Nolen Hobart

I feel blessed to have experienced this film without having had to watch it

From that same sim:

I love this part:

Congratulations, Ensigns, and welcome to the fleet!

Count this idiom among things that I did not see coming.

@Ras El Heem, demonstrating a clear understanding of the assignment:

It's hard to describe the feeling one gets when @Richard Matthews sends a sim. Each is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get.

Doctors see everything.

With the caveat that I have not yet watched anything beyond the first episode of Prodigy, I have to say that Strange New Worlds, for me, is everything that was great about the Trek I grew up with, while also expertly balancing (1) modern storytelling trends, (2) taking itself seriously but not too seriously, and (3) the fact that it is building upon a franchise and a "canon" that is almost 60 years old. I am not down on any of the others (I enjoyed Discovery and Picard and I know many others did not!) but I simply cannot get enough of Captain Pike's Enterprise. Even the musical episode. Especially the musical episode.

"It's midnight," I thought to myself, "I'll just read one sim, and then go to bed." But the one sim was by @Richard Matthews and it was fantastic, so now it's midnight and he's got me making a dang appreciations post.

I love the visuals of this analogy by @Randal Shayne:

I... am not sure this is a real saying, but I'll be damned if it doesn't work.

Congratulations, and welcome aboard!

Keeping us humble, sir.