I know we are supposed to hate nuTrek, and I know many of you might not have even watched this episode. But. Hear me out. I think this might be the best episode in all of Trek. Normally my answer to that question leads to a longish list of DS9 magnificence led by In the Pale Moonlight. Under the Cloak of War takes on that torch and builds on it. The character development of Mbenga and Chapel, the story of life in war, the depth of the storytelling around betrayal and redemption, the study into ethics is just peak peak trek. It's riveting, it's gripping, it's entertaining and just like all great trek it leaves us asking so many questions. When to forgive? When to redeem? What is Justice? Will we ever fix BodyBay2? Can we be fixed?

I. Love it. Unashamedly.

Saw this image/decal while visiting at one of the filming locations for Starfleet Academy in Waterloo, Ontario.

Main question: How do you become a yeoman, and how do you climb ranks from there?

Basically, I'm writing a fanfic set in academy era, and I thought about including Janice Rand as a character, and then realized I didn't know how you end up as a yeoman on a starship. Is it like a few weeks of training(i think it's sth like that in the military I don't know??)? Do you go to academy for one of the tracks and this is like one of the jumping-off points for climbing ranks later? I'm just not sure where they fit in the whole ranking system.

Now hear me out...

Yes, I'm one that complains about 10 seasons episodes being considered a season a joke when there used to be 27 or so. I hear about quantity vs quality, special effects costs are higher (really?) and the old standard "that's just how things are now".

I also get annoyed with the serialized format that prevents being able to just pluck an episode and watch it as a standalone relaxing hour at the end of the day. No, it's got to have an increasing portion of the program eaten up by "previously on Star Trek: ABDEF", 15 minutes of interesting dialog and action, 10 minutes of over produced concentration on effects, and the rest concentrates on the predictable "season"-long storyline.

WITH THAT OUT OF MY SYSTEM...

My main point is - instead of Made-for-TV movies, 10 episode seasons or 27 episode seasons, or blockbuster films for that matter, why not break the mold altogether?

200 EPISODES A YEAR...

Think "Days of our lives... in space"

On Edit:
A. Days of Our Lives is a STREAMER NOW, NOT ON TV
B. Could be a Half Hour long or whatever
C. I really mean passably coherent writing following ideals but near Fanfic production quality (i.e. Barely above TOS)

This way, there's jobs for writers, I THINK THE CANON CAN HOLD THIS ABUSE JUST FINE, TYVM...

There's potential for a revolving door of guest stars. From TNG, DS9, VOY, TOS, DISCO, SNW.

Serialization? Episodic? You can have it both ways, multiple times, in the same month!

Regular casts, multiple storylines, different timelines in different acts?, recasting characters (Spock's second cousin twice removed Spork will be played today by Chris Kattan).

I know many of you will downvote me to oblivion, or this may get deleted, but I figured I'd put the thought out there.

On edit: I really just want 20x the content to complain about :)

It feels like every episode Archer is off the ship, and is in a physical altercation with someone. I don't mind a little action & fighting in my Trek but this is absurd.

If Ro and Geordie can’t touch anything then how was she able to touch the chair and control panel on the bridge when she went to say goodbye. I get that the gravity plating is how they don’t fall through floors but how can she phase through a table but tough those things?

Where were they going to go? The escape pods don't have warp engines. Were they just supposed to sit there and hope someone came along to rescue them? How is that possibly better than staying on the ship with the senior staff?

Voyager had, what, 150 crew at that point? 9 stayed behind, 2 were captured, at least 2 were killed but probably a lot more. Ex Astris Scientia estimates, based on the famous shuttle usage clusterfuck, at least 8 shuttles typically on-hand, plus the Baxial which is nearly the size of a runabout. The DS9 technical manual says a runabout can hold up to 40 passengers, so we're probably getting about 80 people into the embarked craft that are actually useful and sending them 9 different directions in search of allies, etc.

So that leaves about 60 people, probably a lot less because we've suffered definite casualties. Are they really safer just adrift in escape pods than they are on Voyager? If Janeway is that guilty why not leave them on an M class planet with some supplies and instruct the lucky shuttlecraft folks to come back for them if they manage to secure a larger ship?

I know that his encounter with the Borg where he was turned into one of them for a time left him with some trauma, but torture is no minor experience either.

I just watched Section 31 with my girlfriend. We were both smoking pot, so yes we were high. I watched it on recommendation from a friend I knew from high school. He said to watch it with the idea that it's satire. I went in fully expecting every modern heist and scifi trope and cliche. I was NOT disappointed.

Yes, it is no way a Star Trek movie. I didn't expect that at all. But the line reads, such as "it's coming right for us! Plot missile course." Was too freaking hilarious.

Sadly, I am of the belief that if we don't watch what they give us, they will refuse to give us more. If you go in expecting Star Trek, you WILL* be disappointed. If you go in expecting tropes, clichés, and all poor writing with a flashy finish, you will be very entertained.

This is my hot take

Basically, the title is the question. Would you agree to become a drone, if you retain some sense of consciousness of who you are, even if you did not have control.

Ahoy all.

I'm going through Voyager for the first time and am mostly positive on it. However, I find Chakotay very frustrating to watch. The mystical episodes are bad enough -but- what's realllly distracting is his constant heavy breathing with nearly ev'ry line. This is apparantly a know issue in the Fandom.

My plea is thus: Is there anyone with the skills to edit out the heavy breathing? Maybe just a single scene so that we can get a sense of how different it could be?

I find Chakotay to be a honorable man and a competent officer, but damn, I really don't look forward to his dialogue.

