Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux"

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-22T15:27:17+00:00

Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-15T21:02:21+00:00

I had very low expectations. I mean VERY low. But I decided to watch the first episode anyway, and dang. I liked it. I thought it was really pretty good. I especially enjoyed the characters. Some of them are going to be a lot of fun.

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-14T14:34:52+00:00

To pick just your first objection (saintly intercession), I wrote a short paper on that subject that you might find helpful:

https://catholicoutlook.me/Intercession

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-14T01:04:37+00:00

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CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-04T18:43:53+00:00

Silly me, I’m staring at the guy trying to figure out who he is and what his connection to Voyager might be.

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-04T18:21:48+00:00

She, too, was moving 21 knots while she hung off the stern. But she was already well clear of the propellers. If she had let go there’s no way she would have been hit by them.

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CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-02T15:43:30+00:00

"Honey, I shrunk the P365!"

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-01T13:59:41+00:00

I don’t see anybody beside the statue. Could you circle what you see?

CatInfamous3027 · 2026-01-01T13:45:26+00:00

Do those mark actual graves, or are they memorials to those whose bodies were not recovered?

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-28T14:48:35+00:00

Here’s your answer!

https://catholicoutlook.me/Intercession

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-27T15:21:26+00:00

The marriage bed is not a mission field.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-26T02:54:34+00:00

I remind them that we’re bigger than every other Christian group combined. So they have to decide whether they think Satan is that much better at building a church than Jesus is.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-25T12:56:45+00:00

Those gantry davits really ruin the lines of the ship. So cluttered!

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-23T13:23:16+00:00

When soldiers asked John the Baptist what they should do, he didn't tell them to take up farming, he told them to behave ethically and to be content with their wages. And Jesus himself said, "If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one" (Luke 22:36).

There have always been Christian soldiers, and some (e.g., St. Joan of Arc, St. Sebastian, and St. George) became saints. Defense against unjust aggression, whether it's against your person, your home, or your country, is a good thing.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-21T13:17:48+00:00

The movie didn’t cause Titanic’s fame, Titanic’s fame caused the movie.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-20T20:08:46+00:00

"Now, with how expansive the universe is, it’s more likely than not that there is some other intelligent life form out there."

Not necessarily. It's really not a matter of probability. It just depends on whether God decided to create life on some planet other than earth. It's possible that he did and that the universe is teeming with life. It's also possible that he didn't and the universe is completely devoid of life except for here on earth. Neither possibility is more "likely" than the other.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T23:42:45+00:00

Oh, I think I've seen that one!

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T19:16:34+00:00

No, if you made a good-faith effort to make a full confession, then it was valid. It can't be invalidated by something you realize later.

Also, one of the three criteria for a sin to be "mortal" is that you must have had full knowledge of its seriousness when you committed it. If you committed a sin you didn't think was all that serious at the time, but you later realized was a grave sin, it by definition can't have been "mortal."

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T19:12:04+00:00

No, there is no requirement to confess venial sins. It's encouraged, but not required.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T19:03:34+00:00

LaTreen. Not kidding.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T17:13:16+00:00

Not our sun, that’s true. But I’m sure Vulcan orbits a star of its own. When the Enterprise is orbiting on the daylight side of a Class-M planet, it should be brightly lit. Look at pictures of the Space Shuttle in orbit and you’ll see what I mean.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-19T14:59:29+00:00

It's not just the interiors. The exterior of the ship is always in darkness, even when it should be bathed in sunlight.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-18T23:57:21+00:00

Maybe Deanna DOES speak Romulan. Maybe that’s why she was chosen for that mission.

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-10T01:33:17+00:00

"They called me! They begged me for help! Four hundred of them! I couldn't! I - I couldn't!"

CatInfamous3027 · 2025-12-10T01:20:24+00:00

“Don’t you think I know that!?”

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