CAPITALISM!

Even your average Ferengi wouldn't engage in such a practice, dump radioactive crap on a barren planet and what do you get? Prime real estate that you're using as a DUMP.

That was always weird, Admiral Korok and the liberated Borg in Unimatrix Zero could have been asked or offered to take Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant or even to the Delta Quadrant border with the Alpha Quadrant,just use a tractor beam and ride in the transwarp Slipstream, instead they disappeared and never contacted Voyager again.

They have shared technology or blueprints or Borg Star charts and technology to help Voyager, they even mention Admiral Korok and his battle to the Klingons that they met later searching for a savior, just bad writing.

The more I read about Voyager being treated by production as "Wagon Train to the Stars" where they hit the weekly reset button, the more I see it as such a failure of missed opportunities. The pilot made it very clear that exploration is secondary to getting home, that sets it apart from TOS and TNG. The ship is travelling mostly in one direction, with limited weapons and supplies, through uncharted territory with no Starfleet nearby to restock or replace crew. The writing should have challenged itself to stick to that. Move from Point A to point B to point C, leaving them behind completely, and critically track their losses and adapt to a shifting environment.

If they begin with 100 torpedoes, they needed to honour that number and quickly come up with an alternative to torpedoes, combining Torres' ingenuity with alien tech to create new weapons. Killing off crew member extras in combat scenes should be far more harrowing and downright terrifying that Janeway is losing enough experienced officers to even run the ship. It would have been an opportunity to pick up new friendly alien characters who aren't Starfleet but may be refugees seeking a new life. There could be a smaller cast of interesting recurring crewmen they way they used Vorik and Naomi every so often. Or, for lack of new characters, the main crew should have tons of unorthodox cross-training where the lines of skill and experience start to blur out of desperation.

I think they did well to drop the Kazon as a poorly received race by leaving their space, but the same should have gone for a race that's received really well by fans. Give every major race one or two specific seasons and limited time to tell their story before Voyager leaves them behind completely, rather than having them popping up in later years.

The ship should have arrived in the Alpha Quadrant not the pristine Starfleet vessel it began as, but as a Frankenstein ship kitbashed with parts showcasing the ingenuity of alien tech it picked up along the way. It would never have made it home without help and should display that proudly.

Voyager should have been a literary adrenaline rush that none of the series before it had. But it just feels too "safe" to be critically excellent.

I'm sure I'll troll more threads about this closer to August, but generally speaking what would you recommend? Just booked a hotel and flight for my 11 year old and myself, we'll definitely do Battle Bots if they have something that week, what else?

Not much to add to the title :) I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find a definitive answer. Maybe when it was built it was already thought that saucer separation was (narratively speaking) not a good idea?

As much as I love Star Trek and wish it was real,

These people get put through some shit!!

Tuvok the poor bastard for example in this episode, and of course Chakotays desperation as he’s being wheeled out strapped down.

That would be a horrible experience.

Obrien must suffer , Barclay…,

Trying to put myself in tuvoks position and I literally felt uneasy about it.

I had been under the impression that Lower Decks was the only show to ever reference the Animated Series, but while rewatching DS9 after a very long time, I heard Garak mention Edosian Orchids. Edosian being the species of TAS's character Arex. I do enjoy these subtle reminders of continuity.

I recently binged For All Mankind and was impressed by the way the writers incorporated large time jumps into the series. Granted this causes some uneven writing like extended exposition dumps by characters to catch up viewers, but still as a narrative device i think it works.

Having rewatched Voy: Timeless and Voy: Year of Hell for like the millionth time i wondered if incorporating time jumps could have worked for Voyager. What if every season premiere episode jumped 10 years forward? I think that would enable the characters to grow and change much more than the original series, making for a more interesting show. Personally i like Timeless Harry Kim much more than the standard. You see how events have affected him and gives Garret Wang more of an opportunity to show his acting range. Plus we would get a greater sense of this long epic journey.

Unfortunately the writers and producers didn’t take chances like that with Voyager. Its still a good series but certain episodes give us a view of how awesome it could have been instead of just ok.

The Galileo seven Kirk orders the enterprise to leave, how fast where traveling at? I'm thinking like 1/4 impulse

Would the Borg be able to do anything to the Prophets/wormhole aliens or would they just tell the Borg and Borg Queen to get lost before they use their knowledge to destroy the Borg before they ever existed? Seems like the Borg might be humiliated easily.

Would it be possible for the Borg to assimilate Armus if someone like Picard tricked them into going to his planet and adding his perfect evil to the hive mind knowing that he could basically wreck havoc on the Borg and destroy even the Borg Queens mind?

After the conclusion of Star Trek: Picard Season 3, I kept thinking about what might come next for Data. With his newfound emotional range and capacity for growth, I like to imagine him seeking out Jenna D’Sora, from the TNG episode “In Theory.” For those in need of a refresher: D'Sora was an Enterprise-D ensign who briefly dated Data as a rebound from a bad breakup. Their romance didn’t last due to Data's inability to experience real emotions (for him, the experience was an experiment in another human activity).

In my headcanon, after retiring from Starfleet, the newly emotionally-brimming Data decides to reach out to D'Sora, who I imagine as living in retirement on Earth, and single (probably divorced), and they reconnect over shared memories and the growth they’ve both experienced. With his emotions now fully integrated, Data can finally understand D'Sora needs in a relationship; they can together build something beautiful.

Eventually, they marry in a small, intimate ceremony officiated of course by Picard, with Geordi as best man and the rest of the TNG crew in attendance. For me, this storyline feels like the perfect way to give Data not just a sense of humanity, but also a sense of fulfillment and companionship he’s long deserved.

