You can still see the remnants of trying to address the “realism” issue with things like Riker existing at all. Writing in an XO was supposed to divide responsibilities. However if that had been stuck to rigidly, Picard would never be written into many exciting situations.

MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant, but the show kept finding things for him to do.

Sir, this is a Quark’s Bar.

Say what you will about the Borg collective, but at least it’s an ethos.

In regards to unmasking the Breen and removing the mystery, I think back to the words of Spock: “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.”

the finest moment in an already immaculate piece of television is all about the ways to enact violence without lifting a single finger

Rude. Garek worked really hard on that plan.

I’m pretty sure the darkest ST episode was Enterprise’s Rogue Planet.

You can’t see a thing!

Also complaints that lack specificity must be aggravatingly common. I once complained on an open board about a bug in Wasteland 3 and a dev reading comments actually PM’d me asking for details. I provided details as best I could, including screenshots- the very next patch included a fix for my niche issue. But I imagine most bug reports being “GAME BROKEn! SUX! Fix NOW character creation BROKENN!”

In TOS Kirk really leans into not interfering with the “healthy” development of a civilization. If it isn’t healthy in his judgement, he interferes. So, essentially when it comes to Kirk if it offends his sensibilities he assumes free reign change it while paying lip service to the idea of non-intervention.

Not precisely the same, since it isn’t a main cast actor, but the episode ‘Fragile Brilliance’ with the teenaged clone of Jack O’Neill (played by Michael Welch) is always fun. I think he did a great job of playing a frustrated Jack stuck in a kid body.

What I liked most about Andor was how it felt perfectly at home in the Star Wars universe while also having its own distinct flavor.

A lot of modern Star Wars media just keeps leaning on references and recycling of old content. To quote RLM, “I saw things I know!” Andor stayed light on direct references and instead tried to have its own new ideas and visual designs that would fit in the universe.

If Hayes can do that with Trek, it will be very welcome.

Another change is Enterprise being built on earth instead of in orbit.

I’m almost entirely sure that choice was because JJ Abrams wanted that visual in his movie. Justifications to Trek nerds were an afterthought.

Kelvin broke the seal on recasting, as it were.

If Discovery or SNW had been the first to recast Kirk, there would have been a revolt, but since Kelvin got us used to the idea people just kind of accept it.

Me personally? I’m going to back away slowly without giving him my name.

It’s difficult when you know there’s a lot of lurkers. I haven’t gotten around to this community, but I have been trying to revive some other communities. New posts are important just to get some visibility on the feed. I wish wish this community good luck and will try to comment or post here more as well.

Gundam has so many reboots and varying timelines and stuff.

I personally think 8TH MS Team is the peak show for a grounded war story version.

Red+blue = purple, so I assume she is an expendable doctor.

Emma started in 2013.

That baby was Clint Howard.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking Trellium-D.