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For many years now I've had in my memory this scene from star trek tng where, for whatever reason, a group of British officers and Irish officers led by O'Brien start getting nationalistic and sing their respective national songs at each other. I remember the British were singing "Rule Britannia" but I don't recall the Irish song.

Writing this out it sounds bizarre and I'd almost think I dreamt it up but I couldn't come up with these details. I might have seen it somewhere else but i distinctly recall O'Brien. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? If indeed this is real, what episode?

StarTrek.com link featuring the second chapter of "The Scheimer Barrier".

On their mission to seek out new life, scientists have named three new spider species Kirk, Spock and McCoy — after characters from the original “Star Trek” series.

By Christine Hauser Sept. 13, 2023Updated 10:01 a.m. ET

Star Trek fans and spider enthusiasts have unexpectedly converged on a new frontier.

Scientists in Brazil announced that they had identified three new species of spiders and subsequently named them Kirk, McCoy and Spock after some of the main characters of “Star Trek.”

The trio of spiders are part of the Roddenberryus genus, a taxonomic classification named for Gene Roddenberry, who created the 1960s science fiction television series that spawned decades of films, sequels, comics and a community of devoted Trekkies.

Mr. Roddenberry, who died in 1991, “inspired generations of kids to pursue scientific careers,” wrote Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz, a zoologist, and Alexandre Bragio Bonaldo in their article in European Journal of Taxonomy, published on Sept. 6, explaining how a science fiction franchise became the basis for the spiders’ names.

The nomenclature was not entirely frivolous. Dr. Bonaldo, a researcher at the Paraense Emílio Goeldi Museum in Brazil, said in an interview that the spiders’ wide, fused heads and thoraxes, known as the cephalothorax, and long abdomen of the spiders “make them ideal candidates for names inspired by the Star Trek universe.”

“They somewhat resemble Star Trek spaceships,” Dr. Bonaldo said. “Arachnologists have a long tradition of giving interesting scientific names for new genera and species, as most of us believe it is a great opportunity to acknowledge people or draw parallels with pop culture and local customs.”

Once Dr. Bonaldo and Dr. Sánchez-Ruiz agreed to call the genus Roddenberryus, naming the three species after the main characters “became, as Spock would say, ‘only logical,’” they said. “Kirk” honors James Tiberius Kirk, the captain of the series’s spaceship, the U.S.S. Enterprise. “McCoy” was named for Dr. Leonard McCoy, the ship’s chief medical officer, and “Spock” shares a name with Kirk’s pointy-eared Vulcan First Officer.

McCoy, Spock and Kirk now belong to a family of spiders known as Caponiid, which is unique for having only two eyes instead of the more common eight, and rows of teeth, bristles, orange carapaces, pale abdomens and claws.

The spiders are found across the Americas, Africa and Asia, but they are commonly within a single location, such as on an island or in another strictly defined area. Roddenberryus Kirk is from the Guanacaste and San José provinces of Costa Rica, while Roddenberryus mccoy hails from Baja California Sur in northwest Mexico. Roddenberryus spock is found in Campeche and Quintana Roo in Mexico.

Dr. Bonaldo added that the discovery of new genus and species provided the team with material to study the evolution and diversification of their subfamily, Nopinae, “and potentially illuminate the intricate biogeographic history of Central America and the Caribbean.” Editors’ Picks Michelin’s Coveted Stars Can Come With Some Costs Why Are So Many Millennials Going to Mongolia? MTV Video Music Awards: 5 Memorable Moments

It is not unusual for arachnologists to name newly identified spiders after a celebrity, pop culture icon and now, even a fictitious human-Vulcan hybrid. The climate activist Greta Thunberg was the inspiration for spiders of the Thunberga genus of Madagascar in 2020. Peter Jäger of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, said the spider named after Thunberg was meant to draw attention to the threat that climate changes pose to species diversity in Madagascar and elsewhere.

In 2022, Dr. Jäger announced that he had named a genus of spiders after the music of David Bowie, adding 54 new species including Bowie ziggystardust, Bowie majortom and Bowie heroes, the latter referring to ground-dwelling spiders from the Himalayas, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia.

He said in a statement that he meant to “commemorate this incomparable artist who left us much too early, but what matters most to me here is the idea of conservation.”

“We only protect what we know — and an attractive name is much more likely to be remembered,” he said.

