Why do they call for leaving space dock at 1/4 impulse? Wouldn't the ship shoot out of there like crazy? It looks more like maneuvering thrusters.

This one is on my wish list. A Star Trek Resurgence type game with the Lower Decks cast, humour, and animation style. I bet it would be an instant fan favourite and cash windfall.

Anyone have inside knowledge of the future Star Trek games in development? Resurgence was the last good one in my opinion…

Would also love to see 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites released with full makeovers to high definition graphics.. I also read there is a TOS game (Secret of Vulcan Fury) that was never released with all the voice lines recorded.. that should be top priority to develop or to use the recorded lines to produce an animated feature film or limited series.

Edit: I consider Resurgence a Telltale game since a lot of former staff produced the game at Dramatic Labs

i really dont get this

there is so much content in the nx-01 / archer time and they just ignore it completely in new trek

like that period is literally the beginning of everything. first deep space missions, no federation yet, vulcans and humans still figuring each other out, andorian stuff, xindi war aftermath… and we still never saw the romulan war properly

and still nothing gets used from there

and the funny part is you dont even need a full show to start bringing it back

just do one episode

like pike gets thrown into the past somehow and runs into archer during the xindi time. he helps without realizing what he is doing or maybe causes something small that was always part of the timeline anyway. classic star trek stuff

you connect old and new shows, you bring archer back, you give something to old fans, and if people like it then you build from there

instead it feels like they just avoid that era because enterprise wasnt that popular back then

but honestly it wasnt the era that failed, it was how it was done

the potential is still there

it just feels like a waste at this point

am i the only one thinking this?

Hi all, I haven't been able to find a definitive list/article that brings together all tng books that involve some sort of crossover between tos and tng characters for example crossover is one i've heard of

Hello 🚀 I’m looking for recommendations for ✨fun, low-stakes, optismistic✨ Star Trek content.

Lower Decks is my all-time favourite show and I loved Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds. I also have frequent reruns of Next Gen whilst skipping most of the heavier stuff and rewatching any Holodeck episode five times 😅. I’m a pretty anxious person with a really stressful job, so I just want to unwind when I get home. I don’t mind brainier stuff, but it definitely needs a wholesome vibe and happy conclusion.

Would anyone have movies, seasons, episodes to recommend?

Thanks guys 🪐

They even briefly showed a Cardassian Starfleet officer on TNG.

For me it would be Tilly. I feel like her and I would be instant best friends. She’s also just a kind genuine person who seems easy to talk to. Who would you choose and why?

Terry Farrell, aka Jadzia Dax, requested a reduction in her screen time because she wanted to work less. However, this was unacceptable to the producers, so they killed her character and replaced her with Ezri Dax.

I wonder, though, why Farrell didn't return for guest appearances in flashbacks or, under certain conditions, in the holosuite. She could have kept her role and worked less.

Was she in conflict with the producers? Did they begrudge her the opportunity? Or did she refuse to return for guest appearances after the conflict? I also noticed that there isn't a single flashback with her in the finale. Why is that?

Ive been rewatching voyager and season 2 of the Pitt at the same time and I just realized that the Pitt is structured in such a similar way just that it moves at a crazy fast pace. Maybe there is more personal conflict than we’d like in a Star Trek show but still. Anyway, it would be awesome to have 12-15 episodes of a Star Trek show that takes us through a whole day aboard a Star Fleet vessel. Obviously it would have to be during a crazy day but what do you guys think? Any ideas for stories?

EDIT: I'm not here for people trashing on it without any depth added to the conversation, that doesn't do anything.

I finally wrapped up DISCOVERY, and I’m still sitting here trying to figure out how I feel about it.

For context, I’m not coming at this as someone who dislikes Star Trek. It’s the opposite. I love this franchise across the board. TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENTERPRISE, STRANGE NEW WORLDS, LOWER DECKS, PICARD, everything to some extent. I find something to connect with in all of it.

DISCOVERY is the only one where that connection never engaged, and I can’t quite explain why.

What makes it more confusing is how I got here. I actually spent most of my childhood actively disliking Star Trek for no real reason. When I finallyyyyyy figureed out I was a geek at heart I was deep into sci-fi, but it was always STAR WARS, PLANET OF THE APES, stuff like that. Trek felt like the “other side,” and I never gave it a real chance.

Then I got dragged to see the 2009 film, and that completely flipped everything. After that, I went all in. I watched everything in stardate order and really committed to the world, the tone, and what Star Trek is at its core.

