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USS Farragut (NCC-1647)

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The USS Farragut ( NCC-1647 , sometimes referred to as NCC-1702 ) was a Federation Constitution -class heavy cruiser in service to Starfleet in the 23rd century . ( TOS episode : " Obsession "; ST reference : The Star Trek Encyclopedia )

• 1.1 Construction and launch
• 1.2 Active service
• 1.3 Later service
• 2 Farragut II
• 3 USS Farragut personnel
• 4.1 Connections
• 4.2 Appearances and references
• 4.3 External links

Service history [ ]

Construction and launch [ ].

The Farragut was authorized for construction on stardate 0965, and entered service on reference stardate 1/8806 . ( TOS references : Star Fleet Technical Manual , The Star Trek Encyclopedia ; FASA RPG module : Federation Ship Recognition Manual ) Robert April , in his retirement address, mentioned the Farragut as one of the first five Constitution vessels under construction at that time. ( TOS novel : Final Frontier )

Active service [ ]

The Farragut was in service at least as early as 2247 , when it was under the command of Captain Nechama Rabin . That year, the Farragut visited Vulcan , where the captain and several of her crew were taken captive by a renegade named Sered . ( TOS novel : Vulcan's Forge )

On reference stardate 2/0501 , the Farragut was refit to the specifications of a Constitution mk III ( Achernar -subclass ) vessel. ( FASA RPG module : Federation Ship Recognition Manual )

The Farragut was under the command of Captain L.T. Stone for a time before he was relieved of his command by Captain Stephen Garrovick . ( TOS novel : The Autobiography of James T. Kirk )

By 2254 , the Farragut was under the command of Captain Garrovick. Garrovick's crew included notable officers James T. Kirk and Androvar Drake . During Garrovick's command, the Farragut made contact with numerous races and charted hundreds of planets , including Modala and Neural . ( TOS comic : " A Little Seasoning "; TOS episode : " A Private Little War ")

In 2255 , the Farragut visited Dimorus , losing a member of the crew to fatal neurotoxin from a dart . ( TOS comic : " Gary ")

In 2255 , the Farragut was ambushed by six pirate vessels native to Epsilon Canaris III . Although outnumbered six-to-one, the Farragut escaped to Starbase 7 thanks to tactical officer Kirk. ( TOS novel : Crisis on Centaurus )

During this time, the Farragut visited Pilkor III , between the Federation/Romulan border. The crew of the Farragut also accepted Tred Kegin for a three-month tour aboard the ship, with newly-graduated officers James Kirk and Victoria Leigh as his liaisons. ( TOS comic : " Class Reunion ")

Secondary hull detonation

In 2257 , the Farragut was surveying planet Tycho IV , when they were attacked by a dikironium cloud creature . The creature was impervious to phaser fire and overwhelmed the ship's defenses, leaving a third of the crew dead, including Captain Garrovick. Lieutenant Kirk assumed temporary command and set a course for the nearest starbase . After First Officer Arthur Chenowyth resumed command, the damaged Farragut was again attacked, this time by extra- dimensional being who invaded the ship through hull -piercing pod projectiles. Many more crew were killed, although it was later discovered that many were cocooned to join the alien creatures' life-cycle. In order to save approximately two-hundred members of the surviving crew, Lieutenant Kirk and a Vulcan scientist named T'Cel manually scuttled the secondary hull to save the uninfested primary hull saucer. Farragut was officially declared a wreck on reference stardate 2/0904 . ( TOS reference : Star Fleet Technical Manual ; FASA RPG module : Federation Ship Recognition Manual ; TOS episode : " Obsession "; TOS novels : Constitution , The Ashes of Eden ; TOS comic : " Debt of Honor "; Decipher RPG module : Starships )

At some point during Kirk's service aboard the Farragut , he served as assistant chief engineer . Upon meeting Montgomery Scott when boarding the USS Enterprise in 2264 , Kirk hoped that his experience as an engineer would give him some commonality with Scott and allow them to work together effectively. ( TOS comic : " All Those Years Ago... ")

When Androvar Drake became fleet admiral and commander in chief of Starfleet in 2293 , he commemorated his early service aboard Farragut by having a model of the ship on display in his office. ( TOS comic : " The Ashes of Eden ")

Later service [ ]

With the loss of the Farragut stardrive section [1] , the name and registry were incorporated in a recommissioned Farragut , configured as a saucer section with two underslung warp nacelles attached. ( SNW episodes : " A Quality of Mercy ", " Lost in Translation ")

Farragut II [ ]

A new USS Farragut was authorized for construction as a Bonhomme Richard -subclass on stardate 4444, following the loss of, and in commemoration of the original vessel. Farragut II entered service on reference stardate 2/1802 . ( TOS reference : Star Fleet Technical Manual ; FASA RPG module : Federation Ship Recognition Manual )

USS Farragut personnel [ ]

• Captain Nechama Rabin ( 2247 )
• Captain L.T. Stone (until 2255 )
• Captain Stephen Garrovick (2255– 2257 )
• Captain Kelly Bogle c. 2268
• Commander Arthur "Art" Chenowyth (until 2257)
• Lieutenant James T. Kirk ( 2259 )
• Lieutenant James T. Kirk ( 2256 -2257)
• Lieutenant Androvar Drake ( 2254 -2257)
• Ensign James T. Kirk ( 2255 -2256)
• Ensign Faith Morgan (2256-2257)
• Ensign James T. Kirk (2254-2255)
• Third Engineer Diane Morwood (2257)
• Akanke (2257)
• Victoria Leigh (2254-2257)
• Tred Kegin (2257 for 3 Months )

Appendices [ ]

Connections [ ], appearances and references [ ].

• TOS episode : " Obsession "
• TOS novel : Vulcan's Forge
• TOS - My Brother's Keeper novel : Constitution
• TOS comic : " Debt of Honor "
• TOS comic : " Gary "

External links [ ]

• USS Farragut (NCC-1647) article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Starship Farragut , an independent film series set aboard the Farragut during the TOS era
• ↑ TOS comic : " Debt of Honor ".
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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' first season finale is a labor of love and worthy of a perfect 10

In less than one month, we've seen not one, but two perfect 10s in television sci-fi. What a time to be alive.

Warning: Spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1, episode 10

Whoosh! Wait, what the blazes was that ?! Oh, that? That was the last 10 weeks. Yup, it's finally here, 10 seemingly super-short weeks after the very first episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and already we've arrived at the season finale. And holy smokes, it does not disappoint.

