• In the episode “No Small Parts” Ransom explains to Captain Freeman that he calls the 2260s the ”TOS Era” in honour of ”Those Old Scientists” like Spock and and Scotty. Of course, this episode takes place in 2259, so clearly it’s time for a shake-up among the SNW production team.

• This episode was co-written by Kathryn Lyn, who also wrote “wej Duj” and co-wrote “Charades”. She was initially hired to be a canon consultant for LDS, before becoming an executive story editor for that series in season two, and is currently the supervising producer for SNW season two.

• Johnathan Frakes directed this episode. Trekkies will recognize him as the director of several episodes and movies, including:

     • “Sub Rosa”

     • “Meridian”

     • “Parturition”

     • “Project Daedalus”

     • “Two of One”

     • “Star Trek: Insurrection”

• It’s Bradward Boimler! From Star Trek! Boimler is voiced, and performed in live action for the first time, by Jack Quaid.

• Boimler records the stardate as 58460.1, which, because LDS has a functioning stardate system, would put this adventure between “Hear All, Trust Nothing” (58456.2), and “Trusted Sources” (58496.1).

• It’s Beckett Mariner! From Star Trek! Mariner is voiced, and performed in live action for the first time, by Tawny Newsome.

• It’s Samanthan Rutherford, and D’Vana Tendi! From Star Trek! Rutherford and Tendi are voiced by Eugene Cordero, and Noël Wells respectively.

• Rutherford has a holo-imager identical to the one introduced in the VOY season five episode, “Drone” when photography became one of the Doctor’s hobbies.

     • The viewfinder display on the holo-imager is also accurate to what we see in VOY, starting with “Infinite Regress”.

• Tendi has previously demonstrated being sensitive about the common association between Orions and piracy in the minds of her fellow Starfleet officers, going back to “Crisis Point”.

• As he’s being portaled by the portal, Boimler cries out, ”Remember me!” which is also the title of a TNG episode in which a swirling energy vortex repeatedly tries to pull Doctor Crusher into itself.

• The portal dumps Boimler 122 years in the past.

• The SNW opening credits are recreated in the animation style of LDS, with some slight adjustments to the angles at which things are seen. Fortunately they kept in all the usual elements, such as the glowing space leach attempting to digest the nacelle, and the Koala.

• Pike’s gives the stardate as 2291.6 in his captain’s log.

• The USS Enterprise is en route to Setlik II to deliver a shipment of grain. This is the first direct mention of the planet, but Setlik III was established in “The Wounded” as the site of the Setlik III massacre during the Federation-Cardasssian War.

     • The grain is tritriticale. In “The Trouble With Tribbles” there was a large amount of quadrotritricale grain being stored at Deep Space K-7 with the intent of transporting it to Sherman’s Planet, and in “More Tribbles, More Troubles” the Enterprise was escorting too transport ships loaded with quintotriticale grain, again to Sherman’s Planet.

• Number One explains to Pike that Boimler’s badge is also a communicator. Pike first saw such a device when Section 31 agent Ash Tyler used his badge as a communicator in “The Saints of Imperfection”.

     • ”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.

• “Computer end program.” Boimler attempts to shut down the past like a holodeck simulation.

     • In “The Inner Light” Picard gives the same command after awaking as Kamin in the memories imparted to him by the Kataan probe.

     • In “Ship in a Bottle” Barclay tests to see if using that command will shut off a simulation of the USS Enterprise D after encountering Moriarty, and his being trapped in a simulation.

• The soles on Boimler’s boots have the delta and star print on them that they do in animation on LDS.

• In “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” Boimler gets the computer to replicate him the coolest outfit ever in a ”Boy’s size small,” and in ”The Least Dangerous Game” transporter chief Lundy accurately guesses Boimler’s weight to be 61.2 kilograms, and asks him to volunteer for his afternoon life drawing class because they need ”a skeletal boy.” However, Boimler is taller than every every member of the bridge crew, and thus we can only conclude that everyone serving aboard the Enterprise is tiny.

