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

I’ve heard that Data was originally going to be a science officer and the blue uniform didn’t work with his makeup, but I don’t know whether or not it was true.

I think the police state was their solution to infighting in much the same way that Surak’s faction took up a quasi-religious adherence to logic.

I didn’t even get to listen to all of it because the app always wants to autoplay Hegemony.

Alternatively, do what they did with Bashir and suddenly reveal that he replaced Bradward at some indeterminate point during season 4.

I’m pretty sure he was also the only command division officer on the bridge after they gave him command. At least in theory, due to differences in training, a lieutenant jg from the command track may be better suited for acting captaincy than a full lieutenant from science, especially with a decidedly non-sciency mission like flinging a warship at a wall. You need that dash of crazy that Starfleet’s command officers tend to have.

Voyager had phasers on the pylons. The Enterprise-D actually got phasers added to the nacelles, of all thing, in a later season. I don’t think either ship was actually seen firing them, though.

The quote from Sputnik he read was especially memorable.

And if you need parts bigger than the replicator can produce, you just replicate the parts for a bigger replicator.

Or Farscape’s. We got The Peacekeeper Wars to wrap it up eventually, though.

I’m not keen on the nuclear hellfire bit, but visiting Risa does sound nice…

Probably aroumd the time replicators became widespread, so, during The Lost Era.

I think they want to ease her into the cast instead of suddenly having five mains.

That’s fair. Not everything is for everyone.

The Clone Wars takes a long time to really find its footing, and still has some duds after it does, but the highs are amazing.

I always headcanoned that Rom was very quickly fired after DS9…

As Grand Nagus, I don’t think there’s anyone higher up to fire him. The position is a weird cross of king, CEO, and Pope. Only death or resignation seems to be able to oust a Grand Nagus.

It doesn’t come up very often. Their telepathy is very weak and they usually can’t do much without physical contact.

Or she could be pretty typical in regards to emotional intensity but with unusually strong telepathy.

The peptalk that Mariner gave T’Lyn was absolutely fantastic. There were so many good moments in this episode, but that is probably my favorite.

“Then I suppose, by the transitive property, that I, too, am ‘as Vulcan as a motherfucker.’”

Captain Freeman referenced it destroying the Orion ship in the intro, so it’s making its way toward the plot. Or the Cerritos is making its way to the plot.