Like most of this season, you're enjoyment of each episode is 100 percent guaranteed, but you'll take it up several notches if you happen to know the "Star Trek" history that's being referenced. And this installment, entitled "A Quality of Mercy" is no exception; if you haven't already seen the episode "Balance of Terror" (S01, E14) from "The Original Series" then you should go and do so immediately. Not only is it one of the best episodes of "TOS" but probably of any "Star Trek" television series to date. And it plays an integral part of the Season 1 finale of "Strange New Worlds."

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In that episode, first aired in December 1966, the USS Enterprise investigates the destruction of a number of Earth outposts that were established over a century ago bordering the Romulan Neutral Zone. No one has ever seen a Romulan at this point and the mysterious vessel seems to have a cloaking device to make the ship invisible. Captain James Kirk (William Shatner) engages in a deadly game of cat and mouse by pretending to be a "shadow" on the Romulan's scanners and waiting until the enemy ship passes through a the tail of comet before engaging it.

Weary from battle and keen to head home, back into the Neutral Zone, the Romulan Commander (Mark Lenard) launches some debris into the torpedo tubes including a nuclear device, which is destroyed by Enterprise phaser fire, damaging both ships and both captain's decide to "play dead" for a while. However, despite his reservations, and the crippled status of his ship, the Romulan commander is reminded by his first officer that it is his duty to crush the enemy, so he then reluctantly gives the order to attack.

The Romulan Bird of Prey receives more damage and Kirk offers to transport every member of his crew to the Enterprise, but choosing death over capture, the Commander sets the self-destruct and destroys his ship. 

This first season finale of "Strange New Worlds" puts an entirely different spin on that story and is a throwback to classic "Star Trek" worthy of comparison to "The Wrath of Khan" and "Space Seed" (S01, E22).

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The USS Enterprise, together with the USS Cayuga, are delivering much needed supplies to the Federation outposts that guard the Neutral Zone. During a routine mission briefing, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) unexpectedly comes face to face with a young child, who Pike recognizes as one of the cadets who dies during his unfortunate accident in 10 year's time. Understandably freaked out, Pike excuses himself from the meeting and we see him later that evening dictating a letter to the young boy to dissuade him from joining Starfleet.

Suddenly, Pike notices another person in the room — and it's Pike from the future! Dressed in a…er, refreshed uniform from the "Wrath of Khan" era — affectionately referred to as "monster maroons" by those of us who are fans of that particular period — Future Pike tells Present Pike that the accident is inevitable and in fact, essential in the Grand Scheme of Things. And things are so bad that Future Pike had little option but to visit the Klingon monastery on Boreth where the followers of Kahless keep the Time Stone that we first saw in the "Star Trek Discovery" Season 2 episode " Through the Valley of Shadows " (S02, E12). The letter is just the first domino to fall in a chain reaction of events that leads to catastrophic results.

The choice to use the Time Stone is particularly clever. Pike has been pondering his potential fate ever since his first experience showed him the accident that nearly kills him, so to bring it back to this point to conclude the inaugural season of "Strange New Worlds" is fitting. Present Pike touches the stone and is given the chance to see how events unfold, should he continue in his present course of action.

What follows is an incredible recreation of the "TOS" episode "Balance of Terror" — except — James Kirk is not the captain of the Enterprise, Chris Pike is, because in this timeline, the accident was prevented. Every single member of the production crew, from the showrunner to the cast to the writers and directors of photography to the cast themselves, have produced what is so clearly a labor of love. The trademark "TOS" lighting across the eyes and face, along with even the postures and standing positions of key characters in scenes, have been faithfully recreated.

The Federation outposts are once again attacked and the Enterprise, under the command of Capt. Pike, once again gives chase to an unknown Romulan vessel. And then comes the extra twist — the USS Farragut arrives at the scene after received the outpost's distress call and having pushed warp 9 for as long as possible. That starship is under the command of Capt James T. Kirk (played by Paul Wesley).

Events play out in a similar manner, even down to Lt Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) recreating tension on the bridge just like Lt Stiles (Paul Comi) does in the original episode. However, despite the unprovoked attacks on the Neutral Zone outposts, Pike prefers to attempt a peaceful resolution. Following the counter attack as all three ships now pass through the comet's tail, he decides not to play dead and wait for another chance to strike, favoring instead to open a dialogue with the Romulan Commander (Matthew MacFadzean) to arrange a temporary ceasefire.

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It is at this point that the divergence in the time line becomes abundantly clear. Pike, in his defense is simply doing what he would do. The writers have really put the time and effort in to ensure every potential plot hole or outcome is covered. Pike shares with Spock what is going on and to prove it, he suggests a mind meld. Brilliant . So now armed with the knowledge that at some point a decision will be made with disastrous consequences, they conclude he cannot second-guess himself and must proceed as normal. It is, in essence, Pike's more reasonable approach (as influenced by TV show writing in the year 2022) versus Kirk's more aggressive approach (as influenced by TV show writing in 1966). The nuances of this will no doubt be discussed for years to come on the convention circuit. Makes you wonder though: How many times did Pike take the Kobayashi Maru test?

Now we're in uncharted territory. The USS Farragut is destroyed in the counter attack and most of the crew are beamed aboard the Enterprise, interestingly all except Lt Cmdr Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) who is incarcerated as a result of being an Illyrian, as we learned in episode 3 " Ghosts of Illyria ." Kirk is livid with Pike for not having seized the opportunity to destroy the Bird of Prey. 

Meanwhile aboard that ship, the Romulan Sub-Commander has disobeyed his orders and contacted the High Command, just like the "TOS" episode, but in that installment the coded transmission is to "inform our home base of our glorious mission." In this alternate timeline the Sub-Commander sends a secret transmission informing the Romulan Preator (Carolyn Scott) of the Commander's ill-advised (in his strong opinion) temporary ceasefire with Pike. And as such, she arrives with the fleet.

While we're still not 100 percent sure about Wesley's Kirk, this episode does go out of its way to show what a resourceful young starship captain he was, even if wasn't in command of the Enterprise. Kirk comes up with a contingency plan worthy of comparison to the Corbomite Maneuver . He takes a shuttle and returns with a fleet of his own…only these are freight ships, remote controlled cargo carriers and just about anything he could find from other nearby outposts. Since the Romulan's have never seen an armada of any Federation starships, how are they to know that these aren't Starfleet Delta Class attack ships?

