Thank you @shelfnerds.bsky.social for hosting May's #TrekEndings which discussed various types of endings in the franchise. Now it's onto June's #DiscourseTrek in which we talk about communications in Trek. Please join us if you can. 🖖
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#TrekEndings Day 31: Top 3 Series Finales
DS9's "What You Leave Behind"
TNG's "All Good Things ..."
Post-Nemesis Lit-Verse's "Coda" trilogy - going with a literary pick, this trilogy caps off an era of Trek novels
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#TrekEndings Day 30: Closing Argument - Picard vs. Ardra, TNG's "Devil's Due"
Picard turns the table on Ardra in his closing argument, undercovering Ardra's deception and that she is not who she claimed to be.
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Top 4 #TrekEndings
What You Leave Behind
All Good Things
The Last Generation
The New Next Generation
I'll do my top 4... #TrekEndings
What You Leave Behind
Life, Itself
All Good Things...
Terra Prime
#TrekEndings Day 31 Top 3 Series Finales-
What You Leave Behind
Endgame
Turnabout Intruder
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#Trekendings Top 3 series finales
What You Leave Behind (DS9)
All Good Things (TNG)
Life, Itself (Disco)
TrekEndings prompt list by ShelfNerds.
Screencap from the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "All Good Things..." Picard joins the bridge crew's poker game.
Screencap from the STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE episode "What You Leave Behind" featuring Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko, and Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys.
Screencap from the STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS episode "The New Next Generation." Left to right: D'Vana Tendi, Samanthon Rutherford, Beckett Mariner, Bradward Boimler, and T'Lyn.
#TrekEndings Top 3 Series Finales
"All Good Things..." - TNG
"What You Leave Behind" - DS9
"The New Next Generation" - LOW
#TrekEndings Closing Argument
Court Martial
Cogley defends Kirk in his Court Martial trial.
"I speak of rights! A machine has none. A man must!"
#TrekEndings Closing Argument
After she noticed how her request for SB19 data provoked discord and division on Ni’Var, Michael’s closing argument was to rescind her request in the interest of unity.
#TrekEndings Day 30 Closing Argument The Measure of a Man
“Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well, here it is. Make a good one.”
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#Trekendings Closing argument "Progress"
Kira finally gets an uncooperative Mullibook from evacuating Jeraddo by destroying the kiln she'd helped build and setting his cabin on fire.
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Screencap from the STAR TREK episode "A Taste of Armageddon" featuring William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk.
#TrekEndings Closing Argument
"We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today." ("A Taste of Armageddon")
#TrekEndings Day 28: Final Fight - Mirror Georgiou & Nhan vs. Leland/Control, DSC's "Such Sweet Sorrow"
Georgiou defeats Leland/Control, ending their threat. Michelle Yeoh's experience/background in stunts & action scenes is used well here.
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#TrekEndings Unending
Q said it best, the trial of humanity never ends, depending on your particular worldview. Like Sisko said, we are always searching for answers and questions. And in the spirit of Discovery, we expand our knowledge of the self and big truths reality.
#Trekendings Day 29 Unending “Battle Lines”-
Kai Opaka stays on a moon to help find peace for the people who have been fighting so long they no longer know why.
#Trekendings Unending "Alternative Factor"
To keep the universe from being annihilated, Lazarus must stay in eternal combat with his alternate.
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Screencap from the STAR TREK episode "The Alternative Factor." The Enterprise fires upon Lazarus' timeship.
Screencap from the STAR TREK episode "The Alternative Factor." The Enterprise's phasers destroy the timeship.
Screencap from the STAR TREK episode "The Alternative Factor." Trapped between universes, the two Lazaruses go at each other's throats.
#TrekEndings Unending
The Enterprise destroys Lazarus' timeship to seal the corridor between universes, leaving the the time traveler and his alternate universe counterpart eternally locked together in combat. ("The Alternative Factor")
#TrekEndings Day 27: Stick the Landing - "The Voyage Home"
"TVH" completed the TOS movie trilogy which started w/ "TWOK" & continued with "TSFS". "TVH" ended w/ Kirk & his crew exonerated and he returning to his "first best destiny", Captain of the Enterprise.
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#TrekEndings Day 28 Final Fight “Once More unto the Breach”-
Kor, a Dahar Master, goes into battle one last time.
#TrekEndings Stick The Landing
I think that the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation stuck the landing most successfully. It was everything that made the show what it was, and the final scene was perfection.
“So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.”
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Screencap from STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. Kruge and Kirk fight hand-to-hand as the Genesis planet decays.
Screencap from STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. Kirk (William Shatner) kicks at Kruge.
Screencap from STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) falls to his death.
#TrekEndings Final Fight
Kirk and Kruge fight to the death as the Genesis planet decays. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
#Trekendings Final fight "Blood Oath"
Kor, Koloth and Kang go on one final mission together to avenge the deaths of their sons by the Albino.
#Trekendings Stick the Landing
The Undiscovered Country
TOS never had a proper finale and after Star Trek 5 was not well received, there were rumors that original cast wouldn't return, but they were brought back for one last film and it was a great send off for the original crew.
#TrekEndings Day 26: Preparing for the End - Data, PIC "Et in Arcadia Ego, Pt. 2"
Data asked Picard to terminate his consciousness so he can briefly live knowing his life has an end. Data prepared for it by sipping a glass of wine and listening to "Blue Skies".
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#Trekendings Stick to the landing "Ouroboros, Pt II"
With help from Wesley Crusher, the Protostar crew successfully rescues Chakotay while still preserving their timeline.
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Screencap from STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER. The Galileo crashes into the Enterprise shuttlebay.
Screencap from STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER. Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and the other passengers in the shuttlecraft as jostled as it crash-lands.
Screencap from STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER. Galileo comes to a screeching halt in the Enterprise shuttlebay.
#TrekEndings Stick The Landing
The landing party's mission to Nimbus III ends with their capture by Sybok and the Army of Light. As a Klingon ship threatens the Enterprise, the shuttlecraft Galileo is forced to crash-land into the shuttlebay. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
#TrekEndings Preparing for the End
With Jack unwilling to disengage from the Borg, Picard prepares to die with his son.
“Then if you won’t leave, I will stay with you… til the end.
You have changed my life forever.”
