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Make it So
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi
Exocomps

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Data Learns Small Talk
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Sins of the Father
Spock x Romulan Captain
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Hee Haw - The Next Generation
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Thomas Riker
Star Trek: The Q Continuum (novel)
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Janeway Killing Tuvix
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
3D Space
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
What You Leave Behind
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Geordi/Data Bromance
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Spock vs Tuvok
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Bride of Chaotica!
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
VISOR
Bat'leth
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Bashir/O'Brien Bromance
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Delta Flyer
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Captain Picard Day
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
Veritas
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
Sisko's Personal Debt to the Prophets
Star Trek Cats
David Marcus
Armus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Julian Bashir
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Tom Paris' Love for Classic Cars
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
Children
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Patrick Stewart on Extras
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Paris/Kim Bromance
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Kobayashi Maru (Mission Hill)
TNG Skirt Uniforms
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31
Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
CBS All Access
Neelix
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
I Like Science
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]
Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme

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Janeway Killing Tuvix
For better or worse, Janeway killing Tuvix is probably her defining moment as a character. I don't think it was meant to be, but it's just such a cold decision that there's really no way to avoid it. The writers really knew how to milk every drop of drama out of it, with Tuvix begging not to die and begging everyone for help, and everyone turning away one by one, ashamed of their inaction. It's so good, nothing like this ever happens in VOY ever again. The nearest equivalent in another Star Trek is when Archer kills a Trip clone to save the real Trip, but even then, the clone was persuaded to go along with it, whereas Tuvix refuses to the bitter end.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
People often cite the famous "odd movies bad, even movies good" rule. Well, ignoring the fact that it was broken with the Abramsverse anyway, SfS isn't really bad? It's just kind of meh. The idea of destroying the Enterprise is brilliant because the ship is basically a character unto itself, but the villain is so much weaker than Khan that it's like ehhhh. Killing David Marcus is a complete waste, nothing is done with that at all. There are some good moments in this movie, though, like the young guy telling Uhura he wants adventure and that her career is winding down, but then he freaks out when adventure comes to him, or the villain's only good line:
Kirk: "Why not?"
Kruge: "Because you wish it."

Star Trek: The Q Continuum (novel)
I haven't read these novels, but I have read a synopsis and the TVTropes article (lol). I like the idea of the anti-Q, the god alien whose tests are unsolvable and who's offended at losing. I've heard a lot of good things about these novels, they seem to be the most popular Star Trek books out there. One question, and maybe this is answered in the books, is why Q doesn't just stop everyone from opening the galactic barrier by force?

Bride of Chaotica!
I would have assumed that Tom Paris would be banned from Captain Proton after the first disaster, but apparently not. Of note: the TNG writers originally planned the Dixon Hill holonovels to be in black-and-white before deciding it didn't make sense for the holodeck to change Picard's appearance, whereas the VOY writers just don't care.

This is one of VOY's best episodes. It's got solid writing, a good premise, funny lines, weird sci-fi ideas, lots of Robert Picardo, and even an uncharacteristically good use of Janeway. It's just plain fun to have the villain be a Ming the Merciless knockoff, and this is the only way you can really do it.

The Delta Flyer
I'm fine with it. Yeah, it's questionable that Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres can cook up a shuttle superior to the Federation's normal shuttles using whatever they can find on Voyager, but whatever. It makes sense that Voyager might want a special shuttle for difficult missions, so why not?


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For me, it's Viewtiful Joe.

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Data Learns Small Talk
A classic Data moment. It makes complete sense that Data would seek to learn the art of small talk, and that everyone on the Enterprise hates the guy who's "mastered" it. Data's small talk face is also excellent.

Patrick Stewart on Extras
It's okay. Nothing much to say here. Didn't think it was hilarious or anything.

3D Space
I think the only time this ever comes up in any Star Trek is in Wrath of Khan, where Kirk knows that Khan is smart, but doesn't know anything about starships, so he can be outwitted. That makes sense. This is one of those things where I'm willing to just accept that all of the helmsmen are compensating for space being 3D and the audience just doesn't need the details.

Captain Picard Day
A fine way to make Picard slightly uncomfortable. I don't accept that he'd save that banner for his private collection of stuff, though. That's the same scene where Picard learns that Data has a daughter, but never mentions Lal, because Alex Kurtzman just doesn't care.

Sisko's Personal Debt to the Prophets
I'll be honest. I know this is dumb, but I can easily accept that omnipotent god aliens would make unreasonable demands of humans. Has there ever been a single omnipotent god alien in Star Trek who behaved rationally? The only ones I can think of who might count are the Organians.

Klingon Hamlet
The Barnes and Noble near me used to have this located right above the escalator. I never bought it, though. It's a good gag. Speaking more broadly, Chang claiming Shakespeare was a Klingon is a great little moment.

Sins of the Father
This episode is really good. It sets itself up like the plot will be that Worf has a new Klingon commanding officer, and oh boy, he's a real pain in the ass -- but then at the first commercial break, Kurn reveals that he's Worf's brother. Dun dun dun. Later Worf says "Duras, I'm so honorable that I'm going to let myself be dishonored in order to save your honor because you're so dishonorable, how about that?!" Worf episodes tend to be reliable.

Veritas
As a comedy episode, I guess it's alright. It scored exactly one laugh out of me. I knew in an instant that it wasn't a trial, but that's okay. I also knew the joke with Q was going to be that everyone is just tired of him. I didn't mind him teleporting the bridge crew into a stupid nonsensical game, even though he only did that to Picard one time. I liked the guy who was just there for his daughter's birthday. Part of why this isn't bad is that Mariner is not the center of attention for once, and is almost immediately sidelined.

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Make it So
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi
Exocomps

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Data Learns Small Talk
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Sins of the Father
Spock x Romulan Captain
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Hee Haw - The Next Generation
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Thomas Riker
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
3D Space
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
What You Leave Behind
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Geordi/Data Bromance
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Spock vs Tuvok
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
VISOR
Bat'leth
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Bashir/O'Brien Bromance
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Captain Picard Day
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
Veritas
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
Sisko's Personal Debt to the Prophets
Star Trek Cats
David Marcus
Armus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Julian Bashir
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Tom Paris' Love for Classic Cars
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
Children
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Patrick Stewart on Extras
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Paris/Kim Bromance
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Kobayashi Maru (Mission Hill)
TNG Skirt Uniforms
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31
Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
CBS All Access
Neelix
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
I Like Science
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]
Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme

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Hey, it's been a while, but I want to complain about CBS All Access again. They don't have a skip opening button. Completely worthless streaming service.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Perfect in every way, except the infamous plot hole of Khan recognizing Chekov. And don't say that Chekov was always on the ship; you get promoted out of ensign automatically after two years, unless you're Harry Kim. For years after seeing this movie, my friends and I would whisper FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEEEEEEEE.

What You Leave Behind
Not quite as good as All Good Things, but still solid. DS9 manages to bring everything to a close and wrap up every loose plot thread except Thomas Riker (poor guy), and Sisko's magical destiny culminates with battling lizard Satan in a volcano, as we all knew it would.

VISOR
One time, I paused an episode of TNG on Geordi's face. My sister walked in and asked if this was Star Trek. I said yes, that Geordi is the engineer, and that he's only remembered by fans for his glasses. My sister nodded and said "Well, duh."

Kobayashi Maru (Mission Hill)
I know nothing about Mission Hill. I enjoyed the Janeway joke at the end, there, but I think this cartoon is assuming the audience is already familiar with the shows.

Children
Children suck, and I say that as a teacher. There are no good kid-centric episodes, there are only okay ones.

Star Trek Cats
I can't read this online, but I'd assumed from the name it was the Broadway musical with a Star Trek theme, which would have been more interesting. I've got to say, there was a huge missed opportunity here to make Spock a half-cat, half-dog hybrid. 0/10, I'm sorry.

Bat'leth
The classic Klingon sword. Everyone loves bat'leths despite them being the most impractical weapon ever conceived of. I've seen people try to justify bat'leths as ceremonial dueling weapons, but look, we all saw that episode where Klingons beam onto DS9 and Dukat and Garak have to shoot them, we all know that the Klingons use them seriously.

Neelix
Until DIS, Neelix was the worst character in Star Trek. Even after DIS, he's still pretty bad. I know he was designed to be a non-Federation look into the Federation, but we already got that with Quark, who has the additional benefit of not being the most annoying person to ever exist.

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Make it So
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi
Exocomps

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Spock x Romulan Captain
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Hee Haw - The Next Generation
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Thomas Riker
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
What You Leave Behind
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Geordi/Data Bromance
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Spock vs Tuvok
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
VISOR
Bat'leth
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Bashir/O'Brien Bromance
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
Star Trek Cats
David Marcus
Armus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Julian Bashir
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Tom Paris' Love for Classic Cars
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
Children
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Paris/Kim Bromance
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Kobayashi Maru (Mission Hill)
TNG Skirt Uniforms
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31
Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
CBS All Access
Neelix
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
I Like Science
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]
Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme

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bugs

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Wait, you've never played it? It's so much fun!

Never even heard of it.

Mac Arrowny posted...

Hey, skirt uniform guy appears in multiple episodes (it's the same guy, right?)

Does he? Huh.


