The title is a play on the classic 1965 Sergio Leone spaghetti western, “For a Few Dollars More”, starring Clint Eastwood. That movie was a sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars”, which was referenced in the TNG episode title “A Fistful of Datas”....
We know that by 2400 there are Ferengi cadets graduating from Starfleet Academy and by the 32nd Century there’s even a Ferengi Captain, among other Ferengi officers.
While not being a Federation member doesn’t preclude you from serving in Starfleet, there’s that to consider.
Correct, but that wasn’t what I was addressing - it was whether there was any further indication that Ferenginar did successfully join the Federation, so I was pointing to possible post-2381 indicators.
It’s not clear. They did send a delegation to the Ten-C summit, but so did Earth who wasn’t a member at the time. There’s a background star map in an earlier episode that shows “Ferengi Territory” as opposed to it being part of the Federation, but it’s barely visible.
The title is a play on the term “pathological fallacy”, where traits seen in one person or group are extrapolated to be part of the entire population that person belongs to....
When Picard came out, it became obvious that the post-Nemesis future depicted in the Litverse books was no longer compatible with canon. The decision was made to write finis to the Litverse, and that resulted in the Coda trilogy, which pretty much marks the end of the Litverse continuity. No future books will be set in that continuity, although some references may be made.
The title is a play on the wedding rhyme/tradition, dating back to 19th Century England, of the bride wearing “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (and a sixpence in her shoe),” for good luck. The green, of course, refers to the pigmentation of Orions....
T’Lyn was such a wild woman this week. Admiring Nya’al’s appearance, telling Tendi that what matters is being a loyal friend, saying she was alarmed by D’Erika’s combat abilities and then tossing that report out of the ship with a flimsy justification. Even Mariner said so. OUT OF CONTROL I TELL YOU!
The title refers to the legendarily controversial VOY episode “Tuvix”, which is still so divisive in fandom today that discussions on it are tightly regulated, if not outright banned, in some fan forums....
Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day,...
LoglineWhen the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy....
As I note in my annotations, I got very emotional whenever I heard them refer to Scotty as “Mr Scott”. Not sure why, it just sounded so right. When they said, “Thank you, Mr Scott,” I mentally added: “That’s something he’s going to get used to hearing over the years.”
The moment I heard Pike say he missed Batel and then praise Ortegas I immediately knew they were going to be placed in jeopardy and sure enough…
It was also immediately obvious when the Gorn youngling left Batel alone why it did so, so glad they didn’t string that out as some big mystery.
The colony design meant that filming exteriors was cheaper, I suppose. It’s the equivalent of building a gated community as a Ren Faire, though there’d definitely be a demand for it.
Wish they’d have given some hints to why that Gorn was on the Cayuga saucer, though. Why was it trying to access command level functions? Intel or something else? And how did it get there without Enterprise noticing or was it there before they arrived? Questions, questions…
At least Martin Quinn, who plays Scotty, is a Paisley boy like David Tennant and Steven Moffat, which means using his natural accent will be easier to make out, as the Paisley accent is less harsh than, say, a Glaswegian one. He’s a bit young for Scotty though, at 28. I’d always assumed Scotty was at least five to ten years older than Kirk.
Nice, fast moving action finale - but I echo the frustration at having this be a cliffhanger.
As to how they’ll resolve the cliffhanger, it’s probably going to be Scotty’s Gorn transponder that will confuse the Gorn ships long enough for Enterprise to get in close and somehow beam the abductees back.
You do realize that without shields, they’d have been blown out of the sky in one shot rather than being able to survive in a firefight, right? It’s like saying what’s the point of a kevlar vest I’m going to get a broken rib from a body shot? If I can live, I’ll take that vest and broken rib, thanks.
Power is relative. There’ve been times we’ve seen weapons from less advanced species than the Federation bounce uselessly off shields or are seen as no threat. We’ve also seen Starfleet ships get carved up like a prize turkey. The Gorn are powerful, that’s just it. That doesn’t mean Starfleet aren’t heavy hitters - at this point it’s just that there’s stronger kid in the playground.
Isn’t the point though that the Gorn interference field was preventing any scans, comms or transport? The tricorder wouldn’t have worked there. And sending rescue teams would have been dangerous given Gorn belligerence, demarcation line or not.
True, but that’s on the ground and short range. There’s specific dialogue to show that it’s interfering with signals between space and ground.
