I think it's possible to get a little salty about the state of things without turning the community (such as it is) into a wretched hive of scum and villainy - I think you're in the clear.
It's funny, I don't think the current storyline has been bad, necessarily - just uninteresting. Maybe they were a year or two too late to hop on the multiversal bandwagon, even though it makes perfect sense in a Trek context.
Important note about one of the prizes:
Pulse Phaser Weapon Pack
This pack is account bound, and not reclaimable. It will be granted to the character who claims the Grand Prize.
This is probably well beyond the scope of what these nights are about, but I do wonder what they did with the "Picard" season three bridge set.
I actually don't have a satisfactory answer to my own question.
Star Trek was a prominent part of the popular culture when I was a kid, so it was easy to have a basic knowledge of TOS without actually seeing it.
I think I probably saw Star Trek IV first, and the first episode I can clearly remember watching is "Unification II", though I'm pretty certain I saw something before then.
I was mostly concerned about the docking pylons being too realistic, but I can't guarantee that wouldn't happen, either.
It looks cool, but potentially dangerous?
I think those have all been added, IIRC.
Not sure about the Enterprise-G.
I think the episode implies ethical issues, but stops well short of spelling them out. The fact that Kingsley concealed the childrens' true natures for as long as she did suggests that their research was not on the up-and-up.
My best guess is that the station's research, on paper, fell within Federation regulations, but their actual work did not. But that's stretching pretty far, given that no one explicitly raises the issue.
This is the first I've ever heard of a login required at star trek dot com.
It's mainly a charity thingie - TrekCore has a summary.
Maybe more importantly, it doesn't look like they're doing any panels on Star Trek Day this year.
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
I think the season really gets cooking with "Boom," and there's a string of pretty solid episodes in there.
All in all, a pretty average season (and I don't mean that in a bad way - it was just pretty typical highs and lows).
I think the ship is a standard reclaimable, account-wide unlock.