• ”It’s a classic S/COMS operating system.” ”Spacecraft Operations and Management System” was seen on screen in “First Flight” and the ENT showrunners consciously adapted the displays to feature more familiar elements from the TOS computers as the series continued.

     • S/COMS would be considered a classic by Boimler, because by the time of “Encounter at Farpoint”, Starfleet has adopted LCARS as their operating system.

• ”Definitely won’t happen again, Worf’s honour.” Worf suffered discommendation and was stripped of his honour in “Sins of the Father”.

• “And, perhaps most important, don’t make any attachments.” La’an became attached to an alternate version of Sam Kirk’s brother James when they travelled to the past together, and she watched him get killed by a Romulan agent.

• ”Riker!” Boimler swings his leg over the saddle in an imitation of the Riker maneuver, a practice he would have no doubt been witness to during his brief time serving aboard the USS Titan.

     • According to an interview, the line was ad libbed by Jack Quaid and, of course, Jonathan Frakes was in the room directing when he did it.

• “I’m sorry, my friend Mariner, would be freaking out right now.” Though Tawny Newsome has stated in interviews what an important character Uhura is to her, Mariner has never mentioned Uhura in LDS. The only direct mention was actually by Boimler, when he was dehydrated talking to a hallucination of Sulu in “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus”.

• “‘Explode,’ you said?” In “Arena” the Gorn were able to cause Spock’s tricorder to explode during their attack on the Cestus III outpost.

• An Orion scout ship arrives in orbit of Krulmuth-B. It’s design is inspired by the Orion vessel seen in the remastered version of “Journey to Babel”; in the original episode, the ship was merely a blip of spinning light.

     • ”Some Orion vessels are specifically designed to fool sensors.” Spock surmised that the Orion ship in “Journey to Babel” either had a dense enough hull, or was cloaked in some other way to prevent sensors from being able to get specific readings.

• ”What would come after the dash?” A bloody A, B, C, or D. Or E. Or F. Or…G unfortunately. Or J.

     • La’an’s statement implies that Starfleet has not yet adopted the custom of maintaining a Starship’s legacy by preserving its designation and registry number.

     • The Federation survey ship the Enterprise learned crashed on Talos IV in “The Menagerie, Part I”, the SS Columbia, had a registry of NC-5940-1, as seen on the printout of their distress call.

• Boimler built a model of an Orion scout ship in a bottle. Building ships in bottles is a hobby he shares with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Miles O’Brien, as per “Booby Trap”. Lieutenant Carey also spent all his time aboard the USS Voyager between seasons one and seven building model of the Voyager in a bottle, which we see in “Friendship One” after his death. ”Ships in bottles. Great fun.”

     • The episode “Ship in a Bottle” does not feature any ships in bottles.

• ”He was so excited to see me, that for a second it felt like maybe my future wasn’t so bad.” Pike’s future, so far as he’s aware, is ending up in a disfigured and living in a life support chair, able to communicate only through beeps after being exposed to delta radiation, which we see in “The Menagerie, Part I” and he sees in “Through the Valley of Shadows”.

• ”I know, but like smaller jetpacks.” In “A Moral Star, Part I” we see the Protogies using significantly smaller thruster packs than the ones seen in “The Vulcan Hello” or “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”.

• Ortegas tells Boimler she’s going to give him all the credit for the birthday party they’re going to throw for Pike. In “Temporal Edict” captain Freeman instituted the Boimler Effect, encouraging officers to add buffer time as needed into their scheduled tasks, something which Boimler also did not want credit for, but we see is his legacy far into the future in that same episode.

• Chapel assures Boimler he is not responsible for Spock’s recent exploration of his emotions. Spock broke his Vulcan mental conditioning in order to fight the Gorn in “All Those Who Wander”.

     • “I’ve read literally every book about Spock and they mention his upbringing on Vulcan, his pet sehlat, his relationship with his mom and his dad--” The books on Spock are apparently far more forthcoming about his life than he is; in “Journey to Babel” Kirk was unaware of the fact that Spock’s father was one of the most respected Federation ambassadors, and in “Yesteryear” after watching I-Chaya die while in the past, Spock only told Kirk that a pet died, not his own childhood pet.

