Your thoughts more or less match my own. Some really good concepts and actors were mostly wasted on lacklustre execution. As a Trekkie, I’m especially disappointed that Jeri Ryan was so underutilized. She could have killed as a vampire if she were given a little more to do.

I did catch the first sequel, and appreciated its use of some of the less celebrated lore like

though how that’s supposed to tie into the

backstory I really don’t know.

Also a final opportunity to emphasize anything that went well in the interview, or downplay/explain anything that didn’t.

Anyone who’s judgementally dismissing applicants for not sending a thank you is an asshole, but this does not change the fact that sending a thank you is a good idea if you actually want to get the job.

I think it’s great fun to try and puzzle these things out, as a fan. I also think it’s mind numbingly tedious to sit through an entire professionally produced episode designed to do it for us. Trials and Tribble-ations handled the matter perfectly.

I’m with you, Star Trek V is a good time. The closest you’ll get to an episode of TOS translated to the big screen.

Nemesis is the one I’d pin as the bottom of the barrel.

Nick Locarno was a name Tom Paris went by for a while to distance himself from his father. I don’t care what Lower Decks had to say about it.

Q was Trelane all grown up. We’ll see if this holds up after SNW season 3 comes out.

Data always had emotions, he just didn’t understand them. Lore never had emotions, he was faking it.

Spot was a robot who underwent a series of upgrades throughout the series, and Data applied the lessons he learned from that to the development of his daughter.

Still better than Musk Junior High.

Yeah, like I say, it’s pretty nitpicky. I’d probably collapse everything from TSFS to Kelvin into one, if I were being more lax. I don’t find the Kelvin design to be all that different from what came before, but I do find TMP to be really distinct in comparison. But I know some people who seem to be the exact opposite on that, so 🤷

I’d say there are up to 8 designs, depending on how much you want to nitpick:

• TOS: Smooth. Unnaturally smooth.
• TMP: Single column ridge with hair on either side. Behind the scenes the concept was that the spinal column continued up from the back all around the head.
• TSFS: Ridges cover the forehead, are wider and flatter, and have a continuous hairline behind them. Female Klingons have substantially less pronounced ridges.
• TUC: Chang has those same less pronounced ridges. Maybe it’s not a male/female thing. Or maybe Chang is trans?
• TNG: Those less pronounced ridges are gone. Male and female Klingons both get roughly the same degree of lumpyness.
• Kelvin: Ridges look flatter and more pleated. I don’t think we see any hair, but it’s been a while.
• Disco: Coneheads, quadruple nostrils, and no hair.
• Disco S2: Partial retcon as the Klingons start growing their hair in and the heads appear less conical.
• Picard/SNW: Fully revert to the TNG era look. Doesn’t count since it isn’t a new design.

I adore SNW, but honestly, “always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it” seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.

The Enterprise.

I mean, her or Yvonne Craig.

Whale hunting quietly abated after word of a giant gravity-defying demon bird started making its rounds…

Yeah, it’s one of those “it’s weird that it happened twice” situations. Not to mention TMP was just a mash up of The Changeling and One of Our Planets is Missing. At a certain point it feels like the characters should be asking each other why they keep experiencing the same situations over and over…

That’s just a normal Star Trek plot. Hell, that’s toned down for normies compared to half the stuff they get up to in any given series. At least it’s an alien looking probe and not a giant green hand or space Lincoln.

Picard as Professor X?

I dunno, I just can’t picture it…

• Superman - Picard (idealistic morality, raised in an agrarian setting)
• Batman - Worf (dead parents, emotional regulation issues, practically a cop)
• Wonder Woman - Troi (emotionally grounded, domineering royal mother)
• Aquaman - Riker (best with a beard)
• Flash, Cyborg, and Green Arrow I’ll leave as in the meme (although isn’t that last spot usually held by Green Lantern?)

Here’s the old Joshua Bell FAQ explanation:

“So can you take things off of the Holodeck?”

Yes. Any object replicated on the Holodeck may leave. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to tell what is replicated, and what is not. Snow, such as the snowball thrown by Wesley in “The Naked Now” is easily replicated, and dampness is hard to simulate. The book thrown by Picard in “Ship In A Bottle” [TNG] would be easily simulated by force beams and thus was not replicated.

The paper in “Elementary, Dear Data” [TNG] was likely simulated until the computer realized that it was going to be carried off the Holodeck, at which point it would have been seamlessly replaced with a replicated copy.

What?

Fair enough, that is pretty solid logic. I’ll leave the heartfelt meme alone now.

That’s a very good point, but I feel like it would just lead to an argument about which series (DS9) is somehow objectively “best” (it’s DS9), and that’s really not the sort of argument I’m here to start (because it’s obviously DS9).

It’s spelt M’egh.