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12-05-2025, 05:13 PM
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I'm sure you guys have seen the promo poster for the new Starfleet Academy series by now...
(Insert homo sapiens only club joke here) PNQ: Given six main characters, what would be a ratio of aliens that you would find appropriate? Because one alien and five humans sounds like a terrible idea. Surely they could've tossed a Trill or Bajoran in there with minimal additional cost.
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12-06-2025, 08:54 PM
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A Facebook meme pointed out that in "All Good Things" warp factors bigger than ten were mentioned. A writer said that speeds were getting so big that they had to modify the scale to avoid 9.999 problems...
New Warp 10-old Warp 9.9 New Warp 11-old Warp 9.99 New Warp 12-old Warp 9.999 etc. PNQ: Do you like this idea? I'm reminded of the old novel Federation where the Enterprise of thousands of years in the future uses "sidewarp" factors, implying a totally new form of propulsion (no doubt tapping into something even better than subspace) that can take you to other galaxies in a reasonable amount of time.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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12-09-2025, 06:06 PM
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So one of the many Trek YouTube reviewers that I follow just posted a review of one of the DS9 Mirror Universe episodes. You all know how much I hate ANY Mirror Universe episode other than "Mirror, Mirror"...
PNQ: What's a recurring Trek episode premise that you just can't stand? Holodeck malfunctions? Obscure family member cameos? One episode romances? Meddling with prewarp societies? Characters turning into Captain Ahab chasing their personal white whale? Crazy admirals of the week?
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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01-02-2026, 11:31 PM
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On Facebook someone asked for people's choice as their own personal doctor from a selection of Trek and related shows. I don't care about that question, and I'm not inviting Pulaski bashing. I just want to point out the inclusion of Doctor Westphalen from Seaquest DSV...
PNQ: What's the pseudo-Trek series from the past that you think is the most overlooked today? Because Seaquest DSV has to be up there. Babylon 5 still gets love, Andromeda still gets love, Stargate still gets love, but not Seaquest. Why? PNQ: What could be argued to be the earliest pseudo-Trek series? I hope you understand what I mean by "pseudo-Trek", because I'm not sure I can define it without a separate screed. I don't think Planet of the Apes or Battlestar Galactica or Lost in Space count. I'm also going to exclude all of Roddenberry's failed pilots and Andromeda because they seem too easy.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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01-05-2026, 04:16 PM
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I really didn't know the premise beyond "drama in a submarine? And then they wind up in space maybe?" so I looked seaQuest up on Wikipedia.
I just assumed it aired before the '90s. I never saw anything about it on TV. Undersea maybe doesn't have the same broad appeal of X-Files finding weird stuff among us on land or Trek and Trek-likes going to distant planets.
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01-14-2026, 04:39 PM
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TNG character tier list
PNQ: Whose that basketball player in S tier and why is it a joke that he's there?
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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01-19-2026, 12:31 AM
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I've often encountered variants of the thought experiment "which superhero would you be if you could?" But today I thought of one further...
PNQ: What superhero would you be if you also got their additional baggage? 1. You have to have their day job, socioeconomic status, etc. 2. You have to have the same supporting cast and enemies. That is, if you want to have Spider-Man's powers you also have to deal with being perpetually broke, sick Aunt May, knowing that Venom etc. are out there and want you dead, etc. I'll let you pick an era of comics as well, but remember that you also have to live in that world. Maybe villains aren't so bloodthirsty in the Golden Age, but you also have to deal with Nazis looking for mystical artifacts, the Spear of Destiny, etc. Plus you have to deal with the normal technology of the age, you can't prompt Reed Richards to create cell phone infrastructure or anything. I'm not sure I'd want to be ANY hero with these additional constraints.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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