Star Trek

I first got into trek with the 09 movie. It was a lot better than I expected and a good friend of mine is huge into Trek.

I decided to give the tv series a try. After being a little unsure what to watch I started with ENT. I figured it’s my first time watching trek and it’s their first time exploring and I liked that parallel. I’ve recently rewatched this series and liked it a whole lot more. This series is much better after having seen at least TNG, DS9 or VOY.

My watch order, not including new Trek was,

ENT > TNG > VOY > DS9 > TOS > TAS > PRO > TOS movies.

I watched all the other new trek stuff as it came out and watched the TNG movies a few months back.

By far, the TOS movies were the hardest to enjoy. The 2, 3, and 4 movies were decent, but 5 was really bad.

TOS series was also a little hard to get through. I could only watch a few episodes at a time. Unlike PRO which I watched in a day.

It’s hard to pick a beat or favorite series, but if you were going to watch one I think I’d easily recommend TNG. It’s such a great show and has such a great cast.

I’m loving all the new trek stuff as well. I’m really surprised at how good PRO was. And SNW has been a masterpiece.

I’m rewatching DS9 now and I’m at the start of season 3. Wow, this show has so many good episodes just one after another.

I have begun a Starfleet Delta, but haven’t figured out how to share the overlay template. It’s discernible enough as a delta now that others might wish to join in.

Canvas has groups called factions. In have created one called c/quark’s

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There’s a pixelated drawing board for Lemmy now.

My own artistic skills are dubious, but with some help I could lay out the markers to start a Starfleet delta to stake out some Trek-positive space on the canvas.

So I was looking at the skulls from Picard Season 2 Episode 2, and when I came across Commodore Y'Shi's, I recognized something familiar on the nameplate. Turns out it was the Voth Symbol seen in "Distant Origin" (Season 3 Episode 23). So, I got the design from Star Trek Design Project, and flipped it and there it is. The Saurian Symbol on Commodore Y'Shi's plate (from the Confederation Timeline) is the Voth Symbol turned 180 degrees. I don't know if this was intentional (probably is) or not, but fun easter egg.

Also sorry for the horrible picture, threw it together in paint quickly without caring for neat design.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Returns To Top 10 Streaming Chart

"Among the Lotus Eaters" cracks the top ten.

https://trekmovie.com/2023/08/04/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-returns-to-top-10-streaming-chart/

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Links to the playlist for Star Trek: Strange New World's "Subspace Rhapsody"

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1Jqy2Y91uYUdUwxXSTZa2v?si=Z0OcNbo0Sje8ltxDl-mjwg

Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-subspace-rhapsody/1698596327

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In space, everyone can hear you sing. That’s the premise of this week’s special musical episode of the Star Trek prequel Strange New Worlds, which swaps photon torpedoes for jaunty flashmobs as the crew of the starship Enterprise find themselves inexplicably bursting into song – much to their bemusement. It’s an oddball delight, even if the science behind it seems a little fuzzy.

When a classic recording of the Cole Porter musical number Anything Goes somehow creates a harmonic quantum field (we know), characters are compelled to reveal their deepest emotional secrets via belt-’em-out Broadway-ready numbers. The crew are pleasingly aware of how daft the situation is even as they strive to resolve being made to sing original songs by Kay Hanley and Tom Polce from 1990s alt-rockers Letters to Cleo. It is slightly cheesy, very self-indulgent and clearly designed to boldly launch a thousand memes of Mr Spock singing his Vulcan heart out. But it is also heartfelt, in keeping with the show’s unfashionably optimistic outlook.

There is an eccentric tradition of US TV series’ embracing their inner glee-club kid by staging a musical episode, from high-kicking fantasies Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess to postmodern sitcoms such as Scrubs and Community. These interludes tend to occur in later seasons, when shows have found such a familiar groove that hard-pressed writers are either looking for a fun way to keep things fresh – or are just running out of ideas.

That doesn’t apply to Strange New Worlds, which is only in its second season. This week’s barrage of show tunes kind of makes sense, given that this is a series that, Mr Benn-style, has been trying on a different genre every week. Being set on the classic USS Enterprise and featuring younger versions of recognisable characters such as Spock and language savant Uhura (lady-killer James T Kirk is also floating around in the background, although yet to graduate to captain) seems to have given Strange New Worlds the confidence to experiment. A ship-wide outbreak of full-throated singing is not even the strangest thing the show has attempted in the last fortnight.

