Yup. In our time the term has already evolved from its original naval usage into a metaphor; presumably by Trek's time the metaphorical version...
I was more surprised that Number One knew the phrase in its 20th-century context. Even today, while pinup-type posters are certainly around, I...
In a lot of ways, this episode was "Devil in the Dark," but it was well-done and not predictable. And really, I don't mind visiting some of the...
Well, that was fun. A lot of fun. Notes: First, they couldn't have pulled this off if the Lower Decks team hadn't made the choice to model the...
I enjoy the Ortegas character, but it's true that she's really more of an archetype than a character at this point. She's the "quippy hotshot ace...
A good point, and one that probably shows the way unconscious biases can persist, even when trying to be inclusive, simply because the nature of...
Or just one guy named Mitch Kyle.
Re: the old designs in TNG, it seems like it's mostly the Excelsiors (and specifically, that one shot of the Enterprise next to an Excelsior-class...
Maybe they do, but it's always a Tellarite officer who gets roped into preventing it. "Well, looks the Romulans are at it again. This time...
My first boss was the owner of a pizza place, and whenever he went out on a delivery, he'd say "I'm off like a prom dress." So there's an option.
Some babble about how intraship beaming is dangerous, I think. That gets fairly routinely ignored.
Though I generally don't mind that Trek was traditionally on the slower-paced side ... yeah, that was kind of riduculous. Along with the TNG...
Or maybe they followed a housekeeper around to figure out which rooms were likely to be vacant, and broke into one. Even without any advanced tech...
I like the characters. Burnham is more flawed and damaged than most Trek captains, which makes her interesting; Saru and his backstory are...
I'm going to ignore some of the dumb stuff from the first few seasons and file that under "the show had to find its footing." I'm also going to...
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