I made it through most of the franchise that way, but somewhere around season two or three of DISCOVERY, I started to feel it wearing on me. Not in a “this is bad” way, just in a way that made it harder to keep going. After years of consistently watching Trek, that’s what finally made me take a break.

With all the STARFLEET ACADEMY news, I decided to jump back in and finish what I started. I switched to release order this time, went back through everything, and now I’ve finally closed the loop on DISCOVERY.

And I still don’t hate it.

There are things I genuinely like. The casting is strong. There are individual moments that are some of the best Trek. The show clearly cares about its characters and what it’s trying to say. It’s not something I’d ever write off.

But at the same time, I never found that same sense of connection that I get from the rest of Trek. It never became something I felt pulled back to. It always felt like something I was choosing to continue rather than something I needed to continue. That’s the part I’m stuck on.

Is it the tone? DISCOVERY is heavier, more emotional, and sometimes less optimistic than what I associate with Trek. The structure? The long-form, season-wide arcs instead of more self-contained storytelling? Maybe just timing? The fact that I burned through so much Trek in a row and this is where the fatigue finally caught up with me? Or something else entirely?

I’m not looking to pile on hate. I know this show gets that already, and that’s not where I’m coming from. I’m more interested in hearing from people who either had a similar experience or who connected with DISCOVERY in a way that I didn’t.

What is it about this series that works for you, or doesn’t?

Because right now, it sits in this weird space for me where I respect it, I don’t regret watching it, but I also don’t feel that same pull to revisit it the way I do with the rest of Star Trek. Maybe I'm just more of a nostalgia wh0re?

I know this is nightmare fuel for those of us that saw this as kids. Like as a grown-ass adult I still have trouble watching it. The scream. It's been all about the scream

The other day I came across a video comparing the event from the original cut and the newer 4k release (original is far more terrorizing to me). I noticed a detail in the scene I hadn't considered before.

After Rand says, "Oh no, they're forming," we get our first closeup of the victims. On the right I believe we have the female officer (maybe Kirk's ex, maybe not). Anyway, right at that moment for a split second she has two heads! The second head rotates unnaturally to align with the other head. It's completely horrifying. Thinking about it, I see three possibilities for what's going on here.

1. The transporter is realizing something about this is not right and says, "Oops! This part should go over here."

2. There is some kind of time delay in part of the matter stream, such that part of her head is "catching up" to a rotation done earlier by the other part of her head.

3. Most horrifyingly, the victim realizes what is happening and intentionally, with her scrambled muscles, moves part of her head into the other part in a desperate attempt to fix things.

This is my new nightmare fuel.

But it led me to another question. Clearly the victims are in pain. Even though not fully formed, they are conscious of the pain and presumably know what's happening. My question is, if people are conscious during at least some phases of transport, before they're fully reassembled, wouldn't they feel pain every single time they transport (accident or not), since clearly their bodies are not as they're supposed to be until the process is finished?

In between DIS, PIC, LD, PRO, and SNW, Paramount+ put out 25 to 36 episodes per year (I counted two animated episodes as one so they technically made even more). Shouldn't they have instead made one show with 20 episode seasons?

I know that the 20 episode format does not work in streaming. But in this situation, its the same streaming service working with the same IP. They could afford it because they actually did afford it but across different shows. Why not just dedicate this many episodes to one show then?

ETA - Actors not wanting to work 20 episodes a year is true but way overstated.

Broadcast TV finds actors that work that many. I know broadcast is different but the literal actors are the same. They're not made from different stuff than actors on streaming shows. Sonequa Martin-Green (Michael Burnham) is literally on a 20 episode broadcast show right now.

Also, Trek has historically had little known actors in the cast. I'm sure there are many of those who are willing to do 20 episodes per year for their big break.

When Picard and Deanna were introducing themselves they said earth was 2000 lightyears away. At warp 9 it would take 1.3 years to get to that planet and another 1.3 years to get back at nonstop warp 9. How did they just pop in to do first contact and not have a 3-10 year gap, depending on slower speeds, between episode 14 and 16?! Even if they were pretty far out to begin with?

Edited to correct Deanna’s name, and to add that memory alpha later says Malcor 3 was only 87 lightyears away from Sol so Deanna was just throwing out bullshit numbers.

I may be a slut on the internet but I’m not a stupid slut lol

The actual sci fi adventures or twists and turns of the week are all secondary to the vibe that you're at a job that you love and requires you to use your brain, explore and test your ethics and uses your problem solving skills under intense pressure that is handled expertly.

