TNG s4e3 "Brothers" featuring Ensign Kopf who would later become Lieutenant Primmin on DS9 for 2 episodes and then disappear without a trace
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TNG s4e3 "Brothers" featuring Ensign Kopf who would later become Lieutenant Primmin on DS9 for 2 episodes and then disappear without a trace
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Technus@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 38d
You need a batshit insane or exceedingly mid episode every now and again to make you really appreciate the good ones.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Some of the best episodes are based on batshit insane premises.
agentTeiko@piefed.social · 18 pts · 38d
I think people need to understand is everything on screen is cannon but at the same time cannon can be ignored for the sake of story and theme.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 38d
tensorpudding@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
So the Doctor Who crossover is canon?
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
Totally.
negativenull@piefed.world · 14 pts · 38d
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 38d
Still waiting on a reference in a live action Trek. Hoping SNW will mention him somewhere in the last 2 seasons.
grue@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 37d
Lower Decks doesn't need validation from live action Trek to be canon!
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
Agreed, just would be nice is all.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
Wouldn't the fact that Boimler and Mariner crossed over make it canon?
It hurt to type that
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 37d
Probably a good chance it'll show up in Tawny Newsome's upcoming project.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
If it doesn't get shot out an airlock pending the potential merger.
gnufuu@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 38d
What are you gonna do, call the canon police? That actually sounds scary, I apologize.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
The canon police:
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 37d
I mean, from TOS, the Greek Gods are canonically real, and just fucked off to other planets at some point in human history.
Like, the ship and crew are literally held hostage by Apollo... and it just actually is the Apollo.
Also, they... kill him. They kill Apollo, or... banish him to the shadow realm, or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Mourns_for_Adonais%3F
... I feel like I need a drink, just describing this.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
Yeah. Somewhere in the ether, pretty boy is bitching about how important he used to be.
Steve@startrek.website · 12 pts · 37d
Yes, Beverly fucked a ghost.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
One that previously got down and dirty with her grandmother, no less.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 37d
runs in the family, so did her mom.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 38d
Threshold was bitchen, man. And bonkers. Bitchen and bonkers.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
Precisely why I didn't say bad, just... fuckin' weird as all hell and fun.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 37d
The ghost was just an energy sucking alien disguising itself as a dead human, IIRC.
The Greek gods in TOS were just aliens the way the Norse ones are aliens in the Marvel universe.
Threshold is the odd one out here because even with the explination of the craziest shit, Janeway and Paris still had a litter of alien fish things together.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
limelight79@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
That they left on an alien planet...
That's the part that blows me away. Let's introduce this quite unnatural species to this planet and abandon them there. What could go wrong?
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 38d
Same for Discovery and Lower Decks! And the Star Wars sequel trilogy!
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 37d
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Literally me, this is why I ignore them and read the EU novels instead.
_NetNomad@fedia.io · 3 pts · 37d
i only recently read the Heir to the Empire trilogy and am flabberghasted that they didn't try to adapt those. you'd need to recast the heroes or modify it to explain a longer time gap, but still- you already had the trilogy written! and people already love it! it's free money!
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Timothy Zahn has written a ton of other EU stuff, not least of which is the new Thrawn trilogy that covers his early days in the Empire (and is part of current canon). I highly recommend all of it.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 37d
Careful, some might consider posting this as heresy
(Even though I totally agree with you)
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
I actually hate the ST, which is why I ignore them and read the EU novels instead.
AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
Unironically, Threshold is one of my favourite Star Trek episodes of all time. It's just interesting to watch Paris going through all the body horror changes.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Doesn't hurt that the master of body horror would later have a notable Trek role.