• ”For all I knew you were dead, or stuck in a dystopian San Francisco in the middle of a riot.” Mariner is referring to the Bell Riots, as seen in “Past Tense, Part II”.

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Artwork from the Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook pg. 147

• The episode title, “Lost in Translation” is a reference to the end of the episode when Kirk whispers something in Uhura’s ear before leaving the USS Enterprise and we, the audience, aren’t privy to what he says.

• We start with Uhura’s communications officer’s log, in which we learn it is stardate 2394.8.

• Bannon’s nebula is named for Brian Bannon, Melissa Navia’s partner who passed away in 2021 a few days after being diagnosed with leukaemia.

• We’ve previously seen stellar nurseries in “Fight or Flight”, “Cold Front”, and “The Good Shepherd”.

• Pike’s wearing a new fleet captain’s badge, which is based on the flag officer’s badge of this era that we’ve previously seen in this show and DIS.

     • Pike’s badge has only has one gold laurel on each side beneath the delta. We’ve previously seen admirals with four, five, and the full six laurels on each side.

     • Spock sounds surprised to learn that Pike has been given the rank of fleet captain, despite the fact that he was wearing the badge on the bridge.

• ”Have chief Kyle stand by to initiate transport.” André Dae Kim has confirmed on social media that he will not be appearing in the role of chief Kyle in season two as he was filming “Vampire Academy” at the time of shooting, and was not available.

• In addition to the Enterprise, Pike has been given command of the USS Farragut, which was first mentioned in “Obsession”.

• To aid in her performing a diagnostic on the communications equipment, Uhura watches a video she made with deceased chief engineer Hemmer [Bruce Horak]. Hemmer choose to die rather than allow the parasitic Gorn infants gestating inside him loose to threaten his crewmates in “All Those Who Wander”.

     • In “Who Mourns for Adonis” Spock praised Uhura, saying, “I can think of no one better equipped to handle it,” regarding repairs of the communications station, despite her claim that she hadn’t done anything like that in years.

• We learn that Hemmer studied under Pelia at Starfleet Academy, and was merely a ”just okay” student.

• Throughout the episode Uhura is plagued by horrific visions, which we will eventually learn are the result of alien beings living in the nebula attempting to communicate with her.

     • In “Night Terrors”, telepathic communication from an alien species caused the crew of the USS Enterprise D to be unable to access REM sleep, resulting in their having waking hallucinations.

     • In “The Fight”, beings that live in chaotic space are able to communicate with Chakotay by altering his senses, causing him to hallucinate.

• Uhura’s visions are:

     • Hemmer as a zombie.

     • Smoke rising above a treeline.

     • A number of dead Enterprise crew people, and her doppelganger attacking her.

         • Characters have had to fight their doppelgangers in: Kirk in “The Enemy Within”; Kirk in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”; Kirk in “Whom Gods Destroy”; Kirk in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”

     • An enemy attack that triggers the bridge evacuation hatch, spilling the crew out into space.

     • A corridor closing in on her.

     • The same smoke as previous, but this time we see it is emanating from the shuttle crash that killed Uhura’s family.

     • Hemmer, whole and healthy.

• Uhura has her own room. When she was a cadet, we saw that she bunked with at least two other crew people in “Ghosts of Illyria”.

• The Scotch Whisky label on the bottle is very similar, if not identical, to the one Scotty used to get an eldritch horror from another galaxy plastered in “By Any Other Name”.

• We learn that Jim Kirk is set to become the youngest first officer in Starfleet history in a few months. He should be 26 at this time. In the alternate reality of the Kelvin universe, Kirk becomes first officer of the Kelvinverse USS Enterprise at 25, and then captain a few days later.

     • Apparently George Kirk Sr. held the record before Kirk.

