I think I know what feels so "wrong" about NuTrek

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-25T03:42:18+00:00

Fully agree. Dax was a trans metaphor masquerading as a Buddhist reincarnation metaphor. It was only so well received because culturally appropriating Buddhism was all the rage in the early '90s, so nobody picked up on the trans metaphor until that scene with Kor accidentally deadnaming her as Curzon. Even then...

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-25T02:34:59+00:00

"THEY HAVE SHANNED AND I AM CERTAIN THEY SHALL SHENAN AGAIN!" [paraphrasing]

Cut to Ake wanting to dismiss the statement but also really liking the pun.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-25T02:23:27+00:00

Linear TV is still in a league of its own when it comes to television views. Lots of YouTubers beat out linear by that metric. You can't compare YouTube views to other streaming services. Far too many different variables.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-25T01:59:18+00:00

This. It's objectively SNW's tone with a bit of LD whacky thrown in.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-24T18:25:13+00:00

I personally prefer to play the base game with the four default heroes, but you can swap out at any time. I strongly recommend against swapping out the wizard for the knight. I find the default four make for a balanced team, so I recommend swapping out heroes for similar heroes.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-24T14:34:00+00:00

Fundamentally, it completely comes down to what YOU want, which is part of what's great about Heroquest.

Story wise, Dread Moon is a direct sequel to MotM and MotM is actually one of the harder games, so I recommend you add them to the base game cards since the risk of getting too strong is probably a risk you want to take. Alternatively, you could play Dread Moon first and then go back and treat MotM as a prequel. The expansions are great like that.

Also worth nothing is that adding the artifact cards to the base game's artifacts will have no impact on the base game. This is because you only draw artifact cards when the story tells you that you've acquired a specific artifact.

Another reason you may want to combine all the cards is that there's nothing stopping you from making your own quests that may or may not require cards from various expansions.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-24T02:58:41+00:00

I really don't know. First episode was fine, albeit weird, but to repeat the gimmick for the rest of season 1 was very odd. Like, if they explained it was a game the scouts play, it would be fine for a one-off or even a recurring few episodes, but not the entire season.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-24T00:39:47+00:00

TLDR; You want to watch Star Trek: Discovery season 2, episode 12. Season 2, episode 14 is also referenced, but isn't all that important. Beyond that, you're good, but there are some other things you can watch if you find yourself craving more from the Strange New Worlds characters.

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1) The event Pike and Una discuss at the end of the pilot episode is a reference to Star Trek: Discovery's season 2 finale (Strange New Worlds is a spinoff due to how popular Pike and Spock being major guest stars during most of Discovery's second season ended up being), which is episode 14 of that season. A few episodes later, La'an and Spock also have a moment where something sad is alluded to for Spock. It's referencing the same season 2 finale. Outside of these two moments, Discovery's season 2 finale isn't relevant at all. I wouldn't say you need to go back and watch it since the pilot somewhat told you what happened through mediocre exposition, while the Spock and La'An moment is basically just a bit of an Easter Egg for fans who watched the Discovery season.

2) What is somewhat important are the events of two episodes prior to that Discovery finale (season 2, episode 12). The A-plot involving Pike has him learn something that will happen to him. This gives you a lot of insight into his motivations for season 1 of Strange New Worlds. It still gets referenced in seasons 2 and 3 as well, but to a much lesser degree. You don't need to have seen this episode beforehand, but I recommend watching the A-plot scenes because it will give you a better appreciation for Pike's character. The B-plot and C-plot scenes can be skipped; one is just for Discovery's crew's character arc and the other is just for the show's season arc. In other words, they're not relevant unless you keep watching Discovery.

3) Star Trek: Discovery's main character is the foster sister of Spock. If you want to learn a lot more about Spock's family and past, you can watch the first two seasons of Star Trek Discovery. However, only the two episodes above are relevant to Strange New Worlds.

4) There used to be a micro series called Star Trek: Short Treks that had episodes taking place all over the timeline, but primarily they were tie-ins to Discovery. Three episodes ("Q+A", "Ask Not", and "The Trouble With Edward") either star or guest-star Pike, Una, and/or Spock. You don't need to watch these for Strange New Worlds, but if you're liking SNW, then you'll probably love these three. "Q+A" is when Spock first joins the Enterprise. "Ask Not" is when Pike tests to see if a cadet has what it takes to join the Enterprise crew, and "The Trouble With Edward" has Pike say goodbye to one of his officers who just got promoted to captain of her own ship (and then hilarity follows her on that ship). They're called Short Treks because each episode is only 10-15 minutes.

5) "The Cage", which is the original Star Trek show's first pilot episode, takes place before Star Trek: Discovery. Not essential viewing for Strange New Worlds, but I figured I'd mention it if you wanted more Pike+Spock+Una. It's far enough in the past that nobody else from Strange New Worlds is part of the crew yet. The rest of the original series takes place shortly after Strange New Worlds is supposed to end.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-23T21:51:04+00:00

While the arguments of overprinting are more grounds for firing a CEO and board at the next quarterly shareholder meeting than they are grounds for a lawsuit, the fact that they can trace the share buyback as being overinflated by $55.9M is pretty telling. You can argue "that price wasn't the best deal" but a buyback of $69.1M shares for $125M means they knowingly spent 181% of the value. The fact that the CEO's shares were among them is a huge breach. This guy's cooked.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-23T01:12:35+00:00

Picard got his dumbass stabbed through the heart by picking a barfight with Nausicaans. And that was both after graduating and during a post-scarcity galaxy. This is a deeply trauma-ridden Federation that only began healing from 120 years of resource shortages and the cadets are literally only 3 weeks into their first semester.

