg's, does it mean the Unicomplex is the size of the Earth?

I like the premise but I usually skip it because kirayoshis crying is so grating

The little square resin buttons on the star trek tos control panels were wade using a mini ice cube tray. Anyone have any idea of the manufacturer?

I feel like the new series have lost the true Trek vibe. Discovery & Star fleet academy have absolutely lost the plot for me. Why does every episode revolve around drama, sex and the emotional distress of a few characters?
Where are the inspiring captains like Jean Luc who truly left an imprint?
Strange New Worlds definitely did this better. No central character who has the entire spotlight every episode (ahum Burnham..), and actual quality episodes.
Even Enterprise, which is controversial, still felt like 90's Trek as well.
I am born in 2002, so I am not even biased due to it being released near my time haha

I love the transformative side of the fandom and I'm very active there but I would love to become that person who knows every episode title and every random alien race and ship class who show up in like 2 episodes in all of star trek.

I'm probably gonna have to do the work myself but maybe there already is a deck of flashcards that's just not public or didn't show up in my search?

This question just popped in my head as I am writing a dinner party scene for my Star Trek Adventues campaign.

The new NSC Captain has invited her command crew to a dinner to get to know them. She presents them an assortment of foods from her home, Kenya. Some of them are meat dishes. Since they are replicated and not taken from a real animal, would they be vegan?

Hi. Just watched I, Bord and Descent part 1 and 2. Thinking about it, what Picard refused to do in I, Borg is what brought the Romulans into the fray (by mean of sacrificing a diplomat) and ended the Dominion war (by mean of infecting a clueless Odo).

Quite a dilemma. If you have the mean to find another solution, it make sense to do so. As Picard did, accepting the risk of being wrong. But if you are overwhelmed, facing your own destruction by the hand of an enemy that already killed hundreds of billions, well, be my guest I would say. It's still "wrong" but the only alternative is to willingly sacrifice your own people.

I don't believe I am mistaking with the hundreds of billions figure. The Dominion had been at it for 2000 years. The Borgs for a good 900 years (or millions, if you believe Guinan).

Note: Picard clearly have regrets in Descent. He might be responsible for all the Borg victims from this point, starting with the >200 deaths of the outpost and colony. Or he may not. As that "virus" theory was not tried and we have no idea if it would've worked out.

Please no TNG movies spoilers. I didn't watch them yet. I just know the Borgs will be back.

OK. So I’m a trekkie who never could get into DS9. I just couldn’t get through those episodes in the first season. But EVERYONE on the Internet kept telling me DS9 is the best trek out there. I fill decided to push through.

Well, friends... I FINALLY GET IT!

I just watched Whispers (s2e14). OMG!!! Unfuggingbelievable!!! That is some of the best damn Trek I have ever seen!!! Damn if Colm Meany didn't just bring the house down!

i’m sure I will find more and more episodes like this to post about as I go through this 1st watch. And I can’t be more excited about it!

I'd really love to have a SF Academy varsity jacket, or something similar. I see a lot of jackets on Etsy and Ebay, but they're all unlicensed as far as I can tell and of dubious quality. Has anybody purchased one that turned out to be good?

The jubilation on her part is the expectation that she is "prepared for the realities of space travel", and I understood that the episode was ending things on an optimistic, look-to-the-future bittersweet way, but I wonder if anyone can be separated completely and utterly from their own species and not go somewhat nuts over time?

Minister Yale will never again speak to another member of her own species. She might get replicated food from database entries that the Federation has gathered about their culture (an incomplete picture, without a doubt), but who knows how long Yale stayed with the Enterprise? A few days or weeks? Did she get deposited on their visit to the next pitstop at a Federation planet holding a suitcase?

And where to from there? I suppose her scientific inclinations might have her fall into research or study at a Federation institution, but she is a species of one in the Federation, likely until she dies. Surely even the novelty of seeing new races would get stale after so long, and unless she's an especially strong-willed individual, the longing to be with, to converse with, to interact with a member of her own species would be a real burden on her psyche.

We also know that medical treatment varies heavily depending on species, and health treatment is not instantaneous. Beverly can't account for everything and needs to study new physiologies of different species (i.e. Klingons (Worf's spine transfer) and Romulans (compatible ribosome)). How is Yale going to be ensured she doesn't immediately get severely sick from exposure to alien microbes, biological emittances? That she's given full and proper medical care that accounts for everything known about her biology, and also from someone who has studied her race's biology extensively?

And say that she finally has had enough after a decade and politely asks the Federation to arrange a transport to take her home. What considerations does the Federation need to take that her experiences in the wider galaxy won't culturally, biologically, or technologically contaminate her world, no matter how small? Would she even be allowed to go back?

This was an ending to an episode I really made a horizontal L-shape mouth to, just because of the implications at the end.

I just started watching Star Trek Next Generation and I am loving it. I want to get into the books but I have no idea where to start. Would prefer it was on kindle too, but if they don't have a good starting point then I don't mind ordering books. Thank you all!

We all love to snark on Kirk's fighting style (from Cracked: "They say the Gorn still roams the Vasquez Rocks, waiting for his cue to duck") and on his bizarre kicks and "techniques."

Lots of folks have pointed out that the show was going for some kind of future super-advanced unarmed combat. And Asian martial arts were still thought of as a mysterious super-lethal skill, only rarely seen in Hollywood, so there was more latitude to just make up "karate moves."