A recent crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks – the ribald cartoon spin-off overseen by the former Rick and Morty writer and producer Mike McMahan – brought cartoon characters (voiced by The Boys’ Jack Quaid and Space Force’s Tawny Newsome) on to the Enterprise. The interpolation of animated sequences and live-action (explained by the classic Trek plot device of a time portal) created a fizzy, frantic romp.

Spock – one of Star Trek’s most highly regarded, serious characters, played here by Ethan Peck – is frequently placed into farcical situations more suited to Frank Spencer. A season one episode channelled Freaky Friday by trapping Spock and his Vulcan fiancee in each other’s bodies, forcing them to vamp their way through crucial missions. This season, his pointy ears and sharply symmetrical haircut vanished when a shuttle accident transformed him into the pouting, impulsive equivalent of a hormonal teenage boy. Somewhere up there, Leonard Nimoy – who directed the 1980s comedy romp Three Men and A Baby – is raising a Spock-like eyebrow in approval.

But the phasers are not always set to fun. There has been a terrifying riff on Ridley Scott’s Alien, with chest-bursting xenomorphs hunting harried crew members on a stranded ghost ship, plus an impassioned, episode-long courtroom drama exploring alien rights and even a Trek spin on Richard Linklater’s romance Before Sunrise, with two Starfleet officers from different timelines bickering and bonding on a mission to present-day Toronto.

This hopscotching is an antidote to the recent wave of ambitious small-screen sci-fi that leans heavily on serialised storytelling, from Prime Video’s hardscrabble asteroid belt drama The Expanse to Apple TV+’s densely plotted, millennia-spanning Foundation. Even Star Trek: Discovery, the series that relaunched the franchise on TV in 2017, has leaned into epic, season-long stories that skew to the dark and brooding. The pick ’n’ mix approach of Strange New Worlds is a welcome palate cleanser, even if it means any overarching story arcs seem rather secondary (the second season wraps up next week and you would be hard-pushed to identify a unifying theme). It all chimes with the highly episodic spirit of the original series, when audiences of the late 1960s were presumably never sure what the next week’s instalment would bring. As Cole Porter said: anything goes.

I worked hard at imitating the Leonard Nimoy Spock's raised eyebrow for quite a while. I don't regret the time spent practicing that in front of a mirror. I never mastered a fully raised eyebrow, but I can do a slight eyebrow raise.

Whenever someone is being greedy or acting a fool, I say, "hoo-man," in a bad Ferengi accent.

Jean-Luc Picard's "make it so" is a go to phrase for me.

My first sip of coffee for the day is always my Janeway moment.

When someone says something far fetched, I say "really." I think I'm channeling Benjamin Sisko. No one else sees it that way.

I say "p'takh" a bit too often. Not to anyone who understands Klingon. Not yet, anyway.

Any Star Trek mannerism or phrase you've incorporated into your life?

Written by Dana Horgan & Bill Wolkoff

Directed by Dermott Downs

• “Under the Cloak of War”. The flashbacks in this episode are set during the Federation-Klingon War seen during DIS season one, and a large part of that conflict was the new Klingon cloaking devices that T’Kuvma, and then Kol installed on their various ships. Get it? Yeah, you get it.

• This episode was written by Davy Perez, who also wrote “All Those Who Wander” and co-wrote “Memento Mori” and “Among the Lotus Eaters”.

• Jeff Byrd directed the episode; he also directed the DIS episode, “Rosetta”.

• Pike gives us the stardate 1875.4 in his captain’s log. M’Benga’s CMO’s log records the stardate as 1875.8.

• We are introduced to the USS Kelcie Mae NCC which, based on its appearance, answers the question, ”If there is a Utopia Planitia Shipyard, does it not follow that there is likely also a Dystopia Planitia?”

