Star Trek Social Club

Bakula, will be there on Sunday, August 10th for a panel, photo-ops and autographs. He is replacing Colm Meany, who no longer can attend.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Bakula rarely attends conventions.

For those who don't know: the Roddenberry Archive aims to preserve Star Trek by digitizing ... well, a lot of things. Currently you can already freeroam certain locations. Doesn't work that well on mobile devices though.

Here's a list of changes that I found so far:

• EXTENDED the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit from TMP. The Recreation Deck, Sickbay, Transporter Room, Engineering and Cargo Bay have been added. (wow, just wow!)
• EXTENDED the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit from Wrath of Khan. Sickbay, Transporter Room and Engineering have been added.
• EXTENDED the USS Enterprise-NCC-1701 from Strange New Worlds. Engineering has been added.
• EXTENDED the Enterprise NX-01 2151 and 2155. Engineering has been added in both versions.
• EXTENDED the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from 2370. Shuttlebay 2 has been added.
• NEW USS Kelvin NCC-0514 bridge has been added
• NEW USS Stargazer NCC-2893 bridge has been added
• NEW USS Defiant NX-74205 (2373), bridge, crew quarters, transporter bay have been added
• NEW exteriors: Doomsday Machine, Orbital Office Complex from Phase II, Drydock from Phase II, Drydock from TMP, the Whale Probe 🐳, Keldon Class,

Will update this post if I find more changes.

EDIT:

there's moooaaar:

• EXTENDED USS Cerritos NCC-75567 shuttlebay has been added. The bridge has also been extended. You can now enter the Captain's ready room and the briefing room.
• EXTENDED Deep Space Nine: the infirmary has been added. (I'd also like to point out my favorite easter egg: look upwards from the windows on the promenade and you'll see Voyager docked at one of the upper pylons)
• EXTENDED the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from season 1 now has crewmembers! How amazing is that!? (although I'm dissapointed that nobody is wearing a skant!)

Do the turbolifts work for anyone? I can't select a destination. There's a popup with the available decks when I press F in the turbolift, but that popup is unresponsive.

The title alludes to old time radio plays, and modern reproductions such as the “Thrilling Adventure Hour”, which ran as a podcast and staged performances in Los Angeles from 2005 to 2015. It is also an episode where the cast play different characters, like SNW: “The Elysian Kingdom”.

The first music cue is from TOS, and of course the lighting, costuming and props all evoke the style of TOS and 1960s science fiction. The wave-form on the large screen reminds me of the Control wave from the title sequence of The Outer Limits.

“Maxwell Saint” is sitting in a very typical James Kirk pose in the chair and speaks in a parody of William Shatner’s acting and diction. “Lee Woods” mentions the war - Ortegas served in the Klingon War. Zipnop of the Triathic Agonyan Empire has very visible wire rods holding up their “eyes”. The face also reminds me of the aliens in the 1957 movie Invasion of the Saucer Men.

The title sequence has been altered to resemble TOS’s opening narration and titles. For what it’s worth, 84 months is 7 years, alluding to the 7 seasons given TNG, DS9 and VOY. The USS Adventure has a registry number of 20-1. The title The Last Frontier riffs off Trek’s “final frontier” line.

We’ve seen holographic battle simulators in DIS: “Lethe”, and Enterprise had a recreation or rec room in TAS: “The Practical Joker” , so the concept of a holodeck predates TNG by quite a bit, although the model first seen in TNG: “Encounter at Farpoint” was supposed to be the latest model and both Riker and Wesley seemed impressed by it. The screen in the briefing room displays the “Holodeck Program Power Distribution”. In VOY: “Parallax” it was said that holodecks run off holodeck reactors which are incompatible with standard power systems on the rest of the ship.

Spock took dance lessons from La’An in SNW: “Wedding Bell Blues” and is continuing them in lieu of his morning calisthenics routine. Much like Picard enjoyed Dixon Hill stories from the 1930s, La’An enjoys Amelia Moon mysteries from the 1960s. Using transporter buffer patterns to create holographic avatars is similar to what happened in DS9: “Our Man Bashir”.

La’An’s request for a mystery that is challenging to solve is at least less foolhardy than Geordie’s request for an adversary capable of defeating Data (TNG: “Elementary, Dear Data”). The grid pattern of this 23rd Century holodeck is the same as those in 24th Century holodecks. La’An even gives the standard “run program” command.

