RTR Blog: Top 5 Trek Holidays
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy anything else you celebrate from Matt and I here at Random Trek Review. In honour of the holiday season, I am counting down the TOP 5 Trekian holidays I wish were real, so I could celebrate them!
5 - Gratitude Festival (Bajoran - DS9)
Mentioned numerous times throughout Deep Space Nine (The Nagus, Tears of the Prophets and Rapture), the gratitude festival was an annual Bajoran celebration of great importance, dating back to 17600 BC! We learn very little about the holiday other than it used to be called Peldor Joi, and that each year one person presides over the festival; Major Kira presided over the festival the third time it was hosted on the station in the episode Fascinations. We also learn that it is customary to write your problems on a scroll and to burn them symbolizing that the problems have disappeared and turned to ash. Although we don't get a lot about the Gratitude Festival, we get just enough to keep me intrigued and wanting more. A lot of our holidays center around giving thanks, so it makes sense that other cultures and planets do the same!!
4 - Federation Day (Federation - TNG/ENT)
I would love to see a whole episode on a future series dedicated to Federation Day. Similar to Canada Day, Independence Day, etc. It makes sense that the Federation would celebrate the signing of the Coalition of planets (These are the Voyages). We've gotten little nuggets throughout the years in books, deleted scenes, and games but nothing really concrete other than Deanna Troi choosing "federation day" as a poker variant in the episode Outcast. I love this level of world/universe building in Star Trek and would really love to see what kind of celebrations take place on Federation Day!
3 - Prixin (Talaxian - VOY)
Here in Ontario, we have a holiday in February called Family Day, this is essentially the Earth equivalent of Prixin. It's really a simple holiday, but I loved that it got a big chunk of the Voyager episode Mortal Coil! We learn a little about Prixin in the episode including that it takes place over multiple days and that fruit compote was eaten served with root nectar aged over several weeks. I
always though this holiday fit well with what we know about Neelix and thought it was really sweet that the crew celebrated it along with him each of the years they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant!
2- Ancestor's Eve (Voyager)
I know that not everyone loves the episode 11:59, but for anyone that lived through the millennium and all of the hoop-la that surrounded the year 2000, it wasn't surprising that Voyager tried to capitalize on it. I always liked the idea that all holidays were made up by someone at some point, so why not Neelix and Ancestors Eve. It these nice little added touches that makes Voyager one of my favourite series. I also like idea that in the future our ancestors will have so much more information about us, pictures, videos, messages, internet search histories....well hopefully not that. But regardless, I hope in the future, people will feel more connected to their ancestors just by the sheer fact that they will know so much more about us than we know about ours!
1 - Cpt. Picard Day (Enterprise-D)
Was there ever any doubt? Captain Picard Day is obviously the greatest holiday/celebration that any of the Star Trek writers ever came up with. The kids drawings and models mixed with Riker ribbing on Picard about the whole thing is just classic! I think that it is the stinger to an all time great episode of the Next Generation helps a lot, but regardless, I think that everyone has a special spot in their heart for Cpt. Picard Day and would probably celebrate it if it were a real holiday on Earth. Who knows maybe we will see it again next month when Picard debuts!! Here's hoping!
Thanks so much for reading everybody, again happy holidays and can't wait to see all of the great new Star Trek stuff to come in 2020!! RTR will be along for the ride, hopefully you will continue to join us!!
For more great content from RTR, check out our most recent podcast on the Voyager episode "State of Flux" here: http://randomtrekreview.blogspot.com/2019/12/rtr-35-no-maury-povich-in-delta-quadrant.html
5 - Gratitude Festival (Bajoran - DS9)
Mentioned numerous times throughout Deep Space Nine (The Nagus, Tears of the Prophets and Rapture), the gratitude festival was an annual Bajoran celebration of great importance, dating back to 17600 BC! We learn very little about the holiday other than it used to be called Peldor Joi, and that each year one person presides over the festival; Major Kira presided over the festival the third time it was hosted on the station in the episode Fascinations. We also learn that it is customary to write your problems on a scroll and to burn them symbolizing that the problems have disappeared and turned to ash. Although we don't get a lot about the Gratitude Festival, we get just enough to keep me intrigued and wanting more. A lot of our holidays center around giving thanks, so it makes sense that other cultures and planets do the same!!4 - Federation Day (Federation - TNG/ENT)
I would love to see a whole episode on a future series dedicated to Federation Day. Similar to Canada Day, Independence Day, etc. It makes sense that the Federation would celebrate the signing of the Coalition of planets (These are the Voyages). We've gotten little nuggets throughout the years in books, deleted scenes, and games but nothing really concrete other than Deanna Troi choosing "federation day" as a poker variant in the episode Outcast. I love this level of world/universe building in Star Trek and would really love to see what kind of celebrations take place on Federation Day!3 - Prixin (Talaxian - VOY)
Here in Ontario, we have a holiday in February called Family Day, this is essentially the Earth equivalent of Prixin. It's really a simple holiday, but I loved that it got a big chunk of the Voyager episode Mortal Coil! We learn a little about Prixin in the episode including that it takes place over multiple days and that fruit compote was eaten served with root nectar aged over several weeks. I always though this holiday fit well with what we know about Neelix and thought it was really sweet that the crew celebrated it along with him each of the years they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant!
2- Ancestor's Eve (Voyager)
I know that not everyone loves the episode 11:59, but for anyone that lived through the millennium and all of the hoop-la that surrounded the year 2000, it wasn't surprising that Voyager tried to capitalize on it. I always liked the idea that all holidays were made up by someone at some point, so why not Neelix and Ancestors Eve. It these nice little added touches that makes Voyager one of my favourite series. I also like idea that in the future our ancestors will have so much more information about us, pictures, videos, messages, internet search histories....well hopefully not that. But regardless, I hope in the future, people will feel more connected to their ancestors just by the sheer fact that they will know so much more about us than we know about ours!1 - Cpt. Picard Day (Enterprise-D)
Thanks so much for reading everybody, again happy holidays and can't wait to see all of the great new Star Trek stuff to come in 2020!! RTR will be along for the ride, hopefully you will continue to join us!!
For more great content from RTR, check out our most recent podcast on the Voyager episode "State of Flux" here: http://randomtrekreview.blogspot.com/2019/12/rtr-35-no-maury-povich-in-delta-quadrant.html
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