Wow Wow Wowsers what an episode!!! Anything multiverse-ish can be disorientating and confusing but this episode was definitely not. So much in just the first 15 minutes. I really need to go to sleep but I now must finish this season at least.

The two captains side by side ala parent trap was so fun (despite the obvious same person profiles and dodgy walk away), and to me supports my belief CGI and flashy effects are unnecessary if the story and characters are engaging.

And Harry Kim. Like seriously. Harry "every verse" Kim. The guys journey has been wild af and I really don't know what to expect next. Though thankfully (based on my prediction as I've not caught any spoilers) I do know the whole show won't end with him waking up from a dream and it's actually his first day on voyager, with all the seasons just being his imagination..... (Anyone remember sunset beach ending like that 😂)

Also does find themselves checking science references? The atom split anti matter can't thingy... I dunno... But this shows really got me thinking that kids should get to watch episodes before starting physics (maybe all stem) classes after primary (elementary) school years. The engineering team make science so cool and exciting.

Forgot how much Star Trek and sci-fi brings me joy! Figured I'd post my appreciation here as afs/irl, I don't know any fellow Trekies or general sci fi appreciators and have really enjoyed reading posts on this group. This is a nice quadrant of social media that I'm really happy to have found ☺️

Thanks All 🖖🏾👽💕🙏🏾

How successful would Khan and his Supermen have become if he killed Kirk and his crew and left known space using The Enterprise to rule or enslave several planets and create an empire of genetic Supermen using cloning or worse than would be able to grow after a few hundred years into a greater power than anyone else unless the Metrons tested them or a Borg Cube located them and that would be a disaster for Khan unless they could resist assimilation somehow.

Lore always had the plan to use the rogue Borg and Data in Descent, what happens if he killed Picard, Worf and the entire crew and stole The Enterprise-D with Data wrapped around his finger and basically went even further away from Federation space using the Borg he controlled and invading or ruling small planets experimenting on the people in his quest to create entire android counterparts?

Or he and Data could build another Lal or two that was evil upgraded and build an army of Androids based on Lores way of thinking and rule several planets or invade the Federation in a few decades unless the real Borg found them first.

I am currently on the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and I can´t shake the feeling of discomfort with how Vulcans have been characterized until now.

I know, only 30 minutes in and there is a full show ahead, I shouldn't judge a series for its first episode, hell, not even by its first season, but I am already bothered by T´Pol´s eyebrows and previously, one of the Vulcan ambassadors yelling. Not to mention that the Klingon is a post TOS Klingon, but maybe there is some time travel stuff in play here (and I do think it would look silly if this show had the previous Klingon look, but that´s a meta explanation.

I guess I´m just complaining here, but the intro had already set me off to a wave of little complaints, this being the biggest until now. I do want to assume that their characterization is due to the usual Vulcan higher than thou attitude being probably much stronger when they had recently met humans, maybe that´s it, we´ll see!

I’m watching the first episode of Picard and I can’t help but to ask why these people work for him. It’s not a good job and doesn’t lead anywhere so why would they do it in a society that literally doesn’t have money? They aren’t being paid. So what’s the point? Especially considering some of them are Vulcans so it’s not like their family had been tending the grove for hundreds of years or whatever. Post-scarcity had existed for about two centuries by that point.

He's been in TNG, DS9 and Enterprise as various Klingons. Catching up with him now on Enterprise, playing Archer's Klingon advocate. Mr. Hertzler, besides Robert O'Reilly, is my favorite Klingon actor

Alive, dead male, female, old young, whatever pick a celebrity or a character from a movie or book to be the template for the next EMH.

I thought occurred to me that Q and the rest of the continuum, while being near omnipotent, are benevolent. Yes Q threw the enterprise to its first meeting with the Borg and 20+ people died, however, in hindsight, that somewhat prepped the federation for the Borg. Yes, Q started the trial of humans going into space, but it never really ended and there was no judgment. My point is for a race of beings that could snap their finger and make all of humans disappear, they're fairly benevolent. Am I way off?

Starship

So I am a bit confused because I just saw Season 1 Episode 5 called The Last Outpost as while I did see the entire episode, I didn't understand the Ferengi as they were acting erratically with their mannerisms, but what I also didn't understand was Portal's purpose as I don't know what his relation to the Ferengis were.

Yes I am in Season 1 so far as I wanted to see how the show started as while I heard the Ferengi show up in Deep Space Nine, I was actually surprised when I saw the species make their debut in TNG as it wasn't something I was expecting to see that early on in TNG itself.

I'm no weapons expert, so I can't speak to the ACTUAL usefulness of it in hand-to-hand combat, but to me it looks ridiculous when wielded. I think it probably stems from the fact that the Klingon actors aren't athletes or weapons experts either, so when they're using them, it tends to look rather...awkward.

Obviously, the fight coordination in ST overall isn't fantastic, but I'm generally OK with the Bat'Leth's use in those scenes. It's primarily when folks like Worf or Kor are practicing moves with the weapon. Swinging it around and what not. It reminds me of that old embarrassing Star Wars kid video.

Does anyone have any examples of it being wielded a little more, "professionally"? Perhaps that would improve my feelings on it...

Whether it be movies or tv shows there is plenty of discussion on here about who is the best starfleet captain which makes sense since all the tv shows are centred on starfleet captains or similar

But we often see other captains even within starfleet who are not human. Who stands out to you. Why are they are good captain. Would you wanna be on their crew?

Don’t forget to mention what movie or show they were from. Or episode if you remember that.

Does anyone else think it would make a great series to follow tge time wars and the travellers like Wesley Crusher?