I love this site.

I only switch to Apple Music in July - all my top albums are They Might Be Giants albums.

This episode almost gives me Last Airbender “Tales of Ba Sing Se” vibes. It was especially nice to get to check in on a bunch of regular side characters for what might be the last time.

At the end of the episode, I was like, “Oh my gosh! It’s that one random cadet!”

I also chuckled at Shax’s conflict; I thought they were going to reveal he had been living with some sort of engramic virus or something after an accident.

I’d say the only one that competes with it for me is Generations.

The appearance of the D once again brings me back to the question - is each reality also in the year 2382, or is there a temporal differential that randomly varies?

There are a couple other instances begging this question:

• Captain Tersal is wearing a TNG-era uniform. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to just say the uniform was never retired in her timeline and are intended to be kept largely the same like the monster maroons, but it still presents a possibility.
• Boimler is able to read about alt-Boimler’s missions on the alt-PADD. Does this mean alt-Boimler’s timeline is a bit ahead, or is the PADD somehow maintaining its connection with the alternate timeline?

I might also add that it being a Galaxy Class Enterprise alone does not mean it is the D - we only know it’s the Enterprise D because of Ransom calling it “the purple D”.

I have my own theory that alt-Boimler is actually William Boimler tasked to replace his other self for mysterious Section 31 reasons. He even says “No one deserves to be replaced by their own clone.”

However, that theory aside, I joke that there’s a chain of modelling off alternate realities that spans the ship ranks, the various levels of admirals, the Federation presidency, the Travelers, the Q Continuum, and beyond.

What’s weird is in the IDW comics, Data has become a severed head again as well.

I’m a little sad. When I saw a time dilation plot, I was honestly expecting an unexpected romance to begin between Mariner and one of the other two (probably T’Lyn) - not like it fully develops, but like something weird to show up in the possible future we better get in the finale.

I wonder why there aren’t any construction firms called Shaka?…

I think B’Elanna’s not sure what to think of her “Barge of the Dead” experience and can’t tell if it was real or just some weird hallucination.

“I hope so” indicates that uncertainty.

Why does the phrase “humans with a silly hat” make me think of this meme:

Bearded Rutherford actually looks pretty sharp.

Also, I find it rather funny that the prewarp civilization kind of just looks like a bunch of bargain bin Andorians. I bet Mariner will say my words almost verbatim.

A weird VCR board game called Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge. Honestly, I feel like I’d heard of it before, but I was reminded of it in the annotations for “A Farewell to Farms” recently, as it is the origin for the quote, “Experience bij!”

On a funnier note, the character is not Gowron, but is the same actor for some reason.

Here’s a compilation of the camp in all its glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAvGNn20Y8

As well as a bit that compilation missed: https://youtu.be/3_739DxrMOs?t=3344

I felt that too and cried a little when he wasn’t in the IMDB

Yeh. I think part of it is it’s just hard to match season 4. I think the series’ single funniest dialogue comes from “Trusted Sources”.

Ransom: “How much do bench?”

Magistrate: “We don’t do it for the numbers. We do it to quiet the voices in our heads!”

Ransom: “Cool. I bench 25.”

(Starts Daystrom Institute post on how US OSHA became UE OSHA became UFP OSHA)

Also, half-dead macrovirus infected with a worm put in charge of Starfleet Medical.

Phasers or Bat’leths (Mek’leths are fine as well)?

We could also do a round of Chula, a solar sail race, ambo-jitsu, springball, darts, etcetera.

Burnham falls afoul of the “no promoted mains” rule, unfortunately.

I find it kind of sad they haven’t done anything in the 2290s-2350s era. I think it would be fun to have a series with April in monster maroon coming up on his second retirement in the late 2310s or early 2320s.

The IDW miniseries Picard’s Academy was set in this era (aligning with previous canon of when Picard went to the Academy). I enjoyed it (checked it out from my local library), though probably half just because of Spock’s outfit, honestly.

EDIT: April probably wouldn’t be the primary focus. It would probably focus on a diplomatic ship or maybe even the Academy or civilians. It probably couldn’t be too action-based, as we don’t want to undermine this being one of the most peaceful eras in Federation history - I worry to do anything interesting, you’d have to pull Disco-style shenanigans again. No matter one’s opinion on Disco, I feel like it would be kind of obnoxious to do another “this secretly happened and no one knows about it” series.