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ChatGPT tells me I made it up. Please help me stay sane.

I’m pretty sure there’s a Voyager episode where the crew go to an abandoned research facility and find the scientists have been either killed and/or fused with the walls.

The way it was presented gave me nightmares when I was a kid.

Any chance yall know what episode I’m talking about?

Thanks so much!

Edit: thank you! Mystery solved. It’s VOY 1x10 State of Flux!

ROM: You know, I could use a financial advisor.
QUARK: No kidding. But it's not going to be me. This Ferengi belongs right here.
BRUNT: I know someone who's available
ROM: Forget it!
QUARK: Not so hasty. Let him give you a pedicure first. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to work. There's money to be made.
BRUNT: How can I serve you, my
(Nog marches Brunt away.)
ROM: Wow.

Prompt: The quiet rapture happens in the Star trek universe, the blood ocean moons appear one by one, and on the blood ocean moon closest to where the light came from show different readings… meaning someone gotta go down there and check it out.

Win condition:

Whether or not it’s possible in the film for this hypothetical lets assume that if they were to reach the floor of the blood ocean, take their samples, and escape with their lives, they could find a way to reverse the quiet rapture and save the universe.

Could they succeed? And which star trek crew would have the best shot at it?

basically, during the TNG era threw Dominion war somehow things diverge in the Tos era to lead to the Romulan star empire forming an alliance leading to Klingons being the advisory who could we have as the first Officer in Starfleet and how would he get along with the crew different from worf

So, I recently got interested in Star Trek this month due to wanting to find a different show other than Transformers(which I left due to some complications with relationships) and so far, I LOVE it! Even though I only seen two of the shows: Lower Decks and Deep Space Nine so far. I especially love the Fernegi episodes in DS9, especially since they involve my two favorite characters: Quark and Rom!

Something always stuck with me: when Q sends Tasha into the "penalty box" and she's alone with the captain, she says, "If only you weren't the captain," in a way that I've always read as "If only you weren't the captain, I'd make love to you right here, right now, you compassionate stud." Have I been misreading that for the past 30-something years or was that just something that they maybe wanted to explore and then quickly dropped?

Hey fellow nerds - I've spent the last few months working on some TNG themed designs, and my Kickstarter launches on the 1st June! I recently got diagnosed with some life long, life altering conditions and I won't lie, I'm struggling. Etsy shut my shop down and it was my only source of income, so I'm trying to give my brand a boost with this campaign! TNG is my ultimate comfort show so this seemed like the logical choice 🖖

Any support for this or my website would be so appreciated 💖 (www.sigilstickers.com)

LLAP friends x

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Edit to add: I'm not a fan of dirty deletes so I'll leave the post here despite my disappointment in how it's being received, but wanted to add some things I've mentioned in the comments for clarity:

• Absolutely, Etsy shut my shop for having too many copyright take down notices. The Viacom AI bot that swept my shop reported 30+ in a couple of days, including designs that were not part of their IP.

• Etsy's policy is dog shit because they allow people to sell stolen art from small creators and often don't honour reports in those cases.

• Paramount shared so much artwork from unlicensed artists (who were definitely advertising it for sale, because I bought some!) when Starfleet Academy was airing as they were desperate for better ratings and viewership. They allow and actively encourage unlicensed artwork when it suits them.

• The bootlicking for a huge corporation that was just bought by a fascist in a Star Trek group of all places is quite disappointing, I gotta say.

• Fun fact that's semi relevant: The Vulcan salute is not copyright as it's a religious symbol.

• I have so much other work that's not fandom based.

• At the end of the day I'm just a disabled woman trying to make ends meet while the world is on fire. The Paramount execs are probably doing fine.

according to the wiki I think it's Ensign Williams, but I wonder if anyone has a better answer

For me, it’s either Spock or Quark.

[5:33 PM, May 20, 2026]

I saw so much negative reviews that I went in expecting a black hole of disappointment. Turns out, it was just a slow start. By the end, it boldly went where no one expected: actually good. Not my favourite but good.

The Wrath of Khan of course is not flawless. The credit-laden intro is quite long, the movie later reuses footage from The Motion Picture including the memorable handwaving scene, some plot twists feel a bit forced, sometimes the acting is wooden compared to today's standards. Though the wooden acting is only apparent in the opening scene and that is when except for Saavik, all other characters were actors for her Kobayashi Maru test.

What the movie does well is to require no knowledge of previous Star Trek, not the first movie and not even the Space Seed episode. The too relaxed, somewhat arrogant Admiral Kirk, some dry humor, the playful resolution of the opening scene, then it turns more serious. Age and legacy is discussed. Then it gets even more serious.

