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Episode Spotlight ENT's First Flight Enterprise has detected a nebula which they think contains dark matter.  Excited, Archer wants to examine it closer, using a shuttlepod to duplicate a Vulcan experiment to excite the dark matter with metreon particles.  Archer then receives a message from Admiral Forrest: his old friend and fellow NX test pilot A. G. Robinson has died in an accident.  In the shuttlebay Archer prepares to go on the shuttle alone, but T'Pol arrives and insists on going with him, citing ship regulations.  After launching the shuttle and moving to the first set of coordinates T'Pol asks Archer about Robinson, having heard some details from Trip.  At first reluctant Archer finally tells her that he and Robinson were in the NX project together as test pilot, and that they both wanted to be the first to break warp 2.  In a flashback to 2143 Commander Archer meets with Commodore Forrest to discuss warp reactor simulations.  Forrest tells hi...

Coming Soon Season by season tier lists of all episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  These will obviously be a bit-ok maybe more than a bit-biased as I am an old school TNG fan (TNG was my first trek series, and I still contend that is the best trek series.

Star Trek Trivia Quiz Delta Answers 1. Robert Picardo as the Doctor (EMH) 2. Delta Quadrant 3. Commander Sonak 4. Terra Prime 5. Altimid 6. Ni'Var 7. Craft 8. Tulaberry Wine 9. Landru 10. Valdez, Alaska 11. The Narada 12. Nacene

Star Trek: First Contact 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the best TNG Star Trek movie and arguably one of the best movies in the franchise.  The movie that introduced the sovereign class USS Enterprise-E, used one of the franchises best villains (the Borg) and showed us the biggest moment is Star Trek's future history.  Starting with the Borg invading the Federation and the Enterprise saving the day at the battle of Sector 001, we see that the Borg have a lasting effect on Jean-Luc Picard ever since TNGs "The Best of Both Worlds".  As the Enterprise helps the fleet destroy the Borg cube a new smaller ship, a sphere undocks from the cube and travels back in time.  The Enterprise follows it into Earth's past to prevent the Borg from preventing humanity's first contact with the Vulcans and assimilating Earth.  Arriving in 2063 the Enterprise destroys the Borg sphere, but not before it beams drones on to the Enterprise.  Picard takes an away team down to Boz...

Star Trek Trivia Quiz Delta 1. What actor appeared as the same character in Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Prodigy and Star Trek Starfleet Academy? 2. The planet Tars Lamora, on which the USS Protostar was found is located in which quadrant? 3. Who was appointed science officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain Decker by Admiral Kirk, but later died in a transporter accident? 4. What xenophobic group led by John Fredrick Paxton attempted to stop the formation of the Coalition of Planets in 2155 before being defeated by the NX-01 crew? 5. In the Kelvin timeline, the USS Enterprise was destroyed by Krall's swarm and the crew temporarily stranded on what planet? 6. After Vulcan reunified with the Romulans, what was the name of planet Vulcan changed to? 7. What was the name of the human soldier from Alcor IV who found the abandoned USS Discovery in the 43rd century? 8. In 2370, the Ferengi attempted to open trade relations with the Dosi, a Dominion member species from the Gamma Quadran...

Star Trek Trivia Quiz Gamma Answers 1. USS Constance 2. Vaughn Armstrong 3. USS Stardiver 4. Suus Mahna 5. Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing 6. Destruct sequence 2, code 1 1 A 2 B 7. Joe Piscipo 8. Nothing/Unknown Sample 9. "It was...fun.  Oh my!" 10. Pop Goes the Weasel 11. Ex Astris Scientia (From the Stars, Knowledge) 12. Vau N'Akat

Episode Spotlight TOS The Menagerie, Parts I and II Part I Stardate 3012.4.  The USS Enterprise arrives as Starbase 11 in response to a message apparently received from the base from the Enterprises former captain, Christopher Pike.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down but are told that the base sent no message to the Enterprise.  Inquiring further Kirk and co. are informed by the base commander, Commodore Jose Mendez about the condition of Captain Pike, critically injured and now paralyzed after a recent disaster aboard a training ship.  In the medical section they meet Captain Pike (played here by Sean Kenney), now horribly radiation scarred and confined to a wheelchair.  Unable to even speak Captain Pike can use his brain waves to signal yes or no responses to questions via a light and beep built into the chair (one been for yes, two beeps for no).  Spock speaks to Captain Pike alone, telling him "I have it well planned", "It's only two days away from here a...

I need to say something.  The fan reactions/vitriol/hate surrounding Starfleet Academy are getting out of hand.  I am personally not a fan of the series, although that is not to say I hate the series.  If anything I find the series unnecessary.  Yes the idea existed for quite some time before it was realized by Kurtzman and co.  The show is not in fact horrible, or "woke" or "too gay" or whatever other inaccurate descriptors the toxic side of the fandom like to apply to it.  Fans, including influencers like Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker among others deride the series for being so progressive, having two LGBT couples on the series (Jayden Kraang and Kyle, and Lura Thok and Jett Reno.  I say so what?  This is not new to Star Trek.  Discovery, which this series is a direct spinoff of had Stamets and Culber.  Star Trek is and always has been about inclusivity, diversity and tolerance.  This was a big part of Roddenberry's original phil...

Star Trek Trivia Quiz Gamma 1. On what ship did Liam Shaw serve as a junior officer during the Battle of Wolf 359? 2. What actor holds the record for playing the most different roles in Star Trek? 3. Before coming aboard the USS Enterprise, Montgomery Scott served aboard what ship, destroyed at Parnassus Beta, as a junior engineer? 4. Subcommander T'Pol and Michael Burnham were both practitioners of what Vulcan martial art? 5. On the USS Enterprise sets, some pipes and conduits are labelled "GNDN".  What does this stand for? 6. In Star Trek III, what command did Scotty tell the computer to activate the self destruct sequence? 7. In "The Outrageous Okona" Data created a holographic nightclub with a standup comedian to better explore humor.  Who played the holographic comedian? 8. Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian word odo'ital.  What does odo'ital mean in Federation Standard? 9. Before he died on Veridian III, what were James Kirk's l...