Makes sense, since it literally is the Academy (well, part of it), so it's basically a straightforward description. (Much like "Starship Class" on the TOS plaque.)

The makeup department head and key contact lens technician for SA did not, in fact, work on PIC. Their previous Trek projects were DSC and the Section 31 movie, and the contact lens tech also worked on SNW.

In fact, apparently the reason the season 2 TOS Klingons didn't have the same makeup used in "Errand of Mercy" & season 3 is that Fred Phillips just forgot what he'd done the first time.

And I can say from experience that no matter how many eyes are on a project, things can and will be overlooked.

In-universe, maybe, but that feels like trying to cover for the show's makers apparently just forgetting the one defining prosthetic attribute of Betazoid characters, which is tantamount to forgetting to give Vulcans pointed ears. Just as they apparently forgot the telepathy/empathy thing.

Yeah. I'm all for inclusion, of course, but if you want to include a deaf/signing guest star, maybe cast him as someone other than a Betazoid. (Maybe a member of Riva's species from "Loud as a Whisper.")

It also seemed a little cutesy to use the ST:TMP title font for the subtitles.

It's been 8 centuries and they were genetically engineered to start with.

I have a bigger problem with the show forgetting that full Betazoids are telepaths, not just empaths, and that they have black irises.

It looks like you didn't take the time to follow the article link I already posted. As I said, quantum checksums are used in error correction in quantum computing. Quantum entanglement occurs in many contexts. All physics is quantum physics.

Sounds plausible.

Where do you get "wrong" from? They never said it had anything to do with parallel universes; someone here just guessed that with no basis. It was a biometric identity scan for computer access. A quantum-computing term is not entirely out of place in that context.

True, TOS was nowhere near hard science fiction, but it was vastly more science-literate than the rest of the nonsense that populated 1960s-80s SFTV. Just knowing that the speed of light existed and what the word "galaxy" meant put it far ahead of the competition.

Oh, not at all. The original STAR TREK was one of the first SFTV shows to consult with scientists, engineers, and researchers to create a plausible future, even if they often ignored the advice for dramatic license. And TNG's early seasons were even better at good science. Not so much since, alas.

I didn't have subtitles, but I did notice Almond Basket's name in the credits.

No, quantum checksums are a real thing used in quantum-computer error correction. Though I'm not sure why an error correction technique would be used for biometric identification.

quantumexplainer.com/quantum-chec...

It annoys me that fiction is still all-in on "retinal scans," which were a novelty in the 1980s but have long since been supplanted in real life by easier, more accurate iris scans. Worse, some shows depict iris scans but *call* them retinal scans, confusing the front of the eye with its back.

They also left out the Cerritos, the Protostar, La Sirena, and the Titan-A.

Given their limited responses, I'm not sure any TOS AIs were actually sentient, besides Rayna Kapec. And the Shore Leave planet computer, as retroactively established in TAS. And maybe M5, since it was based on Daystrom's engrams.

Heck, that was always obvious even in standard definition. Film of a real video image never looked remotely that clear. Also, film is 24 fps and video is 30, so filmed video monitors would flicker and strobe unless they used special monitors calibrated for 24 fps and synced with the film camera.