     • It used to be that when you saw a ship like USS Buran (“Best of Both Worlds, Part II), or the USS Curry (“A Time to Stand”), or the USS Yeager (“Doctor Bashir, I Presume”) you knew that the design team was basically fishing for parts at the bottom of the box of leftover Federation starship bits, and hastily gluing them together so there could be something that resembled a Federation ship in the background of a shot for a fleeting half moment. But with the USS Kelcie Mae someone used the most powerful 3d design software available to create an entirely new ship to be front and centre on screen.

     • I will never again complain about the Sombra-class from “All Those Who Wander” being a Constitution-class ship with a bit of blue paint instead of read, and a slightly larger bridge window.

• Prospero is the protagonist of Shakespeare's “The Tempest”. Data once portrayed the character on the holodeck while studying humanity in “Emergence”.

     • Prospero’s lines from the play are also quoted by:

         • Miranda Jones - “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”

         • Chancellor Gorkon - “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”

         • General Chang - “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”

         • Jean-Luc Picard - “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II”

         • Beckett Mariner - “Crisis Point”

         • The Emergency Janeway Hologram - “Kobayashi”

• Starbase 12 is has been mentioned mentioned in a number of episodes across multiple series, including SNW’s “The Serene Squall” but was first named in “Space Seed”.

• The H16 Starfleet boatswain’s whistle is slightly different from the C18 that appeared in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” and the C19 from “The Next Generation”.

• Among Dak’Rah’s crimes Ortegas mentions the siege of Athos. Athos is apparently a colony on the J’Gal. However, there is also a planet named Athos IV in the Badlands where the Maquis had a hidden base, seen in “Blaze of Glory”.

     • Captain Archer’s dog, Porthos, had a littermate named Athos.

• Klingons call Dak’Rah ”The Butcher of J’Gal”. We learned in “The Broken Circle” that Doctor M’Benga was stationed at J’Gal during the Federation-Klingon War.

• Spock and lieutenant Mitchell attempt to synthesize raktajino, a Klingon coffee. The mug that’s produced appears similar to the ones frequently seen in DS9, though more ornate.

     • Mitchell states of their first attempt to create a raktajino that we see, this one’s cold.” According to “The Passenger”, Jadzia occasionally enjoyed her raktajino iced, with extra cream.

     • With the second attempt, we see a cartridge of some sort lower into the bar, as the raktajino is produced. In some TOS episodes, such as “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and “And the Children Shall Lead” we characters with flat, coloured disks into a slot on a food synthesizer to produce the desired meal.

• *”On a recent mission, Spock was able to parlay with a Klingon captain.” Number One is referring to Spock’s encounter with Captain D’Chok in “The Broken Circle”.

• Shuttlecraft 12648, is very different from the Class C shuttlecraft that were aboard the USS Discovery in this era, but it does have the same paint colours as those ships.

     • Shuttlecraft 12648 has a registry number, NCC-7901, presumably for the starship it is usually berthed on, which seems pretty high for this era.

• The Starfleet officers we see in the flashbacks to J’Gal are all wearing tactical vests that were introduced in SNW’s “Memento Mori”, not the ones worn through seasons one and two of DIS, introduced in “The Battle of the Binary Stars”.

     • The badges everyone is wearing are also the ones the introduced with the Enterprise crew in season two of DIS, not the split delta design of DIS which everyone other than the Enterprise crew wore..

     • The badge Trask is wearing when he shows up does not have a division logo on it. Chapel says that he is special forces.

     • Similarly, the black uniforms are new, but appear to be the same cut as Chapel’s white jumpsuit, rather than resembling the ones worn in DIS which would have been common during the Federation-Klingon War.

• Doctor Buck is played by Clint Howard who previously appeared as:

     • Balok - “The Corbomite Maneuver”

     • Grady - “Past Tense, Part II”

     • Muk - “Acquisition”

     • A character credited as Creepy Orion - “Will You Take My Hand”

• It cost Doctor Buck a case of Romulan ale to get Chapel assigned to J’Gal as head nurse. Romulan Ale is illegal in the Federation, and was first named in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” but might have been the blue beverage the Romulan commander served Spock in “The Enterprise Incident”.

• ”Doctor, I need a doctor.” Chapel is a doctor, as established in “Strange New Worlds”, but presumably Alvarado would not benefit from epigenetic treatments.

     • By “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” Chapel will also be an MD.

