For the record, if anyone reading this is that sort of person, you can save us a lot of time and just go away now.

The Academy is a fully-functional starship, so she’s both the captain and the chancellor. She’s 500 years old, is a bit of a hippy, and is happy to lounge around when they’re not facing a crisis.

The implication is that the portrayal of bad things is somehow an endorsement of bad things, so it most certainly is not.

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The one that bumps me most is the Totally-Not-Ten-Forward Office of the Federation President.

That’s a good question. I found this on Memory Alpha:

A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used.

I’m guessing this set was simply not built to hold up under feature film-level resolution.

The way I see it, if there’s a big moment and you lost the nuance of what happened with the puck, there’ll probably be a replay and I can catch it then.

Jettisoning the nacelles was considered in TOS’ “The Apple” and “The Savage Curtain”, but in both cases they never actually did it.

Another, more Olympics-related thought: keep in mind that the rink is shorter. The smaller neutral zone seems to be leading to more offside calls.

My tip for watching hockey on TV in general is to not focus too much on the puck, and focus on the bigger-picture movements of the players instead.

You’ll know where the puck is, since everyone’s swarming toward it, so it’s more interesting to see what’s going on around it, if that makes sense.

I’ve always been a heretic.

Oh man, I couldn’t agree less. Detach everything!

She also did an episode of “Enterprise” so I guess it’s all Trek canon.

That’s why Marissa isn’t in season four.

heavy sigh

Major…

I think they’re cool (but obnoxiously loud) on the slopes, and completely useless on the speed skating and luge tracks.

I think Braka and the Venari Ral are an interesting contrast to Osyraa and the Emerald Chain, which was an entirely different flavour of tyranny.

I thought about that, and concluded that the comic book probably took a lot of liberties with reality. Caleb did dismiss it as propaganda, after all.

It did look like a fun read.

Definitely a darker episode. I thought it was a bit of a mixed bag, but I enjoyed the Ake/Braka development.

I have to admit, I didn’t expect them to kill off a (guest star) cadet. Earlier in the episode, I’d been thinking about how nice it’s been that they’ve kept the supporting cast of cadets so consistent, but now we’re down one. At least we still have the Delta Swallower.

I didn’t love the basic setup - using a derelict ship that people died on as a training ground didn’t really sit well with me - but it was a decent story in that setting.