• George Kirk Sr. is still alive. In 2009’s “Star Trek” he was killed by Nero and the Narada the day Jim Kirk was born.

• Three-dimensional chess was introduced in “Where No Man Has Gone Before” but would have been seen first in “Charlie X” which aired the week before despite the order in which the episodes were produced.

     • The specific set that Spock and Chapel are playing appears to use the pieces and boards produced by The Noble Collection in 2021, but with a custom stand.

• Saurian brandy goes back to the very first aired episode of TOS, “The Man Trap”, and originated in the fourth episode produced, “The Enemy Within”.

     • According to “Star Trek Beyond”, Saurian brandy is outlawed in the Federation of the Kelvin timeline.

• Just as in 2009’s “Star Trek” prime universe Uhura and Jim Kirk first meet in a bar.

     • Just as in 2009’s “Star Trek”, shortly after their first meeting, prime universe Jim Kirk ends up with a broken nose.

• Jim Kirk and Pike meet for the first time. It was established in “The Menagerie, Part I” that Pike and Kirk met, ”When he was promoted to fleet captain.”

     • Pike’s rank in “The Menagerie, Part I” is established as still being fleet captain, but in this episode we’re told it’s only a temporary promotion.

• La’an and Jim Kirk met briefly in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” when she called him under false pretenses because she missed the alternate version of him that was killed by a Romulan agent in the early 21st century.

• ”You’re like…a space hippie.” Number One is being a Herbert.

• You’ve been in Starfleet since before I was born, but I outrank you.” Number One is a lieutenant commander, and Pelia has only ever been referred to as a commander. It is common for lieutenant commanders in Starfleet to have their rank shortened to just commander, but that would still put both officers at the same rank, though as first officer, Number One would still obviously be first in the chain of command.

• We learned that Uhura’s family died in a shuttle crash in “Children of the Comet”.

• ”There are similarities in the ways different species process thoughts, ideas. That’s how the universal translator works: by recognizing those similarities.” In “Metamorphosis” Kirk explained to Zefram Cochrane that ”There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life. This device instantaneously compares the frequency of brainwave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognises, and then provides the necessary grammar.”

• Uhura and the Kirks reason out that the deuterium in the nebula is part of extra-dimensional beings who’ve integrated themselves into the atomic structure of the gases. I would list all the times a nebula turned out to be alive, but the Lemmy posts do have a character limit.

• During the evacuation procedure, we see there are number of ships with saucer sections and underslung nacelles docked at or orbiting the deuterium refinery station. It is difficult to be certain of their relative size, but the may be small tugs, and if so this might be the Ptolemy-class shown on bridge displays in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” and “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”.

• There are also a number of shuttles with vertical wings which we have not seen before.

• We learn that Number One was also a student of Pelia’s at the Academy, and that she only rated a C in starship maintenance.

• I was informed by the admin that I need to include the fact that the cymbals the drummer is playing are ”translucent space cymbals” like the ones in *Star Trek Nemesis” at the Riker-Troi wedding. Of course, those ones were green and transparent, where as these are perforated, but I’ll allow it.

• Spock cleans up Sam Kirk’s discarded glass, just as we saw him picking up after Sam in the previous episode, “Charades”.

• It is the first meeting between Jim Kirk and Spock. Personally I was not expecting them to immediately start making out, but I suppose Spock is exploring his more emotional side. Just surprised the show runners actually went there, but good for them.

     • For more sexual tension between Kirk and Spock, see all of TOS.

The linked video is part four, where Jim gets into the first scene of the game. Thought anyone else who's anticipating this solo expansion for STA might find it interesting.

I'm pretty confident the game must be a bit quicker to get into if you're not trying to explain everything step by step while recording yourself.

