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I hated it back in the day. I softened a lot on the design after learning that the execs wanted a straight up Akira as the hero ship on that show, because it was popular from First Contact onward. That said, I would've tried to push it to look more different/more TOS-ish than it did, just to...

JJ Abrams is famously not a Star Trek guy, so odds are he'd be hands off on pretty much everything, except for stuff that'd affect filming/post-production.

JJ Abrams is basically a dime-a-dozen "it's all about the feel" director with a bit more flair, and outsourced the writing to his buddies. Orci and Kurtzman were okay at dialogue, but like a lot of modern writers, they don't seem to give a shit about the logic of the story. It worked out okay...

Honestly, the whole SNW thing with Spock should've really been with an OC, because it makes the whole Chapel/Spock thing super weird and shitty with him cheating on T'pring and her going to run off and marry Roger Korby, then come running back to Spock a few years later.

Star Trek: Infinite drops some real nice art: The first of these pillars is Consistency. We wanted the Star Trek IP to be presented in a respectful, consistent, and synergistic way, to better help us visualize the wondrous universe of grand strategy games. These three key elements will help us...

Seems to be Stellaris mashed up with a bit of Endless Space, given the questline stuff. That said, the questline system makes me genuinely interested in picking the game up once modding tools are available and proven. You could do a lot of stuff with that, and to be super honest, the plain...

The upcoming Star Trek grand strategy game seems like it has potential: The Stellaris DNA is overt from the moment you start playing; most of the game's mechanics and systems are going to be extremely familiar if you're a fan. Science ships to explore and survey systems, construction ships to...

I think there's at least two major overarching camps of Trek fans: The ones who take Trek super seriously all the time. The ones who acknowledge that it can be absurd at times. I know at least Lower Decks is populated by people who fall into the second camp, which is why a lot of people...

I think it's a matter of what you're looking for in Star Trek. If you're looking for cerebral, SRS BSNS Trek... yeah, you're probably going to be disappointed, because the intellectual capacity isn't there in the writers' rooms. And to be honest, unless they open up the writers' rooms for...

Bruh, it's a joke about how Canadian cities are used as stand-ins for New York in tons of TV shows and movies.

To be super real, that was Picard LARPing some other dude's life. That wouldn't really do much of anything to build up Picard's confidence that he wouldn't be a shitty dad like his own dad, and to be fair, he did find out he fucked up his relationship with Beverly in the All Good Things...

https://roddenberry.x.io/ The Roddenberry Archive is doing a thing where they're building a virtual Trek museum, with the goal of letting you walk around the various Enterprises and other hero ships. The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life –...

There's finally an update on Star Trek: Resurgence: https://www.techpowerup.com/307830/star-trek-resurgence-launch-date-confirmed-developer-dramatic-labs-apologizes-for-delays Yeah, sure, that explains why you couldn't have one dude spend like an hour coming up with a brief statement that...

Well, technically, this is before he died from his perspective, but after he died from other people's POV.

Individuals or small groups, yeah. Problem is, if you want to test everyone at one time, you need to do a full crew drill.

Geordi got pigeon-holed into "nerd who can't talk to women" by the writing staff pretty early on, which Levar Burton was pretty salty about. The VISOR being a thing for a few episodes was actually fine. It's actually super rare to have stories where cybernetics are a pain in the ass for the...

Honestly, aside from Star Trek into Darkness and Discovery S1-2, where the writing is just fucking awful all around, there isn't all that much bleakness in post-Berman Trek. Like, any and all foibles Starfleet/the Federation have in Lower Decks is something they already had in Berman era Trek...

Roddenberry was literally dead at that point. Like, he died in 1991 or so, like 6-7 years before DS9 even introduced Section 31.

No, RL CIA is on par with or far worse than even Kurtzman Section 31. Competent CIA refers to a hypothetical CIA that actually does their job with minimal collateral damage and actually effectively deals with threats to their country.

The problem is that both pre and post Kurtzman canon has shown Federation/Starfleet leadership to be massive morons, so there's no valid counterargument that they aren't necessary or justified in their existence. The problem with Section 31 outside of DS9 and Enterprise is that they're written...