SPOCK: I detect a counter-frequency emanating from the planet. It appears to be negating all scans, communications, and transporter signals between here and there.
Spock can’t even scan for life signs on Cayuga. The best they have is passive sensors like spectrometry.
UNA: Still trying to scan for life signs?
SPOCK: I theorized I might be able to find a frequency gap through the interference field, but I have not managed to discover one yet.
UNA: Spock, I don’t think anyone’s alive over there.
SPOCK: Spectrometric analysis suggests there are still pockets of oxygen on board. It is possible someone could have survived.
That’s why they had to do a visual confirmation and discovered Cayuga’s sickbay had been blown away.
I was just trying to answer the technological criticisms about why Spock didn’t search.
I see where the criticism is coming from, but I can also see there are all sorts of extenuating circumstances around it (not to mention lack of time) and to take the plot there for a search would kind of kill the story momentum.
It’s not invalid as a criticism, just saying that tech reasons are covered.
“Shuttle stuffed with torpedoes” wouldn’t work because it’d be obvious it was weaponized - a single shuttle likely couldn’t take out that beacon on its on.
At least the saucer section of the Caygua was big enough to provide plausibility. Even if they found pieces of the rockets later they’d have no real proof - the rockets could be claimed to have been standard equipment or part of the RCS or impulse systems.
The year at this point would be late 2384 or very early 2385, so about 6 years since Voyager returned home. It’s been some time since the Season 1 finale. We last left the kids in the 61000s as far as Stardates were concerned, which is 2384, and since the Romulan Evacuation is still a going concern it’s before the Mars Attack on April 5, 2385.
It’s been fun seeing so much of Kirk this season, but does that mean he’s now a regular? I don’t see how he could take a position on the Enterprise for years yet, so would that imply he just keeps coincidentally visiting all the time? Starts to strain plausibility after a while.
It’s not a coincidence, it’s Pike. Pike’s seen the future and knows the Romulans are coming, and he also knows that Kirk being in command of Enterprise at that point has the best chance of succeeding at staving off the new war the Romulans will want to provoke in TOS: “Balance of Terror”.
He can’t tell Kirk that, of course, and he can’t do anything active to make it seem he’s planning for Kirk to take over. But what he can do is that if an opportunity comes to let Kirk aboard and become familiar with the Enterprise, her crew, and bond with them, he’ll take it. A joint mission with the Farragut and Kirk wants to visit? Sure. XO training with Una? Why not? Work closely with senior staff? By all means.
Eventually Kirk will be Pike’s explicit choice to succeed him, and at that point Kirk will have both the experience he needs and a familiarity and relationship with the crew and ship that will make him a plausible one.
Annotations for Star Trek: Prodigy Episode 2x01 Sneak Peak:
Dal refers affectionately to his friends as “criminals”, since they technically stole Protostar to find the Federation. He also says that he and the others are in different divisions. As we saw in last season’s finale, Rok is in Science/Xenobiology, with Jankom in Engineering and Dal I assume is in Command.
Gwyn left the others to go on a mission to her home planet of Solum, to try and stave off the war-torn future they were told about.
Jankom has a new haircut, takes sonic showers and is trying to be more polite - something a bit disturbing for Tellarites, known for their belligerence, as Zero points out. Zero is in their new suit that we saw at the end of last season.
The kids are going with Janeway on a mission, which Jankom points out will stand them in good stead when applying for Starfleet Academy. As pointed out last season, the kids are not in the Academy, but warrant officers-in-training.
The shuttle carries the registry number NCC-74656-A, indicating it belongs to the Voyager-A. The Doctor, while a hologram, can walk about thanks to his mobile emitter, a 29th Century piece of technology (VOY: “Future’s End”). We saw a 25th Century version of the emitter used by Raffi in PIC: “Imposters”.
The destruction of the Protostar occurred in the Season 1 finale, and opened up a wormhole to the alternate future Chatokay is now in, 52 years from now where he is a captive on Solum (about 2436-7; the last time we saw the kids it was 2384, with the Stardate in the 61000s, 20 years after TNG’s first season).
Dal complains about “timey-wimey” stuff hurting his head. The term entered popular usage in the Doctor Who episode “Blink”, when the Doctor said: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.” His mentor, Janeway, also complained that time travel and paradoxes give her a headache (“Future’s End”).
