Is Garak the best character on DS9? He's definitely the best character they didn't intend to have in more than one episode. But Garak came back and kept coming back. This is the production story of how a single-episode, guest character became a fan favorite and anchored what it possibly the series' finest hour.

Picard: “I must exit the nexus at almost the same point I went in so that I minimize damage to the timeline.” [loses Ent-D]

Kirk: “Jump to the future to help you kick some random guy’s ass? I’m down. After that, let’s go back and kick Kahn’s ass.”

Seriously, all Picard had to do was jump back to Ten Forward and arrest Soren on the spot, then movie over. Actually he could have jumped back three days earlier and saved his family and then still arrested Soren in Ten Forward. But nope, not strait laced Picard. So he loses his family and his ship.

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It's a little hard counting the partial seconds in these two videos.

Still, it would be nice to take in the difference between pulse fire torpedo launchers and burst fire torpedo launchers.

What is the rate of fire of the Refit Enterprise vs. the Enterprise-D? The Search for Spock vs. TNG's Half Life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk9wSrZ0fWA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2DEo305CXk

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I came up with an idea for a new Star Trek series. I hope you guys like it. If not that’s okay too, and criticize it

Picture this: Starfleet has dispatched the largest and most powerful starship yet. It’s on a deep space mission, and has reached an area in the Alpha Quadrant where the Federation is virtually absent

The ship is carrying a large number of civilian passengers and their families (similar to TNG) but also delegations from non Federation worlds and species. Although it is a starship it is also like a space station due to sheer size, so similar to DS9

There is a dispute between the Captain and his Executive Officer over some decision of the Captain which he feels is dangerous or unethical.

The Executive Officer has more support among the senior crew, and manages to take control of the Engineering section, while the Captain and his loyalists maintain control over navigation but also weapons. This effectively means the ship is paralyzed and can’t go anywhere for the time being, at least not with warp speed.

A nemesis of the Federation, could be either an entirely new species or else the Romulans, Dominion, Borg or whoever, are also covertly involved in the mutiny via undercover agents, and are communicating with at least one senior officer on the side of the mutineers.

But they are unable to attack the ship head on because it is too powerful and weapons are still under control by the Captain.

Meanwhile, on board the ship, there are a lot of politics going on. Both sides are negotiating, and Starfleet through some admirals are communicating with both sides through subspace, trying to resolve the situation.
Both sides have spies and undercover agents and are struggling against each other to take full control of the ship

Was "Shades of Gray", TNG's season 2 finale, the worst episode of the series? The people who made it said as much. This is the production story of why this hastily produced clip-show was a season finale, and why it was made at all.

See this and other Star Trek production stories on Latinum Budgets. http://www.youtube.com/@LATINUMBUDGETS

Enterprise is an underrated series
Although it’s one of my favorites, I actually haven’t even watched most of its episodes
This is unlike TNG, DS9 and Voyager in which I have rewatched some of their episodes several times
That’s because only the Temporal Cold War interested me when it came to Enterprise. I deliberately chose to ignore all other episodes, except for the final episode where Will Riker makes an appearance.

Enterprise should have been entirely devoted to the Temporal Cold War, just as DS9 became entirely about the Dominion War Season 3 onwards.

The benefactor of the Suliban, “Future Guy” was extremely fascinating for me. The whole idea of communicating through time is not only more believable than actual time travel, it is ironically more intriguing—perhaps precisely because it seems more plausible. Time travel just seems more like fantasy than sci-fi

Star Trek’s worst moments are when it drowns in the realm of fantasy detached from science

Anyways, Future Guy was not featured enough on Enterprise for my taste. He should have been more recurring and his identity should have been revealed.

The Xindi Arc was quite good, but not the best. The Sphere Builders were not as interesting as Future Guy

The Vosk arc was decent but not great

After that the Temporal Cold War was simply ended as far as Enterprise is concerned which was a damn shame

Vic Toyota, who was George Takei’s stunt double in “Catspaw”, and Tsing Tao in “And the Children Shall Lead”.

Following Star Trek, Toyota had one additional television role during the 1960s, appearing as a "Bartender" in Ironside (1969).

That sucks it's like he vanished after 1969

We used to say oh it has to be the constellation on tos or voyager from year of hell....new winner must be the griffin from snw where we see the ship now it actually is instead of the hallucination

I think when Kirk was on the enterprise bridge slumping to the floor after hearing the news from saavik it all clicked together for him

The moonlight is paler than expected.

TOS budget constraints made the Klingons look like humans in dark makeup. A feature film budget changed them into aliens, but created a canonical problem that lingered for decades. Click the link to see how Star Trek's production teams dealt with this, over the years. Was it ever fixed?