You’re right that the attempt wasn’t necessarily malicious. I feel it can be possible to have good intentions and still end up doing something wrong, whether that be sexist, racist, or otherwise hurtful.

Inaccurate cultural depictions can take away control of a people’s story and misrepresent them in such a way that distracts from the fact that they are a present-day people living their own everyday lives.

Of course, I think the failures in Chakotay’s character development that you mention are also very real and are a major factor in the failure of his character.

Overall, though, I still quite enjoy Voyager.

How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.

I do love Lower Decks, though.

Another good one:

If you don’t get it:

I know someone who read the book, and they said the show stayed mostly true to it plotwise; it tended not to skip things and actually added details.

Finally! Someone else recognizes the premium quality entertainment that is Murderbot!

I seriously recommend this show to any Trekkie.

Or, my fan theory is that since Picard demonstrates the Q may not be totally linear, Trelane is just Q2. At the very least, we know they can play around with time.

I agree on most of those counts, except the Chakotay one is actually very real; if you didn’t fully read the article (and I knew this already before reading it), a “Native American” cultural consultant, only to fond out the dude was a complete phony, so nearly everything that show depicts of Chakotay’s culture is either pulled from stereotypes or made up entirely.

Wow, that looks freakishly like Jack Quaid. Reminds me of this resemblance:

Not OC, by the way. Just relevant fan art that I know of.

The purple-haired one (who apparently is called Tongo Rad) kind of looks like a Boimler.

Unfortunately, he’s canonically not human, but if he were, it would have been really funny to have a throwaway line about Boimler’s great-great grandfather being “in a weird cult of space hippies searching for Eden or something.”

“This is Dan, and that’s Dan, and there’s Marty at the helm to complete the crew. And I’m John and he is also John and all of us are wondering when you’re gonna die.”

Or Aurelan Kirk. Or Peter Kirk

Now I just envision Batman saying,”Today is a good day to die!”

Yeh. I totally could compress this to crap, but I didn’t.

1 “real” Robin Hood, coming right up:

(From an ep of Doctor Who, where he’s TOTALLY real. )

I’ve always wondered what the proper Klingon translation of “Experience bIj” is.

The best I can come with, with my crappy understanding of Klingon and The Klingon Dictionary at my side is “bIj yIbech” (“Suffer bIj!”), but there is probably something horribly wrong with that translation. Even if nothing was grammatically wrong with it, it could be an overly literal translation.

I mean, I’m pretty sure it says at the end of the episode the Doctor decided to try and find what ended up happening to Voyager after he set the record straight.

Actually, the fact Boimler has one suggests they made an iteration for the early 2380s uniform, meaning they kept making them for a while.

What I meant is technically, in the time frame of Academy, assuming we can take their word that this is the “normal” Doctor, the VOY:Living Witness Doctor should still be alive as well.

Depending on how you count it, both will be the same age. It would be incredibly funny if both versions of the Doctor met.

Both of them.

Actually, imagine a William Boimler moment between Alpha Quadrant Doctor and Delta Copy Doctor.