I got Councillor Troi for my ship computer. Good times.

Also, that one didn’t seem to leave any scars.

I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.

I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn’t sure one of them counted.

Seems I was wrong. That one did count.

I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?

I’m a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)

This show doesn’t have much of that. It doesn’t even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That’s a different journey entirely.

Don’t get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don’t they all?

IIRC, the reason was absolute equality by way of absolute anonymity. You can’t tell what species or gender your fellows are, so it’s not possible to discriminate against them. If any race, for example, required a chilling apparatus, then all suits would have one, although only activated if required.

Or something like that.

I’m sure it’s perfectly safe, and we know the starships are held together as much by structural integrity fields as by metal, but I will be damned before I am chief engineer on a starship with the engines not bolted to the ship.

I would have liked Braca to have one or two more episodes as a scoundrel before becoming a villain. Dukat, with a bird of prey, as it were.

But yes, it was gloriously done.

A consideration, certainly. It might be because the actor passed?

Nog made Captain in STO. It’s not all cannon, but I like some of it better than actual cannon.

Which is the rank he held at the end of DS9, I believe.

I would like to think he made captain, but we didn’t see it.

Past the JemHadar Commandant, and Nog’s name on the wall, you mean?

I mean, anyone looking at Win11 is gonna be skeptical about anything Microsoft is putting out.

That might work for people with no families. There was a time in my life where I’d have cheerfully defected in exchange for citizenship and protection.

Today, I’d need that for myself and a few others.

Tampons weigh nothing

When you’re dealing with the tyranny of rocketry, every gram matters.

That said, I agree with your point. The mass and volume was well within acceptable mission parameters.