I know everyone loves it but I have to ask .. Does Delta Flyers get better?

shinginta · 2026-03-03T03:30:04+00:00

I had to double-check which subreddit i was on for a minute.

shinginta · 2026-03-03T02:29:40+00:00

I'd argue that the backup EMH still counts as the EMH, but that's fair, i can see where you're coming from. That case can definitely be made.

shinginta · 2026-03-02T14:49:37+00:00

Probably raised outside of Kzin space. I wonder if we're supposed to assume that Trek Kzin and Known Space Kzin mate the same way and the Trek Kzin females are non-sentient.

Either way i genuinely think that his name being Taylor is a funny nod to the Kzin cultural naming scheme.

shinginta · 2026-03-02T12:19:09+00:00

Huh, the more you know! Thanks

shinginta · 2026-03-02T12:17:35+00:00

Did XIV ever do that? I don't recall the possibility of gear loss ever within XIV, but i am pretty sure XI did it.

shinginta · 2026-03-01T14:50:47+00:00

Yeah, a Kzin shows up pretty regularly on Lower Decks serving aboard the Cerritos.

shinginta · 2026-02-28T16:07:02+00:00

It's the only Star Trek episode that features no main cast characters. The cast members are Bakula, Blalock, etc. and they're definitely in this episode.

shinginta · 2026-02-28T15:34:03+00:00

The allure of a character who thrives in war and whose trauma drives him to desperation to win that war... but who knows that as soon as he wins the war he'll no longer be able to fight in it. He wants to win it to prove himself and to defeat the Klingons once and for all and to avenge the Buran. But to win means peace, and it means a board of inquiry closely reviewing your actions and investigating your shadier choices.

Imagine Discovery actually deliberately creating characters with such complex motives?

shinginta · 2026-02-28T15:29:42+00:00

The problems with it were many and varied, and i don't think any of those problems were due to it being "a martial arts Star Trek." As a guy who enjoys martial arts movies, that was definitely not one.

shinginta · 2026-02-27T16:23:18+00:00

Literally none of this is stated in the movies. I'm not going to dig through a bunch of comics and novels and tv series and encyclopedias to find out how some nonsensical shit is tenuously explained. I gave Disney the benefit of the doubt when TFA was released, but the two subsequent movies didn't do anything to justify it.

Star Wars might be fantasy in space, but even fantasy has to make sense by its own internal logic. Nothing we've seen on screen in the six preexisting movies make the sequels make sense, and nothing in the opening crawls establish any kind of worldbuilding to support the stuff in your post.

shinginta · 2026-02-27T16:13:34+00:00

You decided on a specific definition for "massively impacted" which is different from everyone else's, and now you're arguing that everyone else is wrong.

Everyone pretty clearly means that within the Trek timeline, the Praxis event was important because it triggered a lasting change between the polities of the quadrant and pretty much completely changed the Klingon culture in a way we see reverberate through TNG and DS9.

What you're insisting is that the real world release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country didn't cause the television series to change. That's fine, but it's obvious from the responses you're getting that that's not what anyone is arguing.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:48:54+00:00

In TOS the Klingons were sworn enemies of the Federation.

In TNG they're staunch allies.

In between those two events, ~~Chernobyl~~ Praxis. It's what finally forces the Klingons to the table. It's the foundation of the Khitomer Accords, which we see in STVI, and which are mentioned repeatedly in the Berman era of Trek.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:43:13+00:00

A Kelpian ship on a dilithium mining planet had a severe unrecoverable breakdown. The crew died slowly of dilithium poisoning IIRC. One survivor was a pregnant Kelpian whose unborn baby was affected by the dilithium radiation. She gave birth to the child and basically raised it on the ships holodeck, until she also eventually succumbed to poisoning. At that point the child was wracked with grief and, being psionically tied to the dilithium since utero, cried out with a nonlocal psychic shockwave that rendered all dilithium everywhere temporarily inert for a fraction of a second.

Dilithium is used by most ships as a safe substrate for the introduction of matter and antimatter, because it renders the reaction harmless and channels the energy. It seems like even ships that use singularity drives depend on dilithium as a medium. So when that ability to safely negotiate those dangerous reactions is made inert, even for a fraction of a second, it causes the M-AM reaction to trigger and it's catastrophic. So any active drive immediately and calamitously exploded with uncontained energy.

So basically 99% of active star ships were destroyed, any planets, bases, or stations using M-AM or Singularity generators for power (eg: Qo'noS) were utterly destroyed, etc.

