Time Person Of The Year also isn't meant to mean they're the best person of the year, just the most influential on that year's events. Hitler was that person once, and Stalin was twice.
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Best we can do is prune juice.
Interestingly, this is actually a thing on the show. In one TNG episode they figure out how to open a small window in their own shields to beam through. It becomes standard procedure in TNG, DS9, and VOY after that. Presumably, you can exploit an enemy ship attempting that.
If there's one thing Trek is totally consistent about, it's the writers having no fucking clue what evolution is.
Why settle for 9 when you can make one with a knob that goes to 11?
I'm not sure I agree. Replicators are basically just better 3D printers, and those are pretty readily available.
It ranked pretty highly as a write-in candidate at a con once.
I swear, Phil LaMarr is a vocal chameleon.
"The Cage" also technically isn't part of continuity while "The Menagerie" definitely is. Also helps to smooth out some other stuff, like Pike making sexist comments in "The Cage"; that isn't part of "The Menagerie" so it didn't happen in continuity.
The TNG writers held off on writing BOBW2 at least partially because Patrick Stewart was renegotiating his contract and they needed to know if he was staying on. I doubt that's a concern with SNW. The writers strike could be a problem, though.
J+S ≠ 47