Tellar is an overseas territory - doesn’t count.

Start looking around for a Dukat drawer. She looks lonely.

Coming 2023

I find that absolutely fascinating if it’s somehow true - I would assume that anything written for Trek, like any other major franchise, is strictly “work for hire” and the individual authors have no rights to their work. It’s hard to imagine it any other way.

Not disputing that she said it, I just truly don’t understand it.

the characters are legally distinct so that the writers of that episode don’t get royalties for the entire run of Voyager

This is a very common claim, but I find it very dubious. You never hear about this sort of contract in American television. I don’t think anyone made a lot of bank when Chief O’Brien joined DS9.

Something may have failed to federate properly, but OP did make a list.

I choose to believe someone in the band is one of us.

We should be so lucky as to associate with those genius weirdos.

Nerf Herder - “Mr. Spock”

The truth could be somewhere in the middle - no real intent, but instead just reworking an idea from the Discarded Ideas Drawer into something new.

That info is out there for sure, but I’ve always found it pretty shaky. Here’s what Memory Alpha has to say on the subject:

The Star Trek Chronology, 2nd ed., p. 290 noted: “Although Picard and company were successful in eradicating them, the parasites did send a mysterious radio signal, presumably to others of their kind. At the time the episode was written, this was apparently intended to lead to the introduction of the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s second season. The Borg connection was dropped before “Q Who” (TNG) was written, and the truth about the parasites remains a mystery.”

The “apparently” always trips me up, but maybe there’s a more definitive statement or there that I haven’t seen.

It certainly could be true.

The Terran Empire is too good for Kevin O’Leary.

From her publicity blitz for the episode, I don’t think she’s too excited to go through the prosthetics process again.

Well no, not yours.

Understandably so.

Here’s my question: is it better to boycott the company outright, or to show them that you are willing to pay for progressive content?

I don’t have an answer. I think you can make a good argument for either.

If they downvote, it means you’re an unappreciated genius.

Our screwy Mastodon federation strikes again…

We’ve done it. We’ve achieved the Lazy Cliche Singularity.

The best nostalgia is nostalgia for something that never existed in the first place.

This is now an Avengers: Doomsday spoiler community.

It’s not too difficult. Each player gets six cards, except for the player on the dealer’s right, who gets seven.