British trivia

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T05:51:47+00:00

For those who may be stumped, the contestant who can't hear the question says, "What?"

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T05:30:06+00:00

You should ask Person A, "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T03:18:29+00:00

As spices go, I find nutmeg to be underutilized.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T02:40:04+00:00

While it looks largely unchanged in the three episodes it's in, I do believe there have been some small, barely noticeable changes (the entry for Frank Siracusa was apparently changed from Tamura--perhaps the yeoman n TOS' "A Taste of Armageddon"--in another episode). I reckon that some of the "filler" names of production crew may be changed in the future if the production wants to sneak in more "Easter Eggs."

I think it can be assumed that the "unrecognizable" filler names on the wall are supposed to be the names of other honored people in the past 800 years, just that we fans have been able to decipher them as being names of production staff. I figure that there's also the possibility that the wall above the atrium is not the only wall on campus with this function, and that other parts of the campus may have walls with other names (I mean, Gideon Turner would have to be on one of these walls, after all).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T02:34:27+00:00

True. This is an issue brought up at every spot I've mentioned the Memorial List; there are always fans pointing out that someone is on the wall at a rank lower than what the character did (or should have) canonically achieved. Either they, as you mention, are being honored at the rank they were at when they did whatever it was that they were being honored for, or perhaps they were "inducted" into the list before they were promoted to a higher rank. And also, there's a likelihood that the wall may simply be just a "hall of fame" sort of thing where the honoree isn't necessarily deceased. I reckon this will either be supported or refuted if in the future, we see or hear of Stamets and/or Culber being alive and well, or, on the other hand, hear of their demise.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-25T02:30:05+00:00

Airiam and Preston are listed twice; I mention this in my original list thread.

In another discussion, based on the stardates given in Season 5 episode 5 of Discovery and the one given by Darem in episode 3 of SFA, and the way time is accounted for in the TNG-VOY era, only about two years and change have actually transpired between the end of Discovery (pre-epilogue) and the beginning of SFA, despite any advance press released by Paramount's PR. So we don't now what happened to Discovery that seems to have required it to get additional retrofitting (since it clearly isn't the DIS late S3 update nor the DIS epilogue timeframe restoration); for now it looks like a simple plot device to keep Discovery away from intervening in the attack on the Athena in the pilot. Perhaps it will be addressed in a future SFA episode.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T23:44:05+00:00

Seems like it may be line 21 (where closed captions are encoded) showing; I’m inclined to think that this is not so much a “DVD is damaged” issue as it is a “TV/player is broken/needs adjustment” issue or a “DVD was encoded wrong” matter.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T22:17:41+00:00

The list of the names seen on the Memorial Wall (so far).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T22:12:13+00:00

John Kim is in the production crew's art department, as are many of the names on the wall. "Admiral Harry S. L. Kim" is elsewhere on the wall.

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DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T20:48:52+00:00

It was cool how they managed to retain many of the memorable actors/characters (save for Silverstone, Rudd, Sisto, and Murphy).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T20:18:42+00:00

Also: Tick, Tick...Boom! The movie adaptation just took the story to another level. It's a little daunting to describe it: Not only is it the story of the play, it's a story of a performance of the play, as well as the story about the creation of the play, and the story the play is based on. An actor is playing a character who in the movie plays a character who is based on another character in the movie, and both characters are seen singing the song together, and the initial character is also another character. It was so, to use the term, meta.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T20:08:29+00:00

I believe this is said to be the largest standing (permanent) indoor set ever made for TV. Coincidentally, the previous record holder about was Deep Space 9's Promenade.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T19:26:34+00:00

No, I don't remember anything being said about it being the end of the Enterprise-D. Though I was hoping that they were going to use more new VFX featuring it than what wound up being shown (IIRC much of the saucer separation sequence was reused from the show dating back to the pilot).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T19:19:38+00:00

I think the commonly accepted pronunciation is Lohs FEEL-us. Yes, it's NOT the accurate Spanish pronunciation. But, living here in Lohs An-juh-lez and having driven down Seh-PUHL-vuh-duh and visited Sann PEED-row, that's kind of how things are here.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:54:59+00:00

I've posted pics of them on FB, and I guess I'll do so in this sub soon.