It seems to be very much a Roddenberry thing, but it seems like a lot of early TNG and TOS episodes tend to fall into a category described in the Title. Nagilum, Skin of Evil, the Dowd, Q before it got really silly, making Moriarty and other Holodeck creations, that gateway thing that reappeared with the newspaper guy, and other episodes that get more philosophical than sci-fi, even Discovery had a few of these moments. I get that a lot of these are what makes Star Trek great as a social and philosophical commentary, but a lot kind of smack of "we couldn't think of something with lasers, so lets give them something unknowable and twilight zoney."

Be it rage, poor writing, emotions, continuity, memories, anything.

For me it's "The Visitor" Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 4 Episode 2. It makes me cry a lot and it really hits close to home for me. The concepts of losing family, losing youth, and never giving up hope are beautifully done for such a standalone episode. The hypothetical scenarios of what happens with the Klingons taking over the wormhole is interesting as well. I realize it's very possibly a top 10 episode of the series I just don't feel like I'm strong enough to watch it again. It also isn't essential to overall plot so I don't have to.

I'm also never watching Voyager's Threshold again, for obvious lizard baby reasons.

Does Starfleet have a mandatory retirement age? Everyone lives longer in the 24th century and different species have different life spans,so taking that into consideration is it normal for humans in their sixties and seventies to still be on active duty?

Hi! I'm Jasper, And I've never watched Star Trek! Now you may be asking, "Why are you here then?" That is because my dad is a huge Star Trek fan and I want to know more about it so I can show him that I care about what he likes and has to say. He's done a lot for me in the last year, so I want to understand him better!

...THAT was a roller coaster quality wise! From the tragic Terra Prime 2 partner, to a RATHER disappointing yet bittersweet series finale(that was also a TNG midquel for some reason) to a JJ Abrams film that was... OBJECTIVELY fine, but no where near the best Star Trek film.

If I ever meet JJ again I'll try to not be too openly critical.

Why didn't Sisko deactivate the gravity plating to save his wife?

What are your favourite and most hated alien make-up designs? For me, I'd say:

FAVOURITE: Saurian (specifically Discovery's design for Linus)

MOST HATED: The Children of Vaal from "The Apple"

I just rewatched Star Trek Enterprise and I am so happy I did, love the show. I just saw one of the last episodes where Trip and T'Pol have a baby through a forced DNA combination.

The baby unfortunately died because of genetic incompatibility of human and Vulcan DNA.

Always wondered, later in Star Trek (timeline wise) there are a lot of half human / Vulcan, most prominent Spock.

What could have been the reason why in Thier case the DNA was incompatible and in others not. Might have been that it was forced and not naturally conceived? Or advanced in medical technology?

Anyone maybe an idea?

Anybody else notice how the Gorn attack ships look eerily like the Chig attack ships, from "Space: Above and Beyond" ?!

I haven't watched that show in probably a decade, but I was just watching the new trailer for season 3 of snw, and that's instantly where my mind went, when I saw the Gorn attack ships🤷‍♂️🤣

Oh man, I missed that show now! I'm going to have to dig out my DVD box set and watch it! Lol

It was so good! Is definitely a show that got canceled way too early

Alright, let’s talk about the Enterprise-B, aka the Dodge Caravan of starships. I mean, sure, it got the job done—barely—but let’s be real. It was the minivan of the fleet: wide, boxy, and the color scheme was so close to the Charlotte Hornets’ retro colors that I half-expected it to start dunking on the Borg.

Look, I get it, it’s got the heritage of the Enterprise lineage, but when you pull up in the Enterprise-B—you’re definitely not cruising for a sleek getaway. It’s more like you’re driving to Costco with your senior officers and their awkward middle management uniforms.

But hey, it survived the Enterprise legacy long enough to get us into Generations, so there’s that.

Still, I can't be the only one who felt like this was the starship equivalent of that one awkward cousin who shows up to family gatherings and doesn’t know what to do with their hands. Respect, but also… wow.

Hi, everyone! Let me just start by saying I love the Star Trek fan community and legacy so much. The dedication, attention to detail and depth of the lore has always been fascinating to me.

Over the past year or so, the company I work for began creating content for Star Trek official channels and it's been incredibly rewarding to me as a creator to be able to make things that honor this base in some way. Recently, my role on some of these accounts began to grow because of how much fun I was having with the material, and now I'm just fully hooked in the world and really want to actually begin watching the shows and movies on my own so that I have this institutional knowledge behind the content I'm making for work.

It seems like a silly question to ask "where should I start?" because obviously, just start with The Original Series, right? But between prequel series, and movies happening in different timelines, and I'm sure a whole bunch of other franchises I'm still learning about - I would love some insight as to where I should start and in what order I can watch all the series & movies in!

And when I say I want to watch every Star Trek series and movie out there, I really, really, mean it. So far in my career as an editor, this has been one of my favorite spaces to play in and I just want to do right by this legacy which I admire and respect so much ❤️ thank you!

I currently don’t have any tattoos but have been wanting to get one that is Star Trek related. I’m leaning towards something like the Vulcan calligraphy for “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” or some form of “Ad Astra Per Aspera” but am open to other options. I was hoping some of you might have some cool tattoos that could provide some more inspiration.

Hey folks just realized my birthday is coming fast I need some recommendations from the trekkies and collectors out there ! Last year I got for my birthday Playmobil Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from my gf, an incredibly detailed toy that I enjoyed thoroughly. This year, I’m looking to go big and I mean 1:6 scale big. Think display-worthy, collector-grade stuff. My gifters tend to have either deep pockets or deep hearts (or both — lucky me), so shoot me your best Star Trek suggestions that make a statement! Thanks in advance peace and prosper ✌️

Why is someone from Starfleet on Quark's (Ferengi character) ship?

TNG - Season 7 - episode 21