The new ship is the USS Voyager-A, NCC-74656-A, a Lamarr Special-class starship, refitted and outfitted with technology Voyager gathered from her 7-year journey through the Delta Quadrant. It has 29 decks, 800+ crew and 2 schools, compared to Voyager’s 15 decks and 160 crew. The presence of schools may either mean a training vessel or families on board.
The Doctor also mentions that the original Voyager is now a museum ship. This was established in background production art in PIC: “The Star Gazer” and confirmed when we saw her at the Fleet Museum in PIC: “The Bounty”.
The Lamarr Special-class is named after actress Hedy Lemarr, who was also a gifted inventor, patenting a frequency-hopping signal method to prevent American torpedoes from being jammed in WW II, although this was never formally adopted anywhere. There is also a claim that this helped in the development of WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, but that’s an exaggeration at best.
The Doctor says the rest of Starfleet is busy with the Romulan Evacuation, to help the Romulans escape the impending supernova of their star, which we know has been going on since 2381 (PIC novel The Last Best Hope, LD: “The Stars at Night”). Jellico mentioned in PRO: “Masquerade” that the Federation and the Romulans were working towards peace, which tracks with this. Alas, we also know the effort will collapse very soon on April 5, 2385 with the Mars Attack (PIC: “Remembrance”). The Romulan star itself will explode in 2387 (ST 2009).
As we’ve seen in PIC with the Titan-A, Starfleet engineers have a very loose definition of what constitutes a refit. Basically as long as you use some of the old structure in the new one, no matter how many doodads you add or on to expand it, they call it a refit.
I may have misinterpreted what the Doctor was saying - “Lamarr Special-class… refitted from stem to stern”. He could be referring to a refitted Lamarr. I’ll edit that.
LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....
I’m not sure about Sondheim - it doesn’t really have his feel and the music and lyrics for the most part aren’t as thematically disciplined and crisp as I expect from a Sondheim musical.
The feel was a bit more contemporary pop, like a Pasek & Paul piece.
It’s a puzzle that has confounded readers for years. There are some obvious ones like “Rawhide”, but a lot are still unidentified. Here’s a good attempt at it.
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x07: “A Few Badgeys More” (SPOILERS)
The title is a play on the classic 1965 Sergio Leone spaghetti western, “For a Few Dollars More”, starring Clint Eastwood. That movie was a sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars”, which was referenced in the TNG episode title “A Fistful of Datas”....
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x06: “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place” (SPOILERS)
The title is a pun on the 2004 British horror parody television series Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"
LoglineThe Cerritos visits the Ferengi homeworld....
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x05: “Empathological Fallacies” (SPOILERS)
The title is a play on the term “pathological fallacy”, where traits seen in one person or group are extrapolated to be part of the entire population that person belongs to....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies”
LoglineA trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos....
Treklit/Novelverse: how to get up to speed on the lore?
Hey there,...
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x04: “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (SPOILERS)
The title is a play on the wedding rhyme/tradition, dating back to 19th Century England, of the bride wearing “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (and a sixpence in her shoe),” for good luck. The green, of course, refers to the pigmentation of Orions....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green"
LoglineTendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding....
Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact" ( www.startrek.com )
Here’s the direct YouTube link, though the latest issue of the accompanying comic can only be found on the official website.
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x03: “In the Cradle of Vexilon” (SPOILERS)
The Stardate is 58795.1....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon”
LoglineBoimler leads his first away mission on an alien megastructure....
Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Holiday Party" ( www.youtube.com )
StarTrek.com link featuring the second chapter of “The Scheimer Barrier”.
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x02: “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee” (SPOILERS)
Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x02: “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”:...
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x01: “Twovix” (SPOILERS)
The title refers to the legendarily controversial VOY episode “Tuvix”, which is still so divisive in fandom today that discussions on it are tightly regulated, if not outright banned, in some fan forums....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" and 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"
"Twovix" loglineThe Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship....
A funny The Cage production story from MAJEL BARRETT
Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day,...
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
LoglineWhen the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy....
Who manufactures quality uniform replicas?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2934886...
WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! ( ca.startrek.com )
Didn’t see this coming. Prodigy EPs the Brothers Hageman have dropped a scene from season two, episode one....
Kirk sticking around?
It’s been fun seeing so much of Kirk this season, but does that mean he’s now a regular? I don’t see how he could take a position on the Enterprise for years yet, so would that imply he just keeps coincidentally visiting all the time? Starts to strain plausibility after a while.
TIL Japan has something called アメリカンコーヒー, often referred to in English by the unintentionally condescending name "weak coffee".
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....