VindictiveJudge

If there's one thing Trek is totally consistent about, it's the writers having no fucking clue what evolution is.

Why settle for 9 when you can make one with a knob that goes to 11?

I'm not sure I agree. Replicators are basically just better 3D printers, and those are pretty readily available.

It ranked pretty highly as a write-in candidate at a con once.

"The Cage" also technically isn't part of continuity while "The Menagerie" definitely is. Also helps to smooth out some other stuff, like Pike making sexist comments in "The Cage"; that isn't part of "The Menagerie" so it didn't happen in continuity.

The TNG writers held off on writing BOBW2 at least partially because Patrick Stewart was renegotiating his contract and they needed to know if he was staying on. I doubt that's a concern with SNW. The writers strike could be a problem, though.

And now I wonder if they were poking at the random numbers when Boimler couldn't figure out what the stardate would be and just said 'the past'.

Or Gorn Flakes.

Counter their bullshit with your own. "We're not a union, we're a guild."

Hey, I kinda liked that episode.

Uhura, Chapel, and M'Benga were supporting characters in TOS at best, and were horribly underutilized the first time around. Spock was a main, but one main out of three doesn't feel like much. Kirk makes it two of three mains.

I think the main problem with Kirk, though, is that he kind of distracts from the regulars. Making him a once-a-season character, like Q in TNG, would probably work better than his three appearances during this one season.

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.