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In this post I’ll be proposing a model to understanding how Star Trek warp drive works. In doing so, I’ll be attempting to reconcile the way the TNG Technical Manual describes warp drive with the idea that warp drive somehow takes advantages of shortcuts through real space by warping space around the craft, yet still...

Excuse me if this post isn’t up to the usual standards of Daystrom Institute, but as I’m looking for an in-universe discussion of this topic, this community felt the most appropriate....

Garak asserts to Bashir that the Repetitive Epic is the finest form of Cardassian literature. I was wondering, is there any real-life literature that could be considered a “repetitive epic” in the same vein as “The Neverending Sacrifice?”

It has occurred to me that Vulcan must have some form of sex industry to handle those going through Pon Farr who aren’t currently married or otherwise involved. Otherwise, they’d have constant issues with violence from those suffering the “blood fever” whose spouse was far away, or had died, or for some other reason had...

So, I just got my copy of the Lower Deck’s Handbook (it’s AMAZING) but one of the sections of the handbook goes into the legacy of the ships to carry the name Cerritos. (Think along the terms of the ships to carry the name Stargazer) and one in particular caught my eye…...

I like coffee. I like Star Trek....

So in this episode they go into a cave, and can read some sort of energy field, as well as Troi having a sense that there are lifeforms present. Geordie explains that the people must be displaced in time, but only by a few milliseconds. If that’s true, how is there not overlap? Say the people are a few milliseconds ahead of...

I have an issue in general with scifi totally ignoring the existence of bicycles, but star trek is particularly fun to think about since in so many situations beaming down in an away team with electric mountain bicycles would be incredibly useful in a basic utilitarian sense. Like shuttles, bicycles could be treated as...

Hello, I put forward a bunch of theories of “in the pale moonlight” within this part 1. Mostly what I think are easter eggs. I have more written down to do a second video to tackle controversial topics as:...

This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 4x10 Old Friends, New Planets....

I don’t mean on the holodeck, shore leave, or when transported to the past and needing to fit in....

The narrator for the “Previously on…” segment sounds like Jonathan Frakes....

The title is a play on the TNG episode “The Inner Light”, where Picard is hit by a beam from a Kataan probe that makes him live out a lifetime of memories in the space of less than an hour. A similar probe last appeared in LD: “In the Cradle of Vexilon”....

The title may allude to a line of dialogue from LD’s first episode, “Second Contact”, where Mariner says she was once trapped in a sentient cave for weeks: “You ever been trapped in a sentient cave? That’s a dark place that knows things.”...

This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 4x07 A Few Badgeys More....

Okay, so… I want to open with the observation that all the ships that have been attacked by the mysterious ship have been CGI....

I’m searching for inspiration for something I’m not sure, but I keep revolving my head around the TOS episode “The Balance of Terror” for it....

The title is a play on the classic 1965 Sergio Leone spaghetti western, “For a Few Dollars More”, starring Clint Eastwood. That movie was a sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars”, which was referenced in the TNG episode title “A Fistful of Datas”....

This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 4x06 Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place....

Just a forward that I wasn’t sure if this belonged on Startrel or Daystrom… but the fact that this deals with minor spoilers for the latest episode and an analysis made me lean to here....

The title is a pun on the 2004 British horror parody television series Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace....

There were endless moments in season 3 that would have been solved by reaching out to the progressive Borg collective from the season 2 finale. Not to mention that a few character arcs and character development moments that just seem suspiciously absent in season 3. So, is the entirety of season 2 not cannon or am I missing...

How exactly do the Klingons justify using cloaking ships, a strategy which necessarily involves sneaking up on an enemy and catching them unaware? Wouldn’t sneak attacks conflict with their notion of honour?

This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 4x01 Twovix and 4x02 I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee....

Let’s assume that Janeway never separated Tuvix and kept him as a crew member. Would the crew have still gotten home?...