Previous videos:
• Character creation
• Starship creation
• Mission building

Star Trek: Day of Blood #1
Written by : Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing Art by: Ramon Rosanas
Cover Art: Malachi Ward

Day of Blood Starts Here! Immortal emperor of the Klingon Empire, Kahless II has consolidated power, raided ancient tombs and secret bunkers, taken the power of gods for himself, stolen the Bajoran Orb of Destruction, and commenced a slaughter across the stars. But this genocide of gods was just the beginning. For with the power he has stolen, Kahless is about to declare war on all those who do not follow the Red Path. To prevent genocide unlike any since the ancient days of Qo'noS, the crew of icons led by the emissary known as Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek) and the renegades who follow a desperate and violent Worf (Star Trek: Defiant) must unite for a common cause. Only they can hope to stop the Day of Blood.

• The episode title of course refers to a popular party game. In the PRO episode, “Mindwalk”, the Protogies where had to communicate with Dal using charades, because he didn’t learn any Morse code.

• Both Nurse Chapel’s and Spock’s personal logs gives us a stardate of 1789.3.

• The USS Enterprise is travelling to the Vulcan system, first seen in “Amok Time”.

    • Alternatively, one could argue that the first visit to the Vulcan system was when the Enterprise visited the planet Delta Vega to affect repairs after sustaining damage attempting to travel through the Galactic Barrier in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. Delta Vega is also the planet that Nero marooned prime Spock on (and Kelvin Spock marooned Kelvin Kirk on) in 2009’s “Star Trek”, and Spock was able to watch the destruction of Vulcan. In an interview, Robert Orci claimed they ”moved” the planet for the film because the easter egg of the name was more important than coming up with a new name fans wouldn’t be familiar with.

        • Both the 2011 Kelvin universe “Star Trek“ comic series, and “The Enterprise War” novel attempt to reconcile this by claiming there are two Delta Vegas.

• We learn of the Kerkhov moon, and the fact that there was an ancient civilization there that vanished at one point. Other ancient civilizations which have disappeared from the galaxy leaving behind only ruins and mystery are:

    • The Greek Gods

    • The Arretans

    • The Preservers

    • The Tkon Empire

    • The Iconian Empire

    • The D’Arsay

    • The Hur’Q

• The Vulcan Science academy was first mentioned in “Journey to Babel”.

    • On Vulcan they preface everything by distinguishing that it’s Vulcan because it’s important to them that the rest of the galaxy be aware that it’s theirs.

• ”What are Korby’s three principles of archaeological medicine?” Spock mentioned Roger Korby is referred to as the Pasteur of archaeological medicine in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”

    • Roger Korby will be Chapel’s future fiancée.

• The notion that Vulcans use nasal suppressants to overcome how debilitatingly pungent humans are was introduced in “The Andorian Incident”.

    • ”Not to be indelicate, Captain, but the scent of humans is something most Vulcans must become…used to.” Spock grew up with a human mother, and human adopted sister.

    • In “Broken Bow” Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in “The Andorian Incident” it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 “must be intolerable.”

        • Later in this episode, T’Pril repeats the claim that Vulcan women are more sensitive to odours.

• ”I am still not speaking to my father.” It was established in “Journey to Babel” that Spock had not spoken to Sarek in 18 years, which would mean their communication ceased nine years prior to this episode.

• The shuttlecraft Spock and Chapel take to scan Kerkhov is the Cervantes, which was previously used on the mission to investigate the USS Peregrine after it was divested by Gorn hatchlings in “All Those Who Wander”, and transported Captain Pike, La’an, and Doctor M’Benga down to Rigel VII where they lost their memories and were subject to a Starfleet yeoman turned Tyrant in “Among the Lotus Eaters”, and maybe they should leave the *Cervantes” in the shuttlebay next time.

    • The Cervantes is also the shuttle Ortegas pilots herself, Chapel, and Uhura in back to the anomaly when they revisit it.

• ”The Vulcan Science Academy would be lucky to have someone of your experience.” “Battle of the Binary Stars” established that as of 2249, ten years earlier, Michael Burnham was the only human to have attended the Vulcan Science Academy. However, in “Brother” in 2257, Paul Stamets had accepted a full time teaching position there, so they weren’t entirely opposed to the idea.

