Took me a moment, then I laughed out loud.

Definite big lipped alligator moment. But I dug it. If you can’t make your show good, at least make it weird. At least it wasn’t another pointless action scene.

Looked it up - 1995. I’d have been all of eleven at the time.

Apart from the scale, I remember it as being pretty screen accurate. I think the first Starship Exeter fan film used these, with a little modification.

My parents bought this for me when it was new, as well as the phaser and communicator! The strap was the perfect length for me at that age…

I loved the little blueprint sheet that came with them.

You say “dilute,” I say “diversify”. Star Trek has always had a place for comedy. That doesn’t mean anything goes, and I get being trepidatious after the trash fire that was S31, but I think there’s good reason for optimism in this case. If Lower Decks and interviews like this are anything to go by, it looks like Newsome knows that any comedy needs to jibe with the overall Trek ethos.

Certainly the most X-Treme.

Anyway I’m sorry that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?

Your thoughts more or less match my own. Some really good concepts and actors were mostly wasted on lacklustre execution. As a Trekkie, I’m especially disappointed that Jeri Ryan was so underutilized. She could have killed as a vampire if she were given a little more to do.

I did catch the first sequel, and appreciated its use of some of the less celebrated lore like

though how that’s supposed to tie into the

backstory I really don’t know.

Also a final opportunity to emphasize anything that went well in the interview, or downplay/explain anything that didn’t.

Anyone who’s judgementally dismissing applicants for not sending a thank you is an asshole, but this does not change the fact that sending a thank you is a good idea if you actually want to get the job.

I think it’s great fun to try and puzzle these things out, as a fan. I also think it’s mind numbingly tedious to sit through an entire professionally produced episode designed to do it for us. Trials and Tribble-ations handled the matter perfectly.

I’m with you, Star Trek V is a good time. The closest you’ll get to an episode of TOS translated to the big screen.

Nemesis is the one I’d pin as the bottom of the barrel.

Nick Locarno was a name Tom Paris went by for a while to distance himself from his father. I don’t care what Lower Decks had to say about it.

Q was Trelane all grown up. We’ll see if this holds up after SNW season 3 comes out.

Data always had emotions, he just didn’t understand them. Lore never had emotions, he was faking it.

Spot was a robot who underwent a series of upgrades throughout the series, and Data applied the lessons he learned from that to the development of his daughter.

Still better than Musk Junior High.

Yeah, like I say, it’s pretty nitpicky. I’d probably collapse everything from TSFS to Kelvin into one, if I were being more lax. I don’t find the Kelvin design to be all that different from what came before, but I do find TMP to be really distinct in comparison. But I know some people who seem to be the exact opposite on that, so 🤷

I’d say there are up to 8 designs, depending on how much you want to nitpick:

• TOS: Smooth. Unnaturally smooth.
• TMP: Single column ridge with hair on either side. Behind the scenes the concept was that the spinal column continued up from the back all around the head.
• TSFS: Ridges cover the forehead, are wider and flatter, and have a continuous hairline behind them. Female Klingons have substantially less pronounced ridges.
• TUC: Chang has those same less pronounced ridges. Maybe it’s not a male/female thing. Or maybe Chang is trans?
• TNG: Those less pronounced ridges are gone. Male and female Klingons both get roughly the same degree of lumpyness.
• Kelvin: Ridges look flatter and more pleated. I don’t think we see any hair, but it’s been a while.
• Disco: Coneheads, quadruple nostrils, and no hair.
• Disco S2: Partial retcon as the Klingons start growing their hair in and the heads appear less conical.
• Picard/SNW: Fully revert to the TNG era look. Doesn’t count since it isn’t a new design.

I adore SNW, but honestly, “always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it” seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.

The Enterprise.

I mean, her or Yvonne Craig.

Whale hunting quietly abated after word of a giant gravity-defying demon bird started making its rounds…

Yeah, it’s one of those “it’s weird that it happened twice” situations. Not to mention TMP was just a mash up of The Changeling and One of Our Planets is Missing. At a certain point it feels like the characters should be asking each other why they keep experiencing the same situations over and over…

That’s just a normal Star Trek plot. Hell, that’s toned down for normies compared to half the stuff they get up to in any given series. At least it’s an alien looking probe and not a giant green hand or space Lincoln.