Furthermore the name of the station would've made for an interesting six-parter. The Bajoran factions can't agree on a name and are offended every time the Starfleet crew calls the place Terok Nor. Kai Opaka would make more appearances, "dying" at the end and uniting the factions to agree on Starbase Opaka.



Have I mentioned lately how they tried to cram too much stuff into "Emissary"? Like way way WAY too much? Giving the various plots more room to breathe would've been a big improvement.

Who does "Captain Kirk" look like in this fanart? Cause that's definitely not Captain Kirk.


Of course you could argue the same for Superman and Wonder Woman as well. Only Spock looks like he should.

Steve Shives made a video pondering which Trek character suffered the most.


PNQ: Opinions?



Traditionally we're supposed to say O'Brien, but he also makes a case for Kirk, Picard, Pike, Rok-Tank, Harry, and Worf.


It really depends on how you define "suffer". Are we considering physical or mental anguish? Are we considering the in-the-moment pain only or considering all of the fallout and recovery as well? Are we treating each instance as of equal suffering, or are we grading considering intensity or duration?


Upon thinking of it, I would put Picard's assimilation at the top. Physical and mental anguish during the assimilation itself, plus the torture of watching the battle of Wolf 359, plus the recovery. As he said in "Family", he fought back with everything he had and it wasn't enough.



If we're considering the character with the most continual back-of-the-mind simmering torture, you could certainly argue Worf.


Most intense, prolonged physical suffering? Probably Harry during his Species 8472 infection.

We all know that the studio didn't like Number One from "The Cage", but there's still debate on whether it was Barret's performance or the fact that she was Gene's mistress that was the problem.


Today I found an article that says that one problem people had with her was that she was "pushy."


PNQ: Opinions?


This one surprised me. I understand other complaints like "annoying" or "too masculine" or "bad actress", but not "pushy".



I had a screed about how Barret's roles were written vs. her acting talent, but it wasn't really relevant and it was drifting into bashing territory.

So I'm on a Star Trek clip binge on YouTube and I get to Doc's ECH fantasy...


PNQ: Would a Vulcan Nerve Pinch really work on a drone?


The basic principle of the VNP is that humanoids have a neural cluster at the base of their necks that can be physically influenced. However, a Borg drone would not rely so much on said neural cluster, most signals would go through their implants.



Maybe I'd buy that a Vulcan can use their touch telepathy through a VNP (Spock was able to communicate with a few aliens at short range without physical contact) to knock out a drone because they can "change the frequency" to make contact, but not a hologram.

Miles and Keiko get married.


In the comments a lot of people expressed dislike for Keiko...


PNQ: What was wrong with Keiko?


To me Keiko's only mistake was pushing the kelp and seaberries. You just can't expect a man of Mile's age to completely change their diet on a dime.



Maybe these viewers are so fixated on the fairytale version of marriage that they hate anything less.


Or is it something as simple as "why am I watching domestic squabbles when this show is supposed to be an escape from my own domestic squabbles"?

O'Brien, Worf, Picard would all be viable choices, I agree.

There's also Lazarus from "The Alternative Factor".

I've ranted about Admiral Morrow saying that the Enterprise is 20 years old when it's really 40 before, but...


PNQ: What do you think should be the design life span of a starship? Of course you'd want them to last awhile, but how long? What's an appropriate balance between having current tech and sticking with a reliable design that's easy to repair?


This also ties into the next question...


PNQ2: We see Excelsior classes all over the place in the 24th century, are they all a hundred years old undergoing regular refits to replace the aging parts? Or is there a shipyard out there that's been cranking them out using an efficient design?


PNQ3: I know that the Enterprise-B variant didn't exist until after TNG, but why did they never appear in DS9 or VOY?


PNQ4: Why did we never see any Ambassador-classes in the DS9 fleets? Was the design of the Enterprise-C so faulty that no amount of redesign would result in a battle-worthy ship?