I probably come off sounding more critical than I really was or am, but I love the NX-01. After the TOS Enterprise and the Movie Refit it's my favorite Enterprise design.
And like Erica Ortegas and La'an, I love grapplers.
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x05 – “Series Acclimation Mil”
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And like Erica Ortegas and La'an, I love grapplers.
Ive call still call TOS star trek. Its the only show that has that name alone exceot for the 2009 movie.
Star trek voyager I say STV. In universe? Do you mean in the shows?
Sorry but DIS makes no sense to me. Ive evrn seen people yse DISCO or DISC. There is official way. STD makes more sense so.thats what I prefer. Same with STP for the picard show.
It's not the sheer volume of talk, it's more the nature of it. In SFA, it's more characters standing around talking about stuff in the confines of the school. Which makes sense given the series' premise.
In previous shows, there's plenty of talking but it's more often while they're actively doing something, like exploring, investigating, and solving problems.
Yeah, it's it built into this show and it's not totally my cup of tea. YMMV.
Lower Decks calls it Voy https://searchtrek.org/search/all/voy/0 (the "Resistance" reference is Janeway being interrupted mid-word)
Let's toast ENT!I probably come off sounding more critical than I really was or am, but I love the NX-01. After the TOS Enterprise and the Movie Refit it's my favorite Enterprise design.
And like Erica Ortegas and La'an, I love grapplers.
And while we're at it, a toast to La'an and Erica Ortegas.
(Ortegas truly loves her job, which is not often seen in our Starfleet officers. I really appreciate seeing that.)
Let's toast ENT!
And while we're at it, a toast to La'an and Erica Ortegas.
(Ortegas truly loves her job, which is not often seen in our Starfleet officers. I really appreciate seeing that.)
Too bad it took 3 full seasons for ortegas to get her own story. I suspect we won't see another episode with her the rest of the series. With such a large cast they needed to have more episides.
For all the people who crow about "short episode seasons being perfect because it means no filler", they really don't seem to understand that "filler" is usually where the best episodes of a series come from.
Because filler is what lets you expand the stories around secondary characters.
More episodes sounds awful.
Time travel is at least regulated, and at most out right illegal.
24th century, earlier, Federation had no reliable/safe method of time travel. What the Department of Temporal Affairs did was snoop, ask questions, and then put anything that was not supposed to be in present day in a very secure vault before some one underhanded did something unconscionable.
As far as the 32nd century is concerned, doesn't it seem like the Federation maybe lost the Temporal Cold War? The Alpha Quadrant was a fucking mess, and the regular little people for the most part wouldn't have noticed much difference if they had been raised in the middle ages.
It's like when Rome said "Oh that's cute, you tried to pick us off and be a boss? Well, that didn't work out so well, did it? So how about we level your cities, kill all your male children, and salt the Earth so that nothing will grow in your city for the next thousand years, and the universe will know forever-after that you are the most massive assortment of losers ever."
Oh, Daniels is still alive?
Alive and impotent.
Don't you wonder why?
It's pronounced "Fuller".
But it wasn't two hundred years ago.
And time traveling historians were a proven thing.
Not really, the Calypso teaser made it clear he's part of a secret temporal agency of some kind that's controlling the direction of history for it's own nefarious ends.
In no way did it make that clear
During the burn? Time travel in another galaxy still effects the milky way and vice versus, eventually.
Barly.
Berlinghoff Rasmussen was fake, and the "historian" Berlinghoff stole his time shuttle from was fake too, since his actual job was to feed Berlinghoof the tools he needed to close a causal loop.
Daniels himself in Enterprise was a soldier and a police man who required a masters in history to get shit done, so yes he was a historian, but that's not why he was there to watch Archer die. Later when Daniels was showing Archer the Web of time, he said something like "historians with permits, who obey the temporal accords."
The only other temporal Historian we have seen throughout all canon Star Trek who was there just for the love of science, was Jim Kirk in Assignment Earth, and I'm calling shenanigans on that since the (head) Supervisors cleared the board moments before Jim joined the circus.
Controlling the future, from the present isn't special.
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"We've made time travel illegal."
Time traveler: "If only there were some way around this."
Temporal accord = time law.
Temporal cold war = argument about time law.
Temporal prime directive = more time law.
Department of temporal affairs = Time cops.
The Burn was 120 years ago not 200.
That's non-canon.
And you're forgetting about the Enterprise Time Pod.
Yeah... Given how easy Time Travel is in Star Trek you'd really think everyone and their mothers would be trying to undo the Burn now that Starfleet announced where, when, and how it happened.
