For me, it’s hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:

It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.

I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.

They had no time at all - filming was already complete.

They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.

I think the word “movie” is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour “event” episode.

SirPatStew has shared the anecdote, but it’s reportedly something that Roddenberry said.

The video is 1 hour 14 minutes long.

Absolute madness.

Respect.

If the premiere is on June 14, I guess my new guess for the full release is June 19?

Apparently they did some kind of press junket - io9 has an article as well.

there was some debate as to whether the prime directive applied as the Baku weren’t native to the planet.

…which is an absolutely insane debate. No one tries to argue that the PD doesn’t apply to the Romulans, even though they’re not native to their world.

Colony planets aren’t considered “fair game” for interference.

The Prime Directive is that the Federation won’t interfere with the development of a pre-warp society.

While warp capability (or a rough equivalent) is the prerequisite for first contact, the Prime Directive is broader, forbidding intervention in the internal affairs of any non-Federation civilization.

Assuming stardates happen sequetionally

I don’t know much about military training, but I do know that grouping students into “squadrons” is done today - I don’t know that the grouping is based on anything, but it makes a certain kind of sense that Starfleet would embrace a kind of “meritocracy” approach to it, even if it also comes off as elitist.

Perhaps Nova Squadron is a long-held academy tradition, and despite the initial fallout of the 2368 incident, that’s overshadowed by its long history of outstanding cadets, a legacy the academy didn’t want to suddenly erase.

I think this is likely. Scandals come and go, but they often don’t overpower institutional inertia.

Couldn’t agree less - I think the 32nd century is a fantastic setting, especially for a show like this.

Ni’Var in Discovery does seem to be on that path, particularly with the Romulo-Vulcan faction.

Yeah, it’s definitely possible that Picardo could play both versions of the character, even if it’s just for a single episode.

But the full-time version on “Academy” will be the original, not the “Living Witness” backup.

Oh, are names important? What were the names of the Klingons?

Well, the Cerritos is also transformed into a *Galaxy-*class ship by that anomaly, so by your logic, there’s an equal chance that TNG took place in a different universe.

Which is…definitely a thing you could say.

where the Klingons started turning in to discovery type Klingons suggesting that discovery was not set in the main trek universe.

I’m not sure you’ve given this line of thought full consideration.

“Seasonal?”

Amateur.

Yeah you really nailed it. Just like he was on “Prodigy.”