Fuck the lore. Half the hardcore fans who know all the lore just use it to bitch about inconsistencies. Dive in wherever you like and everything you need to know will be exposited to you by a convenient captain’s log or an over loquacious android.

What else are you going to decorate your fancy corner office with? Pictures of the kids you keep forgetting about? Fah.

The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the one example that comes to mind.

Yeah, TNG already did a better job in less than half the time with Journeys End. And that wasn’t even a particularly great episode.

It’s cornier than fuck.

Feature, not bug.

Wow, I did not know that! The TNG crew met Venusians from the centre of the galaxy. That’s wonderful.

Reading between the lines of The Nth Degree, one might suppose the entity was a Cytherian, who granted Sybok the knowledge to get the ship, as would later happen with Barclay. And maybe the other Cytherians helped them get back home as well?

Of course, this all contradicts my preferred theory was that there was no entity. At least, not until Sybok arrived and found his supposed “Eden” to be an empty wasteland. Unable to deal with his whole belief system falling apart, his subconscious leveraged his advanced mental abilities to conjure an appropriate godlike being. But of course, like him, it was a little bit mad…

Actually, there was just a lot of downtime between shots of STV. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy spent about 40 years in that brig cell waiting for Scott to break them out. By the time they made it back home they had caught up to the TNG era. That’s why Worf was able to serve as as defense attorney in the trial in STVI. It’s obvious when you think about it.

This scene rather speaks for itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5Qx7jU9pU

But if you really want to be convinced, I’ve gotta recommend this deep dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiW3wOUgBTY

Obviously rife with spoilers for both TOS and the films, though.

Mulder, there’s never been any conclusive evidence that Vulcanians even exist, let alone operate a prestigious science academy. And the idea that this fictional academy is dictating policy to the United Earth government across light years using some kind of universal translation technology? It’s completely scientifically implausible.

The Borg ain’t nothing but zombies.

There are a million Fight Club theories. My favourite is that the narrator is Calvin and Tyler is Hobbes.

Fascinating, I’ll need to see if I can find where they got their system from.

The best and most detailed stardate system I’ve found online is here. It makes a valiant attempt to integrate the TNG and TOS stardates into a coherent whole. It’s a little overwrought in my book and makes some calls I can’t agree with, but you can’t fault the dedication!

For sure, I seriously doubt it was at all intentional, but the fact that the offset matches up as well as it between the two examples is very lucky for any of us foolish enough to try to take these things seriously. I definitely think about these things too much.

Data and Lore switch places on every encounter. From Datalore to Brothers its Lore. Then it’s Data again until Descent. Then back to Lore until Nemesis. That’s the real reason Data’s personality is all fragmented when he returns on Picard. Too many swaps got him confused.

Oh no, now there’s two “that persons”!

1000 stardates is definitely 1 Earth year, as confirmed when Discovery jumped 800 years into the future and they hadn’t drifted away from that pattern.

However, there’s good evidence that stardate x000 is not January 1st.

In Data’s Day, the stardate is 44390.1 and Data notes in his log that there’s “a celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights”. That could technically be any one of 5 days in 2366, from October 31 to November 4th, according to this calculator: https://www.drikpanchang.com/diwali/diwali-puja-calendar.html?year=2366

(To confirm that 2366 is the correct year, Data directly said it was 2364 in The Neutral Zone, 2.4 years earlier on stardate 41986).

Assuming November 1 for Data’s Day, that’s 214 days after April 1. 44390 - 1000 * (214/365) = stardate 43803 for April 1. The start of the year would be 304 days earlier around stardate 43557. Of course, stardates trip over themselves all the time, but would Data of all people be wrong?

A little support is in Voyager Homestead, when they celebrate First Contact Day (April 5th) sometime shortly before stardate 54868.6. That’s a bit late but in both cases we’re looking at April falling in the 800s. I’d go early 800s, because Data is better at math than Neelix. (I dunno, maybe Voyager’s clocks had fallen 2 weeks out of sync after being separated from Federation servers for 7 years).

Or, of course, Barclay’s deep fakes. The holodeck really does function a lot like an outgrowth of today’s LLMs, at least as far as its usage goes. But I don’t think TNG really endorses it, given the frequency of holodeck malfunctions and misuses.

If they saw it before they were 14, it’s nuanced, insightful, even challenging. If they saw it after they were 14, it’s shallow insincere pandering.

I’m with you. 2016 may not compare to the original, but it was a solid comedy with a good heart. The bloody meltdown parts of the internet had over it was insane.

Nah, he’s a good Canadian.

Okay, he’s rich, out of touch, and a total dick to his coworkers. But I’ve never seen him express any particularly bad political views.