JC's Trek Talk

JC's Guide to the Final Frontier In the style of Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenbergers' Q's Guide to the Continuum, some glib, blunt and possibly politically incorrect musings on the final frontier: Gul Dukat Gul Dukat went from a self-aggrandizing narcissist and opportunist (and serial womanizer) to self-important egotist and delusional madman.  Sounds kind of like a certain 2020's U.S. President... Some Ridiculous Interstellar Fails In 2371 the crew of USS Voyager experimented with using a new form of dilithium to achieve transwarp velocity.  The test flight of a modified shuttlecraft turned Tom Paris into a salamander.  Paris kidnapped Captain Janeway and took her to transwarp.  And they had salamander babies on a planet.  Yes, this was an episode.  The crew left the salamander babies on the planet-probably for the best (with all the fucked up implications bringing them along would have). It's almost as bad as that time Christopher Pike promoted o...

The Worst of Star Trek The Movies Section 31 Alex Kurtzman was seemingly hellbent on making a Discovery spinoff Section 31 tv series, based on the super secret black ops organization originated in DS9 and bastardized in Discovery.  COVID related production schedule issues and Michelle Yeohs best actress Oscar win for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" resulted in the series (unwanted by the fans) being reworked into a streaming movie.  What we ended up with was a dogshit Suicide Squad/Guardians of the Galaxy knockoff with a cast of characters that it's honestly hard to care about in a movie that barely has anything to do with Star Trek.  After watching it once, I wish I could take that hour and a half back.   Into Darkness The second Kelvin Timeline reboot movie.  J.J. Abrams and co's attempt to retell (and rip off) the Wrath of Khan story, while cramming in elements of Space Seed, Section 31 and the Klingons (also a gratuitous Alice Eve in underwear scene) res...

Episode Spotlight VOY's Scorpion parts 1 and 2 and The Gift Scorpion Part 1 Voyager reaches Borg Space.  In one of the shortest teasers in the entire franchise two Borg cubes hail an unseen vessel "We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is-" Suddenly the cubes are struck by energy beams and explode!  After the title sequence we see Janeway in a holodeck recreation of Leonardo DaVinci's workshop, with holographic Leonardo DaVinci played by John Rhys-Davies.  After being called by Chakotay Janeway goes to engineering where she (and we) learn that one of Voyager's probes has been captured and assimilated by the Borg.  Voyager has reached Borg space.  After a meeting with the senior officers to discuss the situation the entire ship and crew are made ready for an encounter with the Borg.  Voyager proceeds to what the crew call "the northwest passage", a narrow are...

The Worst of Star Trek Enterprise These are the Voyages... The. Worst. Episode. Of. Star. Trek. Ever.   Enterprise cocreator and executive producer Rick Berman actually called this episode "a valentine to the fans".  NO.  This is a fuck you the fans.  Episodes like "Turnabout Intruder" and "Code of Honor" are sexist and racist, but this episode is actually insulting to the fanbase.  The six year flash-forward to the final mission of the NX-01, seen as a holodeck episode on the Enterprise-D during the events of "The Pegasus" (an episode that has bugger all to do with the Enterprise finale).  Putting TNG characters in another series episode is one thing, but putting TNG characters in Enterprise's finale is insulting to Enterprise.  A series finale is supposed to celebrate the legacy of the series.  Characters from other series distract from the finale and have no place in it.  Add to that a weak, uninteresting story, unconvincing villains,...

Timeline Update I have updated the  32nd Century Timeline  post to include information from Starfleet Academy.  Unless a more concrete year is established I'm placing the events of season one in 3194.

Hot Take: Star Trek Enterprises "Affliction" and "Divergence" I actually kinda like Star Trek Enterprises "Affliction" and "Divergence" two parter.  People complain about this episode and I've never understood why.  For years-nay-decades some fans complained about the Klingons in the movies/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT looking different than those in TOS.  Many of these same fans bitched and complained when Enterprise explained the difference in the two parter as a failed attempt by the Klingons to genetically improve themselves with Human augment DNA (a-la Khan).  I actually thought this was a really good explanation for the change.  It's creative for sure, it doesn't break canon, and it fits into the Klingon mindset (honor and strength, feeling that using human DNA in their own DNA and the fact that it caused them to lose their cranial ridges and look more human would make them look and feel weaker and would be seen as dishonorable).  This also ...