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Sure, The Last Jedi is the big thing everyone’s talking about right now, but sometimes you just want your science fiction a little more focused. For more than 50 years, the adventures of various officers of the futuristic Starfleet have ruled many a nerd’s television set. A pop culture phenomenon, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek has kept science fiction fans glued to their seats, following along with their favorite Captains as they set out on missions to explore the galaxy and forge alliances with new and strange lifeforms. Though the original series spent decades as a cult classic that spawned a successful film franchise, 1987 saw Star Trek truly explode into something magnificent.

Star Trek: The Next Generation took a new team of adventurers and sent them out even further into the reaches of deep space, exploring strange new worlds with bleeding edge technology and wilder and weirder plots than ever before. The series became a television mainstay, breathing new life into the franchise for decades to come. As with all things, the Internet has taken to memeing it, and something like Star Trek led to some of the best memes out there. Here are 15 hilariously unforgettable Star Trek: The Next Generation memes.

15 BETTER THAN YAR

An early mantra for Star Trek: The Next Generation was that there’d be not many references to the original series. Series creator Gene Roddenberry was eager to create a unique world distant from the adventures of Captain Kirk. Alien species from the original were largely off limits, the exception being a Klingon named Worf who served as a bridge officer, largely remaining in the background.

Following the death of Natasha Yar when actress Denise Crosby opted to leave the show, Worf got a promotion to chief tactical officer and gained a much greater presence. Serving as the ship’s chief of security, Worf was often consulted when battle was necessary and became one of the Enterprise’s most prized crew members. Worf proved to be one hell of a pop culture phenomenon even today, years after ST:TNG and Deep Space Nine have gone off the air.

14 WHAT CAPTAINS DO

Captain Picard’s a busy dude. In addition to jetting around the Neutral Zone in the cutting edge of spaceship design and negotiating treaties with alien races both familiar and new, he’s still got to find time to schmooze with ambassadors and roleplay as a detective on the holodeck. Being a Starfleet Captain is pretty serious business!

Picard manages to come out above all that, though. Well-rounded, intellectual, and thorough to a fault, it’s no wonder Jean-Luc is considered the superior Captain by many fans. Picard’s kept more than busy over the years, as this meme reminds us. Though it’s a bit of a jab at some familiar Star Trek: The Next Generation moments, it also highlights some of the greatest moments in Picard’s storied Starfleet career.

13 FOUR LIGHTS

Poor Picard. He went through a lot of bad times, from being assimilated into the Borg collective to having to appear in Star Trek: Generations . But the season six two-parters “Chain of Command” showcased a different side of Picard. Captured while on a covert mission, Picard is tortured and interrogated in one of Star Trek’s most intense scenes to date.

In an attempt to break his will, a Cardassian interrogator shows Picard four bright lights and tells him the torture will end when he says there are five lights. The episode itself is a hell of a story, but Picard’s parting, defiant cry to his captor of “There are FOUR lights!” has become a meme in its own right. This meme might be one of the best takes on it, though, because let’s face it, we all hate fighting with those damn Christmas lights when December rolls around.

12 GOOGLE GLASS

Hey, remember Google Glass? Google kinda hopes you don’t, but they’re also not really making a thing of it anymore. It was a smart device that you wore like a pair of glasses, giving you access to a number of popular Google features like maps and phone calls. The device had a limited release, but it didn’t do terribly well thanks to an exorbitant price and awkward interface.

Did they pull some inspiration from Star Trek: The Next Generation ? Possibly. A mainstay from the first episode, the ship’s chief engineer Geordi LaForge was notable as a Starfleet engineer with a disability. Blind since birth, Geordi wore a device referred to as a VISOR which allowed him to see. The device became a signature staple of the show and made Geordi one of the show’s most recognizable characters.

11 GUINAN COMBAT

Oh, Guinan. Played by Star Trek superfan Whoopi Goldberg, the bartender aboard the Enterprise proved to be a fan favorite character. Mysterious, seemingly ageless, and always there to offer a shoulder to lean on, fans loved the down to Earth tone she brought to an otherwise fantastical piece of hard science fiction.

