It’s always been both, just with our current problems offloaded to aliens for scrutinization. That they’re no longer using aliens for commentary is the problem.

Something I would have liked to have seen is Vidiians being assimilated by choice on the basis that being part of the Collective had to be better than suffering from the Phage. Instead of them just being enemies, they should have really leaned into how horrible it would be to live with that plague hanging over their heads. It’s also implied in an episode or two that there are uninfected populations somewhere, probably under quarantine, which would have been interesting to explore.

I’m still impressed McNeill was able to say, “Yes, ma’am, his army of evil,” with a straight face.

M’Benga still wears blue. Chapel wears white, but she’s also a civilian contractor in SNW and hasn’t joined Starfleet yet, so how her uniform color interacts with everyone else is unclear.

There are actually differences in the Prime and Kelvin timelines that happened before Nero’s incursion. For instance, Kirk’s date of birth is off by several months. They tried to justify that afterwards by saying something about the event sending shockwaves through time to change things before it even happened or something like that. The real reason probably lies in that interview where JJ Abrams admitted he never liked Star Trek, but you could argue that the removal of various down-stream time travel events, like the events of “The City on the Edge of Forever” likely not happening in the modified timeline, could actually cause retroactive changes to the timeline.

But anyway, the Kelvin timeline already diverges before the Kelvin-Narada thing, because reasons.

Fun fact - the actress under that makeup also went on to play the Female Changeling.

It’s also not even remotely how DNA or evolution work.

How did it take me until this comment to realize the name was a pun?

And yet, all the carts are collected and all the shelves fully stocked.

Seems bland as hell on the surface, but hiding a spicy side.

Seriously, does anyone know about the update settings? It’s not hard to make Win10 not try to update while you’re using it.

*any port in a pon far

Just a reminder that she didn’t actually explain why she was tearing up a picture of the Pope, she just pulled out a picture of him and tore it up without context. Nobody understood wtf was happening.

He’s technically calling his opponent’s attack there.

The remake being attached to Trek with the creator being annoyed at VOY and leaving to make his own show still kinda fits the Mormon thing with the above chart, though.

That is definitely a TOS Romulan BoP.

The way his conviction wavers as he says it also shows that he’s trying to convince himself and justify his actions to himself more than anything else. It’s not that he can live with it, it’s that he has to live with it.

Lucky could be Paris, but that would make Luanne B’Elanna and I don’t think that part works.

I still think each Combs in the picture should be a different character. Unless each one is a different Weyoun, in which case they already are.

Tough little model.