Honestly, healthy choice!

In general, I’m a firm believer in “stardates were made to be nonsense, and should be treated as such,” but they’re fun to puzzle over once in a while.

stardates in the DIS era have been all over the place

I don’t pay a lot of attention to such things, but I was under the impression that they switched to the TNG-era stardate system following the time jump. Did things smooth out after that point?

Kurtzman has made some nebulous comments about there being some overlap, so I was open to the possibility that this was happening between seasons or during season five or something.

Not a lot to say about this one - I’m just glad Reno found someone.

And we have a stardate!

868858.7 - that puts it pretty definitively after DSC season 5 (coda excepted), assuming stardates are, you know, linear.

this time we’ll get it right i swear

Unfortunately, that’s also made me wonder if his days are numbered…

While our cadets compete to join an elite team at the Academy,

RED SQUAD

RED SQUAD

RED SQUAD

I thought about this back when they had the wheelchair-using crewman in the first couple of seasons of Discovery - I think I’ve come down on the side of “sometimes the old ways are the best ways” with stuff like this.

You can’t suddenly lose power and crash your wheeled chair. For all we know, it’s got some sort of powered unit for use when the user encounters a steep incline or flight of stairs or whatever.

But for everyday use? Yeah, I’ll stick with wheels.

Didn’t he seem visibly shaken when asked about the Protostar crew, like he knew something SAM didn’t?

I didn’t think that at the time, but on rewatch…maybe? At least some of the Prodigy kids are on the memorial wall, but that doesn’t really mean much in context. I’m not sure how the production timelines of the two series aligned when this pilot would have been filming, but they may even have been attempting to do a little synergy.

I would say “yes” to “odd” (or at least unusual), and “no” to “out of place”.

I guess if “Federation Standard” is just American English, the common sign language might as well be ASL…

A learning experience for us all!

TBH this piece didn’t resonate with me at the time, but I have to admit it’s just about perfect, thematically.

I’m not a huge fan of the opening theme, but c’est la vie.

I didn’t realize this was an original recording for the show.

I’ve been digging a little deeper, and in “Ménage à Troi”, Deanna tells Lwaxana that it’s “impolite not to speak aloud” when amongst non-telepaths. It’s very possible that the president is simply deaf, and they were using sign language to maintain those manners.

There definitely seems to be a spectrum - on one end, there’s Lon Suder, who says he can’t read much of anything, and on the other, there’s Tam Elbrun, whose abilities were completely out of control.

Weird admin question here - did you do something on your end to somehow switch this post to a different community?

I’m seeing this show up as a c/startrek post with the c/daystrominstitute sidebar, which is…a new one.

The episode definitely doesn’t work as well if the Betazoids can simply read everyone’s minds and know their true intentions.

Which is sort of the whole problem with telepaths.

I think it’s complicated by the fact that Deanna Troi is the Betazoid “prototype,” but as you noted, she was presented as somehow “weaker” than other Betazoids due to her half-human physiology. And even then, she was capable of full telepathic communication with Riker.

But after that, we had stuff like Lon Suder in “Meld,” saying things like, “Most Betazoids can sense other people’s emotions,” without mentioning telepathy at all. Even Memory Alpha seems to have resorted to using the term “telepathy/empathy” here and there - it all seems rather messy.