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The Romulan Praetor deliberately destroys the Bird of Prey as punishment for allowing themselves to have got into this position, which nicely allows for the "goodbye" conversation that was so memorable between mark Leonard and William Shatner to be replicated. And then she opens fire on the Federation "fleet" of trawlers, haulers, derelicts and jalopies. The Enterprise barely makes it out alive and manages to pick up Kirk along the way. However, Spock (Ethan Peck), who has been assisting with repairs in engineering, is fatally injured, and a declaration of war against the Federation has been issued by the Romulans. 

Pike returns to the present and Future Pike explains that in every outcome, except the one where Kirk is in command of the Enterprise during this incident, Spock dies. "Every time we change the path, he dies," Future Pike explains. "And he's got things to do. Fate-of-the-galaxy type things." How true he is. The Pike PTSD story arc has been very nicely handled in this first season. It would seem he has accepted his fate and this episode also very nicely shows the relationship between Spock and Pike developing, which goes a very long way to justifying why Spock goes to such great lengths to get Pike back to Talos IV after the accident in "The Menagerie" (S01, E15 & E16).

We end on an interesting and unexpected note. Now everything is as it should be and Pike should now stop agonizing over what is to come, Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) beams aboard the Enterprise with a security detail and arrests Lt Cmdr Chin-Riley, setting up a continuing story arc for the hotly anticipated second season.

This episode is a masterstroke. The attention to every conceivable detail is meticulous. The dialogue and story writing is flawless and the decision to use this particular episode from "TOS" to demonstrate the importance of key events, is also very clever. The choice of lighting perfectly mimics "Balance of Terror" even down to the flames in front of the camera during the outpost attack. Plus, we got to see Pike in a monster maroon , although we don't like the upgrade. Let's hope we get to see more from that period of "Star Trek" going forward, but let's also hope they return to a simpler version of that iconic uniform.

Going forward into Season 2, we hope there is at least an equal amount of original ideas as there are throwbacks. "Strange New Worlds" has made an impact, there's no question about that — it's currently the best live-action "Star Trek" spin-off show on television — but it needs to firmly prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that it has the ability to stand up on its own as well as beautifully utilizing the opportunities that "TOS" references can offer. 

We've deemed this episode worthy of a coveted 10 because of the attention to detail in recreating the look and feel of the original episode — and — because from a writing perspective, to effectively insert a new story into an existing one is not an easy thing to do, plus the dialogue and plot are respectably watertight. But, "Strange New Worlds" should be careful going forward. It would be a wasted opportunity if this show simply became a rehash of "The Original Series."

Rating: 10/10

The first season of "Strange New Worlds" is now available to watch on  Paramount Plus  as is the entire second season of " Star Trek: Picard ." Season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" is also available on the Paramount streaming service in the US and on CTV Sci-Fi or Crave TV in Canada. Countries outside of North America can watch on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. Paramount is available in the UK and Ireland both as a standalone service and as part of the Sky Cinema subscription for the UK cable provider.  

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How the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finale Brings Classic Lore Back to Canon

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finale features tons of easter eggs and callbacks to The Original Series and beyond!

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This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds article contains spoilers.

Expecting easter eggs and nods to Star Trek: The Original Series in any contemporary Trek series is normal. Discovery season 1 had a Gorn skeleton and a tribble. Picard season 2 basically hinged on the underrated TOS episode “Assignment: Earth.” Lower Decks season 2 had an entire episode focused on how to pronounce “Mugato.” And of course, nearly every episode of Strange New Worlds has had a least one wink -or-nod to something from T he Original Series .

But not since the 1996 Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tribble-ations” has a new Star Trek episode boldly gone inside of a pre-existing TOS episode. But in the Strange New Worlds season 1 finale, “A Quality of Mercy,” that’s exactly what happens. When Captain Pike visits an alternate 2266 , he lives through an altered version of the TOS episode “Balance of Terror,” in which he’s the captain and not Kirk. 

In other words, the SNW season 1 finale is basically a giant easter egg, containing several tinier easter eggs. Here are all the callbacks and references we found:

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“A Treaty From 100 Years Ago”

Pike mentions the existence of the Romulan Neutral Zone is “a remnant from a treaty from 100 years ago.” This references the Earth-Romulan War, a semi-famous Star Trek conflict that oddly has never actually been depicted on screen. In fact, the only character we’ve ever seen on screen who was a participant in this war was Captain Baltazhar (Idris Elba) from the film Star Trek Beyond . In terms of the chronology, the Earth-Romulan War happened sometime between 2156 and 2160, essentially in between the Enterprise episode “Terra Prime,” and the flash-forward to 2161 in “These Are the Voyages…” Although not considered canon, the Michael A. Martin novel The Romulan War attempted to reconcile the events alluded to in “Balance of Terror” with the chronology of Enterprise .

Because Strange New Worlds takes place in 2259, and the Romulan War ended in 2160, Pike’s “100 years ago” statement is pretty much right on the money. 

Asteroid Bases 

The Neutral Zone base that we see the Enterprise resupplying at the start of the episode is one of several asteroid bases that are destroyed later in the episode as well as in “Balance of Terror.” But in The Original Series episode, we were just told about these bases but never saw them.

“State of the Art Matter Synthesizers” 

There’s a bit of canon tap-dancing when Spock and Number One explain that the bases will use the raw materials of the asteroid with “state of the art matter synthesizers.” In the 2259 timeframe of Strange New Worlds , the replicators of the The Next Generation era don’t exist yet. However, in both Discovery and TOS , we glimpsed tech that was kind of like replicators, and it would seem “matter synthesizers” are their forerunner. All of this also references the Short Treks episode “Q&A,” in which Spock asks which matrix was used in the food synthesizers on the ship, and learns it was the “Una glucose matrix,” in reference to Number One herself. A similar replicator matrix, “Uno amino matrix,” was mentioned in the Picard episode “Maps and Legends,” indicating that synthesizer and replicator technology may have been heavily influenced by Una Chin- Riley. 

Nobody Has Seen a Romulan

Pike says of the Romulans, “Nobody’s ever seen one, nobody knows what they look like.” At this point in the Trek canon, most in the Federation have never seen a Romulan face-to-face. This detail comes from “Balance of Terror,” but was supported by the Enterprise episode “Minefield.”

