Might be a bit simple but why not the “North Star” (Polaris)? Navigation could work via analysis of stars positions relative to eachother/positions of constellations relative to the ship. You could justify it in-universe as being a nod to how early mariners used these same stars to navigate Earth’s oceans.

I’m your host Will “T-Bone” Riker and welcome to Deltas, Directives, and Docks. Today we’re checking out the Sisko restaurant, they’ve got gumbo so good it makes founders grow frosted tips. The only war in this Dominion is the one I’m going to wage on these succulent crawfish.

Strange New Worlds definitely still has the “optimistic” viewpoint of old trek. I think that’s why it has been doing so well. I think the problem in other modern Trek shows like the first 2 seasons of Picard or all of Discovery was that there wasn’t enough of the hopeful optimism that made Trekkies fall in love with the franchise. There doesn’t need to be a universe ending plot calamity, exploration and interesting sci-fi plots that actually drive character development are enough.

Even “grittier” old trek like DS9 (my favourite trek show) had optimistic undertones of recognizing similarities between cultures, forging alliances, trying to be ethical in the face of war, and addressing social issues.

Even the underlying theme of Voyager was to maintain the ideals of the federation against all odds in the face if hopelessness.

I just hope studios see the success of Strange New Worlds and make more trek like it.

There’s coffee in that light beam!

Ok so you’re going to need a black hole to focus the signal. I hear there’s a guy called Reginald Barclay working on this.

I bet he regrets that umlaut.

Depends on your tastes. I personally really liked it because it represented philosophical absurdism and various existential concepts in an interesting/comedic way. I laughed really hard at things like the “everything” donut and Michelle Yeoh’s big fight scene where she used “compassion” to solve all the henchpeople’s life problems and “defeat” them.

Despite it’s fun/weird/comedic exterior it was very clearly written with these philosophical concepts in mind. If you like thinky/philosophical stuff you probably like this movie too, that said if you don’t like that kind of vibe you probably just viewed the randomness/oddness of some of the scenes as strange.

The collective has decided not to assimilate you on account of perceived “bad smell” which is perhaps too distinct to add to our own and "weird-voyager-salamander-cringe-energy ".

This drone did not “downvote” you. Another of the collective did so. Through readings from its ocular implant this drone was able to determine this area of Lemmy space is non-serious. Recommended adaptations are to “lighten up” and “enjoy the jokes”.

Riker, his face bearded.

I am loquatious of borg, your pendantry will be assimilated to service my own, your “umm ackshullys” are futile.

I mean, they have a transporter right? Couldn’t they just beam waste into a holding container or out into space? In discovery they say they recycle everything so maybe it just gets beamed to Kieko’s Arboretum lol.

You have no xmas warrior spirit Alexander. You’re on my naughty list you little P’takh, dishonor on your w-HOHOHO-le family.

You and your partner are clearly goat farmers producing high quality, organic, cruelty-free, goat cheese that has made you millions.

Posting the shit you are, the rule of poo you follow.

You can’t tuna fish otherwise you risk it becoming a bass.

Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laught at you.

Hey everyone…listen…hey…I got the greatest idea ever. We attach…listen… we attach the kite to a pole on the boat.