Most of Kelvin 2 was undercooked and relied on the other Star Trek 2 to carry the narrative. It would be unsurprising if there was no forethought put into why Qo’nos as uninhabitable regions other than “it sounds cool”.
Possibly. If it’s not already established, I wonder if the backstory could be filled in later in an episode on one of the TV shows or something. Maybe they could tie it to whatever eventually blew up Praxis.
Other than that, I’ve read there’s active volcanos on Kronos, so perhaps that area with all the ash falling was once inhabited until an unexpected round of volcanic activity, like a giant Pompeii.
I tried really hard to get into Prodigy, but I’m not really big on the level of CG that TV shows can budget for (I’d rather see 2D animation in general) and I’m not a huge fan of shows with a cast mostly of kids, so I only got a couple of episodes in. I’ll try again at some point and, don’t get me wrong, I am super happy that there is a Star Trek kids today can get into, but I don’t know if I’ll ever get into it. And that sort of makes me sad considering how much I love Star Trek. I want to get into it.
Episodes 6 & 8 are where long time fans usually fall in love with the show. Many of us find it the Trekiest thing ever.
But it very deliberately takes its time to get there. It’s like the lobster in the pot of hot water trick for kids formed with SW and other 3D kids animation. By the time they get to the end of the first half of season one, they’re fully into Star Trek, but without culture shock.
This seems to be another example of something fans seem to view as ‘canon’ but isn’t actually consistent with what was onscreen. A kind of ‘Mandela-effect’ headcanon.
In TOS, M’Benga was specifically asked by McCoy to come aboard and act for him as CMO while he was away. Asking a former CMO to come back, shadow you for a short period and then act for you makes a lot of sense when there are members of the crew of other or mixed species.
It was quite clear that M’Benga was in transition towards a Chief Medical Officer post on a Station. That would suggest M’Benga already had the rank and was qualified for the job.
Meta-wise, this was actually another one of Roddenberry’s backdoor pilots, this time for a Starfleet medical show based on a station.
I think it’s funny that the episode that very briefly mentions Irish unification was banned, but the episode that stereotyped all Irish men as drunkards and all Irish women as scolds was just fine.
I mean, one was viewed as being supportive of an ongoing terrorist campaign, a touchy subject in both Ireland and the UK, that no TV channel wanted to get involved with, and the other was viewed as a dumb cringe-inducing stereotype.
Imagine the tables were turned and an Irish or British show airing in 2001 had an episode where they appear to be supportive of al-qaeda carrying out 9/11, and another episode where they depict Americans as being fat, uneducated, pickup-driving hillbillies with tacky bleached blonde hair.
I suspect US networks wouldn’t show the first episode, but they’d show the other one, even knowing it’d elicit an eye roll and a “Christ, is that really what they think we’re like?” from the audience.
I get why they banned the one they banned (even though I wouldn’t have been okay with it at the time), I just think it’s funny because Up the Long Ladder is basically “let’s cram as many Irish stereotypes into one episode as we possibly can” and they didn’t think that it might be extremely offensive to Irish people.
EDIT: Just the very concept that Irish people would colonize another planet in order to be pig farmers is pretty offensive.
Why was the man keeping his daughter in a pattern buffer demoted? The man who slaps around klingon dignitaries? The same guy who keeps illicit wartime drugs for, i don’t know, kicks I guess?
Sure, but you could make such points about half the Enterprise crew. They all do a lot of at least questionably legal things.
Think about how many times Kirk violated the Prime Directive and didn’t get in any trouble for it. And on top of that, he literally stole a Federation Starship and, while he did get demoted for it, he still got to be in command of a starship, which isn’t much of a demotion.
Meanwhile, Tom Paris is in a penal colony for being with the Maquis for a few weeks and, as far as we know, never killing anyone, let alone a Klingon ambassador. And then there was Raffi, who got a dishonorable discharge, became a drug addict, and then was readmitted to Starfleet at the rank of commander.
I’m thinking that with him no longer needing to control the pattern buffer in medbay and the mental/emotional toll of the war and his experience on the Enterprise, Dr. M’Benga is lining himself up for retirement. This includes him voluntarily letting other peers become the CMO over him, so that he can phase out his responsibilities without significant disturbance after he leaves.
From what I can tell it’s been put together from the shots of the Discovery travelling through the center of it. We know Discoveries size so you could calculate it. That being said the show only ever describes it as city sized
I always thought that was the point. People are often a byproduct of the environment that shaped them. Saru’s lack of empathy to the creature is a watershed moment for Saru, storyline wise.
That does make sone sense, yeah. I’m confused, because Saru is otherwise depicted as very empathetic, it’s even pointed out verbally, but this situation was different and it came so early on that it was hard for me to believe his empathy for a while afterwards, so I’m not very sure what the writers wanted me to think.
I think it was also a desperate situation. Lorca was in immediate danger and I am guessing Saru would, even with his empathy, have reasoned that a sentient being’s life, especially someone as important as Lorca, was more important. He also let the tardigrade go back to its home in the mycelial network after the emergency was over and it would have died on either the Glenn or the Discovery if that hadn’t happened.
My guess, similar to warship building enhancements during WW1, which saw massive innovations/enhancements in very short order, bigger and better ships (Galaxy class) were developed in short order, and Ambassador classes weren’t needed anymore.
The production reason would likely be that they had only built that one physical model, and it was used for that one-off, had to be blown up, and was never digitized. The other Enterprises got a lot more screen time probably because they had high quality models they hung onto and reused.
I honestly can’t think of a good in-universe reason outside of them being maybe predominantly used for diplomatic missions more or less exclusively. We also don’t really explore the gap between TMP era and TNG. I think it’s a pity, because it’s such a gorgeous ship. It’s one of my favorite designs.
For a long time I’ve concluded that nothing went wrong with the Ambassador Class.
It was just easier to keep updating and cranking out Excelsior & Miranda Class ships. So Ambassador production slowly petered out. By the time of TNG, most of them were still in service… but there were way fewer of them.
Now, the Narendra Class variant… that design was cursed.
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