Hansen’s Starfleet Emblem Is Different

In TOS , it was common for officers on ships that were not the Enterprise to have widely different insignia on their uniforms. Old fan lore claimed for decades that Starfleet only adopted the familiar “delta” for wide use throughout the fleet after Kirk’s five-year mission concluded in 2270. However, most of the newer series have contradicted that notion, that is, until now. Apparently, Strange New Worlds is moving closer to a point in canon in which it’s not uncommon for Starfleet personnel to rock oddly different insignia, which are unique to their starbase or starship.

Hansen Al-Salah’s insignia also pretty much matches the basic shape and design of the original Hansen from “Balance of Terror.” 

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Future Pike Rocks “Monster Maroon” 

When Pike from the future appears in contemporary Pike’s quarters, he’s wearing a variant of the maroon Starfleet uniform first introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . This uniform isn’t exactly like the ones worn by Kirk and the gang in all of the TOS films post- Wrath , mostly because it retains some of the detailing unique to the Strange New Worlds uniforms. But other than the sleeves and shoulders being a bit more leathery than in the classic films, this is the 2280s Starfleet uniform.

In canon, this uniform is notable because in the Prime reality it’s the uniform style that remained in service the longest, from the late 23rd century in the 2280s ( Wrath of Khan ) all the way through at least the 2340s, during the era of the Enterprise-C . As seen in the TNG episodes “Tapestry” and “Family,” Jean-Luc Picard and Jack Crusher wore this style of uniform early in their Starfleet careers, making it one of the only uniform styles worn in canon by characters from vastly different eras. Basically, now Pike, Picard, and Kirk have all worn pretty much the same uniform.

Pike sporting monster maroon also (perhaps unintentionally) recalls a storyline from the 1997 Marvel comics series Star Trek: Early Voyages , in which an alternate timeline is created where Kirk leaves Starfleet at a young age, and Pike remains the Enterprise captain well through the events of The Undiscovered Country in the 2290s. In issue #14 of that series, Pike even punches out Kirk on the cover of the comic! 

Pike’s rank pin on his shoulder strap is the same as Kirk’s pin in The Wrath of Khan , indicating in this “future” Pike is an Admiral. Because this uniform was introduced in the “Prime” timeline sometime in the 2280s, it makes sense that this version of Pike is also from that era, or perhaps even the 2290s.

Finally, “monster maroon” is mostly a nickname this uniform picked up from fan creators. It’s a “monster” because of all the Trek uniforms, it’s historically been the hardest for cosplayers to recreate. 

Klingon Monks From Boreth

Both Pikes talk about the Klingon Monks on Boreth. This references Discovery season 2, episode 12, “Through the Valley of Shadows, ” in which Pike was shown his fate on Boreth in exchange for a time crystal.

The Wedding Ceremony Is From “Balance of Terror”

At the start of “Balance of Terror,” Kirk is performing a wedding between Angela Martine and Robert Tomlinson. In “A Quality of Mercy,” Pike is performing a similar wedding, though it’s not clear if the characters are supposed to be the same. Notably, the episode inverts the deaths of the bride and groom. In “Balance of Terror,” the groom, Tomlinson, died. But in “A Quality of Mercy,” the bride is seen dead, survived by her fiancé.

Uhura Is a Full Lieutenant

Uhura’s uniform is strongly reminiscent of the same uniform she wore in TOS . Celia Rose Gooding’s green earrings are also a near-match for those worn by Nichelle Nichols in “Balance of Terror.”

Pike and Spock talk about Pike being thrown “seven years into the future.” Relevantly, in the Prime timeline, this is actually a full year after Kirk took command of the Enterprise . Most of TOS season 1 takes place in 2266 and 2267. But “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” the first TOS episode (after “The Cage”), happens in 2265. This means that in terms of the “present” of Strange New Worlds , there are only six years between “now” and when Kirk should be in command of the Enterprise .

Spock References a Kelvin Universe Rule

Spock suggests that if Pike is “mentally compromised” he can no longer command the Enterprise . In the 2009 Star Trek reboot, Kirk reveals that Spock is “emotionally compromised,” and thus, has to be relieved of command. This is one of the rare instances of TV Trek referencing Starfleet rules established in the Kelvin universe.

USS Farragut

In the alternate 2266, Kirk is in command of the USS Farragut . In the Prime universe, Kirk served on the Farragut in 2255 as a lieutenant on his first “deep space” assignment. This was established mostly in the TOS episode “Obsession,” which would have taken place about a year before Discovery season 1.

“A Quality of Mercy” also reveals that Farragut is not a Constitution-class ship as some books, comics, and technical manuals had previously indicated. We don’t know if this is an early Miranda-class ship (like the Reliant ) or a class that hasn’t been defined. Interestingly, some notes in the behind-the-scenes book The Making of Star Trek indicate Kirk was in command of a “Destroyer” before becoming the captain of the Enterprise . If future seasons of Strange New Worlds reintroduce the Farragut , this vague notion could become canon.

“Balance of Terror” Dialogue and Blocking 

Much of the action lifts dialogue directly from “Balance of Terror” to the point where there are so many examples that it’s almost too much to document. Writer Henry Alonso Myers has indicated that he directly lifted from the “Balance of Terror” script whenever possible while writing this episode. In the aftershow “The Ready Room,” Anson Mount also mentioned that certain scenes were blocked to directly emulate the exact movement from “Balance of Terror.”

Some big examples:

• Uhura’s lines to Pike about losing contact with the outposts is nearly exactly the same.
• Hansen’s dialogue about the Romulan attack is basically word-for-word the same as “Balance of Terror.” “Can you see it, Enterprise ?!!!?”
• Spock’s speech in the briefing room about the Romulans retaining a “martial philosophy” and “weakness is something we dare not show” is all the same. 
• The Romulan commander’s bittersweet tribute to Pike, saying “I could have called you friend” is identical. 
• Many characters are lit with a specific emphasis on their eyes. This is exactly what director Vincent McEveety did in “Balance of Terror.”

Sam Kirk Describes Jim Kirk 

Sam mentions that Jim was “always at the top of his class,” which references “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” In that episode, we got the impression that Kirk was a great and straight-laced student. Sam also says “he doesn’t like to lose.” This, of course, references the Kobayashi Maru “No Win Scenario” from The Wrath of Khan , specifically Kirk’s line to Saavik in that film, “I don’t like to lose.” 

Fred Steiner Romulan Music Cue 

When the Romulans are revealed to look exactly like Vulcans (for the “first” time) the music from “Balance of Terror,” specifically a cue written for the Romulans, plays as we zoom in on Spock. This is actually the second time in two years that a new Trek show has played this theme. In the debut episode of Star Trek: Picard back in 2020, a similar re-phrasing of this theme was used when Narek, a Romulan, was introduced at the end of “Remembrance.” 

