Indeed. As it happens, the episode actually is already a few minutes longer than the average one (the benefits of producing for streaming rather than broadcast in a regular time slot, naturally).

Yep. That was established back in the day; there was a period of a few years when the Enterprise crew was wearing one uniform style while the Deep Space Nine crew wore another. It was shown most prominently in the DS9 S4 feature-length premiere “The Way of the Warrior”, when Worf first comes to the station at Sisko’s…

Pfft, only three things post-Nemesis? If you really wanted to make it sound crowded you could have jumped back a bit and talked about the well over a dozen things post-TOS, including these three things.

I love that you’re doing this list, though I have a few quibbles. I’ll ignore subjective disagreements over the rankings in favor of two actual straight-up errors, if you’ll forgive some Comic Book Guy-esque nitpicking.

With all due respect to Enterprise and the end of Voyager, Lower Decks is my favorite Trek production released in the last 20 years.

I’m still agog. I can’t believe all that happened!

I really regret missing this. The Las Vegas area is actually where I began my life, but though I’ve always had family there and have visited many times, I haven’t actually lived there since my age was in low single digits. During the attraction’s life I lived in Florida, far enough away that a trip to Vegas was a…

Nope. I mean, I’d like to, but it’s just never worked out for me, usually for financial reasons. My first console was an Atari 2600 (actually an Atari VCS - it launched in ‘77 as the Video Computer System, and was only renamed the 2600 in ‘82). I bought it with the money from my first “real” job in the summer of ‘82…

I love that Shaxs bit. And another of many great bits from this episode, incorporating yet another of the many deep cuts of Trek lore so abundant in this show:

I loved the cinematic Trek homages in the scoring this episode, with Westlake filtering himself through Goldsmith, Horner, and Giacchino. So good.

Honestly, after seeing today’s Star Trek: Lower Decks episode, I think Paramount should ditch all the possibilities we’ve heard about lately (another Kelvin timeline installment, a Tarantino Trek, etc.) and forgo another live-action would-be blockbuster altogether, and just give us Star Trek XIV: Lower Decks: Deck…

Ideally, they’d have gotten James Daly, but he died in 1978.

“Oh, yeah. It’s mostly that.”

Hey, it’s not like he’s the first person whose holodeck program became dangerous... or the second... or the third...

I’ve long appreciated the communal experience of a large group of people, mostly strangers, enjoying a shared narrative experience. I have had a few experiences where some rude theatergoer messed things up for others, but in all honesty those incidents are relatively rare.

I have noticed that one! I was considering it, too, actually.

Space combat flight sims (both Star Wars and otherwise) are one of the game genres I most wish had stuck around more than they did, but now they’re something I can think of having a particular “golden age” historical era, like how we think of movie westerns coming largely from the ‘50s and ‘60s (or earlier). I…

I’m tickled to see one of Kotaku’s writers fondly remembers Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures.

I usually wait for titles to go on sale after they’ve been out a while, but I preordered Star Wars: Squadrons. I’ve wanted this one very badly for a while.

Nerds?! On io9?!