“Mind of Hermes.” Maybe it’s a live-action Futurama movie.

Well, Beverly Crusher’s ghost boyfriend from the Scottish planet did make the bridge foggy.

I’m talking about the millions of Klingons inflicted with the Augment virus from 100 years earlier. It would be cool if the presence of Tyler helped make it easier for Klingon culture to accept the smooth-headed Klingons, like you suggest. What’s annoying is that there isn’t even a mention of the smoothies, which is a…

So, Isaac’s simulator trick of making himself appear human got me thinking a bit about the logistics of it, especially after Yaphet shows up looking like Norm Macdonald.

So, a ship like the Orville probably has to have a lot of reclamation of resources in order to function efficiently. That means excess water is recovered, treated and restored to the ship’s systems for future use. Potable water is stored in appropriate tanks, and waste water recycled for use in operations such as…

The Klingon stuff is all fine and good, aside from the hair retcon (since we’ve seen Klingons at war in the future on several occasions with nary a haircut. But Chang is mostly hairless so I suppose an old warrior like him would also consider it a state of war so maybe that fits, I guess).

It’s amusing to see people running around the corridors in the section of the ship with the sharp corners requiring quick turns. You’d think a ship with a giant circular saucer section might have a looped corridor with a nice round shape and smooth running lanes. You know, like a track.

The Klingons had red blood long before they had purple blood.

Strictly speaking, anyone checking out the Klingon arc should probably start with “The Emissary” from TNG season 2, which introduces K’Ehleyr, whose relationship with Worf becomes a major plot point in the Klingon succession crisis and ramp up to the Civil War by the end of season 4.

The thing about how the show treats Section 31 that I’m more curious about is how everyone seems to have heard of them and knows they’re tied to that black badge. There’s a scene in one of the trailers where Georgiou straight up tells someone (I think it might have been Pike and Michael) that she joined Section 31,…

The setup made me immediately think of the TNG episode “In Theory,” which begins with the same central premise: a lonely woman eyes Data as an ideal potential companion and woos him. And Data, wishing to learn more about human relationships, adjusts his programming accordingly. 


Yeah, there’s a lot of them. And yes, the show often doesn’t make sense. I’m just saying what the show itself established. But if you want your head canon to be considered official, I’m sure Memory Alpha will be glad to hear your evidence that it was just an acting choice from Kate Mulgrew and not the conscious…

Well, I sarcastically meant they just sent probes back in time and looked at when the kid was actually born, but yeah.

Your feelings about “The 37s” aside, that episode nonetheless exists, whereas any episode establishing they have implants doesn’t. (And I doubt Kate Mulgrew is the one who just decided the translator was in the combadge).

Except that they are. In the Voyager episode “The 37s,” Janeway explains to all the ancient humans that they can understand each other with the universal translator, and points to her combadge as she’s explaining it.

A brewery called Foot Lager, serving ale in das boots? Brilliant!

General Order No. 1 IS the prime directive. They’re just being stuffy about using the official term (because it’s a prequel, I guess).

General Order No. 1 IS the prime directive. They’re just being stuffy about using the official term (because it’s a prequel, I guess).

I’m assuming it’s roughly late teens early 20s, not necessarily 18, just because we haven’t seen anything to suggest otherwise. Spock’s personal timeline seems to indicate this. Although he’s part human, they seem to treat him as more Vulcan until he rejects the Science Academy.

Has the show addressed the universal translator issue yet? While Star Trek typically has the translators be devices worn on the uniform (like the combadge), it could also be an implant (like the Ferengi), which sidesteps the issue of the device being taken away. Translator implants are used in Guardians of the Galaxy…