General Star Trek thread

It's very common for oppressed societies to double down on things that were suppressed like religion.

Bajor is like Ireland but also clearly the Jews. Duet is essentially a WWII story in space. You can also see elements of former communist bloc countries in Bajor's politics.

Bajor is just like Ireland for real for real. I wonder if by 2420 everyone's grandfather will have been at Gallitep despite not supporting its liberation at the time.

More on DS9 season 5..

"In Purgatory's Shadow/ By Inferno's Light" are up there with "Parallels " as some of my favourite Worf (and by extension, Klingon) stories.

He and Garak become prisoners in a Dominion "Internment Camp" (the Irish metaphor continues), and he is forced to repeatedly fight against Jem Hadar opponents until he loses or dies.

These scenes, for me, show the romantic, idealistic , even poetic side of the Klingon Warrior Ethic; the best elements of a culture that would probably be intolerable otherwise.

Worf is a man alone; an uncompromising and rigid adherent of Klingon codes and mores… even though he was raised in a different world and taught different values.

It's no coincidence that Spock was once referred to as "The Most Vulcan of Vulcans", their backgrounds are very similar in many ways.

I've just finished season 5 of DS9 and of course one of the standouts of the whole season was Trials and Tribble-ations.

I can't express how big of a deal this episode was when I was younger, TOS is probably my favourite TV show of all time and seeing one of its most beloved episodes being brought into the modern trek universe was such a blast. The writers Ron Moore and Rene Echevarria were both massive fans of the original series and you could tell.

(I was only slightly bummed out to discover, years later, that the plan had originally been to throw back to another wonderful episode, A Piece of the Action, but what the hell , it all worked out)

This was one of only two episodes I bought on imported American laserdisc, in addition to having the VHS versions (Laserdiscs were an early digital format, they looked like a 12 inch DVD basically and were hugely expensive, like 40 or 50 punts each).

The other was Way of the Warrior.

I think it holds up really really well, special effects wise.

The cinematography/lighting and makeup were a little less impressive, I felt. They tried but it didn't quite gel with the original footage.

They should have gotten the DOP from Star Trek Continues to do it, it would have been perfect!

Worst thing about the episode was how later series ran with them pointing out that Klingons looked different.

That and Dax saying Spock was sexy. Jesus later Trek really done that to death. That and fanfic fantasies about Spock and Chapel has practically ruined SNW.

Funny enough my image of him was similar to the utterly crap reveal of the Breen in Discovery.

Again if you are going by Discovery Dax is into men with two peni.

As stupid as all that sounds it's still not as stupid as pairing Jadsia with Worf at all. Star Treks most sexually liberal character with its most traditionalist conservative.

I must have repressed the Breen reveal or dipped out before it. LD did have a Gallamite though

My ex was a huge TNG fan and would regularly comment (read rant!) about Troi choosing Riker over Worf.

Just starting my yearly run through of all the Trek movies...

Well said. I have a soft spot for it, simply because it was the first trek anything I watched as a very young child. The version I have is the original theatrical. I saw the directions cut in the cinema a few years back when they re released it. I didn't like the cuts or the new cgi. There's something timeless about the OG version.

In the original version when they're all assembled watching Epsilon get destroyed they actually cut the 2nd viewer off that Kirk shouts in the directors cut. I don't know why but it's a little detail that annoyed me..

When I was a callow youth I came across a book called "Women on Top" which was basically a painstaking compilation of various women's most intimate sexual fantasies. The only thing I can clearly remember is that the "Kirk/Spock" pairing was the only thing to come up more than once.

Teenage Me was slightly outraged :)