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And the glitching of the transporter monitor at the end of the episode happened in Sickbay. How often though, especially in the less-used medical transporter? Kirk's pattern was still in the main transporter.

And it does. They have whole sets of rules and protocols on the matter. The point of the Death Star isn't that it gives them a capability they didn't already have, it's that it provides an immediate and overwhelming threat - genocide and destruction in one handy, easily-delivered package, only...

My theory is that, since they've now been put into a hibernation cycle, that Gorn from Arena was just really groggy from having only just woken up.

My impression was that he was there only for the ceremony, and that the Enterprise was assigned to this specific mission with him, presumably having travelled to pick him up offscreen prior to the opening of the episode.

Honestly I'd have assumed that the medical transporter's systems were all isolated from the rest of the ship, both for quarantine purposes and to ensure that it could continue operating independently in the case of general system failures. However, the fact that it was the medbay transporter...

One thing I liked in the TNG episode Relics where Scotty is brought back is that we do get a mention of one of those clever fixes being still in use. In Star Trek IV Spock and Scotty have to come up with a way to recrystallise dilithium, which was hitherto impossible. And in Relics Geordi...

It still could. We know from the holodeck episode that the transporter makes a highly detailed physical record of those who pass through it, so this entity could potentially make a body for itself in her image.

And yet, in this season part of the reason for the holodeck testing was that they're pioneering ships being able to stay out for longer periods, meaning they're not there yet.

And just to add to all that, apparently this planet is the same one referred to by Trelane as "the old home world", so did this hyperdimensional immortality treatment result in the Q? Are these evil hitchhikers some form of proto-Q, or just something they unleashed along the way to their...

In Kirk's era it's the five year mission, so they need to be able to operate for longer periods far from support, and have specialised staff to cover their wider mission profile (like they have a dedicated historian in Space Seed). And yes, as @Ryujin says, plenty of replacement redshirts. :)

I believe it was mentioned previously that the 210 is consistent with the figure given for Pike's Enterprise as of The Cage, and it does help to explain those empty corridors.

For me this week's episode is the best of the season so far. We get some classic Trek investigation-of-alien-civilisations on the away mission, with a nice puzzle-solving flavour, and meanwhile some slow-build psychological horror back aboard the Enterprise. Thankfully, while there is a...

Circle of Life by Elton John from The Lion King. That one had me crying right from the opening of the movie, and there's nothing intrinsically sad about the scene.

I stopped playing quite awhile ago, but I got into some really silly designs by the end, just because I could.

Yeah, from the viewppint of knowing TOS, she realises that Spock is acting out of character because he's acting like the Spock we know.

Yeah, they reference it near the start of the episode, saying that the holodeck would be a combination of the battle simulator and the recreation room. I think the "battle simulator" part is an attempt to address them having shown a holographic training simulation in the first season of Star...

Overall I liked the episode. The premise was a bit flimsy, but ultimately it was just an excuse to get everyone into costumes to play very different characters than they usually do. Also, congrats to them on checking off pretty much every box on the holodeck-malfunctions bingo card. I didn't...

It's a pretty old game now and has its quirks and bugs. You'd probably have a perfectly good time playing it now, but I personally won't be going back to it anytime soon without the remaster.

What do they have against snakes?