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Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post

Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

  • "Necessary Evil"
  • "Rules of Acquisition"
  • "The Alternate"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Whispers"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Shadowplay"

All bangers!

Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

  • Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y'know, cooking.

    I'd be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.

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    I cooked some food cubes.

    The recipe comes from The Star Trek Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. My first time but I’m going to make more. This batch has orange extract. I will need to increase the amount of extract.

    UPDATE: I made blue lemon this time.

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    A peek at the 2026 Ships of the Line calendar, via Brian Tatosky

  • @hopesdead What a mess. this thing has been in development for over 2 years now. i literally could have built one myself in that time.

  • For me, it's hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:

  • TNG character headcanon?

    Worf is a narcissist. Reason: Kurn and Alexander were kept until no longer useful to him then discarded. #Justice4Kurn

    Universe headcanon?

    The Vulcans are augments and the romulans are the baseline diaspora. Reason: every time TPol was unphased by the anomaly because of her [superior] Vulcan physiology.

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    Not « Star Trek Star Trek » but found this Picard scene in Robot Chicken funny nonetheless

    Picard dreaming. I now sorta feel like he talks in his sleep.

  • @CraigCabbage

    is nobody mentioning Seven?
    is that too obvious?

  • I am so excited!!! I am so excited to show up in uniform, eat some hasperat, drink some bloodwine and see the D! Got myself a PIC season 3 uniform just for this.

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    If Neelix had been truthful about rescuing Kes and they simply beamed her out instead would the caretaker probe still have been attacked by the Kazon?

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    [O]ne thing defines [Seska] in contrast to the Cardassians we’d been regularly seeing on Star Trek at that moment in time: she’s just kind of an absolute hot mess.

    ...

    But it’s kind of what makes Seska work as a character: despite all this, villainy or otherwise, nothing ever quite clicks for her. It’s a great mirror to uphold against Janeway’s decision to have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the idea that, if they did ultimately just go Seska’s route and exploit their advantageous power in an unknown quadrant, it would doom them.

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    Official Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3

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    .website Help with Klingon

    @[email protected] Help with Klingon

    Are there any experts in Klingon around? I would love to get a translation of the chant heard at Minnesota Wild hockey games (many teams use similar chants) "Let's go Wild". Basically meaning "Go team!" or "Victory for the Minnesota Wild!"). Any ideas would be fantastic.

    StarTrek #Klingon #TNG #conlang @[email protected] @scifi @conlang

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    Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy?

    I was looking at references of both TNG and Prodigy Jellico to try to make an LD-style Jellico, when I found how they styled his face varied a lot between episodes - I count about 4 significant variants.

    For reference, here is TNG Jellico:

    This was his first Prodigy appearance in S1 E15 Masquerade:

    Definitely a bit yikes, but I also slightly dig the "old man who will bite your hand off if you get within one mile of him" look.

    They totally changed his face for his second appearance 4 episodes later, in S1 E19 Supernova Pt 1:

    ![Jellico as he appeared in S1 E19](https://lazysoci.al/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstar

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    "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?

    In a TrekCulture interview a week ago, Rob Kazinsky, who plays Zeph in Section 31, talked about his reaction to the S13 movie.

    He revealed one interesting point from behind the scenes about why the movie was made:

    When I got this job, I was like, "Ugh, Section 31 movie, why are they doing a Section 31 movie? It's gonna be hated from the get-go. No ones gonna want to watch a Section 31 movie. We're doing a TV-budget movie. This isn't going to be what people want..." And I spoke to Alex [Kurtzman] and I spoke to Olatunde [Osunsanmi] and they explained to me that Star Trek is dying. And I don't know if people know that. You know, I was talking about Star Trek at my gym where I fight. You know, I'm a boxer where I fight with a lot of kids - you know, I don't fight them but train them - none of them knew what Star Trek was. Could you imagine that?

    He went on to say that Star Trek had never had a base as big as Harry Potter or Star

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    Canon Connections: Star Trek: Section 31

    • “Star Trek: Section 31” is the 14th feature length Star Trek film, and and the first film made specifically for streaming.

        • Other Star Trek films include: “Star Trek: The Final Frontier”, “Star Trek Nemesis” and “Star Trek Into Darkness”.

        • The film was originally announced in 2020 as a series, before being transitioned to a movie in early 2023.

    • The film’s title refers to the Section 31 organization first introduced in the DS9 episode, “Inquisition”.

    • “Star Trek: Section 31” was directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, who was the co-showrunner for DIS beginning with season three, and directed several episodes of that series.