Romulans Love to Mess Around With Trilithium 

In a nice bit of retcon, Spock mentions the cloaked Romulan ship is “trailing trilithium fragments.” In Star Trek Generations , it was established that the Romulans were researching a trilithium weapon. And in the DS9 episode “Images in the Sand,” scanning for trilithium proved some Romulan weapons had been used.

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In “Balance of Terror,” the Romulan commander (Mark Lenard) confided in an older Romulan colleague, only called “the Centurion,” played by John Warburton. But in “A Quality of Mercy,” the Romulan commander is questioned by a younger underling. At one point, the Romulan commander mentions that he fought with this young Romulan’s uncle, who died needlessly in another battle. Could that dead uncle be the older Centurion from the original episode? 

Because the young Romulan is the person who sends the signal to the Empire that there’s a cease-fire, that person is oddly to blame more than Pike. So, if for some reason this timeline altered the basic crew compliment of this Romulan Bird-of-Prey, then perhaps Pike wasn’t wrong to try for peace. 

Scotty Is NOT a Miracle Worker!

Although not named, we hear Scotty off-screen telling Spock he’s an “engineer not a miracle worker, Mr. Spock.” This is a double reference! Throughout The Original Series Bones often would say phrases like “I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer,” or “What am I, a doctor, or a moon shuttle conductor?” 

But Scotty claiming he’s not a miracle worker also references Star Trek III: The Search For Spock , in which Scotty reveals that he fudges his repair estimates in order to keep his “reputation as a miracle worker.” In The Voyage Home, Bones says of Scotty, “Back home, we call him the miracle worker.” 

A Photo of April and Young Pike…Wearing Velour! 

When Old Pike is checking out Young Pike’s stuff, he notices a photograph that is clearly Captain April (Adrian Holmes) and Pike (Anson Mount), but in their earlier days on the USS Enterprise , presumably when April was still captain. And interestingly, the style of uniform they’re both wearing in this blurry photo appears to check out with the velour-style uniforms from the era of “The Cage.” This seems to indicate that if we ever get some Captain April flashbacks to the 2240s, the uniforms might get even more retro . 

Spock Is the Key to Romulan Peace 

Old Pike makes it clear that Spock is “the only chance for lasting peace between the Federation and the Romulans in any timeline.” This mostly references the events of The Next Generation , specifically “Unification I and II,” in which Spock goes undercover and tries to help support a peace movement on Romulus. Spock also tries to help the Romulans survive a supernova in the events of Star Trek 2009. 

By the time of Discovery in 3189, in the episode “Unification III,” Romulans and Vulcans are reunited fully, and Spock is largely credited with getting that process started

“He’s Got Things to Do”

Pike also mentions that Spock has “things to do…fate of the galaxy type things.” This could reference many things, including:

• Without Spock’s mind-meld, V’ger might have destroyed Earth in The Motion Picture .
• Spock realizes the alien probe in The Voyage Hom e is attempting to communicate with whales. If he hadn’t figured that out, Earth would have been destroyed by that probe.
• Spock forces the Federation into peace talks with the Klingons in The Undiscovered Country , which, obviously, saved millions of lives by preventing all-out war.

Kirk’s Background

As Pike is getting to know Kirk in the alternate timeline, we hear Kirk say,“I was born in Iowa, my father George, was the first officer on the Kelvin before we moved to Tarsus colony.”

Kirk being from Iowa was first established in “The Deadly Years,” and has been repeated throughout the franchise many times. The reference to his father George on the Kelvin is a direct nod to the 2009 J.J. Abrams reboot, which indicates that in the Prime timeline, George wouldn’t have died on the Kelvin , because that temporal incursion would have never taken place. Furthermore, the last thing Kirk mentions is “the Tarsus colony,” which references the TOS episode “The Conscience of the King,” in which we learned that as a very young man, Kirk witnessed a horrifying massacre. 

At the end of the episode, back in the “present,” Pike calls up Kirk’s file. On the screen, we can clearly see that Kirk is “currently” on the USS Farragut , but before that, he was “assigned” to Starfleet Academy, and before that , he was on the USS Republic .

Why was Kirk at Starfleet Academy after he served on the USS Republic ? Well, leaving aside the fact that we know cadets often serve on ships as part of their training, this little detail is actually an amazing deep cut. In “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” it was established that “Lt. Kirk” taught classes at Starfleet Academy. Meaning, that after Kirk’s tour on the Republic , he went back to Starfleet Academy, basically teaching as a graduate student. (Spock did the same thing in the alternate timeline in Star Trek 2009.)

The Republic being Kirk’s first ship comes directly from the episode “Court Martial,” though some apocrypha suggests that Pike’s radiation accident also occurs on the Republic . This would mean that Kirk’s first ship is also Pike’s last ship — though it also seems unlikely that connection is actually canon.

Number One Cliffhanger 

When Number One is arrested at the end of the episode, Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) says “she’s an Illyrian.” This is a reference to episode 3 of Strange New Worlds , “Ghosts of Illyria, ” in which we learned Una has been hiding her genetic modifications. Interestingly, this cliffhanger is very similar to the Lower Decks season 2 finale , insofar as the final scene featured a beloved officer (in that case Captain Freeman) getting arrested by Starfleet unfairly. This means that both season 3 of Lower Decks and season 2 of Strange New Worlds will both have to deal with clearing the good name of a Starfleet comrade, no matter what. 

Ryan Britt is a longtime contributor to Den of Geek! He is also the author of three non-fiction books: the Star Trek pop history book PHASERS…

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Celebrating the Ships of the Line: USS Farragut Shuttle

There's a very good chance that a certain future captain, James T. Kirk, flew aboard one of the USS Farragut's shuttles. Kirk served as navigator on the Farragut, his first deep-space assignment, and was amongst the crew that battled the dikironium cloud creature when it was encountered in 2257. Kirk survived, but 200-plus crewmen, including Captain Garrovick, perished.

StarTrek.com 's look at the USS Farragut shuttle continues our ongoing celebration of the Ships of the Line, which will carry on from now until the end of the year. The latest in the bestselling Ships of the Line calendar series is available now; visit www.Amazon.com to purchase the 2015 Ships of the Line calendar.

