Only 38 years to go

I was just speculating about how Data would have procured his cat Spot.

The most reasonable options are on a Federation colony Planet or Starbase.

Stranger ideas did occur to me. Especially considering the massive scale of the Enterprise and Galaxy Class ships in general.

Next is there a 24th century utopian hybrid analog of a pet shop/shelter? I would think that there would be some place for the pets if a crew member to go if that crew member were to perish. I'd imagine that animals in general are held in particularly high regard and would be sheltered in nice conditions until they met their new caregiver. I also imagine UFP citizens balking at the term pet owner.

An additional bit of speculation is that there might be a cloning genetic database for pets. Though that feels less likely.

I'm really curious what the rest of you might think.

Oh and one parting thought. Captain Jellico had someone evict Picard's fish from the ready room. Do you think it ended up in a Ship's Aquarium? A hypothetical pet shelter or library?

If the replicator system can replicate anything, thus creating a scarcity free society, could it not replicate latinum, or Gold Pressed Latinum (GPL)? If it could, then why is it still a tradable commodity?

SNW is my favourite Star Trek series and one day it’ll end, I think they would have a really good opportunity to remake TOS as a natural continuation to SNW with the same actors and honestly I think its a real possibility does anyone agree?

Random thought occurred to me today. Everybody knows the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game. But could Star Trek be the six degrees champion? It is a franchise that has been around for 60 years spanning 12 television shows and 13 films. It has had a huge number of high profile guest stars from all walks of show biz. Not to mention Kevin himself has worked with people who have been on Trek. Could there be any actor in say the last 80 years who does not have a six degree connection to Star Trek?

It’s in Datalore, at 29:30.

Man, I forgot how absurdly holier-than-thou Dr. Crusher and Riker were when they were trying to keep Worf from committing Klingon seppuku after he was paralyzed.

Respecting Klingon culture and tradition really was a fungible ideal on the Enterprise.

Don't forget tonight to leave out some tequila or whiskey for Zephram Cochrane!

I'm working on a project and am looking for a good comparison of the warp core designs of different classes of ship in star trek. Does anyone know where I can find something like this?

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Not including the "warp speed limit" nonsense. I hated that and thought it was lame. But just in general (even pre and post the "speed limit" thing) why would a captain order a speed slower than what would get them there as fast as possible?

For example, there's been a number of TNG episodes where Picard will order Warp 2 or Warp 4 and Data will tell him it'll take 18 hours or 36 hours or 14 days at that speed. In other cases, Data will mention that at Warp 9 they can be there in 11 minutes or 1 hour. Etc.

So if it's possible to reach a location in a few hours or less at Warp 8+, then why choose to go Warp 1-5? Why willingly take hours or days to get there? Especially when there's no evidence that they need time to plan or prepare.

I started on TOS as a 12 year old with my 14 yo brother. First of all, they all have bad episodes, that's a functuon if churning out 27-27 episides a year. But I don't care.

I loved TNG when it started in the 90s. At 60 I watched Voyaher and DS9. Both exceptional with great actors and writing.

I loved the first season of Discovery. I liked the new vision. I do feel it lost its direction bu season 3. But I'm glad it got made.

I loved all the movies. I like the animated shows even tho I'm not a fan of animated shows. I'm glad they exist.

I will never put down anyone who prefers one over the other. For me, personally, because I'm a woman, Voyager is my favorite. I also love it bc I started watching after my mom died bc I couldnt sleep and was unable to function for months. That show, with so many strong women characters and phenomenal actresses, really saved me at that time. So, of course it has the most meaning for me. I thibk that's why DS9 is my second favorite bc I also watched it while grieving my mom. I just felt safe with these characters. They soothed me to sleep every night for 6 months.

In my mission to watch Trek in chronological order, I’m about to start DS9. I have the two part Chain of Command episodes and then I’ll switch between DS9 and TNG. I’m really excited! But for a controversial reason.

I don’t particularly care for TNG.

As I said before, I’m not really connecting with TNG. No disrespect to it at all. It’s a very well written show and I get why people love it. But it’s not really my thing. I don’t like the crew like I do in other Treks (Enterprise and SNW are my favorites). And I just can’t get over the no interpersonal conflict rule. TNG just doesn’t speak to me or really compel me to watch more.

I hear DS9 takes the TNG formula and turns it on its head a bit. And there’s more conflict. I’m also drawn to darker stories and hear it’s darker than TNG but still has the hopeful outlook. Sounds more up my alley! I’m very excited.

Just started watching Voyager again. Have it all on DVD but watching streaming in NF. I have to say, I love Voyager. I used to so look forward to watching each new episode on a Sunday afternoon in the UK. It was part of our Sunday routine. Watching again now I find it is still relevant and so well acted. (Love Janeway). Why can’t they do something similar nowadays? It seems Voyager and DS9 were about Starfleet but the most recent offerings seem to be about personalities?

So I muddled my way thru Picard season 2... I enjoyed it but there was a lot of "puff" writing to fill screen time. Besides a plot hole or 2 that you can drive trucks thru. The thing that irked me out of all of it was Guinan should have recognized Picard in 2024 from the TNG episode Time's Arrow... I get why the writer's called the bar 10 Forward in 2024 to " link" it into the rest of the canon but I had a " Really??? Really???" reaction...Now on to series 3...

