Now I have to rewatch “Spock’s Brain”. Thanks.

Signal is important to some of my contacts and its E2E encryption is excellent. The only thing the phone number gives away to the outside is “has this person used Signal in the past?”. Since it is not illegal to use Signal in my country, I’m not worried.

Can you use Signal on a Linux phone? I know there’s a desktop Linux client, but it relies on being activated from an Android or iPhone app to function, in my experience.

Starfleet Academy technically has all of this criteria met, depending on how far you’re willing to stretch the definition of “crew”.

Prodigy meets your criteria.

Not Mary Sues:

Kirk: repeatedly impresses god-like beings with his emotional maturity and reasoning. Fought hand-to-hand with Khan and won. Saved the whales.

Picard: passes Q’s trials and makes a case for humanity’s worth, multiple times. Proves Data’s person-hood. Survives Carassian torture by sheer willpower.

Sisko: chosen as the Emissary. Does wrong and suffers no consequences.

Janeway: holds fast to Federation principles even when it prevents her from getting home; gets home anyway.

Archer: so important that Daniels and the Xindi both fight over him. Ends the Temporal Cold War and founds the Federation.

Mary Sue:

Burnham: starts the Klingon war, freed from prison by a Terran who uses her as a pawn. Gets called out for breaking rules.

Is this right, @Akuchimoya@startrek.website ?

Nah. DS9 made a big point of showing people doing bad things to accomplish good goals, while always questioning if those were actually good. Nothing about Section 31 is worse than what Sisko does in “In the Pale Moonlight” for example. And after so much about the Tal Shiar, the Obsidian Order, and the actual conspiracies within Starfleet (see STVI, the season finale of TNG season 1, The Pegasus, and Insurrection), Section 31 is not a far stretch at all.

“Yeah, way to focus on one part of the comment.”

Yes, people are allowed to do that.

I meant the Crusher who was serving on Enterprise-G. Say what you will about how his character was written or introduced, Speeler is a fine actor.

The best (only good) thing about PIC S3 was the fact that we now have an Enterprise captained by Seven of Nine. I’d love to see a series about this ship and crew (including Raffi and Crusher for continuity’s sake) but they definitely need different writers.

Enterprise season 4 is pretty good. The augment 3-parter, the Vulcan 3-parter, and Terra Prime are all worth watching. The Mirror episodes are a guilty pleasure.

It’s low-key terrifying that there are now two different ways to become a zombie in Star Trek.

(Three, if you count the Borg as zombies. Four, if you count what Nog did to Keevan in “The Magnificent Ferengi”.)

Only one nitpick: “plague” and “plaque” are two different words. I do find the idea of Dr. Crusher displaying a plague on her desk to be pretty amusing.

Yep, William Shatner and the Reeves-Stevenses wrote a whole series of adventures for a resurrected Kirk. It starts with The Ashes of Eden, which mostly takes place between VI and Generations, and kicks into gear with The Return. There’s a bunch more after that. I liked them as a kid.

“The Last Arship” “The LA Starship” “Thela’s Tarship”

Code Vein is a Soulslike with an excellent animé-style character creator.

Morrowind has mods that make characters prettier (this is an understatement). I highly recommend them.

I’m not sure our instance federates with world anyway - but it does federate with the excellent community at !startrek@startrek.website . I’d recommend checking them out if you like Trek as much as I do!

Overwriting canon is fine, actually. TOS never had an issue with it, and PIC S1E10 gave Data a much better send-off by breaking canon from Nemesis and other Soong episodes. Gene Roddenberry’s assistant officially decanonized TAS, but better writers still acknowledge it.

The idea of “canon” in regard to fictional worlds is dubious anyway, especially ones developed across multiple writers and generations. I’m fine with stuffing Pike’s comment about women on the bridge into the dustbin of history, and not stressing about what decade the Eugenics Wars happened, and assuming PIC S3 doesn’t exist.

Prodigy does start a bit weak, much like TNG and Lower Decks did. The writers find their groove pretty quickly though, and the rest of the series is great!

In the Lucas movies, droids are pretty explicitly portrayed as chattel slaves. They are auctioned off, have separate inferior quarters (Jabba’s droid quarters are particularly notable), and are basically treated as beings without agency despite definitely having agency. There’s even an explicit visual analogy - Anakin and Shmi have collars that control them and could kill them, and the droids also have (spaceships shaped like) collars that control them and can kill them.