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Please make sure you have read and understood Memory Alpha's category creation guidelines before editing this page. Category suggestions can be used to suggest a single category, multiple categories in the same "tree branch" or "parent category," or to determine which categories will contain or be contained by other categories.

Successful suggestions can be enacted and moved from this page to the new category's talk page. Unsuccessful suggestions can be moving from this page to the archive. When moving a successful discussion to the new category's talk page, change the discussion title to "Creation" and add {{from|Memory Alpha:Category suggestions}} underneath the header.

One of the reasons we discuss categories first is because we need to ensure that the category tag, when circumstances call for it, contains the correct sort keys to arrange the list in a predetermined order.

There are three types of categories on Memory Alpha:

Species history

For all the species/interspecies-specific history pages. Subcat of "History". -LauraCC (talk) 13:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

-LauraCC (talk) 18:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Weak support, we'd need to wordsmith a better name, but I understand the intention. Societal histories? Historical topics? Should consider whether American history should be included; answer may be yes, may be no. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

"Category:Cultural histories", perhaps. -LauraCC (talk) 20:03, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

In that case, we could add:

-LauraCC (talk) 02:52, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

And/or a "Histories" template with the headers "Species" (e.g. Ferengi), "Planet" (e.g. Earth), "Ethnicity" (e.g. Irish), "Government" (e.g. Federation), and "Inter-species" (e.g. Vulcan-Romulan). -LauraCC (talk) 04:00, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Weak support of Cultural histories, (oppose to template,) but realistically -- I think Category:History is a fine place for this information to live. Recommend archiving otherwise. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:46, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
What does everyone else think? LauraCC (talk) 16:52, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
If no one minds, based on what I read, we're talking various cultural species within Star Trek. In RL, we call it anthropology. Perhaps Category:Anthropology could be a potential. It's still a part of history, but is recognized in Star Trek as a career (wasn't Vash in DS9/TNG a cultural anthropologist?). Sdavidscotthood (talk) 01:46, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Alternate reality establishments/restaurants

I recently added multiple pages for all the Kelvin Memorial Archive and Starfleet Headquarters restaurants listed in Star Trek Into Darkness, and there's quite a few of them now, plus the Shipyard Bar and Port of San Francisco bar. -LauraCC (talk) 20:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

In addition, non-restaurant establishments include the Royal Children's Hospital, Nokia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. -LauraCC (talk) 21:02, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Currently, they're all listed under "locations (alternate reality)" but that's also a catch-all for planets, parks, streets, etc, as opposed to businesses/companies/brands. -LauraCC (talk) 16:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Chakotay's tribe members

Subcat of Category:Chakotay's tribe (and possibly Category:Families), given the recent influx of tribe member names from Star Trek: Prodigy, and given that not all of these individuals resided on Trebus, so "Trebus inhabitants" wouldn't suffice. -LauraCC (talk) 23:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

We currently list individuals, objects, and religious concepts in the same category. -LauraCC (talk) 17:15, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

This could probably be implemented by using a bot to replace "Category:Humans Category:Chakotay's tribe" and "Category:Chakotay's tribe Category:Humans" with the new category. -LauraCC (talk) 01:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

If enacted, "Category:Humans" should stay. I don't love how general "Chaktoay's tribe members" is. I don't remember how it's phrased in Prodigy, but would "Trebus inhabitants" capture this appropriately? Recommend we wrap up 2024 suggestions for archive ASAP. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:46, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
I meant because it would enable a bot to find all the people currently listed in the cultural category. "Humans" would then be added back, of course (unless there's an easier way to do it). LauraCC (talk) 20:01, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
As I said above, not all of these people lived on Trebus (ancestors like Ce Acatl, a 20th century teacher from Arizona) LauraCC (talk) 18:40, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Alternate idea: keep the individuals in "Chakotay's tribe", counting "tribe" like the word "family" in Category:Quark's family, and place things like Mountains of the Antelope Women and CHAH-mooz-ee in the new category "Chakotay's culture". LauraCC (talk) 13:49, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
I like this. Agreed that we shouldn't have individuals and cultural concepts mixed into the same category; "Chakotay's tribe" and "Chakotay's culture" are neat and tidy names to distinguish the two; and the number of articles seems large enough that we shouldn't collapse them to the general Category:Culture. —Atosen (talk) 00:19, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Insects

