Random Star Trek discussion

Since his views came out on Twitter, he needs his partners to be in a hormonally-induced state of insanity in order to get laid.

https://x.com/gineokwkoenig/status/1724149860021219438?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Oh, and I'll wager most folks on this board are older than the character of Archie Bunker was at the start of the series.

Speaking of that, who paid for the cleanup of Earth after WW3?
I'm thinking Vulcan.
Cleaning up the radiation, cloning back the coral and the trees, it all probably cost them quadrillions of Vulcan-bucks.
And remember, the nuclear holocaust wasn't over after Cochrane, the Q judges and the coke-soldiers were a thing into the 2070's.
The Vulcans saw all that shit.
And with their lifespan, it was in living memory.
No wonder they were pissy by the time of ENT.

Well the squirrel costume would be a giveaway.

Riker was pretty hairy, but I don't know what would make him think he was a furry. He might question whether he was into furries...

Here's a "classic":

I’ll see that and raise you this.

This becomes more problematic if we consider that Vegans from Vega are possibly a species in Trek.

"The Darkling".

Hey, yeah, they started putting sexy jumpsuits on Kes before Seven was even a thing.
We were getting jumpsuit wrapped lady flesh one way or the other.

The "No Smoking" signs on the bridge in TWoK are rather dated now.

I've got a question for you:
What's DeForrest looking at in this scene?



Several times he steals quick glances in the direction of the camera before Kirk sits down. Was he watching the director for some reason? Reading cue cards?

Here's a Trek question: Have any of the Federation era (so, from Enterprise on) computers had a mouse connected to them? There were zero mice in TWoK, which isn't surprising, since they weren't really a computer accessory most people knew about in 1981 (when the movie was made), yet by the time TVH was released (1986), they were common enough that Scotty dealt with one. I can't think of a single instance of any future Trek (TNG, DS9, etc.) where we actually saw folks in the future using mice. Kinda odd. Since in the nearly 40 years since TVH, we haven't gotten rid of computer mice.

"The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" had them using Theremin fields.
Quite a backslide back to hard buttons.
But mice? Nope.
One assumes the (TNG era) touchscreens are precise enough to act like laptop mice.

Kirk left his Pornhub tab open on his laptop.
Come on, it's Kirk.

That conical case?



And here's what it looked like when not painted up.

From seeing them for sale by military surplus outfits I recognized the use of sonobuoy cases as props throughout the series run of TNG.



Apparently they used them as far back as TMP.