I dug 'em. It was a good experiment in pushing Trek's aliens beyond a forehead and an accent.
Or, keeping up SNW's traditions of reviving projects from early in Star Trek's history, we could finally get M'benga leading a medical frigate in the vein of the Hopeship pitch.
Is there anyone still holding out for a “refit” of the beautiful SNW Enterprise so that it “really” looks like a set from the late 1960s?
Sadly, I can confirm there are.
I concur with your conclusions. In the famous words of Captain Picard, it is possible to make no mistakes and still fail. Tilly did the best she could against a superior opponent, and when the opportunity to turn that defeat around arose, she scraped out a win with casualties minimized, and I think proved herself more prepared for command than the show or fandom generally gave her credit for.
Assuming the Eugenics War is still followed by WW3, that only leaves a max of 49 years
What's so unusual about that? Consider how close World War 1 and World War 2 were to each other. Consider how infrequent global peace is generally.
Sadly not yet.
Isn't Galt the colony the Rozhenkos lived on while they were bringing up Worf?
It’s a dizzyingly uneven show with the lowest points of quality in all of Trek.
Dude I've seen TNG season 1 and Enterprise seasons 1-2. I know we both know it can get worse.
And all because some poor schmuck at an early radio lab had a candy bar in their pocket that got melted.
Another key takeaway from this that I hadn't considered before:
Augments aren't just banned from Starfleet. They can't become doctors either. Speaking as a Jew my people know firsthand that one of the best ways to create an underclass is to restrict the occupations available to them. Are augments systematically kept out of skilled professions, denied the chance to better themselves and their fellow sapients? Very disturbing possiblity.
Memory Alpha seems to think that Vasquez Rocks is playing itself in that instance
Perhaps it implied that.
But it only ever implied that, and meanwhile we had other evidence that implied a separate conclusion, in the form of Kor, Kang, and Koloth.
Which is more likely-- that every Klingon Kirk encountered during his five-year mission was a survivor of the augment virus (edit: Including Kahless, who lived and died centuries before Archer!) and no Klingon encountered outside of that time period was; or that the Klingons ruthlessly quarantined or even executed carriers of the augment virus and wiped it out before it got too far, and TOS's visuals aren't literal?