From the list @ User:LauraCC/Insects. -LauraCC (talk) 17:30, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I've removed some that are actually not insects, if anyone else knows of any I missed, feel free to remove them. -LauraCC (talk) 16:42, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

We have Earth insects already...I guess a lot of the non-Earth ones are only mentioned, not seen, and creature names could be misleading. -LauraCC (talk) 22:56, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Similar to my comment re: fish above, I'd prefer a more general category like "invertebrates". -- UncertainError (talk) 22:25, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
I never thought of that. LauraCC (talk) 22:26, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Sound(s)

To categorize all the sounds and sound-related pages/redirects @ User:LauraCC/Template:Animal vocalizations, sound, sound effects, Onomatopoeia, snoring, screaming (sometimes just a noise, no words), thunder, noise, cough, burp, sneeze, ringtone, Tinnitus, squeal, squeak, creak, rattle (sound), Acoustics, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 19:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

The last three in that list currently have no category - they're not communication, because they're noises made by inanimate objects. -LauraCC (talk) 16:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Only what would it be a subcategory of? "Physics"? "Energy"? "Communications"? "Science"? -LauraCC (talk) 00:13, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

And "music" could be a subcategory, perhaps. -LauraCC (talk) 19:15, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Oppose unless this idea is fleshed out, i.e. answering your own question of where to put this. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:30, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia has their sound page under "acoustics", which in turn is under "Applied and interdisciplinary physics", so "physics" and "communications" would be my best guess. LauraCC (talk) 01:33, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Earth ground vehicles

A subcat of Earth vehicles and ground vehicles.

-LauraCC (talk) 00:34, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Alternately, we could just put all the automobiles in "Category:Automobiles". Or have both "Earth ground vehicles" and "automobiles". -LauraCC (talk) 22:22, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Storm Front timeline

What would we call a category for things mentioned in the ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II" Nazi-occupied America timeline? There are a lot of cities (Oklahoma City, for instance) whose articles mainly exist because they're territories controlled either by Nazis or Americans, as listed on one particular map. -LauraCC (talk) 20:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

We've already got an article for World War II (Temporal War); not sure what a full category for this would get us that italicizing, to denote an alternate timeline, presently doesn't -User:Archer4real 16:07, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Here are the cities in question, for starters:

-LauraCC (talk) 00:10, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Support as "Category:Temporal War timeline", since that's what we call it, apparently. Archer4real, the only change would be swapping out Category:Alternate timelines for the new category on the pages in question. Everything would still be italicized as it is now. This is the same as what we did with Category:Confederation of Earth timeline. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

All the "map references" on ENT: "Storm Front"'s episode page, and anything seen in the time stream, or would that be separate because that's when things go back to the normal timeline? -LauraCC (talk) 01:40, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

"Incredible Tales stories" and "Incredible Tales contributors"

Two categories, one for all stories published in Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder (subcat of "Earth literature") and one for all the authors who wrote them (subcat of "Human authors", as they're all humans). There's a table on the magazine's page, but this would be beneficial for those who encounter them via a "random page" click. -LauraCC (talk) 04:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Oppose, don't see a strong benefit. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:32, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
What about categorizing the employees as "Incredible Tales personnel/employees", a la starship crew personnel categories (as opposed to freelancers who contributed)? Douglas Pabst and Stone are only categorized under Humans right now, and neither is a writer. LauraCC (talk) 01:04, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Sporting events

All items in "Sports" and "Events".