Right. The guy at starfleet hq waiting was in a white bright room with chairs and tables with no legs. It looked way more advanced than what SFA is showing us. They are back to using plastic patio chairs in places like the cafeteria. They also eat food out of metal tins. The aesthetic is totally different.
If they would have kept that look I wouldn't have complained so much.
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That’s a neat detail. Plus the UI appears to be be Lost era appropriate
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We see a photo of baby Ben Sisko in the Sisko Museum in #StarfleetAcademy's "Series Acclimation Mil". It features the Starfleet Medical emblem, my favourite Starfleet logo on #StarTrek. 😄 https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/medical_emblem.htm
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That's the episode.
The Time Police waited until the Picard Adventure was over, to pinch Rasmussen's stuff, when they could have as easily shut him down before he arrived.
Some squint with a badge had Berlinhoff Rasmussen on a leash from the moment he was conceived.
Whatever an Enterprise Time Pod is, google doesn't think it's actually called an Enterprise Time Pod, so I don't see why I should remember it either.
I have taken a lot of time to digest this episode. I may not talk about it much, but I'll go on record as saying that DS9 is probably the most foundational property of my youth. Growing up, my father was a very mean man, who took out his anger on me. What I didn't have in real life, I had in Benjamin Sisko. Some of my few moments of agency as a child were watching DS9, and sitting at my little desk pretending to be Sisko writing station reports and acting out scenarios. Years later this would evolve into a very deep love of all Trek, not just DS9.
I began writing poetry, yelling out into the void my emotions from all the abuse I suffered. I listened to more music that I wanted to. When I finally started a re-watch in 2020, I started to realize the connections that were made in my youth and how they manifested. I realized all that I had taken in my youth, and hidden it away, deep inside me so it wouldn't be hurt. When I started to re-watch DS9, that capsule was unlocked and all the small connections, my love of cooking, baseball, poetry, hell even lounge jazz were connected back to this show. My deepest held values on equality, kindness, compassion, self understanding, all stemmed from my escapism as a child.
Ben Sisko, and by extension Avery Brooks, stepped up for me where my father wouldn't, or couldn't, and gave me the lessons I needed for adulthood. He taught me to stand up for myself, and others, with a fire unlike any other. He taught me to value life, difference, and justice. He showed me what it means to be a good Father, and a good partner. He taught me to love everyone in my own self-made, ragtag, actually loving family, full-throated and with a forkfull of good food.
For a scared, mixed-race kid, he meant more to me at the time than I think I could possibly comprehend until I was much older. I have always wanted to live up to Ben Sisko's, and Avery Brook's, example.
This episode had me in tears through probably 50% of it, and the other 50% was me excitedly pointing out how SAM was subtly following in Sisko's footsteps, perhaps not in the way she wanted, but in the way she needed, or laughing at the inanity of Nahla trying to troll-help Kelrec. I 100% believe the Doctor was partially behind that, he must not like Kelrec very much either lol. My wife is fairly new to Star Trek, and to prep, we watched Trials and Tribbleations and Take me out to the Holosuite, and both were the perfect set up for this episode. I love the quirky intro with SAM, showing how she percieves the world, and how she's basically metabolizing years of culture and trying out different things to see if they fit.
Cirroc's parts were truly beautiful and moving, and easily the highlight of the episode. I was not expecting to see him come back, but I am so glad that he did. My personal interpretation of what Jake said was that Ben both did and didn't come back. He exists out of time, so the same Ben that would be watching over SAM could in the next moment go back to Bajor and his family. The two aren't mutually exclusive, and to me, Jake's words were meant to imply that Ben did come back in some capacity, even if the very act of him coming back isn't truly him "returning" because he's outside of time. He could, and probably did, live out a quiet life with his family on Bajor. I think this is also why the family tree seems to be incomplete, now that we know Dax had Anslem this entire time, it's entirely possible she knew Ben came back and worked to keep that as secret as possible, up to and including altering records as needed. There's no way the Siskos get any peace with knowledge that the Emissary is back out there, people will bother them, so it makes sense for it to be kept extremely quiet. I'm pretty sure the only ones who would even know he's back would be his closest crewmates.
I'm also of the mind that Jake's visit wasn't just a reconstruction via SAM. He closed the book, and physically interacted with her. The lighting also had a very Porphet-y feel to it. Part of me wants to believe that it was just SAM, but a large part of me also very much believes that Jake actually visited her. I think Dax's line about knowing how to use the book backs this up.
