JC's Trek Talk

What is Star Trek About? A Reflective Essay What is Star Trek about?  This is an interesting and loaded question.  From it's beginning with the original series in the 1960's Star Trek is and always has been about deep, thoughtful, intellectual stories about an optimistic future for humanity.   The concept as conceived by Gene Roddenberry was a future in which humanity (a united humanity) works together with other races and species in common cause.  The cause being exploration, learning and personal betterment.  A future where humanity has overcome its internal struggles and provincial attitudes and prejudices and moved beyond national squabbles, beyond poverty, disease, war, into a more enlightened future.  In the original series this was often shown in the form of episodes that were in truth morality plays, set in a sci-fi concept and a future several hundred years hence. Episodes like "Let That be Your Last Battlefield" that took a very blunt look ...

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...

On Section 31... I have never been wild about the whole concept of Section 31, since it was first established in DS9's season 6 episode "Inquisition" in which the clandestine organization abducts Dr. Bashir and then tries to recruit him.  The organization was portrayed as rogue, operation outside the purview and even official knowledge of Starfleet and the Federation.  This is in contrast to the Cardassian Obsidian Order or Romulan Tal Shiar both of which are well known and operate with the tacit approval of their respective governments.  Although the concept of Section 31 is an intriguing one in the context of DS9s many shades of grey, I personally find it unnecessary and completely antithetical to Gene Roddenberry's original vision of Star Trek.  In season 7's "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" Section 31 pops up again to meddle in Romulan Tal Shiar affairs, and then at season (and series) end it's revealed that Section 31 created a virus to commit gen...

Temporal Investigations Incursion Report Filed Stardate 58624.3 Commander JT Stern, DTI Analyst Transmitted over secured channel Alpha 236 Zeta 2 I. SUMMARY OF INCURSION Stardate 58460.1 The USS Cerritos NCC-75567 was assigned to conduct updated scans of the time portal on planet Krulmuth-B, first discovered by an Orion science ship in the 23rd century. An away team of 4 junior officers led by Ensign Beckett Mariner were sent to the surface to conduct the scans. During the away mission the portal was inadvertently activated and Ensign Bradward Boimler and later Ensign Beckett Mariner were thrown back in time from 2381 stardate 58460.1 to 2260 stardate 2291.6. At the time of their arrival in the past the portal was being analyzed by an away team from the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 under Captain Christopher Pike as part of a routine survey. With the assistance of Captain Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 the two ensigns were later returned to their own time frame. Temp...