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Yeah Warhammer is pretty neat.

"31 is a Black Ops division."

Jeez, I really can't stand how the modern writers have made Section 31 an official arm of Starfleet. The entire point of the original idea was that it was a parasitic conspiracy hiding within the ranks, but not actually part of the ranks. Starfleet already has an intelligence agency for running covert operations, which is seemingly totally forgotten by modern writers.

The only time Section 31 has worked on screen after DS9 is when it appeared in Enterprise, because those writers understood how to handle an organization that existed as an under the table, in-the-know-only network.

Beyond that, I really, really, really can't stand how Section 31 looks like it is getting the glorifying treatment. It is not supposed to be a cool, awesome entity. Section 31 was a dark, broken, and ultimately misguided element. It was something to be overcome and dismantled, not celebrated.

"You were great in Death Wish 3!"

Kill Team is an official skirmish game that serves as a gateway. There are also third parties like Onepagerules that provide free rules for both full size and skirmish combat.

Third party miniature companies like Wargames Atlantic, Spellcrow, and Kromlech provide both full models and bits for cheap. 3D printing opens up an entire new world of possibilities.

Do you know where my Marina Sirtis action figure is

I lost it.

You type funny thing.

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TNG had to essentially build the foundations of modern Trek as it went along. All the following shows had the advantage of being able to use TNG as a baseline to bounce against. That makes TNG the de facto "vanilla" flavored Trek show compared to the other shows that could take some exotic approach to differentiate themselves from it.

SNW threads the needle well for the costumes, sick bay, and bridge. I do think engineering looks preposterous and should have been much more compact.

It's a difficult thing to make a setting that still looks futuristic but also ties back to the 1960s. If you do it one-for-one it will be distractingly campy. Fun for a one off episode like that time in ENT where they found a TOS era ship, but for a whole show trying to be serious it would be distracting. The other extreme is whatever the heck Discovery did with its designs, which are just eye watering.

ENT had a really nice engineering set that harkened back to TOS while vibing as more low tech. SNW should have used ENT as a guide I think for engineering.

There is no correct way to be a fan of something.

Just because somebody likes more of a franchise by volume does not make them more of a true fan. Equally, just because people like new entries that you reject does not make you more of a true fan.

Critiquing and discussing the content of a franchise is something to be encouraged. Making personal judgements about other people and posing your view of a franchise as the true one is completely petty, stupid, and unproductive.

The Galaxy class is a monument to Starfleet's hubris.

In TOS design logic, ships need two warp nacelles spaced left and right

nacelles arranged like this has mostly been followed for the rest of Trek.

I'm aware. There has never been a requirement for a saucer, even in TOS, and I did not say that. But the nacelles are arranged at the extremes of the ships, even in compact designs in later Trek, which does follow the established logic. Vulcan rings are a rare exception to the left and right nacelles - covered under the word "mostly".