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I don't take Miral's statement as definitive proof that the setting was unreal; I tend to believe the opposite, in fact. (The novels, though non-canon, have Miral also having experienced these events, while on a vision-quest on Boreth). I quite enjoyed Barge of the Dead, for its Klingon mythology story, the treatment of religion in a skeptics' world (how her crewmates automatically default to treating what she vitally believes as important for her mother's eternal soul as unimportant because they don't believe in its reality, and the struggle to convince them), and for B'elanna's character... particularly the moment where she is holding everyone at bay with the Bat'leth, demanding to know what all of them want from her; it resonates strongly, and feels like a very powerful moment for her character (any symbolizing who she has long been, holding the whole world at bay).

Added: Anomalous class names, Reused class names, Commemorative registries

Added the Equinox (Nova class).

2024 Earth has become the Confederation

would that not be 2399?

An interesting design that would deserve to be fleshed out - although or because it would need a backstory to make sense. Not among the favorite Federation ships simply because it is pre-Federation. ;-)

I don't know if it's said often enough, but thank you for all of your hard work in creating and maintaining all of this!

Still there but only on the episode index pages, like https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/pro.htm --> https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/episodes/episode-table.php?series=PRO .

Where is the catalogue of every review where you can quick reference or sort them based on different criteria? Or was that discontinued?

What are your thoughts on this one?
https://youtu.be/MO_tGuNt7x4?si=iGZMo5-w3Q6U8ZE6

"There is yet another problem with the back story. The Equinox must have run into the Ankari at the beginning of the journey, still close to the Caretaker, because the ship couldn't have come far without the help of the creatures they were introduced to by the Ankari. Although the Ankari may possess an extremely advanced warp drive (which is not powered by dead creatures), it is a stretch that they would be encountered just 50 light-years from Voyager's position, some 30,000 light-years from where the Equinox first ran into them. Also, wouldn't it have been worth a try to acquire their propulsion technology?"

I took this differently; that the Ankari encounter was relatively recently. The Equinox had been limping along after traveling for (6ish) years, chain of command long-since broke down, the crew became close. Finally, on the verge of collapse, they find the Ankari- and make up a significant amount of ground in the last few weeks/months. Thus, the Ankari don't have a great propulsion technology, and aren't back by the Caretaker. They are farther back than is reasonable for them to be 50 light-years away (but, they could be like the Hirogen, simply wide-spread travelers; heck, the Talaxians don't have super-engines, but they will be encountered more-distant yet!), but this is still somethinng like an 80/20 split- only the last, perhaps, fifth of this journey has been performed with the creatures.

They are farther along, but they are 'so close' as in 'so close to a solution,' rather than 'so close to Earth.' As in, 'we're on the verge of making this work sustainably.'

Now, does this solve all the problems the review brings up? No. But it does alter the parameters a bit.

The Defense sub-systems station display in #StarTrekDS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"↗️↘️ is based on a display often seen in season 1 of #StarTrekTOS, like here in "The Menagerie I"↙️. #StarTrek "Relics"↖️ also featured a similar Defense Sub-systems display.

The engineering MSD was modified between seasons 3 ("Booby Trap"⬇️) and 4 ("Galaxy's Child"⬆️) of #StarTrekTNG. The display received new stronger light sources, the isolinear chip banks are no longer green but blue now and there's a new lareg red label on the bottom left.

The buttonless Defense sub-systems station to the right of the main viewscreen is only seen in a few #StarTrekTOS season 1+2 episodes, like "The Corbomite Maneuver"↖️, "Mudd's Women"⬆️, "The Menagerie II"↗️ and "The Doomsday Machine"↙️. It finally gets buttons in "Trials and Tribble-ations"⬇️↘️.

I love the moments on #StarTrekTNG when Troi is seen sensing strong emotions before anyone else realizes what is going on, like here in "Sarek"↖️, "The Wounded"↗️, "Night Terrors"⬅️➡️ and "Silicon Avatar". My favourite is "Lessons"↘️, though, when she senses Picard falling in love and is happy for him!🤩

Dr. Leah Brahms uses the turbolift close to the engineering "pool table" twice in #StarTrekTNG's "Galaxy's Child"↖️↗️. The Jefferies tube junction was moved here between seasons 5 and 6, as can be seen in these screenshots from "The Quality of Life"↘️ and "Lessons"↙️.

Here's a comparison of the wall console to the right of the main viewscreen and the Defense Sub-Systems station, as seen in #StarTrekTOS' "The Doomsday Machine"⬆️ and #StarTrekDS9's "The Trouble with Tribbles"⬇️.

#StarTrekTNG's "The Best of Both Worlds I" features the standard left-handed type 2 Cobra phasers in almost all scenes in the episode, on Jouret IV and on the Borg cube, as can be seen in these screenshot. There are however some right-handed phaser appearances in this episode as well.

For #StarTrekDS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"⬇️, the two right-most bridge stations were recreated, namely the "Defense Sub-Systems" and "Defense and weapons" stations, here seen in #StarTrekTOS' "The Corbomite Maneuver"⬆️.

Sometimes, the LCARS translights warped a little, like in this aft bridge station shot in #StarTrekTNG's "Galaxy's Child". Notice the slightly wonky Starfleet Operations - Sectors 21166 - 23079 display.

Tasha Yar keeps changing back and forth between the regular type 2 Cobra phaser ⬅️ and the newly created props with the dark trapezoid mark on the handle ➡️ in #StarTrekTNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise".