“Blackbody radiation” is just… what makes stars glow.

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He works in Manhattan, for the Sheffields.

It’s kind of frustrating that 90s Trek actually gave an in-universe description for the ridgeless Klingons, because it really should have just been a case of “the aliens are the same, but this is how they’re portrayed now”. Like, my head-canon is that the TOS Enterprise looks just like the one in SNW; they just didn’t have the budget/technology to accurately show it in the 60s. But now, there gets to be a plot hole of why Kor has ridges now, but won’t 5 years later in “Errand of Mercy”, and then will again by the late 24th century in DS9.

I think I would have liked this episode better if only the scenes on the planet had been black and white.

Yeah, in the last few minutes of the episode, I kept thinking how in TNG they would have discovered it was an anaphasic lifeform or some kind of telepathic residue or something, and here we don’t get any explanation. Maybe they’re trying to spin off Section 12 as some kind of “X-Files in space”.

I am glad to see Prodigy getting some love, but “Kobayashi” is actually one of my least favorite episodes of the series. I assume it’s on the list because of the fan service. I think a much better episode of S1 is “Time Amok”.

In the same vein as TNG “Disaster”, I’m really done of DS9 “Starship Down”.

IMO the scene of Pike making serious faces to show he was debating whether to intervene probably would have been better if some second character like Spock had interjected that maybe this planet was destined to be destroyed like Edith Keeler in “City on the Edge of Forever”.

This episode presents some interesting ethical issues, but I don’t think it really explores them enough. Mostly just dumb and fun.

I was horrified at the end when Pike said “I would have done the same in her place” because what she did was commit mass genocide approaching the scale of Kevin “we have no law to fit your crime” Uxbridge.

John De Lancie in Breaking Bad. Not that he was bad as Q, of course, but he didn’t usually have very meaty material to work with.

It was bad, but I don’t think it was her fault.

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Petition to rename borg cubes greeblecubes.

This is just depressing. Wish this show could have been given the chance TNG was.

(Apologies for being a huge nerd)

“jiH batlh SoH” bothers me for a number of reasons. batlh refers to personal internal honor or integrity, while honor given to others is quv. Also, you wouldn’t normally use personal pronouns (jiH and SoH) in this case, but a prefix on the verb (like how in Spanish, the verb’s conjugation makes the subject obvious without explicitly having to say yo or tú), and finally, if you do have explicit subjects and objects, Klingon is an OVS language, so this order would mean “you honor me”. I think it should actually be “SoS, qaquvmoH.” Now, all that said, if the original comes from “The Bonding”, then mostly I’m just impressed that a TNG episode bothered to use real Klingon at all. Usually 90s Trek just used gibberish in Klingon dialogue.

“The only thing that allows me to bear my infinity is not having to love anyone” may be one of the most devastating lines I’ve ever heard.

I literally spent the whole episode whispering “don’t kill SAM, don’t kill SAM” to myself

Of course I do, and I love DS9 so I’m excited for this, but also, I’m sure lots of other interesting stuff also happened in the intervening 800 years.