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  • I'd say TNG mostly stopped exploring new frontiers halfway through season 1. Farpoint promised exploration, but soon the ship is ferrying diplomats and scientists and answering Federation distress calls. The worlds are new to the audience, but not the characters.

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  • He wrote a book about making it. The section on studio interference implies that it was all egregious, but it lists Paramount trying to fix most of the problems that were still in the final film.

  • Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • If you read the initial material, Data is drastically different. There is no explicit mention of being unemotional, just that he tends to speak more formally. He's supposed to be more like the Ilia probe than Spock.

    Worf didn't exist at first, so Geordi the teacher with bionic vision would be the most "other" character. If they'd seen any of the early press material for Phase II, Spock's replacement there was a very junior officer.

  • M*A*S*H in space?
  • There was a spinoff pitched during TOS called Hopeship featuring M'benga. The pitch for NBC/RCA was that instead of introducing expensive colorful sets, they could stay shipboard and have expensive alien makeup and costumes.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony"
  • A Quality of Mercy also showed Una in prison, and Those Old Scientists implied she's revered. Did sending that letter prevent Pike from recruiting her lawyer? Things are already not heading down the exact timeline we saw Ortegas alive in.

  • Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 “Those Old Scientists”
  • With one barely mentioned planet, this episode reframed the plot originally designed to hold together TNG, DS9, and Voyager.

    Federation authorities insisted the DMZ colonies were recent and had been warned they were disputed territory. They painted a picture like Israeli settlers in Gaza refusing to obey their own government and leave.

    But now we have a Federation affiliated colony on Setlik 2 a century earlier.

    The UFP's failure to stop the Maquis terrorists always seemed like command wanted the war restarted with plausible deniability. Now the Maquis arguments are stronger. Ceding long-held territory is much easier to call abandonment.

  • [IDW's Star Trek: Day of Blood #1 comic] Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command
  • Wesley's mom, a main character, was initially going to be the ship's teacher. They shifted her over to the empty doctor position without changing much about her. Then they made a new teacher who was also changed to be a bridge character, as the ship's pilot.

    While Riker and Troi are adapted from Decker and Ilea, Beverly was more extrapolated from yeomen Colt, Smith, and Rand.

    Edit: specifically, their bios were mostly about a potential relationship with the captain, how competent they were (making them reasonable mates for him), and having the "walk of a striptease queen."

  • The Federation should not have been surprised that their holograms developed sapience
  • Yeah, the first scene where Riker is in awe of the holodeck also says Data was in the class of 78, Riker is reluctant to accept Data's personhood (as initially planned), and since they hadn't introduced the replicators yet, Data describes the holodeck as using transporter tech in a way that sounds very clumsy and patronizing now.

    After that they mostly stick to holodecks just being new on ships, and not usually controlled by a computer as sophisticated as the Enterprise's.

  • Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 “Those Old Scientists”
  • Boimler is prone to exaggerating and has strange perspectives. It could be some obscure holiday on a planet he saved, or a Starfleet tradition to commemorate just on ships named Enterprise. Or there's another major holiday which coincides with Pike's birthday.

  • Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Extended Clip | SDCC 2023
  • The new producer took over for season 2. Season 3 is clearly what he imagined 30 years after All Good Things to be like, undoing Generations, and in season 2 he focused on changing the parts of Picard's character that were too major to stuff into season 3.

  • Reddit seems all doom and gloom on the topic but what about Lemmy? And the future of Star Trek?
  • Voyager wasn't syndicated, it launched UPN, which was Paramount's hope for Star Trek since the 70s. Then Enterprise rode out the network almost to its dissolution. We wouldn't have had a project ready to morph into TMP without Phase 2 and the planned and then abandoned network.

  • Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x05 “Charades”
  • I've always thought the Romulans weren't just the Vulcans who rejected Surak's teachings, but also any who didn't have the physical ability to follow them.

    Originally it was just based on Romulans not expressing any psychic abilities, but Picard also established that sharing personal details publicly as a major taboo. That would track with them being a mix of former enemies who are concerned with suppressing the rivalries that lead to nuclear war.