Guinan doesn’t interact all that much with the crew as a hold, appearing in only about 30 episodes or so, but that hasn’t helped her escape the fate of being a meme. Maybe it’s the unusual sense of style she possesses, maybe it’s that aloof and strange nature she carried. But ultimately it’s that Guinan tended to just be kind of goofy when the story didn’t call for her to be serious, that makes her pretty easy to meme.

10 HD MEMES

Many fans likely didn’t see Star Trek: The Next Generation in HD for a long while. Originally airing on syndicated networks, the show was hardly primed to be the mainstream success it came to be. A testament to the quality of storytelling and production, ST:TNG really did age like a fine wine over the years.

With the rise of blu-ray, remastered Star Trek was only a matter of time. Released between 2012 and 2014, Star Trek: The Next Generation got a spiffy HD remaster (though limitations of the original film prevent it from being released in an aspect ratio other than 4:3). The HD remasters are gorgeous, but many fans aren’t using them for memes, still sticking to the original images and screencaps that have been floating around the Internet for years.

9 99 PROBLEMS

Starfleet ships are pretty crazy when you think about it. The panels seem to spew sparks seemingly at random. None of the seats have seat belts, which provides a number of issues when the ship is inevitably blasted to hell by Romulans. And that’s not even counting the Holodecks, which seem to exist with the sole purpose of being literal death machines.

It’s even crazier when you consider the Enterprise itself. As a ship intended to perform peacekeeping duties and patrol the Neutral Zone, the ship housed a number of civilians. There’s a lot to go wrong day to day on a ship that also houses a fully functioning school and a nursery. Fortunately, they’ve got a pretty competent crew to keep things intact, but it’s a miracle that the number of casualties racked up during ST:TNG ’s run weren’t worse.

8 INCOMPLETE DATA

Poor Data. He gets stuck with no shortage of jokes about his Android nature. It makes him something of an easy target when people are cooking up memes about Star Trek , in much the same way that Spock’s logical nature can make it easy for him. But for all the easy jokes, Data is an incredibly notable character in Star Trek lore.

Essentially the reverse of Spock, Data’s quest to obtain humanity made him a quickly relatable and easily lovable character. He may have had more than his fair share of falters, be it injuring crew members when he didn’t mean to or putting the crew at risk with the presence of his brother Lore, but Data’s personable nature and humble backstory made him a classic character almost instantly.

7 WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE

Will Riker is an interesting addition to the cast. With Captain Picard intended to be a purely introspective leader (in direct opposition to Captain Kirk, who spent much of his time on away missions, punching baddies and bedding ladies), it was decided that his second-in-command should fill the void of an action-oriented character in a leadership role.

The end result was Commander Will Riker. A bit emotional when the time called for it, a consummate ladies man, and arguably over-qualified by season 3 of the series, Riker’s choice to remain second-in-command overtaking his own ship became a key character trait in later episodes. These days, fans mostly meme Riker for his track record with women, poking fun at his many romantic encounters to take place over the course of ST:TNG .

6 TRICORDER SELFIE

Star Trek has had more than its share of influences on real-world technology. ST:TNG episodes featured the popular datapads, a series of tablet devices that crew members regularly would use for reading and transferring documents around in lieu of paper. These datapads would eventually be spotted by Steve Jobs, who cited them as the inspiration for iPad style devices.

Star Trek probably didn’t do much to inspire the selfie, but without the history of Star Trek , we wouldn’t be where we are today. Unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where the technology has surpassed the presented history of Trek technology. It created real problems with series like Star Trek: Enterprise aired decades after Star Trek but had to reconcile the prospect of modern technology versus the old school tech aesthetic of the original series.

5 THREE BUTTONS

There’s a lot of thought put into Star Trek ’s design, to the point that the LCARs system that powers the computers of the Enterprise exists as a fan-created OS conversion. Still, there are a few intricacies of the system that fans have taken note of. For instance, this meme points out how many incredibly complex maneuvers seem to be available with just a few button presses.

We see all sorts of things like this. The movies especially showcase this, with things such as Data disabling a self-destruct that needed three crew members to activate all by himself, or Picard pulling up a specific play with just a few taps on a screen. Still, they’re cheats all done in the favor of making the story more interesting. After all, who wants to watch a movie that features 20 minutes of Picard navigating an archaic file structure?

