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Also, I’m pretty sure this episode contains the first live action appearance of an Edosian, first introduced in TAS and appearing in ever animated Trek series since.

You’re right that the attempt wasn’t necessarily malicious. I feel it can be possible to have good intentions and still end up doing something wrong, whether that be sexist, racist, or otherwise hurtful.

Inaccurate cultural depictions can take away control of a people’s story and misrepresent them in such a way that distracts from the fact that they are a present-day people living their own everyday lives.

Of course, I think the failures in Chakotay’s character development that you mention are also very real and are a major factor in the failure of his character.

Overall, though, I still quite enjoy Voyager.

How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.

I do love Lower Decks, though.

Another good one:

If you don’t get it:

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I know someone who read the book, and they said the show stayed mostly true to it plotwise; it tended not to skip things and actually added details.

Finally! Someone else recognizes the premium quality entertainment that is Murderbot!

I seriously recommend this show to any Trekkie.

Or, my fan theory is that since Picard demonstrates the Q may not be totally linear, Trelane is just Q2. At the very least, we know they can play around with time.

Part of me wants to buy/borrow the Lower Decks DVDs just so I can get better screen rips on Memory Alpha.

Then again, I also kind of want to fork Memory Alpha because at this point, you basically can’t use Fandom without an ad blocked.

But that’s such a huge undertaking because I’d have to find hosting, import the large database dump (getting it, or at least a version from late May, isn’t so hard - just check Special:Statistics), delete what I don’t need, fix/rebuild templates, replace images, check tens of thousands of pages, remove Memory Alpha administrative pages) get the word out, etcetera.

It’d almost be awesome if it were a .website project, but even if it ever got off the ground, I’d worry the traffic might be unsustainable.

I agree on most of those counts, except the Chakotay one is actually very real; if you didn’t fully read the article (and I knew this already before reading it), a “Native American” cultural consultant, only to fond out the dude was a complete phony, so nearly everything that show depicts of Chakotay’s culture is either pulled from stereotypes or made up entirely.

I personally love DS9 and think that it has aged better than TNG. I think its S1 is not amazing, but certainly one of the better first seasons. It has plenty of good enough episodes that don’t depend heavily on the upcoming plot and leave your brother in a good place if he wants to start watching for himself.

A few suggestions would be:

• In The Hands of the Prophets: Overall an almost prophetic episode, in the most terrifying way possible. A well-done drama episode with great political commentary. A lot of the season built up to it, but it’s such an early period in the show that it’s not TOO much context
• Dax: A full helping of everything Trek, from alien trials to crew collaboration to space mysteries. It basically explains the Dax thing for you, just leaving an interesting story. Vortex: Odo-focused, but also has some “crew on space mystery” bits. Also makes a mystery of core information in the show, meaning minimal canon dependency and once again leaving your brother in a good place to watch.
• Duet: Strong Kira episode that’s also a good summary of the Bajoran-Cardassian conflict.
• Captive Pursuit: I think it’s a solid, typical Trek episode. I think the only impression issues it might give are it’s very O’Brien-centric, and it might register a bit on the “aliens who represent no particular real life ethnicity but are still kind of iffy”-o-meter. But otherwise, it’s a low-canon, medium-quality episode.

Holes and crap! Measure of a Man might be genius. Intellectually engaging, good acting, but boring (no offense) enough that other parts of the show can impress as well!

I disagree. I think the Dominion War context is way too important.