At least we won't have any niggles over who the name belongs to, since the creator and the monster are one and the same.

Frontier! One of my all time faves as well.

Honestly, the D&D movie isn't a bad mindset for Trek? A lot of references, but in the spirit of love for the lore and for making you feel immersed in the world. Not too far removed from the Lower Decks approach, complete with humour but also a little bit of heart.

Gutted this isn't a stand alone product, I want to turn my bookshelf into a little shuttlebay, damn it.

I would love to see a Season 3 where they meet Harry Kim and the Lower Deckers (excellent band name). Meeting Wesley was lovely, but now they're Ensigns it would be so great to see another wholesome story where they learn about Ensigns past (Nog, Travis, Hoshi too!) and see what they all became.

The other is that some tattoos are just for aesthetics, and/or they're provocative by design. Skulls, demons, horror movie murderers, the tattoo from Supernatural... part of the appeal is making you uncomfortable for conservatives to look at.

How different is a Hydra tattoo from something Satanic?

I have two thoughts on this.

One is that if you ink yourself with a bad guy, why not a villain who has a point? What are you saying about yourself by choosing to permanently adding a symbol of archvillainy to your body? Why Hydra and not Magneto or Zemo?

(I'm not saying this is a good use of Strange New Worlds' limited episode count per se, but they do like dressing up in silly costumes and not being themselves about once per season... give Ortegas back her sword, and let Pike have long hair and a beard and ride a horse again)

An Oberth would have been perfect for this, they'd already established that as a science vessel on TNG (heck, in ST:III) and the age makes it the perfect choice for a young CO and a civilian project.

Also, the Lynx as a "bulk carrier". Too big to land, it works similar to the existing summon/dismiss mechanics. Lots of storage, but you need to use a small/medium ship or limpets to transfer cargo back and forth. An alternative to having a fleet carrier for space truckers.

More stuff with ranks, to justify all the grind. An armed forces discount on allied stations. A Federal Dropship that can spit out a squad of NPCs. An SOS beacon that will spawn a couple of patrol ships as escorts. Access to "military issue" gear with different cosmetics or that's pre-engineered.

A sentimental Klingon with a bow and arrow who believes in the power of friendship?

Love it when they make it obvious who my favourite character is going to be. 😂

Ahh, I misremembered, I thought NYCC was where we got the 4.5 Vulcans clip.

I guess this year is better than last year then? This feels like more of an episode than the S3 opener was.

It's weird that this is just... a chunk of episode? It's not a scene, it's not a tease of anything specific, it isn't edited into anything particularly streamlined, it's just... whatever they had ready?

(Nice to see La'an and Una getting some better attention though!)

Curveball, but if we're in space I'd love to see the Manhunters. Order at any cost is a very Peacemaker vibe, and really plays into his humanity being Peacemaker's strength (and a timely criticism of AI). We should have multiple Lanterns by then too, right?

(Bonus points if Salvation is Mogo)