Random Star Trek discussion

What Trek was Missi Pyle in?

Lower Decks. Strange Energies. She's the voice of the interrogator, it seems.

Surely, "Dammit Jim!"

"Damnit, I'm a doctor. Not a sommelier."

So TSFS obviously responds to TWOK with the "needs of the one" now outweighing "needs of the many" bit. But it's just dawned on me that after Kirk declares "I need my pain" in TFF, TUC responds by showing his pain holding him back. He can't fully step forward into the future until he lets go of his son's death enough to trust the Klingon peace process.

Interesting observation.

I don't think this was intentional, however.

Humans are illogical.

Nor do I, but as you say interesting.

So is anger. Just ask Paul.

Prepare to get your fucking nerd on.

"The Mark Of Gideon" is on.
A pro-lifer planet that doesn't even allow birth control, and the whole planet is as cramped with people as a Japanese subway.
Behold the future, Trump voters. Congratulations.

On the other hand, Republicans are all about making sure people die as quickly as possible after they're born, so maybe it'll balance out.

Doug Drexler posted this on his Facebook page this morning.

Funny, in the public access TV episode with Garamet from 1991, they were basically applying these exact rules to the novels.
31 years later, the onscreen canon has gotten so huge and hard to manage, we have to apply it to that too.

That would be fine, but TPTB keep insisting it’s still the same universe and the same continuity and then got pissed when fans called bullshit. Kurtzman and Orci used to get into fights on Trek movie over the Kelvinverse. Kurtzman still gets into fights with YouTubers. Roddenberry himself used to yell at fans at conventions, so it’s not just fans creating this division.

Note the bold.

I read that book a long time ago, and that line affected me. It changed me in how I think about others, and how I feel they may think about me.


And the line actually came from his wife, which also affected how Richard Feynman get about how others think about him. She often said that to him when he was too worried what the people he worked with would think about his ideas.

In "Space Seed," Khan and his people were said to have left Earth in the 1990s. This was after being defeated in a bloody war that started in 1992.

Which means that, unless the writers couldn't do math at all, they were positing that Khan had most likely already been born.

Were there people in 1967 who believed that genetic engineering of humans on this scale was currently going on?

Yup. Remember, Roddenberry was a pilot in WWII and German eugenics experiments were fresh in people’s minds. Ira Levin’s novel about cloning Hitler, The Boys From Brazil, was published in 1976.

3:52 in the attached Youtube video is pretty cool. Shows the Enterprise bridge through its various incarnations.

I actually prefer the colour scheme of the original bridge (Captain Pike) versus the one we got in the series. More muted, but definitely more timeless.

Dafuq does he know? He was only the first person to portray the character. Next thing you know, you'll be trying to tell me that the person who wrote a song knows more about it than the person who hears it.

I did not know that!

If I think about it, it does seem that their (Siddig, McDowell) accents are very similar.

Maybe it's because I have a soap opera as one of my oldest fandoms (and the only one that predates Star Trek! ) and canon is as flexible as a Russian gymnast that it was easier for me to vibe with Enterprise and JJTrek and not give a shit about canon as long as I had fun.

Of course, some things should retain some consistency--i don't expect any of Kira's ancestors to appear on Pike's bridge on SNW, for instance--bur Enterprise wasn't instantly ruined for me just because it took a Warp 5 Engine 3 days to get to Kronos versus 2 weeks in TOS.

If fanfic has taught me anything, it's to get your audience invested in the characters and the rest can come later.

"The Savage Curtain" is on, and it occurs to me, "Marvel's Secret Wars" is basically TSC on a bigger scale with way more characters and a bigger God-being.

Did I post this before?

That moment when everyone realizes that Riker accidentally left his horga'hn next to the tactical console.