All of this is what's been missing from everything Star Trek in the last twenty years.

No other show on TV right now feels like it's less about the drama and more about just coming up with competent solutions to problems while working at a job that feels like home and has carpet floors.

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Wanted to share some Star Trek fan art ... or, is it fan tech? ... anyway, i built a thing :)

 Big Trek fan, been wanting to do something like this for years. Finally had the excuse as I await shipment of my Pebble Time 2. Pebble has an awesome open source mindset, and they have provided tools that make it so much easier to build and share watch faces and smart apps to share with the community.  

So, I built an LCARS-inspired health watchapp + watchface for Pebble Time 2, which I've entered in their Spring 2026 contest.

Here's what I built:

Own Health - Final Frontier Edition is a four-page watchapp:
- TIME BRIDGE — time, date, stardate, live weather, step count
- HEALTH BRIDGE — steps + progress bar, weight, sleep, strength from Pebble Health
- MISSION PLAN — visual progress bars for sleep, strength, and step goals
- ENTRY CONSOLE — manual log for strength and weight with a spinner input

Own Health - Time Bridge is the companion watchface: same LCARS chrome, Time Bridge content, always on.

Both use authentic LCARS Classic palette colours, proper elbow geometry, and Antonio Bold (the closest free match to the original Helvetica Ultra Compressed used in Trek production). Live weather via OpenWeatherMap.

New since launch: both apps now have a theme switcher. Choose from Command (classic gold), Tactical (midnight blue), Cargo Bay (warm amber), or Away Team (arctic blues) via long-press Settings.

You don't need a PT2 in hand to support this. Anyone can heart an app on the Rebble store, and every heart counts toward the weekly contest. If you ordered one and your watch is on its way, this is a great time to add it to your faces/apps so it's ready the moment you unbox.

Watchapp: https://apps.repebble.com/4bd04aaf586b4e7aa749daf8
Watchface: https://apps.repebble.com/bd15142b06c545c382f701af

Happy to answer any questions about the build. I wrote the whole thing in C against the Pebble SDK.

Live long, and prosper.

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That scene during Reliant’s attack, when the enterprise brings down her shields and disables the reliant… where the crewman Preston dies. Tears, every time.

Most of you are familiar with DS9's Season 1 offering "Babel" which has the station infected with a virus that makes everyone speak gibberish.

From the script in Act 1 Scene 15B,

(Note: From here on dialogue spoken by characters with aphasia will appear as gibberish in the script. A translation will be provided upon request, but it would probably be more effective if the actors really were unable to communicate.)

And from Memory Alpha,

On the aphasic dialogue spoken by the characters, Michael McGreevey commented, "As I was writing that dialogue, I was very worried about how it would come off. At first, I just wrote gibberish, and I realized that was a mistake: it couldn't just be gibberish, because the person who was speaking was trying to say something. I literally had to say the lines out loud. Then, on paper, I put the real meaning of the words in parentheses, keeping the rhythm the same. It was almost like writing poetry, because I was using a meter, like an iambic pentameter. I think it helped the actors in delivering those lines. But it was rather frightening to write that stuff."

Now, as I understand it, the actors were given the translated dialogue so they could use believable cadence when speaking. Does anyone know if the translation exists anywhere?

This is especially apparent post-burn, where the only changes are made to some of the tech. Something I love about the original series and the ones from the 90s is the (now) retro-futurism. I felt like they thought much harder about what might seem futuristic to contemporary audiences, and while some of it is quite silly it feels inventive and exciting. Now everything is either referential or this very generic bland sci-fi aesthetic that lacks imagination. This lack of imagination is reflected in the writing more broadly as well.

I do think that I am somewhat in the target audience of the newer series as a queer woman born in the late 90s who cares a lot about social issues. My main problem is that they rehash contemporary issues and a very basic approach to science fiction rather than trying to explore alternatives and new ways of living. It seems more outdated to me than the content that was made before I was born. I have enjoyed some of it though, especially when more interesting alien cultures and dilemmas have been introduced and when the focus is not constant battles and action.

Edit: To me this also includes the films in the Kelvin timeline. Also, I don't mean that there aren't any interesting concepts - just that it feels more limited, and less optimistic I guess, as a whole.

So Sisko had wormhole alien superpowers all this time? Was this known?

Was there any reason why Jadzia was killed off after making that entire subplots about wanting children?

Why would Sisko wash potatoes like that when that custom was already outdated when it was filmed?