-LauraCC (talk) 04:08, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Stationery/art tools

Whatever you call it, listed at User:LauraCC/Art and writing. -LauraCC (talk) 02:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Some of the items on the list are art supplies, some are stationery and paper for writing and filing. -LauraCC (talk) 02:27, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

"Art materials"? "Stationery"? "Art tools?" "Art supplies"? "Artistic media"? -LauraCC (talk) 19:09, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Here's the list:

-LauraCC (talk) 02:06, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Plasma

From the lists @plasma, though might be better as a template. -LauraCC (talk) 00:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Human athletes

A subcategory of "humans" and "athletes".

-LauraCC (talk) 02:19, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

I noticed, alternately, that a lot of these individuals are fighters, so perhaps "martial artists" instead? (Or both). -LauraCC (talk) 21:53, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha symbol redirects

For all redirects to math/science pages consisting of symbols that are made up of non-letter/irregular letter characters, like &, %, $, °, ?, ¢, -, π, œ, *, ∞, =, ÷, +, ✓, √, ↘, ×,—, etc. These redirects are to be used in image transcriptions (e.g. instead of [[asterisk|*]] , just [[*]] ). -LauraCC (talk) 20:47, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Those that are more commonly used (but not easily accessible on a standard keyboard, unlike & and %, which are - not accessible as in "Ctrl+398P@", etc) could also be added to the unencoded section. -LauraCC (talk) 21:32, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Just discovered the advanced symbols drop down, so the suggestion above that I crossed out isn't necessary after all, but the redirect category would still be useful. -LauraCC (talk) 16:11, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Agency/organization abbreviations

A subcat of abbreviations for all short forms of company and agency names. -LauraCC (talk) 14:52, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Water vehicles

For types of boats and individual boats. -LauraCC (talk) 01:44, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Support. Maybe call it "Category:Watercraft" to mirror the phrasing of Category:Spacecraft. We should also have "Category:Aircraft".
Tangentially, after we create those two categories, I think we should make a pass through Category:Earth vehicles for any general vehicle types (like train, aircraft carrier, and hot air balloon) that would fit better in the non-Earth-specific categories. I think Category:Earth vehicles should be limited to named vehicles (like HMS Defiant) and brands/models (like Jeep), not general vehicle types. —Atosen (talk) 08:44, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
I went ahead and created Category:Watercraft and Category:Aircraft, and recategorised a bunch of things in Category:Earth vehicles to make it more focused.
One question that came up was how to categorise all the various hovercraft. Do we put them in Category:Ground vehicles because they fill that niche for any practical purpose (and they're already in Template:Ground vehicles), or do we put them in Category:Aircraft because they do fly? Or do they get their own Category:Hovercraft? —Atosen (talk) 05:27, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
I'm not sure about which they are, air or ground, but additionally, you could have a template or category for "Hover technology" (levitation boots aren't a vehicle). -LauraCC (talk) 13:24, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Planets or systems with starbases

Could I get a category for planets and systems that contain starbases? Getting to that point in my chart and would like to notate on my map. ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 02:41, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

What would it be called? "Starbase locations"? LauraCC (talk) 03:26, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

That would be fine, but anyone have a better idea? ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 01:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Oppose for now, please clarify what the benefits of this category would be. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
For an easy way to figure out what planets or systems has a starbase. Without going to every Starbase or every planet to find out that M-11 has Starbase 11 on it. Unless you know exactly what Starbase was on what planet its hard to figure it out. Yaroze86 (talk) 02:26, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I'll have to think about this more, but it seems like there should be a better way to achieve that. That said, a category wouldn't be bad per se, so I'll switch to neutral. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:50, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
I'd forgotten this wasn't my suggestion - when I saw the edit, I went back to this page, trying to remember what my rationale was for this. 😆 -LauraCC (talk) 02:29, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Children's books and young adult novels

Two separate categories - one for children's books, and one for YA novels/novelizations. (I have lists here, but I may have missed some of the titles. Please feel free to add any I neglected.)

