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“If I tell you,” Worf says. “Will you aquit yourself with more dignity?” Jadzia removes the hat. “With as much dignity a Klingon warrior maintains with a secret cowboy hat.” Worf grinds his jaw. Jadzia winks, swinging her arms around him and pulling him into a kiss.

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“If you can’t be more forthcomin’,” Jadzia says adopting a southern twang. “Then there’ll be trouble in these parts, partner.” “Jadzia,” Worf says. She backs up and presses her hands on her hips. “That’s Sheriff Dax to you.”

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“No. No. No. You don’t get to Klingon your way out of this one,” Jadzia says, pressing the hat into Worf’s chest. Her eyes flash at him with flirty playfulness. Worf sighs. Jadzia snatches the hat back, placing it carefully on her head. “Fine.”

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“But—this has to have a story,” Jadzia says. “You don’t keep anything that doesn’t burn, break, or batter you.” “A warrior must keep some mystery between him and his par’Mach’kai,” he says. “Or the union ceases to enjoy the strife worthy of—”

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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#MicroTreks Jadzia digs through a drawer in her quarters. “Worf, have you seen my—ooooh! What—is—this?” She slowly stands holding a black cowboy hat, grinning widely. “Worf!” she shouts. Entering the room, Worf says, “No.”

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This is sure to be one of the more iconic shots in SNW. I love it!

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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a brilliant overhead shot in "Tomorrow's Enterprise" of two cups of coffee--one dark, one light. And I think this was superb storytelling IYKYK.

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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds season 4 ranks: Top Tier 1 Off-Hour 2 Orders of Magnitude 3 The Griffin Incident Really Good 4 Tomorrow’s Enterprise 5 Valles Marineris 6 Chronitons Thru the Hourglass 7 L5 Transporter Accident Good 8 Chiaroscuro . . . Eeehhhhh 9 Once La’an a Time 10 Human Best Friend

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“He is a man,” Picard says. “Worth remembering.” He turns to the doorway. “Good day.” He leaves.

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“He gave up his entire world, his—marriage—his career—for you,” Picard adds. His eyes sink into hers. She nods. “Did he—die alone?” the old woman asks. “He died,” Picard says. “Yet his death made known the—kind of man he was in life, and I have never forgotten him.”

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“Take some advice from an old man,” Picard says. “Don’t give regret a foothold in your life.” He moves closer to the daughter, the PADD extended. She takes it. “You know,” Picard begins softly.

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The older woman begins sobbing in silence. The daughter sits beside her mother, wrapping an arm around her. “We certainly don’t need a letter from a traitor.” Sadness falls on Picard’s face. “I imagine that you—have questions about your father, questions that—someday—you’ll regret not having.”

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The woman looks at him cautiously. “My mother is tired from our trip, so I would—” “It’s a letter,” Picard says. “From Alidar Jarok.”

An older Romulan woman sits on a thin white bed. The woman’s adult daughter stands. “We have everything we need, thank you.” “I—don’t think you do,” Picard says, extending a PADD toward her.

Hours later… Picard dips his head into a sterile white and gray room. Outside, winds howl. Romulan refugees chatter. Laughter springs from playing children. “Hello,” Picard says. “I hope I’m not intruding.”

“They’re on Commander Lavelle’s transport heading for the colony on Scheria,” Raffi says. “Once the teams install the modulator, set a course for Scheria,” Picard says. “I have—a duty to perform.”

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“I’ll have the Relocation Engineers replicate another climate modulator until a weather control net is available,” Raffi says. Picard steps off the pad. Raffi hands him the PADD. “I found them, JL,” Raffi says. Picard looks at her intensely then reviews the PADD.

Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MicroTreks Picard materializes on the transporter pad in the town square. He removes his wide-brimmed hat and wipes the sweat off his forehead. “It’s getting quite warm down there,” he says. Raffi steps forward with a PADD.

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I’m so glad I posted this criticism and question about the Benny Russell explicit inclusion in “Once La’an a Time.” The genuinely respectful conversation that followed as well as new insights that I gained is WHY we must rigorously protect our discourse in the fandom.

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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the best response to my questions. I originally was going to say that there’s no evidence that any of the novel’s characters were black, but there are pictures. So that resolves the in-universe question: why would Russell write this? I still think SNW is inappropriately alluding to him tho

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#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds season 4 ranks: Top Tier 1 Off-Hour 2 Orders of Magnitude 3 The Griffin Incident . Really Good 4 Valles Marineris 5 Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass 6 Level-Five Transporter Accident . Good 7 A Case of Chiaroscuro . . . Eeehhhhh 8 Once Upon La’an 9 Human Best Friend

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It’d be like Discovery discovering the body of Lal and making LOL jokes. Or an Academy making light of Wolf 359 in some way. But Benny was a serious literary writer with a specific focus and specific literary influences that he named. Why would he write E Kingdom? It just dilutes everything a bit.

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But now this deeply serious and culturally vital character and story is drawn into the surface-level silliness of this fantasy story. Why? Just to say, “Look a thing from another show you loved!” 3/4

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Some of the coherence of the franchise cracks with Benny as the author of a shallow, rote fantasy novel. And don’t tell me I’m taking it too seriously. Trek spans 6 decades as one story and is miraculously mostly consistent in its world-building and narrative. 2/4

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