Logline

Starfleet commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original orders.

Written by: Alan B. McElroy

Directed by: Sharon Lewis

  • billmason@startrek.websiteEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Boy, I just discovered that people are picking apart the star map in this episode. There’s a hair trigger to just get angry about anything at this point 😂

    • ValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      …Do I even want to ask?

      I’d have to double-check, but it IIRC it was the same map we typically see. But maybe that’s the “problem” 🙄.

      • billmason@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        It’s basically that for literally one second of screen-time (if you pause so you can read it), Cardassia is marked on the map with a “Wormhole” marked near it.

        So if you’re in a frame to be mad, you’re mad because the DS9 wormhole seems to be on the map a century before it’s known. Or more esoterically, there’s a wormhole stable enough to mark on a map when TNG told us there were historically no known stable wormholes.

        I basically would headcanon it as “they thought it was stable and marked it, but later it turned it was not”. Or I would just not be freeze-framing and nitpicking this stuff in the first place.

        Really though, I think making detailed maps on the show marking all sorts of places just opens a door for problems. Geography is second to travel times from A to B among “things work in whatever way makes sense in this story and otherwise forget it” in Star Trek. (Edit: I guess geography and travel time is all of a piece, but you know what I mean.)