Top 5 Games of 2025 (for me) I'm perpetually late to "new hotness" (I'm mostly old hotness at best), but these five were the stand-outs. Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies (2023) - Ryan Laukat doesn't misfire ever, and Distant Skies is even more enjoyable than Sleeping Gods.

#Time2Trek - Q #StarTrek #TrekSky TNG s6e15 "Tapestry" is a masterpiece of writing, inflecting Trek's time travel tendencies into a place where Q can actually act with a certain grace.

#Time2Trek - Chronitons #StarTrek #TrekSky More chronitons, which of course feature prominently in Borg transportation, like in PIC s1e8 "Broken Pieces."

Which of these #StarTrek characters would you prefer to seek life advice from?

#Time2Trek - Chronitons #StarTrek #TrekSky TNG s5e24 "The Next Phase" - pesky Romulans and their vexing chronitons again! LeVar Burton and Michelle Forbes was a fun pairing.

#Time2Trek - Visitor out of Time #StarTrek #TrekSky TNG s5e9 "A Matter of Time" gives us S-tier scenery chewing from the peerless Matt Frewer as Berlinghoff Rassmussen, yet another charming scoundrel

#Time2Trek - Time Loop #StarTrek #TrekSky Perhaps stretching the definition of time loop, DS9 s4e2 "The Visitor" is a top 10 all time, all shows episode. Ben Sisko's journey through Jake's life without him. Gets me every time. Tony Todd was a national treasure, as is this episode.

#Time2Trek - Visiting the Future #StarTrek #TrekSky Short Treks s1e2 "Calypso" is lovely and perfect and I hope that we get to see this story resolved at last at some point.

#Time2Trek - Time Loop #StarTrek #TrekSky TNG s5e18 "Cause and Effect" is a regular rewatch for me - one of the great science-forward episodes of Trek as a whole.

#Time2Trek - Visiting the Past #StarTrek #TrekSky Meeting a young Guinan in PIC s2e4 was one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: Picard.

#Time2Trek - Visiting the Past #StarTrek #TrekSky Captain Christopher was an S-tier guest star in TOS s1e19 "Tomorrow is Yesterday," an episode that gives us so much lore for future Trek. An embarrassment of riches that is among the most re-watchable of TOS episodes.

#Time2Trek - Nefarious Change #StarTrek #TrekSky That scoundrel Arne Darvin at it again in DS9 s5e6 "Trials and Tribbleations." Trek perfection. And how great to get Charlie Brill back as Darvin.

#Time2Trek - Timeline Preservation #StarTrek #TrekSky DIS s5e4 "Face the Strange" is so entertaining and a good example of timeline shenanigans.

#Time2Trek - Timeline Preservation #StarTrek #TrekSky Sisko IS Gabriel Bell at the end of DS9 s3e12 "Past Tense" part 2.

Don’t miss @listeningtofilm.net’s analyses of #StarTrek music!!

Carl@listeningtofilm.net · 10mo ago

I’ll be posting my first two entries for #notevember later today (weekends with a three-year-old are tricky!). In the meantime, here are my entries for the past two years. I know they are incomplete months…oops! listeningtofilm.net/notevember/

#InterspeciesTrek Collaboration 1 #StarTrek #TrekSky Collaboration turns to confrontation in ENT s3e13 "Proving Ground" when the Andorian commander Shran goes his own way against Cpt Archer.

#InterspeciesTrek Viewscreen 2 #StarTrek #TrekSky Surely TOS s1e14 "Balance of Terror" has two of the great viewscreen communications ever. Enterprise to Cmndr Hansen on Outpost 4 and with the Romulan commander at the end of the episode.

#InterspeciesTrek Viewscreen 1 #StarTrek #TrekSky In TNG s3e10 "The Defector," we get one of the great viewscreen throwdowns between Captain Picard and Romulan Commander Tomalak, played with deliciousness by the always great Andreas Katsulas. Always good to see these two characters spar.

#InterspeciesTrek Writing #StarTrek #TrekSky In DIS s5e2 "Under the Twin Moons," writing figures prominently in the sacred architecture on Lyrek, giving Burnham and Saru a direction in which to go.

#InterspeciesTrek: Reading #StarTrek #TrekSky In DS9 s5e10 "Rapture" Captain Sisko encounters glyphs on a pillar that rigger visions related to B'hala and Bajor's future.

#InterspeciesTrek: Listening #StarTrek #TrekSky In DIS s4e12 "Species 10-C," the Discovery team learns how to listen to the 10-C's communications, making a critical breakthrough.

#InterspeciesTrek: Speaking #StarTrek #TrekSky In TNG s3e2 "The Ensigns of Command," Picard bests the infuriating Sheliak by beating them at their own game.

#CompareTrek - T'pol and T'rina differences #StarTrek #TrekSky One area of difference is their differing levels of political skill, largely a function of experience, with T'rina clearly having more nuance in that department.

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#CompareTrek - T'pol and T'rina similarities They began their arcs deeply suspicious of a particular kind of Earther outsider (Archer / the rump Federation) but because they have a capacity for learning and intellectual flexibility, their position changes. Also, both were acted with skill.

#CompareTrek - 2 pilot episodes, differences #StarTrek #TrekSky TNG "Encounter at Farpoint" DIS "The Vulcan Hello" Farpoint is a low water mark for pilot episodes (at least to me) where nothing seems to be at stake, despite John deLancie's heavy lifting. Not the case in Vulcan Hello!

#CompareTrek -- 2 pilot episodes similarities #StarTrek #TrekSky TOS "The Cage" DS9 "Emissary" Two commanders deeply burdened by some aspect of their past that makes them doubt their capacity for leadership and the role they're in.

All excellent!

TrekRanks =/\= EnterpriseExtra@trekranks.com · last yr.

We have a new hitmaker to acknowledge in Trek. Dan Liu has now directed five episodes of #StarTrek. Those episodes are: ☑️ Memento Mori (SNW) 🦎 ☑️ Imposters(PIC) 🎭 ☑️ The Bounty (PIC) ⛵ ☑️ Lost in Translation (SNW) 📡 ☑️ Shuttle to Kenfori (SNW) 🌷 Are you kidding me? Five classics for any era. Wow.

#TrekTwos - Wrong Choices #StarTrek #TrekSky Two potentially controversial choices. VOY "Caretaker" - Janeway should have been confronted with other choices to establish Voyager's story and predicament - what she was given wasn't "right." Killing Vadic and pivoting the story to Borg in PIC s3. No.

#TrekTwos - VOY connections #StarTrek #TrekSky Clearly the biggest is Seven of Nine, one of the great characters in all of Trek. And of course the entirely of Prodigy, effectively a sequel to VOY. I suspect The Doctor's appearance in the upcoming Starfleet Academy will be great!