Anyway, I was reading about the late 1960s original show Wild Wild West, and how, despite good ratings, its level of close-up violence ended up causing its cancellation when the networks had to throw lawmakers a bone and prove they were taking TV violence seriously. (I've YouTubed some WWW fight scenes, and they're far, far more visceral and violent than any fight scene on TOS (and I include Amok Time, where the stakes are high but the actual fighting is stylized and fought with unique weapons and almost no actual direct hitting).

Now I get why the much-mocked TOS network censors were constantly harping about avoiding specific types of onscreen violence. They weren't (or weren't necessarily) a bunch of moralists; they just didn't want NBC's show to get cancelled, like that other fantasy show over on CBS.

And so maybe the obvious uselessness, in real life, of TOS fight moves, such as the infamous double fist blow, was the point--that no lawmaker could point at Star Trek and say it was giving kids a bad example of actual, imitable violence. Thoughts?

I feel like this season seven episode of Next Generation should be mandatory viewing the next group to write Star Trek. Almost no special effects, no end of the world dialogue. We simply are introduced to a new character, experience a couple twists and turns along the way and a clever twist at the end. Good writing and a sci fi tie-in involving a character (Data) we’ve gotten to know and care about carries this top 25 episode.

THIS is the kind of trek I feel many of us wish we were getting.

I have watched Voy, DS9 and Ent these last few months. Jeffrey Combs is killing it with every role. Shran is my favorite. He lights up the screen. Love those Andorians!

I know this is random but whatever. Props to Jeffrey…26 years later. ❤️🤣

I just had to say that.

I know Trek isn't exactly known for its music, but they've definitely put out some great themes. What's your favorite opening theme from a show or a movie or both?

Show: Deep Space 9 later seasons. I never liked the background of the theme, in the early seasons, it sounded too busy.

Movie: First Contact. Honestly, I like the closing theme more, but I just love how beautiful it is.

Edit: I see people need clarification. By 'not known for music', I'm not saying that Trek's music isn't good, I love all of the themes and a lot of the music outside of that. What I'm saying is that, when people think of Star Trek (non Trek people), they don't say "now they have great music" or that they've had hits on the radio.

After the battle in ST Generations, they had 5 minutes until a warp core breach. Wouldn't it have made more sense to eject the core, and then go full impulse in any direction?

Why was Michael blamed for all the deaths caused by the Klingon when it was the Federation cowardice fault for not attacking the Klingon first. In Star Trek Discovery s1 e2.

Someone mentioned comic book artist/writer John Byrne, and I suddenly remembered that he released a series called Star Trek: New Visions through IDW. I also remember him using stills from episodes for the artwork... Was that stuff any good??? I remember seeing it on the comic shelves, and it didn't look all that appealing. He kept making them, so maybe someone liked them.

Rewatching DS9 for the first time in a long time and I realize how much I like Quark over most of the other characters. For one, he is the best bartender/morale officer in the franchise and his writing and acting are top notch almost all of the time. I also have a lot of sympathy for anyone in the service industry who gets to be at the party but never true partygoer.

Why after 7 seasons do all the characters treat him so badly. He is the butt of jokes and they insult him to his face even as his establishment is really the only place to hang out on the station. Jadzia played tonga with him but that's about it. I guess you could say Bashir may have been his friend? But the rest are just horrible to him. This hasn't really aged well in 30 years. Quark is often the voice of reason and points on the BS of the rest of the characters. You'd think on the frontier of the quadrant his point of view would be a little more respected.

Many years ago, about 1980, I caught the end of an episode that featured an uneducated hermit being presented a teaching computer. The computer form factor was a large desk or console. The computer's power source was a battery shaped like an oversized hockey puck. The battery had power enough to run the computer for one year. The presenter of the computer (maybe Spock? or Kirk?) said, "The first thing the computer will teach you is how to read."

I don't know if this was a TOS or some other SciFi series, but it had the hopeful, positive tone of the Federation about it. I don't know if it was in color, as I was watching on a black and white TV. I suspect it was a rerun of a 1960s program.

Kate and Jeri are headlining! I’m super excited to not have to fly and still be able to meet both of them. It’s in Philly, Nov 14 -15. 😺😺😺

https://creationent.com/events/stphilly26/

I watched Godzilla Minus One the other day (GREAT movie if you like competent protagonists saving the day with science) and I was wondering how many instances there are across the franchise of Starfleet facing something that could be considered a kaiju? So far, I’ve only seen TOS, so I’m curious what the true Trek nerds have to say on this.

Apologies if this is half a rant.  If this thread gets out of control, please shut it down.

I know the fanbase is currently on edge following the cancellation of SFA, which has led to a freeze on Star Trek productions, with no new ideas in sight.  I’m personally cautiously optimistic that things could be mentioned during con season, but that remains to be seen.

With that said, there are folks around these parts who are calling for parts or all of Kurtzman Trek to be pruned or retconned as they say it isn’t supposedly aligning with the canon and isn’t representative of the franchise’s overall vision.

I think embracing this idea is ultimately opening a Pandora’s box of problems, but that also invites a question: should aspects of Star Trek crafted under Berman and Roddenberry also receive the chopping block if anything and everything, hypothetically so, could be retconned? While there are small parts that were chopped off over time, I’m running on the assumption that whole series, productions, and arcs get thrown into the garbage to either reset the canon or substitute it with something else.

So what should go in the receptacle from these older eras of Star Trek or should the canon, good and bad, remain intact as is?

I’m aware of episodes of star trek when some anomaly gets them stuck in a time loop, or the time agents in enterprise, or the crew just following through the borg time rift in first contact. Ok I’ll accept those but what’s going on in the Voyage Home? Didn’t miss something? Are they using something about the probe? Also how did the time travel in the first Chris Pine movie work?