Short answer, “yes” with an “if.” Long answer, “no” with a “but.”

Quiet, she’ll hear you!

My child, that’s not really fair. Winn was ambitious and power-hungry, yes, and that made her corruptible, true, but that’s not the same as being evil. I also think she redeemed herself at the end, using her last breath to tell the Emissary how to defeat the Pah Wraiths.

What does god need with a rainbow?

Break out the self-sealing pitchforks!

I don’t understand why bagpipes get such hate. The music they make is not unpleasant. And don’t tell me you didn’t cry when Scotty started playing “Amazing Grace” at the end of Wrath of Khan. That’s impossible.

PSA: There’s a special screening of Star Trek IV in San Francisco on June 13 to honor the 40th anniversary. Nick Meyer (writer/producer on IV) will be there. I’m sure he will be pleased to explain how a wizard did it.

https://www.voguemovies.com/nicholas-meyer

I contend that it is not actually missing, it’s just not visible from that perspective. When I recreate the shot in Google Earth only the extreme north tip of New Zealand is actually visible:

Joe Satriani’s Crowd Chant was originally going to be called Party on the Enterprise and would have included Trek sound effect samples, but he couldn’t get the licensing to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCRX-EXR3_U

The urgency in The Measure of a Man makes no sense. The judge should simply pause the transfer order while the question of Data’s personhood is resolved, if necessary by a higher court months or years later.

I think we can call this a canon fact about Betazoids considering the events of Ménage à Troi.

Insurrection is weird because it’s a Star Trek movie whose message is apparently anti-tech and anti-exploration. They should have called it Star Trek: The Amish Country.

Scotty: This is the commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise. All cities and installations on Eminiar VII have been located, identified, and fed into our fire control system. In one hour and forty-five minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages. [dramatic music]

Bonus moment, DS9:

unnamed extra: The Federation fleet has surrounded the planet.

Random one-episode extra got the best line in the whole fricken franchise.

These are Klingons we’re talking about.

Robot Chicken did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauuuhpSfRQ

political dissatisfaction

By framing it as mere “political dissatisfaction”, the author inadvertently exposes their ulterior motive. The discussion is actually about whether Trump is in his right mind.

Girlish scream I’ll be there :D

The Voyage Home is the very first movie I can remember seeing, and it’s still my favorite Trek movie.

Yeah, but what about all the episodes where they didn’t detect any danger? That’s like half of TOS. By TNG it’d be hubris if they still believed they could know for sure.

It makes so much more sense to send a shuttlecraft in the first place, in every case, even if the mothership isn’t going anywhere and transporters are fully operational.

Is there air? You don’t know. But you’re going to beam me down in nothing but my pajamas? Hell no. I’ll take a shuttle with its shields and weapons and life support systems.