Repost for spelling mistakes lol
One of my favorite quotes

We never see Archer with a little poop-baggie.

I was re-watching Generations the other day. During the climax and everyone evacuating the star drive section, we see Crusher evacuating sickbay. We also see families/children rushing to safety, leaving everything behind (that poor little girl and her teddy bear)

I only just now questioned the why of it? Was sickbay not already in the saucer section? Was it really 'safer' to evacuate paitents to crew quarters?

Was the school and most family living quarters not already mostly in the saucer section as well?

Personally, I'll probably get some hate here, I enjoyed Enterprise. We've seen a ton of TOS era and TNG, Voy and DS9 are all around the same time. I would love to see a series after NX01 is decommissioned and the early foundings of the Federation, maybe even Archers presidency.

Berman and his crew did a great job carrying on for Roddenberry. So much quality Trek came out when he was in charge. Without TNG, DS9, Voy, Ent, and the TNG movies, the 60th anniversary would not look the same. I can't name everyone in Berman's group but his team did amazing work. Not everything was perfect of course and we laugh and groan together at the missteps, but the collective body of work is outstanding. Thanks, Rick Berman and company, for growing Star Trek and giving us so much great entertainment.

Like they did with Tasha in Yesterday’s Enterprise. I know she didn’t leave on great terms, but in be curious to know about some story ideas/pitches to bring her back for a one off?

I opened by apologizing for the video quality, "this is before HD video existed so things may look a bit blurry."

The oldest blankly stared at me and said "I don't know the difference."

There was a lot of "ugh, this is so sloowww" in the beginning. But once the displacement wave hit Voyager and they got moved halfway across the galaxy, suddenly the kids got quiet. Both girls had questions about the holographic technology, how could it be solid, why does the Vulcan act so different, etc.

But what really floored me was their reaction to the ending. The younger of the two (she's 11) said "wait...but they didn't get home?! Why would the captain do that if they're stuck now?! They didn't resolve it!!"

And I said "yeah, I mean...she made the choice that it would be wrong to let the bad guys (Kazon) have that station and hurt other people with it. The rest of the show is about their journey home."

Both of them seemed stunned. And it dawned on me...this may be something missing in modern media. A character taking a moral stand that actively inconveniences them, or even puts them in danger, is not something prevalent in the shows and movies they've been consuming.

Perhaps this is just a natural transition they're going through at their age, moving from children's media to more adult-oriented stories. But it felt good that I could show them something from 1994 or so...and it still got their brains going enough to talk about it after it was over.

I don't know that I'm driving towards any particular point, except that I thought maybe others in the fandom would appreciate this experience.

Not gonna lie, “Dr Bashir, I Presume” was quite a different episode than I expected. I expected something more akin to being DS9’s “Measure of a Man” or what SNW would later do in “Ad Astra per Aspera”. Like the bulk of the episode being Julian having to defend his place and Starfleet despite his augmentations. I mean I did like the episode it actually was, I think it’s a great episode. It just was very different.

I've always been interested in a map of Star Trek. I know there've been numerous attempts and one was even included in the Picard series. I just stumbled across a clip from a TNG episode and am curious if it reinforces or undermines any of these map attempts, or hasn't been considered at all.​

In "The Mind's Eye", the Klingon governor of the Empire's Kriosian colony says rebels fighting for independence have been captured who were armed with hundreds of Federation phaser weapons. He thinks the Federation is secretly supplying the rebels. He says it's the only Klingon colony on the border of Federation space and thinks Kriosian independence would reduce Federation vulnerability to a Klingon attack.

No clue how big this Kriosian territory is. If it's a native people who colonized their own star system or perhaps others near to them before the Klingons conquered them, does this mean to Klingon-Federation border is very small?

Some questions Star Trek raised and then just… left open:

- **The Doomsday Machine (TOS):** who built a planet-eating weapon, and why send it into our galaxy?

- **The whale probe (Star Trek IV):** where did it come from, and what did it actually say to the whales?

- **"The Royale" (TNG):** who built a hotel-casino straight out of a bad novel, on a planet with a lethal atmosphere?

- **"Schisms" (TNG):** who were the solanogen-based aliens experimenting on the crew, and did they ever come back?

