Forget gunpowder though. With tech like tractor beams, inertial dampeners, and gravity plating, you’d think The Federation would have more armaments in the way of mass drivers, rail guns, and other physics based attacks. Heck, even an chaotic orbiting swarm of meteorites would do a lot to disperse phaser fire.

I was so happy to see this thinking in action during the last season of Picard.

Point of order: isn’t the whole universe Q’s holodeck?

Thank you. This makes a lot of sense. I mean, in-universe it’s nuts, but out here in the real world - artistic license for a better show is a-okay in my book. Besides, it’s the reason I muscled through season 2 to start with.

For the uninitiated: “The United Federation of Hold my Beer.”

Yes, that explains what Humans bring to the table: sheer, ill-informed, unbridled, un-jaded, undistilled, optimism.

It also explains why Voyager sports bio-neural components that can’t handle cheese, why 1701-D is comically oversized compared to its crew compliment, why outfitting the entire Federation fleet with recycled Borg tech got the green light, and why bridge workstations have a failure mode that kills the operator with heavy-metal concert pyrotechnics the moment it’s shaken too hard. Nobody told them they couldn’t do that, so they did.

Every time I see the skant, two things come to mind:

• Lotta leg-shaving going on. That or leggings. I’m not opposed to either as an aesthetic choice, but it kind adds a layer to the impracticality.
• I think the absence of a belt is what keeps these from reading like a kilt or tunic. Either of which would be a fantastic nod to traditional affectation for earthling personnel (as other races do). Instead, the skant sits in this men’s apparel uncanny-valley of sorts, where it’s neither a dress, dress uniform, gown, or nightshirt.

That gets complicated. There may be time-travel involved. What’s worse is that the past bears an uncanny resemblance to present and future, for an endless number of epochs. Best you can do is take note of what kinds of artificial life is kicking around, and ask everyone if they’ve ever heard of “All along the Watchtower.”

I mean, are there “dead heads” for trek conventions? Sounds like that’s your ticket to maximizing your space-faring bodysuit/uniform time.

True. But word has it that after 1980, a few Cylons warmed up to humanity and provided their vocal skills to countless electro, rap, and avant-garde music acts.

Edit: Thanks for the warm welcome. I’m happy to be here.

Like others have mentioned, it’s the original Battlestar Galactica. As a product of the late 1970’s, its production was steeped in the aesthetics of the time. It sits in this pocket near the end of the disco era, and dared to stand out by featuring episodic sci-fi when mainstream television was dominated by variety shows (e.g. Sonny and Cher, He-Haw). Serious, campy, scmhaltzy, fun, sometimes great, sometimes awful, and apparently too expensive to avoid cancellation, it stands on its own two feet as its own phenomenon while inviting endless comparisons to classic Trek.

It also brought us this banger/nightmare-fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1TEXAvuGg

It also spawned this Italo-disco track by Giorgio Moroder himself (not on the show, but more of a fan work of sorts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bjtPN_VqU

Edit: we don’t talk about the cost-reduced, dehydrated, fire-sale budget “Battlestar 1980”.