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Watching Q-Pid and appreciating the medieval castle sets the show uses. These are obviously sets for a television production, but I wonder where they came from? Were these built for the episode? Where they just existing on the Paramount lot from some other production? Which one? Rented from...

I liked it! It was tough to get in to. I tried to watch it when it first came out, but something about it wore on me. I'm in my 40s and I have a son who likes sci-fi animation aimed at kids, so I was used to the often frantic pace and video-gamey design on current shows in the genre. But at...

I drew this up the other night. The details are my own, but anyone who saw the recent fanfilm Pacific 201 will see that I shamelessly stole the overall design of this ship from the Starship Velocity. I'm calling this one the U.E.S. Mimir, an Earth ship lost in the Romulan War and now...

Watching "A Taste of Armageddon" and Kirk says that Phaser I will be issued to the landing party (I think...I've been watching several eps in a row I think it was this one...). So I wonder, how many individual weapons are stocked in the arsenal? Hundreds? Enough to equip the entire crew? Even...

Here's a question for you guys... I'm in a position of showing Star Trek to someone who has an interest in seeing the entire series, but has never watched it before. My first inclination was just to show it to her in Netflix order (simplest approach) but then I was thinking that with this...

It seems like Section 31 is an idea that has proven pretty popular with a lot of fans and the current show-runners alike. What's the appeal? Now, when it was originally introduced in DS9, I got it. It was a neat idea that there was this super secret clandestine organization that may have...

At the end of TMP, the V'Ger craft (arguably perhaps the biggest single space craft we've seen in Trek*) just peacefully fades away around the Enterprise leaving, it would seem, no trace. What do you suppose happened to it? Did it evaporate, having finished its mission to touch the Creator...

Life long TOS fan here who is finally giving Voyager a chance. Almost finished with the run on Netflix. I was watching the episode "Natural Law" and the scenario of the primitive people living under a continent wide forcefield dome placed there by ancient aliens to protect them from their...

On the home stretch of my complete Voyager viewing and I just finished "Natural Law," where Chakotay and Seven crash into the nature preserve on that planet and have to figure out how to shut down the mysterious force field placed there by ancient aliens to protect the primitive natives. The...

Just saw an advance showing of Kong: Skull Island. It was fun. Without spoiling anything, I will just say it's a fun gratuitous action movie. I felt that Kong himself and the other denizens of Skull Island were well-realized. I didn't catch very many nods to earlier incarnations of Kong, but...

What's the deal here? I watched Voyager off and on when it was on the air. I didn't love it. There were some good shows here and there, but it didn't grab me. But I'm giving it another try on Netflix and I'm pushing through all the episodes. I won't go into all my likes and dislikes so far...

Recall in "The Trouble With Tribbles" where the Klingon officer Korax is taunting Scotty and Chekov, he says "We like the Enterprise. We--we really do. That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow. Half the quadrant knows it. That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese." Got...

Thinking about the half-aliens we meet in Star Trek and wondering about the biological implications. For one thing, let's ignore the facts of actual science which would have us believe that a human is more closely related to an oak tree than to an animal from another planet. We see that in...

Just watched DS9'S "Looking for Par'Mach in all the Wrong Places" and heard for the first time in years Worf's Klingon opera playing. I liked it. I'd love to get a recording of it without Micheal Dorn's lyrical stylings. How many other times do we hear Klingon opera? Is it just a DS9...

For the August TrekBBS Art Challenge, let's design something original and iconic. By this I mean that you can not use ANY preexisting design from anywhere in the franchise, but must instead create something new and different that draws upon the familiar motifs from the show. So you can't use...

Okay. I feel I have a decent idea this time around. Got a little bit started on this one. I bet you can guess the show I'm mashing up with.... More to come! --Alex

I suppose there must have been an unstable wormhole with an anchorpoint near Star Trek's Earth in, at least, the early 2000s. Evidence: 1) "Space Seed" [TOS] Where a sub-light sleeper ship leaves Earth in (what we would later learn was) 1996, and arrives at Ceti Alpha a mere few centuries...

I'm planing on building a model of the space shuttle and I want to hyper-detail the thing. I've been studying hundreds of images of all the shuttles picking out interesting details it would be fun to include. One of the bits of kit on the real vehicles that isn't represented in the kit I...

Watching Enterprise, and doing my damnedest to give it a fair chance. I am watching the first episode of the second season, where Daniels derps up history by pulling Archer to the 31st Century at the wrong time. He uses his futurtastic high school education to jury-rig Archer's...

I'm watching Enterprise for the first time really. Well, I saw it off and on when it was on the air, but I wasn't impressed, though now I'm trying to watch it all through and give it an honest chance. So far I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. Except for the science. Now I know...