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I felt like Prodigy did pretty well for itself. Honestly an incredibly dark storyline considering it was aimed at kids, and the continued survival of a franchise is also greatly enhanced by getting the next generation into it early. The animated format let them get away with a lot of stuff...

Well, guess there's only one psychologist in the world for you. https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html

Troi couldn't muck about in anybody's head. It was literally a plot point several times. She could sense emotions but couldn't sense actual thoughts and definitely couldn't send anything, much less muck about in heads.

Given Troi's entire purpose was to be the ship's counselor and psychologist, and she called Data out on the silliness of having a Sigmund Freud holodeck session instead of going to her as the ship's professional, I don't think we can fairly say there weren't therapists available.

I feel like Ethan Phillips did a superb job with what he had to work with and did indeed bring the character to life. The onus of Neelix was entirely on the tepid show writing. Neelix was initially portrayed as a greasy used-car salesman/conman in a distinctly weird romantic relationship with...

This is a really important point. A significant chunk of the reason TNG was so pacifistic, and DS9 so relatively bloodthirsty, was budget and technology. At the time TNG aired it was extremely expensive to shoot a starship battle while by the time of DS9 CG had advanced enough to make it...

I'll note, Worf also thought the wargame in Peak Performance was a waste of time. I'm not sure how much of their distaste was for the idea of a combat test in the first place and how much was because the scenario pitted the Enterprise against an 80-year-old clunker with literally no fuel in its...

Klingons do have honor, but it is external rather than internal. Worf, however, practices internal honor. The modern western concept of honor is internal, only you can gain or lose honor for yourself through your actions. This is sometimes negatively described as "Guilt culture." Worf thinks...

He is incorrect. Picard is not canon and nothing will convince me otherwise.

I did like the original Ferengi a bit more, when they tooled around in massive battleships called "Marauders" with enough weaponry to fight a Galaxy class. That name certainly suggests they began with the plans of being some kind of Merchant/Pirate hybrids (The first two of them we saw...

Unless HMS Iris had a Warp Drive that's pretty off-topic and we should get back to Star Trek.

Ah, my mistake. The poster's still pretty active on SB, especially in White Hall, though he doesn't use a Cardassian avatar anymore.

Damar was killed during the Battle of Cardassia, when he, Kira, and Garak were launching an assault on the Female Changeling to try and stop her genocidal orders.

I recall that story, yeah it was a good one and the evil plan was surprisingly clever.

I've never heard of that meme. At least in the circles I traveled in, Mirandas were quite well respected for being workhorses that were still competing with ships decades more advanced than they were, and holding together under fire that tended to vaporize lesser vessels. It was Galaxy...

Yeah, that's a bugaboo of mine too. When a weapon has already defeated the ship's shields and armor, it's unlikely twenty feet of air and a couple of layers of space!sheetrock wall are going to miraculously provide enough protection to matter. Most ships that don't have some kind of armor get...