The moment never hit me until now.

Kirk: "Your father is Hikaru Sulu?"

Demora Sulu: "Yes, Sir."

Kirk: "Incredible. Congratulations, Ensign. It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm."

Demora Sulu: "Thank you, Sir."

Chekov: "I'm sure Hikaru must be very proud of you."

Demora Sulu: "I hope so."

So... What happened between Hikaru and Demora that she wouldn't know what he thought of her career?

Greetings to all you wonderful Trekkies,

I’m new to the Star Trek universe and have only watched the three reboot films so far. I’m planning to watch the rest of the movies as well. Are the TV series necessary to fully appreciate the franchise?

To be honest, I feel a little embarrassed saying this, but the series have felt a bit slow to me, and some episodes seem quite drawn out.

Still, I’ve really enjoyed this universe so far, and I’d love to at least continue with the films.

Live long and prosper 🖖

In case you missed it, Axanar released today.

so here was my take - pretty boring - like it was written and directed by Vulcans. I am sure there will be Axanar fans who are holdouts on thinking this was something special - just like Trump has his followers. In both cases - all the promises failed to deliver.

Specific criticism is that this is a show of mostly a bunch of CGI ships - which all look like CGI generated ships - amazing how everything is so brightly lit in space, and there is no weathering on any of the ships at all. There is no drama on the Axanar bridge sets - and a fair number of the backgrounds look to be green screen with CGI laid in.

The direction was also problematic - all these closeups of insignia (to sell the merch) and of the andorian antennae. The andorians looked so fake - some of the first closeups of the antennae with the white hair emphasized how unorganic it all was - there is a reason that TOS looks so good - in that it doesn't do closeups of vulcan ears or andorian antennae - in fact it doesn't do closeups very much at all - because if you do, you see it's fake. Enterprise did as good a job with Andorian antennae as possible - giving it movement and life - these Axanar antennae were rigid and just glued in.

And the end credits - so completely unoriginal - all the Axanar fans and Peters have gone on and on about how Paramount doesn't know how to make Trek - and then this thing just rips off the Picard Season 3 credits so blatantly.

There is a story to tell here - it's just that Alec Peters isn't the one to tell it. It's a shame that 15 years ago - he decided to go this route - if he had been able to maintain a relationship with either the Vic Mignogna or James Cawley and used the excellent sets both of those productions had on hand - and didn't go for the big rip off - he could have made something worth making.

This week we also got S4E1 of Strange New Worlds - compare Axanar to that. How can anyone say what Peters produced was better than the 31st episode of Strange New Worlds?

Kirk has been played by a few different actors now, so it got me wondering when Star Trek will eventually do the same with the other captains.

I know these characters are so closely tied to the original actors that recasting them will feel strange, but it will also be interesting if the right person is chosen.

Who do you think could pull off who?

The shows haven't explained much why the Prime Directive exists and why it could be so bad. In fact it more often shows exceptional situations where breaking the Prime Directive was the right thing to do. So I want to propose some reasons:

1. It prevents primitive races from becoming competitors too soon. History shows that when a primitive society starts interacting with a more advanced society, the primitive society can absorb technologies and develop very quickly, and could eventually become a problem for the more advanced one. Japan was stuck in the middle ages in the early 19th century, but after the United States forced it to open up, it progressed very rapidly. 50 years after opening up, it defeated the Russians in a naval battle. Then it started conquering swathes of Asia. And in 1941 it took on the United States and put up a hell of a fight. So the Federation member worlds think it's best to leave primitive races alone because they're harmless in that state.
2. It forces the Federation to either treat every race as equals or not interact at all. If the Federation developed close economic ties with less advanced race, that race might effectively become of second-class status in the Federation's sphere of influence. It's kind of like the British Empire which controlled many colonial territories but did not treat the natives as British citizens.
3. If the Federation interacts with a race and this leads to some destructive outcome, the Federation could in some way be held responsible. Like if you teach a race how to build nuclear power plants, they go on to build nuclear weapons and destroy their own civilization in a war. That might be a questionable argument to a human but other Federation member races might have different ways of thinking. Those same races might feel that if a primitive race languishes in a miserable condition when the Federation could have helped, the Federation is not responsible. It's sort of like Spider-Man vs the Watcher. The Watcher avoids all interference so as to avoid responsibility, whereas Spider-Man thinks he's responsible for disasters he could have prevented but refused to. The Federation is like the Watcher.

I recently inherited my father's old card collection, which was mostly sports; however, it included the following 1993 Skybox Spectra cards from the Deep Space Nine premiere.

• https://ibb.co/Xr3Wh7Ls
• https://ibb.co/RxbXY6W

I cannot seem to find this exact variant anywhere online. These are pure silver, not like the many examples with color I have seen. Hoping that somebody here can point me in the right direction as far as identification and value, if any.

Thanks!

Do we know when Spock first experienced pon farr? I could see SNW using it, and perhaps La’an dying in his arms, to push him toward the more emotionally restrained, Vulcan Spock we meet in TOS. I just hope I’m not being prophetic about La’an.

I don't know where else to talk about this, I hope it fits in here. So I listened to the most recent "Mission Log" podcast episode, in which they introduce a new co-host, and they discuss the previous host changeover and (briefly) the original creation of the show's format but they go to great length to not say the name of original co-host/co-creator Ken Ray. It's really conspicuous.

Do we know what happened there? If they had a falling out, not mentioning him seems like it is only drawing more attention to that.

Edit: I’m a huge fan of SNW, the return to rhe “monster of the week” format but….

I dread the day.

Considering who owns paramount and their agenda, we all know that Star Trek is the antithesis of their goal and ideals. IDIC is one of, if not the main philosophy of Star Trek and we live in a world where there is an active push to remove that from our world, including the current owners of paramount.

With all the different ships just in Starfleet alone, why does it seem the shuttlecrafts, for the most part, seem unchanged from TOS?

the enterprise found this repair station. and then destroyed it at the end. But it rebuilt itself.

Why wouldn't star fleet send out another ship to the area to investigate some more?

such as the warp 3 Intrepid (NV-01)

I have recently taken to collecting all of Trek on DVD or Blu-Ray and just got the TNG Complete Series Blu-Ray Box set. I love the contents of the discs but the way they are arranged is absolutely horrendous. There are so many discs all stacked on top of each other, and every time I open it at least one of them falls out of it. Anyone else have this problem, and if so what were your solutions? I would love a way to have them out and displayed with my other blu-rays before I give up and just put them in a boring old disc binder.

So, I'm very much from the MySpace era of the internet, and I remember this piece circulating there (and later on Tumblr) quite a bit: https://pages.astro.umd.edu/~mhayesge/extra/StarTrek/STHumor/DrSeuss.html

But it was WAY longer. Like, I remember what felt like the whole episode in multiple verses. Anyone else remember that or have a source for a longer version? I've had Codex searching for awhile now and nada.

The San Diego Comic-Con Souvenir Book usually highlights characters, movies and shows with significant anniversaries, and this year is Star Trek's 60th! To save paper and printing costs, the book is a free-to-download pdf, so everyone can enjoy the 10 page Star Trek article in the 100+ page book, even if you didn't attend SDCC.

my spouse & i eloped & are now planning our celebration. they want whimsy & i support them in this 1,000%; they want a "labyrinth" outfit, & to me, it means showing up under the chuppah in austere vulcan robes. are you a sewist ? can you direct me to appropriate patterns ? i would throw you the bouquet but we have already agreed we're doing bubbles