[wentwood]

Star Trek TOS
The Next Generation
Deep Space 9
Voyager
Enterprise
Discovery
Picard
Strange New Worlds

[wentwood]

Star Trek Discovery
Renewed for Series 3
13 Episodes

Star Trek Picard
Renewed for Series 2
?? Episodes

Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Series 1
?? Episodes
2021 or 2022? (To Be Confirmed)

[TokuKnight89]

Star Trek: Lower Decks
Half-hour Animated Series
10-Episode First Season
CBS All-Access
Debut: August 6th.

[AkibaSilver]

10 half hour episodes? Thats remarkably short for an animated show, isn't it?

[wentwood]

Currently watching Discovery Series 2 on DVD. In 3 time they will be working Star Trek TOS The Cage into it at #08 If Memory Serves.

Also pre ordered Star Trek Picard on DVD so I'm curious to see how it is. I saw most Star Trek episodes except Years 3 and 4 of Enterprise. Don't have CBS All Access but I own the DVDs for Discovery.

[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by wentwood

Currently watching Discovery Series 2 on DVD. In 3 time they will be working Star Trek TOS The Cage into it at #08 If Memory Serves.

Also pre ordered Star Trek Picard on DVD so I'm curious to see how it is. I saw most Star Trek episodes except Years 3 and 4 of Enterprise. Don't have CBS All Access but I own the DVDs for Discovery.

Most streaming services have multiple Star Trek series available, not just CBS All-Access!

[TokuKnight89]

Been a little curious as to how any of the TNG material regarding Bajoran history can be remotely reconciled with what is learned in DS9.

The first time we learn of the Bajoran people is in "Ensign Ro", which is named for Ro Laren, a disgraced Bajoran officer.

Discrepancies with DS9 are somewhat numerous:

- Laren wears her Bajoran earring adornment on the wrong ear. This is a relatively minor issue, all things considering.

- The Bajoran people are constantly referred to as both "Bajora" and "Bajoran". The "Bajora" term would not be preserved for DS9.

- The Bajoran people are described as wanderers after "the Cardassians annexed their homeworld". DS9 would very much show and explain that Bajorans remained on Bajor after the Cardassians arrived.

- No reference is made to the "Celestial Temple" or the "Prophets". This is also a minor issue, but a noteworthy one given how often Bajoran culture incorporates the Prophets into almost every aspect of their lives. The absence of reference to the "Celestial Temple" is understandable given the fact that, chronologically, the wormhole had yet to be verified.

- Laren and the Bajorans have nose ridges in TNG and DS9. TNG gives additional ridges above the nose and over the eyes. This isn't a major issue given how extraterrestrial makeup is handled with the franchise.

- In "The Next Phase", Laren mentions "borhyas" (or "brohyas") instead of the "pagh" which would be used frequently to describe a Bajoran soul or spirit in DS9.

- Also in "The Next Phase", Worf states that the Bajoran Death Chant is two hours long, and it's clear that Laren has no great desire to even acknowledge or listen to it. Another cultural detail which would be quietly forgotten or ignored in DS9, though extensive funerals weren't always shown either.

Laren's last appearance (from an episode standpoint) was in "Preemptive Strike", a Maquis episode. Future references to Laren occur in novels and/or comics (which are probably non-canon unless otherwise stated or retconned).

[AkibaSilver]

I know a bunch of stuff with Ensign Ro was semi-explained by the novels suggesting that, a lot like Earth (or any reasonably sized planet tbf), Bajor doesn't have a homogenous belief system. Similar to the divisions between Christianity, there were a variety of similar but distinct belief systems. The only thing I remember this explicitly covering is the earring, but it can do a bunch of those.

As for the other stuff? The Bajorans stuff wasn't set in stone, and later writers redid it for what worked better for the plot. It's just how things go expanding from one semi-major character in a few episodes to diving into their culture for a syndicated seven series show. It happens.

[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I know a bunch of stuff with Ensign Ro was semi-explained by the novels suggesting that, a lot like Earth (or any reasonably sized planet tbf), Bajor doesn't have a homogenous belief system. Similar to the divisions between Christianity, there were a variety of similar but distinct belief systems. The only thing I remember this explicitly covering is the earring, but it can do a bunch of those.

As for the other stuff? The Bajorans stuff wasn't set in stone, and later writers redid it for what worked better for the plot. It's just how things go expanding from one semi-major character in a few episodes to diving into their culture for a syndicated seven series show. It happens.

Bajor has some who don't subscribe to the Prophets and some who subscribe to the Pah' Wraiths (Fallen Prophets), but the crux of their social system is heavily predicated on the Prophets. Wouldn't be that surprising if their are variations; multiple Pro-Prophet denominations with their own stance and customs.

I have some more personal ideas on the remaining discrepancies (naming, physical, and historical) to try and explain the less-than-cohesive continuity.

Another thing entirely is if she survived the conflict between the Maquis and the Cardassians. DS9's "Blaze of Glory" was a virtual bookend to most Maquis plotlines (save for a few extras in Voyager), but Ro wasn't referenced. I believe one of the people she met in "Preemptive Strike" was in DS9 as part of the plan to steal the Defiant and it's implied that all involved in that plan were arrested and charged afterwards.

[TokuKnight89]

A YT video which defines Picard, Sisko, and Janeway based on the ethical doctrine they follow.

It also defines the three in Freudian terms based on the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego, but more as a frame of reference.