I’m still seeing this as an active posting, linked on other UN pages e.g.,

https://dppa.un.org/en/gazas-new-terror-booby-trapped-cans-of-food-unwary

However, a similar claim in January was found to be false by fact checking news orgs.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/01/instagram-posts/no-viral-footage-doesnt-show-explosives-disguised/

So the childhood favourite ‘Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh’ was onto something.

Clearly, the ability to be outside in appropriate clothing for activities isn’t being mandated. This is where a temperate climate enables ridiculous practices to persist.

All I can think about when I see this image is how in Ontario, the responsible provincial ministry requires all schools and ‘day nurseries’ (read day and after school care) to put the kids out in the yards twice a day unless the weather conditions are severe (Less than -20 or more than +30 Celsius.).

Parents are responsible to send their kids with suitable clothing for the cold. One rarely sees little girls in skirts in schools unless they are wearing tunic dresses over leggings.

In an earlier era, pre 1970s, when skirts were mandatory for girls, that meant switching to pants or snow pants from the skirts 3 times a day to go outside in winter (two breaks and leaving end of day).

I’m going to drop in again to say that Albucierre’s particular solution in his doctoral thesis was a mathematical closed form corner solution for tractability.

We shouldn’t take the features of this limited corner case as characteristic of the drive approach. Instead, we need to understand that the point of his thesis was to demonstrate cleanly that this particular solution was viable to get around the FTL problem in general relativity.

The thing is that the inertia being zero is implied one of the assumptions of the corner solution. That is, for tractability, Albucierre assumed that the ship would have no initial velocity that it would take into the warp bubble with it.

It would be mathematically messier and would require a computational approach to relax this assumption and allow the ship to have positive initial velocity, but it’s exactly what some of the folks trying to extend the model and reduce the exotic matter requirement have explored.

All to say that the elaboration of Albucierre’s approach seems likely to take it exactly in the direction of some of the distinctions the OP has noticed.

Th most significant difference that remains is that ships at warp are able observe and to receive information from outside their bubble while this seems inconsistent with a bubble in Alcubierre’s model.

There are any number of shuttles lacking warp drive capability that have impulse drives. It seems clear that they need not be interlinked systems. Also, impulse drives still function when a warp core has been jettisoned.

I’ve recently become aware of mulesing, an appalling practice used on Merino sheep in Australia and NZ due to a specific fly problem. The problem is that most merino wool is from those countries.

Also, most fabric generically labeled ‘wool’ is mostly merino from mulesinged sheep.

Ethics conscious knitters, crocheters and weavers are aware, and merino yarns certified as mulesing-free are on the market now.

Knowing country of origin and wool type is another reliable way to avoid endorsing this practice, but again most manufactured clothing or even fabrics will not give the necessary information.

As Prof Noor is the biological science advisor for the show, it seems likely that he’s the one that gave the SNW Showrunners this specific option for a deep background of the Gorn.

This analysis brings to mind the Liaden of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Korval ™ books.

Liaden society has a profession called quendra that are a mix of accountants, lawyers and commercial adjudicators. It’s also a society based on ‘balance’ counting-coup where everyone, all their lives, is keeping score in everyone else. Even Ferengi might be horrified.

There’s no canon basis to support this, just head canon inference. While this could be the direction SNW is going with this, being posted elsewhere and then returning for a brief period doesn’t imply any demotion.

M’Benga was working, likely shadowing, with McCoy in TOS for just an episode or two before he acted as CMO when McCoy was away. The fact that McCoy had to confirm/remind Kirk that M’Benga had trained on Vulcan strongly suggests he wasn’t posted longterm to the Enterprise. More, M’Benga was supposed to be on his way to head up a medical station, which suggests he was moving towards a position of responsibility.

Asking a former CMO to work alongside for a short period and then act when he’s between postings, especially one with specialized expertise needed for the crew’s complement, is fairly routine.

