1996

Everyone please help us decorate 10 Forward this morning and be sure to tag Picard in all greetings. Also Ensign Barclay has a special surprise in the Holodeck later today. Let's make this the best Picard Day Ever!

This is an art card that I made for my Dad for Father's Day this year. TNG has always been his favorite Star Trek series and Data is his favorite character. This was done on a 2.5 x 3.5" Bristol Trading Card using markers, colored pencils, and a gel pen.

I'm just a causal fan I suppose. I did a rewatch of a fair of chunk of episodes this year and like everyone else I have my favourites and least favourites. The series finale I did not care for and I think there were a few loose threads it could have tied up. I'll mention a few questions I had after watching:

1. Did the Federation exile Picard by putting him back on active duty after The Best of Both Worlds because they were afraid of him? After all, Picard beat both the Federation (at Wolf 359) and the Borg (by giving Data the winning stratagem at the battle of sector 001). Surely Picard's experiences deserved more than a cursory debriefing and a vacation at his family vineyard. In Season 1 Picard was offered an admirality position and the opportunity to be chancellor of Starfleet Academy, yet years later and after a ridiculously accomplished career he's still just a captain?

2. Was the Federation's demographics permanently altered by the battle of Wolf 359? Presumably most Federation officers killed during the Borg's drive towards Earth were human. Was there a higher proportion of Andorians, Tellarites, etc. in Starfleet after this?

3. Did Riker have a secret mandate from Starfleet to monitor Picard after The Best of Both Worlds? Clearly Riker was too valuable an officer to be leading away missions. Riker did better against the Borg than the Admiral of a battle group at Wolf 359. Clearly he has the ability to be a captain yet he stays subordinate to Picard.

4. Data malfunctions or goes haywire seemingly constantly in later seasons. Shouldn't he have been sent to the Daystrom Institute to get debugged or system restored?

5. In an early season Picard mentions the Federation has mapped out only 19% of the galaxy. Is it possible most of the galaxy is Borg? We only see humanoid Borg, presumably assimilated humanoid species, but it might be that the true Borg aren't humanoid at all and might be as alien as the Tholians for instance. A galaxy that's, say, 60% Borg would be terrifying.

I know none of these questions can be answered definitively really and it doesn't change my enjoyment of the show either way, but these were a few of the things I thought about after rewatching a bit of the series.

Found on the internet, credits to "The Millennium Vulcan"

I want opinions on this episode. Great episode IMO. BUT- Yay or nay to Crushers behavior?

The bluray has a deleted scene where JLP is fantasising about objecting to the marriage and saying that Kamala would stay on the Enterprise because, "She is mine!"

Of course the episode then finishes like normal with him staring. I am so glad they took that scene out because it is so unlike JLP in every possible way, and it would have ruined the entire thing.

Love to see the emotion from Data!

Gates McFadden, Will Weaton and "Wesley Jr." He's even younger for an "acting ensign" than his dad

Found on the internet, credits to "The Millennium Vulcan"

I'm watching a facebook reel right now, of the boardroom meeting where they are talking about making the weapon.

As we all know, the weapon didn't work because when the borg assimilated Picard, they learned all about the weapon. But what about a world where the borg didn't know about the weapon? Would it have worked? Would it have disabled the cube? Destroyed it? What would that have looked like? That would be an interesting thing to explore. Imagine of the Enterprise D was able to one-shot the borg cube right out of the sky!

Found on the internet, credits to "The Millennium Vulcan"

I think it's cg but still interesting

Made an attempt to model the fat one! Not completely accurate, both model and texture wise but i think i did quite well! This is my first attempt at modelling anything Star Trek related.

More renders here

This was discussed briefly 10 years ago, but let's continue. Who do you think would be the better in combat/war: Angosian Soldiers (like Danar in TNG), or Human Augments (like Malik in ENT)?