We know more about Nog’s (and maybe Rom’s) inner life than we know about Riker.

DS9 did more with supposed secondary characters than the others did with leads.

This takes me back.

I did the same thing (though on Betamax). 4pm every day after school on channel 6. I got very good at timing the commercial breaks to pause the recording.

The Savage Curtain was my last episode.

Arrival of Seven in Voyager

Destruction of USS Odyssey in DS9

And I’ll second Way of the Warrior

I can totally hear that line in his voice. Frank Gorshin’s delivery of pretty much any line is always so distinctive. I don’t know if it’s good or not. Maybe not. But it’s just so distinctive. It rivals Shatner.

Yep. It’s there.

As a fan, to me Section 31 is a worse movie but Into Darkness is a more insulting one.

Into Darkness was trying to be Star Trek but (to me) came across as a mockery of Wrath of Khan rather than an homage.

Beyond window dressing Section 31 isn’t even trying to be Star Trek.

It turns into out-and-out fantasy. It also gets repetitive.

With that said I kept going all the way to The Given Sacrifice which is book 10 but in retrospect I probably should have stopped much sooner.

YMMV

I enjoyed both but preferred Nantucket as well.

I do like how Stirling has these isolated groups become focused around one cultural element. Always wanted to see what happened to a Star Trek convention. IP nightmare not withstanding.

Love this. Particularly the last line.

It reminds me of when Scotty was in the big chair in TOS. No flowery speeches. Not a lot of introspection.

Problem. Solution.

Klingon in the way? We go right down his throat.

Landing party held captive? We turn the power off.

When I taped TOS episodes off TV as a kid (channel 6, 4pm) I got extremely good at knowing what the last commercial in a break would be and timing the button to un-pause the recording.

It’s a skill set this generation has lost.

I think… Think… Picard was self-aware enough not to do this. But I can picture another officer with his certainty about his own culture but less discretion lecturing a Bajoran about holding onto your ideals and being told that a couple industrial replicators would make that a lot easier.

Her life experience taught her that idealism is a luxury. I think Picard would (and did) disagree with that. In the TNG era we are largely supposed to agree with him that idealism is the groundwork for paradise rather than result of it. DS9 decided to ask if that is an attitude of privilege.

Sloyan is always a great pick!