Pelia says Scotty was one of her best students who received some of her worst grades. I wonder why…

This seems to be a pattern with Pelia. It’s established that Una was an excellent student who got a ‘C’ from Pelia. Pelia even reminded Una of it again, in the finale. Pelia said that if she’d come up with the innovative solution as she did in the finale (hurling the saucer at the distortion generator) when she was her student, Pelia would have given her a better mark.

Una got a ‘C’ because she was too methodical in following algorithms in a maintenance course, and could miss a major problem that her inspections might trigger.

One suspects Scott was the a brilliant student with the reverse problem to Una. He’s the out-of-the-box thinker, miracle worker, rather than the no nonsense by-the-numbers type that Una represents.

I’m wondering if this has been a season long set up not only to have Pelia work with Scotty, but also to have Number One and Scott facing off against one another and balancing each other’s strengths and weaknesses as engineers.

Novelverse author Greg Cox’s attempt, to ‘dance between the raindrops’ to explain away a major 1990s war in Trek canon that no one could see in real life, was quite inspired.

There were however still numerous unexplained inconsistencies.

Beyond the ‘how is it really a war if no one knows it’s happening?’ aspect, there has been an inconsistency ever since TNG’s premiere Encounter at Farpoint pushed the timing of World War III back to the latter half of the 21st century.

Given this shift was based in Roddenberry’s own direction, Akiva Goldsman has a strong point that the Great Bird wanted the Trek universe to always stay a possible one for current viewers. As it happens, we can attribute the biggest shift in the Prime timeline to Roddenberry. There seem to have been further tweaks, but moving Khan’s birth to a later time seems a direct corollary of Roddenberry’s fiat in 1987.

TOS is fairly clear that the Eugenics War was the precursor of WW3, but TNG implied they occurred more than a half apart unless the timing of Khan’s rule and the Eugenics War is pushed back. Not to mention the hand waving to explain how none of us noticed Khan ruling a large portion of the global population.

While many don’t remember, this apparent discontinuity was a reason some TOS fans argued in the late 1980s TNG wasn’t in the same continuity as TOS.

Then there are other discrepancies such the later development of the Warp Drive and all the other Berman-era episodes that implied a shifted timeline. Voyager’s findings of temporal interference in 1990s California and the development of computer technology seem to imply that the writers were working off a bible with a revised timeline all along.

Greg Cox himself finds the explanation of accumulating effects of intertemporal interference to be a better solution. You can find his view on this in the comment section under Di Candido’s review of the episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

Another Trek author, Christopher L Bennett who wrote the Department of Temporal Investigations books, also weighed in positively on the episode. He attempted to figure out when the major perturbations in the Prime Universe’s river of time took place, with Encounter at Farpoint being the first major one.

Thanks for bringing up the Nausicaans.

I tend to agree that the inscription would have been a warning on an object they couldn’t remove or decommission themselves.

It would seem worthwhile to consider how temporal interference from other alien civilizations or from the Temporal War may have changed the development of Nausicaans, as well as other species in the alpha and beta quadrants.

Fans often focus on humanity being a fulcrum in the temporal war, but Discovery and SNW give us a lot to ponder about other species. If honorarium is truly an element that was both significantly present in the Sol System and protective against temporal incursions, that could go a long way to explaining how humanity developed initially as far as it did without significant temporal interference.

What I also find interesting is that the Klingons on Borath had time crystals and developed understanding of how they worked under religious secrecy. We saw that they had some related technology and attempted to prevent its use. The research that was used in Voyager endgame raises questions about why the monastics on Borath were willing to let that go forward when they had prohibitions earlier.

One also has to wonder whether the preservation of the original body of Kahless and the creation of the clone involved some temporal slowing for preservation and/or some temporal interference that are responsible for the prophecy. In fact, temporal interference and use of the time crystals might explain a great deal of not only Klingon prophecy but also some of the Byzantine politics among Klingon houses.

