See, Disco had it right. Doctors wore white, compared to the navy blue uniforms of all the other divisions, including Sciences. Presumably during the war someone decided that your medic being conspicuously covered in blood gave a bad impression, that was downgraded to nurses (SNW Chapel) and the doctors wore blue (although the slightly lighter shade than science divison). Then later, nurses got blue as well (TOS Chapel). Or was Chapel a full MD by then? Not sure about that.

I’ve seen a story where one of the faire participants had a commbadge hidden in their costume, pulled the Trekkie to one side, showed it to them, then told them off for breaking the Prime Directive…

His face, his voice, his… everything…

“By Grabthar’s Hammer… … what a savings”

I was going to tell you a time travel joke, but you didn’t like it.

With just a jump to the left…

Proof we need more Brits around here, the answer is clearly “sausages”… 😁

Personally, I think the problem with Galactica nowadays is that the world is generally far more depressing than it was when the show came out. I can take dark and gritty, but it was more fun then. Now, I prefer something more lighthearted.

Like the flashback episode of SNW, where we saw Chapel and M’Benga during the Klingon War. My first though was “this is awesome, I could watch a whole show like that”, but shortly afterwards, I realised "nope, that would be way too much, bring back Captain Daddy making jokes about how flipping the communicator open is better than tapping a commbadge.

Or maybe I’m just more of a miserable bastard than I was 20 years ago. IDK.

But hey, for any sci-fi fan, I’d certainly recommend at least watching the miniseries that kicks it all off. Get a feel for the characters and the universe they’re in.

I’ve never watched Babylon 5. Everyone always raves about it, but I don’t know if I could get past the extremely dated looking effects.

Plus there’s so much new content coming out. I can’t criticise anyone who doesn’t want to watch older stuff, because who has the time to watch it all?

That being said… you have seen Firefly, right?

Do you wanna run this ship?

Yes

Well… you can’t.

“So we were being chased by bad guys through a really explosive gas cloud nebula thing. Weapons were on the fritz and we couldn’t use shields because if the aforementioned nebula. So I ejected the warp core and blew it up, detonating the nebula and the bad guys while we just scraped out in the nick of time”

My god man, that’s actually impressive. How were you planning on getting back to literally anywhere else without a warp core?

“Ah well, I was only the acting captain at the time, so I figured that would be Picard’s problem when he got back…”

There’s like 80 years between Enterprise and Disco, and another 80 between TOS and TNG. Since they (probably) won’t fill up all of this with more and more series, there’s plenty of scope to mine them for content, especially with one-off films.

I was a bit sad they didn’t get her to at least play Tendi’s grandmother in the crossover episode, I thought that would have been a nice little nod.

And yes, that is the worst complaint I have about that episode, that’s how good it was…

1.6 kilometeeeeeers!

I am cackling :D

Hush you, I’m not old, you’re old.

*cries

In order for this to be scientific, we should repeat the activity.

Picard: Captain Grandpa

Oof. Wil Wheaton is older than Patrick Stewart was when he first started playing Jean-Luc.

Well since the Irish reunification of 2024… [the remainder of this post has been removed at the request of the British government]

Check out Redshirts by John Scalzi.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

The universe! The characters! The plot! That reveal! Oh, man. To be able to experience that again for the first time. Wow.

I… do not like this.