I’ve never been declined a warranty reimbursement for lack of original packaging. That would be crazy to me.

Mortal Coil? Joking aside, Neelix became a lot more tolerable to me after Kes left the show so half his deal stopped being what a controlling creep he was with her. I’ll admit he had some good episodes and solid character development over time.

Fair, but I also don’t give a shit about Tuvok or Neelix.

According to the Shatnerverse, reprogramming the test has become the expectation in the 24th century. The meaning of the test has completely inverted over time to become a lesson about thinking outside the box to win.

Agreed, you need that sweet water cooler talk to enjoy a show to its fullest.

Yeah, I understand not every show can last, but it became such a pattern with Netflix that it seemed like there was no point getting invested in anything new. If it wasn’t a Stranger Things level hit, it was guaranteed to be prematurely punted.

I left Netflix when they canceled Santa Clarita Diet and never looked back.

I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.

But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.

That totally tracks. Berman was misogynistic for sure, but between them Gene was the real horndog.

Took me a moment, then I laughed out loud.

Certainly the most X-Treme.

Anyway I’m sorry that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?

Yeah, like I say, it’s pretty nitpicky. I’d probably collapse everything from TSFS to Kelvin into one, if I were being more lax. I don’t find the Kelvin design to be all that different from what came before, but I do find TMP to be really distinct in comparison. But I know some people who seem to be the exact opposite on that, so 🤷

I’d say there are up to 8 designs, depending on how much you want to nitpick:

• TOS: Smooth. Unnaturally smooth.
• TMP: Single column ridge with hair on either side. Behind the scenes the concept was that the spinal column continued up from the back all around the head.
• TSFS: Ridges cover the forehead, are wider and flatter, and have a continuous hairline behind them. Female Klingons have substantially less pronounced ridges.
• TUC: Chang has those same less pronounced ridges. Maybe it’s not a male/female thing. Or maybe Chang is trans?
• TNG: Those less pronounced ridges are gone. Male and female Klingons both get roughly the same degree of lumpyness.
• Kelvin: Ridges look flatter and more pleated. I don’t think we see any hair, but it’s been a while.
• Disco: Coneheads, quadruple nostrils, and no hair.
• Disco S2: Partial retcon as the Klingons start growing their hair in and the heads appear less conical.
• Picard/SNW: Fully revert to the TNG era look. Doesn’t count since it isn’t a new design.

That’s just a normal Star Trek plot. Hell, that’s toned down for normies compared to half the stuff they get up to in any given series. At least it’s an alien looking probe and not a giant green hand or space Lincoln.

Picard as Professor X?

I dunno, I just can’t picture it…

• Superman - Picard (idealistic morality, raised in an agrarian setting)
• Batman - Worf (dead parents, emotional regulation issues, practically a cop)
• Wonder Woman - Troi (emotionally grounded, domineering royal mother)
• Aquaman - Riker (best with a beard)
• Flash, Cyborg, and Green Arrow I’ll leave as in the meme (although isn’t that last spot usually held by Green Lantern?)

Here’s the old Joshua Bell FAQ explanation:

“So can you take things off of the Holodeck?”

Yes. Any object replicated on the Holodeck may leave. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to tell what is replicated, and what is not. Snow, such as the snowball thrown by Wesley in “The Naked Now” is easily replicated, and dampness is hard to simulate. The book thrown by Picard in “Ship In A Bottle” [TNG] would be easily simulated by force beams and thus was not replicated.

The paper in “Elementary, Dear Data” [TNG] was likely simulated until the computer realized that it was going to be carried off the Holodeck, at which point it would have been seamlessly replaced with a replicated copy.

Fair enough, that is pretty solid logic. I’ll leave the heartfelt meme alone now.

That’s a very good point, but I feel like it would just lead to an argument about which series (DS9) is somehow objectively “best” (it’s DS9), and that’s really not the sort of argument I’m here to start (because it’s obviously DS9).