I’d like to drop TAS’ ‘The Practical Joker’ into the conversation.

The simulators in the Rec Room of the 1701, seem to be a more basic holographic VR along the lines of Discovery’s combat training simulator that we saw Lorca use to put Tyler through his paces as a security officer in season one. Yet, the simulator was able to take control of the ship and advance its own objectives. It’s not as clear that sentience was achieved in The Practical Joker but it’s hard to argue that there’s no self motivation.

What the problematic Rec Room simulator in TAS has in common with the TNG holodecks is that it is integrated with the ship’s main computer. And unlike in Voyager (and Picard season three), TAS’ Rec Room simulator and the early TNG holodecks were fully integrated into and interoperable with the power supply, communications and other core systems.

I think the OP’s point that the integration of multitronic technology with highly advanced simulators may be one necessary element is fair. Combine that with access, integration and interoperability with the full resources of a starship, and it may be enough to argue that Starfleet should have considered the potential for holographic entities to attain some level of sentience.

I have seen that theory.

If if it was found rather than invented technology, understanding its use is would still be a culturally significant advance.

I’d always inferred that Tilly would have been on a different track with a PhD. She would have been the kind to have her first degree by 18 or earlier and do the combined Academy-PhD program.

That was established by Roddenberry himself in the TNG pilot Encounter at Farpoint.

TOS fairly clearly implied that the Eugenics wars fed into WW3. Roddenberry insisted that WW3 was situated in the late middle 21st century as of TNG.

All SNW has done make this clear and give a reason why. Otherwise, we’re stuck with the Eugenics War and Khan ruling over a quarter of the planet in the 1990s being some kind of secret cabal thing.

Appreciate the follow up.

A couple of reactions:

I have seen it elsewhere that the story of Jonathan Frake back issues was misunderstood or exaggerated in fan wisdom about the ‘Riker manoeuvre’ and that Frakes himself has refuted it. Not sure where the truth lies on that one at this point.

Nausicans of all species had working temporal technology thousands of years in the past!!!

This is worth an entire reflection on its own. Do we know anything else about a rich and deep history of Nausican science and culture? (Let’s not let Picard’s personal trauma colour our views of them.)

Have they, as a species, been set back by intertemporal conflicts? How is it hat two very violent species - Klingons and Nausicans - are the ones who have longstanding knowledge of time travel mechanics?

I have the sense of a smoking exceedingly nonlinear Chekhov’s gun having been dropped in and carated for us.

I wasn’t happy to see a dermal regenerator this early in the 23rd century, let alone as a widely available first aid instrument.

It’s been a bit of a puzzler as a technology. I’m not aware of any technobabble in Alpha, onscreen canon that explains how it works.

I really find that the beta-canon explanation in the relaunch books makes a great deal of sense in-universe. That is, that the dermal regenerator is a small, constrained application of the Genesis technology developed by Carol Marcus.

All to say this is a bit of a nitpick about a lost opportunity to make the dermal regenerator less of ‘magic in a chassis’ while providing a clear pathway for some of the technological progress from the 23rd to 24th centuries. Still reconcilable as a small temporal change within the river of the Prime continuity though.

I’m also feeling this way, but moreso, about implied propulsion speeds. SNW keeps giving us dialogue about galaxy-level reach in exploration or the Federation rather than just a portion of a quadrant or two. With several repeats this comes across as factual rather than hyperbole.

Having Starfleet exploring the entire galaxy in the 22nd century seems to imply crossing the line in terms of changing the timing or sequence of major first contact events or conflicts with the Borg or Changelings. I hope they back off on this.

Really interesting analysis, and a great deal of context to think on. You make a compelling case.

I realized how little I actually understand about Chinese concepts of Faces.

I’d like to see if I can come up with a few more examples. Some of B’Elanna’s episodes in Voyager, where she comes to see Klingon culture and practices as ‘less hateful’ might provide further opportunities to test your hypothesis.