UESPA_Sputnik

So, they come to Samsung but not (officially) to older Pixels yet? Good job, Google.

Looks more like a Miranda Class ship.

Which episode is this scene from? (Not with that dialogue of course)

The most incredible thing about this is that the video doesn't seem to be geo-blocked.

Seems to be a problem with Android 14. It's already been reported on GitHub.

Maybe shake it repeatedly so that the gyroscope picks it up. 😄 Would be an inherent human response anyway.

"Some"? 29 episodes across TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. That's even one more TV episode than Jonathan Frakes directed. (although Frakes also directed two movies)

Come to think of it: Star Trek had a bunch of actors directing episodes every now and then. I don't think that many other TV shows did that, didn't they?

Worf has the most appearances by far. 284 + 4 films.

O'Brien has ~205 appearances across TNG and DS9.

Picard has 209 + 4 films across TNG, DS9 and PIC.

A lot of great bits in this episode.

A Steamrunner class! I love the ships introduced in First Contact. And we even got to see its bridge.

The music! Straight out of Star Trek II.

And the visuals too! Especially the nebula fight, the the Genesis Device glare and the creation of the planet.

The Bomb Defusion Paywall was a nice touch too.

And Boimler did indeed make a great captain.

The ending was a bit rushed though. Neither Mariner nor Boimler had something to say to Tendi? That was a bit weird.

The shuttle bringing Freeman, Rutherford and Shax to the surface has a profile and colors resembling a Tatooine landspeeder, and the staff handling planetary landings were uniforms resembling Imperial ones and speak in pseudo-British accents.

Also, the background music when that shuttle landed sounded like it came straight from a Star Wars movie.

I wish there was a version of the calendar with only canon ship classes. Not a big fan of most non-canon designs.

However what I don't think is justified is the label as one of the worst Star Trek episodes. Is it nuts? Yes. Is it annoying that they have the technology to bring everyone back to Earth and simply de-lizard them after the trip, and then it's never brought up again? Also yes.

But it's nowhere near the worst episodes because it's neither offending and un-Star Trek (like TNG's Code of Honor) nor is it boring. It's actually pretty entertaining for the first 35 or so minutes. It just goes off the rails at the end.