Dr. Bonaldo said that his favorite unique names include Strotarchus beepbeep, a fast-moving spider named after the Road Runner cartoon from the Looney Tunes series, and Myrmecium oompaloompa, which mimics ants and can be found in cocoa plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

More than 51,000 species of spiders have been identified worldwide thus far — according to the World Spider Catalog — representing about a third of the estimated 150,000 to 180,000 species, said Linda Rayor, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University. Now, more than 1,000 species are identified each year, up from about 200 in 1925, she said.

“Enormous numbers of spiders are being identified constantly,” said Dr. Rayor, who is also the president of the American Arachnological Society.

“Within that context, arachnologists have a recent history of giving them cutesy names,” she said.

As voracious eaters and top predators, spiders are hugely important to the ecosystem. “To me, the identification is less exciting in and of itself,” Dr. Rayor said about the relevance of the Star Trek-themed spiders. “Far more important is conserving habitats.”

• The episode title is reference to the Harlan Ellison short story, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”. Ellison also wrote the TOS episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever”.

     • In “Far Beyond the Stars”, the science fiction writer Herbert Rossoff (portrayed by Armin Shimmerman), wrote a story titled “I Have No Voice and I Must Shout”.

• We see a Romluan starship decloak. The vertical physical arrangement of this ship is taken from Andrew Probert’s concept art for the Romulan D’deridex-class from 1988.

     • This configuration was eventually seen in Probert’s contribution to the 2011 Starships of the Line calendar, but has not been used elsewhere.

• The torture chair the Romlan lower deckers are scrubbing down is the same as the one used on Geordi in “The Mind’s Eye”.

• On the Romulan bridge, the emblem of the Star Empire we see is the one introduced in “Star Trek: Nemesis”

• As with the previous episode, “Twovix”, when the Mysterious Threat destroys the Romulan ship, we do not see any bodies floating among the wreckage.

• Shaxs and Ransom are doing some stretching exercises wearing the same workout clothing Doctor Crusher and counselor Troi wore in “The Price”. Also, their routine involves the same stretches Crusher and Troi performed in that episode.

     • We’ve previously seen LDS background characters wearing the same workout gear aboard the USS Cerritos in “wej Duj”.

• Rutherford gives Tendi his model of the Cerritos; we saw him finish building it in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”.

     • Among her beakers, and graduated cylinders, Tendi also has a photo of The Dog from “Much Ado About Boimler”.

• Boimler has packed:

     • The Captain Freeman Day banner he made- “First First Contact”

     • His Boimler Effect plaque - “Temporal Edict”

     • His commemorative Tom Paris plate - “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”

     • The Klingon ridges & hair prosthetic he wears while playing Bat’leths & Bi’BiHnuchs - “The Least Dangerous Game”

     • What appears to be a model of a Constellation-class starship.

     • His electric violin - “Temporal Edict”

     • An action of figure of mirror universe Jonathan Archer in a green wrap tunic - “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”; though no prime universe characters were present for those events, the crew of the USS Discovery became aware of them in “Despite Yourself”

• Mariner, Ransom, and ensign Gary are on a mission to retrieve some humans accidentally played in an alien menagerie. We’ve aliens add humans too their collection one way or another in:

     • “The Menagerie”

     • “The Eye of the Beholder”

     • “Displaced”

• Among the collection in Narj’s menagerie, we see:

     • A glommer - “More Tribbles, More Troubles”

     • Florkas - “Moist Vessel”

     • A Ceti eel - “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”

     • A koala - Why is he smiling? What does he know?

     • Crabs from the planet Boimler and Mariner crashed on with AGIMUS - “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

     • A large predator from the planet Boimler and Mariner crashed on with AGIMUS - “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

     • The horned dog from Alfa 177 - “The Enemy Within”

     • Winged turtles from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Winged goat from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Sky snake from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Three headed Aldebaran serpent - “Hide and Q”

• To mitigate the red light coming off the Bussard collector, Boimler dons a visor like the ones used to protect people from exposure to a Medusan’s unshielded form, as seen in “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”

• Rutherford increases the power output of the Tucker tubes by seven picocochranes. This is the first time we’ve had a name for the Tucker tubes, though they’ve been seen in Trek going as far back as “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”, and have shown up in TNG, VOY, and ENT.

     • The original Tucker tube prop was created for “The Incredible Hulk”, and has been seen in a wide variety television shows and films.

     • Ensign Livek added a third tube, and called them the Billups tubes.

• In addition to this mirror universe Archer doll, Boimler has one of Spock in the movie era uniform.

• Boimler has his Starfleet recruitment poster seen in “Those Old Scientists”, but Number One’s face is obscured every time it’s on screen.