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• Trivia The ship which Kirk served on for his first deep space mission is disclosed to be the USS Farragut, and was named after David Glasgow Farragut, a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice-admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy and is credited for uttering the phrase, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"*, disregarding all danger while charging into enemy waters off the Alabama Coast. -This is an abridged version. He said "Damn the torpedoes. Four bells, Captain Drayton, go ahead. Jouett, full speed."*
• Goofs Ensign Garrovick states that less than one ounce of antimatter is more powerful than 10,000 cobalt bombs but the actual energy yield is only about 1.2 megatons TNT. The implication that a cobalt bomb releases more energy than a "regular" nuclear weapon is incorrect; a cobalt bomb is just an ordinary thermonuclear weapon "salted" with cobalt to produce long-lived Co-60 in its fallout.

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McCoy : Then I need a drink.

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Star Trek 30th Anniversary: Did Voyager Or DS9 Do A Better TOS Tribute?

• Star Trek: DS9's "Trials And Tribble-ations" excelled by seamlessly integrating the DS9 crew with TOS characters and scenes.
• Star Trek: Voyager's "Flashback" paid tribute to TOS with a focus on Captain Sulu and character interactions.
• While both shows avoided recasting TOS characters, DS9's tribute episode was more cohesive and successful.

Star Trek 's 30th anniversary prompted Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager to create tributes to Star Trek: The Original Series , but one episode accomplished more than the other. As sister shows running concurrently with each other for several seasons, Voyager and DS9 both expanded Star Trek in new directions . DS9 was the first franchise show set on a space station and explored more serialized and often darker storytelling. At the same time, Voyager brought the universe to an entirely new region of space by being set in the Delta Quadrant.

However, both shows came together to pay tribute to Star Trek: TOS during the franchise's 30th anniversary in 1996. DS9 and Voyager employed some similar methods in their episodes , both incorporating a form of time travel to take their main characters back to the TOS time period and/or the Star Trek movies focused on its cast. However, the shows' two methods of time travel, the characters each episode encountered, and the overall effectiveness of the tribute ended up being very different from each other.

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Star trek: ds9’s “trials and tribble-ations” tos tributes explained, the ds9 crew traveled back in time to the tos era.

DS9 's season 5, episode 6, "Trials and Tribble-ations" reimagined one of TOS 's most famous episodes. The episode saw the DS9 crew travel back in time thanks to one of the Bajoran Orbs to participate in the events of "The Trouble with Tribbles." Adapting such a popular episode could have proved repetitive, but watching DS9 's cast of characters interact with the TOS cast gave the episode a great twist . Additionally, the storyline proved to still be engaging even with the familiar villain Arne Darvin (Charlie Brill)

What made "Trials and Tribble-ations" particularly interesting, however, was the method DS9 used to place the character in TOS 's time period. Instead of recasting the TOS characters or worse not showing them at all, DS9 expertly edited archival footage to insert Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and his crew into important scenes . This meant that the DS9 cast could interact with characters like Captain Kirk (Willaim Shatner) or Spock (Leonard Nimoy) , and participate in famous scenes in the episode like the Klingon bar fight.

Reediting the archival footage did come with downsides, like making the two casts' interactions somewhat limited in scope . There was only so much existing dialogue and footage that DS9 could reuse, so it wasn't possible to make everything feel completely natural. However, being able to have moments like Sisko telling Kirk it was an honor to serve with him made the slightly stilted nature of some of the edited conversations worth it.

Star Trek: Voyager’s “Flashback” TOS Tributes Explained

Janeway met captain sulu in tuvok's memories.

In contrast to DS9 's broad scope, Star Trek: Voyager decided to focus on a few key characters from the show meeting another few key characters from TOS . Voyager season 3, episode 2, "Flashback" brought Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Tuvok (Tim Russ) together with Captain Sulu (George Takei) on the USS Excelsior during the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . Instead of traditional time travel, "Flashback" saw Janeway and Tuvok experiencing Tuvok's memories of serving onboard the Excelsior and his interactions with Captain Sulu and Commander Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) through the use of a mind meld.

"Flashback" reignited the desire for Star Trek to produce a Captain Sulu spinoff series, but this ultimately never came to fruition.

The scaled-down nature of "Flashback's" narrative and the fact that Voyager was able to get Takei and Whitney to guest star allowed for some truly wonderful moments that weren't possible in DS9 's TOS tribute. Getting to see more of Captain Sulu and Commander Rand in their roles on the Excelsior added a new dimension, especially to Sulu's Star Trek history , and having Takei and Whitney reprise their roles meant that Voyager didn't have DS9 's same slightly stilted dialogue. Additionally, "Flashback" ended up being a lovely exploration of Tuvok's backstory and Janeway and Tuvok's friendship as well as a fitting tribute.

DS9 Did A Better Star Trek: TOS Tribute Episode Than Voyager

Ds9's tribble episode is better than voyager's "flashback".

Ultimately, however, "Trials and Tribble-ations" far exceeded "Flashback" in quality and execution . What "Flashback" gave in good character interaction, it also lacked in the cohesiveness of its storyline. The premise of Tuvok needing to mind meld with Janeway in an attempt to heal a supposedly repressed memory was a bit convoluted, and the fact that Janeway was largely an observer rather than a participant in events left the whole episode with a lessened sense of urgency than traditional time travel might have.

In contrast, "Trials and Tribble-ations" was a well-executed storyline from start to finish, and allowed the entire DS9 cast time to shine during its plot. The stakes remained high throughout, and the thrill of seeing how seamlessly new and old footage was edited together never got old. The editing of "Trials and Tribble-ations" by itself is something to be commended and allowed for some incredibly iconic moments like Sisko and Kirk's meeting or Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) commenting on how attractive Spock was to Sisko.

Of course, both episodes accomplished something by not having to recast TOS 's characters in order to tell their stories. Although the Star Trek franchise has gone on to recast the TOS lineup multiple times to great success, being able to see the original characters played by their original actors on both Deep Space Nine and Voyager gave the two series a wonderful sense of connection to the franchise's origins . DS9 undoubtedly created a better tribute than Voyager , but both should be commended for their efforts.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: The Original Series are all available to stream on Paramount+.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.

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Star Trek: Voyager

The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Voyager, is a sci-fi series that sees the crew of the USS Voyager on a long journey back to their home after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy. Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, the series follows the crew as they embark through truly uncharted areas of space, with new species, friends, foes, and mysteries to solve as they wrestle with the politics of a crew in a situation they've never faced before. 

