Yuck, SNW was all the nostalgia tripping I could take. More boldly going, please!

It certainly lowered my enthusiasm for SFA s2, knowing they went hard with a cliffhanger finale… That show had a lot of spirit and promise, I wanted to follow those kids through the academy.

SNW — I know I’m in the minority here, but I couldn’t get into the show’s tone, and especially the way it’s leading doggedly towards TOS, literally checking boxes for each continuity item. It feels like a dead man walking, and even more so now. This is actually the first time I’ve looked forward to a Trek show ending.

Oh, so jealous. TBF, it’s still hilarious on fourth and fifth watching.

Barclay was evading real life conflict and pressure for sure, but also doing erotic power play with holo-versions of his crewmates… I think that last part was an early taste of our current deepfake porn reality 😬

Either way, Lower decks made it clear that into the 2380s, cleaning out the holodeck biofilters was still the worst job on a starship:

People really use it for that?

Oh yeah. It’s mostly that.

There may be a joke flying over my head here, but Barclay only appears, having rather consequential holo addition issues, two full seasons after the Bynars’ upgrades?

I dunno, it’s almost too neat and tasteful, isn’t it? I checked out Matt Ferguson’s other anniversary posters, and they have a lot more going on visually.

Sure, this movie’s tone is very different, but still.

Love the look on the cop’s face on the right hand side. Like, “That’s it, I’m transferring out of San Francisco ASAP”.

The script where Alexander interns behind the counter for a week just writes itself.

WORF: [exasperated sigh]

If a bit squirmy.

Especially in a world with replicator technology 🖖

Testing… Testing…

Whew, it wasn’t my time to be hit with the ban hammer! 🥳

Call me an epicurean, but

and

Somehow, the news that Looney Labs are reprinting Star Trek Fluxx made me unreasonably happy. And honestly, Lower decks is a perfect fit for the game.

They probably could, technically speaking. The “audio clip show” episode they did on Prodigy felt a little graverobber-y, though. I loved seeing Spock and Odo again, even in animated form, but I thought the archival restrictions on the dialogue emphasised that.

On the other hand, I would spit bile at any attempt to “reanimate” (ie, deepfake) late actors on the show. It was creepy when Star wars did it with Peter Cushing, and it’s the same now, with “genAI”.

One exception IMO might be Majel Barrett. As I understand it, she consented before her passing to having her voice and speech patterns digitised for such a purpose. Somehow, it would be fitting for her to always be the voice of Trek computers ❤️

Geez, those Ferengi vendettas go darker than the show let me believe.

This just proves my theory that Star trek and cake has a special connection.

😭 Not Rom!

Oh hell yes for Louise Fletcher…!

Well, TOS was 110-115 years prior in-universe, and I guess Kirk and Spock would be fairly legendary by the time of LDS.

Fun fact, Spock would canonically still be around during LDS; it’s only 5 years after the series finale that he prevents the Romulus supernova from taking out a large part of the galaxy, and inadvertently causes the Kelvin timeline. But I guess with Nimoy’s passing they didn’t want to cameo Spock on the animated show. Accept no substitutes!

It’s jarring if you only know him for his cool-headed leader or mentor roles like Picard or professor Xavier… He really lets rip as this extremist POS.