4 ANDROID SMARTPHONE

Naturally, Star Trek has been on the forefront of modern technology. However, it might be safe to say that this isn’t what they had in mind when they crafted this excellent moment from the episode “Phantasms.” Here Data was having strange dreams, which ultimately led to him seemingly losing his mind and even injuring Counsellor Troi.

Naturally, the episode ended with Data being fine, the dreams being the result of his android brain helping him resolve how best to destroy a parasitic organism infecting the Enterprise. Though the episode is hailed as an ST:TNG classic, it’s unlikely that this one particular image from Data’s dream, of Picard answering a phone inside his torso, is what the creators of Android had in mind when creating a new smartphone.

3 ARTIFICIAL HEART REPLACEMENT

Have you ever thought about how wildly inconsistent the seemingly magical science of Star Trek can be? One episode featured Worf being paralyzed by a falling barrel and begging his close friend Riker to help him commit suicide, as per a Klingon tradition. The whole episode is played up as a deeply philosophical affair, but then at the end of the episode a doctor shows up and just gives Worf a new spine, no questions asked.

Captain Picard has a similar unique story. Stabbed in the chest while still a Starfleet cadet, Picard received an artificial heart. Obviously a marvelous medical feat, but how is there not a modern solution for Picard’s receding hairline? Truth be told this was once a consideration, with early footage of Patrick Stewart wearing a toupee appearing years ago, but one look at that footage highlights why producers opted not to go with the look.

2 PHASER GUNS

Already in his late 40s, Patrick Stewart had the odds against him when he was cast as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Fans were somewhat put off by the much older Captain, given the years where they had been used to the much younger and more action prone Captain Kirk.

But damn, did Patrick Stewart prove them wrong. Even today, at age 77, Patrick Stewart is ripped and makes you feel like you’re lazy. Picard carried this on, too, in both the television show and following movies. Sure, he was more distinguished than other Captains, opting to settle matters with words as opposed to fists, but when it came time to throw down you definitely didn’t want to be on Picard’s bad side.

1 DANGEROUS MISSION

To be fair, this is a problem that every iteration of Star Trek has had so far. When you’re going down to a strange planet to encounter an unknown entity, who better to take planetside than every executive officer on the ship? Routinely, the likes of the Enterprise’s chief engineer, operations officer, tactical officer, commanding officer, and even the Captain will venture down into the unknown.

So what happens to the Enterprise if one of them dies? Or worse, just imagine the upheaval if all of them die. For a dangerous mission, you wouldn’t dream of sending crew members that important. Still, it has to happen. After all, Star Trek is a television program above all else, and no one would care about anything that happened planet-side if every excursion featured a group of no-name red shirts with no emotional attachment.

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30 of the Best Star Trek Memes of the Week (March 12, 2024)

This past week, those of us living in the United States experienced a time change. Daylight savings time has officially begun, making all of us go to work an hour earlier than we did just last week. 

While that's all standard and routine, we're not the only ones going through a time change. Star Trek had a significant shift in the canon timeline in the past year, correcting some contradictions in the series timeline. An episode of Star Trek; Strange New World pushed back the timeline so the Eugenics War didn't canonically occur in the 1990s. Instead, time travelers going back to stop said events from occurring have messed up the timeline, but the rise of Khan happens regardless of those time travelers' best efforts. The pushing back of the timeline is a necessity, much like the deletion of an extra hour this Saturday night. If you can't keep these Star Trek timelines straight, these Star Trek memes might help you out. 

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Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence technology, you can now see those static images come to life. And they look like absolute dogshit.

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But it was the Picard Facepalm meme that really caught our eye. The image comes from the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation , season three, episode 13. And the video created with Luma takes that screenshot of Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, and moves his hand to reveal a face. But something is very, very wrong.

As Brown tweeted, “Who is this imposter??!” And imposter is right. The new video looks nothing like Patrick Stewart, while the animation features so many of the issues that AI currently struggles with. The hand, for instance, appears to transform into something warped, where some of the fingers are extremely long. And Picard’s thumb suddenly becomes twisted in a way that makes it look like his right thumb somehow jumped onto his left hand. It’s all a mess.

The weirdest thing about choosing to animate this meme, in particular, is that it was taken from a video that already exists. Other memes in the thread come from still photos that weren’t captured from a source video. But we know exactly what Picard actually looks like when his face is revealed.