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Make it So
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi
Exocomps

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Spock x Romulan Captain
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Hee Haw - The Next Generation
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Thomas Riker
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Geordi/Data Bromance
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Spock vs Tuvok
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Bashir/O'Brien Bromance
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Armus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Julian Bashir
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Tom Paris' Love for Classic Cars
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Paris/Kim Bromance
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
TNG Skirt Uniforms
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31
Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
CBS All Access
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
I Like Science
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]
Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme

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Bashir/O'Brien Bromance
This is one of those aspects of DS9 that I'm fine with, but have no strong feelings about. I can analyze it clinically, explain why these characters were paired up, but it basically comes down to "needed something to do." Bashir and O'Brien are the least connected to the larger plot of DS9, and this gave them something to do. The only memorable thing this brought us is the time they refused to let Lieutenant Dies in Five Minutes join them, then regretted blowing him off after he died five minutes later.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A hard movie to rank. It's got ideas, but Gene Roddenberry was so far up his own ass when he made this, and he's clearly just ripping off 2001 like a decade after that movie came out. It's repackaged episode for his failed Star Trek: Phase II show, which is why the new characters he was going to add (Decker and Ilina, who ultimately turned into Riker and Troi) each have more lines than Chekov, Sulu, Uhura, and Scotty combined. Add to that this is one of the slowest-moving movies ever made, where an entire minute can go by with the characters just gawking at the scenery, saying nothing. But there are some ideas here that are interesting, like a computer seeking to learn if anything exists beyond logic and a giant vagina spaceship, so I can't really fault the movie that much.

Instead, I will point out my favorite part of the movie: Ilina joins the Enterprise's crew, sees Kirk, and immediately says "My oath of celibacy is on record, Captain."

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
AKA "the one that's good, but doesn't have the pop cultural power of TOS or TNG." Normal people recognize Kirk and Picard, but they won't recognize Sisko. It's amazing to think that Star Trek has eight series (nine if you count Short Treks), and only three of them are good.

The Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game
I'm going to have to watch an hour-long YouTube video for this, huh? Well, I'll get to this later.

CBS All Access
I struggle to name a single thing CBS has besides Star Trek, and the good Star Treks are already on Netflix. What a joke of a streaming service.

Paris/Kim Bromance
Harry benefits from being attached to Tom Paris, but not by that much. There is just nothing interesting about Harry, and the interesting elements of Tom Paris are more in the production and wasted potential of the character, not in what we actually got. I mean, it is good to show the characters having lives outside of their jobs, to show Harry palling around with Tom and talking about the Delaney Sisters (you'd think that on a ship of 70, the audience would be seeing those twin sisters all the time in the background), but mostly just for the ambience, not because it's interesting of its own accord.

Geordi/Data Bromance
The best of the bromances, mostly because Data is the most interesting of the characters involved. It's actually the least developed of the bromances, but because Geordi is able to provide Data with that necessary human element in his quest to learn about his own humanity, it works of its own accord, as opposed to merely providing ambience.

Thomas Riker
Hey, CBS, give me a show about Thomas Riker, not Picard. This was one of the most interesting one-episode ideas TNG had, and DS9 developed it further. Having a guy be cloned by accident and the clone trying to distinguish himself from the original is a great idea. Also, I always thought it was bizarre that Kira promises to rescue Thomas Riker one day, but then just never does.

Armus
AKA the oil slick. I'm not going to talk about Armus. Instead, I'm going to talk about the crashed shuttle. Yar, Riker, Data, and Crusher go down to rescue some Starfleet people who crashed on the planet, and Armus kills Yar. Everyone remembers that part. What people forget is the Starfleet extras. One of them is a black guy in a red shirt, and it's the white female main character who bites it. That guy rolled six natural twenties in a row. Luckiest mother****er in Star Trek.

Tom Paris' Love for Classic Cars
I'm fine with Tom Paris liking 20th century stuff. It's silly, but fine. The most important thing about the classic cars situation is when Voyager finds an old truck floating in space, and Harry Kim is like "WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS SHIP." It's like, shut up, Harry. You live in the 2400s, you know what a car is. This is like me not knowing what a carriage is. Shut up. Later in that scene, Torres scans the contents of the truckbed with a tricorder and is like "WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS SUBSTANCE" and someone tells her that it's animal feces.

B'Elanna Torres: can't identify poop with a tricorder.

Spock vs Tuvok
Tuvok is just a normal Vulcan. That's it. He has no deeper character than that. He's the John Smith of Vulcans. He never feels emotional except when there's a space thing forcing him to, he's never tempted to do something he knows is wrong. Hell, he goes seven years without seeing his wife, even going into pon farr, and never once looks at another woman. He is simply a dutiful, professional man who does his job well. Spock, though, Spock's got that pathos. He's tempted, but he rises above temptation. He gets affected by space things, but he also gets affected by non-space things. He has desires, wants, and needs. Despite everything, he clearly feels bad when he does something he knows is logical but morally wrong. He also has human friends, which gives him a human connection, while Tuvok only has professional relationships. The only time Tuvok has like pathos and a connection without a space thing being involved is when Janeway is going to blow up the ship to stop a planet-destroying missile and orders everyone to leave, and Tuvok's like "Nope" and stays. The only time Tuvok has to make a hard choice like Spock frequently does is when Janeway refuses to trade some novels for technology that makes the ship jump 40000 light years in one second, and Tuvok is like "Nope" and does it behind her back. I guess what I'm saying is that while Vulcans are interesting in the abstract, as characters they are not, because your characters need emotions, temptations, and flaws.

Since no one has nominated Tuvok alone, I'll say my favorite thing about Tuvok here. There's an episode where Tuvok is affected by a space thing and he thinks he might be feeling emotions. To test himself, he creates a holographic Neelix and sits in a room with it for one minute before snapping and choking it to death. That's how annoying Neelix is.

Hee Haw - The Next Generation
I'd seen this terrifying image of Picard before, but I didn't know where it was wrong. This is very good, I approve. I was wondering where Worf was, and then he popped in at the end.

TNG Skirt Uniforms
The best thing about TNG skirt uniforms will forever be Gene Roddenberry defending them by saying that they're not meant for women, but are instead unisex. To prove this, he added one male extra with one in the background, standing perfectly still and appearing for two seconds.

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Thanks, everyone. Good to be vindicated.

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It's precalc. I've done most of it, but I ran into a problem with a very basic question.

Convert the polar coordinates (20, 11pi/6) into rectangular coordinates

The answer listed in the book is (10rad2, -10). My problem is that my answer comes down to (10rad3, -10). I have no idea where they could be getting a rad2. I know that the X coordinate is rcos(theta), which is fine, and I know that just means 20cos(11pi/6), which translates to 20*(rad3/2), which turns into 10rad3. Am I making some incredibly stupid error here, or is this a misprint?

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Best and Worst Canonical Romance Pairings/Plots
Oh jeez. Doing this requires me to remember the romantic pairings existed in the first place. Romance isn't why I watch Star Trek. Uh... Let's say the best is Spock x Romulan Captain (I felt genuinely bad for her), and the worst is Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme.

Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer mostly does 'real' movies like Shakespeare adaptations, so I don't encounter him often. He's fine in that one episode, though. He's great as Sideshow Bob.

Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies
I have no memory of this. This happened? Wow. I would assume in the Star Trek future, a doctor could easily diagnose all of your allergies, though, right?

Exocomps
How many times has someone intentionally created a sentient robot vs accidentally in Star Trek? Exocomps I think are the first time, but certainly not the last. I really like how they aren't humanoid robots played by some guy, but instead are little mouse-like robots on wheels. It would have been really easy to use humans so the audience has an emotional connection more easily, so they made the right call.

Money Plane
I haven't seen this, but I have seen the RLM review of it. I like the concept, it's really dumb.

Julian Bashir
I wish I liked Bashir more. The acting is fine, the character is fine, everything is fine, but he just doesn't click for me. I suspect it may be because he has the least connection to the overall plot of any of the main characters, save maybe Quark. Bashir has to constantly be given something to do, especially with Section 31. Unlike Sisko, Jake, Kira, and Odo, whose plotlines directly intersect with the main story, and Worf, who's in his element in military stuff. I guess this is also true of Dax, but I didn't rate Dax very highly either!

I understand that as a plot device, the show needs a doctor for medical drama and stuff, but Bashir always just feels kind of 'there' in a way that McCoy, Crusher, and the Doctor do not (although, with the Doctor, that may be because the show just turned into the Janeway/Seven/Doctor show).

The one thing you really want to talk about but nobody is nominating it.
Hmm, let's say Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's pretty much the best sci-fi show out there, and I'm not sure it can be topped for its combination of drama, good writing, and actual science-fiction. It lucked into having a real actor for its main character, it lucked into Gene Roddenberry dying at just the right moment to stop meddling with good ideas, and it lucked into a lot of things. The only space show I would say that might be on its level, and I say to reveal this, is Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which has little actual sci-fi, but is like 150 episodes of anime characters talking about democracy vs autocracy, which I really enjoyed.

Alternatively, I will also rank Spock's immortal line "I like science." Discovery really understands these characters, you know?

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Make it So
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi
Exocomps

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Spock x Romulan Captain
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Julian Bashir
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31
Tilly's "medical issues" turning out to be allergies

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
I Like Science
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]
Quark x Fat Ferengi He Had Sex With While Turned into a Woman for a Wacky Scheme

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock
All Good Things

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Neural Parasites
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
TR-116
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Face of the Enemy
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Helena Cain
Carbon Creek
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Will finish the current noms later.

All Good Things
This is basically the best possible ending you could have had. Picard's withdrawn nature with his friends is finally resolved, he saves the galaxy and proves humanity is awesome to Q, and there's some kind of wacky science thing to battle that doesn't involve mindless violence. In a way, this is the purest expression of what Star Trek is.

I suppose when you end a long-running show like this, your options are to do everything the fans want, which is All Good Things, or to subvert expectations and do something dark, which is Nemesis. TNG is in the unique position of getting two endings, and of them, All Good Things is obviously the one people enjoy. It's amazing how TNG and DS9 are the only shows that stuck the landing. TOS' finale is laughable, VOY's is terrible, I don't even remember TAS', and ENT's is... maybe the worst thing. DIS and PIC aren't over yet, but I'm confident their endings will also be bad.

Face of the Enemy
AKA the only good Troi episode. This is the only time Troi's abilities to read emotions and guess what people are thinking is actually useful -- when she's separated from the rest of the crew and has to infiltrate a bunch of Romulans. We even get a little bit of Romulan culture in this episode.