Spock alluded to his ancestor being Conan Doyle (or as some speculated, Sherlock Holmes) in ST VI when he quoted the aphorism that “when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” This confirms it. In the real world, none of Doyle’s children had offspring, so Spock can’t be a direct descendant.

La’An - I mean, Amelia Moon switches into an American accent when speaking to Uhura - I mean, Joni Gloss. The voice-over narration alludes to that in classic noir films and hard-boiled detective stories.

Amelia refers to Gloss, a Hollywood agent, as “William Morris” - the William Morris Agency represented some of the biggest names in Hollywood history.

Max Factor does have a Ruby Red shade, but it was released in 2015 and inspired by Marilyn Monroe.

The Sunny Lupino character, with allusions to an ex-husband and relationships with the studio, not to mention the red hair, has characteristics of comedienne Lucille Ball, her ex-husband Desi Arnaz, and Desilu Studios’ involvement with the production of Star Trek. Her reference to Alfred (Hitchcock) putting her in Crows (1963’s The Birds) also references Tippi Hedren, who Hitchcock discovered and gave her first leading role. Hedren didn’t win an Oscar for that, however. Her name also echoes film star Ida Lupino.

Woods’ remark, “I’m an actor, not a doctor,” is an inversion of Dr McCoy’s catchphrase, “I’m a doctor, not a…”

Having a lead detective’s partner be a “bumbling idiot” is akin to the stereotype of Watson being bumbling next to Holmes, thanks to Nigel Bruce’s portrayal of him in the Basil Rathbone films. In the stories, however, Watson was not at all bumbling, but merely appeared less intelligent because he served as an audience surrogate for Holmes to explain his amazing deductions.

The NPCs notice Spock’s uniform, much like Trixie did when Picard walked into the Dixon Hill simulation in TNG: “The Big Goodbye”.

Ortegas’ suspension for insubordination was in SNW: “Shuttle to Kenfori”.

Omnidirectional holodiodes are a primary component of holodecks, first mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual but never on-screen until now.

Jess Bush uses her natural Australian accent as Adelaide Shaw (Adelaide is a city in South Australia). Hedda Gabler is an 1891 play by Henrik Ibsen. The West End refers to London’s theatre district.

The lack of safeties and the inability to end the program is a long-honoured Trek trope that has finally made its way to SNW.

“You know what’s not realistic? A lady first officer.” Roddenberry always claimed that the reason Number One (Majel Barrett) had to be replaced was because the network didn’t want a woman in a command position. It may be truer that they didn’t want Roddenberry’s mistress to be one of the leads of the new show.

“Mick Bowie” may be a real character in this world, or Saint just mocking McBeau with a portmanteau of Mick Jagger and David Bowie.

Gloss’s very meta description of what Bellows wanted to do with The Last Frontier is what Roddenberry wanted to do with Star Trek.

Scotty’s suggestion provides an explanation why holodecks have their own dedicated power sources and processors. Pike’s Enterprise having a crew of 203 was first mentioned in TOS: “The Cage”.

The end credits are printed in the style of TOS (as is the music), but instead of still photographs we have bloopers, including “space acting” (what the actors call the moving from side to side as if the ship is being shaken about) and Saint trying to get in the chair using the Riker Maneuver.

• The episode title, “Shuttle to Kenfori”, is a reference to the South Korean zombie film, “Train to Busan”, and the planet’s Kenfori was named for Ken Foree who played Peter in the original “Dawn of the Dead” film.

• Pike records the stardate as 2449.1 in his personal log.

    • This actually follows the previous episode, “Wedding Bell Blues”’ given stardate of 2251.7 in a way that makes sense. Is our long galactic SNW stardates nightmare finally come to an end?

• Pike refers to the “restricted zone” between Federation and Klingon territories following the war depicted in season one of DIS, and Number One calls it a ”buffer zone”. The term ”neutral zone” was not used to refer to the Federation-Klingon border until “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”.

• ”He never gets caught.” “I never get caught.” In “The Elysian Kingdom” Doctor M’Benga was fully possessed of his faculties when he was betrayed by Spock as the sorcerer Pollux, and captured and imprisoned by Uhura’s Queen Neve.

• Number One is certainly trying something with her hair this episode. Apparently one of the abilities granted by the Illyrian genetic augmentation revealed in “Ghosts of Illyria” was foresight to know when the grav plating will be disabled and to prepare accordingly to cut down on filming costs.