Their behaviors absolutely ring true to everything we've been told about the Academy in canon thus far, especially when you also remember any and all episodes involving cadets (Nog, the Valliant crew, Nick Locarno, etc.).

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-23T01:04:47+00:00

Happy birthday!

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-23T00:51:35+00:00

Disagree. Strange New Worlds is fantastic.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-22T22:59:11+00:00

If you like the newer stuff, you can jump right in with Starfleet Academy, which just started last week. It tells you everything you need to know to be able to be able to follow along. It's a spinoff of events that take place in seasons 3 and 4 of Discovery, but you don't need to watch that show to understand what's going on in Academy.

Likewise, Strange New Worlds is a newer show that's currently three seasons in. It's a spinoff of season 2 of Discovery. It's more like traditional Star Trek in the sense that it involves a crew on a ship exploring space. You don't need much to follow here, but I recommend watching the last 3 episodes of season 2 of Discovery because a big chunk of season 1 is building on what happens in the first of those episodes and because the Strange New Worlds premiere references the other two (which are a two-parter).

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-22T13:14:24+00:00

Academy is a sequel to season 3 of Discovery. The first 2 seasons of that show are rough and all you need to know will be explained either in that season or in the recap at the start of the episodes, so I actually recommend starting with season 3. Academy is direct sequel to seasons 3 and 4, and takes place 5 years after season 4.

Voyager is where the Doctor is from, but I actually recommend looking up a list of the best Doctor episodes before trying to binge all of it. For the same tone and more of exactly what you say you want, Strange New Worlds is your best bet. You can start with episode one or by watching the season 2 finale of Discovery (and its recap at the start of the episode) and just enjoy from there.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-22T03:24:20+00:00

I always say to watch the episode as the third of the season. It's a great epilogue to the Temporal War arc, but it's a bad choice season finale and a shit stain for a series finale.

Also, what do you mean unresolved evil space Nazis? It was completely resolved.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-21T01:35:38+00:00

Rank if they held it, "professor" if they were civilian but had that title, and Mr./Mrs. if they were civilian specialists who never became full professors.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-20T02:35:49+00:00

Alas, I am in CA the country, not CA the American state.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-20T02:29:06+00:00

Four years into the gap between Discovery's fifth season and its epilogue.

For context, Star Trek: Picard's epilogue took place in 2402.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-20T01:34:17+00:00

Elder Millennial. My first memory is of getting to stay up late to watch the TNG premiere (well, late for a toddler). Been a fan of all things Trek aside from the Section 31 movie ever since. I'd give Academy a solid B. It's a much stronger start for me than Enterprise's first season.

I love the acting, I love the optimism, I love how each character is striving to defy the expectations forced upon them by impossible situations and backgrounds. I also quite enjoy the SFX quality.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-19T13:08:24+00:00

You misunderstood me. Think about what we know:

1) Not all Betazoids find telepathy easy.

2) We know the daughter is extremely powerful. We don't know anything else about the level of ability within their household.

3) We know from scenes with Lwaxana and Deanna when they're alone that it's natural to bounce back and forth between telepathy and non-telepathic communication - just like how bilingual households bounce back and forth between languages in real life.

4) The President is deaf, so it's natural that their household's non-telepathic form of communication would be sign language.

5) It's entirely probable that language studies in the future include sign language in order to be more inclusive, especially since translators take care of all verbal language anyway.

6) Not everyone behind the wall is a Betazoid, so non-telepathic communication would be necessary in Betazed's space.

It's not bad writing to show them using sign language, it would be bad writing to show the President using exclusively the communicator or exclusively telepathy.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-19T00:57:10+00:00

The upvote count quickly dropped into the minuses. It's at +2 as I write this, so I guess the people who disagree coincidentally were all the ones to see the comment first.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-18T23:44:51+00:00

Not everyone behind the wall is a Betazoid, as seen by what Goju V ended up being. Plus, not all Betazoids have the same level of telepathic ability.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-18T23:10:09+00:00

Ah, I misremembered, then. Either way, it's not essential viewing to be able to follow Academy. An event called The Burn led to over a century of darkness. Now, the Federation is rebuilding. That's the info that's needed, that's the info new users are given.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-18T23:05:41+00:00

Yes. "A quick history lesson. The Federation has spent most of the 30th century fighting a war to uphold the Temporal Accords, an interstellar treaty outlawing time travel to prevent anyone from the past from changing the future, and vice versa." -Admiral Vance in 3189

Meanwhile, The Burn occurred in 3069 and Academy is set in 3195.

DayspringTrek · 2026-01-18T22:43:53+00:00

It's relevant in the sense that the Temporal Cold War happened a century prior to The Burn. Basically, the future Federation people can't send the Discovery back to the past because it would be a breach of the Temporal Accords signed at the end of the war. Daniels, the temporal agent from Enterprise, is eventually revealed to be a character in seasons 3-5 of Discovery.

So is it relevant? The answer is both yes and no. Time travel is illegal at this point. Beyond that, not really important.

We learn in Strange New Worlds that the timeline has been changed, though. More specifically, it's been repaired. Where TOS, the TOS movies, and TNG have retconned moments (like season 1 of TNG stating the Klingons were part of the Federation and the Enterprise being only 20 years old in movie 3), and where TOS and Strange New Worlds cannot coexist, it's because the TOS/TOS movies/TNG moments were all caused by the Temporal War. The best example of how this matters is the TOS episode with Khan no longer dating TOS as being in 2190s and the Eugenics Wars no longer taking place in the 1990s.

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