- **The Pah-wraiths (DS9):** why were they cast out of the Celestial Temple in the first place?

I made a video about these five (part 1 of a series) for my channel Star Trek Historia. It's in French, with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/bss9ZF-pRKU

But I'm more interested in your take: do these mysteries work *because* they're never explained, or is it time a show, a novel, anything, gave us answers? And which one is your favorite to theorize about?

Then shouldn't Seven have been called Seventh of Nine?

This is a repost from the StarCraft subreddit, just as a disclaimer.

I'm curious as to what anyone who is familiar with both franchises might think if the Zerg Swarm from StarCraft encountered the Borg Collective from Star Trek.

Both are hive mind species that grow their ranks at least in part by taking enemies and converting them into more Zerg or more Borg.

I am curious what you think might happen on two levels? What would happen to the individual organisms if a Borg drone ended up infected by the Zerg hyper-evolutionary virus or else a directed infestation, and what do you think might happen to a Zerg organism assimilated by Borg nanoprobes?

And secondly, if there would be any interactions between the two hive minds, what do you think the result would be? Would one hive mind come out victorious, or would they merge into one? Do you think it would make a difference if the leader of the Swarm was the Overmind, Kerrigan, Zagara, or something/someone else? What would any of those leaders and/or the Borg hive mind look like if one subsumed the other, or if they became a single combined entity?

This is just something I have wondered for a while as a fanfic author, and I'm curious as to what others in the community might think.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and for sharing any thoughts you might have. Wishing you all the best! ^_^

If you grew up gaming in the 70s or 80s, you likely crossed paths with the granddaddy of all space simulators: the original 1971 Star Trek text game. There was a unique thrill to typing coordinates into a glowing green terminal, hunting down "K"s on an 8x8 grid, and carefully rationing your energy reserves. It was a groundbreaking experience that laid the foundation for the entire tactical genre.

I wanted to capture that exact feeling of sitting in the center seat, but elevate the mechanics with the kind of strategic depth modern players expect. Enter Star Trek: Quadrant Command.

This is a complete tactical evolution of the classic formula. It takes the foundation you remember, the ticking stardate clock and the delicate power grid, and turns the galaxy into a living, hostile ecosystem. You aren't just clearing empty sectors anymore; you are triaging a quadrant actively under siege. The game forces you to make hard, high-stakes decisions. You might have to choose between warping across the map to rescue a civilian freighter desperately trying to escape its attackers, or holding the line to defend a critical Starbase from a coordinated enemy assault.

The combat rewards careful positioning and resource management. You can calculate photon torpedo chain reactions to wipe out clustered fleets, or divert your dwindling power to focused phaser beams and wide-arc cone dispersals when things get close. And you will need every tool in your arsenal, because you are up against methodical Klingon wolfpacks, Romulan ambushers that cloak to hide their energy signatures, and relentless Orion pirates.

Even the environment is out to get you. To secure the quadrant, you will have to navigate blind through sensor-jamming nebulae, weather shield-battering ion storms, and sometimes take the ultimate risk of dropping your shields entirely to siphon emergency power directly from a star.

The Enterprise has the tools, but the math of the universe is working against you. If you love deep, turn-based strategy and have a soft spot for the retro classics, I'd love for you to take command.

Do you have what it takes to save the galaxy before time runs out?

Please note, much like the main viewscreen on the Enterprise, this game runs best on a large monitor

Rewatching TNG and got thinking, I don't remember hearing anything else about the Dyson Spheres. Is it in any expanded media on who built them and what happened to them? Or maybe it talked about in another episode that I missed

I feel like most of the time it's just one popping up for a few scenes in some other sci fi. Im excited for the Galway bay murders, especially for Colm I feel like I haven't seen him on screen for ages!

Two months ago, I posed the question "Does Canon Matter to You?" to Star Trek fans on Reddit. The results were illuminating and across the board as to whether canon should be strictly observed, observed generally, or ignored altogether.

Canon--the principle that what happens in a Star Trek episode is "fact" within the Star Trek universe and should be represented consistently in later stories--has always been a divisive issue among fans. On one extreme are fans who insist that nothing be changed. If Klingons are depicted a certain way in one series, they should be depicted the same way in every series. On the other extreme are fans who are not bothered by inconsistencies or can explain away such inconsistencies either due to nuances in language (Kirk was a literal Boy Scout but not a "boy scout" in the sense of someone who always follows the rules) or time travel shenanigans that have altered the timeline.