-LauraCC (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Alternately, we could put them all in one big category, "Star Trek children's and young adult literature", or "Star Trek juvenile literature". Which of these options is the best choice? -LauraCC (talk) 01:37, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

  1. Two categories: "Star Trek children's literature" and "Star Trek young adult literature"/"Star Trek YA literature"
  2. One category: "Star Trek children's and young adult literature"
  3. One category: "Star Trek juvenile literature" (less wordy)

-LauraCC (talk) 00:46, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Roddenberry Archive production staff/performers

For all those involved in Roddenberry Archive work that are listed on MA - musicians, performers, directors, consultants, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 01:46, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Merch series(es)

Subcats of this would be "novel series", "comic series", etc. Frankly, Star Trek Adventures (Modiphius) has enough articles to be a series category of its own. -LauraCC (talk) 03:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Star Trek Online performers

Many Trek alumni reprise their roles or play new ones on STO. It would be a subcat of "Video game performers" (which would still apply to performers who did other video games in addition to STO - they'd fall into both categories). -LauraCC (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

How many? I'll probably support this but would like to get an estimate on how much this would cut down the overly-full Category:Video game performers. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

These names, to start. 45 performer pages. -LauraCC (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

We could also have separate categories for "Computer game performers" (i.e. solely disc-based PC games) and "Console game performers" (i.e. solely Nintendo, Playstation disc/cartridge-based games). Those who participated in games which are available in both formats could stay in "Video game performers". -LauraCC (talk) 00:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

CAFTCAD award nominees and winners

Suggesting here as a formality (see my recent edits @Star Trek's awards and honors). -LauraCC (talk) 18:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Support, if our practice is to create categories for all such awards – is it? I don't have time to check right now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be. We already have a couple with two nominees - Category:Online Film Critics Society Award nominees and Category:Artios Award winners.

I would also suggest "Nebula Award nominees". -LauraCC (talk) 22:54, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

"Aurora Award winners". -LauraCC (talk) 23:59, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Also "Telly Award winners" for 765874: Unification. -LauraCC (talk) 22:59, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Split both award winning and nominated categories further

Split significant award categories (Emmy, Academy, etc) for Trek, in order to differentiate between productions (movies/books, etc) people (actors/authors/crew, etc), and production companies that won/were nominated,. Right now, people, shows, and companies are in some of the same categories with each other. -LauraCC (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

The smaller ones can remain as-is until they reach a certain threshold. -LauraCC (talk) 20:16, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Support for any award category with more than 200 members. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

There's some overlap, and some didn't win for the show they performed in, but for production. -LauraCC (talk) 03:01, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Emmy nominees has 261 entries, Emmy winners has 121 entries. Just at a glance, that's the only one I can see that has enough. We could split by film awards, TV awards, and book awards. -LauraCC (talk) 01:36, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

To my way of thinking, "nominees" should refer to people, whereas "nominated productions"/"nominated production companies" would refer to entities. Maybe there's a shorter way to say that, maybe not. -LauraCC (talk) 18:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Star Trek short story authors

For authors who contributed short stories to anthologies, particularly (but not limited to) those who haven't written any other Trek fiction. We could do "Star Trek anthology contributors", but this matches "Star Trek novel authors" -LauraCC (talk) 15:44, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

