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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website hopesdead @startrek.website Changes in Vulcan Beliefs
Did Syrran’s teachings change the accepted spiritual and philosophical ideology of mainstream Vulcan society? ENT had the unique position of being a prequel to TOS. It at first presented mind-melds as a deviant act that was socially unacceptable. Moving into the 23rd century of TOS and the movies (I’m going on recall right now), the deviance seemed to have gone away. However the dangers of mind-melds held true even by the time of VOY. When ENT reached the three parter of “The Forge”, “Awakening” and “Kir’Shara”, the story specifically focused on katras.
It feels like the direction ENT was pointed, the people in charge of the big lore wanted to flip what we knew about Vulcan society. One of the major conflicts over the course of the series was the Earth-Vulcan relationship. Of course this was rooted in the Federation arch.
To clarify my question: did the rebellious teachings of a cult (T’Pol specifically calls the Syrrannites a “violent cult”), become the accepted beliefs over a cen
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website Las Vegas, Nevada in the 24th Century?
What is Las Vegas, Nevada like in the 24th century?
It seems to be implied that Vegas still exists (not just some legendary destination of the past like Vics) and is still associated with gambling - Chakotay's hallucination of Tom Paris in VOY:"The Fight" mentions Vegas along with Mars and Orion III when mentioning the odds in a fight.
I think the fact that this is a hallucination of Tom in Chakotay's mind, combined with the fact that it was mentioned with contemporarily active places, heavily suggests that Vegas is alive and still has some form of active gambling.
However, I would imagine that a lot would still change for Vegas. Modern-day Vegas has Nellis AFB in it and Creech nearby, so it would have probably been a major target during World War III and as a result been heavily damaged. For urban planning, this probably gave a largely blank slate during redevelopment, so in many ways, Earth probably ended up becoming a typical 24th century city or town with vastly improved public
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website x4740N @lemm.ee How are schools different in star trek
What's different in star trek schools compared to real life schools on earth
What do they learn in star trek schools
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website x4740N @lemm.ee What happened to roads in star trek ?
Wondering what happened to roads in star trek
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website How Many Kims on the Anaximander / Is the Anaximander sufficiently staffed?
I went through LD 5x09 "Fissure Quest" to try and count/estimate the amount of Kims on the Anaximander.
The most we see on screen together not including Lieutenant Kim is 8 Kims on the Beagle Bridge (6 First Contact Uniforms, 1 Voyager uniform, 1 Delta Flyer uniform):
In the scene immediately after the opening credit, we see two non-Lieutenant Kims with the Voyager uniform:
Combining the 8 Kims seen on the Beagle with the extra Voy Kim on the Anaximander, I estimate there to be at least 9 Kims (besides Lt).
However, there are some inconsistencies.
We only see 6 (non-Lieutenant) Kims in the prison, despite it being somewhat implied the Anaximander is mostly empty besides Garak and Bashir:
In one count the mess hall scene, I counted
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website khaosworks @startrek.website Annotations for *Star Trek: Section 31” (SPOILERS)
To be honest, I found it a bit pedestrian and the continuity geek in me is a bit annoyed with some bits.
Sigh. Okay, here we go.
The opening Star Trek Universe sequence features the old scow used in this movie as well as a mirrored version of the Star Trek logo, referencing Philippa Georgiou’s Mirror Universe origins and the plot’s connections to the MU.
Aeschlyus was a playwright of Ancient Greece often considered the father of tragedy. The full quote is actually, “The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”
The opening scene takes place in the Terran Empire, the Mirror Universe counterpart of the Federation, although exactly where (or when) is not specified.
San was first mentioned in the DIS novel Die Standing as a friend of the younger Giorgiou, and then subsequently seen in flashbacks in DIS’s third season. We know little about him except that Giorgiou saw herself standing over his body and she believed she was de
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website The Bard in Green @lemmy.starlightkel.xyz Why does the Terran Empire use the Hunger Games to choose a new emperor and how is one chosen as a competitor?
Is being a pretty 15-19 year old the primary prerequisite?
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website Klingon Theology Question: "When I say jump out of an airlock, you will JUMP OUT OF AN AIRLOCK!"
In an attached clip from the video "game" Star Trek: Klingon (in-universe an educational holodeck program), a holographic Gowron violently shakes the player and yells player, "When I say jump out of an airlock, you will JUMP OUT OF AN AIRLOCK!"
My question is, outside of edge cases where it's actually necessary to win a battle, would this level of order-following actually align with proper Klingon theology?
I feel like this would be an honorless death (kind of like if your commander told you to stab yourself with a d'k tahg), and thus if you were actually given an order like this, the proper Klingon thing to do would be to challenge your commanding officer to honorable combat. I could see a more Martokian view that honor demands you follow your commander, though, but I feel like even he would have limits.
I can think of three explanations for what Gowron said: 1) It's simply a hyperbole. 2) Gowron isn't exactly a beacon of
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website How would the Trill Symbiosis Commission handle duplicate symbionts?
Let's say we have a certain Trill symbiont with a host. What would happen if the symbiont was duplicated under the condition that:
- The host and symbiont were transporter cloned. (2 Jadzia Daxs)
- A person from an alternate timeline with the same symbiont ends up permanently marooned in the prime timeline. (Larry Dax from a timeline where Curzon didn't reinstate Jadzia coexisting with prime Jadzia)
- A past host comes back from the dead with a version of the symbiont a la Spock or Shaxs, or even something similar to Doctor Who's concept of an extraction chamber (Jadzia got bored in Sto'Vo'Kor and decided to climb the Black Mountain, meaning her and Ezri exist simultaneously)
I imagine in all of them, the commission would at least let the duplicate live for the rest of the lifespan of the original host, much like the Federation at large treats transporter clones.