• Doctor T’Ana and Shaxs engage in some holodeck fun time with a Robin Hood program. Though we haven’t seen a Robin Hood holodeck program before, Q did create a Robin Hood simulation for the senior staff of the USS Enterprise D in “Qpid”.

• On he wall of the quarters between the to holodecks is a painting of flock of birds created by Data in “Birthright, Part I”

• ”You stabbed me in the foot with a battle blade,” Ransom did that so he would be the one fighting the Gelrakian champion in “Temporal Edict”.

• “you turned into a giant head and tried to eat me,” Mariner wasn’t on board the Cerritos when Ransom was chewing on it in “Strange Energies”.

• “you tried to trick me into messing up on that space elevator.”* Mariner is referencing the events of “The Least Dangerous Game”.

• In the Jeffries tube, Boimler has set up a Data in the “First Contact” uniform doll to go with his mirror universe Archer, and Spock.

• ”Man, now I wish I hadn’t turned down all those promotions.” This answers a question I’ve had since fairly early into the series. Mariner was/is self sabotaging, Tendi was fresh out of the Academy, and Boimler was also very new and on his first assignment, but Rutherford had been part of Starfleet for some time, was well regarded by peers and senior staff, and very capable. We learn he was offered promotions for:

     • Saving the Cerritos from the Pakleds - “No Small Parts”

     • Saving the USS Rubidoux crew from the space jellyfish - “Much Ado About Boimler”

     • Removing the hull of the Cerritos to save the USS Archimedes - “First First Contact”

• Rutherford’s moving box has:

     • The model of Deep Space 9 Tendi gave him in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

     • A handheld tractor beam and/or forcefield projector like the one Wesley Crusher built in “The Naked Now”

My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss because we havent watched any of the new shows yet.

• The episode title calls back to the VOY season two episode, “Tuvix”, in which Neelix and Tuvok are combined into a single being by due to the unique properties of an alien orchid and the transporter.

• This episode was written by series creator Mike McMahan.

• Boimler [Jack Quaid] has holodeck waste removal duty, a task Mariner [Tawny Newsome] was assigned in “Moist Vessel” as part of a plan to get her to transfer off the USS Cerritos.

• It’s the USS Voyager! From Star Trek!

     • The VOY theme plays as we see the ship, and again later when the ship is landed on Earth.

• Voyager has been transformed into a museum piece. We see the ship displayed at the fleet museum in “The Bounty” some 20 years later. Exhibits on the ship commemorating the Voyager crew’s adventures include:

     • The Borg regeneration alcoves in Cargo Bay 2. One of the Cargo Bay 2s, anyway. - Established in “Scorpion, Part II”

     • The galley converted from what would have been the captain’s private dining hall, including authentic Talaxian foodstuffs.

     • The bridge.

     • The ”Neelix cheese”. - From “Learning Curve”

     • Janeway and Tom Paris’ hyper-evolved salamander forms after travelling at Warp 10. - Seen in “Threshold”

• The large battle in the title sequence has been updated again. In addition to Borg Cubes, Romulan Warbirds (season one), Klingon Birds-of-Prey, Pakled Clumpships (season two), and Crystalline Entity (season three), there is now a Breen Interceptor, and the Whale Probe introduced in “Star Trek: The Voyage Home”.

     • We can hear the Whale Probe’s call before the Cerritos warps away.

• Cap’n Freeman records the stardate as 58724.3 in her log.

• Tendi [Noël Wells] is moving a containment unit holding the orchid introduced in “Tuvix” when the lid pops off and a petal floats through the ventilation system into the transporter room.

• Billups tells Doctor T’Ana about the pet dragon he had growing up. Billups was established as coming from the Hysperian colony settled by “Ren faire type” people in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

• Billups and Doctor T’Ana are combined into a single being calling himself T’Illups. Much like Tuvix, the yoke of T’Illups’ uniform has a floral pattern.

• Throughout the episode, more characters get Tuvixed:

     • Cap’n Freeman and Doctor Migleemo - Captain Doctor Frigleeman

     • Shaxs and Barnes - Shabarnes

     • Bartender Honus and Transporter Chief Lundy - Chondus

     • Matt the whale and Steve Stevens - Swhale Swhalens

     • Nurse Westlake and Jennifer - We don’t actually see the combined form

• ”She knows Janeway straight up murdered Tuvix, right?” This is an accurate description of the conclusion of that episode.

• Mariner accidently opens a panel on the Voyager bridge, releasing one of the Tak Takian macroviruses introduced in “Macrocosm”.