I've created reams of pages for the (formerly) missing SNW anthology contributors, so it'd be quite a big category if created. -LauraCC (talk) 15:56, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Oppose, this seems to unnecessarily differentiate authors from authors. They're still authors, and rightfully deserve to be in the main author category. Short story authors feels like it should maybe be a list on a short story page. - AJHalliwell (talk) 16:20, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
As I said above, we have "Star Trek novel authors" as a category already. There are many short story authors who didn't write full Trek novels (one-shot "Strange New Worlds" anthology authors). LauraCC (talk) 16:25, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Support; we already break down Category:Star Trek authors into novel authors, reference authors, comic authors, game authors, and audio authors, so this looks like a good addition. The ideal is no pages directly under the parent category, which this change would bring us much closer to. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 21:56, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Note: contributors to the "Outside In" books are reference authors but also anthology contributors. Those books have hundreds of contributors, many which may not have MA pages yet. LauraCC (talk) 13:31, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Audio release types

"CDs", "Records" (or to be more specific which type of record perhaps), "Digital audio" and "Audio cassettes", like what there is for VHS, DVDs, Blu-rays, etc. Have these not been done because generally any given title (aside from film soundtracks) is likely to only be available in one format, or released one time, as opposed to the films and shows themselves (which come in multiple box sets, editions, etc.), with little difference between included tracks? -LauraCC (talk) 22:03, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

-LauraCC (talk) 00:18, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Images of part-human hybrids

See the list @ hybrid - part humans make up the bulk of them. -LauraCC (talk) 17:33, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Not entirely convinced this is necessary, but if so, just "Human hybrids" would be sufficient (as a subcat of Category:Memory Alpha images (Humans)). Though looking at the implementation of the Individual categories, I almost wonder if this does navigation and organization a disservices. Additionally, hasn't there been some disagreement on the use of "hybrids" to refer to individuals? - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't know what one other word would capture the concept. I suppose you could categorize it as "Partial Humans" (ick). -LauraCC (talk) 20:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Support, but as "Category:Memory Alpha images (hybrids)", so for all images of hybrid, not just Human hybrids. A subcat of Category:Hybrids and Category:Memory Alpha images (individuals). Images would only be categorized as such if there isn't a category for that specific individual, so once I create and populate "Category:Memory Alpha images (Spock)", it would be a subcat of the hybrids image category, so individual pics of Spock wouldn't be. Let's wait on this though until I finish up with the individual image category project so we can avoid unnecessary work. I've been meaning to get back to that, so I'll do some work on it right now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 17:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Note: make sure to categorize images of split down the middle Spock and B'Elanna Torres as being "Humans" (SNW: "Spock Amok", "Charades"), "Vulcans", or "Klingons" (VOY: "Faces") as the case may be. -LauraCC (talk) 17:43, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Actor images

For actors who appear in a myriad of real world images, would it make sense to have the {{Pictured}} template automatically generate a category with (e.g. {{Pictured rw}} Category:Memory Alpha images (William Shatner))? This could be implemented when actors are not in character; for instance, appearing at a convention or being interviewed, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 12:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Support. We'll group these categories together under "Memory Alpha images (real world individuals)", unless someone can think of a better name, and place it under Category:Memory Alpha images. Category:Memory Alpha images (performers) could be a subcat and then contain all the cats for people who are performers, so almost all (or possibly all) of them.
However, I don't think we need a {{pictured rw}} template, since the people in the pic will usually be mentioned in the file description proper, which isn't the case for in-universe pics, thus {{pictured}}. Instead, we can place the categories on the file pages directly.
🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 04:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha book articles with missing edition covers

To find books with reprint/edition covers that haven't been uploaded yet for sidebar cover tabs. Is it possible to create this in such a way that it automatically generates? -LauraCC (talk) 01:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Individuals by location

"DS9 personnel/visitors species" comes to mind. Probably a lot of the unnamed alien images can fall under this category. But only for those who(se species) aren't named/ID'd any other way - we'd have to hash out the details. -LauraCC (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