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Writers Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew - Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) - with his life. Facing previously undiscovered life forms and civilizations and representing humanity among the stars on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise regularly comes up against impossible odds and diplomatic dilemmas.

Cast Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Director Fesses Up To Unplanned Cameo In Episode 502

| April 9, 2024 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 8 comments so far

The second episode of season 5 of Star Trek: Discovery debuted last Thursday and featured an away mission to a jungle planet. It turns out “Under the Twin Moons” also featured an unexpected cameo from the episode’s director.

Director gets into the action

The USS Discovery visited the jungle planet Lyrek, where Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Saru (Doug Jones) searched an ancient necropolis for clues to solve the season’s big mystery . As Burnham and Saru were being chased by drones from an automated defense system, they found shelter beneath a giant stone hand from a fallen statue. And for less than a second, you can spot something a bit unexpected in the alien forest: a person wearing a baseball cap.

Spot the hat in the upper left

Eagle-eyed fan Jörg Hillebrand noticed the hat and posted about it on Twitter/X, noting how Discovery had joined a Trek tradition of crewmembers inadvertently finding themselves in the shot.

There's indeed a crewmember briefly visible in this shot in #StarTrekDiscovery 's "Under the Twin Moons"⬆️⬅️, as first pointed out by @MD_Builds . Well, let's just say: he's in good company! 😜 "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"➡️ #StarTrekTNG 's "Unification I"↙️ + "Birthright I"↘️.😅 pic.twitter.com/cOrU1JvCZL — Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49) April 6, 2024

Hillebrand suggested the hat belonged to episode director Doug Aarniokoski, and it turns out he was right. Aarniokoski fessed up with “guilty as charged,” apologizing for the error not being spotted and removed in post-production, adding “shit happens – it’s a jungle out there.”

I know that baseball hat !!! Jorg – guilty as charged – nice spotting sir – Apologies this wasn’t caught and removed – shit happens . It’s a jungle out there 😬 — Doug Aarniokoski (@dougaa) April 7, 2024

It is not known if Paramount will later digitally remove Doug and his hat from the episode. That is how Disney dealt with “jeans guy” spotted in an episode of The Mandalorian .

Spotting members of the crew on camera is a subgenre of the larger pantheon of flubs. The site Ex Astris Scientia has an extensive gallery of Trek’s visual bloopers .

Shooting a jungle in Toronto

Paramount has released a behind-the-scenes video feature on how the jungle of Lyrek was created by redressing a forest in a Toronto park .

The fifth and final season of  Discovery  debuted with two episodes on Thursday, April 4 exclusively on  Paramount+  in the U.S., the UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, and Austria.  Discovery  will also premiere on April 4 on Paramount+ in Canada and will be broadcast on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada. The rest of the 10-episode final season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays. Season 5 debuts on SkyShowtime in select European countries on April 5.

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Worst show ever!

Nah, it’s all good. If it happens this rarely, it’s not a big deal to me. Maybe they nix him from the Blu-Ray, hah.

They may remove him from the episode now. Disney did when they found the person in that Mandalorian episode.

Nothing worse than that GoT Starbucks cup.

Season 5 DISCO time travel confirmed! LOL (not really)

This is hilarious. Can’t imagine all the jokes now between them. He will always be remembered! :D Go Sox!

Paramount posts a video of how they recreated a jungle in Canada that isn’t available to view in the country of Canada

That’s just silly of them. 🤫 Pssst, you can always use either 9convert.com or yt5s.com to get them!

It is a long and stories Trek tradition. :-)

David Garrovick

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Garrovick and Ensign Rizzo were good friends and Starfleet Academy classmates .

In 2268 , a newly transferred Garrovick reported to the bridge of the Enterprise and learned of Rizzo's death from Nyota Uhura , who was presenting a report on his condition to Kirk at the time. Kirk offered Garrovick the chance to avenge Rizzo's death , once he learned of their friendship. Kirk and Garrovick encountered the same dikironium cloud creature on Argus X that killed his father, and two hundred crewmembers from the Farragut , eleven years earlier.

Garrovick sighted the creature but was temporarily paralyzed and unable to shoot it. Kirk blamed Garrovick for his hesitation, a blunder which caused the death of two security officers. He was subsequently relieved of duty and confined to quarters until further notice, a punishment Leonard McCoy viewed as harsh in light of the circumstances.

Guilt-ridden, Garrovick lay around in his quarters , only to be visited by Nurse Chapel , who brought him some dinner as per Doctor McCoy's orders. He asked her for an update, and she gave him one, adding that he was lucky to not have to deal with the situation. Though Garrovick refused the food twice, Chapel showed him a microtape and told him that it was McCoy's officially logged prescription for the man to eat, adding that if he didn't comply, McCoy could and likely would have him dragged to sickbay and fed intravenously . (In reality, the tape contained A Survey on Cygnian Respiratory Diseases .)

Garrovick on the bridge of the Enterprise with Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura

It was later discovered that Garrovick's hesitation was unintentional and that phaser fire would not have harmed the creature. When Spock came to tell him that, the creature tried to enter his quarters through the air vent . The first officer ordered him out of the room while he attempted to stop it. As Kirk and crewmembers responded to the emergency, Garrovick bemoaned that he should be dead in that room instead of an officer as valuable as Spock. Fortunately, Spock emerged from the room in perfect health noting that the cloud creature was apparently revolted from sampling his copper -based blood and did not harm him further before the air pressure was reversed to remove it.

Kirk allowed Garrovick to redeem himself upon the ensign's request. Together, they set a trap for the creature, which consisted of a container of red blood and a matter / antimatter bomb. The two beamed back to the Enterprise , moments before the bomb went off, which at the same time, destroyed the cloud creature.

Following their return to the Enterprise , Kirk invited Garrovick to stop by his quarters sometime so he could tell the younger Garrovick a few "tall tales" about his father. ( TOS : " Obsession ")

Sometime after this, later in 2268 or circa 2269 , Garrovick volunteered for a solo mission that ended with him crashing the Galileo on Planet 0042692 .

