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If anyone is planning on participating in Trektober this year, it would be great to see all your art shared here.

I thought Ira Behr's and Anton Mount's comments were interesting.

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I was lucky enough to see The Search for Spock on the last day and the remaster frankly blew me away, the surround sound was fun but what really stood out was the matte painting backgrounds. I'm not sure what magic they did, but every single one was truly breathtaking. It made me sad I didn't get to see all of them in theaters now.

The stardate is 2179.3. Enterprise is orbiting an M-class moon (later seen labelled Sigma-287D). In Star Trek, M-class (or as established in ENT, Minshara-class) means it is generally Earth-like or habitable by oxygen-breathing humanoids with minimal assistance.

Kirk was stabbed by La’An while she was in the thrall of whatever was aboard the USS Griffin (SNW: “The Griffin Incident”). Coradrazine is a powerful stimulant, which in small doses can save lives, but in large doses can cause psychosis and paranoia (TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”), as M'Benga says here. In that episode, Kirk questioned McCoy’s use of cordrazine on a wounded Sulu, indicating he was familiar with its effects. We see here his first encounter with the drug.

La’An had a romantic interlude with a alternate timeline Kirk in SNW: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, and while Prime Kirk and her shared a connection in SNW: “Subspace Rhapsody”, he was in the “on-phase” of his off-and-on relationship with Carol Marcus at the time. Now, however, both of them are single - La’An ended her relationship with Spock in SNW: “Level-Five Transporter Accident” and Kirk was ghosted by Carol at the end of “The Griffin Incident”.

Altairans are presumably from the Altair system. The star is also known as Alpha Aquilae, part of the constellation Aquila (meaning “eagle”) and in Trek lore has at least six planets. Altair VI is inhabited in TOS: “Amok Time”, and is the origin port for Kobayashi Maru (ST II). Altair III and IV were mentioned in TNG: “Encounter at Farpoint” and DS9: “Prophet Motive”, respectively.

Cadet A’Sha is with the landing party. Uhura mentions that once inside the cave, they’ll lose comms and the ability to transport. Beckett Mariner, who hates caves, sarcastically mentions in LD: “Caves” how rocks can successfully block centuries of technological process, and in LD: “Mining the Mind’s Mines”, she said that it’s not a real day in Starfleet until comms get blocked. How the SOS signal can get through if comms are going to be blocked is a question I leave for the interested viewer.

La’An’s diver’s watch is from the alternate timeline mentioned, given to her by the Pelia of that timeline living c. 2023.

The Klingon War took place during Season 1 of DIS, from 2257-2258. The USS Constitution, NCC-1700, was seen on a chart of ships undergoing repair at Starbase 11 in TOS: “Court Martial”, and presumably is the class ship for the Constitution-class starships of which Enterprise is one. This is the first time it’s been mentioned in on-screen dialogue, her other appearances to date being only in production and background art. Beta canon goes more into the ship’s story.

This is the first appearance of ADM Simon Reeger, played by Joe Morton. Ortegas is said to have helmed Pelanque during the war, presumably named after the Mayan ruins in Southern Mexico. Enterprise was at the Prospero system in SNW: “Under the Cloak of War”, where it was mentioned that Ortegas was stationed near it during the war.

This is the first mention of the Vaardan Massacre, an unprovoked attack that caused 5 million casualties.

Scotty mentions a cloaking system and refers to the Klingons using them. In DIS, the Klingons did use cloaks, which led to somewhat of a tizzy in fan circles because the impression was that cloaks where only used by Romulans at that point and in TOS: “Balance of Terror” the crew did not seem familiar with cloaks. I won’t get into it now, except to say that like many things, fan perception of what is canon isn’t as strong as they might imagine.

Ortegas says that during the Cold War, destroyers would follow enemy submarines via their trash. In the 1965 movie The Bedford Incident, the destroyer Bedford figures out that a Soviet sub they are hunting has been in the water for about 36 hours by analysing the thickness of the potato peels in the garbage it left behind. ADM Reeger commandeers Enterprise, presumably under Starf…

::: spoiler Logline Starfleet commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original orders. :::

Written by: Alan B. McElroy

Directed by: Sharon Lewis

@startrek Has it ever been investigated why we can't look up startrek.website posts through Mastodon? There are so many times I want to share posts but it isn't possible

From the new Le Creuset Star Trek collection.

Tl;Dr - everybody on Voyager lacks the most basic of common security sense, and roams the delta quadrant with the naivety of children. Discuss.

