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JJ’s Trek films and Kelvin timeline would inject a cancer throughout Paramount’s Trek productions, namely Discovery.
JFC, this is pathetic.
Disco might not be to everyone’s taste, but to claim it’s a “cancer” is a tad bit dramatic, isn’t it. Especially when the writer goes on to praise most of the series which we never would have had if not for the success of Disco.
Not to mention the childish oversimplification of the spore drive, which has been explained on screen. Sci-fi fans really out here still complaining about “magic” mushrooms facilitating travel, but perfectly cool when it’s crystals like dilithium.
My friends and I recently challenged each other to list our top five starship classes and were surprised by how different our opinions were despite being generally in agreement with what we like about the various series....
5 Olympic-class
4 Parliament-class
3 Centaur-class
2 D’Deridex-class Romulan Warbird
1 TOS Romulan Bird-of-Prey (the updated version seen in PIC and SNW is also great)
I also want to give an honourable mention to the Niagara-class, which is a three nacelle abomination. When I started running my Star Trek Adventures game, I choose the Niagara-class because I wanted something relatively unique which still that communicated to the players they weren’t in a top of the line, prestigious ship. It’s been just over two years since we started playing the adventures of the USS Dauntless (yes, I know, but it’s not that Dauntless), and the ship has really grown on me.
I’m sorry, but it sounds to me as though you’re saying a one nacelle ship is more tolerable than a four nacelle ship, and I just can’t take anything seriously after that.
At least with four nacelles you can understand how they’re generating the warp field between them, but one? Does it have two sets of warp coils inside the single nacelle? All Starships are beautiful in Gene’s eyes, but I believe there are some he chooses not to look upon.
Back in late September, WizKids shipped their Disco themed board game based on the four mirror universe episodes of season one, striking while the iron is room temperature. I, of course, purchased this game as soon as it was available to me, and yesterday evening I got the opportunity to play it for the first time when I brought...
Yeah, despite the number of Trek boardgames that have been made, there are not a lot that try to simulate an actual scenario from the episodes in this way. Most of them tend to be 4x, or a fairly abstract ruleset with the Trek theme pasted on.
But this game is so specificity trying to emulate the feel of those episodes that I have to imagine it was what the designers set out to do.
The strangest thing about it is that those episodes aired in 2018, and the game took this long to hit the shelves. I know Trek that Trek licensing can be kind of slow, but this seems extreme.
Some of the bottles of alcohol on Orion in “Something Borrowed, Something Green” did have the Orion captain’s face on them.
It does seem like a missed opportunity to have Admiral Vassery refer to them as Or-ee-ans though, considering he was established as having a speech impediment in “Moist Vessel”.
My apologies that this one’s going up late, even by my standards. Between work, social obligations, and my internet going out during the time I normally have to write these, I wasn’t able to get it up when I’d like. Still, it is (barely) before the next episode drops, so there’s that.
It was a lot to scrub through every episode of Trek to find all the relevant instances, but I do feel like that’s the sort of accuracy people have come to expect.
• The episode title, “Caves” is a call back to the frequency in which caves or cave like structures are featured prominently in episodes of “Star Trek”, going all the way back to the original pilot, “The Cage”. Caves have been a significant part of the following episodes:...
I don’t disagree, but the AGIMUS drones are not the exact same design as the Echo Papa 607s, nor is there any explicit connection between AGIMUS and the Minosians, so I don’t think it qualifies.
This is an entirely over the top interpretation of what is happening in the scene the OP shared where a villainous character is trying to exploit what they perceive to be a weakness in one of the protagonists.
However, if you want to get into it, the biggest factor in any tone shift from TOS to now was DS9. That’s where we see the Federation abandoning humanity to the whims of the Cardassians for the sake of a treaty. That’s where a Starfleet enforces martial law on Earth and an admiral attempts a coup of the Federation government. That’s where we learn it’s illegal to engage in genetic modification, even when it would reverse a person’s intellectual disability. And, of course, DS9 introduced the concept of Section 31.
The seeds were always there, though. Even in TOS we learn that the governor of the colony Kirk grew up on had half the population executed because there was a famine and not enough food for everyone. We see a Federation professor who taught at the Academy introduce fascism to a planet because he believed it to be the most efficient philosophy for advancement. We see a planet that’s heavily implied Starfleet maintains a base there strictly for sex tourism, and we hear Federation delegates debate the issue of whether or not they should allow a planet whose resources they’ve been exploiting to even join the Federation. Kirk and the Klingons fight a proxy war using the native population of a pre-warp world before Kirk gets sad and just abandons his side. It’s even heavily implied that women cannot rise to the rank of captain in Starfleet.
The only Trek that resembles your interpretation is TNG, but even there we learn of human colonies with roving “rape gangs” like the world Tasha Yar grew up on.
Interesting. Cardassian starship weapons are most frequently described as phasers arrays. I can’t say for certain it’s never said in an episode that they also carry disruptors, but I do know that every time I can remember a shipboard armament on a Cardassian vessel being mentioned, it’s a phaser.
The DS9 Technical Manual says the Cardassian ships have spiral-wave disruptor arrays and a large aft disruptor cannon – presumably that’s what the pincer like structure on the back is supposed to be – but the DS9 Tech Manual is also…not up to the standard of quality established by the TNG Technical Manual.
Now I kinda want to check.
Edit: Obviously also not canon, but the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook lists the Galor-class as having both phasers and disruptors.
Clearly there is some chemistry between the characters, but it often appears that Shaxs is putting up with a lot that he is not interested in, or is even finds unpleasant....
Are you saying Guinan was crew aboard the Enterprise D?
Huh…I could’ve sworn it was a picture of a blank bulkhead.
Icheb was never a security officer.
You could tell it was Reed because if you paused the episode at the right moment, you’d see that the puzzle includes his entire bit about how much he enjoys T’Pol’s posterior on the side, the most memorable thing he did across four seasons.
Sure, and in “The Enterprise Incident” he drinks an unnamed blue Romulan alcohol to keep up appearances while leading on the Romulan commander. However, in “Requiem For Methuselah” he consumes Saurian brandy simply to do so.
You know you’re not supposed to read the comments, right?
I was going for silly and cute!
I think you were successful. Building on the end of of ENT worked well. And I appreciated that you were able to get the Protogies in there. Really hoping that’s not the last time we get to see them.
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Super cool to get a feel for just how massive even the pre-refit Constitution class is.
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I wasn’t even aware of Lemmy when I wrote this. I only joined yesterday, but not for the intent of promoting my pieces. I don’t monetize them, so there’s that. Aside from book work, this is one of the longest pieces I’ve ever written, and I write about a range of subjects. I hope you all like it :)
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