One thing I like about Romulans vs Klingons is their attitude toward gender roles. It makes sense that the Klingons, who prioritize physical combat, would be super sexist against women and not let them on the council or inherit noble houses, and it makes sense that the Romulans, who prioritize being reserved and sneaky, don't care about gender roles. This is why new Trek made the clever and daring choice to make the Klingons gender neutral and the Romulans make ladyboy jokes.

Did you doubt my powers to connect literally anything to complaining about Discovery?

Neural Parasites
So someone writes an "admirals turn evil" plot, Roddenberry says "no, humans aren't like that in the future," and the guy changes it to parasites taking over their bodies, and it's... better because of it? Amazing.

What makes this episode work is two things. The first is the idea of a conspiracy in the highest levels of government, a shadow government pulling all the strings. This is such a compelling idea that it's a real conspiracy theory, albeit without stop motion aliens.

The second is the ridiculously over-the-top gore. When Riker and Picard shoot that one guy at the end and he just violently explodes and his chest caves in and reveals another bug and it starts screaming like a human baby and Picard just does not hesitate to shoot it, that is legitimately scary and horrible. It's a top ten TNG moment.

And yes, okay, look. I criticize new Trek a lot for always resorting to violence, and here I'm complimenting TNG for doing it. It's different. It's different when Picard spends seven years avoiding combat whenever possible, and then ruthlessly makes a guy's entire head explode. It's shocking in a positive way because it emphasizes the gravity of the situation that Picard will act so out of character.

TR-116
A memorable moment in DS9. Of course there would be wacky future guns in the future, ones that shoot through walls or whatever. People complain sometimes that this never shows up again, but why would it? Most combat in Star Trek is done via space lasers, and I assume the gun doesn't have the range for that. And the Federation toting around what are only useful as assassination weapons when on away missions would have obvious negative diplomatic effects.

Carbon Creek
AKA the one where T'Pol's grandmother crash lands on Earth before we had warp travel. Good thing they crash landed on a planet where the people look mostly like Vulcans, and not on the Tellarite planet.

This is a rare good early ENT episode. It culminates with the Vulcan guy being like "bro I'm not leaving these innocent humans to die, I don't care about the logic of it," and T'Pol's grandmother is like "okay fine." Too bad for that one guy, though. He stays behind on Earth and presumably sees World War III happen.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Giving Picard a signature drink was a great idea. Not much else to say about it!

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The tan suit thing might be the dumbest political controversy of all time.

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Started: July 6, 2005

Time Travel
As a plot device, time travel is up there with warp travel and the holodeck: it provides basically endless possibilities. Normally, I don't like time travel being put into universes not designed around it, but it does sort of work in Star Trek. The problem is that it's super inconsistent. Sometimes it creates alternate universes, sometimes it changes the past and you have to undo it, sometimes it's a stable time loop and you can't change the past except what you're destined to change... And sometimes you get all of these in one show.

Rememner when Gul Dukat says to Kira "Have sex with me," she says "lol no," and he gets angry and says "Well I slept with your mom," and Kira, wondering if this is true, asks Sisko to use the magical time travel orb to check it out, and he says yes??? I'm actually wondering if this beats "Letting Hermione take extra classes" in the competition for "most trivial use of time travel ever."

Odo
Odo is a top ten, maybe even top five character in Star Trek. He doesn't quite reach the heights of Kirk, Spock, Picard, and Data, but he's on the tier right below them, alongside Worf. Like many others, he achieves greatness by abusing the Torn Between Two Worlds thing. Unlike the others, there feels like a chance he might actually go back to the Founders? Like, I realize that as an audience, we all know that the heroes will eventually choose whatever the heroic option is, but I never got the impression that Spock would give into his human side, that Worf would ever compromise his internal honor, or that Seven would really return to the Borg. With Odo, there feels like there's more of a chance, probably because Rene Auberjonois is a better actor than the others. Even though his makeup, you can still instantly understand a guy playing a guy who feels deep emotions but pretends not to.

A Night in Sickbay
The infamously bad ENT episode where the dog pees on a sacred alien tree of sacredness, Archer explores the medbay for thirty minutes, and he apologizes to the aliens even though he doesn't think it's a big deal. It's like, Archer, why would you bring a dog to the sacred alien tree of sacredness in the first place?

I'm just going to say it: I think ENT is the Trek with the least, like, memorable stuff in it. TOS and TNG are nothing but memorable scenes, DS9 has a ton of stuff, VOY is remembered for being so stupid, DIS has the three worst lines of dialogue in all of Star Trek, and PIC at least has the meme of Icheb's death. The only thing anyone talks about with ENT is the Mirror Universe episode where none of the main characters appear.

Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Honestly, fine. I accept the differences here. Fine. Christopher Hemsworth from the opening of 09 scans the Romulan ship, let's just say that the Federation uses that future knowledge to build bigger ships. It's dumb and doesn't make sense, but fine. This is the smallest point of contention when it comes to the the Abramsverse.

Riverside, Iowa
I remember Kirk in TVH saying he's from Iowa, but I don't remember him saying Riverside. Apparently the city just declared it was his future birthplace, and Gene Roddenberry agreed? Well, fine. It has a Star Trek museum listed on the Wikipedia page, and it's the most unimpressive-looking museum ever. It literally looks like the opening to a store in a strip mall in LA.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Odo
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess
Time Travel

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation
Riverside, Iowa

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Abramsverse Enterprise vs Prime Enterprise
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
A Night in Sickbay
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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This sucks for those of us interested in silly puppet adventures.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-netflix-canceled-one-season-1234778139/

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Leonard Nimoy
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
USS Make It Up
This Topic
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Jake Sisko
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Nuking Florida
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
USS Cerritos
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
Chakotay
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The one with the whales is the only thing about this movie most people remember. Its funny, too. This is the only movie thats a flat-out comedy, which makes it unique in the franchise, but its also the movie that saved the franchise. TVH exceeded expectations by so much that it got Roddenberrys dream project, a relaunch of Star Trek itself, greenlit, and thus we have TNG.

As a movie itself, its really good. I could point out any of the great moments all throughout the movie, but instead, Ill point out one moment that didnt. Every character in the movie gets at least one scene to do his or her shtick (Scotty and the engineer, Chekov and nuclear wessels, and so on) except for Sulu. Thats because they hired a little kid to be Sulus ancestor, only for that kid to cry too much and be unable to film the scene. Poor Sulu. Even when you do nothing wrong, you still dont get anything to do.

Nuking Florida
Am I allowed to just post that one Bugs Bunny gif? No? Fine.

This was a very clear attempt to do a 9/11-style event in Star Trek. The problem with this is that we already had that in Wolf 359, and it was done better, and because of the way ENT s3 is set up (a lone ship exploring the unknown), we dont get to see any of the aftermath of its 9/11 except Trip being angry about his dead sister. I mean, a little bit is done with this with that one Xindi scientist whos like sometimes I think about the kids who mustve died, but I dont think the writers really knew what they were doing here.

USS Make It Up
Id never heard this, its very good. I notice they dont use any ENT clips or references, which is amusing, and that whenever they talk about making something up, they switch to Janeway, which is good. Poor Shatner. Like, if you want to make a Star Trek song about making up science stuff, clearly the correct choices for the singer are Scotty, Geordi, or Janeway, and yet its still Kirk who gets used, and why not?

Honestly, now Im wondering who the most identifiable voices in Star Trek are. Im going to say Kirk, Scotty, and Sulu are the top three even now. Janeway might be able to pierce that trio, though.

Leonard Nimoy
I honestly dont know a lot about Nimoy. I know he invented the Vulcan salute, which is good, he invented the Vulcan nerve pinch because he thought it was out of character for him to pistol-whip a guy, which is good, he refused to be in Generations, which is good, and he got angry when Roddenberry included Vulcan logic pins in an episode because it was clearly just something he wanted to sell for extra cash, which is good. Then again, he agreed to be in a Bayformers movie, so its not all good.

Jake Sisko
Jake is the most noncharacter of all the pre-ENT main characters. Hes in like half of the episodes of DS9, and he has a significant role in like half of those. The only notable thing about him is that the writers were smart enough to make him avoid turning into Wesley Crusher, but really, Jake is just an extension of Sisko. He exists only in reference to Sisko, and only to make Sisko more interesting by worrying about his son, which is fine. Jake is just a human version of Spot.

Chakotay + Jamake Highwater
I hope no one minds me combining these two. Chakotay is Star Treks official Native American character, and Jamake Highwater (real name Jackie Marks) is the Native American consultant who helped design him. But what VOYs production staff didnt know is that Highwater was just a white guy who knew nothing about Indians, so the result is that Chakotay is just every stereotype ever, as played by a Latino guy instead of a Native American. Like, thats the most confusing aspect of this entire character. Star Trek has had Native Americans before in one-episode roles. By this point, there had been multiple Native American episodes where they hired real Native Americans. Could they not find one middle-aged Native American man in Los Angeles? I live in Los Angeles; I can tell you they exist.

Anyway, Chakotay is a boring nothing character the writers had no idea what to do with. The story behind his creation is more interesting than he is. Robert Beltran (the actor) wanted to get out of VOY, so he told people on live TV during interviews not to watch it, he demanded more money in an attempt to get fired, and he demanded a girlfriend for his character, but the producers just would not fire him, and it resulted in the infamous Chakotay x Seven plot twist in the final episode. I give PIC a lot of flak, but okay, this is something I dont mind them ignoring.

USS Cerritos
Its a fine-looking ship. Lower Decks gets the aesthetics of Star Trek right. I dont really like the idea of all ensigns in a ship having to have bunks in a shared hallway anyone can enter, but fine, I guess. The ship itself is not a problem with the show, unlike Discovery (told you I can turn anything into complaining about Discovery).

