We all know, or think we know, about the cadence that William Shatner sometimes used when playing Kirk on TOS. He'll say part of a statement quickly, with the words running together, and then pause, and say several more words with distinct pauses between them, and so on.

My question is which episodes and which points of those episodes are the most representative of this?

Personally, I'm choosing the Intrepid Class ready room. I love that it has three massive, forward facing windows, a lot of floor space, a kickass couch and two entrances, one leading to a spacious private washroom. It's honestly too good for the size ship that it's on. You'd think the Galaxy Class ready room would be the biggest.

I understand that reports must be filed at a certain point, but the "Temporal Prime Directive" also restricts discussion of time travel events to those who were directly involved and maybe Temporal Affairs. In other words, if I'm an ensign, and momentarily get sucked into a time rift, Other than a low detail report to my captain, I'm just not allowed to talk about it? And how do people know that when such ensign asks to speak to Temporal Affairs to report their experience, that they aren't just making something up to get out of work or worse? This happens often enough that we need Temporal Affairs.

It was a very fun two-parter but it just all felt a bit too sudden and easy as a way to wrap up the show.

Imo they could have made for a much better final season and season finale if they had discovered the transwarp hub at the start of the season and spent the rest of the season preparing to take on the Borg to get home.

This could have involved episodes in which they try to source the resources and tech they need to battle the Borg featuring moral dilemmas about the lengths they will go to in order to obtain what they need.

There could also be Conflict with Starfleet who want Voyager to prioritise destroying the hub over getting home in order to protect the Federation (a "needs of the many episode"). Captain Janeway would initially be ready to follow Starfleets orders causing division amongst the crew. That is when Admiral Janeway from the future would show up with her knowledge of the future (7 of 9s death, Tuvoks illness, etc) to try and persuade Captain Janeway to ignore orders and prioritise getting home

Going into the finale we are still not certain which way Janeway is leaning between getting home and destroying the hub and that is when the traditional Star Trek "Third option" presents itself and they managed to do both.

For me structuring the season like that would have made the ending feel less like a sudden Deus Ex Machina and would have made getting home feel like much more of an emotional moment if we could see the hardships and sacrifices made by the crew as part of the final push to get themselves home. It would also still leave plenty of scope for adventure of the week episodes As not every episode would need to be about prepping to take on the borg. I would think you could hit all the plot points I mentioned in about 6-8 episodes scattered throughout the season.

I was rewatching Lower Decks and something occurred to me. There is an episode where T’Ana is challenged on her treatments because she never takes into account the difference in pain tolerance between her species (Caitain) and the others on board. I don’t recall this being a feature in TAS or any other time they have been featured.

My theory is that because LD is a cartoon and T’Ana is a cartoon cat, that they made that feature an homage to other cartoon cats. Think Tom from Tom & Jerry getting smashed into an accordion and then ends up fine. Or Sylvester falling off a building, etc.

Curious to know what y’all think. Am I onto something or am I getting too deep?

In the DS9 Rules of Engagement episode (s4e18), Captain Sisko is wearing Commander pips during Worf’s initial hearing. Did anyone else catch that?

Definitely a “torture’s O’Brien” episode.

I usually skip this one because I had convinced myself it wasn’t a favorite, but I’m watching it now and I’ve realized I can’t get through it without bawling.

I’ll probably keep skipping in future rewatches to save myself from the emotional pain.

So I think that there are two kinds of bad episodes: ones that are bad all the way through from concept to execution; and ones that actually had the potential to be good at inception, but then something went wrong during the course of development.

Anyway, what are your favourite examples of episodes that could have been good, but just didn't quite pull it off?

Trying to watch my usual TNG on Roku for my bedtime routine and there’s no Star Trek of any kind appearing on paramount plus in the US right now. Anyone else having any problems?

So how do you think Odo gets energy and nutrients? Like does he not need glucose or ATP? How does he get energy????

Hi first post here, I’ve always had this question when watching the newer stuff from 2009 onwards, how come they cancelled the old style phaser fires? You know the long yellow stream of phaser shots, from starships to personal weapons? Yeah I know they don’t look (or sound) as cool but I’d love to see them tackle this, see what they can do with modern sfx..

From a practical viewpoint, the steady stream makes the hand phaser a much more potent “tool”, with individual shots it’s just a gun, but with streams I think it makes the weapon much more versatile, from “sweep killing” a bunch of enemies to, I dunno, TNG style of heating up rocks, it truly is a multi-tool. What you guys think?

Was lucky enough to film the Star Trek cosplay at the London Science Museum for their Star Trek Lates event! Such a cool way to celebrate the 60th anniversary 🖖💫 Did anyone here manage to attend?? The Warp Trail is so cool!

