In #StarTrekTOS' "Amok Time", plomeek soup is purple. It is purple in its characteristic metallic bowl and it is purple on the corridor wall. More than 50 years should pass until we finally would see original, purple plomeek soup again. Find out more about the visual history of this Vulcan classic!🧵 1/8 Plomeek soup appears in three #StarTrekDS9 episodes ("The Maquis I"⬆️, "The House of Quark"↙️, "The Die is Cast"↘️). In each appearance, it appears more like a chunky, yellow stew. In "The House of Quark" (ordered by Bashirwith a touch of basil), it appears orange-brown. 2/8

At the end of #StarTrekSNW's "Through the Lens of Time", the same display in sickbay is briefly seen in English and in the alien language seen on Vadia IX. Using this section of the display, I was able to decipher the language and find nearly all of the letters. The translation here is straightforward. 🧵 1/5 Things get a little bit more complicated on the right side of the screen and words show additional and missing letters but the English text is mostly still identical to the alien text (which uses a never-before seen alien font/language). The letters Y and H share the same alien letter. 2/5

Originally, the ready room couch was supposed to be a daybed that could be pulled out of the wall when Captain Picard wanted to take a nap. This is confirmed by the set blueprints (courtesy of ). In the end, this feature was never seen on screen, however. 🧵 1/5archive.frogland.co.uk
The only time we see Picard actually taking a nap on his ready room couch is on the USS Enterprise-E in #StarTrekFirstContact. In all of season 1 and only once, we only see one person ever sitting on the couch (Dr. Crusher), but more about that tomorrow. 2/5

Here's what I normally do here:
When new episodes of #StarTrek (#StarTrekSNW will be next in 6 weeks) are airing, I go through the episodes and point out Easter eggs, callbacks, bloopers, visual connections, starships, languages - stuff I like. I start posting spoilery stuff on Fridays usually. In the weeks/months without new #StarTrek episodes, I continue going through #StarTrekTNG, episode by episode. Currently, I'm working on season 4's "Identity Crisis". I update the observations articles I wrote years ago and look for new fun "stuff". :-)

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In the first three episodes of #StarTrekTNG ("Encounter at Farpoint"↖️, "The Naked Now"↗️, "Code of Honor"⬇️), the light right above the ready room door wasn't working. I merely assumed it was broken and then was fixed for "Haven" but I did some more investigating. 🧵 1/6 Patrick Stewart also looks strangely at the light when he leaves the ready room in #StarTrekTNG's "Encounter at Farpoint", right before the Imzadi encounter. Maybe he acknowledges that it's broken or he's waiting for a sign to enter the bridge from the director. 2/6

This is how I interpret the 765874 - Unification film by @OTOY / @Archive_X_IO - a thread:
At some point in the 25th century, Kirk's body ⬆️, stored at Daystrom Station (#StarTrekPicard's "The Bounty"➡️), is revived/cloned ↘️ after his death in "Star Trek: Generations"↙️. 1/5 In a park, revived Kirk meets descendants of people he has a connection with. He also meets an old Saavik and Sorak ↘️, the son she had with Spock after they had pon-farr on Genesis in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"↗️. 2/5

I have always been most fascinated by the alien-of-the-week ships on #StarTrek and Jaheel's ship from #StarTrekDS9's "Babel" is certainly one of them. It appears only in this one '93 episode and was never re-used, yet its story is fascinating! Now the model is up for auction! 1/9 In the early 2000s, I found out that Jaheel's ship originally was a Ranger III/Katarian ship from from the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". You can clearly see the similarities. It seems that model was modified and re-used on #DS9 or a copy of the model existed. 2/9

The UFP banner, as it first appeared in 1968 in #StarTrekTOS' "And the Children Shall Lead"➡️, was re-used as it is (yellow UFP, slightly curved) only once, 55 years later, in #StarTrekPicard's "The Bounty"⬅️ in 2023. Let's look at the other versions of this emblem, shall we? 1/9

In 1975, the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph introduced an angular, slightly slimmer version of this emblem. It also introduced that the letters "UFP" and the 13 stars are supposed to be uniformly silver (and not yellow and white respectively) on a red background. 2/9

For reasons, here's the 101 on Bajoran nose wrinkles. 😅
In "Ensign Ro"↖️↗️ and very early #StarTrekDS9 episodes↙️↘️, the Bajoran make-up was still a little more complicated and featured additional brow ridges. Keeve Falor, the Bajoran girl, Tahna Los and Zayna all have them. None of the later #StarTrekDS9 (Vedek Winn ↖️, Shakaar ↗️) and #StarTrekVOY (Gerron ↙️, Tal Celes ↘️) Bajorans have these brow ridges, however. The make-up was simplified very early on DS9, maybe to speed up the make-up application with so many Bajoran extras.

1/7 I found something cool a few days ago that cheered me up so I'm posting this now, you can never have enough cheering up, right? :-)
In "The battle", Picard's quarters are seen for the first time. In one of the shelves, you can see several books, including a 6-volume set of... 2/7 ...brown books with a red rectangle on the spine on which the name of the book is written in golden letters. I haven't been able to identify the books yet, but they are no longer seen in Picard's quarters in "Angel One" or "Where silence has lease".