Somebody really wants to drop a hard R.

Computer, reactivate Emergency Engineering Hologram

Holo’brien: Fuck off! Computer, delete program, command override O’Brien six-six-gamma-seven.

Idunno, old man McCoy in the TNG pilot was pretty memorable, as was Picard in the first episode of DS9. It’s a fun tradition.

Lower Decks is the best one of all the post kelvin Treks, for sure, but that might be because it’s borrowing so heavily from TNG/TMP.

It looks like Kelley’s head photoshopped onto a stock image of a magician.

Edit: Yup, found the magician. Now to see if I can find where that headshot is from. It’s definitely TOS era.

Edit 2: Couldn’t find it with a simple reverse image search, so I looked for “DeForest Kelley smiling” and found the original image of him on this delightfully old-school web page dating back to 2001. (Bless him, the page is still active and has a counter and everything.) The image makes it clear that it is indeed from Star Trek, but he has on a unique formal looking tunic with a split collar, which should make it easy to narrow down to a specific episode.

Edit 3: Some reverse image searching on the full image led me to the ever-useful site getyarn.io, which provided a clip of the exact moment of this image, in which Bones is saying “a teddy bear?” It’s from TOS S02E10, “Journey to Babel”. Here’s a longer clip with the amusing context:

https://youtu.be/TvT-hWOt63w?si=TZenf1cKA36E3xiA

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

That’s only because it’s too abstract a concept for them to get riled up about. They just fold it into their young earth creationism and go on not thinking about it because it hurts their head.

If it’s anything like its reddit equivalent, it will just be a place for people who unironically use the words “woke”, “SJW”, and “DEI” as perjoratives. No thanks.

Geeze, Wowbagger the Infinity Prolonged must have gotten bored.

The crowd blights are what scare me. Some fungus or other microorganism previously thriving within its niche suddenly spills out into conditions that ensure its unchecked spread, and it causes mass die-offs among our monocultured food supply.

[citation needed]

I’ve read the exact opposite, that they always wanted a pop song for the credits, but nearly waffled on it just before it aired.

I can understand not vibing with the song, but the montage and what it represents is peak Trek to me. I love it to death.

As in everything, moderation is good. Relax a little, but don’t make it your whole thing. Work a little, but don’t make it your whole thing. Dose a little, drink a little, dance a little, fart a little, enjoy cats and dogs a little, but my god man, change it up a little.

You’re both right.

The contemplative and slower tone of the coda really highlighted what was lost in switching to shorter seasons with a long serialized arc to babysit. Imagine if we had those arcs but with a handful of bottle episodes peppered throughout.

I wonder if they cut down the Moll resolution a bit to make room for the series wrap up. It did feel a bit abrupt.

I totally called Kovich being a time traveler, but them folding him into Daniels was a neat surprise, and felt like a naturally revelation. “Oh, of course he’s bloody Daniels.” It expanded both characters without diminishing their mystery at all.

Knowing that Calypso was meant to be the whole focus of season 6 is a hard blow, though. We’ll likely never get that story now. I’m glad they were able to at least tie it firmly back to the show, but man, it would have been fun to see how it played out. Why does Kovich need this Craft, and why does it require the ship to be de-refitted? Maybe now that the show is done they’ll give it a proper continuation in novel form. One can only hope.

This is an excellent distillation of what makes Tilly great. Imho she’s the best written character across the board in any Trek of the past two decades. I missed her sorely in season 4.

It’s definitely a a nice nod to the character. If bar patrons 600 years later still get the reference, that speaks well of her lasting influence on the Federation.

I wonder if they ginned these up for Section 31 or Starfleet Academy (if that’s still a thing?) and figured they could use them here, similar to the First Contact uniforms being ported over to DS9.