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Leaping out of bed from the hot coupe you just learned was born a garbage scow when you saw their towline

Definitely some "wait and see"s in there, Leah Brahms for instance very much comes back later. = ] I didn't remember the episode at all - possible I simply never saw it somehow, though I must have caught the cargo bay scene somewhere. Having read the Memory Alpha writeup confirms the hunch I...

That can provide individual story points and Earthspark is the rare case of a show that's used it to at least that level with Thrash etc. To make that work, you have to draw those individual connections explicitly, but there are at least some options to play with. I think like I said, in that...

Wow, there's mold release, and there's mold release. Hard to believe that hasn't been a Pulse box set by now. Unless that was always the joke behind those "Evolution" 2- and 3-packs.

Yeah, it's just so ubiquitous in Trek to have one exotic sounding word as the name of the system, which sometimes is and sometimes isn't the most important inhabited planet in the system or its (usually single) star. Very much to a fault, since apparently Romulus and Remus are planets orbiting...

Notably not on that list of things to see to really get the most out of Picard S3? Picard S2 XD

Of course it would be Enterprise. Of course. 😩

Don't do it Fero, here's my list of reasons to recommend Picard S2 from April. (The month, not my partner.)

Which oddly carries into Discord in MLP when he returns in S4 on, with the premiere testing Twilight etc. I have to assume the trope got old really fast and died in 1999 with Bicentennial Man, the movie where you watch someone age 200 years and feel like you did yourself at the end. (Shout out...

jive, it is. That means Uhura's line about the communications was bullshit, her one light year range might as well have been 12 parsecs. I'm back to, never mind, don't use real star systems, guys, never worth it, not even once.

Yes, we should be saying 40 Eridani but we're not going to. And it's probably best to just say "the Vulcan star system" anyway as this is a triple star. Edit: I swear I remember the nomenclature being more obtuse than it is. 40 Eridani is the whole triple system.

Fascinating. A novel class in this case too, carrying the identifying quirks of the Suurok class (like the Ni'Var) into the TNG style, with that lumpy and layered look of the Klingon and Cardassian ships of the era. I wonder whether those pods are part of the functioning of the warp ring, and...

Yeah, that seems plausible. Maybe the Vulcan ship we see tiny in SNW is just 100 years old, too, although it's being used to get from Vulcan to the plot and back in as little time as possible, so probably not. The USS T'Kumbra and its crew of condescending, baseball-playing Vulcans seems like...

I tried to look up that Vulcan ship and Google gave me the baseball episode instead, since it has another Starfleet Vulcan ship. I think there's a layer of nuance we're missing though. The Raven was a Federation ship doing a science mission that wasn't associated with Starfleet. It looks like a...

This one's historically unwinnable though. Whether it's conscious malice or not, people who don't understand an identity will say it shouldn't matter and why is this being shoved down our throats all the way down to the point at which it's a blink-and-you-miss-it inclusion, and then they'll say...

I don't doubt you'll have plenty to say about my posts as well so I won't jump ahead and respond in detail to every point you're making on Dekafox's post as yet. For all that I've posted quite a lot of material in this thread, I'm not entirely convinced that we're getting to the point here. I do...

The idea that Starfleet might be a mostly-human organization as a matter of inertia and the culture around Starfleet itself makes more sense to me than some of the other options. I still think I'm more compelled by what I'm now realizing is the television weak anthropic principle, that all the...

Wow, I'd either missed or completely forgotten that TNG had decided for some reason to have a parody Han Solo for an episode, so the LD reference didn't register for me. Apparently he's gone fully silver fox in Prodigy. I'm intrigued by the fact that LD and Prodigy coordinate enough that despite...

When Enterprise is getting poetical about human exceptionalism I mostly chalk that up to its being Enterprise. But when they're talking to outsiders in all the other shows, Starfleet presents itself as representing a federation of dozens of member worlds. I do think you're right that Vulcans...

Yeah but that's kind of the issue isn't it? They have never actually needed the makeup. They could tell us anyone is an alien. They don't have to keep telling us everyone is from Ohio. But they do.