Star Trek Social Club

For context, Rugal was the young Cardassian boy raised by Bajoran parents. Sisko is deliberating between sending Rugal back to Cardassia to live with his biological father when Rugal wishes to remain on Bajor with his adoptive parents. Sisko decides to send the boy to Cardassia to live with his biological father who he doesn’t love or remember. What the fuck Sisko? It’s a completely ass backward decision on his part, if you ask me which of course you don’t. Poor Rugal.

So I’m a long time Trekkie and besides most of the newer shows (like Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Academy) I’m pretty familiar with each of the shows - the old ones anyway.

For those who don’t remember Star Trek: Voyager, Season 4, Episode 13.

I get it strange because we have TOS comics which are great of course. But I’ve become quite attached to the redesigned Enterprise, the updated interiors and the new faces to our familiar crew. So it would be cool see what we could have been if a show was greenlit. Hell who knows what Paramount will do once SNW ends next year. They didn’t sell off the sets, so there’s always a chance that the new trek showrunner still does it. But IDW would be a good fall back.

A time ripple damages the Enterprise, forcing young and old Uhura to cooperate and fix the timeline.

We return to the Elysian Kingdom, but this time on a REAL fantasy planet.

I was lucky enough to see The Search for Spock on the last day and the remaster frankly blew me away, the surround sound was fun but what really stood out was the matte painting backgrounds. I’m not sure what magic they did, but every single one was truly breathtaking. It made me sad I didn’t get to see all of them in theaters now.

The stardate is 2179.3. Enterprise is orbiting an M-class moon (later seen labelled Sigma-287D). In Star Trek, M-class (or as established in ENT, Minshara-class) means it is generally Earth-like or habitable by oxygen-breathing humanoids with minimal assistance.

Starfleet commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original orders.

Tl;Dr - everybody on Voyager lacks the most basic of common security sense, and roams the delta quadrant with the naivety of children. Discuss.

I just found out about the “@TNG_S8” Star Trek parody twitter account and would love to read through it… anywhere other than on X (because fuck Elon).

The episode title alludes to the famous opening narration of the long-running television soap opera, Days of Our Lives: “Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days of our lives.” Soap operas, the subject of this episode’s homage, are best known for melodrama and plot twists. Incidentally, Days is broadcast on NBC/Paramount. Chronitons are technobabble particles associated with time travel.

A temporal anomaly traps the crew inside a soap-opera reality while Pike confronts a life he lost.

This is basically SNW’s take on disaster movies, like The Poseidon Adventure and TNG: “Disaster”, in the same way so far this season they’ve homaged Doctor Who*, *Event Horizon*, *The Hangover*, *Casablanca* and *The Muppet Show*. There’s also some *24 in here with the ticking clock and near real-time action.

An off-duty window becomes a warp emergency when the Enterprise is pushed beyond its safe limits.

A transporter malfunction turns most of the crew into puppets while Spock fights to reclaim the ship.

In TNG, the lower the level of something the higher in intensity it was (a Level One Diagnostic was more intensive than a Level Four). In the 32nd century, the opposite seemed to be the case, as Reno talks about a Level-10 diagnostic in SFA: “Rubincon”. SNW seems to be taking the latter approach as well. This episode is not the first time we’ve seen people turned into puppets - in LD: “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”, Cerritos security chief Kayshon was turned into an (albeit inanimate) puppet by an energy beam. Fans might also remember the Angel episode “Smile Time”, a parody sequence in *Stargate SG-1*’s “200” and an imaginary sequence in *Community*’s “Advanced Documentary Filmmaking”.

The title refers to the black-and-white aesthetic of the episode. Chiaroscuro is an artistic technique that uses strong lights and darks (*chiaro*, bright and oscuro, dark) to create contrasts, so as to give a starker, more dramatic and sometimes three-dimensional feel to the two-dimensional image. A notable user was Leonardo Da Vinci, whose hologram has made a number of appearances in Star Trek (VOY: “Scorpion, Part 1”).

Una is mistaken for a resistance leader and drawn into a struggle against Klingon occupation.