• Doctor M’Benga suggests keeping Alvarado in suspended animation in the transporter buffer, a technique he will later use on his own daughter aboard the Enterprise as seen in “Ghosts of Illyria”. The first time we saw it used in Trek was in “Relics” where Scotty’s pattern was able to remain stable for 75 years aboard the USS Jenolan, but not ensign Franklin’s. ”He was a good lad.”

• ”The Gorn attack as Finibus III,” Doctor M’Benga mentions in his log was seen in “Memento Mori”.

• Pike shows up in sick bay looking for Deltan parsley. In “The Enemy Within” the aggressive Kirk went to sick bay demanding Saurian brandy from Bones.

• Due to protests at Dak’Rah’s previous transport, Starfleet command has decided that veterans of the Federation-Klingon War are required to interact with him and make him feel welcome. For other ridiculous command decisions by the Starfleet admiralty, see: all of Star Trek.

• In flashback we see Doctor M’Benga tell Chapel to use her hand to manually pump their patient’s heart as part of their efforts to save him. In “Second Contact” Tendi had to manually pump Stevens’ heart to keep him alive.

• ”Convincing Propero Alpha to agree to an armistice was like getting a Tellarite to give a compliment.” The contentious nature of Tellarites was established in “Journey to Babel” when Sarek generalized the entire people.

• “We all just call it the Moon.” In “Valiant” Collins tells Jake Sisko that ”nobody who’s ever lived on the Moon calls it Luna, either. That’s just something they say on Earth.”

• We learn that Doctor M’Benga has ”The most hand-to-hand kills confirmed.”

• Doctor M’Benga’s wheatgrass shot seen in “The Broken Circle” is called protocol 12, and he’s the one who designed it.

     • Doctor M’Benga says that protocol 12 is, ”adrenaline and pain killers,” and not just the ”green juice, extra green” that Tilly ordered from the food synthesizer in “Lethe”. It’s not canon, but the current storyline in the ongoing comics, “Star Trek” and “Star Trek: Defiant” involve the followers of Clone Emperor Kahless injecting the Red Path sacrament, a mixture of Klingon adrenaline and some chemical found in ketracel white.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Dog of War #5
Written by : Mike Chen
Art by: Angel Hernandez
Cover Art : Angel Hernandez

With stolen Starfleet data on its way to the Dominion, Captain Sisko dons the mysterious Borg headset in an attempt to stop the transmission! Meanwhile, Major Kira and Lieutenant Commander Dax race to keep their new crewmember and prized corgi off the black market.  
 

Star Trek: Defiant #6
Written by : Christopher Cantwell
Art by: Angel Unzueta
Cover Art : Malachi Ward

The crossover event between Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant continues here in part two of Day of Blood! Worf and Sisko begin their trek to Kahless' spire to stop the false prophet's siege of Qo'noS with each other being the last man either wants to rely on. Meanwhile, Spock takes the bridge of the Theseus, reuniting with his old friend Captain Montgomery Scott and desperately attempting to keep the Red Path's Bloodwings at bay.

Charitybuzz: Lunch with Jonathan Frakes and Elizabeth Dennehy of Star Trek in LA

I presume this auction is out of the price range of many people, but I'm throwing it out there anyway.

https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/auction-lunch-with-jonathan-frakes-elizabeth-dennehy-of-2741000

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Some interesting reflections on how the live action writers’ strike may improve the marketability of Prodigy to a new platform, as well as enable work to begin on a third season.

This would of course been a good reason for Paramount not to cancel and pull Prodigy when they have a gap in Star Trek releases ahead in 2024.

I always appreciate a callback to DC Fontana’s smart employment of writers for TASunder the exception that they could write one animated episode without violating the strike rules.

This article features a message from Andrew J. Robinson, along with an excerpt from the audiobook.

An excellent thread on why to save Star Trek: Prodigy

(via https://twitter.com/NerdForce5/status/1686121027405819905)

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Mr. Spock On A Stamp: Adam Schiff Urges U.S. Postal Service To Honor Leonard Nimoy

https://deadline.com/2023/07/leonard-nimoy-u-s-postal-service-spock-stamp-adam-schiff-1235451515/

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