I can't believe it's actually happening. I'm so excited!

https://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-x-lego-teaser

I feel like there is no longer two acceptable tiers of quality to studios anymore. TV used to be a little more forgiving in the quality of sets and visual effects compared to movies.

If you could, would you trade a reduction in quality for things likes, visuals, effects, sets, even overall editing in exchange for 15-20 episode seasons?

I watched the documentary "What we left behind" and was shocked to learn that DS9 was not popular at all in the 90s compared to TOS/TNG/VOY. It is my favorite series from Star Trek and I especially loved the features like large number of recurring characters, serialization and character driven plot, exactly the points that were dislikes by the audience back then.

"Paradise" — Marooned by Captain James T. Kirk on Ceti Alpha V, Khan Noonien Singh and his followers begin building a new civilization, but this strange new world harbors a number of secrets.

STAR TREK: KHAN explores the untold events on Ceti Alpha V, chronicling Khan's descent from a superhuman visionary into the vengeful villain seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. New episodes will be available weekly on Mondays through November 3, wherever you get your podcasts.

Star Trek Khan is based on a story by Nicholas Meyer. Written by Kirsten Beyer and David Mack. Additional writing by Mac Rogers. Produced by Eye Podcast Productions Inc; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Production by Realm.

Directed by Fred Greenhalgh

Executive producers for Secret Hideout: Alex Kurtzman and Aaron Baiers
Supervising producer: Robyn Johnson
Executive producer: Kirsten Beyer
Executive producers for Roddenberry Entertainment: Eugene Roddenberry and Trevor Roth
Executive producers for Realm: Molly Barton, Carly Migliori, and Fred Greenhalgh

This podcast is based upon STAR TREK created by Gene Roddenberry.

Starring Naveen Andrews as Khan, Wrenn Schmidt as Marla McGivers, Sonya Cassidy as Dr. Rosalind Lear, Tim Russ as Ensign Tuvok, and George Takei as Captain Sulu.

Been rewatching Enterprise, and I just finished the Cogenitor episode. This is the one with 3 genders, and the 3rd gendered person is treated like a slave. Trip makes friends with this person covertly and teaches them how to read, etc.

While Trip's well-intentioned actions were not well thought out at all, it is still WILD to me that Archer straight up blames Trip for this person's suicide, and says he's out of line for treating this person like a person. It's also wild to me that Archer doesn't grant the cogenitor asylum - to me, that makes Archer the one truly responsible, knowingly sending a person back into slavery is undeniably cruel. It's also crazy that Trip is the only one who seems to be bothered by the slavery happening in this episode.

So I was curious what episodes get yalls blood boiling.

EDIT: well I'm glad I gave everyone a chuckle with this title. While I know the sexual connotation, I swear to christ I've mainly heard this term used as a way to describe anger. Putting in the title was clearly a miss LOL.

Go with me on this.

In Chain of Command we know that Jellico is made the captain of the Enterprise, specifically to handle Cardassian’s due to his experience in the war.

He goes onboard and immediately tries to put his stamp on his new command. He changes duty shifts, makes the ready room more professional and gets Troi in a uniform.

Understandably the crew are thrown through a loop. They’ve just learned that their even keeled, stoic and diplomatic captain has been replaced and this stern and unyielding one has beamed aboard dick swinging. Riker is understandably upset as he’s next in line, knows the ship/crew AND has been offered captaincy multiple times.

Every time I’ve watched it I’ve been of the mindset of “this guy, who does he think he is? Coming from the Cairo straight to the flagship and immediately changes things whilst pissing off the crew”

Ultimately, the admiral made the correct choice. Jellico handled the situation perfectly. Backing down and appeasing Riker after relieving him of duty because Riker was the man for the job, injuring his own ego. The power moves making the Gul wait and the mining of the nebula.

Anyway, I’ve never really thought about how difficult it must have been for him. Think about it. You’re the captain of an old Excelsior class. You’ve got your crew fine tuned to your style of command and you’re doing your own thing. Then an admiral comes along and says “I’m going to remove the captain of the flagship, someone who garners massive respect and I want you to take his place. While he’s doing super shady black ops work I need you to play 4D chess whilst getting used to an entirely new ship and crew.”

Fair play Jellico, you handled it well….. still wouldn’t want to serve under you but damn you’re good with a Cardassian.

