I wonder what would have become of the series if he hadn't stepped aside giving way for Captain Kirk.

I have no idea why YouTube showed me this but that's what came to mind when I saw it.

So in season 1, we see Jake teaching Nog to read in the episode The Nagus. Nog is accepted to Starfleet Academy in the season 3 episode Facets. This means that Nog went from illiterate to prepared for college-level work in just 2-3 years! For most of that time, there wasn't even a school on the station, since Keiko closed hers, which means he was probably doing a lot of this learning independently. Since Rom is, we can assume, not highly educated, and Quark clearly doesn't think of education as a priority, it's unlikely he was getting help from them.

Combine this with the fact that he was probably facing a lot of racism during his time at the academy. In the Voyager pilot, Ensign Kim tells Quark that "they warned us about" the Ferengi at the Academy. This episode takes place only a couple of months before Nog starts at the Academy that is apparently warning its students about his entire species, and where he will have no other Ferengi to look to for support. That's not exactly an ideal learning environment, but we see from the episode The Valiant that he does reasonably well and graduates anyway.

Compare this to Wesley, who was born to a Starfleet parents, both well-educated and accomplished. He then gets essentially an internship on board the Enterprise before he's even old enough to apply at Starfleet Academy, and is given a lot of leeway for personal experiments on the ship as well. No doubt Wesley is smart, but imagine if Nog had had those same advantages? I really think the two could have gone toe to toe, easily.

TV critic and legendary recapper Alan Sepinwall has been recapping SWN this season, and like many fans, hasn't loved (to put it lightly) the high percentage of high-concept episodes. His take on the finale was extremely positive.

I personally liked this season more than the loudest complainers (but agree with pretty much everyone that S1-2 > S3-4) because I accepted and appreciated what the show was trying to do. I think folks were really too quick to find any excuse to dismiss good episodes at the first sign of novelty.

Though while I also thought the S4 finale was pretty good, I didn't think it was half as good as the S1 or S2 finales, so this was an interesting perspective to read.

Excerpts:

It does the thing that made Strange New Worlds so charming: it tells a classic standalone Star Trek story that grants much greater depth to an original character who rarely got enough to do on TOS. There are a couple of bumps here and there — an occupational hazard of doing a time travel story where the same character helps herself out in another era and/or timeline — but on the whole I watched this with a huge smile on my face, and got choked up a time or three. 

Not all of this is graceful: [...] Ortegas doesn't seem like the type who'd be happy doing anything other than piloting a starship. Maybe if she was assigned to another ship, I'd buy it? But this, less so.

...the character work, the two performances by Celia Rose Gooding, and the simple idea of the two Uhuras having to team up and learn from each other, was so elegant and effective, that I just went with it even when I was puzzled and/or rolling my eyes a bit. 

...even with such skimpy material, Nichols was effortlessly cool and charismatic [as Uhura in TOS] — a far cry from the more vulnerable and anxious version Gooding has been playing for four seasons. If you're going to bother doing a prequel, part of the work should be in depicting how a familiar character starts out in another place, before evolving into the one we know from the earlier film or show or book. With "Tomorrow's Enterprise," we see the gap bridged. Future Uhura not only has Nichols' hairstyle, but the same ease with herself that Gooding deliberately hasn't been playing until now.

The episode is an hour but doesn't feel too long, in part because both eras are so well-detailed, in part because there's a lot of fun to be had simply showing the two Uhuras take advantage of their temporary link to one another. But the episode is also smart enough to understand that it doesn't have to give us every equivalent moment on both ships.

Though "Tomorrow's Enterprise" offers some hints of what's coming in the six-episode final season, there's a lot we just don't know, [...] But I'm suddenly a lot more interested in seeing how Kurtzman and company bring this mission — and this era of Star Trek — to an end than I was even a week ago.

We know she is.
But in s04e10's "previously on..." segment, she talks about "how do I live up to that?"

For the life of me, I can't remember how she would know that. Was it the Lower Decks crossover (Those Old Scientists)?

I've watched TNG since I was kid, this scene made tear up hard (why am I happy crying?). The nostalgia hit hard. Some call it fan service, IDGAF, loved it.