I was going to say that most of the crew isnt Starfleet material, but I realized thats not really true. Most of them could be. The exceptions are Captain Rutherford, the Bajoran warmonger guy, and Mariner. But those three are main characters, so it ends up the same.

The easiest way to explain the Cerritos being canon is to just assume Starfleet needs a ship to send all of its terrible officers to when it cant fire them for some reason.

Anagram ranks anything Star Trek-related with a short writeup
1/10. The idiot who made this topic forgot to capitalize the words in the title.

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bryans7 posted...

For awhile, yeah. I think that's changed very recently but for a long time it was nothing but women.

Well, I'm glad to hear there's some equality there, lol.

Mac Arrowny posted...

Starship Mine is great. High tier TNG episode.

Don't know if I agree with that, but that's fine. I always found it a little weird that it's Picard who gets the Die Hard episode and not, say, Riker.

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Section 31
The idea that ruined Star Trek. I know I just complained about DIS, but settle in, folks, because I'm going to complain about it some more.

I'm okay with the idea of Section 31. I know it violates Gene Roddenberry's vision, but alright. I accept that there'd be a secret quasi-legal spy agency in the Federation that gets tacitly overlooked by the powers that be, and they do nasty stuff. DS9 knew how to use Section 31, and it knew exactly how much Starfleet types could overlook their actions and how far Bashir could be pushed. My point is that DS9 knew Section 31 was questionable, but that it still had limits, and that it was being used for a very specific purpose, which is to show how that that no matter how evolved the Federation may be, people will still lose their morals if they'd pushed too far.

I'll just give ENT a get out of jail free card for using Section 31 two-hundred years before DS9. Fine. Section 31 is immortal, sure, whatever.

Then DIS rolls around, and in its unending quest to ruin everything about Star Trek, it quickly identified Section 31 as a powerful weapon to use. What was once meant as an examination of how you hold onto your ideals during a war turned into an organization that does comically evil things like make volcano bombs that explode the entire Klingon homeworld. That's a plan that Dr. Evil would come up with. I guess the plan was technically invented by the Mirror Universe emperor, but Section 31 agreed to it, so whatever.

Why does Section 31 even have a gigantic fleet to be controlled by an evil computer? Why does it have its own black combadge design? It's a spy agency, not a navy. Does Alex Kurtzman think the CIA is a division of the Army, and has access to stealth aircraft and tanks? I have complete hatred for DIS s2's ending, even more than DIS s1, and Section 31 is a major part of it.

Honestly, I'm super torn on how to rank Section 31. The DS9 version would be fairly high, but since I'm including all appearances here, I guess it's getting kicked down below.

On a related note: the Federation has Section 31, the Romulans have the Tal Shiar, the Cardassians have the Obsidian Order, and the Dominion have the Changelings. You never hear about Klingon Intelligence, though, it only comes up in the tribble episodes. Are the Klingons the best or the worst spies in the galaxy? We may never know.

Starship Mine
This is the second time I had to look up an episode. I thought this was the episode where Picard had to fly the ship through a minefield, but this is actually the Die Hard episode. Okay. It's a Die Hard episode. It's exactly what it sounds like. The most notable thing about the episode is that the actor who plays Tuvok is in it as a human thief. This is like peak 6/10 territory.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Data
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
The House of Quark
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold
3D Chess

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Disruptors
Cultural Drinks
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Synthohol
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Starship Mine
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi
Section 31

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Sub Rosa
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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The House of Quark
A lot of people don't like the Ferengi comedy episodes, but I actually enjoy them well enough. This is a good one, because it juxtaposes Quark's extremely specific financial skills with a culture that doesn't value them at all, and his rampant sexism with a Klingon woman who won't tolerate it at all (she only tolerates Klingon sexism). I really enjoy the part where Quark bores the Klingon High Council with insane financial documents until Gowron gets angry and forces him to stop. Overall, a really solid episode.

Sub Rosa
I have a confession to make! Like ten years ago, I did a TNG episode watch-through topic, and I skipped Sub Rosa, but I pretended I watched it anyway. I'm sorry, but I've only seen this episode once, when I was eighteen. I remember the writer of the episode complaining that Star Trek fans don't like gothic horror, which... yes? But even if they did, "Scottish sex ghost seduces all the women in a line" is like the stupidest premise for an episode ever. The most important thing about this episode isn't even the rapist space ghost, it's that Crusher discovers her grandmother's secret sex journal, reads it, and tells Troi that it's super hot and erotic. If I discovered my grandparent's secret sex journal, I would at best not burn it and just toss it into a box to never be read by anyone.

Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War
So Nekron and some Lanterns go to the Abramsverse, and the emotional rings go to various Trek characters, who eventually set aside their differences to fight Nekron. I'm okay with this so far, but the Trek characters who get rings are Chekov (hope), Uhura (love), McCoy (compassion), General Chang (fear), the Gorn Prince (rage), and the Romulan Praetor (avarice). Poor Uhura. Even when they reboot you to actually have a personality, you're still just 'the girl.' I've never read Green Lantern comics, do all love rings always go to girls? Because I refuse to believe there's a 50/50 split with them.

Disruptors
Perfection. It would have been so easy to just give the bad guy races phasers as well, and that's what disruptors are for any practical purpose. But by calling them disruptors, it implies a direct destruction of the target, whereas a phaser is more abstract.

Synthohol
A great idea. Of course the sterile, clinical Federation doesn't use real alcohol except during special occasions. Unlike most other Star Trek concepts, I don't think there's ever been a synthohol-based episode, though. What premise could you have about synthohol malfunctioning? Probably none.

Seven of Nine
Seven of Nine is a character who works in spite of herself. Everyone involved in the production of VOY acknowledges that she was created solely to be hot. And yet, she's also a thoughtful examination of how someone raised from childhood to be a zombie communist would react to becoming a human again. She and the Doctor are the only things carrying VOY for four straight years. The best part of her character is that after years of careful development and hard work, her adopted son was brutally murdered by having his eyeball cut out of his head using a corkscrew, which caused her to go insane and turn into a vigilante who views the world solely with cynicism and hatred. Perfect writing, Alex Kurtzman.

Cultural Drinks
... do they? I never thought about it before. Hm. Blood wine, Romulan ale, kanar, spring wine, root beer... Yeah, I guess so. Do the Ferengi? Huh. Well, this is fine. It's good to help flesh out cultures by giving them identifiable foods.

3D Chess
"How do we establish that someone is smart?"
"Have them play chess."
"Okay, but we need to establish that he's really smart."
"Say no more."

Data
For a short period of time, I promoted Data above Spock in my list of favorite Star Trek characters, because Spock was in Discovery, but Data wasn't. But then, PIC just had to go and use Data. Ah well. Of all of the returning old characters in the new Star Trek, Data is by far the least ruined. Spock was revealed to be super emotional, have dyslexia, and have a secret adopted sister, Sarek was revealed to not hate his son for entering Starfleet and to have galaxy-range psychic powers, Spock's mom was revealed to be going against her husband's wishes and breaking the law, Pike was revealed to not just have an unfortunate accident but to instead have an epic destiny to end up in a wheelchair, Harry Mudd turned into a psychopath, Picard gave up on life and acts like he had a close friendship with Data that he clearly did not have in TNG, Riker retired to make pizza, Troi had a son who died of a disease that makes no sense, Icheb's eyeball was cut out of his head, Seven of Nine turned into a crazy person, and Hugh was killed by a ninja star. I guess 'least ruined returning character' technically goes to Number One, Pike's first officer who shows up for five seconds, but whatever.

Data is such a good idea. Sorry, ed, I know you hate Data, but too bad, I love him. He's the anti-Spock -- a guy who feels no emotions, but wants to explore his humanity anyway. Star Trek is largely defined by its Torn Between Two Worlds characters and their internal conflicts, but Data just completely ignores all of that and feels zero conflict at all. He knows what he wants, and he's prepared to explore it in a funny way.

Did you know that TNG was originally pitched by Gene Roddenberry as focusing on Picard, Riker, and Crusher? But they instantly realized that Riker and Crusher are boring compared to Data and Worf, which is why all of the movies are about Picard and Data, and why not?


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Someone else already nominated latinum!

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I was thinking about this while playing Resident Evil, that I can't think of any defining tune from the series other than a guy saying RESIDENT EVILLLL in the menu of every game.

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Congrats. This was a fun read, it sounds like a great campaign.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/comicbook.com/anime/amp/news/longcat-death-meme-2020/

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ZenOfThunder posted...

I am also making a formal request for you to give a few sentences about each lower decks flair or each week as they air and you get around to watching them

Why not?

Second Contact
I was worried by this episode because it establishes that Mariner is always right, and that even the characters within the show comment on how she's always right. I thought I might be reading into things too much, but then later episodes established that I was correct.

Envoys
This episode further cements the fact that Mariner is always right. They have to transport a Klingon general, and Boimler slowly realizes he's useless and plans to retire. Mariner, though, being always right, contracts a Ferengi to menace them in a stereotypical way so Boimler can save them, thus preserving his career, which she identified as a good thing because she is, as always, right. By the way, what was that Ferengi thinking? "Hello, sir, I'm a human, and I want to pay you to rub your hands together and cackle."

Temporal Edict
The buffer time episode. This is the only episode where Mariner is possibly wrong, in that she volunteers to fight the giant monster guy, but Ransom stops her, fights it on his own, and wins. This is also the episode that establishes that the bridge crew will treat Mariner as basically an equal despite her being an Ensign. Of course, Mariner is right in the end because she chooses not to get Ransom fired -- so everything is always REALLY in her hands.

Moist Vessel
The episode where Mariner's mother (who's the captain) tries to get her to transfer by promoting her and giving her boring jobs. Mariner works with her mother to save the ship, impressing her and making her realize that Mariner actually is really smart and may have a future. Mariner, though, prefers working on the lower decks, so she insults an admiral to get demoted again. This episode is less about Mariner being always right and more about Mariner's desire to stay on the lower decks.

