They’re definitely good choices, but all of them are worth watching. Your tastes might differ from the recommendation, anyhow, so it’s worth checking the shows out personally, and then make a judgement.

Holograms aren’t stable in the long term. They will start to come apart after some time. That, and they constantly require power to maintain. A bed and furniture does not, and will still work if the ship needs to go without power for one reason or another. Most things someone might put by hologram can be done by replicating the thing, instead of using a hologram. Most rooms have a replicator, and excepting furniture, which you might need to ask engineering to make for you, you can just make it yourself.

Starships aren’t lacking space by any means, so there’s no need to stick people into a broom closet.

Though there are things like that. The Ba’ul “migration” ship was basically that, where the entire ship was meant to be a holodeck. In the 32nd century, rooms are basically holograms, except that holography has been superseded by programmable matter.

I think it’s just an easily obtained large amount of reasonable text that is easy to spam.

People did it using the Shrek script, and now they’re onto the Bee Movie.

Not quite that, but more the ${variable##.*} sort of thing.

Bash substitution is regex-level wizardry.

discovered a chimeric strain on the subatomic level in the Terran stem cell, implying that this could explain the Terran inclination towards malevolence.

Isn’t this implied/stated to be a falsehood meant to try and unsettle Empress Georgiou, by saying that the inhabitants of the mirror universe have a predisposition for evil? She more or less shoots it down immediately.

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This is a really broad questions, since the type of school, and method of teaching vary a huge amount, both in our world, and in the worlds of Star Trek. Are you talking private schools, public schools, religious schools, military academies, etc. Are we comparing them against primary schools, Starfleet Academy?

For example, we know in DS9, and TNG that humans have some similar-ish kind of school system to what we have now, but the curriculum is tweaked such that children learn what would be considered difficult topics for us, quite early on. Keiko runs a school on DS9, and in TNG, we both see a classroom, and there is a child who complains about having to take Calculus at one point.

In the 2009 movie, Vulcans learn through some sophisticated hologram/computer system, or at least, what they have learned is tested that way.

The Borg and Binar, by virtue of what they are, don’t learn so much as have knowledge and information directly uploaded into them.

The Betazoids might do something similar, teaching students via telepathy.

What do they learn in star trek schools

Generally speaking, they likely learn a lot of the same subjects we do, but tweaked for their various homeworlds, and/or the Federation at large. The curriculum might deviate a bit in science, since they almost certainly factor in subspace, and some basic information on temporal mechanics.

I’d argue to some degree, but at least in TOS, the only contact we have with Vulcan culture is through Spock, who isn’t that traditional a Vulcan.

At the very least, he mind melds a lot more than Vulcan cultural tradition would suggest, with all kinds of beings that aren’t other Vulcans. It is entirely plausible that Spock is simply more liberal when it comes to mind-melds than other Vulcans.

Enterprise might well have gone the other way, where T’Pol represented a more conservative faction of Vulcan society, that prefered to avoid mind-melds due to the risk.

He might also be something similar to Worf, in the sense of his being a much stronger adherent to traditional Vulcan culture than actual Vulcans might be.

We know that at the very least, TOS Spock prided himself on being emotionless, to the point of taking comparisons to being a walking computer as a compliment, to the point where at the start of TMP, he was about to undertake a ritual to sever him from his emotions.

Other Vulcans, or Vulcan-raised we’ve seen aren’t nearly as adherent to that level, and I find it difficult to believe that any other Vulcan would take being compared to a computer particularly favourably.

It’s dying because its repeating the old mistake of trying to go back to the exact same formula, and because it’s less accessible.

In my opinion, Paramount taking Disco off of Netflix, in favour of sticking it onto its own streaming service, was a mistake. Although it meant that people were less able to access it, either because Paramount Plus wasn’t available in their region, or because they couldn’t justify the cost of spending money on another streaming service.

And in the meantime, it keeps trying to go back to the same thing. That was what killed it back at the start of the 21st century. Enterprise and Voyager were variants of exactly the same kind of thing as TNG, with better special effects. Everything keeps trying to go back in time, and cater to Nostalgia. Remember Captain Kirk? What about Picard? Or the Constitution-class Enterprise? There doesn’t feel much like there’s anything interesting in Trek any more. It’s basically all rehashing or nostalgia.

For all its flaws, part of what made Discovery interesting was that it was (not unlike the ship itself) an experimental testbed. Writers would, and did, just throw everything at it, for good and ill, and I’d argue it worked. Having that flexibility gave us the second wave of Trek, and I’d argue just as much that Discovery settled into being some kind of 32nd century TNG was either a harbinger, or hurt it severely.

