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Past a certain point, style is substance. Every set of rules for good worldbuilding is wrong.

It's like they've inverted the classic TNG structure. The character development 'B' plot is now the focus. It really works for this show.

The Last Jedi is the 2nd best... ... whoops wrong subform. Ahem, system matters to a different degree among gamers. For some system doesn't matter much at all.

Maybe a Star Trek game? It's dearer to my heart than any fantasy fiction, or other science fiction truth be told. Wait... that's why I haven't run a Star Trek game!

I... I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I would be okay with a reboot of TOS with Paul Wesley's Kirk. The main problem I'd have is I'd want to keep Ortegas, La'an, and Dr. M'Benga around. Maybe end it right before the salt vampire. Or what the hell, rewrite fake history and end it with...

I miss the original matte painting.

I've not heard that put better.

Ship-burning witch now ally?

But this is exactly what most long running franchises did not do. Bond. Marvel/MCU. DC. Who. Etc.

Whenever someone insists canon is inviolate, I like to ask them “what year was Batman born?”.

Also consider this episode cribs from the TOS episode in which Spock successfully modifies a 23rd century tricorder with 1930s radio parts.

I don't think a show that takes its cues from the original Star Trek needs added realism, either. Would a more realistic take on Chicago gangsters have improved "A Piece of the Action"? Re: Vermont - I think that was meant to emphasize how the better, promised (and threatened) future is a...

A tragic Star Trek rom-com that channels “City on the Edge of Forever”, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, and for good measure ”Genesis of the Daleks“? And the title is Shakespeare? My cup of Romulan Ale runneth over.

The absurdity of the situation is staging a fact-finding inquiry into Data’s personhood several years after his graduation from Starfleet Academy and subsequent assignment to the Enterprise-D as a commissioned officer. Did Starfleet hand out commissions to their equipment? Was there a...

Ahem, would now be a good time to remind people the courtroom drama at the center of “Measure of the Man” — ie one of Trek’s best episodes — doesn’t make any sense, either? (and it totally doesn’t matter)

I'm tempted to put together a list of 1970s films. You've got the first crop of contemporary summer blockbusters like Star Wars and Jaws and a regular Murderer's Row of near-perfect 'little' films like The Conversation and films from great directors at the peak of their careers (Nashville, The...

Why do I suddenly hear Asia's "The Final Countdown"?

Realism. Are you really sure you want it?

Nothing like a subtle and realistic legal procedural episode of Star Trek. Loved it!

So bad at grifting!