VindictiveJudge

There’s a VOY episode after Threshold where Paris claims to have never flown at transwarp speeds, so it was reasonable to believe it had been retconned away.

I think you mean, “SPAAAYSUH!”

If they were asked to find ‘that McGill guy’ nowadays they might have turned up Bob Odenkirk or Michael McKean.

G’Kar was the wrong character to show for the prosthetics poke. The Narn prosthetics are actually shockingly good with a surprisingly high degree of articulation allowing for lots of emoting and facial expressions. Some of Delenn’s head bone prosthetics, on the other hand, are just terrible.

The PA announcers in that movie were played by the real PA announcers for LAX at the time, which I just think is neat.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fisto

First interracial kiss on scripted television.

That’s a common myth. There were several others before, some of which also had Shatner as one half of the kissing pair, believe it or not. Trek’s was definitely more high-profile, though, and with several of the others it may have been hard to notice with that particular combination with the quality of televisions at the time; European man with Asian woman probably wasn’t noticeable on a tiny '50s black and white TV.

What went wrong with that scene?

“Well, it was made from vegans.”

Sisko working with Garak murdering Romulan Senator Vreenak was absolutely Section 31 material.

It’s also arguably something that Article 14, Section 31 is actually meant for. The Dominion was in the process of conquering the entire quadrant and dismantling the Federation government, among others, and they had the means and manpower to do so. That’s an extreme and existential threat. The thing Sloan tricked Bashir into doing with the Romulans, on the other hand, is just a regular Tuesday with the RSE as your neighbors and therefor not an extreme threat.

And DS9, which introduced the concept, concluded they were the bad guys and that S31 made things worse on the whole. The dark and gritty Trek that deconstructs the franchise as a whole and the Federation in particular still decided that Section 31 was a bad idea.

On top of that, every show after DS9 completely fails to understand that S31 was supposed to be a conspiracy, not an actual branch of Starfleet. The bit of the charter they cite to justify themselves requires some pretty significant mental gymnastics to make work, and it most certainly doesn’t literally sketch out a whole branch of Starfleet. It’s clearly there for things like when you have to violate time travel laws to pick up whales from the past to keep Earth from getting blown up, or when you have to direct a universe destroying anomaly to a specific universe so that your transporter duplicate can fix it before it destroys other universes. Those are extraordinary threats. The stuff S31 typically concerns itself with, like Romulans scheming against everyone, are ordinary threats that regulations already cover.

Everyone has a crush on Tendi. Especially Rutherford.

Fun(?) Fact - the 2x4s in the first frame wouldn’t have been visible in the original broadcast due to overscan. TVs didn’t start displaying the entire image until the 2000s. The ‘extra’ space was used for things like closed caption encoding.

Either Vic’s appearance was based on a real person, like the EMH series, or Mirror!Vic was an android. We never actually got a decent look at his wound after he was shot.

The line of stewards were kings in all but name as a hereditary monarchical position with all the duties and authority of the king. They theoretically had to give up power if a member of the royal family ever came back to claim the throne, but Aragorn wasn’t exactly chomping at the bit to do so and only took over after Denethor killed himself with his two heirs being either dead or too injured to lead. The stewards had ruled Gondor for over a thousand years and a well liked one could have easily gotten the people behind them to reject Aragorn’s claim and formally taken the title of king.

Freeman: “People use it for that?”

Ransom: “Yeah, it’s mostly that.”

I’ve got to be honest, I have astigmatism and didn’t notice the lens flairs at first because I get those IRL.

3/10 - not a statue and not on Bajor

To be fair, calling Wheatley a super computer feels like an insult to Agimus.

It was an ad lib, too. And Frakes was directing.