SPOILERS

It's subtle, but even before the holo-communicator the viewscreens were shown to be true 3D.  This is most evident on TNG when they'd cut to a profile view of Picard on the bridge talking to, say Tomalak, and on the viewscreen, the camera angle would match, showing Tomalak in profile.  Cut to a shot facing the screen…

It's purple now?  It used to be blue.  I think he said it was his daughter's idea?

Maybe Zack should just watch the original trailers on Trek Core or something?  Or would browsing through those risk accidentally glimpsing photos or thumbnails that might be pretty spoilery?

Reading the teaser on IMDB, it doesn't look too spoilery.

So does this mean frat boys are going to misinterpret the themes of the show and want to become astronauts?

Alvy Singer's "The universe is expanding!" is sort of a code phrase between me an my girlfriend for an episode of existential dread.

Looking it up I don't even see where it explicitly states what Yates' sentence was.  Are we sure it was six months?  I may have to rewatch For the Cause and Rapture to be sure, but I don't think it was stated.  I have to think her crime was more serious than Garak's because she actually succeeded in chronic acts of…

The stardates are more consistent than you might think, at least in the TNG era.  The only times where they don't work out too well are in Season One of TNG (when the last three digits were completely random) and Season Seven of VOY, where the last few episodes happen in a Gregorian calender year that's actually after…

Mount Whitney.

I always thought Mulgrew wanted to sound like Kathrine Hepburn until I watched a news story about Tea at Five in which she said she wasn't the Hepburn superfan I thought she was.

The episode *after* Kasidy is arrested takes place on stardate 49904.2.  The episode *after* Rapture takes place on stardate 50416.2.  Assuming both episodes take place an equal distance from their subsequent episodes (To the Death taking place an equal amount of time after For the Cause as The Darkness and the Light…

Confined to the station?  There's a change of pace.

Maybe it was a jail on Bajor?

I'm sure stuff like that was a factor too.  They could have had him hem pants during a key meeting again or something.

Well, it would have been two weeks off if Things Past took place exactly at the same time as The Darkness and the Light.  But it's probably about a month earlier, so he probably served at most four months.

There's at least one more SPOILERS in the season six finale.

Yes, but even accounting for that, the stardates in the TNG era generally do not lie.  At best the season up to 50416.2 is playing catch up (the episodes to this point span less time than they normally would to accomodate the weeks or months of the Klingon/Federation War from Broken Link to Apocalypse Rising.  Unless…

Nope.  The stardates for the TNG era shows contradict this.  The format is 4 (or 5), then the season number (beginning with TNG season 1), then three digits, and a single decimal.  These remaining three digits indicate that the finale of the previous season is very soon before the events of the premiere of the next…

When the review for Broken Link came up, it was mentioned that Garak was sentenced to six months.  I looked into it and saw that an episode aired about halfway through the fifth season with Garak in it, but I somehow forgot Garak was in this one too.  I suppose he was let out early for good behavior?