So something like "Memory Alpha images (individuals of unknown species)" which would then branch to "Memory Alpha images (unknown species on Deep Space 9)", etc. I like it, as a good way to split up the impossible-to-navigate 1,204 images of people of unnamed species. Unless someone can think up a better alternative, support.
For starters, I've tallied up estimates for Enterprise NX-01 (<173), the USS Enterprise (<95), the USS Enterprise-A (<80), the USS Enterprise-D (<151), Deep Space 9 (<173), the USS Voyager (<208), and the USS Cerritos (<163). Later on, I'll go through and weed-out false positives, then we can start by creating categories for any of those that would have at least fifty images. That sound good?
🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 03:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Great. We could also do Delta Quadrant unnamed species images for those on planets Voyager crew visit, unless you count those with those that are on Voyager, or possibly "unknown species in Starfleet". I would also add Yorktown from Star Trek Beyond. -LauraCC (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, Delta Quadrant is probably a good one. I don't think unknown species in Starfleet would be very useful, at least for now, since it would either be just a collection for a couple sub-categories, or incredibly massive, depending on how we did it. As for Yorktown, that would be no more than 46 images, so I think should wait on that – start with the more populated ones, then move down to the smaller ones if/when it's needed. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 03:31, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

What about categorizing by reality (prime, mirror, and Kelvin, at least)? -LauraCC (talk) 04:42, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

I'd be OK with mirror and/or Kelvin, I'll check how many those have later. As for prime, I suppose I wouldn't mind it, but I'd prefer if we just let everything be directly under the main category for now, then we could work out more detailed organization later if we get too many subcats. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 04:52, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, those two are more likely to be in the sweet spot of just enough to be worth a category, but not so much it becomes overwhelming. -LauraCC (talk) 04:54, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha images (turbolifts)/(turbolift technology)

For images of turbolifts, turboshafts, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 22:55, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

75 images link to turbolift, and 11 additional images link to turboshaft. -LauraCC (talk) 02:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

I would support this at "Category:Memory Alpha images (spacecraft turbolift interiors)". - AJHalliwell (talk) 16:20, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Support. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 22:00, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Subcategories of "spacecraft (location) interiors"

Split into such subcategories as "USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) interiors" (a very commonly seen ship), "Klingon spacecraft interiors", etc. -LauraCC (talk) 14:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Can you count up some of these to give an idea of how much this would trim down Category:Memory Alpha images (spacecraft interiors)? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to combine a dpl and an rl so you can find which items in a particular category link to a particular page? -LauraCC (talk) 02:22, 20 March 2025 (UTC) 

<dpl>
category=...
linksto=...
</dpl>
I recommend consulting this if you want to find out more about DPL's features. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:29, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

It gives me all the Enterprises, though I linked to the 1701. User:LauraCC/Images by starship name/type. -LauraCC (talk) 02:37, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. As you can see, there's ample justification. That'd take you down 200 and something. -LauraCC (talk) 03:26, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps we could do these by service (i.e. Starfleet rather than the Enterprise). Any such group with 50+ pics could have a cat, anything else would stay in the overall grouping. Can you check which subcats that would give us, and how many they would each total? That will help determine if this is really a good idea or not. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:49, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
259 Starfleet ship interiors (spacecraft interiors), 231 1701 Enterprise exteriors. LauraCC (talk) 01:58, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Nexus images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Most of these are Nexus-induced visions, but a few external views of it as well. -LauraCC (talk) 16:33, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Weak oppose: not sure of the value, but if there's an argument for it, I'm all ears. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:50, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
Nothing about the vision images beyond knowing their context identifies them as specifically Nexus-related. But it is a known location and there are 39 images at least. LauraCC (talk) 22:02, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Earth images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Some of these just mention Earth (like moon.jpg), but probably most show it. -LauraCC (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Vulcan planet images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Some interiors, but mostly outdoors or the planet from space. -LauraCC (talk) 16:35, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Category:Memory Alpha images (androids) split

The upcoming character category for Data will split off a large number of these images, but image categories for "Soong-type androids", "Coppelius androids", and possibly "Mudd androids", might be in order. -LauraCC (talk) 14:12, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Let's wait on this at least until I actually do the Data split, so we can see where that puts things. (Sorry, I know it's been way too long since I started that project; I'll try to work on it soon.) Until then, let's just leave this here so we don't forget about it. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:52, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hosts vs guests