In the actual 1990 episode of the show, titled “ Deja Q ,” Picard doesn’t move his hand so much as he looks up, revealing his face with eyes wide open. In the AI-generated version, it obviously looks nothing like the real actor, but it also expresses a completely different emotion.

All of this brings us back to one of the central questions facing users of consumer-facing AI tech: What are we using it for ? Some people seem convinced that exercises like this reveal some kind of hidden truth behind the images we’re so familiar with. We saw this reasoning frequently back in late 2022 when AI image generators were first taking off.

As the New York Post put it, “AI now lets you expose unseen secrets of legendary artwork.” But that’s obviously nonsense. We’re not learning anything about the real story behind a classic painting or, in this case, the original TV show. We’re just seeing a computer-driven animated shitpost.

AI video is fun for dicking around on the internet, especially when it produces something horrifyingly wrong. Remember Will Smith eating spaghetti last year? The entire appeal of that video is that it existed as a kind of glitch, both disturbing and inhuman, much like our imposter Picard.

But where does that leave us when the novelty wears off and these tools look much more realistic? Does anyone care to see an AI version of Picard that’s only slightly different from the real TV show and not extremely messed up?

Strangely enough, the rumors coming out of Hollywood suggest studio executives think there’s a future in media tailored to be completely unique to the individual watching it.

It remains to be seen whether anyone really wants media that only represents their most specific desires. Part of the fun in consuming media—whether it’s books, music, movies, or TV shows—is that you’re getting to experience a story that someone with a vision for that story wanted to tell. If everything is customized to meet whatever I’m using to prompt the story, it’s an experience that would logically create more alienation from the rest of society. By trying to create something perfect for yourself, you fail to connect with any other person, creating a media bubble that becomes impregnable.

However, we’d be loathe to predict how AI will be used 10 years from now to create different forms of media online. Who knows? Maybe hyper-customized movies and TV shows will be a profitable path for media executives. Stranger things have certainly happened before. But much like so many of the recent consumer tech innovations of the past 15 years , it seems unlikely they’ll make people feel good about the world.

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It’s an open secret that Wil Wheaton has a complicated relationship with the Star Trek fandom–after all, many fans can’t quite seem to separate the actor from his character, the annoyingly eager Wesley Crusher. Back in the day, though, it seems that Wheaton had an equally annoying time with Star Trek directors as he did with fans. When reviewing old episodes of The Next Generation, he once noted that most directors would give him derogatory nicknames or even physically move him around the set thanks to his young age.

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Like most crazy stories Wil Wheaton has to tell about Star Trek, this one popped up in the most unexpected of places. Back in the day, the actor applied both his experience and his writing talents to reviewing different TNG episodes, including the stinker-filled season 1.

When reviewing the early episode “Where No One Has Gone Before,” the Wesley Crusher actor ended up putting most of the show’s directors on blast.

It all started with Wil Wheaton recounting a weird bit of the episode where Captain Picard referred to Wesley Crusher in a dismissive way, calling him “the boy.” Onscreen, the young character stands up for himself, reminding the captain that he has a name.

At this point in his review, Wheaton began discussing how “I had a similar conversation with just about every director we ever had on the show.”

Despite being a gifted and acclaimed young actor, Wil Wheaton said that most of the show’s directors “insisted on calling me ‘the boy’ or ‘the kid’ while on set.”

Sadly, that means this is one case where art really did imitate reality and Crusher’s onscreen indignation matched Wheaton’s exasperating offscreen experiences.

Even worse, the actor said that “most of them favored grabbing me by the elbow and moving me around the set.” Bitterly, he noted that they did this “rather than, you know, giving me direction like I was a person or a professional or anything like that.”

As a clear indication of how annoyed he still was by all of this, Wil Wheaton named some names.

He said that “the worst offender” was a director named Cliff Bole. He may not be a household name among Trek fans, but he was responsible for directing some great TNG episodes, including the two-parter “The Best of Both Worlds” and the comedy romp “Qpid.”

In a weird bit of trivia, Star Trek’s Bolian race is named after him, and a tourist destination on their homeworld, “The Cliffs of Bole,” is an even more direct reference.  

Rob Bowman Was A Pleasant Exception

Fortunately, Wil Wheaton pointed out that at least one director of The Next Generation treated him right. That director was “Where No One Has Gone Before” director Rob Bowman, whom Wheaton later said “treated me really well.”

