This should be an absolute humiliation for Hajdu and Carney, and I hope (but don't expect) their responses will reflect that.

The planet they were visiting was Vadia IX, which "Trelane" referred to as "the old homeworld" in episode two, so I'm thinking it's an origin story for something else...

I don't know about "quickly" - at the rate they're going, the show won't end until 2028...

CBC is reporting this as fact, not an allegation - it's safe to assume that they know exactly who these campaign workers are.

There are also decent reasons not to name them just yet - if they're low-level staffers, it's worth trying to get a comment from the Party first, and/or try to determine how far up the ladder this goes. No sense in scapegoating the grunts until the higher-ups are ID'd.

Good theory - it's been a long time since I studied brain anatomy, but hyper-specific brain damage might be the only way to truly address Pike's situation as depicted in "The Menagerie".

Everybody - and I mean everybody - loves Riker's donkey sauce.

"Legacy" is an imaginary show. It's never been put into development, and there's no indication that will change.

Well yes, but I'm sure they could reverse the polarity of something and make it happen.

I just realized that an 800 year-old Romulan vessel would place its origin in the 2390s...

This was an actual thing last year.

Your takeaway is that this guy was arrested for wearing armour? Interesting.

Re: the transporters.

Patterns in the buffer usually degrade over time - The TNG Technical Manual says patterns can last about seven minutes before degradation begins. Obviously, Scotty was able to extend this dramatically, though with only a 50% success rate.

They did touch on this in SNW season one, when M'Benga said he had to rematerialize his daughter periodically. However, the timeframe, while not specified, seemed a helluva lot longer than seven minutes.