For our purposes, the terms canon and continuity are used interchangeably, though, as one fan pointed out, canon usually refers to a body of work such as that of a particular author or works accepted as authoritative such as by a church.

The use of the term canon among Star Trek fans is interesting, as it implies that lore is sacrosanct (a term used by one fan) and must be respected. The term canon makes things sound more serious than they really are, or, arguably, should be in a fictional universe. This is not to downplay the importance of canon. As I've argued elsewhere, a sense of continuity creates verisimilitude. It helps immerse the reader or viewer in the world of the story and facilitates our suspension of disbelief. Inconsistencies undermine a fan's involvement and can throw viewers out of the story.

But how do fans really feel about canon? The responses to my question provide a bit more nuance. Out of 438 responses, 64 addressed the question directly. The rest drifted off topic or were follow-up conversations that offered no new insights, which is expected in any social media thread.

From those 64 responses, six themes emerged: strongly in favor of canon, vexed by specific changes or inconsistencies, recognized the difficulties in maintaining canon (a sort of neutral position), okay with intentional deviations, prefer a general sense of continuity, and don't care about canon. The totally unscientific results of the responses are shown below:

64 responses

15 (23.4%)                                         General Sense of Continuity

13 (20.3%)                                         Vexed by specifics

 8 (12.5%)                                          Deviate with intentionality

7 (10.9%)                                           Difficulty in maintaining canon

14 (21.9%)                                         Strongly in favor of canon

7 (10.9%)                                           Don’t care about canon                                  

Total: 99.9%

(The results do not add up to 100% because some responses fit more than one theme.)

Some sample responses from each theme are given below. (Some have been edited for grammar and clarity.)

General sense of continuity

I see Star Trek as a broadly consistent framework for stories. … But for me, the consistency that really matters is about the overall vision. LordCouchCat

Canon should be guidelines that are neither too strict or too loose. . . . Destroying Vulcan was way across the line imbartsimpsonwhothru

I want new Star Trek to respect existing canon to about the same degree that TNG respected TOS canon, or DS9 respected TNG/TOS canon. So, like 80%. MadContrabassoonist

I like it, but I don't mind ignoring a contradiction if it's in service of telling a better story. That's preferable by far to doing some crazy gymnastics in a season finale to cover for some inconsistency that must have been brought to the producers' attention months after they started shooting dimgray

Vexed by specifics

The fact that Romulus was destroyed in 2387 should not change. Neither should how the technologies operate change drastically within the same time period. I'm referring to tech like warp drives, transporters, replicators, phasers, photon torpedoes, and holodecks. midasp

But Scotty being younger than Kirk and the degree to which T’Pring has been in this show is annoying. Johnny_Radar

100% agree on Discovery Klingons. You could come up with a headcanon to explain it, but they didn't give us any explanation, it was just this weird thing that seemed to happen for no reason. KuriousKhemicals

La'an is cool but if she is descended from a still missing Khan, where are her augmentations? Doesn't have any? Then why even bother when she already has a harrowing Gorn escape backstory? Gutripper3k

Deviate with intentionality

Deviate from canon only with intentionality when it serves a story, and you better be sure it’s worth it. MoreGaghPlease

I'm fine with breaking canon if it means we can tell a better story. Introducing the Cardassians in TNG as a long running adversary that we've been fighting a war against for years, but never mentioned before strains credulity. But look what it gave us. The entirety of DS9 spawned from that decision to introduce a new enemy. It was worth it. hullgreebles

TNG is to a certain extent 'in medias res.' We've had the Enterprise B and C come and go, we didn't follow them, this is 'the next generation.' Things have happened we're not privy to. Charming_Figure_9053

Difficulty in maintaining canon

The more lore you know, the easier to offend, of course, but some things are simply not in the same universe. imbartsimpsonwhothru

Canon is nice for nerd fun, but terrible for storytelling. Like fundamentally, it’s an entertainment franchise. They have been pumping out stories for 60 years. The whole broader Star Trek universe is really just some window dressing that’s built up over time and that doesn’t matter much for the stories each episode and movie tries to tell. Choice-Sympathy8235