• “Uh, you know, Chakotay served here.” Technically true up until about season five of VOY, at which point the only characters aboard the ship were Seven of Nine, the Doctor, and sometimes Captain Janeway.

• ”Dude, this is nothing compared to, you know, that Pike thing we aren’t supposed to talk about.” Mariner is referring to the events of “Those Old Scientists”.

• ”How many…physical memories do you have from before?” Shaxs and Doctor T’Ana have an intimate relationship, implied at least as far back as "Mugato, Gumato".

• One of the macroviruses impacts a panel, causing it to create holograms of Doctor Chaotica from “Night”, the Clown from “The Thaw”, and Michael Sullivan from “Fairhaven”.

     • While Chaotica and Sullivan were holodeck characters created by Tom Paris, the Clown was a manifestation of the fears of five aliens neurally linked together in stasis. Mariner does point out that the Clown wasn’t a holodeck program.

     • Martin Rayner, Michael McKean, and Fintan McKeown are not credited for the episode, so it would seem that none of them are reprising their roles.

• Beljo Tweekle installed holo-emitters throughout the ship. In “The Killing Game” the Hirogen did the same, for the purposes of their wargame simulations with the Voyager crew.

• One of the marcoviruses has Harry Kim’s clarinet. It was established in “Caretaker” that Kim played the instrument, though he gave it up in favour of the saxophone by season six’s “Ashes to Ashes”.

• A Borg nanite attempts to assimilate to macrovirus, becoming a macronanite.

• “Computer, delete this guy! Come on, computer!” In “Fairhaven” Janeway uttered her famous line, “Delete the wife,” regarding Sullivan’s spouse.

     • “I miss my wife.” Apparently at some point Sullivan’s memories of his wife were restored to him, or he remarried.

• Boimler is concerned that if he’s promoted, it will negatively impact his relationship with Mariner, just as it did when he accepted the promotion to the USS Titan and left without telling any of his friends, or answering Mariner’s messages, in “No Small Parts”.

• Mariner was sent to Starbase 80 in “Trusted Sources”.

• T’Lyn is able to combine all the Tuvixed beings into one creature, which is then described by Tendi as a “Non-sentient blob of meat,” handily circumventing the ethical dilemma presented by “Tuvix”.

• Boimler claims to be the son of Captain Proton, the character whom Tom Paris played in these simulations, and Doctor Chaotica’s mortal enemy. First seen in “Night”.

• Rutherford [Eugene Cordero] gums up Voyager with the brill cheese as it did on it’s own in “Learning Curve”.

• Boimler, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Mariner all get promoted to lieutenant junior grade. Mariner was briefly a full lieutenant in “Moist Vessel”, and Boimler was lieutenant junior grade while serving aboard the Titan in “No Small Parts”, “Strange Energies” and “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”.

• ”My main objective here is to prove to the High Council that I should be reinstated to the Vulcan fleet.” T’Lyn was believes her provisional assignment to Starfleet is an unwarranted punishment, as per “wej Duj”.

• It’s the IKS Che’Ta’! From Star Trek! Specifically from “wej Duj”

     • The Mysterious Threat destroys the Che’Ta’, but even though we see a close up of the wreckage, including a spear and bloodwine barrel, but no bodies.

In celebration of the original Voyager's return in her full glory in Lower Decks season 4, it's high time to have another listen to the Prodigy theme written by Michael Giacchino.

If you've only listened to the theme in the Prodigy opening, you would have missed the solemn but beautiful buildup to the epic second half. To me, the first part shows a yearning and curiosity toward space exploration, much like a child looking at the stars and thinking when I can be up there. And in the middle of that imagination, the music shoots up, and you suddenly find yourself in a starship whizzing through planets and nebulas at warp 9.

It's such beautiful and epic music. So underrated.

First Star Trek Day Fans Convention host in China

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I just started watching Voyager on Paramount Plus today, and noticed that the first two episodes, which are shown together, are presented as the appropriate 4:3 aspect ratio, but Episode 3 "Parallax" is presented in a distorted 16:9 or 16:10 format. I see no option to change this in Paramount Plus settings, and my Vizio TV will also not allow me to alter what ratio is being displayed.

Anyone else have this issue? Is this going to persist for the entire series? I didn't have this issue at all with TOS, Animated, TNG, or DS9.