Cupid's Errant Arrow
Boimler gets a new girlfriend who's perfect in every way, so Mariner assumes she must be a shapeshifter or something. She tries to expose the truth, but ends up really liking the girl and realizing they have a lot in common. In the end, Mariner was right, but didn't realize that it was Boimler who had the alien parasite attached that makes him attract perfect girlfriends.

Terminal Provocations
Mariner and Boimler have to help a new ensign who seems nice, but is actually an irresponsible idiot. I especially like Mariner saying "I would never endanger the ship," but literally the first scene of the first episode is her getting drunk on duty and stabbing a guy by accident. Anyway, Mariner saves the ship from the ensign's incompetence and gets him transferred away.

Much Ado About Boimler
Oh man, if you thought Mariner wasn't always right before, have I got news for you. In this episode, it is firmly and inarguably established that Mariner could totally be a captain at age 24 if she wanted to be, she just chooses not to be, and any seeming incompetence by her is just an act. It's a shame, because the episode is otherwise okay.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Spok

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
Worf
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Parallels
Quark
Morn
Lore
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
Slingshot Maneuver
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Ketracel White
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Delta Quadrant
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
Not!zi Aliens
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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ZenOfThunder posted...

Thanks for continuing to put to much effort into this, it is super high quality

No problem, I'm happy to do it.

Ketracel White
I like the idea of keeping an entire army on drugs that only you control in order to manipulate them. As a plot device, it's interesting and sensible -- of course the Changelings would build in a second method to control the Jem'hadar. Makes you wonder if they have another method for the Vorta.

Worf
Worf is a character defined by two things. The first is that he's one of Star Trek's classic Torn Between Two Worlds characters, alongside Spock, Odo, and Seven of Nine. These are characters who have heritage from more than one culture, and so have to rectify their feelings about that in some way. What makes Worf different from the others is that he sort of lives up to the Klingon ideal rather than the Klingon factual; the guy is all about honor and is always serious, whereas the other Klingons, you know, they laugh, they screw around, they get drunk, and they lie, cheat, and steal. The other thing about Worf is his internal vs external honor. Externally, honor is something given to you by the Klingon Empire for great deeds. Internally, Worf knows that he always does what is best for society or the Empire, even if it makes him hated in others' eyes. This all makes Worf a pretty complex and interesting character.

Not!zi Aliens
Because the nomination specified "suspiciously resemble," I'll discount the aliens who were modeled after explicit Nazis and the literal Nazi aliens from that ENT two-parter.

Fascist imagery is very powerful for creating villains in fiction. Star Trek isn't the first and it won't be the last to utilize that. There's always going to be an episode of the week alien race that's at least partly inspired by them. So I'm going to go off on a tangent here and instead talk about Discovery's Klingons -- I swear this will make sense, just give me a chance.

Season 1 of Discovery is about Klingons screaming about how the Federation wants to infiltrate them and replace their ideals. One of the Klingons gets really upset about the phrase "We come in peace," even though that has literally never been used in all of Star Trek up to that point. So the season seems like it's going to be about alt-right Klingons, which is an interesting concept. But then it's just not, because the writers had nothing meaningful to say about the alt-right, and had characters with no ability to resolve problems in any way except violence. Like, the moral of TOS Klingons and Romulans was clearly "other people may have different ideals, that's okay, no need for fighting." What's the moral of DIS' portrayal of the alt-right? "Violence is always the answer?"

At this point, I'm wondering if there's anything in Star Trek I can't turn into a complaint about DIS. There probably is, but I haven't found it yet.

Slingshot Maneuver
An interesting idea, but one with no thought put into how it would affect the rest of the universe. Star Trek does this often, where it'll introduce some crazy new concept that should rightfully change the entire setting, but then just ignores the implications, but the Slingshot Maneuver is especially bad, because we see that it all it takes is a brain-damaged Spock doing math for two hours to make a pinpoint time jump. I especially like how that one episode of TOS has the gang time jump to the 1960s so casually that it's not even shown on-screen, and they do it for the purposes of studying the local history.

Parallels
A good episode. Worf episodes are typically about resolving some kind of internal vs external honor problem, discovering more about his family, or having sex with Dax. Parallels is Worf's one chance to really get a science problem episode, and he does as much with it as "the sword guy" possibly can, even if his solution is to immediately talk to Geordi and Data. I mean, I don't blame him, that's what my solution would also be.

Delta Quadrant
It makes complete sense for the Delta Quadrant to be VOY's focus. After all, by this point, we've seen the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Quadrants enough to at least know the major players in the regions. The Delta Quadrant was an opportunity for something new. It also makes complete sense that there would be no big powerful empires here, because the ship will always be on the move, so it would be awkward to explain why a single race dominates a quarter of the galaxy and yet never came up before. The Delta Quadrant was an untouched opportunity to show us all kinds of wacky new races every week!

... Nope.

Quark
Quark is the Ferengi who made Ferengi cool again. Well, for the first time. He starts out as a greedy bartender, and progresses over time to being a bartender who's a little less greedy. A great moment is when Brunt gets upset at him for selling medical supplies at cost instead of at a massive markup. Quark even comments on this at one point with his famous analogy between the Federation and root beer, saying they get into you and make you like root beer. But really, the dude is on the second tier of Star Trek characters. He's not a Worf, he's more like a Riker.


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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
The Dominion
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Lore
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Guinan
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
Brunt, FCA
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Saavik
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities
Saucer Separation

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Hide and Q
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Kazon
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Kazon
VOY's writers looked at the existing bad guy races. The Klingons had been the Soviet Union during TOS, the Romulans had been China, the Borg had been zombies, and the Dominion had been the Federation's dark reflection. But what kind of villain can you make for a ship that's constantly traveling? The answer is a very bad one.

So the Kazon's shtick is that they're idiots who accidentally got into space and barely understand anything. The writers said they were based on local gangs, who operated independently and were always fighting for turf. They have no meaningful culture beyond a vague "warrior code." Probably the funniest aspect of their culture is that they don't have prisons, they just have lines on the floor that you aren't supposed to cross.

If the Kazon had been a one-episode race, fine. But they're the main villains for two years. Even if we set aside all questions of logic (if Voyager is always on the move, how do the Kazon follow it? Isn't Voyager super advanced and the Kazon are barely space-capable?), they do not come across as a viable threat at all. Like, Voyager is a powerful, advanced ship full of military people, and the Kazon are gangbangers, and the Kazon pose all the threat you would think gangbangers would pose to US Navy destroyer. It can't be emphasized enough how unequal this matchup is, which the writers eventually realized, so they had one of Voyager's crew defect to them and she, alone, was a bigger threat than the rest of them were combined.

Brunt, FCA
I think Brunt was a necessary character. He's the only recurring Ferengi villain in the show (aside from that guy who hated Picard so much that he rewrote a random guy's DNA to trick Picard into thinking he was his son just so he could kill him), and he's a villain in a very Ferengi way: he's going to mess with your finances. When he thinks Quark is powerful, he kowtows to him, when he doesn't think that, he treats Quark like crap. I guess it makes sense that he has like no interaction with the other main characters, since they don't use money and can't be intimidated by him.

Dominion
The Federation's dark reflection. One is an enlightened civilization that rejects superstition, embraces technology and change, and is built on equality and diplomacy. The other is a theocracy built on certain races being more valuable than others, that embraces unquestioning devotion (and drugs), and expands via conquest.

The key to what makes the Dominion work as a concept is that it's completely believable that this civilization functions the way it does and that its people have the philosophy they do. It's very easy to believe the Founders consider all others to be beneath them, to the point where they'd compromise their own war to protect the only Changeling who joins the enemy's side, and it's easy to accept why the Vorta are so devoted to them.

One thing I would have liked was to have more Dominion races, though. The Federation has dozens of races, but the Dominion only has three. I get that the Changelings are the rulers, the Vorta are the administrators, and the Jem'hadar are the soldiers, but give me like a slave laborer caste, an engineering race that can only think in terms of machines, etc, that the Changelings have manipulated over time to have no ideas except what relates to their role in society. Then that contrasts with Sisko the unusually religious human, Quark the unusually kind Ferengi, etc. Oh well.

Saucer Separation
I kind of hate it. Aside from never getting used even in the instances when it would have been helpful, the idea here is that you put your nonessential crew members and the civilian families onto one part of the ship, then ride the other part into battle. But even coming up with this idea is an acknowledgement that bringing civilians onto the ship is a stupid idea in the first placer, and that's without considering how having a twice-as-large ship during a battle is probably more useful than not having that.

Guinan
The most important thing about Woopie Goldberg will forever be the time she was contractually obligated to make a movie about a dinosaur police officer played by John Goodman, tried to get out of it, and was ordered by a judge to make the movie.

Guinan is a great character. We don't know her story and we don't really need to. All we need to know is that she has Picard's complete trust, and that she has her Wisdom stat maxed out. I actually think the show is worse for later revealing that the El Aurians are just a normal race. They were more interesting and mysterious when Guinan and her wacky hats were the only representation.

Saavik
Saavik, eh? Notable for being the first Vulcan female not named "T'psomething." So, Saavik serves two roles in WoK. First, she's the only female character of any importance (sorry, Uhura and Carol Marcus, but one of you is a glorified extra and the other is a plot device). Second, she gets to be the inexperienced newbie who can have everything explained to her, and through her, the audience. Her only actual contribution to the plot is when she tells Kirk to raise the shields as the Reliant approaches and he blows her off. Then comes SfS, where her contribution to the plot is that she ****s a mute teenage version of Spock to keep him from going crazy during pon farr, and does nothing else. I can imagine that for an 80s audience, Saavik surviving instead of David Marcus must have been shocking. I read that she was originally supposed to be pregnant with his baby at the end, but they cut it. I'm not sure I believe that, though.

