JC's Trek Talk

Star Trek Timeline The Mid 22nd Century (2150-2169) Enterprise 2150 • Australia, the last holdout nation joins the United Earth government • Construction begins on NX-01 Enterprise • Jonathan Archer is selected as captain of the NX-01 Enterprise  2151 • NX-01 Enterprise launched • First contact with the Klingons • First contact with the Andorians • First contact with the Axanari • Earth Starfleet becomes aware of the Temporal Cold War 2152 • First contact with Risa • First contact with the Romulans • First contact with the Tholians 2153 • NX-02 Columbia begins construction • The Xindi weapon attacks Earth killing 8 million • NX-01 is refit, begins its mission into the Delphic Expanse to confront the Xindi threat • First contact with the Xindi 2154 • NX-01 destroys the second Xindi weapon • After travelling to 1944 Earth NX-01 helps to end the Temporal Cold War • NX-01 is drydocked for a refit • NX-01 captures Dr. Arik Soong and his au...

Star Trek Strange New Worlds  Season 3 Reaction: Episode 9 Terrarium An Ortegas episode.  We haven't really had one of these in a while.  The storyline of a crewman on a shuttle crashing and getting the stranded and following them as well as the ship trying to rescue them is very classic Star Trek, while also being a refreshing change at this point in the series.  Love seeing the crew working together, WITHOUT conflict and bickering-something that series like Discovery and Picard had too much of.  Also really liking the idea of Erica after all of her pervious trauma in Hegemony working together and forging an understanding with a Gorn.  Reminds me a little of DS9s "Duet" with Kira and the Cardassian, or TNGs "The Enemy" with Geordi and the Romulan.  The episode definitely gives some real depth to the episode and the character of Ortegas.  Interesting change to see Spock in the captains chair and Pike at the helm.  The twist at the end with th...

Department of Temporal Investigations: Time Travel Paradox Case Studies Time paradoxes.  One of the main units of study in Temporal Mechanics 102 at Starfleet Academy.  Any Starfleet officer who finds themself in a situation involving time travel is trained to avoid creating paradoxes are generally placed into one of four categories: the Grandfather Paradox, in which travel back in time to affect a change in the past alters the future such that the future from which the time traveler originated (and thus the time traveler) no longer exists, the Predestination Paradox (or causal loop), in which the time travel event becomes part of the "proper" timeline and thus was "supposed" to happen, the Pogo Paradox, a variation of the Predestination Paradox or causal loop in which time travel to the past to prevent an even actually causes said event, and the Ontological Paradox, in which an item being displaced in time results in the item being discovered/invented before its cr...

Star Trek Timeline The Late 24th Century (2380-2402) LD, PRO, PIC 2380 • D’Vana Tendi is assigned to USS Cerritos • The Excelsior class is decommissioned • Alandra LaForge is born • Beverly Crusher becomes pregnant 2381 • Beverly Crusher leaves Starfleet to raise her son Jack • Jean-Luc Picard is promoted to Admiral and leaves the Enterprise-E.  Worf is promoted to Captain. • USS Dauntless is launched to test an experimental quantum slipstream drive • The Odyssey class enters production • Thaddeus Troi-Riker is born • Sidney LaForge is born 2382 • USS Protostar, the testbed for an experimental protostar drive is launched • USS Protostar travels through an anomaly to 2436. The ship is then sent 90 years into the past to 2366 although the crew are stranded in 2436. • Starfleet begins the process of resettling Romulans threatened by the impending Hobus Supernova • Rejected by Starfleet, Seven of Nine joins the Fenris Rangers • Liam Boothby, Starflee...