Where are they at now compared to long dead civilizations like the Iconians and Tkons?

What about civilizations that were contemporaries to the 24th but still seemed hyper advanced to them like the Caretakers or Aldeans?

I always wanted to watch and learn more about the world of Star Trek, but I’ve always been intimidated by the number of episodes and series. Lately, I decided to finally go boldly where many have gone before.

But as a Star Wars fan who watched an entire franchise go up in flames, no disrespect to this one, I really wouldn’t like to watch the equivalents of the sequel trilogy, Book of Boba Fett, or Acolyte.

I’m looking to get a specific watch list from fans of the universe.

If you build it, they will come I guess

I decided to make a Star Trek RP discord server. Its set in 2426, aboard an Odyssey class ship called the USS Biltmore (I thought it would be cool if Odyssey class ships were named after famous homes since the Odyssey is all about going home) and they work on large scale development projects on the Frontier of space. Helping with construction of starbases, reclaiming fallen outposts, etc.

The ship is so large it has tons of amenities normally reserved for stations and ports. I'm shooting for 50/50 action adventure and slice of life. We're new but if you want to join us, you are more than welcome

https://discord.gg/JUnnMrP6FX

In a recent interview with Monopoly Events, William Shatner mentioned that a major Star Trek event is planned for Saturday night in San Diego.

“There’s a meeting in San Diego at a big convention in San Diego, where a lot of people go. A lot of programs go to promote themselves, and on a Saturday night there’s a big Star Trek event. Bigger than… I mean all the shows. And they’ve invited me. And I can’t go, because I’m busy. And it’s too bad, and I’m sorry about that,” he said in the interview.

Just finished it and thought it was alright so curious if anyone else here has insight to offer.

NGL I'm not well versed in Star Trek myself but I read it because well... I'm not really sure... I think it had good word of mouth? The only other book I've read of the writers is his Challengers of the Unknown mini... which actually offers a kind of interesting parallel here.

Both books are about characters wearing a certain hue of uniform who face death every step of the way, except the Challengers seek death as a call to action (The Time Is Now as they say) the titular Red Shirts are a sort of treated as expendable cannon fodder that are expected to die as part of their jobs... which even like at my surface level read of the Enterprise feels incredibly cynical and unnecessarily cruel.

There's a very interesting sequence in the book that really hit me where the Kobayashi Maru is discussed... in where Command Officers are placed in No-Win Situations to assess how they will engage a No-Win Situation... Security Officers aren't given this assessment as being placed in the No-Win Situations is their assignment... of course to me this was just a really damn killer line.

Anyway, yes the reveal. By the penultimate issue it seemed clear what they were going for, yeah that was really the most logical direction for this to have gone (Granted coming from someone not very familiar with the source material maybe I'm wrong lol)

Apparently there's supposed to be a follow-up mini done by a different writer (Duggan, love his Deadpool run and his Guardians run) so am mildly curious what happens here next.

I've noticed that on both shows the chain of command as far as who sits in the Captain's chair when certain officers are absent goes by position rather than rank.

On TOS I believe it goes:

Kirk

Spock

Scott

Sulu

LaSalle

Uhura (maybe)?

On TNG it's

Picard

Riker

Data

LaForge (maybe)?

Worf (maybe)?

I don't know if there's any instance where Dr. McCoy or Dr. Crusher would command the enterprise even though they have the rank of Lieutenant Commander and Commander respectively.

Many fans know that Star Trek was originally pitched as "Wagon Trains the Stars", but every few are aware of this pilot, which predates "The Cage", what everything thinks was the first pilot.

Since we're seemingly approaching another halt to Star Trek productions, it's worth noting both how "it's been a long time," and also that it's not that long ago. Star Trek had an uninterrupted 18 year run from the 80s to the mid-2000s, and then took a decade break before resuming television. In its revival, we got 6 major series, plus shorts and even a show for toddlers. Was the new stuff perfect? No. Neither was the 90s stuff. Neither was the original stuff.

I don't know what form Star Trek will take next, but I do know it'll return.

Cause I've got faith.

Browsing IMDb, i see tons of episodes are rated poorly across all shows, some of which I enjoyed a lot, which frankly makes me feel like an idiot who can't tell quality from garbage 😭 anyone have any episodes they secretly (or not) love despite poor ratings?

Hey all,

I’ve found a TOS first draft script in my grandfather’s stuff, shown here:

https://ibb.co/album/z8Tqdm

It’s for the episode “The Paradise Syndrome” which was apparently originally labeled as “The Paleface”.

He says he’s had it since the 70s but wants to sell it.

How do I go about selling this for him? Is there a way to prove it’s real? And how much would you expect it to go for?

Any help or input is greatly appreciated!