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Meh, embrace the stereotype. I love being a Trekkie stickler. I’m also now annoyed that I realize there’s a difference. :/

The Binar long con prank. They must still be laughing.

At least Reg was using the characters to deal with his anxiety in reality. Geordi should have known better though and at least had a bit of security on that holodeck program. Even if Leah had been into him right away, seeing that playback would still be awkward.

Lol, yeah, totally right. I guess I strung those two together being they are part of an undeclared trilogy.

I will agree that those two movies have the absolute best soundtracks of all the movies.

I can understand why. The motivations and message are a bit deeper than WoK. But UC wouldn’t have happened (in the same way) without WoK first, since I don’t think Kirk had the same hatred towards Klingons before. Distrust sure, but not revenge level hate.

UC also has that connection with one of the best TNG episodes, Yesterday’s Enterprise.

It’s as much Star Trek as the unofficial Trek movie Galaxy Quest. Doesn’t matter if the characters and universe are different, it’s got the same vibe to fit in.

I do prefer the beard, but later Riker without a beard works well. I think it’s because the character and actor have grown into the part at that point and don’t present themselves the same as the early season Riker. I was going to call him “gangly” but I don’t think that’s right, but first season Riker was less sure of things.

Let’s not forget the other badass old Riker with the peppered gray beard who said “I’ll get the Klingon’s attention”.

That was a background character, not the one you’re thinking about (see other reply). There’s a bunch of side characters in that and other movies that don’t get credited. One well known one is Tom Morello of RATM.

Correct. Stephanie is the one everyone always refers to for that look she gives Riker in that scene. RIP.

And for what it’s worth, although the inference seems to always be sexual, I don’t think it needs to be. It can be just as much admiration and “holy shit, captain”. Which is totally justified.

I also like the look Riker gives when Geordi tells him he already ejected the core before being ordered.

Maybe it’s not replicated meat, but instead they keep a selection of turkeys and other live animals in transporter stasis until needed.

Reminded me for some reason of the description of what “catastrophic damage” is in the board game Starfleet Battles. Not necessarily the level of the nacelles falling off the ship, but a bit more than the captain’s chess board slipping off the table.

Gillian really did come out of the whole thing with a win.

If you really want to get the full idea of what Kirk as a captain is like, dive into the old paperback novels. He has a presence of command that many good writers have expanded on, and there’s a reason he’s a legend among the many Starfleet commanders. Although I have a head canon that anyone getting to the point of captaining a starship has similar awesomeness in their character that can face just about anything head on. A 23rd/24th century version of the steely-eyed missile man.

Which puts a new light on the various captains in all the series that “failed” in some way. Decker and the rest. They were Kirk level, and what they went through still broke them.

Given that was the very first filmed episode (as a second pilot) it can be forgiven (The Man Trap was the first aired). I can’t find a reason for picking “T” later on in the series, but it sounds better than “R” when announcing his full name to an alien ship. “Tiberius” didn’t even come along until a later animated episode, and still wasn’t canon except to fans until it was used in The Undiscovered Country.

I’m behind on the episodes, but he won me over with Pike as a Starfleet captain with the first episode of SNW.

I think at least in TOS (where red shirts originated, perhaps statistically unfairly) all of the red shirts would get a name tagged to them before things went wrong. That seemed to be more of a “red” flag to me, get the regulars in a landing party, oh, and Mr. Johnson too. Yeah, he’s toast.

Certainly by now someone has done a breakdown comparison of the many series - which series was more deadly to the “new” guy in the group? I don’t think TOS was the worst, and no, whole ships don’t count like Wolf 359.

Time traveler: “Yes.”

First Contact is definitely on the top list of Star Trek movies/episodes for hitting a lot of the basic Trek themes. And also music scores, I get chills anytime I hear that main leitmotif.

I think the opening scene for the 2009 movie had more visual deaths in it than all the series combined. And one of the shockers of WoK was how we finally saw first hand what “casualties” looks like when you’re right there.