The alert klaxon on the Orion ship in the cold open sounded suspiciously distinctive. Have we heard that before somewhere…?

This one had a couple of turns of phrase that smacked of an inexperienced Trek writer: Riker introduced himself as “Commanding officer William Riker” (rather than “Commander” or “First Officer”), and Crusher called him “Bill” rather than “Will”.

On the bright side, I can rationalise these as evidence that this is far from a canon story. 🤣

Pike’s look to camera in the final frames of this episode echoes the same look in the transporter room at the end of the season one finale.

I’m happy to manage my own subscriptions and block settings to hide any content from Threads or other instances I may not enjoy. I don’t need my instance doing that for me.

My understanding of the argument for defederation is basically “but they might monetise all our social graphs”, but our content is publicly available on the Internet, so they can do that regardless.