I’m not sure ‘lined up’ is quite right.

It’s more that Tom Jackson was considered the likely choice and was known to be under final consideration, but there were always others being tested for the role.

But it would have been a huge conflict, even in the 90s.

Jackson would have been leaving a groundbreaking Indigenous-focused show that laid the ground for authentic representation and storytelling to join the cast of Voyager. There is no likelihood he would have avoided questioning the consultant’s credibility.

I’m wondering if Jackson raised some soft concerns in the auditions such that Paramount decided they didn’t want to risk frictions, not realizing that their contract advisor was the issue.

I’m on a Voyager rewatch with one of our GenZ kids.

It wasn’t long before we hit the episode with Chakotay coaching Janeway to find her spirit animal guide — I had to stop to explain why I was finding it uncomfortable.

They’ve seen the whole series multiple times since middle school but hadn’t known about the entire fake ‘Indigenous consultant’ fiasco with Voyager.

Conceptually, I appreciate the intention to have an authentic but non specific Indigenous character and hiring a consultant for that. That’s definitely intentional representation.

I often wonder if the consultant pushed the EPs away from casting Canadian actor Tom Jackson in the role of Chakotay simply because Jackson, who is authentically Indigenous (Cree mother, raised on-reserve in Saskatchewan) would have likely outed the consultant as a fraud very quickly.

Tom Jackson had played the role of Lakanta in the TNG 7th season Wesley-focused episode ‘Journey’s End.’ He was at the time, already in a senior main cast role in the groundbreaking CBC show North of 60 and had demonstrated his ability work in an ensemble with strong women characters.

By all accounts, Jackson was in very serious consideration for the role of Chakotay. Beltran was a surprising choice by contrast. While Latin American Indigenous descent is part of his heritage, there were sincere questions raised about why the showrunners had chosen not to cast an actor who was raised and connected to his Inidgenous identity.

I just realized there’s even a fried egg in there.

It’s available as a BlueRay screencap from TrekCore…

Might be best to download directly from there:

https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=61

Definitely replicators, and ones that are presumably more sophisticated than the 24th century ones on Voyager given the general use of programmable matter by Starfleet in the 32nd century.

What’s challenging in the 32nd century setting is that more advanced technology exists but it’s availability is very uneven.

In Discovery, in the 32nd century, Admiral Vance makes the point that all the food at Federation headquarters is made from reconstituted waste. This is when Vance is negotiating with Osayraa of the Emerald Chain in season 3.

TAS and Discovery both showed the Enterprise has food synthesizers rather than replicators.

How significant is the difference? — it’s never made clear but picking up a meal from a food synthesizer is implied in TOS when Kirk gets a simple meal from a wall.

Also, it does seem that SNW’s food synthesizer is much more sophisticated than the one in TAS and Discovery, fabricating better quality basic materials.

Here’s compilation I made a while ago, of Scotty’s distain for the mayhem caused when the ship’s main computer gets hit by a ‘spatial anomaly’ and interacts with the ‘Rec Room’ 3D holographic simulator in TAS ‘The Practical Joker.’ At bottom right, Scott reacts to a misbehaving food synthesizer that is spitting out all manner of fruit — as shown later in the video OP attached.

Given that they regularly eat the fuzz off of deer antlers* after they are shed, I am open to any odd dietary choices from porcupines.

*this odd porcupine factoid was of great amusement to one of our kids when they were of kindergarten age and liked to play the “guess what animal I am game.”

Thanks! I’ll add that to the original post.

As frustrating as it may be, my best recommendation is to borrow basic cookbooks from reputable authors from a public’s library or online library.

Here’s one that we have that has recipes that work:

https://archive.org/details/newcanadianbasic0000ferg

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7643452M/The_New_Canadian_Basics_Cookbook

You will need to build some techniques and learn to measure and to follow recipes to start.

This means learning to decode what recipes are telling you and replicate what they say. It means not making substitutions until you can predict what the outcomes will be.

It also means to be willing to do repetitive and tedious tasks.

In the past, we learned this from family, helping and picking up basic skills.

Now it’s harder. In theory, cooking videos could and should help but when the emphasis of cooking videos is to perform and get views, it’s not so successful as it could be.

Start with some simple recipes with not too many ingredients and not elaborate ones with complex techniques.

A most excellent way to celebrate…

Voyager in TAS Filmation-style tribute by Gazelle Automations. Animated Threshold

Another one who wasn’t actually paying attention to the scenario or the dialogue while criticizing the show for being ‘dumbed down’ for younger audiences.

I admit I’m losing patience.

Dudes!!! This takes place when the Academy is being recreated after Starfleet and the Federation were seen to have failed large portion of the galaxy after the Burn.

This means that this class DID NOT complete with the best and the brightest across a well connected Federation with a common base of expectations.

They passed the entrance exams but it was not the same as a stable 24th century scenario, or even the early 25th century where Picard’s son was fast tracked based on experience.

Some, like Genesis, are from multi generational Starfleet families that hung on in secret bases during a century of anarch.

Most of the rest are off their planets or out of their small cluster of planets for the first time in their or their parents’ lives.

Others are the first of their species to enter Starfleet and are there for political reasons.

lol. You out yourself by citing Red Letter Media as if that is anything to take seriously other than a source of potential mis/disinformation on any given topic.

I’ve been watching Trek since TOS was in first run. I’ve actually worked with real life military.

Your attitude and comments strongly suggest you have neither experience.

Current Star Trek is in no way less credible than the franchise was in any previous era of production. Yes, it’s making different choices for a different generation of audience but on balance it’s just as authentic.

The reason why you aren’t finding it on the main Emmy site archive is because in the 1970s children’s programming was grouped with the ‘Daytime Emmy’ awards regardless of when a show was broadcast.

I did watch the Center Seat but your recollection is incorrect.

TAS was nominated for the 1974 Outstanding Children’s Show Daytime Emmy Award and won the 1975 Outstanding Entertainment- Children’s Emmy Award.

It also was nominated for Saturn Awards for the retro-release on DVD in 2007 and 2017.

I loved TAS when I watched it as a teen when it first ran.

I was beyond the age Saturday morning cartoons, but was so happy to have more Star Trek.

I was furious that older fans campaigned against the show to the point that NBC canceled it before more than the first six episodes of the second season were in production.

It still stands as the only Star Trek show to earn a ‘Best Series’ Emmy.

I hadn’t seen TAS in many decades when we picked up the DVDs for our kids (who are now in their late teens).

Given all the CGI and generally better animation in children’s programming, I wasn’t convinced that they would like it. But they took to it right away and it was very successful as an introduction to the franchise for them — more than 35 years after it was made!

One point, the number of frames on the animation, the movement only in the mouths during speech as well as the reuse of sequences was the only way to stay in budget in the 1970s.

The art direction was top-notch nonetheless. The original drawings, including some of the gorgeous mattes for alien planets and some of the new aliens are fantastic.

(I have some images to upload but that function seems to remain offline.)