Cloaking and honour
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?
Could Voyager have made it home if Tuvix never got killed?
Let’s assume that Janeway never separated Tuvix and kept him as a crew member. Would the crew have still gotten home?...
On the first viewing of "Unnatural Selection" (TNG 2.7), are we supposed to believe Dr. Pulaski can really die?
One of the biggest difficulties of most episodic dramas, including the various Star Trek series, is that putting main characters in danger is seldom believable. It’s such a common syndrome that it’s even a pop culture trope: plot armor. Watching the early second-season episode “Unnatural Selection,” in which Dr. Pulaski...
Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 2x07: “Those Old Scientists” (SPOILERS)
The title comes from LD’s 1st Season finale, “No Small Parts”, when CMDR Jack Ransom, XO of the USS Cerritos, refers to the TOS era as “Those Old Scientists”....
What are the progressive social issues of the 24th Century?
While some may argue in transparently bad faith that it isn’t so, it’s obvious to even a casual observer that Star Trek’s setting depicts in the Federation a vision of society in which the goals of both the social and economic left wing have largely won out and largely been attained. The people of the Federation have...