I had no idea they were related, but apparently they were (thanks 😉). But that too was soon retconned:
According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda, when mentioning of the speed limit was abandoned a few years after “Force of Nature”, it was assumed that newer ships, such as the USS Voyager and USS Defiant, had improved environmentally friendly warp drive systems, that did not cause damage to the spatial continuum.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Variable_geometry_pylon
Warp 10 and salamanders. Great examples 👌
But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?
Later, the Federation Council issues a new directive limiting all Federation vessels to a speed of warp five except in extreme emergencies.
Laughs in Janeway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Reminds me of this
Starships were meant to fly
My wife (and probably many others) disagrees, but I’m firmly of the opinion that Starships by Nicki Minaj is an uncertified trek banger 🙌
Harbinger is the worst episode of ENT. The captain and the alien of the week are maybe 6 minutes of the episode. The rest is a bunch of bullshit with resolving the conflicts in the crew that had been brewing all season.
Only saving grace is the fight scene, but then the macho American space marine gets schooled by lieutenant mister bean? Lolwut
What the hell do they think this is, Hamlet, Gone With the Wind, Ruggles of Red Gap? It’s a goddamned space western, aliens in rubber masks, you know the drill!
My favorite is the repair tool from S1 PIC, the one powered by imagination. Lets just create and forget a magic wand that commoditizes the entire engineering department 🙃
Enterprise was not bad at all.
Phlox, rub some decontamination gel on this revisionist history! The worst part was absolutely all the oily creeper shots.
Not sure if you’re actually wanting animated or not, but Scavenger’s Reign is a good animated sci-fi miniseries of a spaceship crew stranded on a strange planet.
For live action check out the two Callister episodes of Black Mirror.
Odo used harumph. It’s super effective!
Really thoughtful read. I especially appreciated this
The term woke originally meant something quite simple: Being awake to injustice. However, in recent years, it has undergone a remarkable semantic inversion. For some critics, woke has become shorthand for any narrative that asks viewers to empathize with someone outside their tribe.
This is why stories about immigration policy, systemic injustice, or forgiveness trigger such strong reactions. They are perceived not as entertainment but as ideological intrusion. They become “the enemy.”
Edit: also this, meant only as a jest 🖖 :
Incredibly well done episode. Not sure others have mentioned these, but I really really liked these things in particular:
A great first season, I feel like they know what they’re doing and I want more.
I was kind of bummed by the explanation of why Discovery couldn’t jump with the spore drive
I loved this episode and the season in general , but I must disagree.
I felt like they respected their audience too much to leave us with freezer thoughts like “what about disco’s magic mushroom warp?”
They are in the middle of — it’s not just drinking from one firehose, there’s probably ten thousand hoses. And so everything is just happening slower as a result of this massive time of transition. And that is not exclusive to Star Trek.
As a corporate drone I see this as an absolute win.
The odds are near their highest that Academy will be rubberstamped simply because it passes a triage check and they’re too busy to bikeshed the details.
At the bar celebrating his new commission aboard Voyager he met an ensign named Mariner.
This was an problem that Picard showrunner Terry Matalas ran into when he pitched his Star Trek: Legacy spinoff series set on board the USS-Enterprise-G (formerly USS Titan), as all of those sets were destroyed immediately after Picard season 3 wrapped up, adding significant startup costs to recreate everything for a new show.
Ah so that’s why that sets are relevant. No sets no spinoff.
He’s been meaning to ask her why her uniform is a catsuit made of office carpet.
me: Now when it comes to Ferengi-centric episodes of DS9, Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, while good, doesn’t hold a candle to subversive gems like House of Quark (which actually preceded this episode), Bar Association, and Little Green Men.
them: shutup shutup shutup!
However, is it only Brakka who is responsible for the con, or is and has Anisha Mir been part of a long con of both Ake and her son from the start?
I like where you’re going. My own hunch is we’ll learn that Anisha (at Nus’ behest after he rediscovered Caleb) agreed to embed malicious code in her encrypted messages to Caleb (and that she only begrudgingly agreed because she lost hope he would read them) and that’s how Nus will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat from Capt. Ake at the very last moment, that he actually won the moment Caleb opened that first message from his Mom.
Probably not exactly that, but something along the lines of discovering that Nus has always been 2 steps ahead.
I love this meme. There’s one I saw once where he’s trying to explain why he blasted those parasite badmirals. Wish I saved it at the time.