“You are my favorite holo.”

[ID: Raffi gives Enoch a kiss on the cheek. Enoch clutches his cheeks and grins happily /end ID]

My aim in life is to be as happy as Enoch here

I laughed

Y’all hating on genre experimentation in SNW seem to be pretty easily forgetting the Roman, Nazi, Native American, Chicago Gangster, etc. episodes of TOS, all the holodeck and time travel, and that Robin Hood episode of TNG, the baseball and casino heist episodes of DS9, the Captain Proton episodes, and the Nazi episodes of VOY *AND* ENT… genre experimentation is a staple of Star Trek, not some anomalous artifact of “Nu Trek.”

Here's a few pages from the 1995 U.S.S. Cheyenne Operations Manual. What's the U.S.S. Cheyenne, you ask? Well, in "Best of Both Worlds" they made a bunch of extra ships by kitbashing parts of AMT Star Trek hobby kits, then trashed them and filmed them as the wrecks of the Wolf 359 Starfleet forces. One of those ships was the U.S.S. Ahwahnee, which according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, was a ship of the Cheyenne-class. So this is the prototype, like how the very original Star Trek Blueprints were actually the U.S.S. Constitution NCC-1700, not the Enterprise herself.

Here's a picture of the model made for the episode, from a 1990's trading card:

Those warp nacelles? They're marker pens. And are you ready to see the ship in the actual episode? The shot which inspired a fan to write a 120-page technical manual?? Here you go:

That's it. And bear in mind this is the HD version, it never would have been this clearly visible in the 1990's! Here's the story from the end of the book, in words of author Don Wayland Shanks

What do the clickbait gods of bullshit have for me this morning?

Ohhhh, the Borg are changed FOREVER(!!!!!!1!!oneoneone) with a "canon update". What could it possibly be?

Well...

It's a non-canon comic book, so that was a lie. And it was basically that Jurati's Borg from Picard season 2 show up and help out. Wow. Star Trek will never be the same again.

Someone get me a cigarette.

Wolf 359: The Massacre (Part I), a mashup/fan film combining footage from all Wolf 359 battle scenes (Best of Both Worlds, Emissary, Star Trek: Borg), and adds in tons of new CG space battle footage and details

And here's part 2. If you like space battles, this is a 30 minute one:

WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME??? 🫪

Keeping this here for future reference

Just goes to show you can have political alegories or themes in a tv show - provided that you DO NOT beat your audience over the head with it.

The key was the use of alegory - instead of directly referencing things.

A good example of this was the borg symbolizing communism/socialism - in that you were forcibly made "equal", at the cost of your individuality.

the above pictures show a number of other similar alegories.

"Do not beat your audience over the head with it"

the places studying particle physics will take you

me when i'm in a serving cunt competition and my opponent is this random vulcan from ds9 season 1 episode 11 "vortex":

Docky docky sexytime💕

Dumb shit I STILL remember saying in the schoolyard in 1990, right after falling in love with TNG. Age 6:

"Enter because it'll be entering space, and prise because it'll be a surprise!"