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  • It’s no more limiting to TNG era stories than the TNG era itself was to TOS era stories. They can’t blow up the Earth or genocide any major races, but beyond that we’ve been given very little information about any character’s future. I didn’t find Star Trek VI any less exciting because I knew the Klingon empire would still be around 80 years later, and I’d say SNW is flourishing under far tighter restrictions.



  • I certainly don’t think they’d continue to move at a high speed. Inertia wouldn’t really apply, because the objects were never really “moving” at all. Space was moving around them, but they were stationary relative to the space inside the bubble.

    So I’d say that if they survived crossing the threshold from the space inside the bubble to the space outside the bubble, they’d basically instantly become stationary.

    The question is can you survive exiting the bubble like that, or would the bubble’s edge tear you apart. But I think we might actually have an answer to this, from Discovery’s last season. Didn’t Burnham survive exiting that enemy ship’s bubble in that first episode, before Discovery beamed her back aboard?




  • Always striking to me how many Star Trek fans are so dismissive of Star Trek. I know its of it’s time, but TOS didn’t take its place in history by accident. Wonderful storytelling, iconic characters - absolutely a must to watch, at least to try it out.

    Voyager, by comparison, is pretty mid. The writing is super inconsistent and it absolutely squanders its own premise. Notable for Janeway, Seven, and the Doctor, but it’s definitely rough going.

    But it’s still a good watch. The only ones I don’t think I could enthusiastically recommend are TAS, Enterprise, and Picard.


  • I’m old enough to remember the premiere of DS9, but I did appreciate Discovery’s move to the future. I liked the political aspects of the rebuilding of the Federation. I have always been a little bugged by how Earth centric Trek tends to be, so I especially appreciated the fact that Earth had seceded by the start of season 3. Not sure how much I can expect Academy to pick up on any of that, though.


  • Yeah, I hate to say it, but it makes sense from a bean-counter’s perspective. Lower Decks seemed to mostly target hardcore fans, and hardcore fans will already be subscribing to watch SNW. If its not gaining them any extra subscriptions, they don’t care about it.

    Section 31 and Academy are both trying to court people outside of the existing fandoms. Certainly not very successfully in the case of Section 31, but the reasoning at play is pretty clear.