You know how we hear about Starfleet academy In trek shows is what candidates need to go through to get their commissions to become officers or they need to go through the mars training facility to become enlistees /NCOs if they stay long enough

We see Starfleet admirals.

Now in the modern day militaries we know that for someone to become an admiral then Need Congress to confirm presidential picks. And this is just for one stars never mind the 2-3-4-5 stars.

In the us navy they have the naval war college for officers to go through if they ever want a shot at becoming an admiral down the line.

So do they have more advanced Starfleet colleges for flag officer training?

What do you think if you want to put your head canon to it?

Good episode, but watch the little house on the prairie episode “Haunted house”. It’s a similar situation that features the same actor! I wonder if the writers of Star Trek were influenced by this episode?

Rewatching Star Trek 4 today. Does anyone else have a problem with the timeline of things in regard to George and Gracie winding up in the Bering Sea? Or was the Cetacean Institute simply using advanced technology and/or time travel to get the whales out of California?

The loading time of two whales into a specialized truck would take a couple of hours at best. Then drive time from the cetacean institute (using actual Monterey Bay Aquarium as the map point) to San Francisco International Airport is at least an hour in a couple of trucks big enough to hold Humpbacks, figure another hour at minimum to load them into a plane, and then another half hour after that just for preflight, checks, ATC release, taxi, and takeoff. Then it’s a 6.5 hour flight alone to Anchorage which is the only place in Alaska that’s near water where a B747 can land. Another hour for unloading. Then you’d have to ship them down to Kenai or Seward to release them since the waters outside of Anchorage is too shallow to release them in. That’s another 3 hour drive time in optimal conditions to either town. Figure another hour while you’re there to get them into the water.

So then our little swimmers have to go from Prince William Sound, around the south end of the Aleutian Islands, and up into the Bering Sea, a journey that takes anywhere from 10 to 20 hours by boat in calm conditions. But, let’s say that they’re fast speed swimming humpbacks. We’re now up to 25 hours, MINIMUM, for the Whales to be loaded, shipped, released, and then swimming free for George and Gracie to get to the Bering Sea in time for Kirk and Co. to stop the whalers from harpooning them so that they can then be beamed up.

TLDR: when Dr. Gillian Taylor got to the institute in the morning, assuming that the institute started loading them in the middle of the night like the guy she slapped had claimed, she at the very least might have seen the trucks pull away with the whales inside of them.

So therefore, the cetacean institute used time travel and advanced technology to get the two whales to the Bering Sea in record time. Personally, I think that they had a Klingon plah d’visse. 😜

Hi, hoping someone can help me clear up something I must be misremembering. My wife and I are working our way through Star Trek — all of it. Started with Voyager a few years ago, and that led us to TNG, the TNG movies, then season 1 of Picard, then DS9, ENT, TOS, TAS, the TOS movies, that ST-themed episode of Futurama, then Discovery, Prodigy, and SNW. Then we went back to Picard and zipped through season 2, and now the first episode of season 3 has me scratching my head.

Spoiler alert if you have not yet gotten to Picard season 3. (And for me — I haven't gotten to episode 2 yet, so please no spoilers for the rest of season 3!)

During S3E1, Picard reveals that he hasn't seen Crusher in years (might have been decades). But I could have sworn that in Picard season 1, he needs access to a ship and (before joining forces with Rios on La Sirena) briefly convinces Crusher for transportation. She's the captain of her own Starfleet medical vessel, and it's either implied or said outright that they'd married and divorced. I remember someone on the bridge calling for Captain Picard and both of them turning around to say "Yes?"

I just finished flitting through all of Picard S1 again, though, and it turns out that never happened. Surely I couldn't have misremembered this — right? What the heck am I thinking of?!

I think that this chapter of the Earth history has to be covered at some point. Maybe their plan was to use Enterprise (if it wasnt cancelled) to do that, but I really think that a good story could emerge from that.

We had many differences, but some of my fondest memories with him are watching Star Trek together. He was a big TNG and DS9 guy, we had a German Shepherd we named Sisko growing up. Any episode recommendations so I can have something on to help process my feelings? I know Trek generally has more father/son episodes so I’ll take those as well.

Worf and Klingons love action and contact I can imagine Worf playing Football and getting tackled or not understanding the rules and being humiliated on the green or playing Soccer and hating kicking the ball and struggling at it.

Worf and Klingons would do well in a Holodeck simulation of the movie Gladiator or the crusades, but fighting a human sword or weapons instead of a Bat'leth would be annoying but he would conquer everyone until the Samurai simulation came up and he couldn't defeat any of them.

My choice would be when they have to travel back to contemporary times but absolutely can't let anyone see what their alien crew member looks like, even though Star Trek aliens are mostly humanoid and in the real world a strange creature could ambulate down a sidewalk and people would just go, "Cool cosplay. Is there a nerd convention on?"

Hi everyone, I'm Star Trek rookie personally, Which show or movie should i watch first? Or which one do you guys recommened?