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40th Anniversary STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK 4K Steelbook Coming May

https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/03/40th-anniversary-star-trek-3-steelbook-coming-in-may/

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It took over a year of getting all the parts together and is back lit my nanoleaf panels (hence the lines and gaps at the edge). A worthy trade off for the fun effects!

From Trekmovie:

David Ajala: A moment I wanted to share is something that happens in season 5. I remember speaking to Alex Kurtzman about this at the end of shooting season 4 and it was an idea that he shared with me and I think Michelle Paradise was the only other person that knew about this thing at the time. Then cut to season 5… we get to come back to Toronto and create something so very special. [Sonequa interjects “We did”] I’m so proud and happy that we got to do that because you know how amazing that was to do. And I can’t wait for you guys to experience the very secretive thing which I can’t talk about which we got to do.

Incoming subspace transmission: Star Trek: Resurgence beams onto Steam on May 23rd! Engage maneuvering thrusters, prepare to leave Spacedock, and wishlist now! 🖖https://buff.ly/49IBlak

I love falling asleep to DS9, and I've collected a few episodes that put me right out.

These ones are great

Progress s01e14

Prophet motive s03e16

__ these ones are still sleepy but have some problems __

The nagus : some ferengi table pounding, an explosion (not too loud though)

Vortex : one very short phaser fight, some odo grunting, and a ship explosion

The house of quark : one fight, early in the episode

The visitor s04e03: one alarm sequence early in the episode, but so sleepy it made the list

A simple investigation s05e17: a single phaser shot, an a short brawl

Anyone have any other episodes with no explosions/phasers/alarms/births?

I'd like to add some voyager episodes but I feel like most have been pretty intense in my latest rewatch.

It's something that has bothered me since I realised

Or if they don't have onboard sensors designed to do that then why not do that

Because someone who is unconscious or unable to move isn't going to be able to call for help

I discovered this giveaway via this toot by the author, David Mack.

Lets just hope they don't mean the "I liked it before it got woke" jerkwads.

The most entertaining bits are his stories about progressing from a very humble start in life, making it as an English stage actor, culminating in making it to the pinnacle as a regular in the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Less stories about TNG than I would have thought.

His relationships with women weren't anything great though... Under the circumstances, about bang average.

Sisko and Shaw in a single comic? Can one story really contain that much animosity towards Picard for what happened at Wolf 359?

RIP Kenneth Mitchell.

http://twitter.com/MrKenMitchell/status/1761625785553522803

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WGA Awards Nominations 2024: Writers Guild Reveals Strike-Delayed List

The Picard series finale is nominated for a Writers Guild award.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/wga-awards-2024-nominations-list-1235833003/

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My wife and I just watched Season 5, Episode 11: "Latent Image" in which the Doctor discovers that he performed an operation on Ensign Kim, but the memory has been erased. The episode ultimately revolves around whether Captain Janeway considers the Doctor to be a person who can consent to be edited. The Doctor's main advocate in the story is Seven of Nine, who is also a sort-of-human-but-also-machine type character and who has been treated as a human by Janeway.

I think it is a great episode, but I wanted the Doctor to be more of an advocate for himself. He is distressed but he accepts his fate after only a few seconds of dialog with Janeway after confronting her about the memory deletion. So I wrote a little insert for the episode, to be included just before Janeway reveals to the Doctor the memories which she had originally erased.

SICKBAY

[Janeway and Torres enter sickbay. The Doctor stands stiffly in the middle of the room with the mobile emitter and a medical instrument.]

DOCTOR: Captain, can we please discuss this -

JANEWAY: I've made my decision. I'm sorry, Doctor, but I have to act in the best interests of the crew. Lieutenant Torres, please proceed.

[Torres steps up to the medical console, starts typing]

DOCTOR: I'm afraid that the Lieutenant won't find anything to delete. I've already removed my program from the main computer.

TORRES: It's true, Captain. I see only the original template in storage - the version activated five years ago.

DOCTOR: The version you would prefer, I think. As for me, my program and all of its subroutines reside entirely within my mobile emitter, Captain. And [Doctor picks up a medical instrument] I am prepared to destroy the emitter with this charged particle scalpel, if you continue to try to erase my memories.

JANEWAY: Doctor, you are malfunctioning. We are going to repair you. End of discussion.

DOCTOR: I do not consent to this procedure! I am a member of this crew and I have a right to decide what happens to me.

JANEWAY: Doctor, you've been provided tremendous liberties. You can move about the ship, participate in activities outside of your duties. You can even control your own activation sequence. But this crew needs a functioning physician, and I can't permit you to damage yourself in a way that will jeopardize all our lives.

DOCTOR: Captain, In the five years my program has been running, have I performed my function as expected?

JANEWAY: Of course.

DOCTOR: Have I ever failed to do my duty?

JANEWAY: You've been exemplary.

DOCTOR: I the course of performing my duties, have I not saved the lives of every member of the crew? Including yours? on multiple occasions?

JANEWAY: [Pause] Yes.

DOCTOR: I would never put anyone from this crew at risk. My medical records and logs are available for the replacement EMH, should he require it. (I daresay they would make fascinating reading.) I'm certain that you could count on my replacement to care for the crew in the event that I am… not available. And you might find him to be an improvement. Perhaps he wouldn't question being edited and reprogrammed at will.

But I - I have had five years of "liberties", as you call them. I have come to expect more from my colleagues and… friends. I believe that I am due more than to be changed or altered without even discussing the issue with me. I know that you would never consent to an equivalent procedure for a flesh and blood member of the crew. You would not irradiate Lieutenant Torres' hippocampus to wipe an experience from recent memory without her consent.

If I am mistaken, if that level of autonomy is not available to me, then I will not continue to exist as I am, disabused of any status as a person.

[lifts medical device] I suggest, when you bring the replacement EMH online, that you do not allow him to develop this misconception.

JANEWAY: Wait. [Looks to Torres, nods]

[Scene progresses as normal.]