"then your line producer says, 'Are you out of your f*****g mind with these things? You’re not Avengers: Endgame.' So, they had to go."

Interesting, TOS had such good yet simple moral quandaries. Don't watch it often, but that's what I enjoy the most.

Highlights why the Federation is so successful. Kirk doesn't just spare a single entity, he creates reputation. This happens frequently in the shows, we do the right thing in the end. Even at personal cost. Flee in terror from our weaponized-boyscouts! Maybe another race that's on the fence about joining hears the story and that tips the balance. Mind you, that reputation gets a life of its own. Like in VOY with the imposter-Janeway+Tuvok.

Babylon 5's Delenn has a quote that's springs to mind.
...Humans share one unique quality: They build communities. If the Narns or Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift, and a terrible responsibility—one that cannot be abandoned.

I like the Gorn as a recurring adversary in SNW S1. They made a great storytelling antagonist, bit of a slow boil with big payoffs.

For the most part I like them borrowing from horror elements but I think they needed to ease up on the Aliens vs Predators themes a bit. A lithe wall-walking enemy that gestates their young in hosts is enough, the predator vision and the clicks take me out of the narrative a bit.

That said, I love their slow introduction into the series. Then the ambush, when Pike realizes he's still attached to the other ship and can't put shields up, was awesome. (A good captain like Lorca would've raised shields anyways, just saiyan.)

If we're throwing fellow Canadians at the screen to see who sticks, I think Thom Allison and Terry Chen would do marvelous things too.

Side-note, I liked Shaun Doyle as Tarka, did a great job with an odd role.

I like the Kelvin ones too. The ridged helmets, light blue eyes contrasting darker skin, ornaments drawing attention to the forehead ridges, their guttural calls during the fight, and that one main actors mannerisms all worked well. Still not my fav, that probably belongs to DS9, but still. I liked em.

Best I can do is Captain of the SSV Normandy in the Mass Effect series.

Lee Pace and Oscar Isaac. I'm picturing them in movies rather than series.

Keith David

Claudia Black

Jerry O'Connell needs to jump out of a portal, run past the screen and jump into another one. A confused moment later Michael Shanks and Ben Browder jump out the first portal and chase after O'Connell. Shortly after that Admiral Archer does the same thing only he gives them all the Vulcan salute before following the chase.

Nothing is said after, it just happens.

He was in Lower Decks. Played an evil computer, Agimus.

Only a matter of time before he gets to Prodigy/SNW.

As I understand it; a contemporary actor would sign a contract with an expected number of episodes. It'd look like "7/10", so seven episodes of a ten episode season.

Dunno how they did it then but I'd assume that yes, you're right. I notice the same thing in the older long-run seasons. Actors popping in who seemed to have had a sick-day or something but need to be seen onscreen for a "contractually obliged" amount.

It was very inconsistent. There was some garbage and but a few consistent good ones too. Crewvix comes to mind.

Fun place to be each week for Pic S3 when it was airing. What happens if a Pah-wraith controls a Borg Queen who assimilates a Bluegill Queen who then controls a Telepath who then mind-controls a changeling who appears as a badmiral? (or some iteration thereof...)