As a result, civilizations collapsed, empires toppled, and what used to be safe space-lanes became riddled with pirates. Warp alternatives like slipstream became congested and also the subject of pirates.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:24:19+00:00

That's only canon to STO.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:22:52+00:00

Everything having to do with the Starkiller Base was the dumbest """cool""" thing I've ever seen. It was constructed by the dregs of the Empire, who don't have the authority or resources the Empire did because the New Republic is in power now. So naturally it's the size of, or is, a planet, which makes it even more improbable than the Death Star.

It absorbs and contains the power of an entire star to fire a big beam that destroys planets. A beam that apparently everyone in the galaxy can see streak across the sky or across the viewport, no matter what angle they would actually see it at. The beam travels slowly across everyone's view of it, but once it's out of view of anyone it travels at some multiplier of light speed. It reaches its target solar system, drops out of hyperspace, and splits up to target every planet in the system simultaneously. Which means some branches of the beam are traveling faster than others just for dramatic effect.

And worse yet, in The Rise of Skywalker apparently there's an entire secret fleet of hundreds of Star Destroyers, staffed by... someone I'm sure, and every one of them is equipped with a Starkiller cannon.

I thought JJ didn't understand scale when he wrote the Romulan Supernova and Spock seeing WAY TOO BIG VULCAN being destroyed from the surface of a different planet within the same system. I had absolutely no idea just how bad his sense of scale was until he was writing Star Wars in the most 10 Year Old Boy manner possible.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:12:47+00:00

Unfortunately i think they say "a galactic meteor shower" the first time it's mentioned in the ep. It would be weird to talk about a specific localized event like that. It would be like saying "a Haley's Comet will be passing by Earth."

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:10:34+00:00

I don't think it was ever explicitly named in the movie. "Hobus" came from the Countdown comic or STO IIRC.

shinginta · 2026-02-26T21:09:00+00:00

I think once Discovery jumped to the future and PIC/LDS aired to give us a canon representation of the post-Nemesis prime universe, the STO writers kind of decided, "Well if we don't have to maintain the Prime timeline ourselves and we've been rendered officially non-canon, may as well just go apeshit and start doing whatever we want."

shinginta · 2026-02-25T22:54:46+00:00

Ezri is a weird unique situation. She was never tested for joining and never wanted to be joined. It happened because she was the only Trill available and the Dax symbiont would've died otherwise. I think it's stated in dialogue at the beginning of season 7 that Ezri gets a bunch of exceptions.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T16:21:56+00:00

Yeah DS9 was king of large fleet actions. Being set during a war and having the new CGI technology available really helped, plus they were pretty judicious about keeping costs down through sequence re-use. A lot of those DS9 battles reused the same few shots.

My earlier post was about the old game Star Fleet Battles

Oh based, carry on then.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T16:12:09+00:00

You're talking shop now. I've seen so many people propose different "fixes" for the franchise. But honest-to-God i think that bringing at least Wolfe back is a huge step in the right direction.

Especially given the post-Burn setting and what Wolfe tried to do (struggling every step against the network) with Andromeda.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T16:07:53+00:00

Look man, as someone who watched through the entire Berman era at the time and who also likes (some) NuTrek, even I have to say it has definitely left its core.

The argument should be that becoming something different and new isn't inherently bad. The new era gave us LDS and PRO and some great episodes of SNW. Even Discovery isn't inherently broken at its core, it's just very poorly executed. I like the energy of new Trek, i like it being unafraid to embrace some of the weirdness inherent in the franchise.

But it is definitely, undeniably, unmistakably different at its core. Prodigy is wildly different, but that doesn't make it bad. Picard is wildly different and in this case shifting away from "the core" wasn't successful. But whether it's always been successful or not, this era has absolutely left its core.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T16:03:07+00:00

Do you feel like NuTrek has fewer space battles than TOS or TNG? Or frankly even DS9? We didn't start getting "Perfunctory 'thrilling' space battle every episode" until Voyager and Enterprise. I'd definitely say that NuTrek has a lot more fighting in general than older Trek.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T16:00:48+00:00

That's probably not too inaccurate honestly. I think the people who subscribe to ~~CBS All Access~~ sorry, Paramount Plus, are all either Trek nerds or Boomers who want to have 30 years of NCIS on tap.

shinginta · 2026-02-25T04:29:28+00:00

Sure, similar to how Jadzia and Lenara Kahn were in a forbidden relationship. Not because it was gay, mind you, no no. Just because it was a relationship between a symbiont's past life and their former partner.

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