Good thing there’s still a large backlog of Trek novels I haven’t read yet. Not really a consolation prize or silver lining, but it’s at least something.

Just poker, drinking, and hanging out.

Only in spirit. At this point in my life, my lack of tattoos is my own tattoo.

A Ferengi ship? Interesting choice!

TIL that I’ve always been looking at them backwards. I always thought the curved section was the front.

maybe they don’t use plasma at all?

Never even thought of that. There was a lot of dialog and plot points about finding alternatives to warp after the Burn, and we know they still use dilithium as a regulator, so I assumed they’re still using the same M/A reaction as before. But it’s very possible they extract the energy from the reaction in completely novel ways now.

Was just assuming the same way as we’ve always known because (checks notes) the nacelles still light up blue lol.

I could but probably won’t. I’ve already settled on DS9 mixed with a nap or 3 as my reward for surviving a really crappy and stressful week at work.

Glad I’m not the only one mortgaging their Saturday and hoping to pay it in full on Sunday 😆

Good catch. I knew Book’s ship did the fancy, in-flight reconfiguration but never caught the Discovery refit using similar capabilities. Guess it was a subtle thing I just missed.

Edit: The other “how” I’m still struggling with is how the detached nacelles receive the warp plasma from the core. Is it more efficient to just do a continuous transport of warp plasma? Are there many, distributed warp reactors in each nacelle/throughout the ship? I long for the technical manuals on these newer models lol.

LOL. As far as how I’d like to spend my retirement, that’s definitely in my top 3.

Ooh, yeah. I always forget about the circular nacelles on Vulcan ships. They do have a certain elegance to them.

I’m not versed in the arts, but going by this definition of art deco:

the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements.

Oh, nice. Never heard of that but will definitely give it a go.

Also quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s “retro Art Deco” style.

I almost added “retro Art Deco of the Crossfield class” to my examples but wasn’t 100% sure that was right. Thanks for confirming lol. But definitely love the style of it.

And yeah, I’m still warming up to the detached nacelles of the 31st 32nd century ships. I’m assuming it makes sense in-universe, but my brain is still trying to figure out how.

hanging out with Marina Sirtis for exactly one day, and I would be utterly exhausted at the idea of spending any longer than that.

Sirtis is a lot more like Lwaxana than Troi ever was. Also, @29:48 in the same video:

Well, I only do stuff that’s cult: Star Trek, Gargoyles, Sharknado. It makes sense.

–Marina Sirtis

Oh, “The Dark Veil”, yeah. It wasn’t bad but was definitely the weakest of the 5. I could swear the entire plotline was recycled if not from Trek itself then from some adjacent sci-fi.*

The only one I haven’t read is the Rios one since it’s the only one I can’t buy DRM-free. “Second Self” (the Raffi one) and “Firewall” (the Seven one) were both excellent.

*Or maybe the reclusive aliens on the ark ship in Dark Veil were just similar enough to the reclusive Caeliar and their planet ship in ST: Destiny that I had read shortly before.

Very well could be. It’s a quote from a panel they did on the Star Trek Cruise not long ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML_ScYo8wQ) and everything was off the cuff (and maybe a little drunk?) . I’m about 15 minutes into that recording as I reply.

I would definitely enjoy Legacy , but I was a total sucker for the fan service that was PIC S3. After reading the rest of the Picard tie-in novels (thanks for the recommendation, BTW), seeing Captain Seven command the Enterprise would be pretty great.

I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.

I did come across a TNG CD holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928

Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol

I love that “banana for scale” is also applicable to radioactivity.

I gotchu.