An effigy of "En Son"

Known as " En Son " to the natives, who were themselves later known as " Enderprizians ", they preserved the mission logs in the form of a play , which told that the Enterprise found their world and discovered that the natives needed their help, but the Enterprise crew was unable to intervene due to the Prime Directive . Garrovick – or "En Son of Star-Flight Enda-Prize, Bearer of Crimson , bravest among us" – arrived on the planet and attempted to discreetly resolve the native's issue but suffered a shuttle accident instead. He eventually reached out to the natives and brought, as perceived by this pre-warp civilization , " gifts of knowledge and wonder ." Garrovick taught them "a way of peace" and "the way of Star-Flight", but also warned them of his damaged shuttlecraft, which became known the natives as " The Gallows ". A sickness, caused from a toxic runoff created from the warp plasma that leaked from the Galileo into the native dilithium crystals , soon followed, and Garrovick, according to the natives, " spent his final months here teaching us what he could so we might survive the curse when he was gone." Garrovick, " with his final breath [...], promised that one day Star-Flight will come and rid us of the evil . "

In Garrovick's own words, as recorded in " The Call of En Son ":

Over a century later, in 2384 , the crew of the USS Protostar located Garrovick's distress call , and discovered his legacy on the planet, and true to his words, were able to rid the area of the danger created by the Galileo from his crash. ( PRO : " All the World's a Stage ")

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Appearances [ ].

• TOS : " Obsession "
• PRO : " All the World's a Stage " (voice recording only)

Background information [ ]

Garrovick was played by Stephen Brooks in "Obsession". Fred Tatasciore voiced Garrovick in "All the World's a Stage".

While the character's first name was not established through dialogue, the sign to Garrovick's quarters read: "David Garrovick."

Regarding Garrovick's fate in "All the World's a Stage", Aaron Waltke stated: " I always found it odd that Garrovick had such an arc in “Obsession,” only to disappear off-camera and never be seen or mentioned again on the show, presumably like all the others. I wanted to give him a slightly bigger fanfare sendoff — and tribute to all the other redshirts. " [1]

Apocrypha [ ]

The character has appeared in multiple novels and comics and has variously been given the first name David ( Star Trek 9 by James Blish ), Stephen ( In the Name of Honor by Dayton Ward ), and Tom ( Debt of Honor comic by Chris Claremont ).

The video game Star Trek: Starship Creator calls him Stephen Garrovick and gives his parents' names as Joseph and Jeanne Garrovick. His mother is named Anne in the novel In the Name of Honor .

External links [ ]

• Ensign Garrovick at StarTrek.com
• David Garrovick at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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Facing off against Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery, Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis star as Moll and L'ak in Star Trek Discovery season 5.

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• Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis play Moll and L'ak, a dangerous duo challenging the crew of the USS Discovery in season 5.
• Moll has unexpected ties to Book's mentor and is determined to achieve her goals.
• Elias Toufexis plays L'ak, Moll's tough and impulsive partner whose origins are a mystery.

Star Trek: Discovery introduces Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis as Moll and L’ak, mysterious and dangerous lovers who challenge the crew of the USS Discovery. Recurring characters in Discovery’ s fifth and final ten-episode season, Moll and L’ak face off against Starfleet on an epic adventure to find the power to create life itself. Discovery 's wicked new adversaries hide secrets of their own and allude to a greater threat. Formidable and dangerous, Moll and L’ak are partners in crime, desperate to claim the prize for themselves and they will stop at nothing to get it.

Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis join Callum Keith Rennie as the new faces of the Star Trek: Discovery season 5 cast . Rennie stars as Starfleet Captain Rayner of the USS Antares, while Harlow and Toufexis’ Moll and L’ak build on the show's intricate and developing character relationships and multilayered narrative, adding mysterious and unexpected backstories of their own. The dangerous duo offers an unrepentant ambition and deceptively charismatic intrigue to the interstellar adventure, willing to stop at nothing to get what they want. Here’s a look at Discovery season 5’s nefarious bad guys and the actors behind the characters.

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Eve harlow plays moll in star trek: discovery season 5, harlow's moll shares a "bonnie and clyde" relationship with elias toufexis' l'ak.

Malinne "Moll" Ravel is one half of the Star Trek: Discovery season 5 antagonistic duo. Moll is a highly intelligent human with strong strategic skills and a sharp wit who can quickly adapt to any situation. Engaged in a romantic and professional partnership with the mysterious and overprotective L'ak, Moll is a former courier turned outlaw with unexpected familial ties to Book's (David Ajala) mentor - Cleveland Booker IV. Confident, bold, and disruptive, Moll is determined to accomplish her goals and enjoy the process. Dangerous, confident, and dramatic, Moll's partnership with L'ak subtly and darkly mirrors the show's earlier relationship dynamics and poses a significant threat to the Federation and the crew of the USS Discovery.

Eve Harlow's casting as the complex and villainous Moll in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 adds another - and significant - franchise to her list of acting credits.

A talented and accomplished Moscow-born Israeli-Canadian actor, Eve Harlow enjoys a growing and diverse list of roles in television and film across various genres. Best recognized for performances in The 100, Next, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , Harlow received several awards for minor, supporting roles, also making appearances in Juno, The Tall Man, Heroes Reborn, DC's Titans, The Tomorrow Man, 12 Monkeys, N.C.I.S., Fargo, Rogue, and The Rookie . Eve Harlow's casting as the complex and villainous Moll in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 adds another - and significant - franchise to her list of acting credits and foreshadows even greater future success.

Elias Toufexis Plays L’ak In Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

Elias toufexis appeared in season 1 and season 5 of star trek: discovery.

The infamous Clyde to Moll's Bonnie, Elias Toufexis' character, L'ak, is tough, impulsive, driven, and fiercely protective of his partner . A brand new and recurring character in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 , L'ak is of unknown alien origin. A mysterious and villainous former courier turned outlaw, like Moll, L'ak's ambition and disregard for consequences make him a dangerous adversary for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery. Despite his dedication to Moll's safety, L'ak's unpredictable nature and status as a hired gun mark him as a significant, unexpected, and tense villain and push him to ambitious lengths to accomplish his goals.

Elias Toufexis first appeared in Star Trek: Discovery , season 1, episode 3 - "Context Is For Kings."

A talented and versatile Canadian actor, Elias Toufexis has built a film, television, and voice acting career in various video games. Appearing in popular television shows such as The Expanse, Supernatural, and Smallville, Elias Toufexis demonstrates a distinct creative flair and action-oriented dramatic preference through an exploration of complex and interesting characters. Recognized for his roles in Shadowhunters, Blood of Zeus, and The Expanse , Toufexis has also performed in voice acting roles for Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and Star Trek: Resurgence . A diehard Star Trek fan, Elias Toufexis previously appeared in Star Trek: Discovery season 1 as Cold, a human Federation prisoner. Star Trek: Discovery season 5 streams Thursdays on Paramount+