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[Nate the Great]

Seven Mysteries of Star Trek by We Travel By Night


1. Where did the planet killer come from?
2. What happened at Axanar?
3. What happened to the remains of the Genesis planet after SFS? Why wasn't another attempt at the Genesis project made?
4. What happened to Maltz?
5. What was Picard doing between the loss of the Stargazer and taking command of the E-D?
6. What happened to the bluegills?
7. What happened between Guinan and Q?


1. I'm not fond of the idea that the Preservers built them to use against the Borg, frankly I'm not fond of the laziness of "The Preservers did it" or the idea that the Borg have been around for that long.
2. Ignoring the race seen in Enterprise, I'm not fond of the simple "it was a battle against the Klingons" explanation. It seems rather simplistic.
3. I'm interested in the theory one of the novels proposed-it wasn't the protomatter that was the problem, it was a side effect of the Genesis Device trying to make a planet out of a nebula when it was never designed to do that. As for why it was never attempted again, I'm going to assume that the Klingons insisted that the technology be banned for everyone, combined with greater warp speeds allowing for easier colonization of existing planets.
4. "He killed himself" always seemed like an easy cop out. I prefer the story that he helped improve the translation of the Klingon language.
5. The novels are full of stories set during this era. My only problem is that more of it should've been mentioned in canon, in particular important archeology finds.
6. Once again the novels covered the bluegills rather well.
7. This is one that really should've been followed up on.

[Nate the Great]

Courtesy of One Hit Wonderland...


The ORIGINAL "Hooked on a Feeling"
No, not Blue Swede. B.J. Thomas. Sometimes you don't want the ooga-chakas.

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Ooga-chaka is fun but the original is much better.

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I was disturbed by this so now you have to be as well...


CGI TNG cast as though they were characters in The Jetsons.


I wonder how you say "Uncanny Valley" in Klingon...

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This one actually made me LOL, that doesn't happen very often.

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Ashens 20th Anniversary Special!


Yikes, does this make me feel old. I was an Ashens fan right at the beginning, jumping on before he hit a hundred videos, back in the 10 minute limit era. I feel like waving my walking stick at some whippersnappers...

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We all know Vasquez Rocks from "Arena", but I didn't know Trek used the site this many more times.

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So apparently this year is the 30th anniversary of Pokemon (why yes, I would like to wave my walking stick at some whippersnappers, thank you), so someone made fanart of the TOS Trio with some Pokemon.


Spock with Squirtle, Kirk with Pikachu, and Scotty with Charmander. Somehow those don't seem appropriate beyond fitting the color scheme. I'd picture Spock with a Psychic type, Kirk with a Fighting type, and Scotty with a Steel type.


What Pokemon starter would fit every Trek main cast member would be an interesting forum game, but I'm not in the mood to start that thread.


A fan's car-size classic 1701 model. I'm sorry, but it always irks me to see things that purport to be the classic TOS 1701 but...aren't. Wrong Bussard collectors, wrong deflector dish, the nacelle vents don't stick out enough...

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Fanmade Trek-themed Jeopardy questions.


I got most of the pre-NuTrek stuff, except for half of the Dax hosts. The one that really bugged me is the one who walked with her hands behind her, the one that Kira let borrow her body. I couldn't remember!


The really painful ones were identifying the Trek movie by a snippet of the score. Given enough time I could probably identify the scores of the first six, but the later ones sort of blur together.

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Jill Bearup reviews Ever After


I can't believe that I've never plugged Jill Bearup before. She reviews movies set in the past, usually focusing on the accuracy of their swordfights.


Ever After is a guilty pleasure for me. I don't mind "realistic" fairy tales as long as they have the right story, acting, etc. i.e. you can tell that effort was made.


It's interesting how I exclusively know of Drew Barrymore from her less successful roles. I never watched The Wedding Singer or Never Been Kissed or Charlie's Angels, I know her from Babes in Toyland and Batman Forever!

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Bunnytails reviews "The Outrageous Okona"


I had to share this if only so you can hear her compare Okona with Harry Mudd. Talk about a LOL moment!

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This one is just insane.


What if you replaced the rear wheel of a bicycle with two half-wheels?

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Neat!


Two more "lost" First Doctor episodes have been announced to be found. "The Dalek Master Plan" now has 5 episodes out of the original 12.

Steven's actor was driven to a cinema under false pretences for a surprise viewing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

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This isn't really a link, but...

I subscribe to Dave Barry's mailing list. The most recent newsletter talks about the Oscars...

Who will win Best Picture this year? Will it be “Encounter at Farpoint,” or “The Naked Now,” or “Code of Honor,” or even “The Last Outpost?” Probably not, because these are not Oscar-nominated movies. These are the titles of the first four episodes of season one (1987-88) of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’m just listing them here to drive home the point that the average person such as (no offense) yourself is pretty much oblivious to what the film industry is up to these days.

Before this was a mention of the 2024 Best Picture winner Anora, which I'd never heard of but certainly sounds like the name of a Star Trek planet, doesn't it?

Looking back on the award winners, I'd have to go back to 2003's LOTR The Return of the King to have seen a winner. If we're talking nominees, just 2018 for Black Panther.

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I very much would not know about the existence of more than a couple of movies here or there if I weren't in hobby-oriented spaces.

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TOS-themed shirt that's a reference to the classic A New Hope poster


I'm annoyed that everything is TOS except for TWOK Khan. Couldn't they be consistent? Cute reference, though.

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An image of a retired Jonathan Archer watching the construction of the 1701


1. That ain't Jonathan Archer. Not even close.
2. The Monster Maroon wasn't in use in 2245. Furthermore that isn't even a proper Monster Maroon.
3. That ain't the 1701. You'd think AI would be trained enough to generate the 1701 on command by now.

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Steve Shives reviews "Blink of an Eye"


If you're a follower of SFDebris, you know that Chuck HATES this episode. Steve was much more positive.


While I agree with Chuck that a few of the guest stars were underwhelming, I have to counter it with the knowledge that there's not much to do with the roles when you only have one scene, maybe a minute long. On one set, with one other actor.


I'm sure I could write whole screeds of complaints about the Treknobabble used to justify this planets existence, my only big problem is the "walking among the frozen crew until time notices them" bit. There should've been turbulence as their ship transitioned to Voyager's timeframe, and that's what killed the woman (Terrina, FYI). Probably the ship would've been destroyed and Gotana-Retz gets an emergency beamout, returning to the planet in a specially-modified escape pod.

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So ten years ago I posted the "anime ghost girl dances to Moses Supposes" video.


Well, this time it's two guys dressing like Don and Cosmo and doing the dance in real life.


A valiant effort and a great tribute, but nobody can compare with Gene and Donald.

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I never thought I'd see this...


Some turned that scene where Picard drew a smiley face on the frozen warp core breech into a LEGO model.