Star Trekis a franchise built on exploration and discovery.
While that inquisitive spirit deserves admiration, it does sometimes make for frustrating viewing.
Unsurprisingly, some of these questions do get answered in comics and novels.
But those tend to be non-canon and subject to revision in later movies and television shows.
Is Trelane a Q?
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An all-powerful being?
Games that annoy the Captain?
MainlineStar Trekhas never again checked in on the Squire of Gothos.
How Many Siblings Does Spock Have Anyway?
Like most things in the first season ofTOS, Spocks background and family tree are unfurled slowly.
So, just what is going on under Sareks roof?
What Happened with the Mind-Control Parasites From the TNG Season One Finale?
Perhaps the most nagging question on this list comes from the end ofThe Next Generations first season.
What happened to the Starfleet Skant?
The skant, of course, is the skirt/short combination uniform memorably sported by male officers inTNGs first season.
However, the skant went away after a few episodes.
Surely, somebody somewhere in Starfleet made the decision.
Was that an order from Jellico, the same guy who finally got Troi in a proper uniform?
Or did Garak use his Obsidian Order tailoring skills to finally get that eyesore out of the galaxy?
We may never know.
Where is Thomas Riker?
The second person takes the name Thomas Riker, and goes his own way from William.
We have no idea how or why he left, or where he ended up next.
How the heck does Section 31 work?
Okay, okay, okay.
The original storylines inDeep Space Nineestablished Section 31 as something of a vestigial branch authorized by the Federation charter.
They have access to Starfleet records but, as Luther Sloan put it, dont exactly ask for permission.
Look, we dont want more Section 31.
What became of the Dominion?
Still, the Dominion wasnt just the Changelings.
What about the Vorta or the JemHadar?
And the JemHadar were engineered to be eternal warriors.
What Happened to Sisko?
Still, it would be nice if someone would venture to explain Siskos life after the show.
And then never returning again.
And Sisko does lead the excellent currentStar Trekcomicspublished by IDW.
What happened to Janeway and Pariss salamander babies?
Lets get this straight.
Threshold is a weird, corny episode ofVoyager.
But it isnt a bad episode ofVoyager.
For those who need a reminder, Threshold follows Tom Paris as he exceeds Warp 10.
The feat transforms him into some key in of salamander monster, driven by the need to mate.
The two are rescued and restored, but not before making a litter of salamander babies.
So what happened to those guys?
Do they turn into humans later in life?
Well, at least well always have the salamander babies that came withthe Tom Paris Threshold Mutant action figure.
Well just make up our own stories.
What did Worf do to the Enterprise-E?
That was not my fault, he declares.
What wasnt your fault Worf?
Why do the Disco Klingons look like that?
We do not discuss it with outsiders.
Still, we cant help but wonder about the radically redesigned Klingons introduced inDiscovery.
By season three, the Klingons disappeared from the show, never to be seen again.
WhenStrange New WorldsorLower Decksused Klingons, they always used pre-established versions, never the ones fromDisco.
Honestly, the best way forward is to just ignore the redesigns and move on.
Why did Daniels become Kovich?
Viewers were filled with questions every time Doctor Kovich hit the screen inDiscovery.
but some of the others related to his apparent knowledge of other timelines and realities.
Instead of answering those questions, theDiscoveryfinale closed with another.
Kovich reveals that he has also been known as Daniels, and once served on theEnterprise.
Are other people fromStar Trekhistory supposed to be Kovich/Daniels?
Why the name change?
Is the 32nd century connected to the adventures he had with Archer?
