JC's Trek Talk

Head Canon: Galorndon Core Galorndon Core Hyralan Sector Near the Romulan Neutral Zone 2157 Second year of the Earth Romulan War Coalition forces are looking at locations for a temporary base of operations closer to Romulan space. Top of the short list is Galorndon Core, an L-class world near the border of Romulan space. This info is leaked to the Romulans by a Romulan spy posing as a Vulcan. The Romulan senate decides this is too close for comfort and decide to go “scorched earth” against the coalition. They sent a fleet of 5 ships armed with nuclear warheads to Galorndon core to bombard the planetoid. The fleet arrives at Galorndon Core. They attack the small coalition fleet in orbit. The NX-06 Endeavour is disabled, three other smaller ships (two Neptune class and one Vulcan Vahklas class) are destroyed. The Romulan ships then enter orbit and bombard the planet, firing their entire payloads of Nuclear weapons at the surface. The planet is left irradiated, mired in a nuclear ...

Operation Assimilation What do the first officer of the Lalo, a Hirogen hunting party, a Klingon youth from a frontier colony, and a Cardassian scientist have in common? They were all once individuals with their own identities, their own lives, their own personalities. Then the Borg came. And like so many other uncounted billions before them they struggled, they fought, and they ultimately met the same inevitable fate: assimilation. Their identities, their lives, their very beings were stripped away, replaced by the indomitable will of the Borg Collective. Despite their disparate origins and the vast distances between them, after their encounters with the collective one inexorable truth remained: no matter how valiant your struggle, no matter how long you hold out against the storm, the Borg will prevail. Resistance is futile. For millennia the Borg have spread throughout the galaxy like a plague, destroying thousands of civilizations on thousands of worlds across all four quadra...

Worst Starfleet Starship Designs: A Rant In 2009 we were introduced to the Kelvin timeline and JJ Abrams version of the classic NCC-1701: Yeah... Dude! It's not a hot rod! It's the Starship Enterprise.  It doesn't need all the aerodynamic fins and sh*#, it's in space.  The supposed scale is ridiculous (and doesn't work), the nacelles look totally stupid, the overall color scheme is more TMP than TOS, and I don't even know what the f*$# is going on with the neck sitting way back on the drive section. In Star Trek Beyond, it had apparently gone through a refit (IRL the ship's neck and pylons were slimmed down to make the destruction by Krall's swarm more plausible).  And it actually looks worse.  A lot worse. Into Darkness gave us this hot mess: The USS Vengeance.  When I first saw it I was like "what is this? Really? Is this a joke???" For a Star Trek ship: NO.  Just no. When Star Trek Discovery was first announced and anticipation was hig...

Coming Soon... Resistance is Futile.

The Lost Era An era in the Star Trek timeline I would personally really like to see explored is the Lost Era, the 70-odd years between Star Trek VI/first act of Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek TNG.  Very little has been told on screen of this period in trek history, and it seems to me that it is ripe for exploration.  And yes, I know the Section 31 streaming movie is set in the Lost Era, although honestly the only thing tying to that era specifically is the presence of Lt. Rachel Garrett, future captain of the USS Enterprise-C.  Everything else in Section 31 visually and storywise could have been set in any time period.  There is a lot of material that could be covered here to provide backstory or further development to characters/plots already established in Trek canon.   To name a few:  The Cardassian occupation of Bajor Lots to establish here.  We've seen a few flashbacks to the occupation on Terok Nor (DS9) in episodes of DS9 (Necessary E...

Legacy Discovery leaves behind a varied legacy, for its divisiveness and perceived lack of quality among Star Trek series, as well as for its boldness in trying new things and blazing trails in both storytelling techniques and inclusivity. Discovery also blazed a trail being the first Star Trek series on a streaming platform, being the flagship series for CBS All Access and ushering in a new era for the Star Trek franchise. For better or worse it established a new aesthetic for the franchise and served as a launching pad for the much praised Star Trek Strange New Worlds as well as the upcoming Star Trek Starfleet Academy series (expected in 2026) and the Star Trek Section 31 streaming movie (expected in 2025). It is also important to point out that at the time of the show’s creation Franchise executive producer Alex Kurtzman and co wanted to do something completely different. They definitely accomplished that. Said Kurtzman, Discovery was never intended to be the one Star Trek ser...

Star Trek Picard Season 1: A Rant Honestly...I'm not all that impressed with Star Trek Picard season 1.  Never have been since I first binge watched it during my free first month of Paramount+ during the COVID lockdowns. Some of my main complaints/peeves: (in no particular order) 1. Content Now I'm not a prude.  But honestly: I really don’t need all the blood gore and F-bombs in my Star Trek. And don't get me wrong, some light swearing is ok and Trek has done that in the past (conservatively, tactfully, tastefully) but seriously: the head admiral C-in-C of Starfleet telling retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard to "shut the f___ up" is unprofessional, unnecessary and unrealistic. And that's not the only time she says it. In the first episode she calls Picard’s plan "sheer f___ing hubris". And she's not the only character to do it either. Dr. Jurati the earth's foremost expert on artificial intelligence (the nerdy scientist girl) drops the F...

Fan Criticism Fan reaction to the series has been mixed to say the least. Despite all the initial hype, the delayed release and radically different look and feel of the series compared to all previous Star Treks was met with curiosity, derision, and even ridicule by some fans. The phrase “not your father’s Star Trek” was bandied about by the studio execs defending the show, while many of the most ardently outspoken fans against the series railed against its “wokeness”, it’s hyper serialization, it’s not being “real Star Trek”, it’s main character Michael Burnham being a “Mary Sue”, the Klingons not looking like established Klingons from previous series and movies, and even the design of the titular ship. The fanbase became divided into the borderline toxic hate filled “never Discovery, it’s not real Star Trek, it’s woke garbage” camp, and the "it’s Star Trek love it or hate it, any trek is better than no trek” crowd. This reviewer falls somewhere in the middle. While it is de...

A Fan Theory... Just a theory I had...the technology used by the Caretaker to transport USS Voyager, Chakotay's Maquis ship, USS Equinox, Dreadnought, etc. to the Delta Quadrant actually utilized the mycelial network. The Nacene (the Caretaker and Suspiria) are described as a sporocystian life form.  A sporocyst is a structure in Ascosphaera fungi. The important words here are ‘spore’ and ‘fungi’. The USS Discovery’s spore drive used spores of a species of fungus, Prototaxites Stellaviatori to travel vast distances near instantaneously using the mycelial network.  Also, in “Cold Fire” it is established that Suspiria naturally lives in a subspace layer called Exosia. Theory: Exosia is actually the Nacene’s name for the mycelial plane, the subspace layer in which the mycelial network exists. I know that Discovery travelled across the Mycelial Network with little to no ill effects, while the USS Voyager et.al. suffered heavy damage/casualties in the process, however, it should be...