    • The screenplay was written by Craig Sweeny, who also a consultant on season one of DIS, and co-wrote the teleplay for the episode, “Context is for Kings”.

    • Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt are credited for the story; they were the going to be the showrunners for the “Section 31” television show, and wrote the pilot.

    • The

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    Star Trek:Section 31 Premiere Reaction (ft Emily Inkpen) and Q&A with Michelle Yeoh and Rob Kazinsky

    I didn't even know there was a premiere in London on Wednesday, but there we have it.

    Highlights: the person who saw the movie described it as "fun," "silly," and "Guardians of the Galaxy meets Fifth Element meets Mission: Impossible".

    There's also a full, recorded-from-the-audience Q&A with Michelle Yeoh and Robert Kazinsky.

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    Star Trek is like a warm blanket for me.

    A big disclaimer at the top here that I am going to be discussing familial death.

    Hello to everyone reading this. Not sure why I am greeting you, the reader. Last week my maternal grandfather passed away. He was in hospice care with bone cancer and overall poor health. The lead up to being admitted into hospice was a sudden and unexpected turn. During my grandfather’s final days, my family set up a computer at the foot of his bed so we could watch shows with him. Regardless if he was awake or not I took time by his side and watched Enterprise. As an important side note, I have always lived with my grandparents (I’m Filipino; this is a cultural thing).

    In the week since my grandfather’s passing, I have been rewatching Enterprise. When the show first broadcast in 2001, I was 10-years-old. I grew up watching TNG, seeing First Contact and Insurrection in theaters and going on The Klingon Encounter attraction at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. For me, my grandfather was the

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    Shout out to the USS Thunderchild, the unluckiest and toughest ship in Starfleet

    I do appreciate the more realistic lifespan, starships are massive investments that should last at least a few decades and are designed with continuous upgrades in mind (unless they're called "Enterprise" apparently).

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    Highlights from the SFX "Section 31" feature

    TrekMovie has a brief piece summarizing part of an SFX cover feature on "Section 31," mostly focusing on the changes the project went through on the journey from series to movie.

    That got me wondering what else was in the SFX feature, and eventually I remembered that I have a library card, which I can use to access magazines. So...I did that, and here's a summary of what I learned.


    The centrepiece of the feature is an interview with Olatunde Osunsanmi, the director. He spends some time talking about the nuts and bolts of "Star Trek City," which is what they call the Toronto production offices. He talks about the benefits of being able to redress existing sets, including repurposing the Federation HQ set from Discovery to be the "Section 31 outpost safe house." On the topic of being economical, he also mentions how "Section 31" has been a

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    Skin produce #Spock #StarTrek #meme #humor

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    Lower Decks Eulogizing

    What’s your eulogy for Lower Decks?

    Here’s mine: I wasn’t sure about Lower Decks for a well - I’d never been into the adult animation genre, and when I first heard of it, I had initially seen it as the wrong direction for Star Trek.

    Finally, in late 2023, I watched it for the first time and was surprised to enjoy it.

    Then came the crazy month of March 2024. I got rejected from all my dream schools, putting me in a sullen mood. I returned to the show and suddenly started resonating with Boimler as someone who had ambitions - some naive, some not - that weren’t always fulfilled, while I found the Cerritos to be kind of an analogue to the state school I would end up at.

    Then, at the end of that month, a close family member shared their advanced pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and they passed a month after. That was when my attachment to Lower Decks solidified - I turned to it as a comfort show and really started to appreciate it. I think I’ve rewatched it twice since then - one rando

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    The Ready Room: Lower Decks Season 5 (Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, & Eugene Cordero interview)

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    Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x10: “The New Next Generation” (SPOILERS)

    The title plays off Star Trek: The Next Generation, which succeeded TOS in 1987 - the last time that label was used being in PIC Season 3’s opener, “The Next Generation”, with its finale, “The Last Generation”, evoking that as well. Of course, by episode’s end, we see the aptness of the title as a torch is passed for a new frontier.

    Relga’s lapdog is likely just a toy breed of targ. I originally thought it might be a variant of the Alfa 177 canine first seen in TOS: “The Enemy Within” as it appears to have the same unicorn horn but it's the wrong color and the Alfa 177 dog has antennae and no tusks.

    As mentioned last episode, a soliton wave in Star Trek is a faster-than-light wave that was thought to have practical applications in warp propulsion or faster than light communications (TNG: “New Ground”), but was also potentially destructive.

    As the wave hits the ships, a Klingon is transformed into a DIS-style Klingon, specifically the alien design and white costume of L’Rell in