Hey Karim! Thank you for your work on SFA, really enjoying the show!
Star Trek has done a bunch of genre-bending episodes (mostly on the holodeck), like noir-type crime stories, medieval costume dramas, or western adventures. If you could chose: What genre/setting would you like to put Jay-Den into?
I think the key message is about letting other people enjoy things even if you personally don’t. I like Star Trek but if there are no good new stories to be told, I’m ok with there not being any more new Star Trek. We’ll always have the old stuff.
Communities that are just build around vocally disliking something (based on taste) are usually not the greatest places.
How great is Tawny Newsome? Hope they’ll put her in (charge of) more new-trek stuff.
Regarding the episode: I didn’t know about the Sisko plot before, but after they called SAM an emissary and that chewy jumja stick popped into frame, I was convinced we’d get a DS9 episode.
I’m currently rewatching DS9 so I enjoyed this episode thoroughly. The show’s really growing on me.
I’d love to know if it actually resonates with audiences in the age group our cadets are in.
And Tawny Newsome as Professor Illa (last name redacted) was a treat!
Ben and Adam really have a point about characters not calling each other by their names regularly. I’d take less naturalistic writing over better remembering character names any day.
I like seeing the personal growth of these characters kicking in early. And that we don’t only focus on Caleb. When’s my Jay-den episode coming?
And while I didn’t think I‘d like the post-burn setting, it gives our characters a reason to reiterate what Star Fleet and the Federation stand for. In the classic shows, there wasn’t really a reason so argue what the federation is supposed to be (because it was objectively extremely successful the way it was). I enjoy seeing our characters rebuilding this utopia.
I never really watched TOS (except a few clips here and there) and I was positively surprised by this episode! Cool sci-fi story (love a doppelganger infiltration) and good pacing!
I adore the plant monster puppet that was so clearly just a hand in a glove with plant/flower stuff glued to it.
There is an actual RFC for "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service" that was released on April fools day 1999.
There are some fantastic diagrams in there: 
I can recommend the Janeway autobiography by Una McCormack! She also wrote the Spock autobiography.
Listening to this episode, I remembered how I just never could warm up to Malcom Reed. I couldn’t stand him across the whole 4 seasons.
It’s not Keating’s fault, the performance is fine. It’s just the character that bums me out.
Hell yeah! Now i want to see Jay-Den with an eyepatch like Catalina Creel from Cuna de lobos