Long version: Let me preface by stating that we've watched all of TNG and DS9, and we're approaching the end of Voyager, so maybe I'm just burned out on Trek's writing in general, but why do so many of Voyager's plots require a complete lack of security common sense to work?

Case in point: we've just watched "Repression", wherein Tuvok has been attacking and mind melding with all of the old Marquis crew, who have now all recovered from their mystery comas and been put straight back on duty. Tuvok is in the brig talking with Janeway. Not only did they let him keep his combadge, but when he uses it to relay a bunch of strange words to Chakotay, who replies that he "understood", Janeway at no point thinks it might be prudent to have Chakotay immediately detained. This leads to a full ship takeover and Janeway almost getting killed.

Then literally the very next episode a random trader is able to straight up steal the doctor out from under everyone's noses. I know the internet was in its infancy when Voyager was created and we were all pretty naive about data security, but come on!

So many plots rely on critical systems being wide open for anyone to tamper with, or crew members lacking the most basic of common sense and/or being way too trusting of complete strangers.

I appreciate that it would be a pretty boring show if everything was locked down and people did their jobs properly, and that I might as well be complaining about the fallacy of Holodeck safety protocols, but I had to get it off my chest!

If it weren't for the fact that it's become a bit of a running joke to point out all of the ways a major plot device could've been avoided I think we'd have stopped watching a couple of seasons ago.

Has Trek always been this way, or is the writing on Voyager just particularly lazy/bad?

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Captain's Log: We are heading toward a sector of the Alpha Quadrant where Hirogens have recently been detected following their arrival after a long journey. They are a race of hunters from the Delta Quadrant, first encountered by the USS Voyager, which discovered and made use of their communications network before later facing them in person on Stardate 51501.4.

We are dealing with hunters who seek prey across the galaxy. Our mission is to neutralize them, repel them, and, if necessary, destroy them. I hope we will not have to resort to extreme measures.

Commander Antos struck up a conversation with Captain Mark.

"Captain, we know very little about the Hirogens and the Breen. Sometimes I find myself wondering about things, like whether they enjoy music as much as we do."

"I don't know, Number One. I don't think the Breen necessarily have helmets designed for listening to music."

"Now that I think about it, don't you play any instruments? On other Federation ships, it's fairly common for crews to form bands during their free time."

"I don't see the point in playing an instrument when you can generate music with a computer without needing one." he replied in a neutral tone.

"Perhaps, but... there's something captivating about doing things the old-fashioned way."

"Not in my case."

Chief of Security David detected signals on his console.

"We're detecting warp signatures heading toward our position. A vessel is approaching."

"On screen." Mark ordered.

"A mixture of ship components... Romulan, Cardassian..." Antos observed.

"Pakleds!" Mark exclaimed. "Pilot, get us out of here."

"We can't move. They're trying to grab us with an amplified tractor beam. I've never seen anything with this much power!" said helmsman Stross.

"Try to establish communications with the Pakled vessel."

"We're receiving a message," said Stross. "Just one word: 'Stay.'"

"I'm detecting that the tractor beam is weakening at impulse speed. If we keep this up, we'll break free without any damage!" David reported.

"Whatever they're looking for, they can't have good intentions. Increase impulse speed."

Just as they were about to break free from the tractor beam, the Pakled vessel launched several spheres that embedded themselves into the USS Mar del Plata.

"Captain," said David, "there are one-meter-diameter spheres that have just attached themselves to the hull, right where the phasers are located."

"They're attempting to establish communications with us." Stross stated.

"They made us wait. Put them on screen."

The typical face of a male Pakled appeared on the screen: grayish-brown skin, vertical eyebrows, and a wrinkled face. He was their captain.

Without hesitation, Mark Epsilon was concise.

"You are violating the integrity of a Starfleet vessel. Do you understand what that means?" Then, in a sterner and more forceful tone, he shouted, "Would you mind telling me what the hell you just did?!"

"I... wouldn't want to ruin any surprises."

"What surprise are you talking about? What you're doing could be considered a threat."

"Threat? We only need help, one way or another. We asked you to stay, but you moved."

"There are ways to ask for assistance, and this isn't one of them. Besides, it's not that we're known for judging people prematurely, but we've already had previous attempts at betrayal from Pakleds. So I suggest you make your intentions clear, or I'll have to order you to leave Federation territory."

"You help Pakleds, Pakleds go."

"We can discuss that in another sector, but not here. We're not safe. There are hunter vessels in the area."

"Help Pakleds, Pakleds go."

"Captain," David said, "I think they're only going to understand the hard way."

"Wait a moment, Captain!" the commander exclaimed. "We don't know how the Pakleds might react if we…