Random Star Trek discussion

The should do Earth/Romulan war.

No details at all yet.
Just like Prodigy when it was "untitled Nickelodeon series".

When will we get Captain Worf?

"Most risky Trek series"

That aged well

Did Kirk, Picard, or Sisko get fucked as a salamander-catfish?
Huh?
All right then.

Deela from "Wink Of An Eye" is on Mannix!

They expected Neelix to be the breakout character.

Neelix was a pedo, up until he left Voyager, his most significant relationships were with two females under the age of ten.

But it’s the future where everyone is so progressive minded.

Troi should have let Riker keep his Captain Picard "action figure", having him carry it around would have shown how much he respects and admits Picard.

Nah, I'm tired of this particular meme. Neelix might have been weird and possessive towards Kes, but he wasn't sexual towards her. In Elogium when Kes thinks she's experiencing her only chance to mate and have a child and she tells Neelix she needs to mate with him, he's caught off guard and starts making excuses to get out of it. That's not the behavior of a guy that's already having sexual relations with his partner. Compare that to how Neelix reacts towards an adult Klingon female he finds attractive in Prophecy, destroying Tuvok's quarters with their crazy violent fuckfest. He's got no problem mating with someone he actually wants to mate with.

Thanks for reminding me Neelix got busy with a Klingon, BTW

I'm honestly sick of it too because Neelix wasn't the only one simping for Kes and if he's a pedo, so were Tom and Harry, who canonically banged Kes and the resultant child respectively in one alternate timeline.

Plus, it's gross and insulting to compare this weird but ultimately fictional situation to what CSA survivors have been through. Despite the Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome that was built into the character (that was stupid for reasons beyond this inane argument, because I'm sure had Kes stayed all seven seasons she sure wouldn't look 70 human years old ), it's clear she was considered an adult and old enough to make decisions on her own. The couple had plenty of problems without that canard

And he was godfather to Naomi Wildman. There are men who can have a mentor type relationship with a child - even a female child without that relationship being sexual.

Neelix's relationship with Naomi Wildman never seemed weird to me. There's never a hint of anything other than fatherly affection about it, and since Naomi only has one parent and no opportunity to have friends her own age, it stands to reason she'd need adults other than her mother to spend lots of time with her.

His relationship with Kes is squicky for reasons beyond her chronological age, though. Obviously for a species that only lives nine years, we have to assume they reach full adult reasoning capacity very quickly and human chronology is irrelevant. But something about the whole "he was the first non-Ocampan she ever met and she was enthralled by his stories" thing brings to mind the men who like to take advantage of younger girls' naivete and general being-more-easily-impressed in order to score.

Years before he met Kes, Neelix's entire family was killed by the Haakonians, including Alixia, his beloved sister that he used to go exploring with, who he still wrote letters to while serving on Voyager. If you look at his relationship with Kes and his initial distrust of Tom Paris through that lens, it's pretty clear he regarded Kes as more of a surrogate little sister than anything.

Seven's exoskeleton glove bugs me.
Does it extend into and augment her existing bones?
Or does it replace her bones?
Cuz...if the latter, then her hand without the glove is just a meat mitten.
But...why ruin a perfectly good hand that way?
But then...why waste Locutus's perfectly good hand slapping a cumbersome scanning mechanism over it?
Borg design logic is wonky.

I figure Seven's glove is a superior version of Picards hand extension that was integrated into her growing body while she stuck inside a maturation chamber. That's why they can't just remove it easily.

Re: "The Ensigns Of Command"

Miles O'Brien plays the cello???
Man, they sure forgot that character trait!

He never played again after upstaging Riker at open mic night, since that's how he ended up reassigned to a crumbling Cardassian space station.

That's also why Tom Riker was mad at O'Brien. Make an enemy of one trombonist, make an enemy of them all.

Oh yeah, that’s the episode with the battle droid head. “Roger, “Roger.”

The whole crew played classical instruments and enjoyed listening to each other play. Or put on plays. It was the most boring ship.

Voyager's "Eye Of The Needle" is on.

Funny seeing flesh-Janeway being wavey-hand on the personhood of the EMH knowing she's represented by a hologram on Prodigy now.

That's one thing I liked about Voyager. They took something - the same way you would have - it's just a hologram, and over the course of 7 years, walked the audience through seeing that hologram as a sentient being.

Look at Westworld. Then look at how you play video games - especially Grand Theft Auto. How many dead hookers did you have in your trunk? How many did you punch because the game allowed it? Then look back at human history and how humans still treat other humans.

What you're laughing at is the sole purpose of that storyline in Voyager.

Heard someone advertising something like this with an episode of "The New Girl" and it got me thinking:

We need a podcast that does a "live rewatch" of every Trek episode ever with at least one and preferably 2 or 3 people involved in the making of the episode (increasingly short bench for TOS admittedly)

Basically, you're invited to put the episode on and the pod and listen as they discuss what they remember of making that particular ep. I mean, we're up to, what, around 800 episodes in all now?

Have you heard of https://www.missionlogpodcast.com/

They work for Roddenbury’s son so they’re pretty biased towards a certain point of view. That they hated In the Pale Moonlight is about all you need to know.

I remember thinking how the Battle Droids looked kinda cool when we first started seeing glimpses of them.

Then I actually saw The Phantom Menace, heard them speak, and was just like...