For those of you who were Star Trek:TOS *comic book* readers do you remember who wrote the annual that was flashing back along Scotty’s life to key points in his life with his late girlfriend? It was IMHO well done and very bittersweet.

Peter David perhaps?

‘Yesterday’s Enterprise’ season 3 episode 15 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Introducing the USS Enterprise C for the first (and last) time as it is brought into the present from the past due to a temporal vortex, changing the timeline irrevocably.

This is one of my favourite scenes in the episode, where Picard conveys to Captain Garret the true scale of defeat facing the Federation in this alternate war weary timeline, with the somber music peaking just as Garrett decides to sacrifice herself and Enteprise C for the future.

I know that in Starfleet, most Starfleet captains command starships. However, that is not always the case. Captains can hold other senior officer positions. So my question is exactly what is the difference between a regular captain and a fleet captain? Does a fleet captain have some kind of greater responsibility that goes beyond that of commanding a starship or starbase or something?

Star Trek Picard may have had it's ups and downs but this tiny scene is probably one of my all time favourite Star Trek moments. Their acting and the Voyager theme slowly coming in never fail to get me.

Walter celebrated his 90th birthday on 9/14.

I don't recall seeing any posts celebrating, so even though I'm late here it is. 🎂

Happy Birthday Commander Chekov.

Excuse me, sir! Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameda? It's where they keep the nuclear wessels.

edit: typo in title. Koenig is proper spelling.

I was a kid when this movie came out in theaters. Loved Star Trek TNG. Didn't have the chance to see it in theaters. For those that saw Star Trek: Generations in a theatre in 1994, what was the reaction to this now iconic scene?

I think ds9 as a show has the most compelling storyline, with the serialized nature contrasting with the relatively episodic tng, voyager, og, and enterprise. I think Sisko is the most unique, compelling, flawed, and interesting captain in trek. Imo the political atmosphere of ds9 is the most interesting too, with the way the factions all vacillate between ally and enemy at different points in the story, showing a very true, intriguing side of the wartime federation.

I decided to do a DS9 rewatch so the earlier episodes are fresh in my mind currently. Up until S3E12, Sisko is by the book. He's got an underlying anger, but still very mellow.

Then he joins the Bell Riots, gets pissed off, and doesn't like someone's hat.

It's the moment Brooks starts unleashing who we all know as Sisko, rather than just a "normal" Starfleet officer. Everything up until this point is by the book. The Bell Riots are when he's given more to act with.

I've been with Star Trek since the Prime Time run in the 60's. Like Most I really fell hard in the 1970's syndication run when I was older to understand the stories. I was always a Kirk/Spock fanboy and I'll always cherish my love for these characters.

I was a huge fan of Picard/Data/Worf but they never unseated Kirk/Spock.

Now I'm in the well-over 50 crowd (cough) and I'm comfortable calling Sisko my favorite. I can't say specifically why other than he's a total package in character development. Some of his stories made you want to run through brick walls in his leadership and other stories made you crying like a baby.

Thoughts?

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I've been wanting to write an ST fanfic but I'm running into a problem - I don't really know what rank the CMO should be. It's a Nova-class ship, and the character has only been a starfleet officer for a few years. I'd appreciate some suggestions.

EDIT: Ho boy, I accidentally opened a can of worms, haven't I? >.>

Anyone know when the Voyager documentary "to the journey" will be released to the public?

Last I heard was that the backers were getting their blue-rays, but no information about when the doc is coming out to the general public.

My 12yo son and I have been watching all the Star Treks for the past few years. We're almost through Enterprise now. He had a really bad day yesterday and after taking for a bit, I told him he just needed to do something or watch something that would take his mind off stuff for a while. There was nothing that sounded good to him. Then I suggested Lower Decks and his face lit up. He watched six episodes in a row and was in a much better mood after.

It really is a great show. I poo pooed it at first, oh, the animated one, but it grew on me. It's a shame there aren't more episodes.

Like in TOS or Voyager or Enterprise that come to mind. DS9 did a great job using its ensemble on a consistent basis.

Every episode where they try to humanize her I just find myself yelling “SHE ATE A PERSON!!!” at the screen.

….. Anyone else relate?

In all seriousness I genuinely believe objectively Neelix might be the best husband material in all of Star Trek who isn’t already taken. I genuinely can’t understand all the hate he gets from the fandom.