As far as the gene pool goes, I have to imagine it would get a little weird, lots of cousins hooking up and whatnot. At the same time, a lot of the characters looked like they were one-fraction of an alien race (Trill and Klingon mostly), so who knows what that would bring to the gene pool.

I get the feeling that CBS is interested in something but hesitant to act until the Abrams series winds down in order to avoid confusion or franchise bloat. If anything, the soonest I'd expect any announcements (TV, miniseries, or otherwise) would be in 2016, to coincide with the conclusion of the (presumed) trilogy…

"I tend to make fun of that stupid plot - attack Earth and kill 7M people as a test, and then finish building your deathstar."

"The Dukat/Winn stuff kinda spins its wheels and even the writers must have figured that out because the whole Dukat blindness thing is an excuse to rule them out until the finale…"

That was in the penultimate episode, not the finale.

I'm not sure I would say that the Dominion War cheapened the action in the standoff scenarios—it started earlier. Those Cold War type of episodes could still be written today if Hollywood prioritized storytelling over CGI (which they won't). But even before the Dominion War, DS9 (which had a bigger budget for special…

There's been talk of remastering DS9, but it really depends on how TNG Blu-Ray sales pan out. Given the work they're doing with the TNG ones —recompositing the motion-control and VFX shots from the film originals and adding occasional CGI—I think we could expect some new CGI for a DS9 release.

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Making a cure along with the disease seems logical in a number of scenarios. What if the Dominion found out that S31 was behind the disease and threatened to send the Jem'Hadar on a scorched-Earth suicide rampage against the Federation?

Squiddy-bits? What do you know about Klingon and Trill anatomy that I don't?

Re: Admiral Robocop. I kinda want someone to ask me what I thought of the movie, just so I have a chance to say, that Sherlock Holmes crushes Robocop's skull with his bare bands.

And there were times when the low-key intros didn't work out, like when Garak introduces a possible love interest to Odo in "Broken Link," and she's never heard from again.

That's my guess. Really, both the novels and the prequels to "Star Trek" are all non-cannon, but I was surprised that the books were going so far afield, given that the prequel stuff was fairly high-profile (and also not well received, to some, which I guess could be the reason). I guess the prequel stuff is…

Not that I impulse-buy Star Trek novels for my kindle or anything, but right now the novel series is 1-2 years behind the destruction of Romulus in "Star Trek." That said, the novel continuity diverges considerably from both Star Trek Online (which maps out 30 years of events after Nemesis) and the stories that set up…

This is one of my favorite analyses of what was wrong with Enterprise:

Those are three books I've been meaning to read, but haven't gotten around to it.

Ah Armada. I wish they'd taken the premise for that (the Borg clone a new Locutus) and used it for Nemesis.

Can you imagine how much fun today's writers would have with a character like Garak, with more latitude in terms of storytelling and characters? That whole bi-curious bit with Bashir wouldn't have been a one-episode thing, for instance.

Worse, with Riker, when attractive, female lieutenants order real alcohol, the computer automatically schedules a date with the XO for that night!

She was fairly well executed, though I do think that the two feature episodes she has in the first half of the season (other than this one) leaned a bit toward "episode of the week" material.

I had thought about other recurring characters who could've been added, but I'm not really sure that any of the female characters could've been easily integrated into the show.