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And in fact you'd use more power if you stopped orbiting and used the ship's own power to stay aloft while turning off the gravity nets, because you'd be supporting the whole mass of the ship against gravity instead of applying the same acceleration to the mass of the crew, and if anything doing...

Vulcans / Romulans as well as Cardassians also have a higher resistance to high temperatures, but only Cardassians complain about the "cold" on other species' ships. Then there are weird little things, like Bajorans having a shorter gestation period than humans, that come up as convenient for a...

Sometimes I think there's a universally accepted convention for having ships aligned to the galactic plane and that unpowered ships and stations are actually listing due to their lack of station-keeping. Other times I'm pretty sure it's just a visual convention. XD I still think it's weird in a...

Built into the theme and gimmick of the episode, too, since the conceit was that people in musicals can sing things they would never say. Buffy's reveal that she had been in heaven, not hell, and that part of her regrets coming back was something epic, just an incredible move to drop that on the...

There are people who think "Far Beyond the Stars" was a waste of an episode? There's a Romulan on the grassy knoll and my head is doing a JFK impression.

Some people hate fun. = P I can sympathize with someone who thinks that a musical episode is a waste of time and they'll sleep till next week, and is maybe even annoyed about how much gushing they're going to hear about it for the rest of their lives. I could also see someone objecting to the...

Even I'll concede that the last season of Enterprise contains some really good fun and clever stories. Everything touching on the Andorians and Tellarites is best in class prequel worldbuilding. Of course, even aside from the finale, it begins the trend Picard later picked up of the extended...

Strange New Worlds even now will be a quick watch to catch up. The seasons are half as long and there's only one and a half to see so far. Do that first. SNW isn't the best Star Trek series (you've just seen that one) but it's smart and creative and fun, and while it's not the first Trek series...

Those of us who like musicals* can be rather enthusiastic about them, so I think this is a longstanding division. For some people, the musical format just doesn't click or do anything for them, and I think people can fairly or unfairly begin to feel like the target of proselytism and respond...

And now you've seen the two shows with the best ideas of how to handle Section 31. Anywhere else you see them, it's only going to go downhill from here XD (The black badges are from their first involvement in Discovery.)

I like it in the context of DS9. Subsequent appearances went cringeworthy, then parody, then self-acknowledged parody by the time it showed up in Lower Decks. The idea of Section 31 as an entity tacitly permitted to operate by Starfleet, but able to come into conflict with Starfleet...

I love that the Orions were written exactly as if they were in a Lower Decks episode. That last little negotiation felt like Pike and La'an were the ones visiting. Oh, and how cool was it that we got to see the old Orion ship again and in pretty CG? God. Jack Quaid is so tall. It's bizarre...

He has about five years. So it's not immediate immediate.... (Of course, Pike doesn't die, and ultimately ends up in a very good dream for an indeterminate lifespan, but his life as he now knows it ends.) The gag is mostly that among all of the things that Boimler is terrified of revealing the...

There's plenty to love here for a fan of either show who's only passingly familiar with the other. It does incredibly right by both shows and is extremely true to the formula and cast of both. Some gags will inevitably be lost or a little confusing, but! The first moments of the opening I was...

Jimminy fudgenuggets I'm going to have to drag April in

I should have guessed this, with the shotgun blast of genres in the first season and the crossover coming now. Everybody wants to do a musical episode, right? Ever since Buffy did it, and then it was Supernatural and then Scrubs and so on. I am ecstatic to be honest here 😁

Agreed on April and I were both anticipating the bit where we got to see the Bussard collectors in action, and then we did and that was great. I still think they're annoying as a piece of tech cruft but it's good to finally see them in normal action. We heard about it a lot on episode in...

The whole. Damn. Point. Is that they didn't know whether or not an alternative existed. They didn't know, we honestly don't know now. The thing you're insisting, that the CE could not survive by any other means than eating whole planets of life, is the thing that there was a small but real...

Sorry, I didn't phrase that very clearly - I meant the crew as whole, not individuals. Individuals would have more and different vulnerabilities, but fewer single points of failure for the entire crew (like, say, oxygen.) You got way ahead of me, I only just watched "Far Beyond the Stars"...

Though to be fair, when the plot demands it, the alien interphasic bioneural library virus artifact anomaly pheromones can also just affect Data or Odo or whoever really shouldn't have a susceptible physiology regardless, such as when the episode isn't the type where one person is immune and has...