One neat fact about her is that she was supposed to be the traitor in TUC, but Roddenberry opposed it because he thought it was out of character for her, which is why half of that movie is dedicated to "Who could the traitor be? It's either one of these beloved characters we've known for thirty years or this new person we've never met before."

Hide and Q
The idea of this episode is interesting: Q has a bet with Picard that no one can resist Q powers, so he gives Riker them to prove it. Riker is tempted by the ability to save people and make the galaxy a better place, but eventually gives them up. The execution is really sloppy, but none of that is what people remember about this episode.

Instead, people remember the dog aliens dressed like Napoleonic soldiers for literally no reason. I don't blame them, though. That's so stupid that it's impossible to not remember them.

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PerfectChaosZ posted...

Do the Kazon haha

Also which race did the Ferengi supplant?

I probably shouldn't do this here, since I could do it in a ranking, but why not?

Klingons
Romulans
Cardassians
Dominion
Borg
Ferengi
Xindi
Suliban
Kazon

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Vic Fontaine
I don't hate him, but I don't really care for him, either. I can't imagine anyone saying "Aw yeah, a Vic Fontaine episode!" The show also seems to pass over how the holodeck can just casually make sentient life now, which TNG at least had whole episodes about.

The main Vic Fontaine moment I remember is Sisko complaining that a night club from the 1920s wouldn't let in a black person, and me being like "There is no way he would care about this."

Pon Farr
As originally intended, pon farr was a great idea: the proud and logical Vulcans having all of that stripped away and, basically, going into heat. It made complete sense why they would keep this on the down-low. Later, in VOY, everyone is just casually joking about it, so I guess it's well-known. Add this to the list of things VOY ruined. I'll give this to DIS, I guess: there is at least one aspect of Vulcans it doesn't ruin.

I was never clear on if female Vulcans also have pon farr, since the only example we know of was T'Pol, for whom it was invoked artificially.

Weyoun
The defining Jeffrey Combs character, Weyoun is necessary as the perspective of the normal person in the Dominion. He believes the Founders are gods and he can't be persuaded otherwise. He's polite enough, but all of his actions are going to revolve around that fundamental idea, and he's perfectly willing to be a monster if he thinks it'll help his cause.

Also of note: the Vorta cloning idea was introduced solely because the writers realized they shouldn't have killed Weyoun in his first episode, and wanted a way to make him survive.

David Marcus
Poor David Marcus. You're a perfectly fine character in WoK, no one really disputes that. Then in SfS you're casually killed off. It happens so fast that almost nothing is even done with it. Kirk has one moment where he stumbles back in disbelief, and it's never mentioned again.

Ferengi
Of the bad guy races, those being the Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, Borg, Cardassians, Dominion, Kazon, Suliban, and Xindi, the Ferengi were introduced as the third worst, and climbed their way up to being the... fourth worst. But there's a real drop after the fourth worst, that's a big deal, just trust me.

You watch those early TNG episodes with the Ferengi, and it's like, I get it. The Klingons are big and imposing, so they wanted villains who were small and scheming. The Klingons have this powerful empire, so the Ferengi work as individual groups with their own agendas. It all makes sense, but they flubbed the makeup and acting. Someone made the Ferengi look hilarious, and they do all of these hand-wringing rat movements that are just so awful. It is impossible to take them seriously as a threat, particularly after the first episode where they're acting like rats and Riker is standing tall and noble (barf).

Then DS9 rolls around, and Quark redeems the entire species almost by himself. They take everything established by TNG (except the laser whips) and expand on it, turning the Ferengi into an actual culture that makes sense, maybe not as formal villains, but as their own people whose interests aren't always aligned with the Federation's. Compare this to like the Kazon and Suliban, who were just dropped after the writers realized they didn't work.

The Best Lower Decks Episode
Oh jeez, I don't know. Let's say Cupid's Errant Arrow is the one that's the least un-Star Treky. It's about Mariner thinking Boimler's new girlfriend must be a shapeshifter or something because she has PTSD from that happening to one of her friends in the past. See, the idea of a Starfleet officer constantly suspecting the worst because of wacky alien stuff and becoming hopelessly paranoid is kind of interesting. Of course, nothing is done with it, but hey. It turns out that Boimler was infected by a parasite that makes you irresistible to a chosen mate, and as soon as it's removed, his perfect girlfriend breaks up with him. See, that would also be an interesting episode, where he's depressed because he was factually not good enough for someone and she bolted as soon as he didn't have this alien advantage, but instead he just gets over it instantly.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever
Ferengi

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Lore
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
Weyoun
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
David Marcus
Cupid's Errant Arrow
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Pon Farr
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Vic Fontaine
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Armstrong

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Yeah, I was referring to the Warp 5 speed limit. They actually do stick to Warp 5 for a few episodes after that. I hated the idea, personally. That episode was terrible.

I could accept the idea if more was done with it. At least they had the good graces to just drop it after a while.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

That episode was terrible.

Eh, many episodes are terrible.

bryans7 posted...

Thanks for doing this, it's been a lot of fun so far.

PerfectChaosZ posted...

Yeah Ive been really enjoying it also but Im running out of things to think of to suggest.

I'm just glad people are enjoying my topic.

Conundrum (TNG)
One of TNG's classic mystery episodes. Everyone wakes up with no memory of anything, and they quickly piece together that they're the crew of a starship and that they're at war with some nobody species. Worf takes charge because he has a sash, and the crew has to figure out what they're doing. Of course, we the audience know that there's another officer here who shouldn't be, so he's probably the villain. In the end, amnesiac Picard figures out that the Enterprise is too powerful to be fighting this no-name species, so they can't really be at war with it. The mystery guy reveals that he's from another species that actually is at war, but isn't as advanced as the Federation... yet can still mindwipe an entire starship, but okay. They defeat him, sadly robbing the audience of the explanation for why he didn't insert himself as the captain instead of the first officer, which I'm sure he was about to say.

Neelix Episodes
Neelix episodes all have the same problem: Neelix. Until Discovery, he was the worst Star Trek character, and he's still pretty bad.

James Tiberius Kirk
I wonder who's the more iconic Star Trek character, Spock or Kirk. You can reference either of them and even normal people will understand. Even my sister, who has zero interest in Star Trek, understands Kirk references. Kirk has a reputation for being a cowboy who breaks all the rules and sleeps with every alien girl he finds, but if you actually watch the show and movies, Kirk disobeys a direct order twice, both times to save Spock after trying the normal channels. He sleeps with two alien girls, though to be fair, he tries for four (the other two completely blow him off and go for Spock instead). My point is that Kirk is actually a fairly by-the-book captain who relies a lot on "well the rules don't TECHNICALLY say X, so I can do Y," which is not what people associate him with.

What separates Kirk as a captain from the others is that he relies a lot more on grit, improvisation, and bluffing. Picard relies on either talking a lot or the quality of his crew (the only crewmembers who ever really bail Kirk out are Spock and Scotty, whereas everyone in TNG except Troi and Wesley does the same for Picard), Sisko relies on his weird religious determination, balancing his awkward political position, and just a general readiness to fight, Janeway relies on "science," Archer is just a grab bag of whatever, and let's not talk about the later Treks.

Much of Kirk's character is in the movies, where he's an aging captain who wonders if he's still got it. Spoilers: he does.

Anbo-jyutsu
I wonder what it's like to be Asian and see your culture represented in Western works entirely through martial arts. Even in Star Wars, in a galaxy far, far away, the only Asian guy was a wise karate monk. I guess Rose wasn't a martial artist, but she's a nonentity.

Anyway, Abo-jyutsu is repeatedly called "the ultimate martial art." It consists of wearing a blinding helmet and swinging a staff at your opponent in a circle. When the staff gets close to the opponent, it beeps.

See, I can accept this as some dumb sport enjoyed by twelve people, and Riker happens to be one of them. But "the ultimate martial art?" I think not.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
James Tiberius Kirk
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Lore
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
Conundrum (TNG)
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Anbo-jyutsu
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Neelix Episodes
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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I was shocked when I found this image. I'd had no idea FFX-2 had sold so well.
https://i.imgur.com/NJVLrc8.png

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Warp Speed Limit
I actually don't know if this is referring to the normal use of warp 10 as the fastest the ship can go, or if it's referring to that episode of TNG about climate change where warp speed destroys the galaxy and the Federation makes a speed limit, and it's mentioned once ever and then never again.

I'll assume the latter. It was an interesting idea, but more needed to be done with it.

Spock's Dick Tweet
The best part of this tweet is Chapel struggling to keep herself calm, though you'd only understand why if you'd watched TOS.

Tellarites
A less successful "Oh, it's that guy" race than the Andorians, but still a notable one. There's nothing really interesting about them, but you're always like AW YEAH A TELLARITE. One thing I appreciate about them is that they always have very complicated prosthetics and masks. Every appearance by a Tellarite, besides LD, really goes all-out on making the best pig-alien possible with the technology of the time. This is as opposed to Andorians, who were amazing in the 1960s, but by later Treks, looked so silly that two entire shows refused to use them.

I do genuinely approve of ENT using them as a major race. It makes complete sense that we'd see races that were already established in TOS, and I understand why they can't use the copper-skinned dwarf race.

Lore
Does Brent Spiner hold the record for "most characters played by a main actor?" It would be Jeffrey Combs had he been in the credits, but oh well. Lore works as Data's foil. The Liquid to Data's Solid, always crafting evil plots and screaming I'M YOU, I'M YOUR SHADOW.

God, can you imagine MGS1, but with Data in Snake's place? That'd be amazing.

USS Callister
Still haven't seen it, sorry.

TNG Title Sequence
I'll level with you: I think the Star Trek openings are perfectly serviceable, but nothing special. They're in, they're out, and they get the job done. If not for the ship, voice over, and effects quality, I would be hard-pressed to tell them apart. I mostly remember the TOS one involving whizzing through empty space a lot and the VOY one going through a nebula.

Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
More LD, dammit. Don't you understand that this is the hardest show to rank for me?

This is the episode that both confirmed some of my fears and dispelled others. Before the show came out, I had assumed Ransom would be like the egotistical and incompetent high-ranking officer because he just has the most classical hero look to him, and that he would always be in the way of our main characters. Instead he turns out to be mostly reasonable and more competent than Mariner (I despise the way Mariner's character has progressed in the latest episode, but that's a story for another time), and the joke with him became that he's the only bridge officer who's not a moron or completely unreasonable, which is fine. But then the rest of the episode is about how all of Starfleet's lower ranking officers screw around on the job and get drunk, and how this is necessary in order to relieve stress, and yet somehow the high-ranking officers don't know this despite presumably once being low-ranking officers, and there are like crazy spear-wielding aliens who get offended super easily and attack you, but they're part of the Federation (and they say that, they aren't merely a random species that's been contacted). In a way, this episode epitomizes all of Lower Decks: taking a random joke Scotty made thirty years ago and expanding on it to no longer make any sense.

Tartigrades Lawsuit
A quick googling reveals that a guy making a video game had a space-traveling tartigrade in it, and he sued DIS for having one? This is almost too stupid to comprehend.

TOS Films Uniforms
Even though I could be cheeky and rate the TMP ones, I know you meant the WoK-Generations ones, so that's what I'll rate.

The movie uniforms are undeniably the best Star Trek has ever looked. You lose the ability to tell which department someone works in by looking at him, but you gain a more militaristic feeling, which was necessary for those movies. They just look so damn good! Though part of that is the lighting. Because I'm a huge dork, I once almost bought a uniform for myself, but without the movie lighting, they look much... worse.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
TOS Films Uniforms
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Lore
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
TNG Title Sequence
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Tellarites
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Temporal Edict (Lower Decks)
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Spock's Dick Tweet
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Warp Speed Limit
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
Tartigrades Lawsuit
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1336951/Henry-Cavill-Superman-return-Black-Adam-Shazam-Justice-League-Snyder-Cut

Sadly, no news about returning with a mustache, but we can only hope.

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I have tried to find the X-Men/TNG crossover comic and cannot. Sorry!

O'Brien Must Suffer
Yeah, I guess what else can you do with O'Brien? If you aren't willing to kill his family and make him Punished O'Brien, what can you do with the guy? Without even looking it up, I can remember him having twenty years of prison memories implanted into his brain, watching his past self die and having to take his place in the 'main' timeline (he probably bonded with Harry Kim over this off-screen), marrying a Japanese hate ghost, having to beam his son into another woman's womb, having a twelve year-old try to have sex with him, make friends with a criminal and accidentally get him killed, get almost assassinated for helping to dispose of some chemical bombs, get his tooth pulled out by a Cardassian, and watch his daughter grow up into a cavewoman. That's a thing about Star Trek, it at least always has ideas.

Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Watching Picard, Riker, and so on from a nobody's perspective is really interesting. One part that sticks out to me, this completely unimportant nothing part, is when the male ensign says "Aye, aye, sir," and Riker is like BRO ONE AYE IS FINE and he gets embarrassed. It's even a little sad when the Bajoran girl dies at the end! Thankfully, the writers understood that "unimportant people watch important people work" is a gimmick with a limited shelf life, and wouldn't work as an entire TV show.

Ruk
I had to look this character up, I'd assumed it was a Ferengi. I have no strong opinions about this guy, sorry. Man, if you're like a 7'0" bald guy with a strong jaw, you've got it made in Hollywood as a character actor.

Vacation Episodes
There are so many episodes in Star Trek set up by someone going on a vacation and getting captured along the way. There's the one where Geordi is turned into an assassin, there's the one where O'Brien is kidnapped by Cardassians, there's... Look, I'm sure there are more.

By the way, all vacation episodes are bad, especially the ones set on Risa. Remember the time Worf joined a terrorist cell whose goal was to destroy fun?

The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
I'm fine with these being the major Federation bodies of higher education, really. Sure, I'd prefer to occasionally hear about the Tellarite Robotics Institute or the Andorian Academy of Fine Arts, but I appreciate that there are more than one university.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Lower Decks (TNG episode)
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
The Daystrom Institute and the Vulcan Science Academy
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
O'Brien Must Suffer
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Ruk
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
Vacation Episodes
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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D'deridex-class Warbird
Possibly the best-looking ship in all of Star Trek. It's extremely distinctive and intimidating, and it's green, the official color of Romulan stuff. I still enjoy how instead of using the extremely dangerous antimatter for its energy purposes, it just has a miniature black hole, which is like not wanting to use a nuke, so you use ten nukes.

Gene Roddenberry
In the battle of "Creators who have amazing ideas but really need other people to rein in their terrible ones," Gene Roddenberry probably is better than George Lucas. He's responsible for so many good ideas, but then he makes rules like "humans aren't allowed to argue with each other" and it's like bro.

Spot
A perfectly serviceable way to expand Data as a character. The defining Spot thing to me is the poem Data makes that is technically perfect but devoid of artistry or soul.

The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
One of the most underrated aspects of Spock's Brain is that DeForest Kelley is the only actor still trying. Everyone else in that episode is clearly just phoning it in, but Kelley is giving it his all.

Enterprise's Opening Credits
The only show that has lyrics in the opening credits (aside from the special case of TOS where Gene Roddenberry made lyrics but then didn't have them sung because it allowed him to steal half of the royalties from the melody). Everyone talks about the lyrics, but the funnier part of this is that all of the 20th century space footage is solely American save for the ISS. I guess you can argue that this is from Archer's perspective, but give me a break.

DS9 s6e1-6
After the Dominion takes DS9, we get a lengthy segment where Sisko plans ways to retake it, the non-Federation people (and Jake) left behind on the station undermine the Dominion, and Kira grows closer to Ziyal so that we can be sad when one of them dies. I won't spoil which one, but only one of them is in the opening credits.

Take Me Out to the Holosuite
I like the idea of a Vulcan deciding to screw with a human for decades by beating him at his own favorite Earth game. This is a fun little side adventure in the middle of the otherwise serious Dominion War arc, which I know offends a lot of people, but eh. One thing I don't really understand is why Sisko is annoyed at losing. If an alien who's three times as strong as a human beat me at baseball, I would not be annoyed, I'm just going to say.

This episode has a lot of strong character moments, like Odo secretly training for his job as referee because he takes everything seriously and Quark helping Sisko "manufacture victory where there is none."

Alexander Rozhenko
Does anyone like Alexander? At his best, he's inoffensive. I can't think of any time when I was like "Yeah, an Alexander episode, woo!"

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Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
D'deridex-class Warbird
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
DS9 s6e1-6
Morn
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
The Way McCoy says "Spock's Brain"
Escape Pods
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
The Picard Maneuver
Gene Roddenberry
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Enterprise's Opening Credits
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Spot
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Chuck_Tingle posted...

you didn't research higley enough. she's batshit insane. she talks about her extra life in her linkedin profile

Really? May look her up again, then.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
Zapp Brannigan
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Year of Hell
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
Morn
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Kobayashi Maru
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
The Pegasus
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Species 8472
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
TNG Poker Games
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
Escape Pods
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
The Picard Maneuver
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians
Latinum
Sarah Higley

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
TNG s1 and s2
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Picard's Captain's Jacket
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Lwaxana Troi
Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Sarah Higley
A writer who invented Barclay and helped write the DS9 episode where everyone can't speak the same language. Uh... good for her?

Kobayashi Maru
A brilliant setup for the later events of the film. "Kirk always wins," you're told. "Kirk can always outsmart the system," this tells you. All to set up for Kirk finally losing and Spock having to sacrifice himself to save the others, chiding Kirk that this is his own solution to the Kobayashi Maru. I always hated in 09 how Spock is the one who invents the test. That's so dumb.

Picard's Captain's Jacket
I'm confident this would have been forgotten like the bad idea it is if not for Picard wearing it during Darmok. This is like some kind of adventuring jacket, but TNG went to great lengths to emphasize how the captain doesn't personally go out and adventure anymore.

Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno
So if you don't know, and I'm sure everyone does and that I'm wasting my time, VOY wanted to bring back a minor TNG character named Nicholas Locarno, but the producers realized they'd have to pay royalties to the writer of an episode of TNG, so they demanded a new character be invented who was identical in every way. This is why the same actor plays two different Starfleet officers who get expelled for accidentally causing the death of a fellow officer, although to be fair, Tom Paris also has the part where he helps the Maquis and goes to prison.

Paris has a unique position on Voyager: he's the only human (until Seven of Nine) with any drive or personality. All of the others are professional military-types, which makes sense, but Paris is a rogue who's aboard by accident. I always viewed him a massive wasted opportunity. Clearly, VOY was conceived of as a show where the Federation and Maquis had to work together to get back to Earth, and they'd be grinding their teeth and not trusting each other, and Paris would be caught between the two groups, and everyone would try to woo him to their side because he legitimately is the best pilot on the ship. But instead, the Federation/Maquis plot is resolved like three episodes in (it's not even really resolved, they all just quietly get over it), and Paris settles in as "the only human with a distinct personality." Ah well.

Zapp Brannigan
I remember reading that the pitch for this character was William Shatner-meets-James Kirk, which is a brilliant idea. Everyone loves Zapp Brannigan, what is there to even say?

Year of Hell
This was supposed to last an entire season, a year, if you will, but the producers were like "you can't have a year of television get cancelled out by time travel, that will annoy fans," and to be fair, he was right. The compromise, though, is a two-parter with the dad from That 70s Show as the villain.