• After the Cervantes crash, Spock had to be healed by the Kerkhovians who made him fully human. In “Faces” a Vidiian scientist split B’Elanna Torres into two separate beings, one fully human, and the other Klingon. The Klingon died to save her human counterpart during the escape, and the Doctor was later able to restore B’Elanna to her hybrid self using genetic material from the deceased Klingon.

    • In “Spock Amok” Spock had a dream that he was human, fighting a fully Vulcan counterpart, but he later lied and claimed that in his dream he was the fully Vulcan half.

• The episode cuts off before Spock can finish saying, “What the fairly intriguing development.” As we all know, Spock was unfamiliar with profanity until visiting Earth’s 1980s in “Star Trek: The Voyage Home” despite living on a starship and closely working with one Doctor Leonard McCoy.

• As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon despite most Vulcans including himself being vegetarian. In “All Our Yesterdays” Spock appears to be disgusted with himself for enjoying consuming animal flesh after being transported to the past causes him to regress to an earlier stage of Vulcan cultural development. As we all know, all humans eat meat, and this scene certainly didn’t disgust any vegans who might be watching and then later writing a point form list of how the episode ties in to other Trek canon.

    • According to T’Pol in “Broken Bow”, Vulcans also do not touch food with their hands, but we see Spock picking up the bacon with his fingers here. Of course, Spock also touched his food with his hands in “All Our Yesterdays” as well as his marshmallow in “Star Trek: The Final Frontier” so perhaps that’s a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS.

        • Later this episode, Sevet does not hesitate to go in on some tevmel with his hands.

• ”I just thought that my field work would be relevant.” In “Journey to Babel” Kirk argued to Amanda Grayson that Spock’s time aboard the Enterprise was “a better opportunity for a scientist to study the universe than he can get at the Vulcan Science Academy.”

• ”She did seem awfully enthusiastic about purchasing dilithium.” The Federation of this era is a moneyless society, as established in such episodes as:

    • “Mudd’s Women” - The character of Harry Mudd is transporting three women around to find them husbands out of the goodness of his heart, and lithium miners on Rigel XII offer to give the crystals to the Enterprise for free.

    • “Errand of Mercy” - Kirk intimates to Spock that Starfleet would not be troubled by their potential deaths, because their training cost nothing.

    • “Catspaw” - Lieutenant DeSalle says he would make a bet on the effectiveness of their strategy, but there is no money and hence no gambling.

    • “The Trouble With Tribbles” - Cyrano Jones gives away exotic animals, and no one pays for drinks at the bar, because what would they pay with?

    • “The Escape Artist” - We see several android duplicates of Harry Mudd captured by concerned citizens intending to hand him over to Federation authorities, because there’s no need to collect a bounty when everything is free. Also, Mudd doesn’t complain about Federation taxes, because what would they tax?

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Star Trek #10
Written by: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art by: Mike Feehan
Cover Art: Mike Feehan

Don't miss out on the lead up to the Day of Blood crossover event between the Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant ongoing series! Lieutenant Shaxs receives visions from the Bajoran Prophets. He sees his past and his future, and he sees the trial of Benjamin Sisko. The crew of the Theseus must fight their way back together after being separated across Cardassian space before their Captain's fate is set in stone and Kahless can carry out his promise of more bloodshed…
 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Echoes #3
Written by: Marc Guggenheim
Art by: Chudakov, Oleg
Cover by: Jake Bartok

Akris-a maniacal doppelganger of Chekov from a parallel universe-has begun working with the Romulans on a superweapon with a promise to reduce the Federation and its allies to ash. And with half the bridge crew in Romulan custody, it's up to Spock and McCoy to hold down the ship and devise a plan to get their captain and crewmates out of enemy hands!

I’ve been interested in Star Trek: Away Missions since I learned about it. The game is being published by Gale Force None, which also puts out Star Trek: Ascendancy, which I really enjoy despite its flaws.

Can’t decide if I like the cartoony, big head style of the miniatures. Also, while they’ve announced Romulan and Klingon expansions, I personally can’t muster much enthusiasm for the Borg in any iteration.