Early pre-production for the first movie started that year. Might have been to build hype.

I think the truck nuts go below the rear shuttle bay. Mudflaps go on the nacelles.

That's clearly a yellow beam, making Worf a Jedi Sentinel.

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.

Yep. Turns out it's cheaper to make cyborg costumes than giant insect puppets.

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

They floated it a little with Rutherford in the first episode or two with his Vulcan implant randomly making him act Vulcan, but it was dropped almost immediately.

That people have done that same thing IRL to prove that ancient peoples could have made certain voyages is also neat. Across oceans rather than space, but still.

You can also use the episodes they liked to recommend other Trek shows. Someone that likes the zany episodes would probably like TOS or VOY, for example.

Really depends on the site, the time of year, and the specific topic. The Trek subreddit, for instance, tended to be pro-DSC when a season was airing and anti-DSC between seasons. Even here, that recent thread on the DSC Klingon redesign was very in favor of DSC.

There's a comment in TNG's first season about French being a dead language. I'm guessing that was meant to hand wave Picard's accent.

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