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TO BOLDLY POLL WHERE NO MAN HAS POLLED BEFORE

Welcome to Star Trek Polls! All polls of mine can be found at #reversethepollarity. Every week, Wednesday at midnight PST, a poll will be posted with a week allotted for answering. Bonus polls might pop up with fun questions, but generally, I’ve started this because I’m so interested in the fandom’s thoughts and opinions.

Poll suggestions are open! I don’t make any promises or a timely response since I queue these, but I will consider suggestions throughly. I do keep a spreadsheet of all questions I’ve done with results and Phenomena of the Posts so I hope to avoid repeats unless there’s specific reasoning for it. If there’s a specific space phenomena you want to see, feel free to submit that to me as well. I’m always looking for more.

My name is Chaos, I use they/he pronouns in general. My personal blog is risingchaos where I post about various fandom stuff, mostly Star Trek.

Enjoy the page, enjoy the blog, check out my main for other ST talk or to just chat. I love to talk about stuff. :)

Phenomena of the Post: Helix Nebula

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Which Ship Would You Want to Be On?

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (TOS)

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D (TNG)

USS Defiant NX-74205 (DS9)

USS Voyager NCC-74656 (VOY)

Enterprise NX-01 (ENT)

USS Discovery NCC-1031 (DIS)

USS Cerritos NCC-75567 (LD)

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (SNW)

Other (tell me in reblogs/comments)

Voting ended onDec 17, 2025

Phenomena of the Post: Messier 83

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Which is Your Favorite Star Trek: TOS Movie?

The Motion Picture

The Wrath of Khan

The Search for Spock

The Voyage Home

The Final Frontier

The Undiscovered Country

Voting ended onDec 10, 2025

Phenomena of the Post: Lagoon Nebula

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Favorite Trek Trope?

Interfering Atmosphere

Controls Aren’t Responding

Warp Core Breach

Holodeck Malfunction

Only Ship Around

No Response

We’ve Got One Shot

(Not So) Simple Mission

Voting ended onDec 3, 2025

Phenomena of the Post: Whirlpool Galaxy

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Of the given characters…

Who Needs To Go Touch Grass?

Fenton Mudd

Reginald Barclay

Quark

Tom Paris

Malcolm Reed

Q

Voting ended onNov 26, 2025

Phenomena of the Post: Westerlund 2

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Who Is Your Favorite First Officer?

Spock

William Riker

Kira Nerys

Chakotay

T’Pol

Saru

Michael Burnham

Una Chin-Riley

Jack Ransom

Other

Voting ended onNov 19, 2025

Phenomena of the post: Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxy

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Favorite TOS Time Travel Episode?

Tomorrow is Yesterday (1x19)

The City on the Edge of Forever (1x28)

Assignment: Earth (2x26)

All of Our Yesterdays (3x23)

Voting ended onNov 12, 2025

This is another one that I wanted to do all time travel episodes for, but turns out DS9 has an insane amount so that’ll be subject to another poll.

TV descriptions from IMDb of all episodes under the fold (plus our beloved PotP) for those who don’t have titles memorized for fair reasons.

Tomorrow is Yesterday - The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.

The City on the Edge of Forever - When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.

Assignment: Earth - While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.

All of Our Yesterdays - When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.

Phenomena of the post: Comet Catalina

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What Classic Episode Are You Watching First For Halloween?

Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Schisms (TNG)

Empok Nor (DS9)

The Thaw (VOY)

Impulse (ENT)

Voting ended onNov 7, 2025

For those who'd like a refresher, under the fold (plus my dear PotP). All descriptions are pulled from IMDb.

Wolf in the Fold (TOS, 2x14) - Kirk and the Enterprise computer become detectives after Scotty is accused of murdering women on a pleasure planet.

Schisms (6x05)- Commander Riker's inability to fall asleep begins to show in other members of the crew in other forms, putting the Enterprise on the trail of a mystery.

Empok Nor (5x24)- While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.

The Thaw (2x23) - Voyager finds a group of people in connected stasis chambers where something has gone terribly wrong.

Impulse (3x05) - Enterprise answers a distress signal from a stranded Vulcan ship, only when arriving they find the ship completely desolate, wrecked - and filled with Vulcan zombies.

Phenomena of the Post: Jack O’ Lantern Nebula

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Do You Think R’Mor Ever Got the Message Out?

Yes, he set up a will and someone else released them

No, he never would’ve sent them

No, he never set something up

He gave the chip to the Romulan government, they sent it

He gave the chip to the Romulan government, they did not send it

Other (share in notes)

Voting ended onNov 5, 2025

Reminder for those who want/need it.

