No sitting PM wants to be seen spending millions on "their" house, and costs have skyrocketed thanks to decades of neglect.

On top of that, the house itself doesn't really meet the needs of the role, and both the house and grounds are considered inadequate from a security perspective.

I found their website (not going to link it here), and it looks like a bog-standard right-wing misinfo outlet to me.

Unfortunately, I think the need for defense spending is increasingly clear these days, no?

It should be a conspiracy of like-minded individuals that exists parasitically within Starfleet, not an official (or an unofficial official agency).

In fairness, Sloan said they were a branch of Starfleet Intelligence with an official designation in his very first appearance on DS9, and nothing that came after that really contradicted him (other than his obvious lies in "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges").

Whatever liberties have been taken since then, that wasn't one of them.

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".

"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...

The very Short Treks will feature previously announced fan-favorite characters voiced by cast members from across the Star Trek universe, including icons Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker, Doug Jones as Saru and Armin Shimerman as Quark, and a new line-up of exciting voices, including Ethan Peck as Spock, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura, Connor Trinneer as Trip Tucker, Bruce Horak as Hemmer, Noël Wells as Tendi and the legendary George Takei as Sulu.

There are a couple of nice surprises on that list.

It was the 60s - buttholes looked different back then.

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.

They said in the episode that the original mission had been so short (4 hours if I recall correctly), Pike's crew had not felt the effects.