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My first thought whenever the topic of what episode a person should to introduce Trek to someone comes up is “The Measure of a Man”. Though perhaps a courtroom drama, while certainly something Trek dabbles with on multiple occasions, is not typical enough to fall under the umbrella of conventional.

Maybe something like “Children of the Comet” from season one of SNW. There’s a strange mystery that’s going to spell disaster for a pre-warp civilization, an alien of the week antagonist whom the Enterprise crew needs to figure out how to deal with without getting into a fight, and everything’s neatly wrapped up by the end. The biggest mark against it would be the subplot where Pike’s dealing with the knowledge that he’s going to end up in a beep chair.

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I don’t disagree, but I do believe that when we think about what Star Trek is, what it boils down to is an episodic procedural, despite how serialized it can be at times.

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I considered suggesting “The Last Outpost”.

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it….
It’s beautiful!

Canon Connections: DIS 5x06 - Whistlespeak

• Doctor Kovich gives Burnham a list of the five scientists who had the task of researching the Progenitor technology, three of whom we’ve already learned about. The remaining two are a Denobulan, Hitoroshi Kreel, and a Betazoid named Marina DeRex. The first Betazoid we were introduced to in Trek was TNG’s Deanna Troi,...

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Well, I double dumbass on me, I guess.

A question about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [Spoilers]

The whales Gracie and George were stated to have wandered into San Francisco as calves. Outside of feeding events which can include the famous bubble nets, humpback whale pods usually consist of a lone mother and calf (or calves) pairing with a trailing “escort” male. Humpbacks are one of the few mammals that can be nursing...

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Humpback whales got that Hapsburg jaw.

Were the [REDACTED] also a result of the Progenitors? DIS s5 spoilers

So, the plot in season five of Disco is hunting down clues left behind by scientists who uncovered the technology left behind by a precursor race of alien beings who panspermiad their genetics all over the galaxy, resulting in all your favourite humanoids, like humans, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians, as seen in the TNG...

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Writer Carlos Cisco has indicated that they conceptualized the Breen’s solid form as an adaptation that they developed over time

Interesting.

It’s completely unrelated to the current Disco story arc, but that does make me wonder if the Vorta and other Dominion species would have been aware of the Breen’s goo form. The Changelings evolved the ability to shapeshift over time, but were originally solids. having the Breen start out as the soundtrack producers for the “Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage” video game, and later develop a solid form might seem anathema to the Founders and their worshipers.

Love, strange love a star woman teaches

I’ve known for years that Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for Theme from Star Trek so that he could receive 50% of the royalties, but it never occurred to me that I should try and find out what those lyrics were. However, the lyrics did come up recently in a nerdy trivia show I watch, “Uhm, Actually”, and now that I know...

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The dream!

Canon Connections: DIS 5x05 - Mirrors

• The episode title references the mirror universe, a dark reflection of the familiar reality of Star Trek where humans, or Terrans as they’re more commonly called there, evolved to be more sensitive to light, resulting in everyone tending more towards malevolence, and barbarism, and queer coded villainy. Other episodes...

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Apologies that this one’s going up even later than usual. Time kinda got away from me this past week.

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That was my assumption.

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They do 100% use money in the 23rd century! 24th century is a bit more debatable, but I’m still on the side of they use money.

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I like the idea of Kirk pulling out his wallet to try and chip in for beer and pizza in 1986 with a couple strips of latinum, some Klingon darseks left behind on the Bounty, and whatever Federation credits he has, which I assume are a digital currency.

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I like the idea that the Breen bodies loose consistency upon death, especially if they’re more gelatinous in their natural form, as these episodes of DIS appear to be presenting them.

However, I do not envy Kira and Dukat having to scoop a bunch of Breen jello out those helmets before putting them on.

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Pretty sure it was alcoholic beverages specifically.

Canon Connections: DIS 5x04 - Face the Strange

• The arms merchant whom we see Moll and L’ak dealing with appears to be an Annari, who were introduced in the VOY episode, “Nightingale”, which I mention only because I believe it is the first time we’ve seen a member of Delta Quadrant species in DIS, though not the first mention....

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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a time bug is a good guy with a temporal Cold War.

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Looks like Modiphius has a new website set up for the game as well: www.startrekttrpg.com

I haven’t had a chance to look at the QuickStart yet, but I’m very interested to see how the game’s different, especially how the lack of challenge dice effects things.

I imagine my group and I will probably give it look over before our game this evening.

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Thanks. I’d probably still do them even if everyone hated it, but it is gratifying to know that others enjoy the posts as well.

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Give me a bunch of “Jurassic Park” mascots or give me something else entirely!

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Hell yeah, it is.

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I am probably not going to be adding series names or episode numbers to the citations. I could potentially start doing the recommended viewing again.

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I’m not on Reddit, I don’t know how the fandom is, but on Reddit I’d say “now queue the down votes and bans” because new trek fans there apparently don’t like people who remember what star trek was.

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I thought it was appropriate to the tag at the end of your little gatekeeping rant.

As someone who’s been watching Trek since before TNG, I’ve seen arguments like yours applied to nearly every new iteration of the franchise from TNG to the modern day.

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it took me four years to recover enough

It took you, in your own words, four years to recover?

Well adjusted nerds when there’s a tv show they don’t like:

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Personally I also really disliked PIC, but I simply choose to be normal and move on with my life.

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Personally, I find as I get older my concerns aren’t quite so petty.

Anyone upset about a television show they didn’t like for four days should seriously assess what is actually going on in their lives.

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Besides, even if it was part of the OP’s thoughts, how is fandom love of a fictional television show different than fandom hate?

Love is worth time and effort. Hate is not.

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Hey man, if someone is making the choice to be the sort of pathetic loser obsessed with hating a television show, that’s their choice. Just as it’s my choice to be judgemental of them for the brief period of time they’re in front of my eyeballs before I go do something fun and cool.

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Look at the Orville, THAT is TNG in a modern jacket, done by someone who knows and loves trek.

Yeah man, the show where they solved a galactic conflict by giving the leaders of both civilizations date rape pheromones so they’d fuck one another is definitely the torchbearer for TNG and DS9.

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When Gates McFadden was 13?

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Wasn’t that just Wesley Crusher?

Canon Connections: DIS 5x01 - Red Directive

This is the premiere of the fifth and final season of “Star Trek Discovery”, the first iteration of Trek’s modern era. I think it is important in this moment to acknowledge that, regardless of individual opinions of quality the series – personally I am a fan, but this is not about my personal perspective – without DIS...

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I mean, if he was, he certainly isn’t now…

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I’m not sure Soong-type android applies to Fred, and I’m certain it doesn’t fit Dahj.

Unfortunately it’s not clear just how indistinguishable from life Fred was. We know Dahj and the other Coppelius synths passed for human. Even Picard, though there was clearly some differences. With Fred, though, Culber pulled up the graphic of his internal works, and it didn’t look like he’s a meat robot. However, if he was closer to Data and Lore, I don’t think getting shot in the chest would have been enough to kill him. Data’s detached head was stuck in a mine on Earth for about 450 years and worked just fine after being reattached to his body, but I get the distinct impression that Fred wouldn’t take decapitation so well.

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Is the new “Night Court” any good? I really enjoyed the show as a kid, but haven’t taken the time to check out the reboot.

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Ah, that’s too bad.

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Worf’s Purple Space Bazooka is my new band name.

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Yeah, the recent Trek comics have been a lot of fun. Hopefully you enjoy this one!

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