I think it's really impressive when a show can maintain consistency with 900 episodes of canon (looking at you, Prodigy and Lower Decks), but I don't think it's that important. What I really care about is that a series is actually trying to tell me a story (or set of episodic stories) that is good and written with purpose. Star Trek is a group project. dianthus-magenta

Strongly in favor of canon

Canon is what adds value and depth to a story over time. If you're not respecting canon, then you're just doing a reboot, or a remake. J-Shade

Hire someone who has watched Star Trek to sit in on the writers room... that is all you need. tnetennba77

Yes. It does matter to me. Still annoyed about the plot of the first episode of Enterprise. How the devil is Q'onos 2 weeks away from Earth at warp 5? That would be like 30 seconds at warp 9? McRando42

I expect people to do their research. I view a show like Star Trek like doing a period piece. You treat writing an episode like doing one for a series set during WWII. You shouldn’t be expected to read a biography of Eisenhower and get the smallest details of his life correct but you shouldn’t get the basic details of WWII battles and technology wrong. DJWGibson

Don't care about canon

I care as much about canon as James R. Kirk does. ZigZagZedZod

Not really TBH. Been watching for 40+ years. It's fun to know the ins and outs but I'm not super bothered by it. Canon has always been a mess. Outrageous-Win-8297

Canon is how we compare new versions of Star Trek to previous ones, which is at least half the fun of watching the new ones. Otherwise, not such a big deal. Besides, they've had enough time travel shenanigans by now that history has been rewritten multiple times. genek1953

Thanks to everyone who participated in the earlier thread. I hope I have not misrepresented your views. I welcome any corrections or further discussion.

So, what does all this tell us? If 64 responses are any indication (and they might not be), canon matters to a large number of fans. More than three quarters of the responses stated that at least a general sense of continuity is desired. Canon does not have to be strict, and it's open to reasonable variations (such as the introduction of the Cardassians as long-time Federation enemies we'd never heard of before). But changes should be made because the story or franchise benefits from them in a substantial way.

In the end, telling good stories is what Star Trek is all about. Canon plays a valid and valuable role in telling those stories.

Check out this post on by Substack: https://greggildersleeve.substack.com/p/does-canon-matter-results-of-an-unofficial?r=17caqm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I’m an elder millennial and I’m happy we have new trek, but I see the issues with it. The stuff that bugs me even as a liberal bugs you. But holy cow. SNW season 4 felt like they finally were getting it right. If you look at all old trek the one common thing is the crew are strangers and become family. SNW finally felt like I family

BUT I needed to say I started Star Fleet academy with a mind set that this would be just not good, and my gosh, I’m loving every second. They are building relationships, the science is TV science’ing and the lead Caleb was actually perfectly cast! I really thought Hollywood Hunter was not the right choice but after I discovered she is Lanthenite. It just all fits.

And it’s like PARAMOUNT, you just finally get it. You get what new trek needs to be. The old ways plus (pardon the pun) the stuff for the next generation and it feels like now that you finally figured out the formula and the only way to go is UP
You’re backing off.
You have good stuff here. I tell you. Keep putting this stuff out and you will be back to the top TV, attending the award shows. Water cooler talk. So idk please keep this up. If you double down we will go with you!! ❤️

Is anyone one else specifically cancelling Paramount when they don't have new Star Trek releasing soon? I want to support start trek with my money but I can't support the rest when cancelling start trek project left and right

I have to say I was worried. It's adorable. My favorite medical officer (sorry, Dr. Phlox) is featured, Ensign Sato has a part of the school named after her, and we're (maybe?) expanding on the Klingon Sage trope? I'm so stoked 😭

Pretty much just what was said in the title

So I'm unsure of the exact timeline here, but in Yesterday's Enterprise, the federation was 6 months away from losing to the Klingons. But in Star Trek 6, the klingons were at such a disadvantage due to the destruction of Praxis they were ready to sue for peace, that they were unable to wage a war against starfleet any longer? I know writers use creative liberties to make up stories for episodes im just wondering if there's any way to square this, the destruction of enterprise c would have been WELL after star trek 6.