I forget that empathy is often lost on Trek fans
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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x04 - "A Case of Chiaroscuro"
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
It's a glib piece of dialog, not meant to be taken as gospel
It's Star Trek.
"That doesn't make any sense" went out the window before most of us on this board were even born.
"That doesn't make any sense" went out the window before most of us on this board were even born.
Dang she looks pretty damn good for 41. I thought she was like late 20's early 30's at the oldest.
I loved the doppelganger line as a little wink and nod at all the reused actors over the years.
This means Jeffrey Combs is guilty of no fewer than a thousand violations of the laws of space and time. 
Totally agree. A few times his delivery was very Colicos.
Which is a nice analogy to our Covid pandemic. Remember all the warnings about mutations, and just as everything calmed for a few weeks (here in Australia, at least), along came Delta -- and all the borders started slamming shut again.
A mutating virus would make most angry Klingons even angrier.
I've a feeling there were a few less scientists after the failures.
It took over a century to finally eradicate the Augment Virus. That's a lot of Klingon doctors and scientists who went quiet or disappeared when the results didn't come back as wanted.
So almost nobody would have noticed.
So almost nobody would have noticed.
It's just a much more interesting story than and 100 years later it was cured. The end.
Why not make more things a journey and fill in the gaps/inconsistencies with lots of new stories?
I am reminded of Klingon scientist, G'dath, in the novel "A Flag Full of Stars" by Brad Ferguson. G'dath lives on Earth as part of a diplomatic exchange program. He has to work as a high school science teacher while secretly nearing a revolutionary scientific breakthrough.
Klingons don't exactly embrace the civilian and medical sciences if ENT and other stories set in the 22nd and 23rd centuries are any indicator. Dr. Antaak was basically treated like a second class citizen when he was trying to first create Klingon Augments and then cure the deadly side effects. His needs and concerns were always given a backseat to what the military wanted.
And beyond. The Klingon scientist lady from the metaphasic shield episode wasn't held in high regard either. Jay-den too.
Klingons rarely learn, even when they lose their very homeworld.
They're not merry men.
Reusing actors never bugged me that much, outside of maybe the whole Nick Locarno thing.
Of course having an actor playing a different character, usually with different alien makeup, and not being treated in-story as being indistinguishable is maybe just a little different than a character showing up, being completely indistinguishable from another character, who also just so happens to be recently murdered, and possibly the most important person on the entire planet, and then pretending to be that person without anyone really being able to tell the difference.
Of course having an actor playing a different character, usually with different alien makeup, and not being treated in-story as being indistinguishable is maybe just a little different than a character showing up, being completely indistinguishable from another character, who also just so happens to be recently murdered, and possibly the most important person on the entire planet, and then pretending to be that person without anyone really being able to tell the difference.
Right. Just put a bowl cut wig and you can pass as a Tal Shiar officer and fool experienced Romulan officers.
But was Troi using her empathic skills in her bluff?
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