It's actually a very good episode. Red from That 70s Show is an alien with a timeship whose civilization was destroyed via time travel, and he and his crew are the last survivors due to timeship shielding. He keeps altering time to bring his people back, but it's never perfect enough for him because his real motive is specifically to bring his wife back, and he can't quite balance the calculations enough to make it work. Voyager gets involved, and the crew slowly dies over the course of a year as they battle him, and Janeway assembles a ragtag bunch of misfits to stop his reign of terror. She succeeds and erases his timeship from history, but plot twist! That was what was needed to restore Red's wife, and the two of them live happily ever after.

Year of Hell is a textbook case of 'good, though not as good as it could have been.' If VOY had had this quality throughout its run, the show would be much better remembered.

TNG s1 and s2
Gross. This was when Gene Roddenberry was still personally involved with every episode of the show, rather than being kicked upstairs like he eventually was, and he had a lot of rules that made the show... suck? I don't know how TOS is good while early TNG is bad, but so be it.

TNG Poker Games
A great way to show the crew interacting with each other. Remember how TNG ends with Picard finally joining the game? Masterful.

The Pegasus
You know, someone nominated Helena Cain, I could technically do the BSG one. Anyway, this episode is memorable mostly because it's one of the earliest "Federation grapples with its principles" ones. It has yet another evil admiral (I will give this to DIS, PIC, and LD: they donn't have any evil or insane admirals), but one with kind of a rational belief that the Federation shouldn't compromise with the Romulans on cloaking technology? I mean, we all know the real reason why the Federation doesn't have cloaking, which is... that Gene Roddenberry was asked about it and said "heroes don't sneak around." Well, that's... okay...

Species 8472
One of the most memorable elements of VOY, and one of the few good ones, Species 8472 is basically just a species from another dimension that uses "organic technology," and they can kick a lot of ass. I think part of what makes them memorable is the early use of CGI to bring them to life to create the most non-humanoid aliens possible in the late 90s. Voyager defeats them with nanomachines and later makes friends with them. I... Is VOY the first case of "someone has to explain what nanomachines are to scientists and future military people because the audience might not know?" Because every time nanomachines come up in fiction, someone has to explain what they are, and I'm wondering if VOY is responsible for that.

Lighting Choices in Discovery s1
Yeah, another baffling design decision by DIS. So, the lighting in this show is 'dramatic,' which means that's always low-lit. Now, you know what, fine. I'll give that to them. It clearly makes more sense that on a starship, you'd want everything to be well-lit, but fine. FINE. I understand allowing the conventions of a TV show.

But then we learn that Lorca is a Mirror Universe human, and they have problems with bright lights (even though this has never come up in any previous Mirror Universe episode, including the ones where the Mirror Enterprise is exactly the same amount of well-lit as the main Enterprise), so he's the one who's been keeping the lights dimmed.

Except that every ship and station also has the same dimmed lights for dramatic effect. I have chosen to interpret this as Mirror Lorca personally going to every ship in the Federation and dimming the lights while cackling evilly.

Latinum
A necessary concession. There's no explanation that's even attempted for why latinum can't just be replicated, and I think no one even says that it can't, but everyone just accepts that because otherwise the Ferengi economy wouldn't work. That's fine. Latinum is just some un-replicatable space metal, that's fine.

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Witch King

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Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
I'm okay with the idea of some Borg cubes breaking down because they assimilated a Romulan who knows crazy things. That's fine. I'm okay with the Romulans and Federation agreeing to joint research. That's fine. I'm even okay with them bringing on Hugh as an expert, even though you have Seven of Nine in the show. That's fine.

What I'm not fine with is how the Romulans have the ability to research these cubes, which I assume is horrifically expensive, and have a giant space fleet, and have the galaxy's best spy organization, but are also scattered and have no resources and their society is falling apart.

Like, dudes, one or the other, not both.

The City on the Edge of Forever
This was the first Star Trek episode I ever watched in its entirety! English class, 12th grade. I don't remember why Mr. Berkowitz decided to show it, but it inspired me to track down DVDs of the rest of the series.

This is the defining Logic vs Emotion episode of the entire franchise. It was never done better than this, and it pretty much can't be. The stakes are clearly established, everyone's reasons for everything they do are clearly established, and the audience understands why Kirk would and would not save the girl.

It also has the best racist joke in all of Star Trek, when Kirk tries to pass off Spock as a Chinese man whose ears were caught in a rice picker. Now there's a line that would not be used today.

The Child
It's been a long-ass time since I watched this episode. From what I remember, an omnipotent god alien wants to know what being human is like, so he impregnates Troi with himself in a scene by flying into her vagina while she's asleep, causing her to become nine months pregnant in like two days.

The main thing I remember in this episode is that they have a meeting room discussion where Worf is just like "A goddamned alien is forcibly impregnating our officers, let's just abort the ****ing thing and study its remains in a laboratory" and everyone is like "Well I dunno Worf what about ethics" and I'm just like, how can you not agree with Worf here? God, I want an episode where Troi is impregnated with a xenomorph and Worf is like "Let's abort it" and then they don't and it kills everyone, and the last scene is just Worf complaining to a dying Picard that no one ever listens to him.

Homefront/Paradise Lost
Ah yes, Homefront/Paradise Lost, the episodes that ruined Star Trek. That's an exaggeration, of course. DS9 ruined Star Trek in the same way RE4 did: both are really good, but the things they established were used by later entries to ruin the franchise.

So the story here is that Admiral Bad Guy is trying to take over the world to protect it from terrorisimean shapeshifters, and Sisko finds out. Sisko hates to go against him because they're friends, but he does anyway, and Admiral Bad Guy's plan is ultimately thwarted when he orders Captain Conspiracy to shoot down the Defiant, but she won't kill other Starfleet officers.

It's a really good two-parter about the threat of paranoia in a post-9/11 world and what it means to hold onto your ideals, which makes it all the more inexplicable that it was made five years before 9/11.

Thirty Days
Chuck Berry's iconic song, in which he threatens a woman to return to him in thirty days or else he'll have a gypsy curse her. This... this song exists?

In all seriousness, the unrelated VOY episode Thirty Days is about the heroes discovering an ocean planet that's going to be destroyed in five years if the government doesn't turn off some machines that provide a high quality of life to the inhabitants. The government decides to do nothing, so Tom Paris helps an alien blow up one of the machines, which gets him demoted. This is an obvious allegory for climate change, although I have to believe that if Earth was going to blow up in five years, even modern governments would build some wind turbines already.

I have to assume that this was nominated to be the most random episode on the list.

Reginald Barclay
A lot of people love Barclay. I don't. He's fine. He serves a purpose as the awkward guy, and I like him well enough. The main thing I remember him for its how in Genesis his head turns into a spider because he's devolving into our original state: spiders.

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song
The City on the Edge of Forever

Assimilate This
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Homefront/Paradise Lost
Star Trek TOS/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
Morn
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
Escape Pods
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
The Picard Maneuver
Anagram
Reginald Barclay
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Thirty Days
Enterprise-J
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Uhura
Romulan-owned Borg Cubes
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Lwaxana Troi
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
The Child
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]

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Make it So
Captain Jean-luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Spock

The Beginning of Wisdom
The Borg
The Mirror Universe
Enterprise-D
Cardassia Prime
Prime Directive
The Neutral Zone
The Rules of Acquisition
USS Defiant
Riker Chair Maneuver
Data & Picard
Gul Dukat
Khan Noonien Singh
The Doctor
Geordie's Epic Maneuver
Transporters
Picard Song

Assimilate This
Galaxy Quest
Q
The Orville
Star Trek/X-Men Crossover Comic
Leonard McCoy (Abramsverse)
Morn
Picard Memes
Combadges
Tribbles
TNG Warp Core Sound
Starfleet Martial Arts
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Tuvix
The Riker Lean
Frequency of Uniform Changes in Starfleet
Chain of Command Torture Sequence
Kirk is a Jerk Shirt
Timescape
The Chase
That One Matte Painting
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Miles O'Brien
Medical Equipment
Self-Destruct
Duet
Children of Time
Ambassador-class Starship
Wolf in the Fold

Live Long and Prosper
Q's Mariachi Band
Enterprise s3
Replicators
Gul Damar
Escape Pods
Phaser Rifles
Ezri Dax
Everything Not Ruined by Discovery
Gowron
The Cage
Earth
Worf's Baldric
TOS Klingons
Technobabble
Kira Nerys
The Maquis
Gargoyles
RedLetterMedia's Picard Re:Views
Holodeck Episodes
Mike and Rich's Top 5 TNG episodes
Andorians
Brent Spiner
The Picard Maneuver
Anagram
Raemes T. Quirk
Helena Cain
Sanctuary Districts
Caitians

Highly Illogical
Captain Proton Holonovels
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Enterprise-J
Bajor
STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association
Prune Juice
For the Uniform
Sisko's Beard
Uhura
Cristobal Rios
Tasha Yar
The Rock's Appearance on Voyager
It's a Faaaaaaaaake!
Naomi Wildman
Nichelle Nichols
Valiant (DS9)
Sisko Punching Q
DS9/Babylon 5 Similarities

Get the Cheese to Sickbay
Star Trek: The Last Voyage
Worf x Dax
Harry Kim
Wesley Crusher
Elnor
Rom
Star Trek: Beyond
Antitime Future Enterprise-D
Wil Wheaton
ENT's Reason for Klingon Forehead Ridges
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Night Terrors
Flaunting Danger Clip
Beardless Riker
Katherine Janeway
The Host
Star Trek Online
The Way to Eden
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek action figures
Webtrek
Wadi

This is the Power of Math, People
Lwaxana Troi
Riker's Pizza
Warp 10
The Outcast
Harry Mudd
God Aliens Not Respecting Consent
Climax of Into Darkness
The Mycelial Network
Gorgan
Jennier Lien's Descent into Madness
The Rape Gangs of Turkana IV
Data x Borg Queen [robo][tf][buzzsaw]


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