However, what happens when it comes time for the symbiont to be transferred? I can't imagine the commission's ideology wou
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website Is The Dog from “Much Ado About Boimler” legal?
In other words, is that dog technically an augment dog? How is Tendi not dismissed from Starfleet and sent to a penal colony?
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website williams_482 @startrek.website Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x10 "The New Next Generation"
This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 5x10 The New Next Generation.
Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website Merp Naming
I have an odd question that will probably never be answered now unless they decide to bring this species to other Trek shows: why are members of Merp’s species called “Big Merp”, “Sleepy Merp”, or just “Merp”?
Obviously out of universe, they’re likely just a parody of the Smurfs.
My personal favorite theory that would be that Merpkind (or whatever they are called) doesn’t actually have a native concept of individual names. However, they’ve got to put something on the Federation paperwork, so they typically just do whatever and stick with it.
Alternatively, fitting more with the Smurf thing, Merp communities identify each other via adjectives or roles much like the Smurfs.
What’s your ten cents?
EDIT: Thinking on it, it could be a combination. No one has a set name - some might call their spouse “Mate Merp”, while that spouse might be referred to by a boss as “Strong Employee Merp.” When doing Federation paperwork, Merps typically choose which descriptor they’re more fond of. For i
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website porthos @startrek.website A Star Trek Infinite 4x type game could be cool, but a Star Trek themed spiritual successor to The Last Federation would be so much cooler
The Last Federation is an obscure game made by Arcen, the makers of AI War. I haven't played this game yet, though I intend to try it at some point but I think the premise just absolutely SCREAMS Star Trek to me and I think if the people who own the Star Trek IP were smart they would go to Arcen and offer them a reasonable development budget to make a more polished spiritual successor to The Last Federation in the Star Trek universe and have basically a guaranteed cult hit created by a studio with a known record of creating games that are interested in mechanical nuance in an oddly similar way to the way Star Trek is interested in narrative nuance to storytelling and perspectives. (I mean have you played Tidalis?, "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Variations" is the whole shtick of that game's approach to the match-three genre!!!)
Not that Star Trek doesn't fumble the ball or tell war stories, I am talking about the trek that isn't too cheesey... (note: slices of cheese are necessary
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website khaosworks @startrek.website Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x10: “The New Next Generation” (SPOILERS)
The title plays off Star Trek: The Next Generation, which succeeded TOS in 1987 - the last time that label was used being in PIC Season 3’s opener, “The Next Generation”, with its finale, “The Last Generation”, evoking that as well. Of course, by episode’s end, we see the aptness of the title as a torch is passed for a new frontier.
Relga’s lapdog is likely just a toy breed of targ. I originally thought it might be a variant of the Alfa 177 canine first seen in TOS: “The Enemy Within” as it appears to have the same unicorn horn but it's the wrong color and the Alfa 177 dog has antennae and no tusks.
As mentioned last episode, a soliton wave in Star Trek is a faster-than-light wave that was thought to have practical applications in warp propulsion or faster than light communications (TNG: “New Ground”), but was also potentially destructive.
As the wave hits the ships, a Klingon is transformed into a DIS-style Klingon, specifically the alien design and white costume of L’Rell in
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website williams_482 @startrek.website Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x09 "Fissure Quest"
This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 5x09 Fissure Quest.
Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website khaosworks @startrek.website Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09: “Fissure Quest” (SPOILERS)
The title refers to the transdimensional fissures that Cerritos has been dealing with in this season.
Raktajino is “Klingon Coffee”, although in truth its history is a bit more complicated. In short, raktajino is a Federation version of ra’taj (Klingon coffee with liquor) with added nutlike flavoring (making it raktaj) and cream, creating a portmanteau of “raktaj” and “cappuccino”: raktajino. A fuller explanation can be found here. As a side note, the Klingons got coffee from raiding human ships, and both developed a taste for it and started growing it themselves on Qo’noS.
Mariner and Boimler are drinking from Highwave Hotjo 14 oz. travel mugs, which were used as props on DS9. Boimler’s full beard has finally grown in, mutton chops and all.
Boimler was transporter cloned by accident in LD: “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”, with the clone taking the name William Boimler, tak
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website hopesdead @startrek.website Would “Subspace Rhapsody” have the same plot with this one tweak?
Spoilers for “Subspace Rhapsody” (Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 9)
This question is 100% hypothetical. Would the episode have the same plot if Spock at completed kolinahr at this point in his life?
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website khaosworks @startrek.website Annotations for Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x08: “Upper Decks” (SPOILERS)
The title, an inversion of the series’ name, indicates the focus in this episode on the bridge crew. It is the flip side of and a play on TNG: “Lower Decks”, an episode focused on the lower deckers when the series is mainly about the bridge crew.
Whatever Stardate it is, it’s Halloween on Cerritos. Although Picard seemed to be unfamiliar with the holiday in TNG: “The Big Goodbye”, McCoy makes reference to it in TOS: “Catspaw”. Mariner used to dress as Toby the Targ for Halloween (LD: “Crisis Point”) and Boimler dressed once as Christopher Pike (SNW: “Those Old Scientists”). As a bit of trivia, the registry number for the USS Discovery, NCC-1031, was allegedly chosen by Bryan Fuller because he loved Halloween.
V’Ger is the antagonist in TMP, and Mariner quotes the Ilia probe from the movie’s climax. This season, V’Ger joined the ever crowded starship battle in the opening credits.
Boimler’s mustache has finally joined up with his goatee, although his muttonchops have yet to. Hi
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Daystrom Institute @startrek.website williams_482 @startrek.website Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated"
This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 5x07 Fully Dilated.
Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.