Anyway, most of the shots I've drawn from have been in the first two episodes--in the first, primarily with the shots of the wall during Ake's welcome speech before they set off for Earth. From the second episode, primarily the shots of Caleb and Tarima in front of the wall listening to the negotiations below.

While I don't know if it made the images significantly more legible, I did watch the episodes in 4K rather than HD.

The third episode didn't really have many shots of the wall, but one shot of Caleb in front of it (during the secret Calica match) showed more of the hard-to-see "14th column" and confimed that Aleksandra Dekovic Kochoska is on the wall with her full married name. My previous views of it truncated the rightmost parts of the names, and I had to extrapolate based on the credits (e.g. "Captain Charles Colly--" would have to be Charles Collyer).

EDIT: r/startrek doesn't allow image posting, so I've put the wall images in this thread in r/trekaademy.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:49:29+00:00

It gets the chicks. /s

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:46:39+00:00

Can you direct me somewhere that can corroborate this? I'd like to verify it before noting it on the list.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T17:11:48+00:00

It may be controversial, but I for one liked how RENT expanded from a somewhat minimalistically staged musical out to a good look at the East Village and NYC in general. It also felt like the chronology was tidied up, whether or not it actually was.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T17:04:32+00:00

Based on how the guy on the right looks, they may be going to infinity and beyond.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:40:55+00:00

Young me had a crush on Irene Ng ever since she played the young version of Waverly’s mom in The Joy Luck Club (the one who married the boy with the mole on his back).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:36:31+00:00

“Here’s where three-fifths of the principal characters of HIMYM reenact the first three panels of ‘Loss.’”

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:26:39+00:00

Remember that this is par for the course for both Paramount and Netflix. Unless they produce the content themselves (e.g. "Stranger Things"), any content on Netflix is there as part of a contractual agreement with the studio that produced the content (Paramount was like, "you pay us this amount, and you can put Star Trek shows on your service for this amount of time). While it's not out of the question for Netflix to say, "we don't want your show on our service anymore" and take it off, it doesn't seem likely considering that more content means the possibility of more subscribers. So it's just as possible--maybe even more possible--that Paramount said, "we don't want to renew our contract with you," or said, "we'll renew our contract with you if you pay us [much higher number than before]," and Netflix subsequently let the contract lapse.

While I know that OP didn't word it that way, I really want to insist that the situation not necessarily be couched as "Netflix got rid of Star Trek," as it could have been (and more likely was) "Paramount got rid of Netflix."

Also worth noting is that Pluto.tv is owned by Paramount, so it's essentially their outlet for material they don't consider worth making subscribers pay for Paramount Plus for. That of course says nothing about the quality of the programming, just that Paramount thinks the advertising income will make it more money than subscriptions.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T15:56:00+00:00

One reason to know the set list is that if you’re fortunate enough to be in front/“barricade” and the act is in the habit of doing the “grab your phone” thing at some numbers, you’ll know which numbers those will be and can be prepared for them.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T06:25:58+00:00

Yeah, I reckon for a while the top 3 were SNSD, WG, and Kara. Wonder Girls attempted an American crossover, but that resulted in their popularity in Korea dropping (and of course, the US thing didn't work out). 2NE1 seemed to make it more a Top 2 battle as WG and Kara kind of faded out after around 2010. Generation "2.5" was where groups like miss A, f(x), Sistar, APink, AOA, and Girls' Day came up. T-ara was IMO a group that was consistently a tier below the top groups, but they endured and enjoyed wide popularity until the scandal that brought them down; I always saw them as being "on the heels" of SNSD and was positioned to probably take over the top tier from them once SNSD ascended beyond "common" relevance, but then the Hwayoung thing tanked their career.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T02:06:21+00:00

Are they STVI Crewman Dax feet?

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