Also, also, why would the subspace signal start to fade out after a period of time? You're not getting further away. You're already as far away as you can possibly be while also occupying the same space as the place you're talking to. Also, also, also, why would an accelerated adaptational mutation (I'm not going to…

If we get a "Springtime for Kodos"-style musical number, then all the rest will be worth it.

That episode has the most insane logic fails I've ever seen on TV. Your ship is occupying all points of the universe at once due to your infinite speed(?!?!), but you have to TURN AROUND to get back where you came from?

Yeah, I'm convinced those two episodes were what killed the franchise.

Yup. I think Final Frontier is so bad that it becomes entertaining and it's memorable for things that are bad, but outlandishly bad, rather than off-puttingly bad like Troi's psychic rape. Generations is close to Nemesis, but it's less insulting to the people in it and the people watching it. I'll take Picard getting…

This is pretty good math. He doesn't even count the TNG era when gold shirts became security and operations and their mortality rate skyrocketed. Of course, if you get into DS9 the colors became a little less useful and the Federation fought a war.

I've never walked out of a theater, but the worst movie I've ever seen in one was Christmas with the Kranks. Which is the most off-putting movie I've ever seen. Every. Single. Character. is a borderline sociopathic unlikable asshole and the movie is shot and edited like a David Fincher film so even the scenes which…

Small note that makes everything worse: there is no colon in the title. It's Start Trek Into Darkness. It's the second worse Star Trek movie after Nemesis. It's a watchable action flick, but so fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of Star Trek as to render itself a crime.

My head-cannon, given (some) of Q's later actions, is that humans were put on trial because the he/the Continuum knew that they would pass. It was, has been, and will be a means to make humans and, by extension, the federation into a better civilization. I mean, think about what would have happened if the federation…

*Pushes glasses up nose, but too far and they get smudged and then tries to clean them off, but it just pushes the smudge around and has to use a glass cleaning cloth instead of the tissue paper that was also leaving little pieces of paper dust* I was actually referring to Star Trek, which, especially in the first…

I mean, soft science fiction is basically fantasy. 'Encounter at Farpoint' is a three day campaign from an amateur DM with all the names changed. With really committed lawful good characters, I suppose.

There was that episode with the shapeshifter on the space station when he fell for a video diary, but then the real lady liked him for some reason. There was also that lady from the episode when they turn into the blue vein monsters. They totally banged. But yeah, I just don't think he had game.

The organizational structure of Starfleet is very, very confusing. On the one hand, you have a supposedly extremely selective academy (remember the episode where Wesley misses the entrance exam by one question or some shit? No viable organization would turn down a massively qualified candidate because they did a tiny…

Geordi was an officer and a damn ambitious one. He also had a supervisory role, ran diagnostics, and did science at things that were puzzling people until the third act.

(Cleans glasses with hypoallergenic cloth) Interestingly, first officer isn't an official position within english speaking militaries. In the US and Canada the XO or Executive Officer fits this role while First Lieutenant is used on smaller British vessels. Civilian Aircraft are the only place you will find an actual…

I thought Beyond was the best Star Trek movie since Undiscovered Country (narrowly edging out First Contact).

I don't know if America is ready to watch a show about a crewman who spends ten hours regulating plasma flows before he goes to the holodeck to fuck a force-field and soon after fall asleep staring into to void of space while non-corporeal Lovecraftian space gods judge our species based on the actions of his bosses…

Like a balloon… and something bad happens.

We know he was too erotic for Janeway. That's why she had to murder him.

I can't believe I got here late to the obligatory "transporters are existentialist nightmares" thread. They're almost as fun as the pun threads.