Meet the Klingons of Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise

They went to all the trouble of explaining why Klingons have flat foreheads, but not why they started cutting their hair short. Hopefully that will be explained in a season long story arc of some series in the near future.

The arc spanning Enterprise's seasons 7 through 10 explaining self-sealing stem bolts would have been...riveting.

B'Elanna is the Anti-Worf. Like, in every way. Upbringing, sense of honour... even gender identity. How did my dumbass not realise that until now?!

Steve and Riker's beard lining up always gets a giggle out of me.

You could have a descendant of Riker on Discovery and an ancestor on Strange New Worlds and, because of how genetics works in Star Trek, have them both played by Jonathan Frakes.

I'm pretty sure Neelix is the greeter in all versions of Hell.

Loving the large portrait of Riker in an affluent frame.

My problem with inconsistencies between Star Trek stories is that so many of the inconsistencies are not necessary and pretty much exist because of laziness. I have the same reaction when they use technobabble instead of using the real science that would have worked just fine in the story at that point.

"introducing us to characters that expand our notion of who Klingons are" Treating world building and lore as things worth investing genuine thought into leads to organically developing opportunities to flesh out the peoples and societies of that world in interesting ways. Something that in turn can lead to scenarios and story ideas you otherwise never would have thought to explore as deepening the world can lead you to make connections you'd not have done otherwise. The more internally consistent you make your world, the more you force yourself to abide by the continuity and rules of the world you have established and resist the impulse to be lazy and disregard them, the more creative you force yourself to become because you can't just hand-of-the-author anything into existence at any time. The ultimate result is it ends with your world feeling far richer and more alive than it otherwise would. Incidentally, The Expanse show was a perfect example of this. If that adaptation had decided to treat the technology, political dynamics, societal structures, histories and faction power levels as unimportantly as Trek treats them in its universe, the show would have failed utterly. By contrast, Voyager was basically the culmination of the Trek approach of "none of this matters, do whatever" every week and the result was a tepid, unambitious space filler 90% of the time that rarely ever had anything to say about.. anything really.

As I've often said. The fact that the FIRST Klingon to pop out killed his gods in cold blood tells you literally everything you need to know about the Klingons as a people.

Lesson learned, never let Riker bully you into not paying attention to your Power Plant

I have to assume Riker's appearance in this video was there to foreshadow an upcoming two part video essay explaining how he ended up trapped in a picture on your wall.

If Thomas Riker counts for DS9, he can return in Discovery.

The painting is the best effect you've done

As a Voyager-fan shaped fly in Steve's Star Trek fandom soup, I quite enjoyed Steve saying some not-mean things about Voyager for a few minutes. I actually think Prophecy is a good episode; it exists perfectly well within the isolated story format that Voyager's writers were stuck with, it's well acted, the attempt to take the ship is put down without too much fuss once the crew reacts to the surprise attack (Which is what would probably happen in reality) and to me is a really interesting story that resolves neatly and naturally. Of course we never come back to it, but there's no opportunity to, although it might have been nice to get even a little call back in Endgame. The Neelix sub-plot is a bit of levity and fun to offset the serious, and the main plot shows some actual character development; B'Elanna isn't so angrily resentful of her Klingon heritage in the same way she is in Barge of The Dead; her biggest issue is not having a cult worshiping her unborn baby, and then said cult infecting said unborn child with a disease, both understandable things to be annoyed about! She's reluctant initially, but once she agrees to help Kolar, she buys into the Klingon religious aspects and shows a lot of respect, the prayer scene with Kolar is a nice touch I thought. Yes I know it's a tiny detail but is proof Voyager isn't a totally Character-Development-free zone dammit! I'm sure it was physically painful for Steve to have to talk about Voyager episodes without ripping it to pieces every 5 words and I am grateful for that sacrifice he make for his art (I should add, I don't get angry about it, Voyager has it big problems, but I still love it and so I prefer to poke fun back for levity, we're all Trek fans at the end of the day)

I kept expecting Corey Feldman to stick his tongue out of the Riker portrait and say "Hey Mickey. Get over her and give me a nice lickety kiss!"

Steve, that ending was gold.

Riker's need to be in everything even landed him an appearance in Star Trek: Resurgence.

"Imagining it's Jazz." I'm more thinking that he's imagining it's Michaelangelo. Those blasted Turtles!

It gets a lot of hate, but I've always had a soft spot for that Enterprise episode because of the Klingon doctor. The forehead stuff is nonsense, but all the crap they pull because Klingons don't have ethics committees to oversee medical research in the Empire must be amazing.