But not so fast, as this movie is well-paced. McCoy uses a version of Timeo Danaos bringing Romulan Ale, gifting a pair of glasses to Kirk. The analogue tools. Like gifting someone a mechanical watch in the age of smart phones and smart watches. Very unlike the Genesis device.

We get to a space station and the Dr. Marcus scene. Followed by the reveal of Khan. Khan Noonien Singh. A brutal dictator, a charismatic major criminal, ruthless over the top, but loyal to his followers. Ricardo Montalbán is not only the OG Khan, he cannot be replaced by an actor of any class. He is perfect in this role. He is ridiculous, dangerous, ready to push a knife into your chest at any time while smiling and telling you his reasons. As unscrupulous, he is smart. And the Enterprise, with a young and inexperienced crew is the only ship who could stop him ... how will it end?

The viewer knows all the time that our side will win. Khan spits his last breath at thee. Kirk's greatest strength how to deal with problems normally, got him the wrath of Khan; Khan's greatest strength, anticipating his opponent's move, was his downfall when he got revealed being a 2D genius and Spock suggests to add the third dimension. It turned into an uboat hunt.

Kirk was revealed to be a cheater. Now ... he has no choice. He did beat the Kobayashi Maru, he now beats Khan but there is a price to pay. He can cheat Kobayashi Maru but he can't cheat death. And he watched him die. His best friend.

Because Spock did the thing Kirk could not do, order someone to certain death. Spock took it onto himself. It would have been graceful to let it be. There are more movies, there is more Spock. But later stuff takes nothing from The Wrath of Khan. This movie can be watched without any prior or following lore. A hero which took shortcuts. Unwavering friendship. While sometimes borderline cartoonish, the villain is real. It is like your bad conscience. Director Nicholas Meyer took a TV-show villain of the week and turned him into a foil for the legendary Kirk. And you believe it.

The visuals are superb, strong nautical scenery and the sound track is through the roof. James Horner's score is fantastic. The first notes are reminiscent of the Alexander Courage original theme, then Horner takes over. This transition from legacy to an original score is apparent even for someone not knowing any Trek.

Star Trek II is a classic Star Trek movie but also in itself science-fiction at its peak: We travel to the stars and find out: Who we are.

I mean ... they had established actors, costumes, and sets in storage.

No reason they could not have had Chekov or Uhura in a time travel story, or Riker or Tuvok or Seven of Nine or Bashir and Dax.

What was the point of having a war across time without actually doing it in a way that integrated more of Star Trek?

We all knew it was coming, but this now truly feels like the end. Happy 60th anniversary! 😥

My openers - 

Yep, He Did It

(The Conscience of the King, TOS)

It All Resets

(The Year Of Hell, VOY)

The Pegasus 2: Chef Harder

(These are the Voyages, ENT)

So I have seen this episode a bunch of times but connection one is a favorite access and connection two is a bit different.... Twenty Two is the name of the episode , s02e17

So the episode which aired in 1961 is a bout a woman in the hospital and she keeps waking up in the middle of the night compelled to take the elevator down to the basement and a stunning nurse with black hair and those amazing eyebrows pops out of the morgue and says "Room For One More, Honey" - I finally connected today , after seeing the episode multiples times over the past 2 or 3 decades that the nurse was non other than Arlene Martel (T'Pring Amok Time) - I wish I could have made this an image post because she is beautiful

Ok, the other connection . So the woman keeps waking up or perhaps she is in a waking nightmare and reaches for a glass of water on her nightstand. The glass gets knocked to the floor and breaks. But this repeats every night, and even when she tries to avoid it , the glass eventually breaks anyway. The writers of Cause and Effect have had to have gotten the Crusher scenes from this episode .... the similarities are jarring

Anyway, if you have access to the episode , I highly recommend it . The episode also stars a younger Jonathan Harris from Lost in Space

So my stepfather was a big Trekkie, and loved DS9 and the series featuring Data, and I specifically recall an episode where the Scottish guy from the very first show is all confused about new tech and LeForge has to basically tell him to go away, but all of it got me kinda curious, how does a Starfleet ship typically operate? I was hoping there might be a video or special release that covers the standard operations of a Starfleet vessel loke Enterprise. Just genuinely curious.

I wept for a cardassian on DS9 and got proud of Nog of all people, even cried when he lost his leg, I am on voyager now and i just shed a tear for Chakotay and the speaking bird, man, I am a softie….

Say kruge and his ship weren't at genesis. Grissom isn't destroyed.

The enterprise arrives.

What could the grissom have done about Kirk and the enterprise being in restricted space?