@gregorum Great analysis!

@Taleya @startrek Is La’an in SNW considered enhanced because of her ancestors? I’ve always been confused as to why she’s not under the ban.

@DavidGA @startrek It’s a deep deep cut.

@ulkesh @startrek It’s a terrific series, and Wheaton is such a great host.

@StillPaisleyCat @startrek Of *course* their programming language would require a special keyboard.

@ZenkorSoraz To paraphrase a developer from the ‘80s: “I don't know what the language of the future will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”

@UlyssesT @startrek Yep.

@oocdc2 @startrek I definitely took that as a shout-out to “Once More With Feeling”..

@rob_t_firefly I’m not sure why a diplomatic vessel wouldn’t need to be fast. I would think the opposite — diplomacy can be needed in rapidly-developing crisis situations, and you’d want people there as soon as possible.

@GaiusGornicusCaesar @startrek It really is terrific. And having Joan Collins doesn’t hurt.

In his TOS Star Trek role-playing game, the writer Ken Hite listed a number of principles that the show embodied, and one of them was “good will often require sacrifice”. This episode really embodies that.

@akhenaten0 @startrek I’m old enough to be a TOS fan *prior* to the movies, much less TNG, so a time when there are *multiple* Trek shows on at the same time is mind-blowing. I really don’t think it likely that there’d be no Trek anywhere, at least for long.