It probably helped that Bowman himself was very young: he was only 27 when he directed this episode, and on his first day of work, producer Rick Berman mistook the young man for the pizza delivery guy.

Wheaton Didn’t Deserve This Treatment

While we’re glad to hear there was at least one exception, it’s sad to hear that Wil Wheaton hated most of the Star Trek directors he worked with. His Wesley Crusher character may have been annoyingly written at times, but Wheaton himself is a major part of Star Trek’s early success and should never have been dismissed due to his young age.

If you have to criticize Wheaton, you should do it for the right reasons–like the cringe-inducing time he called Larry David “appalling” and “unforgivable” for choking an Elmo doll on the Today show.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media.

The campaigns of the Democratic president and Republican former president enthusiastically create and share content trying to shape the narratives around both men. Biden’s campaign even recently posted a job seeking a manager of meme pages.

With tens of millions of people using social media as a primary information source, the battle of memes could affect who wins in November. Many Americans say they’re not excited about a Biden-Trump rematch and growing digital habits make it harder to reach people through traditional spaces for political advertising like print publications or television.

Memes can be an edgier, faster way to get a political point across than a block of text or a lengthy video. But online misfires have hurt candidates and created major controversies.

Here’s a look at how memes are shaping presidential politics.

First: What is a meme?

Memes have been around longer than you think.

The term “meme” was coined in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who used it to refer to a piece of information that is imitated and shared, be it a slogan, a behavior, an idea.

With the rise of internet culture, digital memes have skyrocketed in popularity. They often take the form of visual content like an image or a video with some kind of message that speaks to people who get it because of some knowledge they have or membership in a particular group. Memes don’t have to be funny or satirical, but that makes them more likely to be shared widely. And while politicians these days work to deliberately create and share memes, some of the most well-known ones were unintentionally sparked.

One of the earliest memes of the modern era was former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s enthusiastic scream the night of the Iowa caucuses, with videos and images of the Democrat’s guttural shriek being widely shared , drawing ridicule and damaging his already struggling presidential bid.

When President Barack Obama was moving into the White House in 2009, the photos of outgoing President George W. Bush with the text, “Miss me yet?” were broadly shared by Bush’s supporters.

A 2011 photo of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wearing sunglasses and staring at her phone became a popular meme the following year, “Texts from Hillary,” purporting to show her sending snarky texts to politicians and celebrities.

“If you do it well, you tap into something that the group agrees upon or is feeling suspicious about; you tap into something that connects with the audience,” said Rebecca Ortiz, an associate professor of advertising at Syracuse University who has researched the influence of memes around political identity.

How do the two candidates approach memes?

Biden’s campaign has created its own stockpile of photos and videos for distribution on official Biden-related accounts. According to a Biden campaign official, advisers are also looking to partner with third-party creators in the coming months, with the hopes of reaching the followings of users who already seem aligned with a pro-Biden message.

“We’re trying really hard to run a digital program that is authentic to our candidate, who is probably not spending all his time on Twitter — actually, he definitely is not,” said Clarke Humphrey, senior adviser for digital persuasion for the Biden campaign. “So I think we just have been really creative about how to leverage all the corners of the internet so that he can be where he needs to be without him actually having to go to those places necessarily.”

Trump, a prolific user of social media even before he ran for president, has long embraced memes and shared them, as have his very-online political aides and some of his adult children. His oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., shares them frequently and refers to himself on Instagram as a “Meme Wars General.”

The campaign did not offer any details about its digital team or its use of memes. Spokesperson Steven Cheung issued a statement calling out Biden’s videotaped flubs of speeches and moments of apparent confusion.

“Joe Biden is a walking, talking meme every time he shuffles into public view,” Cheung said.

What are some examples of their content?

Biden’s team has embraced “Dark Brandon,” reappropriating a right-wing conspiracy meme that depicted the president as a menacing force and used a nickname, “Brandon,” that become an in-joke among conservatives for insulting him.

While “Dark Brandon” originally depicted Biden as a shadowy threat, Democrats adopted it, using the image as a meme to mock conspiracy theories about Biden’s purported influence on events like the Super Bowl and portraying him as a powerful force to tout his accomplishments.

Now, the campaign sells signs, mugs, baby onesies and even coffee bags portraying Biden as “Dark Brandon” with red laser eyes.