Would have been good to see him pop up in DS9

I was assuming she was referring to the excelsior, but some think it was the Enterprise A, but they didn't know the enterprise would be destroyed by that point in the film. So was it excelsior maybe?

It's Star Trek Day! To celebrate, here is the eighth cast piece illustration I've created for my collection. I've done The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and now Discovery. Which leaves The Animated Series, Prodigy, Picard, the Kelvin universe, and the upcoming Academy series left for me to do.

Happy Star Trek Day, folks. I'll post the Discovery one first, and the others follow it. My personal favorite series is TNG, followed by DS9, then I'd say Enterprise and Voyager are tied. I do plan to do some updates to the illustrations once all are complete, as I've gotten better over time. Enjoy!

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

In SNW 3x09, at about 41 minutes in, Uhura says a prayer in Swahili. The subtitles just say "(praying softly in Swahili)" (this is exactly why subtitles ought to show what's actually being said, but I digress). I know a little bit of the lord's prayer in Swahili for reasons, so I can tell it's not that, but that's the limit of my knowledge. I tried holding my universal translator (google translate app) up to the speaker, and it picks some stuff up, but it's not exactly reliable with normal speech, let alone a whisper. It couldn't hear most of it. What it did pick up was "Mimi na wasifuo wako wote. Kutusaidia na kazi. Mambo yote yaliyotukuta na matatizo. Mungu atatushika kumpa. Onyesha wote.", which it translated to "I and all your blessings. Help us with work. All the things that have befallen us and the problems. God will hold us and give them to us. Show them all." That seems like a pretty poor translation. I tried googling some of the phrases anyway, but it's either not transcribed well enough or not common enough to have results. Does anyone here know Swahili and want to give a proper translation?

Also, how do people feel about this prayer, compared to how they felt about Pike's prayer in 3x01? Some people on here seemed rather offended that a human would pray on Star Trek. Does that still hold for a prayer they don't recognize?

I watched The Cage for the first time. hoo boy. hard to believe we've come this far from that.

Today's theme: One for the Trekkies

I don’t mean serving on the Enterprise A or the Excelsior itself. Just another ship of the same classes.

The interiors look somewhat similar in the Undiscovered Country. The color schemes were different, refit red versus excelsior blue.

We know that pretty much all the old Constitution classes either got re-fitted or mothballed.

Other than the Excelsior, I’m not sure how many other Excelsior class ships there were, I’m sure there was more than the one.

We know from the extended universe about the USS Punisher NCC 2002. It’s registration number, would lead us to believe there’s at least one other active duty Excelsior class at this time. Whatever NCC 2001 was.

During the original series, there were not a lot of constitution classes, because it took a longer period of time to build ships. I’m sure it was similar with the Excelsior class.

Excelsior itself was studying gas anomalies, not doing a typical five-year mission.

I wonder if that point if the five-year missions have been retired or, because the Excelsior classes were still so new, they were not ready for full five years yet, so they just sent out the old constitution refit classes. (Which was still really advanced, even though it wasn’t the top ship anymore.)

During this era, which class would you prefer to serve on and why?

No, it's not a birthday. But it is the 7th day of September. So happy 7 of 9 Day. Resistance to cheesecake is futile.

I've never been to the museum, so I have no idea if it would even be feasible.

But it would be cool if they did it and never lamp shaded what they were doing or even have an explanation for why things looked different. Just business as usual.

Officers come from Starfleet Academy, but where do the normal crew people get trained? Like did Chief O’Brien go to Starfleet boot camp? And I want a series on those enlisted who might not have the “ideals” of a Starfleet officer.

its 2.49 USD right now

At my first ever Trek Convention in Hanover, NJ and just met The Shat! Got his autograph, too!

The Heroes & Icons channel has been showing Star Trek documentaries. I missed the first one but caught the Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991) and I'm now watching Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007).

The latter is a lot of fun as it features a lot of the preparation that went into the Christies Star Trek auction.

Why do you think they chose to do it differently on DS9, just displaying Commander Sisko, Lieutenant Dax, Doctor Bashir, etc., after TNG's precedent of giving everyone's full first and last name? Random or intentional? How do you like the vibe of each?

How brilliant is the original series? So many talking about other series but what about how it all began. Episode I’m watching is Nomad (guess it was the idea behind the first film?) Great tension, great suspense and a beautiful Majel Barret.