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Disclaimer: I am on a substance, so my emotions are high. This will feel like a rant and it is. I am also very upset because of this topic. I just wanted to reflect on something that I was thinking of related to Star Trek. Warning, my thoughts may not flow smoothly.

I work in retail. Tonight I got very upset by something that seems blasé, insignificant, etc: Dubai chocolate . I’m not going to write about that in full. Just know that I find the real Dubai chocolate and it’s popular imitation flavored treats to be extremely unethical to consume. I am also ASHAMED by association of my ethnicity (a Filipino chef is credited as one of the inventors). Why? UAE.

Having tolerance for your fellow humans who are inherently different from yourself should be something all people accept. If you are in a structure of hate or showing support by association (for example in name or displaying of symbols), you therefore enabling said hate.

Do not support or enable systems of hate. No person should be erased for being different than those in power. Being different as Star Trek has taught me, is what makes this universe so beautiful. That diversity is the beauty.

It is heartbreaking when I see things like human rights abuses and genocide not only enabled but supported. I wish humanity could turn away from so much hatred.

Recently I rewatched “North Star” (ENT season 3 episode 9). You might think it’s an Earth-like planet story on the surface, and it is. But this time I noticed something that made me swell with catharsis. I have always considered the character Jonathan Archer to be a role model of sorts. For me I grew up with Enterprise as the first series I was old enough to watch from first to last episode during its first broadcast. I was 10-years-old. If any of this sounds familiar, you probably remember me from STLV last year at Bakula’a panel, talking about this in the preamble to my question.

I looked up to Archer as an example of what humans should strive to be. For a school history project I had to do something that was about the Silk Road (I was in the 6th grade). Long story short, this was for a History Day Project. I decided to write a short story since that was an option. My story, I named the main character Jonathan Archer. As a kid I was so inspired by the righteousness of having tolerance for people that were unlike yourself. Being a person of Asian descent, I had my share of experiences after 9/11.

“North Star” reminds me of why Star Trek has been a large part of my life. Recently I got a IDIC tattoo. Anyways back to the episode. In this episode, the NX-01 find a planet with a small town that resembles a Western town of Earth, 200 years prior. The crew come to learn that Humans were kidnapped as slave labor by aliens. Eventually the Humans rose to become the people in power, subjugating and oppressing the aliens that kidnapped them long ago. Archer decides to help the oppressed aliens and the allied Human. The message was simple: I don’t think [another persons] life is any less valuable than mine. It moved me to tears.

There has been a lot happening in the world this past year. Everything is exhausting. I wish humans could change for the better and end all this hatred we see all around. 😢

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Strange New Worlds is about to enter its endgame, with all eyes on how it will likely bring about an end to Star Trek‘s current streaming era with its fifth and final season. But before we get there, we’ve still got new adventures to go on… and even though there are teases of some wackiness, it looks like the show is trying to put its game face on for these last few innings.

Today during a panel at CCXP Mexico, Paramount unveiled the first full trailer for Strange New Worlds‘ fourth season, which will begin airing this summer. Much like our first look back at New York Comic Con last year, the overall tone here wants to strike a more serious balance in the Enterprise crew’s new missions, compared to the wildly uneven tone that dogged the show’s very mixed third season. That said, there are still cowboys and dinosaurs in space, and we know puppets are on the way, so your mileage may vary there.

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I'll give a refresher by describing the cold open:

Picard is resting in his quarters when he is abducted a device. It gets detected Data, so Worf orders a security team to the Captain's quarters. It cuts to Picard who attempts communicate with the ship, but gets no response. We cut back to Worf, who sees nothing wrong!

What do you like about it? What happens next? What's your favorite scene? What insights does it give to the star trek universe?

The staged reading for this year is going to be Galaxy Quest. No cast has been announced yet. Got my ticket. Took me ten minutes to purchase it due to technical difficulties.

I really enjoyed this game, and keep thinking I should do a second "all bad choices" playthrough. Sad to hear it's getting pulled from digital storefronts, and people aren't going to have access to it going forward.

So I have been seeing tos reruns and im just boggled by the skirts. Its like anime fan service as you get glimpses of starfleet standard issue panties. Im sitting here thinking. How did I not notice how short they were as a young boy growing up. Like I knew you saw a lot of leg and they were short but feels like wow seeing it now. My best guess is given broadcast resolution back in the day and having a tv under 20 inches and the fuzzyness of analogue rabit ears. Maybe it was not so noticable. Now im seeing it though on HD broadcast to a 90 inch screen and its like. yowzaa!! Seriously its like a live action anime.

Hey yall! I'm stoned af and watching star trek on a weekend, naturally. I lost my place since last weekend in TNG season 3, but I knew that I wasn't far in so I just watched all the intros until I found where I left off. Episode 8 "the price", Troi gets frustrated with the replicator for wanting a "real" chocolate sundae. This raised a question for me, wouldn't food replicators be intelligent enough to simulate the process of "the standard" ingredients being processed into the recipe? Like I thought that was the point of being able to say "Earl grey tea, hot". Like wouldn't she just have to say "betazoid chocolate sundae" or whatever?

EDIT: SECOND QUESTION: Say you have a family recipe cookbook or whatever and the comfort food is in that cookbook, couldn't you just say "simulate the process of making the recipe from this cookbook"?

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FWIW if anyone was still wondering if they'd do anything to fix the reported cliffhanger SFA is going to end on, or if there was a chance in hell that Year One would be a thing.

Although Star Trek‘s utopia might seem like a place where galactic powers would be beyond counterintelligence, the franchise has always loved spies. From loving pastiches to their role as a place to navigate shades of gray otherwise untouchable, spy work has long been a backbone of Star Trek storytelling—which means almost every galactic power has at least one spy agency.

In fact, a lot of them have two! Star Trek loves to split the difference between what it sees as honorable spycraft: counterintelligence agencies performing recon work to safeguard their powers’ interests and a second, even more secretive black-ops division that does all the dirty work in a way that can be sequestered and disavowed… depending on the power, of course. Sometimes the dirty work is all they have!

From Section 31 to the Obsidian Order, here’s a brief rundown of the agencies we’ve encountered across 60 years of Trek history so far.