I was taken completely out of left field by the Dax reveal, though, to the point I nearly shot out of my seat and yelled "SHE'S A DAX!". Her appearing to be a Cardassian threw me off, I thought she was a descendant of Garak or Dukat, or perhaps just a random Cardassian who's WAY to into history and historical figures. Yes, even the mannerisms and beets didn't tip me off!
I'm sorta happy for that though, because it lead into the wonderful voiceover by Avery, and the credits with that beautiful theme from DS9. I don't think I stopped crying from the time Jake's part started, to the end of the credits.
Simply put, this episode was a masterclass in how to do Tribute TV. Hit every beat pretty much dead on for me.
If the last episode was rounded up from a 9.6 to 10, this episode is the first of the season to get a "true 10" from me. For me, there is only one or two things that fell flat, and those aren't enough to detract from the 10.
I began writing poetry, yelling out into the void my emotions from all the abuse I suffered. I listened to more music that I wanted to. When I finally started a re-watch in 2020, I started to realize the connections that were made in my youth and how they manifested. I realized all that I had taken in my youth, and hidden it away, deep inside me so it wouldn't be hurt. When I started to re-watch DS9, that capsule was unlocked and all the small connections, my love of cooking, baseball, poetry, hell even lounge jazz were connected back to this show. My deepest held values on equality, kindness, compassion, self understanding, all stemmed from my escapism as a child.
Ben Sisko, and by extension Avery Brooks, stepped up for me where my father wouldn't, or couldn't, and gave me the lessons I needed for adulthood. He taught me to stand up for myself, and others, with a fire unlike any other. He taught me to value life, difference, and justice. He showed me what it means to be a good Father, and a good partner. He taught me to love everyone in my own self-made, ragtag, actually loving family, full-throated and with a forkfull of good food.
For a scared, mixed-race kid, he meant more to me at the time than I think I could possibly comprehend until I was much older. I have always wanted to live up to Ben Sisko's, and Avery Brook's, example.
This episode had me in tears through probably 50% of it, and the other 50% was me excitedly pointing out how SAM was subtly following in Sisko's footsteps, perhaps not in the way she wanted, but in the way she needed, or laughing at the inanity of Nahla trying to troll-help Kelrec. I 100% believe the Doctor was partially behind that, he must not like Kelrec very much either lol. My wife is fairly new to Star Trek, and to prep, we watched Trials and Tribbleations and Take me out to the Holosuite, and both were the perfect set up for this episode. I love the quirky intro with SAM, showing how she percieves the world, and how she's basically metabolizing years of culture and trying out different things to see if they fit.
Cirroc's parts were truly beautiful and moving, and easily the highlight of the episode. I was not expecting to see him come back, but I am so glad that he did. My personal interpretation of what Jake said was that Ben both did and didn't come back. He exists out of time, so the same Ben that would be watching over SAM could in the next moment go back to Bajor and his family. The two aren't mutually exclusive, and to me, Jake's words were meant to imply that Ben did come back in some capacity, even if the very act of him coming back isn't truly him "returning" because he's outside of time. He could, and probably did, live out a quiet life with his family on Bajor. I think this is also why the family tree seems to be incomplete, now that we know Dax had Anslem this entire time, it's entirely possible she knew Ben came back and worked to keep that as secret as possible, up to and including altering records as needed. There's no way the Siskos get any peace with knowledge that the Emissary is back out there, people will bother them, so it makes sense for it to be kept extremely quiet. I'm pretty sure the only ones who would even know he's back would be his closest crewmates.
I'm also of the mind that Jake's visit wasn't just a reconstruction via SAM. He closed the book, and physically interacted with her. The lighting also had a very Porphet-y feel to it. Part of me wants to believe that it was just SAM, but a large part of me also very much believes that Jake actually visited her. I think Dax's line about knowing how to use the book backs this up.
I was taken completely out of left field by the Dax reveal, though, to the point I nearly shot out of my seat and yelled "SHE'S A DAX!". Her appearing to be a Cardassian threw me off, I thought she was a descendant of Garak or Dukat, or perhaps just a random Cardassian who's WAY to into history and historical figures. Yes, even the mannerisms and beets didn't tip me off!
I'm sorta happy for that though, because it lead into the wonderful voiceover by Avery, and the credits with that beautiful theme from DS9. I don't think I stopped crying from the time Jake's part started, to the end of the credits.
Simply put, this episode was a masterclass in how to do Tribute TV. Hit every beat pretty much dead on for me.
If the last episode was rounded up from a 9.6 to 10, this episode is the first of the season to get a "true 10" from me. For me, there is only one or two things that fell flat, and those aren't enough to detract from the 10.
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