In the Voyager 1x06 episode “Eye of the Needle”, they make contact with a Romulan scientist in the Alpha Quadrant, Telek R’Mor. Unable to transport the crew off their ship to his, they send him back with messages from the entire crew. At the end of the episode, we find out R’Mor died in 2367, four years before Voyager goes missing. We don’t know if the messages ever got out.

Also, I am so sorry this is late and that the Halloween poll didn’t go out last week! My queue got messed up during travel and I didn’t notice until today when I checked my queue. I’ll put the Halloween one out on Friday for everyone to vote on it. Please forgive me my grievances.

Phenomena of the Post: Antennae Galaxies

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What Earth Historical Event Do You Want To Know More About?

World War Three

Eugenics Wars

First Contact

Invention of Warp Drive

Early Stages of the United Federation of Planets

Other

Voting ended onOct 22, 2025

Also, if you’d be so inclined, I’m wanting to do a Halloween poll and am looking for spooky episodes to include, and would love to know what you’d like to have included. I’ve got a post with more information, I appreciate all contributions. :)

Phenomena of the Post: Cat's Eye Nebula

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Favorite Movie Series?

The Original Series

The Next Generation

Alternate Original Series/Kelvinverse

Voting ended onOct 15, 2025

Phenomena of the post: Saturn’s Rings

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HALLOWEEN POLL HELP

Hey folks! I’m crowdsourcing for the first time. I’m going to do a poll on the best Star Trek Halloween episode for the 22nd (so it’s done by the following week and completed by Halloween), and I want to know all of your thoughts on it. If you’d be so kind, please reblog or comment with your favorite episodes to watch to enjoy the spooky season! Common answers will go into the poll, along with some of the already established Halloween/horror episodes.

Thank you so much for your help, and I hope you enjoy the polls. Reminder that you can submit poll ideas via the ask tab, I love a good curiosity. :)

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These are the seven worst rated episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series from IMDb.

Which One Is Most Deserving Of It?

And The Children Shall Lead (3x04)

The Way to Eden (3x20)

Spock's Brain (3x01)

The Alternative Factor (1x27)

The Omega Glory (2x23)

Catspaw (2x07)

The Lights of Zetar (3x18)

Voting ended onOct 8, 2025

TV descriptions from IMDb of all episodes and their ratings (plus our lovely PotP) under the fold for those who don’t have titles memorized for fair reasons.

And The Children Shall Lead, 5.2 - The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

The Way to Eden, 5.4 - A group of idealistic hippies, led by an irrational leader, come aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Spock's Brain, 5.7 - The crew of the Enterprise pursues a mysterious woman who has abducted Spock's brain.

The Alternative Factor, 5.7 - Existence itself comes under threat from a man's power-struggle with his alternate self, with the Enterprise's strained dilithium crystals presenting his key to a final solution.

The Omega Glory, 6.1 - Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.

Catspaw, 6.2 - Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.

The Lights of Zetar, 6.2 - A mysterious, twinkling mass of sapient energy ravages an important archive and Scotty's new girlfriend may be linked to it.

Phenomena of the Post: Tarantula Nebula

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Favorite Uniform Design?

The Original Series + Strange New Worlds

The Next Generation + Lower Decks

Deep Space Nine (beginning uniform) + Voyager

Deep Space Nine (final uniform)

Enterprise

Discovery (beginning uniform)

Discovery (final uniform)

Prodigy

Voting ended onOct 1, 2025

Images (and our stunning Phenomena of the Post) under the fold.

TOS and SNW.

TNG (Lower Decks has similar uniforms).

DS9 and Voyager.

DS9 part two.

Enterprise.

Discovery. There’s technically a third uniform but it didn’t stick around so I didn’t add it.

Discovery part two.

Prodigy.

Phenomena of the post: Centaurus Stellar Nursery

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A little aside for anyone who’s reblogged my last poll (or any of them), please note I read every single one and thoroughly love seeing everyone’s stories. It’s one of my favorite things with these polls, finding out new stuff about the fandom and the different ways we all interact with it. If you guys want, I can post more that bring more stories or conversations. If anyone has recommendations, please shoot me an ask or a message. :)

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What Show Did You Watch First?

The Original Series

The Animated Series

The Next Generation

Deep Space Nine

Voyager

Enterprise

Discovery

Picard

Lower Decks

Prodigy

Strange New Worlds

Voting ended onSep 24, 2025

Phenomena of the post: Crab Nebula

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Best Antagonist Species/Species Grouping?

Romulans

Cardassians

Borg

The Dominion

Xindi

Klingon

Suliban

Other

Voting ended onSep 17, 2025

Phenomenal of the Post: Messier 74/Phantom Galaxy