Things re: Star Trek

Velcro.

The funniest thing I saw on the Internet last week was someone complaining that modern Trek had too much pseudoscience. Like TOS was the pinnacle of scientific accuracy.

The accumulated canon, with all their minutia, will foam up about their waists and all the gatekeepers will look up and shout "STOP MAKING STAR TREK POLITICAL!" ...and I'll look down and whisper, "Star Trek has always been political."

Tendi cosplay, please do not activate Badgey. #StarTrekLowerDecks #ANCH

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America never should have left the United Kingdom.

A Borg Cube sized "yo mama"

Strong high school reunion vibes from this week's #StarTrekLowerDecks .

Troi was consistently called "Councillor Troi" instead of her rank on TNG. Was Ezri Dax ever called "Councillor Dax"? I feel like she was either called "Ezri" or "Lieutenant". #startrek

Do you think PADDs have screen protectors?

Even though there's many ways in which we keep getting closer to Trek, in so many important ways we're still very, very car.

Right now IRL, everyone on Earth who working on a COVID cure or vaccine is. Imagine that. It's kind of beautiful but also horrifying. Everyone is trying to find a solution and it's been months and it will still be longer.

In Star Trek, when there's an unknown sickness, it's cured by the ship's CMO with maybe the help of a crew member from another department. Sure, in-fiction there's a few more doctors on staff, and some nurses (unless you're on VOY/ENT and it's just the EMH/Phlox). Done in 1 ep.

nobody: me: Enterprise was good, actually

I do think that in the world of late 90s television, you needed to cheer for both the Starfleet and (former) Maquis characters and back then there wasn't really a precedent for Starfleet being anything less than the good guy.

Listening to @TheDeltaFlyers and Robert Duncan McNeill makes the comment that he wishes there were less Starfleet/Maquis animosity in S01E02 of Voyager. I think that's an interesting contrast to many comments I see, where folks wish they had more animosity sustained for longer.

Me reading the words "I can't believe it's been 20 years since Enterprise premiered."

Captain Harry Kim, The Trouble with Tribbles

He's a lot less effective on imposing his ideals with he doesn't have a crew and flagship at his command.

I'm glad they called out Picard's righteousness as not always being good.