Thank you for sharing - we appreciate any and all first-person accounts of events!
I have to admit, when they first announced the Fan Fest Nights, my initial reaction was that it sounded like it would be kind of cheap and disappointing. But it seems like they did a really nice job of the Trek event, along with some of the others that I've read about (especially Back to the Future).
Full credit to their fans for starting an initiative to donate $55 to the True North Foundation, though. Very classy, and worthy of mention.
So is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?
That was my takeaway - it's got the power to propel the ship (much) higher into the warp 9.9XXXXX range.
It was a tough one, especially under the circumstances. It's a shame they dug themselves into such a deep hole in the series.
In fairness, they brought him back twice in season two - once as a dancing Klingon, no less.
I think of Trek Central as the "scrappy outsider" of Star Trek new sites, but I do consider them to be a reliable source, and that trademark application is certainly authentic.
We'll see if anything comes of it.
But was it PROPELLED?! This is an important distinction, which is why the rule book spends so much time on it...
Hopefully they'll just let it go - the Jets don't need any distractions.
I'm not normally one for fan chants, but that was good comedy.
I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.
Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you're talking about? L'Rell's outfit, for example, hardly screams "Africa" to me.
they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent
"Exotic" meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
voodoo religious rituals
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well
And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least "Black" stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it's a racist depiction of...a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones
"Brown"
As someone who's not familiar with the LA area, it blows my mind that those things are basically in the middle of an urban area.