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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...

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...

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?

I've always been fascinated as to why so many Trek fans seemed to dislike the visual aesthetic that was developed for early TNG. I'm not talking about clothes but more the appearance of shipboard life that seemed to emphasize comfort and luxury at a very human level over omnipresent...

I've never understood Star Trek's aversion to politics. To be more precise, when I say politis, I'm not talking about real world issues (though late Trek was weak on that to), I'm talking about world building and the need to take time an examine/develop the environment in which your characters...

I've always loved the Trek reference materials. However I find the Enterprise Flight Manual to be the oddest bit trek material ever produced since it was actually designed to be used by the actors so that they could use their various consoles "properly." That always came across as an almost...

More so than the other series, TNG frequently featured model starships used as decoration on the various sets. For set decorators models would be fairly easy to come by since most were commercially available. One thing that I've always found odd though is that on more than one occasion the...

In terms of the continuity of Doctor Who, I wondering how many of the earlier Doctor's adventures are still a valid part of Doctor Who's admittedly tangled timeline. I was watching "Enemy of the World" recently and it occurred to me that the story is supposed to be set in 2018. Given that...

Star Trek is a fairly vast and imaginative universe full of wonderful ships and technology. However, the reality is that it is a show/movie made on a budget. Thus we have often been teased with places that, due to budget constraints, we never got to see. For instance, the Enterprise D was...

Ok, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is finally over (though for us Chicagoans and folks in North Central north America, we have to maintain vigilance until probably June :scream: ). That said, summer is finally on the horizon, so lets be hopeful...what are you looking...

I've been watching a number of short lived scifi series lately. Most of them date back to the scifi "gold rush" of the 1990s. There are a lot of interesting ideas out there and I wonder which were your favorites. Lets be clear, by short lived I mean lasting a season or less. Some of them were...

I was just able to watch the pilot for the unaired TV series The Osiris Chronicles (the movie was called Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy) and was surprised how much the series resembled Andromeda. The Osiris Chronicles is set years after the fall of the Galactic Republic and the premise would...

Does anyone else think that Suspicions was an odd Beverly centered episode? The focus of the episode was a scientist engaged in research on shielding and warp fields. Why would Beverly be interested in the scientist at the center of the story. It would have made more sense for Geordi or Data...

Has anyone that worked on TOS ever explained the rationale for not giving Number One a name? I get that she was some how supposed to be "mysterious" but it seems odd for that mystery to extend to her name. It feels even stranger to have the rest of the crew refer to her as Number One instead of...

So honestly, how do you feel about Valentines Day? Do you like the day? Are you virulently opposed to it? Are you indifferent? why do you feel the way you do? Has it changed over time? As someone who was never able to date (and certainly no relationships), I've never been a big fan of...

I just posted a link, in TNZ, about a young boy that recently attempted suicide after enduring intense bullying for liking My Little Pony. Now I'm not a fan of the show, but it reminded me that when I was a kid in the 80s I really liked Jem (which admittedly was situated on the schedule between...

One of the things that kind of bugged me about the depiction of technology in the 24th was the total uniformity of the tech across all species and empires. For instance, why was it necessary to have every species wear com badges in the shape of their national or service logos? Its nice that...

The science fiction and fantasy genre does really well in animated form. However, other than Star Wars and comic books, few big properties really make use of the form. For instance, Star Trek took only one stab at the effort and never tried again. It was fairly mediocre and done on the cheap...