    • Similarly La’an’s ponytail is up, and apparently Mitchell took the day off from tactical.

• Pike and Doctor M’Benga reminisce about the time they smoked Vedalan cigars and M’Benga became sick. Assuming that Vendalan refers to the same species, in “The Jihad” it is stated that the Vendala are the oldest known spacefaring race, so apparently smoking isn’t actually that bad for you.

• We’ve seen Starfleet ships leave plenty of warning buoy to ward off ships from encountering the hazards of exploration, such as telepathic pitcher plants, or Armus, but this is the first time we’ve seen a Klingon warning beacon.

    • The Klingon alphabet used for the warning beacon’s graphic is the one created for the “USS Enterprise Officer’s Manual” fan publication, published in 1980.

    • The text of the beacon translates literally to ”Don’t dead open inside.”

• ”What do you think about this whole Korby-Christine thing?” In referring to the revelations of “Wedding Bell Blues”, Pike establishes that much like Captain Picard, he too enjoys his tea hot.

• The Klingon skeleton has a honeycombed ribcage, matching the anatomy diagram displayed on a screen in “Affliction”.

• The Klingon fighter craft is a raider, introduced in “Choose Your Pain”.

• I believe this is the first time a Klingon scanning device has been referred to as a tricorder on screen.

• The disruptor rifles the Klingon hunting party are weilding were first seen in “Context is for Kings”, but Bytha’s pistol appears to be new design similar to the Klingon pistols introduced in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”.

• Pike says the Klingons are, ”chasing [them] like Skral rabbits.” There is a Skral river on Qo’noS as per “Barge of the Dead”.

• Spock offers to mind meld with Captain Batel to help guide her through the pain she’s suffering. In “Dagger of the Mind” Spock informs Bones that he’s never performed a mind meld on a human before.

• Spock briefly experiences Gorn vision, which has a hex gird, recalling the compound eyes of the TOS Gorn. Of course, SNW Gorn do not have the same compound eyes of the TOS iteration.

    • Gorn vision also highlights the critical hit points on enemies.

• Pike refers to the chimera moss infected humans and Klingons as ”zombies,” much to Doctor M’Benga’s chagrin. in “Star Trek: First Contact”, Lily Sloane called the Borg ”bionic zombies.”

    • The Vulcans exposed to trellium-d in “Impulse” were referred to as zombies in the script, but not in the episode itself.

• Pike comes to the realization that the chimera plant is going cause Batel to become a hybrid with the Gorn genetics infecting her body. Like a chimera! In “Tuvix” a Delta Quadrant Orchid created a hybrid of Tuvok and Neelix, and that was the most controversial thing that happened in the episode.

• At Doctor M’Benga’s suggestion, Pike overloads the charging coil on his phaser, creating a small explosion that stuns some of the mossmen. In “The Conscience of the King” Kirk has to eject an overloading phaser off the USS Enterprise before it explodes, because it could take out an entire deck of the ship.

• The dagger Bytha stabs Pike with is a d’k tahg, the first of which was seen in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”. Fortunately for Pike, he does not meet the same fate as David Marcus.

• Bytha states that she had a Rongovian tag Doctor M’Benga with a viridium tracker, but having it put in his drink’s garnish. We saw a Rongovian introduce himself to M’Benga in “Wedding Bell Blues”.

    • Spock used a viridium patch to track Kirk and Bones in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”. Additionally, we learned n “Napenthe” Commandant Oh had Doctor Jurati swallow a viridium tracker so she could be traced.

• Bytha introduces herself as the daughter of Dak’Rah, whom Doctor M’Benga killed in a scuffle in “Under the Cloak of War”.

    • Following his defection to the Federation, we learn House Rah’Ul has suffered discommendation. Worf accepted discommendation for the House of Mogh in “Sins of the Father”, and Quark was able to demonstrate that D’Ghor used accounting to undermine a rival house, leading to the House of D’Ghor to receive discommendation in “The House of Quark”.

• The Klingon starship is a D7-class battlecruiser; this CGI model appears to be identical to the ones previously shown in SNW, starting with “The Broken Circle”, which was an update of the one introduced in DIS’ “Through the Valley of Shadows”.

They apparently didn't see fit to mention that there was also a panel for Trek comics.

This is the song Christina teased long ago.