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Sisko is a man of many talents. Not limited to overawing and intimidating Worf of all people without trying very hard.

Would anyone else agree with me when I say “Benjamin Sisko is the best Star Trek captain”? To my mind he dominates any scene he’s in, dwarfing even Shatner at his hammiest.

There is something so archaic yet so very cool about 1960s sci-fi, or more particularly what people back then thought the future would look like. It’s a nice aesthetic and I wish we could see it more often.

The Federation really could do with some heavy battleship divisions for its fleet. The backbone of steel in the line of battle is essential.

Gentlemen, I have a question. So, JJ Abrams isn’t exactly the most thoughtful film maker, right? Well, Star Trek Into Darkness has a lot of problems, and one of its more confusing moments to my mind is when USS Vengeance catches up to USS Enterprise and blasts the crap out of her. In the...

The Prime Directive started out life as a “within reason” thing that any captain worth their salt knew was bendable when necessary. Alas that the writers seemed to forget that as the series went on. Oh God, tell me about it. The Baku were so insufferably uppity for a race that wilfully chose to...

The Emperor rotting on his Golden Throne literally quivers every now and again on account of Star Fleet’s naivety. That aside, as someone who has had soldiers in the family (some who served as recently as Iraq and Afghanistan), Roddenberry’s disgust for all things remotely martial rubs me the...

The Dutch States General or the Venetian Great Council. The Nagus would either be a Doge or a Prince of Orange.

My boy. Ferengi Port Royal. I'm down for this. Not entirely. Whilst these Ferengi would have huge megacorps and the like, they'd still be chartered by the Ferengi government. Essentially, instead of the Trade Federation, they'd have "East India" companies that maintain potent defence forces...

Quite right, but weirdly I think my take on what the Ferengi should have been would have made for a far greater antithesis (aside from the good old Romulans) to the Federation than what we got. Ideologically speaking a mercantile empire, off exploring and conquering its section of the Alpha...

You know, having recently watched some DS9 clips concerning the Ferengi, is it bad that I find them...frankly absurd? I know they were made as a really hamfisted critique of capitalism, and Quark is entertaining, but their obsession with profit goes beyond even self preservation. That a...

Oddly enough, positioning the bridge/CIC outside the superstructure can be quite sensible. Aside from the more obvious line of sight provision, you have made more room in the main superstructure for extra shield generators, engines, or juice for your main guns.

In a weird way, Master and Commander: the far side of the world, effectively executed semi-Wesley like characters quite well. As it's set during the Napoleonic Wars aboard a British frigate, there are a bunch of midshipmen (effectively officers in training) who are incredibly young...

Holy shit, I didn't realise it was that bad. Poor concept and poor execution make for story telling diarrhea.

As someone who is something of an outsider when it comes to Star Trek, might I ask what is going on with Wesley Crusher? From the bits I've seen of him he strikes me as a rather irritating character who's reputation among fans isn't undeserved, although it seems I've only scratched the surface...

Denizens of the Sietch. Would I be wrong in saying that, if the Defiant is what happens when Star Fleet tries its hand at a warship, then the Sovereign class is when the Feddies build a battleship. Seriously, this thing is a monster. As I understand it, it could slag an Imperial Star...

If you operated purely off Star Trek 2009, you wouldn't realise that Vulcan has massive cultural significance to the Romulans (disregarding just how much of an important planet Vulcan is. You could literally make an entire trilogy out of its destruction and the aftermath, but JJ Abrams is an...

It's only vaguely relevant to this thread, but I couldn't help but put my thoughts down. The Romulans (if you ignore Star Trek: Picard) are sort of awesome, aren't they? A technologically advanced empire that actually behaves like an empire (which hilariously baffles the Federation), with a...

Grand strategy, tactics, and megaton levels of shooty bang bang between dummy thicc warships are always a winning combination for me.

Oh God Emperor, it sounds like everything bad about Star Wars: Rebels on steroids. It's dead, Jim. It really is this time.