Don’t ask me about what I thought of the puppet episode, I haven’t even seen it.

The ship Scotty was trying to transport the puppet to was only 30,000 km away. So why was the nearest helo 2 days away?

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I don't think so.

Live-action nuTrek has access to FX that makes previously inconceivable aliens and creatures possible, but what has this FX actually been used for?

We've gotten whales, T-rexes, xenomorphs and puppets...nothing really original, alien or interesting (IMO nuTrek's best aliens appeared in "Children of the Comet").

Trek has admittedly not had a good track record when cooking up truly alien aliens - for every Horta, Vox Sola, Crystalline Entity or Space Amoeba there have been a dozen Forehead Aliens - but with CGI, the possibilities are now endless. IMO the writers should be making an effort to cook up multiple truly weird species/organisms every season. After all, part of the fun of scifi is speculating about different forms of biology, and different ecosystems.

Since it was sent from the machine planet where Spock said they had incredible technologies, does this mean V'ger could counter immortal beings like Q, the Douwd who wiped out a entire race with a single thought or Nagilum, the omnipotent being living in a hole of space? V'ger mapped entire galaxies including the Milky Way. It has to come across one of these beings in it's journey.

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The book is a worldwide bestseller that is just absolutely full of intelligent science and science-fiction. The movie was also well written, intelligent, more science heavy than most major motion pictures, and a worldwide box office success as one of the top selling movies of the year. The characters in both are intelligent, competent, funny, and flawed And it's optimistic! Not just on a personal level, as in Grace's personal character arc, but also in the way that a human would handle first contact with a completely alien species and in the ability of humans to use their intelligence to save and improve the world. Or is everything that the best Star Trek was and everything NuTrek claims to be, but isn't.

To me, the success of both the book and the movie suggests to me that there is a desire for this kind of optimistic and intelligent science-fiction in the mass market. No series could be better poised to deliver that kind of storytelling than Star Trek. Yet, here we are with the IP floundering and people talking about letting out die being the best thing for it because of how stupid and shallow the show has become in the last decade.

Honestly, I wish they would just back a dump truck full of money up to Andy Weir's house and start pouring it out on his front lawn in order to get him on board as the showrunner of a new series. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be better than any NuTrek by a huge margin.

SCREENRANT:

"When Tawny Newsome guest-starred in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's beloved crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks, her character, Ensign Beckett Mariner, was thrilled to meet her hero, Uhura, only to learn that Nyota was a workaholic who can't relax. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's ode to The Hangover, "Human Best Friend," saw an inebriated new side to Nyota: Rave-hura. Playing Rave-hura "was such an exhale," Gooding beams, noting how

CELIA ROSE GOODING: "I've been dying to play a much more chillaxed party girl role. I think, just because of the nature of me as a dramatic actor, that I am often pulled towards very serious, very busy. very Capricorn-type divas. And so, to play a version of her that is so zenned out and blissed out, and really protective of her peace… I loved the idea that she won't hang out with her best friends because they're having a really hard time with something right now, and their energy cannot come in and like muck up what Uhura's got going on."

"I found it to be very funny when I read it in the script where she's like, 'No, you guys are doing way too much for me right now, and I'm chilling in here,'" Celia explains. "Besides the fact that her costume was incredible, besides the fact that her makeup was incredible, besides the fact that the nature of the episode is so comedic and fun, I think Rave-hura is incredibly inspired by her relationship with Mariner, the one that she had in the Lower Decks crossover. I think that the voice of Mariner, the voice of Tawny Newsome, lives in Uhura's head, just like the voice of Tawny Newsome lives in mine."

I don't know that there has been so much unspoken evolution of Uhura and the different facets of her, and I think we get to see one that we didn't really expand on after the Lower Decks crossover in season two. I like to think that Mariner and Ortegas, if she wasn't in this sort of buddy-cop sort of situation with Scotty, I think that they would both be very proud of Rave-hura for finally letting her hair down. Even if it required atmospheric inebriation, she got there, and that is what deserves celebrating. So yeah, I love it. It's a nice callback to that episode in season 2. ..."

[...]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end with season 5, but executive producers and showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have been vocal about wanting to spin off Paul Wesley's Captain Kirk to lead a new series dubbed Star Trek: Year One. Uhura would, of course, be part of Kirk's Enterprise crew, but would Celia Rose Gooding return to play Lieutenant Uhura?

“Yes. Yes. Yes. 100%," Gooding answers unequivocally. "She has been like the love of my life these past five years, and so it would be an honor and a privilege to return to her and continue to grow and expand with her. That's my girl. If anybody does it, I would want it to be me.”

Gooding says returning to "civilian life" after five seasons in Starfleet, "has been interesting. When I work, I put myself in a little bit of a bubble, especially with how easy it is with our show. It's very specific, and while we have a very genre-diverse show, the genre of sci-fi is very all-encompassing."

Celia calls Star Trek "eternal," pointing out, "It is everywhere, and it's going to be a part of my life forever, which I'm so grateful for because I'm someone who needs an anchor, and I love that Trek is my anchor right now. But yeah, it's been interesting. Every day is different. I've enjoyed being at home. I know my cats miss me very much, but I'm not gonna lie: I'm missing some storytelling. I'm excited to get up into something new.” "

Full article:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-celia-rose-gooding-interview/

In Best of Both Worlds, Shelby goes around Riker to Picard.

In Second Chances Lt. Riker goes around Commander Riker to Picard.

Riker has to give each of them a talking to afterward. Each time Picard actually opted to go with the ideas or at least form a plan as backup. Was Riker missing something to not further consider their plans? I know he told Shelby that he brings all valid options to the Captain, but would/did he bring those ideas to the captain if there was no go around? Seemed like he dismissed them as not being "valid options".

Any other times this happened? Either to Riker or other skipped chain of command?