This episode would be perfect for a modern message. Captain accidentally starts falling for an AI? Doctor encouraging her to continue because it's a release since she can't have a relationship with a subordinate because it'd be improper.

Perfect moral dilemmas for our modern day.

But what does nutrek give us? Retread morality you can find in a kids picture book. And that's BEST CASE. More common to find action or relationship drama.

I'm ready for Trek that's willing to make us question ourselves for what's right and wrong.

Modern TV shows take longer to come out with fewer episodes. Since the boom of peak TV in the 2010s, every show is trying to be a 10 hour movie, driving up production costs and leaving audiences starving for entertainment at a time they should have a wealth of it. TV shows have forgotten the strengths of the long-format, both in storytelling and in production.

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Post-airwaves TV can be as long or as short as it needs to be, and there are many examples of new streaming series that have some short episodes and some long episodes because that's how long or short they needed to be. I don't think episode runtime or season/series length is a hard indication of how good they are. The amount of money spent per episode often is, though, especially with modern Star Trek.

The least expensive series (Lower Decks & Prodigy) are clearly the best, overall. While the most expensive series (Discovery & Picard) have managed to dig past rock bottom on multiple occasions. My favorite episode of Discovery (Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad) was a bottle episode made at the last minute on a very tight budget to fill the season, and those limitations clearly resulted in a neat little timeloop adventure reminiscent of original Star Trek.

But that's just my opinion.

If you haven't, watch Coleman's lengthy Star Trek Retrospective series. Some of the videos are indeed very long (irony), but they earn their runtimes with how well Coleman sizes up the franchise through the course of them all.

I’d only watched bits and pieces of TNG before, but starting with the first episode…

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I’ve just finished this, that was a blast ! Great Star Trek Story and a lot of TellTale drama. Really cool « little » game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31

"In SNW, Vulcans are most often the butt of jokes, and that joke is, just about universally, look at how logical these Vulcans are! In season two’s “Charades,” Spock (already half-human) is turned fully human by a noncorporeal intelligence. This immediately makes him smelly, horny, hungry, and catastrophically emotional, things he apparently was unable to be when he was biologically part Vulcan. Later, in season three’s “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans,” four human crew members are turned into Vulcans, which makes them into science-loving assholes obsessed with facts and logic, save for one who, because she got turned into a Romulan, turns scheming and mutineering and altogether evil. There is little nuance in the show’s portrayal of Spock and his emotions, and even less in how it regards anyone with two Vulcan parents. Vulcans in SNW, to oversimplify (but not by much), are cruel, petty beings obsessed with logic and science simply because they are Vulcans."

"Bioessentialism, in brief, is the ultimate anti-liberty philosophy: a bioessentialist universe is a clockwork universe, one where every choice a person makes can be traced back to a fundamental and irrevocable feature of their DNA. A bioessentialist wants nothing from you but your cooperation in the role they’ve decided you must play in their world; God help you if you say no. It’s an ideology so self-evidently evil that it’s at the center of just about any young adult dystopian novel my fellow Millennials may have read in middle school. If you believe in human self-determination in any way, it’s a concept you must not only refuse but actively resist.

Which, of course, makes it all the stranger that it’s so present in a television show that’s been celebrated since its debut for its progressive politics."

The Star Trek Khan Podcast has been released today and it’s featuring George Takei and Tim Russ!

https://blog.trekcore.com/2025/09/star-trek-khan-audio-drama-premieres-first-episode-today/

Robert Picardo talks about how he conned his way into Star Trek First Contact

SMOOSHING 100

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I painted it for my son, he's a huge TNG fan, particularly this character. I loved TNG as a kid as well so it's one thing we bond over. My wife and I met Jonathan, Brent, and Michael a few years ago at FanExpo, they were all good humored about our Star Wars shirts we wore just for them!

For the timelapse: https://mastodon.social/@BallShapedMan/114964141221194718

What were your thoughts?

Don't ask mine. They pissed me off in the first 10 minutes and I stopped paying attention entirely.

Source https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hnreetu3kfhx6dhutk4gci5x/post/3lusz6rmbqc2g

Given the 32nd Century setting established in DISCO, it seams reasonably plausible that his holomatrix could be swapped for one of programmable matter. He could possibly have tactile sensation (and therefore "fully functional").

Long way for a Data fucks joke. Not sorry.

Figured I'd throw down one of these for those who may want to dive into some discussion!

Fantastic 2-part series on the history of TOS Star Trek

Part 1 is about the TV series, Part 2 is about the movies

The Story of Star Trek (part 1) https://youtu.be/hA7OTFp_kDI

The Story of Star Trek's Miraculous Resurrection (part 2) https://youtu.be/yejAOxQkOWk

Of the many Star Trek starship models we saw at this year's Wonderfest modelmaking show, this is one that's actually a 1:1 prop replica instead of a scaled down model! Eric Gonzalez is one of the Star Trek fans obsessed with this model of the Constellation Class ship seen in Captain Picard's ready room from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and has built this replica using the same source kit parts and greeblies that Rick Sternbach and Andrew Probert did with the original prop! We learn why the production team made chose this distinctive yellow color for the ship, how that fits into Star Trek lore, and why this is one of rare places you'll find Japanese Mecha in Star Trek kitbashing!

Uploaded to YouTube by Adam Savage’s Tested.

Wayback Machine archive

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