The initial plan for Picard was not to have most of the Next Generation cast appear. You even told them that during a gathering.

Fun Fact. In the ready room interview Brent Spiner retells, in Stewart’s voice, what they were told over dinner:

yes there’s a new show and no you’re not in it

Seems like a real one and I hope he does well in the next gig. I await the day I can point to him on the screen and say “Did you know he was in Star Trek also?”

Every frog has its thorn

Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) as Postmaster P in Leprechaun in the Hood

Worf must be on the cover of the collector’s edition

Worf on race relations

Captain, these are Romulans. They are without honour.

The Borg have neither honour nor courage.

The Cardassians have no honour. I do not trust them.

Romulans are treacherous, deceitful. They are without honour.

The Romulans! I always knew they were without honour. Now they have proven it.

These Breen are without honour.

Worf on everyone else

The Duras family is corrupt and hungry for power with no sense of honour or loyalty.

Your family has never valued honour.

Unlike you, I still have a sense of honour and loyalty.

You will say anything. You have no honour!

You rule without wisdom and without honour.

You will die without honour.

Not OC, but def my fave meme about the parasites

I had a similar realization when rewatching 03x04 Who Watches The Watchers. Those Mintakans would eventually realize they are unrelated to every other life form on the planet.

They might even have legends of a man in the sky promising them a new world, now a theory to be wholly supported by the biological record x_x

The steam discussions are as spirited and divisive as I expected lol.

Too many problems that show it’s wearing a skin suit like a serial killer pretending to be your neighbor to be invited inside the house. It’s simply not Trek.

1. Resource bottlenecks - Not a thing in Trek.
2. Crew Morale / Hunger - Not a thing.
3. Logistics and transport - Not a thing.
4. The “drop” system is borderline P2W mechanics manifest.

I love this meme. There’s one I saw once where he’s trying to explain why he blasted those parasite badmirals. Wish I saved it at the time.

I had no idea they were related, but apparently they were (thanks 😉). But that too was soon retconned:

According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda, when mentioning of the speed limit was abandoned a few years after “Force of Nature”, it was assumed that newer ships, such as the USS Voyager and USS Defiant, had improved environmentally friendly warp drive systems, that did not cause damage to the spatial continuum.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Variable_geometry_pylon

Warp 10 and salamanders. Great examples 👌

But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?

Later, the Federation Council issues a new directive limiting all Federation vessels to a speed of warp five except in extreme emergencies.

Laughs in Janeway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Starships were meant to fly

My wife (and probably many others) disagrees, but I’m firmly of the opinion that Starships by Nicki Minaj is an uncertified trek banger 🙌

Enterprise was not bad at all.

Phlox, rub some decontamination gel on this revisionist history! The worst part was absolutely all the oily creeper shots.

Not sure if you’re actually wanting animated or not, but Scavenger’s Reign is a good animated sci-fi miniseries of a spaceship crew stranded on a strange planet.

For live action check out the two Callister episodes of Black Mirror.

Really thoughtful read. I especially appreciated this

The term woke originally meant something quite simple: Being awake to injustice. However, in recent years, it has undergone a remarkable semantic inversion. For some critics, woke has become shorthand for any narrative that asks viewers to empathize with someone outside their tribe.

This is why stories about immigration policy, systemic injustice, or forgiveness trigger such strong reactions. They are perceived not as entertainment but as ideological intrusion. They become “the enemy.”

Edit: also this, meant only as a jest 🖖 :

Incredibly well done episode. Not sure others have mentioned these, but I really really liked these things in particular:

• Reno has great presence and delivery. And the sharpest uniform.
• I’m glad the announcer from Children’s Hospital fell through an anomaly and arrived in Starfleet Academy.
• English graffiti and open flames everywhere! J/k how could they get everything else so right but then fumble this so poorly. You’re telling me the venari ral are space romans, but not romulans?

A great first season, I feel like they know what they’re doing and I want more.

They are in the middle of — it’s not just drinking from one firehose, there’s probably ten thousand hoses. And so everything is just happening slower as a result of this massive time of transition. And that is not exclusive to Star Trek.

As a corporate drone I see this as an absolute win.

The odds are near their highest that Academy will be rubberstamped simply because it passes a triage check and they’re too busy to bikeshed the details.

This was an problem that Picard showrunner Terry Matalas ran into when he pitched his Star Trek: Legacy spinoff series set on board the USS-Enterprise-G (formerly USS Titan), as all of those sets were destroyed immediately after Picard season 3 wrapped up, adding significant startup costs to recreate everything for a new show.

Ah so that’s why that sets are relevant. No sets no spinoff.

He’s been meaning to ask her why her uniform is a catsuit made of office carpet.