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One of my biggest gripes with some of the design choices in Star Trek has been the fact that Starfleet ships are basically just Earth ships. Enterprise was the series that made it clear that Starfleet was basically just the UESPA carried forward. The NX-01 was basically a traditional Starfleet...

They already had a readymade solution to that. TNG established that warp was damaging subspace. That could have been the catalyst. Additionally, the omega molecule also damaged subspace. Either one of those would have been viable alternatives to what we got. I suspect that the Disco writers were...

Discovery’s 32nd century presents something of a conundrum…why is it that Starfleet and the Federation seems to have forgotten all of the alternatives to warp drive that they encountered in the 23rd and 24th centuries? Let’s ignore the fact that dilithium was never the power source for ships...

Modern Trek, and it’s insistence on “reimagining” the 23rd century, has kind of thrown that time period into chaos. Discovery gave us a 23rd century that was nothing like TOS. Even Strange New Worlds is basically a visual reboot. However, Lower Decks and Prodigy have shown us that the 23rd...

No, they absolutely should not. I like SNW, but they really need to stop using TOS as a crutch and chart their own course. More importantly, they already have a problem that too many of the main characters are never in jeopardy precisely because we know that they’ll make it to Kirk’s crew so...

On the question of why Kelly wouldn’t be on birth control, there is an argument to be made that this wasn’t something that NASA or Kelly foresaw going into the mission. Remember, each team trained with each other for two years prior to departure. The crews were small. Had there been any...

Do we know how long they’ve been in space thus far? I know that they were supposed to be on two year missions (were all three crews supposed to be there that long). What I’m not sure of is whether it was two years in total or two years on Mars. Doesn’t it take 13 months just to get to Mars?

While the Helios ship does have gravity, the problem now is that they have no way of getting off world. The Helios lander, the only one they had, was destroyed. I suspect that what is going to happen is that they will have to wait for some form of lander to get deliver, and that will take too...

The obvious answer to their question can be found in The Motion Picture and the first season of TNG

That was Roddenberry and mostly post TOS. You really see his vision of the future in the novelization of the Motion Picture

The Federation is probably more analogous to the European Union than it is to the US Government.

Yeah, I thought that someone was going to comment on that. It was the first bridge like command center shown.

That’s interesting because I also thought that it would have made sense for Phase 2 to be the triumphant return instead of TMP. I wonder if there is a TNG in this universe?

Star Trek has been referenced several times in For All Mankind. That’s not totally surprising since the show was created by a Trek alum and the show predates the point of divergence in the series. So while we know that Trek exists in that universe, one wonders if it would be different in a world...

I'm just curious as to why so many fan productions are focused in the early TOS era? Is it that the sets are cheaper to build? Many of the 24th century series use virtual sets. Is it too expensive to replicate the movie era/24th century look?

Frakes is just really tall. The irony of being tall is that you, consciously or not, end up trying to de-emphasize your height. This is especially true when you are being filmed around people significantly shorter than you. A back injury does not totally explain it. I have back problems as...

The a The Best of Both Worlds definitely had B and C stories. There was the Riker promotion angle, the Shelby/Riker conflict, and even a small Picard uncertainty story. Part II kept the conflicts of the first part and beefed up the Picard story by adding Beverly, Data and Deanna. Those...

We also learned one other thing...we learned that the "hosts" knew everything about Earth. They knew who everyone was and knew exactly who would be out into what positions as soon as they invaded. I also find it interesting that they call the invaders "hosts" which suggests that we are THEIR...

I'd say that DS9's "A Call to Arms" was probably the single finest moment in Trek. We'd never seen anything like it up to that point...even in the movies. The whole episode was well done. But the final cuts between Dukat on the station seeing Sisko's "message" then the calm silent look on...

Early TNG had a very specific visual philosophy at work. You saw more plants, wood paneling, earth tones carpeting etc. later seasons of TNG moved away from that. Planters became light boxes and with the exception of the horseshoe rail most of the wood vanished as well. You started getting a lot...