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If we're offering design critique, The Paradise Makers did a great job of recreating the retrofuturistic TOS aesthetics.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/01/10/star-trek-icon-william-shatner-roasts-paramounts-continued-attempts-to-memory-hole-captain-kirk-it-makes-no-difference-to-me-that-a-group-who-think-they-are-enlightened-obviously-feels-th/

The EU novels had their own, better-written xenomorph ripoffs. Yagghorths: Questionably-sentient monstrosities which board ships to attempt to devour their crews and have eyeless elongated craniums. Arguably also rip off the hounds of tindalos and are ripped off by STD's tardigrade in that...

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simple fix for TMP, soundtrack by Draft Punk

Those aren't the problems, that'd be that Augments are also smarter and more charismatic. Within days of waking up, Khan had managed to diplomancer a career military officer into leaving her entire life behind to join him as an outlaw and a few years later, was able to make sense of and...

Because the studio special effects budget will stretch to black bodysuits covered in steampunk junk, not CGI grey goo shoggoths.

TOS was written during the dawn of the age of neoliberalism, before the ideology had actually been tested and demonstrated its flaws. The idea was that we'd all get along as equals and with everyone contributing, our progress would increase exponentially, technology providing enough material...

To be completely fair, having Picard show the Eugenics Wars on screen as the end of the cast's current venture into the near future as they get vaporized by nuclear weapons and hunted by genetically augmented supersoldiers would go a long way to redeeming the series.

I thought it was shields providing the actual durability, hulls are just metal.

Something awesome I just found.

Not even Spacebattles approves.

Also on deviantart here.

Wesley is trash in the show, but W. R. Thompson's Debtor's Planet novel goes a long way to redeeming him as a charecter. Really, Debtor's Planet basically takes every stupid idea the writers had for the show*, playing them absolutely straight and redeeming them anyway with good writing. *...