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HAPPY STAR TREK DAY!!!! I started watching Star Trek last year and I started with TOS, my Star Trek watching has slowed down a bit but I love this franchise and can’t wait to finish TNG! For Star Trek day I’m celebrating by the only tv I’m allowed to watch (unless something huge happens in the world today) will be Star Trek. Hope you are all having a fantastic day and Live Long and prosper 🖖🏻

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Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x02: “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”:

The title is a play on the classic science fiction short story “I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, best known in Star Trek for writing TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”, although what ended up on screen was significantly different from what he originally wrote.

The opening scene plays around with the stereotypically treacherous nature of Romulan society. Remans were the indigenous species of the planet Remus whom the Romulans enslaved for centuries. The markings on the Romulan officers’ foreheads mark them as Northern Romulans (as opposed to the smooth-foreheaded Southerners). The torture chair is of the same type that was used for Geordi La Forge in TNG: “The Mind’s Eye”. The design of the Romulan ship is not your standard D’deridex but based on the initial concept art for the class by designer Andrew Probert.

The outfits that Ransom and Shax are wearing as they stretch are the ones from the infamous exercise scene in TNG: “The Price”, with Ransom wearing Troi’s tights and Shax in Crusher’s colors. Ransom suggests hot fudge sundaes - chocolate sundaes were a favorite of Troi’s.

Tendi packs the model of the Cerritos she and Rutherford built (LD: “An Embarassment of Dopplers”) - later we also see the Deep Space 9 model she gave Rutherford in the same episode. She refers to an unseen adventure where they swapped bodies because of cosmic rays, mind swapping being featured in several Trek episodes, most recently in PRO: “Mindwalk”. Tendi also has a picture of “The Dog” (LD: “Much Ado About Boimler”) among her possessions.

Boimler has his Stargazer model (LD: “Reflections”), his promotion certificate (LD: “No Small Parts”), his Captain Freeman Day Banner (LD: “First First Contact”) and the Klingon headpiece he wears when playing bat’leths & biHnuchs (LD: “The Least Dangerous Game”). He also has a Mirror Universe Archer figure (ENT: “In a Mirror, Darkly”, although how the Prime Universe knows about that is unknown), a commemorative plate with the Cerritos on it, the recruitment poster with Number One (SNW: “Those Old Scientists”), Spock in his monster maroons and Data in his First Contact uniform holding a phaser rifle.

The shuttles are named after National Parks, in this case Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Redwood. Mariner refers to a “menagerie”, alien zoos that are always scooping up humans (TOS: “The Menagerie”).

I don’t recognize the purple starfish-like creature, but next to it is a glommer (TAS: “More Tribbles, More Troubles”) and a cylinder of florkas (LD: “Moist Vessel”). In the other display case is a Ceti Eel (ST II). We also see among the exhibits an Aldebaran serpent (TNG: “Hide and Q”), a koala (“Moist Vessel”), a unicorn alien dog (TOS: “The Enemy Within”) and an Hanonian land eel (VOY: “Basics, Part II”).

The visor Boimler puts on is the one Spock uses in TOS: “Is There in Truth No Beauty” to protect against madness for gazing on the Medusan form.

Narj points to his Pyrithian swamp gobblers. Other Pyrithian species include the Pyrithian Bat and the Pyrithian Moon Hawk. Dr Phlox on the NX-01 had a bat and used a paper model of a moon hawk to scare the bat when it escaped (ENT: “A Night in Sickbay”).

Rutherford is working on The Most Important Device in the Universe, a common prop in Star Trek and other science fiction related shows. Rutherford calls a two tube configuration Tucker Tubes, presumably after Chief Engineer “Trip” Tucker of the NX-01. A Cochrane is a measure of warp field strength, with 1 Cochrane equal to a field strength that will produce Warp Factor 1, or the speed of light.

Mariner refers to the time Ransom stabbed her in the foot (LD: “Temporal Edict”), when he turned into a head and tried to eat her (LD: “Strange Energies”), their time on the orbital lift (“The Least Dangerous Game”).

Rutherford could have been promoted when he saved the Cerritos from the Pakleds in LD: “No Small Parts” and the crew of the Roubidoux from a cosmozoan in “Much Ado About Boimler” but he turned it down. He finally gets his promotion to LT j.g. for the time he removed Cerritos’ hull in LD: “First First Contact”.

Ransom’s reference to humans being “The Most Dangerous Game” is to the eponymous 1924 short story by Richard Connell, which basically created the trope of hunting humans and the hunter eventually becoming the hunted. The short story has been adapted and copied innumerable times. The title was inverted for LD’s “The Least Dangerous Game”.