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Ever run into this sort of thing, where you’re watching some usually not-very-serious material, and suddenly it just hits you with something? For example, I used to watch Syfy’s Sanctuary, a fun pulpy series about investigating, hunting and protecting cryptids, usually without a thought in its...

For those who understand physics better than I do: So, given this — https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-for-the-1st-time-ever-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters — could this phenomenon serve as a (hypothetical) bases for lightsaber blades...

…featuring the remaining LDS characters after the end of the series, in their new roles as senior officers. And to reflect the change? Switch to a “realistic” art style and, while keeping a lot of the humor (because that’s who these people are), tone it down enough that it’s basically...

I’m not sure where to put this, since there doesn’t seem to be a forum about conventions, so I guess here: I’ve always been sorry I never got to MosEastly Con or MediaWest; I suspect I’d have very much enjoyed them, having liked the pre-Dragoncon general era of non-Creation, non-professional...

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Reminded of it in a discussion over on Reddit, I happened to go back and re-read a particular action sequence in Diane Duane’s The Wounded Sky that I had always remembered: the Klingons jumping the Enterprise as it prepares to test a new drive. In my Kindle copy, it’s locations 708 - 869. Damn...

This isn’t actually a fanfic — just a quite silly idea that popped into my head — but I guess it could be seen as the seed of a “story idea” so putting it here instead of in General, to be safe. But basically: Could a Doopler workably serve in Starfleet? I would imagine they’d need to pass...

I’m not sure if this really belongs in Trek General or Science Fiction & Fantasy; mods, I guess that’s your call— If one were creating a new, Star-Trek-equivalent series today (I’m not, I’m just daydreaming here), would it make sense (if one wanted to) to have a “starfleet” that’s more like an...

I’m probably the last person to finally get this, but I finally understand why Classic and 21st-Century Doctor Who feel so different— they’re literally made according to different paradigms (possibly the wrong word). All the way to the end, even in 1989, the original series were basically...

If they’re enemies of the Tal Shi’ar — and thus of the Romulan government itself — why didn’t the Tal Shi’ar just murder them all?

This is technically a Discovery question, but as it’s a tech-specific one I figured it belongs here instead: Per a reference this week to interference the EDF encountered at Mars, apparently during the period of its succession from the Federation, Earth forces were still able to reach as far as...

I’ve been randomly watching various Enterprise episodes lately, almost all of them for the first time since they aired, and it’s almost odd how much better a lot of them seem now. I always basically liked ENT — I was never one of the haters — but I mean, right now I’m even enjoying “Storm...

If there’s one think Trek desperately needs to fix, it’s its abysmal track record in this area — from Miramanee’s planet to made-up Chakotay stuff. Maybe a future series — one which bothered to get its research right —could have a Native American protagonist captain (of a specific existing...

I don’t think I’ve watched “E2” since its original airing, but my goodness it’s a well-done, many-layered hour. If they’d wanted to, this could have planted the seeds for a lot of followup too, assuming two things: (1) Lorian’s Enterprise ; and (2) the Kovaalans are indeed .

Do NOT read the spoilered bits below until you see the film. It was fun, which is all I asked of it. I’ll leave detailed discussion of the plot to others, though I was annoyed by The ending does raise a how-did-this-all-happen question though:

This is going to be weird, but I’m rewatching “Arena” on Paramount+, and starting at about 26:42 it sounds like some of the background bridge audio chatter is in Spanish, or a similar-sounding language, continuing until about 26:50. I’ve never noticed this before. Am I crazy, or is that...

Never noticed this before: On Paramount+’s thumbnail image for Strange New Worlds, Pike looks very much like he’s making a mudra with his hands. From random googling, he appears to be making what’s called a Vishuddha mudra. I know nothing about mudras or their specifics in yoga or in Hinduism...

So, Spock in SNW quite healthily tries to balance his heritages: he’s culturally Vulcan, but he’s quite open to getting better at “emotional intelligence” and doesn’t deny his emotions. Of course, by the time of TOS he’s insistently more Vulcan than the Vulcans, actively denying his emotions...

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Have I just missed it, or has no one onscreen asked how Adira got from a generation ship out in the deeps somewhere to thoroughly self-isolated Earth?