Trump and his staff regularly share memes that glorify him in over-the-top ways, such as depicting him to be leading a band of dancing Bollywood soldiers.

In April, right before the total solar eclipse swept across North America, Trump shared a meme video on his Truth Social media account that featured clips of people staring up at the sky wearing eclipse glasses and cheering as the sky darkened, before cutting to an image of the sun with a large silhouette of Trump’s head blocking it out as people cheer.

And both the Biden and Trump campaigns quickly clip potentially embarrassing videos of their opponent and post them online within minutes, injecting those moments into the social media bloodstream and often driving traditional news coverage.

When have the memes gone wrong?

Trump and his campaign often share content created by outside meme-makers — often geared to his base supporters — and sometimes disavow content that stirs outrage later.

In 2016 when he shared a meme about Clinton that appeared to depict the Star of David atop a pile of cash, evoking an antisemitic trope. Trump deleted the image but called it “a basic star, often used by sheriffs.”

Last month, Trump drew backlash for sharing a video meme on Truth Social that included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.

The “unified Reich” meme was created by an outside group of meme makers that The New York Times reported has collaborated with the Trump campaign. The Dilley Meme Team describes itself as “America’s greatest MAGA Members” and “Trump’s Online War Machine” with their creations sometimes shared by Trump himself.

The campaign said the video was shared by a staffer who saw it online and did not see the reference. Trump’s campaign denied it coordinates with the group but said it appreciates the effort of outside creators.

Brenden Dilley, who leads the Dilley Meme Team, did not respond to emailed questions about the group’s work but posted a reply on X saying he would grant an interview in January 2025, after the next presidential inauguration.

Whose memes are going furthest?

It’s hard to say. Both candidates have tens of millions of followers across social media networks, as do their campaign accounts, but it’s difficult to track the number of times any particular meme is shared, or remixed and shared again.

Trump has more social media followers than Biden on Instagram, TikTok, Truth Social (Trump’s social media network) and X, though the former president has only used X once since his account on the site, then known as Twitter, was locked after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Trump’s lone post since then was to post his mug shot . It, too, has become a meme.

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Official: Stanford Star NiJaree Canady Enters the Transfer Portal

Ryan chapman | jun 17, 2024.

The biggest domino in the softball transfer portal just fell. 

Stanford superstar and reigning USA Softball Player of the Year NiJaree Canady has entered the transfer portal after reports surfaced over the weekend that she could be on the move .

Stanford pitcher NiJaree Canady has officially entered the transfer portal. She has two years of eligibility remaining. https://t.co/fEzxdgG5zM — D1Softball (@D1Softball) June 17, 2024

Canady led the Cardinal back to the Women’s College World Series, but Stanford ultimately didn’t have enough on the roster to support Canady and reach the Championship Series. 

As a sophomore, the dominant right-hander closed with a 0.73 ERA after pitching 230 2/3 innings. She struck out 337 batters, allowing just 44 walks and 24 earned runs all year. 

She continued to develop her off-speed offerings, allowing her to add another wrinkle from her breakout freshman year. 

The Topeka, KS, product will have two years of eligibility remaining at her next stop, and Oklahoma will be in the horde of teams chasing the services of Canady. 

The Sooners are no strangers to high-profile pitcher transfers. 

A year ago, Jordy Bahl entered the portal to return to Nebraska after mowing through the field at the 2023 WCWS — including Canady’s Cardinal. 

OU head coach Patty Gasso and pitching coach Jennifer Rocha got active, eventually landing Kelly Maxwell to spearhead the 2024 pitching staff. 

In years prior, the Sooners have also had incredible success with a number of transfer pitchers. 

Over Oklahoma’s most recent four-peat alone, the Sooners have won with Giselle Juarez , Shannon Saile , Hope Trautwein , Alex Storako , Maxwell and Karlie Keeney , who all started their careers elsewhere.

The Sooners will lose 10 members of the 2024 national title team to graduation, and three others transferred out. 

With eight returners and eight incoming freshmen, OU has five roster spots to fill in the transfer portal . 

Left-handed pitcher Kierston Deal is slated to return for her junior season, as is reliever Paytn Monticelli . The Sooners signed freshman left-hander Audrey Lowry in the 2024 recruiting class. 