What Trek really needs for a revival is something that the network would never allow (CBS/Paramount would never risk their cash cow.), and that is to go back to its roots. Not in the Federation-and-Enterprise way, but in what made TOS.

TOS stood out because it wasn’t like the other cowboy shows at the time, or like the rocketty sci-fi of the era. It was distinct. It pushed the social-progressive line so hard it was nearly pulled off the air, and if Roddenberry had had his way with including an LGBT member in TOS like he’d wanted, might have done so outright.

Newer Trek (TNG and onwards) is much safer and more conservative by comparison, to the point of being boring. It barely pushes the line, if at all. The Orville, by virtue of having less brand baggage behind it, arguably does a better job of being progressive.

Visually, too. Every Federation starship basically follows the same template, even into the far distant future. Trek is not glued to the appearance of the Constitution-class Enterprise, or a variant of such for its hero ships, nor does every ship need to use warp engines and that.

A minor side tangent, but reverting to the same kind of thing is why I was rather disappointed with what Discovery did with the 32nd century. It would have been far more interesting if they’d gone to a time when all the powers we know and are familiar with, and even the tech aboard Discovery were ancient and long-deprecated.

Discovery in the 32nd Century, as an Equinox counterpart of the Voyager plot could have been amazing, both from them being an outdated starship in what used to be familiar territory and what it would mean to maintain Federation values when the Federation doesn’t even exist any more.

Honestly, I think bits of Picard and Strange New Worlds had the right idea when it came to the Synth ban, and the Illyrian extinction. Show us the downsides of Federation policy for things that might have been well-intentioned, but had negative or mixed effects, and how they fixed/improved it. That’s something we’ve rarely seen in Trek, in a way that wasn’t just “we don’t like this rule, so we’ll ignore it”.

Here comes the question: If you’re in Alex Kurtzman’s position, how are you going to sell the franchise to a new, young audience? How are you going to convince kids who spend their time playing Roblox and watching Mr. Beast that Star Trek is a good show to watch?

The young audience isn’t a monolith, and I’d argue that Star Trek is better off not competing head-to-head. Could you imagine DS9 or Voyager with their totally not-a-square radical groovy Teenage Mutant Starfleet Captain? It would be unwatchable. Hell would be upon us.

Instead, Trek could benefit by competing through simply not competing, and stand out, rather than copy other sci-fi. Give us what Trek has always been, a nice slow comfort watch, where everyone is competent, and everything isn’t always at stake or fisticuffs all the time. That may work to its benefit, when everything else is dark and gritty, since it would be distinct compared to other things.

No. In Star Wars, droids are very clearly and explicitly treated as second-class citizens, if they are considered people at all.

In Star Wars, your average Roger-roger combat droid is a cheap, expendable commodity, to the point where they aren’t even fitted with the hardware to support their sapience. They are reliant on a connection to a command ship to have its computers do that instead. Wiping their memory banks is both accepted and standard procedure.

By comparison, in Star Trek, most sapient and alien robots are treated as people. The only times that we see people in the Federation struggle with accepting inorganic sapience, is when it pops up unexpectedly from something that wasn’t supposed to be sapient to begin with, like in the case of Voyager’s EMH, or the ExoComps.

Probably downloaded it from ChatGPT, that’s why it’s in the downloads folder.

They’re around, but probably some shared network instead of what they are today. Car traffic is vanishingly low, since the only people who have a car are enthusiasts, and most would just take shuttle, or transport.

At the very least, I can’t see the Federation removing them completely, if only for the historical/cultural value that they have. Ancient humans in the 21st century used to drive and walk on them, you know.

The Federation is shown to be able to fully control the weather of planets; I expect that Earth would be one of those planets.

It is. Picard was suspicious of the Q being involved in the death of Amanda’s parents because the weather control network inexplicably failed, a tornado that materialised, destroyed them/their house, and vanished before causing any other damage.

Worf would be having a most unpleasant time. Data’s not biological, unlike Tuvok and Neelix, and I can’t imagine Klingon biology is very appreciative of having techno-widgets rammed into it.

Ramming Speed.

If one Dr Crusher could operate an entire Enterprise all to herself, no reason why you can’t have a dreadnought that needs 3 people, or no people, but just set to ramming speed.

Specifying paths with - would be its own special brand of hell.

Doctor Who has gone downhill ever since they revealed a police box that could travel in both space and time.