VindictiveJudge

I don't think that's too big of a concern, to be honest. You can't negotiate with a spacial rift and the show handles that kind of thing fine. I think they were having problems with First Contact's script and decided to solve it with a named antagonist rather than just hordes of Borg.

She wasn't too bad in First Contact. The movie implied that she was simply an avatar for the Collective, not too different from Locutus. Later writers didn't get that and VOY turned her into an individual within the Collective who controlled all of it, somehow. Then her depiction just kept getting further and further from her depiction in First Contact, mostly keeping superficial things.

Section 31 went through a very similar shift, where DS9 implies that Sloan and S31 are rogue agents and Sloan is talking out of his ass in regards to any real authority and taking an, at best, extremely liberal interpretation of the Starfleet Charter, then later works making them an official part of Starfleet.

The Kelvin picture should have been from Star Trek '09.

I suspect she never learned how to read faces or tell tones of voice apart, which is why has so many problems when her empathic powers are supressed. She can sense sarcasm through an opaque soundproof wall, so why would she need to know that people sound different when they're being sarcastic?

My assumption was that it is part of his design for two reasons: 1) Zimmerman's holographic assistant seems to have that feature and I'm pretty sure she's older, and 2) they can't guarantee what future sickbays will look like so it's better to make a one-size-fits-all system than to build maps for each sickbay design into his program.

Moriarty was draining enough of the Enterprise's power to cause brown outs and was using a huge chunk of the main computer's processing power. The EMH is much more efficient. He's also probably more sophisticated in other areas, like precision movement or being able to function in arbitrary non-holographic environments.

I'm still so happy that they got Lars Mikkelsen. He was perfect in Rebels and continues to he perfect in Ahsoka.

I dunno, man. I heard he used to be a gardener.

He is one of the most “interesting” characters on the show, but really when you think about it, they all are.

To borrow a quote from B5, "No one here is exactly what he appears."

I love Gowron's 'is this really happening?' face throughout the episode.

The quote from Sputnik he read was especially memorable.

Live action Mariner, too.