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From Starfleet Historical Files Filed Stardate 57262.1, February 2380 Lieutenant Aurelan Brand, Starfleet Diplomatic Corps Captain Rylen Sh'ross, Professor Emeritus, Starfleet History, Starfleet Academy An In Depth Re-Examination of the Battle of Narendra III The Battle The battle of Narendra III.  An oft overlooked yet pivotal moment in the annals of Federation history.  The year was 2344, Stardate 21096.4.  A flight of 4 A-type Romulan warbirds crossed the border into Klingon space and attacked the Klingon colony on Narendra III.  Although uncorroborated, sources inside the Romulan Empire have since indicated that the attack was a rogue operation, ordered by the then recently-deposed Praetor, Dralath.  Responding to a distress call from the colony the Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C diverted from its patrol near the Archer system and moved to defend the colony.  What happened next is unclear, as there are no first-hand accounts from the battle.  W...

Federation Class Dreadnought class starship History 2259 In 2259 a group of engineers from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers and strategists from Starfleet Tactical led by then Captain Jose Mendez introduced a proposal to the Federation Council for a new, more powerful, more heavily armed starship class, to serve as both a heavy combat vessel and a standard-bearer for Starfleet. The ship would be faster and much more heavily armed than anything that came before, even the jewel of the fleet, the Constitution Class. Many on the Federation Council were skeptical, the very idea of a dreadnought, essentially a battleship, being antithetical to Starfleet and the Federations core ideals. Within the ranks of Starfleet many officers who had served in the recently concluded Federation-Klingon war supported building the new ship while others, including Captains Pike and Wesley, Commodore Paris and Admiral April were strongly opposed to the dreadnought class ships, siding with the majority of t...

Season 1 The first season. The first two episodes don’t even feature the titular ship, so as a viewer I was a bit confused. The first two episodes serve as more of a prologue than a proper pilot to the series, being set on the USS Shenzhou under captain Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). The main characters of Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), the Kelpian Saru (Doug Jones) the first member of his species seen in the franchise (a species created for this series), and recurring characters Keyla Detmer (Emily Coutts) and Voq- later Voq/Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif; credited in the first 4 episodes as Voq under the pseudonym Javid Iqbal-which the fans quickly saw through) are established in these episodes. Even as a prologue “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle of the Binary Stars” ask a lot of the viewers, trying to get them invested in a main character who has gone from loyal first officer to mutineer, assaulting her captain, starting a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, g...

Series Origins Star Trek Discovery, the sixth live action series in the Star Trek franchise (7th series overall if you count the 1970s animated series) was announced to the public in November of 2015, with a planned release in January 2017. Production began in 2016 "on the heels of" the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. From its announcement Star Trek Discovery was highly anticipated by fans as it would be the first new Star Trek series on TV since the cancellation of Star Trek Enterprise in 2005. Since that show’s ending CBS and Paramount had undergone a corporate split, as a result of which the rights to Star Trek were also split. Paramount had retained the motion picture rights to the franchise (and hence were able to release the three “Kelvin Timeline” reboot movies produced by J.J. Abrams) while CBS as a result of the split got the TV side of Paramount (the TV studios and IPs, and as a part of that, the TV Star Trek rights and properties). The new series would both her...

Star Trek Discovery Series overview and review What is this? This is the start of my series of posts of a retrospective review of Star Trek Discovery. From a hard core trekkie POV. My trekkie credentials: Born in the mid 1980s, I grew up watching TNG and TOS reruns, watched DS9 and Voyager, and later Enterprise. Saw First Contact and Insurrection in theaters. I'm an old school trekkie. This series of posts contains frank (and possibly unpopular) opinions on the series, the characters, plotlines, creative decisions, etc. You, dear reader, do not have to agree with my opinions. I am not asking you to. I will be starting the series this week with the origins of the series and the retrospective review of season 1. Starting next week I will be posting the rest of the series one section /season at a time. New post will drop at 10:00 AM EDT on Tuesdays. Without further ado, let's go!

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