- Walter Koenig Was Cast As Chekov To Increase Star Trek's Appeal To Younger Viewers
1,194 points71 comments7 d ago
- I made an LCARS-style reader for Memory Alpha
I am excited to share a little web app I made, LCARSS, a Library Computer Access and Retrieval System console for exploring Memory Alpha. (It's an RSS reader for Star Trek content.) I did all the...
710 points70 comments7 d ago
- An elegant, one-sentence canon fix for Voyager’s "Harry Kim" cultural loophole
We all know the frustrating behind-the-scenes blunder from 90s Voyager: the white writers explicitly wrote Harry Kim as a character of Chinese descent (giving him lines quoting Chinese proverbs),...
582 points333 comments5 d ago
- New to Star Trek and absolutely loving it.
I'm in my late 40s and have never been interested in Star Trek. When Patrick Stewart died, my wife, who grew up watching TNG, decided to rewatch it from start to finish. I started watching and now...
487 points81 comments5 d ago
- Which TNG episode did you watch after hearing Sir Patrick died?
I hadn't watched the Inner Light in years and considering it was Sir Patrick's favorite episode it was my first TNG watch after hearing he had died.
478 points758 comments2 d ago
- I’m getting into Star Trek because of Magic: The Gathering, and it’s been really great
I’m an avid Magic: The Gathering player. With a new set release and a weekend where my girlfriend and I didn’t have much planned, we decided—on a whim—to watch the films, starting from the 2009...
427 points112 comments3 d ago
- What happens to photon torpedos that miss?
Where do they go? Does starfleet try to find stray ones? Considering the prime directive, a stray photon torpedo could wreak all kinds of havoc to an unsuspecting culture or planet even.
321 points277 comments3 d ago
- A tiny Data continuity error between “The Most Toys” and “The Best of Both Worlds” that I can’t stop thinking about
In Season 3’s “The Most Toys,” the Enterprise crew realizes something is wrong with Data’s apparent death because he failed to follow standard Starfleet communications protocol. Specifically, he...
317 points133 comments4 d ago
- The Star Trek Magic: the Gathering set is honestly much better than I thought it would be
I don't know how many others here play MtG, but as a weekly EDH player, I'll go on the record by saying I was really, really nervous about this set. It wasn't that I thought Star Trek wouldn't fit...
294 points105 comments3 d ago
- I resurrected the abandoned Kobayashi Maru browser game from 2021
I resurrected the abandoned Kobayashi Maru browser game from 2021 using a local LLM. Play it here: https://blog.50projects.com/kobayashimaru/ Clone it here:...
258 points19 comments2 d ago