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OK @HippieScubaSteve and @theresmiling, from our 3 lists I have put together a spreadsheet (I love spreadsheets 😀) and we have 35 individual questions to sift through...
Before we do so, I'll wait on the thread to see if anyone else wants to make any more suggestions!
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Someone needs to start a #30DayStarTrekChallenge again. I miss those!
(And I feel like we could all do with the distraction)
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Day 8 - Favortie Federation Enemy - The Dominion
Almost said the Borg as they were just so terrifying at first. But Dominion is better fleshed out. The reasoning that leads the Founders to go to war more nuanced, and of course the way the war ultimately develops. I have no basis for it, but the Founders and their relatant plot arcs feel like the continuation of what was originally conceived of with the parasite aliens from the TNG Season 1 episode “Conspiracy”
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Day 23: Planet I'd most like to visit.
At first, I thought of Risa, a planet of pleasure. But then I thought that it has to be Earth. To visit my home planet to find a world of peace, with no hunger or poverty would be wonderful.
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Day 21: Best Overall Space Vessel
Well, it obviously has to be the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-E.
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Day 20: Best Trek Tech
At first, I was thinking of replicators, which would help with food and supply shortages. But Earth moved on from poverty (but other planets haven't, but the Federation won't share tech).
So I was thinking of something medical to make the diagnosis and treatment of diseases much quicker:
Medical Tricorder.(Am I the only person still doing this challenge?)
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Day 19: Favourite Trek Film
Without any shadow of a doubt, it's First Contact.
The Federations greatest, most ruthless, dangerous enemy. A captain who was once assimilated by them. Picard flexing his muscles and going all John McClane, but with Stewart's usual great speeches. A great story about hope with Cochrane making his maiden flight at light speed and the Enterprise E.
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Day 18: Character You're Most Like
Tough one, each of us is our own unique person, unlike any other.
I'm saying Ro Lauren (without the occupation), as I often side with the underdog and sympathies with the Maquis. I don't like authority and my mouth sometimes gets me in trouble.
There is also some mix of Reg Barclay or Tilly, although I don't think I have any neurodivergence. Also, some Picard with my morals.
Although I'm not half as smart as these guys!
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Day 17: Favourite Voyager Episode
Blink of an Eye
(E6 E12)Voyager encounters a strange planet where time passes at an increased rate where one second for Voyager is nearly a day on the planet. Voyager is pulled into its orbit and trapped there.
The planet's civilisation evolves, and Voyager slowly becomes part of their society's mythology.Love this episode. A great story, with no "villain of the week", and a happy ending.
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And that concludes my #30DayStarTrekChallenge which, quite frankly, I didn't think I'd manage as things often come up and distract me. But it was enjoyable doing it, and enjoyable seeing what other people have done for it too.
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Day 30: Favourite Trek Series
If we've learnt anything about me from this challenge - and we probably haven't - then it's that I'm on the side of the underdog, the people treated badly but doing their best against the odds. For the overall story and the off-screen pressure it faced I could only pick Enterprise. Gloss over the first season for the most part and what you've got, especially late on, are some of the best story arcs written.
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Day 16: Favourite Non-Federation Species
Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy!
KLINGONS!!!
A warrior species with a rich culture.
A species that once had this mad bastard as a leader.
And then there is the complete badass that is Worf.#TNG #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine #STTNG #STDS9
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Day 29: Favourite Trek Quote
"You'd shoot a man in the back?"
"Well, it's the safest way."
To be fair, I could've gone with any number of Garak quotes. He brought much-needed duplicity to the Star Trek universe.
"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences."
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Day 15 Favourite Trek Book
I haven't really got a favourite. I've only read the book Generations, from the film about 25 years ago (!!) and that was only okay.
I like some of the review books and episode guides over the years, so I guess that.
Can anyone recommend one of the non-fiction (DS9 or TNG), please?
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Day 28: Favourite Kelvin Timeline Moment
The Kelvin timeline. Lovely designs. Great characters. Good one-liners. Horrible plot chasms in the stories that ruin each one of them for me. So very many plot chasms. Terrible, terrible plot chasms. So, back to one of those lovely designs, and the introduction of Yorktown in Star Trek: Beyond. Utterly ridiculous "snow globe in space" but immensely pretty.
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Day 27: Favourite Animated Series Episode
As the only animated series we've watched is Lower Decks, it'll have to come from there, and I'm going with The Least Dangerous Game for just a lot of fun personality conflicts to resolve in this very sitcom-style episode. Boimler saying yes to everything and the Klingon version of Dungeons and Dragons were so entertaining.
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Day 14: Best First Officer
Saru from Disco.
Although he seems to flit throughout the entire series from First Officer to Captain, depending upon what Burnham fancies doing that week, he's a fascinating character.
Suru's character has grown massively, he's an entirely new species with a fascinating history and culture and a tragic one in the alternate timeline. He's kind and fair, but tough when he needs to be. He also has those spiky things that shoot out his neck. -
Day 13: Favourite Time Travel Episode.
Yesterday's Enterprise
While investigating a temporal rift, the Enterprise encounters a ghost from its own past – the USS Enterprise-C, which travels twenty-two years into the future and changes the course of history.
Action-packed. Picard and Guinan chewing the scenery. Massive consequences.
"Let history never forget the name: Enterprise."
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Day 26: Favourite Crossover
The original series caught up with Deep Space 9 on a few occasions, but I loved seeing the trio of Kor, Kang, and Koloth again in Blood Oath.
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Day 25: Favourite Discovery Episode
A tricky one, because Discovery is the series that's had the fewest memorable episodes. It's not a series that's drawn me in to go back and watch again, which doesn't help, but I'll go for the season 1 episode What's Past Is Prologue as the Discovery escaping the mirror universe with Georgiou was pretty exciting.
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Day 30: Favourite Trek Series
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE
Grappling hooks! Transporter fear! Andorians! Tellarites! Canon-building story arcs! Pre-Federation Alpha Quadrant political shenanigans! This show hit every note for me, plus more.
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Day 24: Character You Would Date
People may think opposites attract, but you get on better with people with similar personalities. Based on the fact that on day 18 I said I consider I'm most like Michael Eddington it should come as no surprise to see I've picked Ro Laren for today's subject. Argumentative, tough, fighting the good fight, prepared to disobey orders. Oh, we'd make a fearsome couple.
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Day 29: Favorite Trek Quote
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, that is not a weakness. That is life."
A good life lesson...one of the reasons I love Captain Picard is the relationship he has with his friend Data.
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Day 23: Planet You'd Most Like To Visit
As a fan of architecture, and as someone who can really appreciate the militaristic styles that imperial dictatorships are fond of, I'm going with Cardassia Prime. Feels like the sort of place you could get lost down alleys and discover great food places, illicit bars, etc., and there are bound to be some good museums filled with laughably transparent propaganda there, too.