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  • Annotations for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x01: “Kids These Days”

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  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x08 "Original Sin"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x09 "Eternity's Face"

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  • I do apologise if people are waiting for my annotations. I also apologise for any arrogance in assuming people are waiting for them.

    I haven’t found a window where I can sit down and actively listen to do them. I’m working on “Original Sin” right now and it’s taking a bit of time because (as an English nerd in high school), I have a bit to say about the use of poetry and Shakespeare in this episode.

  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x07 "I Am Marla"

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  • I mean, it’s being very heavily hinted that Lear is Kali.

  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x07 "I Am Marla"

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  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Clip | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

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  • It was in the TOS Writer's Guide as far back as April 17, 1967, where it was stated (page 8):

    Hyper-light speeds or space warp speeds (the latter is the terminology we prefer) are measured in WARP FACTORS. Warp factor one is the speed of light — 186,000 miles per second (or somewhat over six hundred million miles per hour.) Note: warp factors two, three and four are so on are based on a geometrical formula of light velocity. Warp factor two is actually eight times the speed of light; warp factor three is twenty-four times the speed of light; warp factor four is sixty-four times the speed of light, and so on.

    It was subsequently mentioned in the behind-the-scenes book The Making of Star Trek in 1968 and Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual. The TOS scale was finally made canonical when it appeared on a viewscreen in ENT: "First Flight".

    The TNG scale was established in the series' Writer's Guide in 1987 establishing Warp 10 as the absolute limit (and infinite speed), so the scale had to be adjusted accordingly.

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  • That's correct as far as the TNG-era scale is concerned. In the TOS/SNW era it was a simple speed = warp factor3 equation, meaning Warp 6.25 is about 244c.

    While not stated explicitly on screen, it was clear in behind-the-scenes documentation, and it was also clear that Enterprise in TOS exceeded Warp 10 in a handful of episodes, which I cited in my original comment. How fast a particular Warp Factor is may have been inconsistent, but the scale itself definitely changed between the two eras.

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  • The thing I freeze framed on was the close-up of the helm console. Here we see the warp speed control and the impulse and weapons controls.

    What’s interesting at the warp speed control is that it indicates the speed at Warp Factor 6.25, but that seems to be less than half speed. If the dots at the bottom of the throttle circle are correct, 6.25 is about two-fifths the top speed of the ship, which means theoretically they have a top speed of about Warp 15.6, which is just a bit higher than the Warp 14.1 we saw Kirk's Enterprise achieve in TOS: “That Which Survives”, although Scotty said there that the ship wasn’t structured to even take Warp 11 for any length of time. The Kelvans did modify Enterprise to take that speed in TOS: “By Any other Name”, though. That being said, the specifications of the TOS-era Enterprise usually indicate a cruising speed of Warp 6 and a maximum speed of Warp 8.

    On the other side, the impulse throttle circle and the dots at the bottom seem to indicate that they are also at two-fifths impulse power (which may be different from speed), and there appears to be a speed limiter next to the circle, although the speed indicator on the inside goes about a third higher than that. That’s actually consistent with the idea that full impulse isn’t the top impulse setting but there’s a limit placed on it (traditionally 0.25c) so as to avoid time dilation issues.

    But I could be wrong and for all you know those dots are just to swipe left or right to get other controls visible.

    Another interesting bit is the weapons controls. SNW: “What is Starfleet?” stated that Enterprise had six phaser banks and two torpedo tubes. The buttons here indicate two forward phaser controls - one ready to fire and one ready to charge. There are also two photon torpedo buttons, one ready to fire and one ready to load. Does that mean a single button fires three phaser banks?

    There’s also a bunch of indicators above the impulse control (where Ortegas dismisses the warning pop-up alert) which seem to be communications or sensor indicators because they talk about band limits and Rx levels (received signal strengths).

  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x06 "The Good of All"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x05 "Imagination's Limits"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x04 "Magical Thinking"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x03 "Do Your Worst"

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  • You are correct that the eels were not named in ST II. However, they were named in the script.

    Outside of the script, they are also named in Vonda M. McIntyre's 1982 novelisation of the movie, Shane Johnson's (as she then was) book Star Trek: The Worlds of the Federation (1989) and in Greg Cox's novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh (2005).

  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x03 "Do Your Worst"

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  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x02 "Scheherazade"

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  • Yep, that was established in 1x01, Joachim being the son of Joaquin and his unaugmented wife Tina (who does not appear to have survived to join them).

  • Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x02 "Scheherazade"

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  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"

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  • The Beholder stuff is left as a dangling mystery in SNW: "Through the Lens of Time" but any idea that it's going to involve Batel is not.

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  • I keep finding questions coming up in my head. Why would her chimerical DNA make Batel and the Vezda recognize and attack each other? Is it some kind of genetic memory, in which case any race that had encountered the Vezda would have the same reaction, and does that mean a Gorn or an Illyrian would have the same reaction? Or is it only a combo thing?

    I was expecting, given what happened in “Through the Lens of Time”, that it was actually the Gorn part of her that reacted. And that could have led into a revelation that the Gorn were created or designated as Vezda killers, a predator species to rid the galaxy of them. Which would then explain why they turned their predator instincts on the rest of the galaxy once the Vezda were apparently gotten rid of for good.

    Or, the ancient race that imprisoned the Vezda created this telepathic alphabet that would send a message to the descendants of the people who helped them the first time around - so M’Benga and Uhura would read the messages as Swahili, La’An in Mandarin (which means La’An, despite being related to a Sikh, is ethnically also Chinese), maybe Scotty would read it as Gaelic, who knows? That would certainly make more sense than the random inscriptions somehow being related to M’Benga for whatever reason.

    Or Batel would actually travel back in time to be the Beholder and we see her setting up the messages in a sort of bootstrap paradox - the messages were there because they were always meant to be there. A bootstrap paradox is hinted at in Batel’s dialogue but never quite explicated.

    I don’t know. The more I think about the flaws in the plot the more I think it could all have been fixed with a little bit of thought and effort.

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    Annotations for Star Trek: Khan 1x01: “Paradise”

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    Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x09: “Terrarium”

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    Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08: “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans”

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    Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07: “What is Starfleet?”