Oklahoma is expected to pursue two arms via the portal, and landing Canady would help Gasso reload with one of the nation’s premier pitchers as OU heads into the SEC in 2025. 

RYAN CHAPMAN

Ryan is deputy editor at AllSooners and covers a number of sports in and around Norman and Oklahoma City. Working both as a journalist and a sports talk radio host, Ryan has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team, the Oklahoma City Energy and more. Since 2019, Ryan has simultaneously pursued a career as both a writer and a sports talk radio host, working for the Flagship for Oklahoma sports, 107.7 The Franchise, as well as AllSooners.com. Ryan serves as a contributor to The Franchise’s website, TheFranchiseOK.com, which was recognized as having the “Best Website” in 2022 by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters. Ryan holds an associate’s degree in Journalism from Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, OK. 

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8 Biggest Ways TNG’s Wolf 359 Battle Changed Star Trek

A great geordi star trek: tng episode redeems one of his worst, “that pissed me off”: enterprise actor gives his honest take on star trek: discovery’s finale twist.

• Elizabeth Dennehy shares that the actors had no clue how TNG's iconic episode would be resolved.
• Dennehy and Jonathan Frakes had to play multiple facets of their characters' relationship due to the uncertainty.
• Shelby's role as Riker's First Officer added complexity, as the actors pondered if she was a hero or a villain.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 's greatest Borg episode, "The Best of Both Worlds", was also a cliffhanger for the actors, says Elizabeth Dennehy. As the smart and ambitious Commander Shelby, Dennehy was one of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's most memorable guest stars. A Borg expert, Shelby was a rival to Commander Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Yet Shelby became Riker's First Officer when he took command of the USS Enterprise-D after Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) was assimilated by the Borg.

Elizabeth Dennehy appeared on The 7th Rule hosted by Cirroc Lofton and Ryan T. Husk to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1", which was TNG 's first cliffhanger that rocked fans in the summer of 1990. Dennehy pointed out that the actors also "had no clue" how TNG 's cliffhanger would be resolved , and that she and Jonathan Frakes played multiple aspects of Riker and Shelby's relationship at once in anticipation of what would eventually happen when they returned to film part 2 three months later. Read Dennehy's quote and watch The 7th Rule video below:

Something that I don’t think a lot of people realize is that we only had the first script. We didn’t have the second script. When we shot part one, we had no idea what was gonna happen. No clue. We were waiting too, those three months… When Jonathan and I were talking about the relationship between these two characters… First of all, it was the first time they’d ever had a cliffhanger… One of the things we talked about was that we had no idea where this relationship was gonna go. And we had no idea if they were gonna end up falling in love with each other. Or was I a Borg in disguise? We had no clue. Was I a villain or a hero? So we had to kind of play all of that all at once in case of any option that they chose.

TNG's Battle of Wolf 359 was the most devastating conflict until DS9's Dominion War, and its aftermath lasted into Star Trek's early 25th century.

"The Best of Both Worlds" Was A Turning Point For Star Trek: The Next Generation

Tng was on fire and didn't look back after their borg cliffhanger.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "The Best of Both Worlds" took the series to another level. After a rocky first season, TNG began producing excellent Star Trek episodes and loyal but skeptical fans gradually began to see the greatness of the series. But TNG 's first cliffhanger was a paradigm shift. "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1" ending with Captain Picard becoming Locutus of Borg rocked viewers, who waited with bated breath throughout the summer of 1990 to see what would happen to Picard and the USS Enterprise-D. As did the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Star Trek: The Next Generation installing Riker as Acting Captain would have become permanent if Patrick Stewart's contract negotiations failed and he left the series.

"The Best of Both Worlds" continues to be recognized at the top of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's best episodes and other Star Trek series have successfully utilized cliffhanger endings. Of course, the Borg became iconic and popular Star Trek villains. Elizabeth Dennehy didn't return to TNG after "The Best of Both Worlds" but she was unforgettable as Commander Shelby. Dennehy reprised her role in Star Trek: Picard season 3, with Shelby getting her first name of Elizabeth and leading the USS Enterprise-F as an Admiral. Following the blockbuster success of "The Best of Both Worlds," there was no turning back for Star Trek: The Next Generation becoming one of the greatest sci-fi TV series ever.

Source: The 7th Rule

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