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In The Enterprise Incident, why does the Romulan commander allow herself to be taken prisoner? Possible motivations: She doesn't want to face the consequences of allowing the Federation to steal the cloaking device. She figures the Enterprise will be destroyed. If she's captured and dies on...

When I saw Past Tense in college, it seemed like it was set so far in the future that it wasn’t all that different from something set in the 22rd century. I knew I had a good chance of being alive then, but I would be old. Now we’re almost there. I wonder if there will be any public...

At the beginning of Star Trek 4, the film conveys the emissions of the probe are harmful by having the lights go out. When the lights get dim for the first time, the science officer appears to press a button and white light shines on his face. Was that supposed to be him pressing a button to...

When Nona attempts to defect to a band of Villagers, the first thing they say is she's Tyree's wife and a Kahn-ut-tu; "we won't trust this division to Apella." I think what they're saying is it seems a leader's wife is unlikely to defect and that Kahn-ut-tus are known for being tricky, which...

In the doctored video that appears to show Captain Kirk pressing the jettison button, it looks like he's pressing it with his middle finger. Click the pic to Enlarge It's hard to say. We can tell it's not his pinky or ring finger. I imagine Lt. Commander Finney put that in there to suggest...

I first saw Miri when I was a little kid. I re-watched it the other day, and I wondered if there’s more to it than I thought. Are they going for it being a horror episode? The kids chanting and demeanor seemed creepy. Could that be why they said this planet is an exact duplicate of Earth in...

What knowledge did the Oracle forbid to the people of Yonada? At the beginning, we see it it kill the old man for saying he was on a space ship. Yet Natira talks about arriving at the New World of the Promise “soon”. There are no lines to indicate that this is knowledge only allowed to the High...

I do not understand what happens in the last act of Friday’s Child. Why does Eleen tell the Maab that she killed her baby and Kirk, Spock, and McCoy? Maybe she was doing it to get them to stop the search because she wanted to help McCoy who helped her by delivering the baby. It seems like a...

Can anyone explain how Kirk and Krako go back and forth from having the upper hand at the end of A Piece of the Action? My understanding Kirk is able to assert power over Okmyx by coming in with guns but also with the threat that even if Okmyx’s goons got the immediate upper hand, Kirk has...

I think he turned his back to Maxwell for attacking Cardassian ships Maxwell suspected were preparing for war. He also urged Picard to search some very suspicious Cardassian vessels without a warrant in violation of law and treaty that had kept the peace. Maxwell expostulates with Picard...

I recall the trailer for Sacred Ground implying Janeway might sleep with someone. I thought the voiceover said something like "You won't believe how far Janeway will go to save a crewmember," as it showed a brief clip of her from behind taking her top off. I didn't get to the see the episode...

I think Voyager could have been better with a map showing where they were and the places they were going. The map would have been primarily for the writers. It's good for the writers to know more about the situation than they show or tell, to give a realistic feeling. The show could sparingly...

This discussion on the Enterprise Forum got me thinking about how some technologies that I thought were a stretch for the 23rd century have come true already. In Naked Now, Riker gives Data the impossible task of searching for a story somewhere of someone showering in his clothing. Data says...

I thought the possible release dates for Star Trek Discovery would be easy to find in a search or by reading these posts, but I can't find anything about about it. I just find old articles saying it was coming out in January and in May. Do we have any idea for date when we'll be able to...

What is the reason for this foreign text visible very briefly in Zorn's office in Encounter at Farpoint? It only appears for a second, fades away, and is never seen again or mentioned in the story. It seems like it would have taken work to make those letters appear for a second and then fade...

The metrons supply Kirk with a recordering-translating device. It seems like it's a device of their invention. The same prop was used in Metamorphosis, though, so maybe it's a device used by Star Fleet and possibly UFP civilians. A key plot point is Kirk records a log of the fight...

At what point do Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty realize Kirk has been duplicated? It seems like Shatner and Nimoy do a decent job conveying it after they hear McCoy said he saw Kirk acting crazy, and in the next scene Scotty shows them the mean dog and says, "if this should happen to a...

We see the Ornarans are impaired and unable to respond when their ship breaks down. They also say that even with time not in an emergency situation they are unable to repair their spaceships. How are they able to Brekka with all the industrial products that allow its residents to have affluent...

In the beginning of The Return of the Archons, Kirk and his party seek refuge inside a hotel. They meet those three old men who are exempt from the festival on account of age. The man on the street says that hotel is a typical place for young people who've come for the festival to stay; it's...

Why did Valeris go to sickbay with a gun after the announcement that the assassins were still alive? I assume it's b/c she thought somehow both of them survived her exposing them to phaser stun at close range for an extended period. That means she would have mistaken BOTH of them for dead when...