Moved from Category talk:Guests

Enough of a difference between hosts and guests to have separate categories or nah? -LauraCC (talk) 02:47, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Well, hosts definitely shouldn't be categorized as guests, which isn't happening AFAIK. Support a category for hosts; either just for podcast hosts ("Category:Podcast hosts") or for both podcast and aftershow hosts, in which case I'm not sure what to call it. Perhaps "Star Trek hosts"? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:02, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Currently, it looks like many hosts are uncategorized, while guests are sorted in categories by series. Dunno if there are enough hosts per series to split by series (e.g. "WAW hosts", etc.) LauraCC (talk) 01:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
No, definitely aren't enough per show for individual categories for each show. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:23, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Are there enough to have both "Podcast hosts" (aka "podcasters")/guests and "Aftershow hosts"/guests under a category for "Companion show production staff"? LauraCC (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
No, only three aftershow hosts. I think "Star Trek hosts", for both aftershows and pocasts, is good enough, so support that and oppose anything else, for now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 00:18, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

With Khan we also have podcast performers (though until there are other drama podcasts, "KHA performers" will suffice). -LauraCC (talk) 19:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

And production staff (sound effects, music, script writers, etc.) -LauraCC (talk) 14:08, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Minerals

To replace Template:Minerals. Unlike Template:Personal care, for instance, there aren't any sub-headings that would make a template useful. LauraCC (talk) 21:50, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

The choice between category or navbox is not an either-or. Also, whether or not a navbox has subdivisions does not predict the value of having a category.
So, I support creating this category, but I will oppose deleting the navbox until someone gives a good reason.
If this category gets created, it should be a subcat of Category:Materials, and should contain Category:Gemstones. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 22:36, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
I figured that navboxes were best for:
  • small groups of related items too few for their category (aside from the species categories, which as we've recently established can have even one named member) (such as "Christopher Pike's Horses") or inappropriate for a category ("____'s pets")
  • items that all fall into the same related sphere, but are different kinds of items (people, practices, products), which can also have a unifying category in addition to being visually divided.
LauraCC (talk) 00:13, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
Subcat of "Materials", in which case we could replace one with the other using a bot? LauraCC (talk) 22:47, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Animal species groups

Per the discussions here, "Piscines" (fishes), "Simians" (monkeys) and "Reptiles". LauraCC (talk) 19:52, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Circulatory system

For veins, arteries, blood, heart, platelet, etc. Subcat of "Anatomy". -LauraCC (talk) 19:00, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Also, similar to "Bones", blood-related topics like Blood transfusion, IV, Blood-alcohol level, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 22:58, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

It raises a question, though; what's a better type of name for such body system-related categories; the name of the system (skeletal system), or the name of the primary unit of the system (bones)? We already have "brain anatomy" for parts of the brain - would "nervous system" or "neurology" be better?

Currently, "Bones" encompasses different individual bones, physiology, bone conditions, bone-related medical treatments, and other such subjects. -LauraCC (talk) 23:02, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

"Humanoid species" and "Non-humanoid species"

Would there be any organizational problems with creating these as categories? LauraCC (talk) 02:21, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Support "Category:Humanoid species", oppose "Category:Non-humanoid species". Makes more sense to classify species by what the are, not what they aren't. Just the one category cuts the number of pages directly under Category:Species in half, anyway. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:36, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
For precedent, we already have "non-corporeal species", but not "Corporeal species". LauraCC (talk) 02:40, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Start with the list @ Humanoid species. LauraCC (talk) 23:04, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Dance genres

I'm open to "Dance styles" alternately. "Dance genres" would be consistent with the other genre subcategories, though.

LauraCC (talk) 14:54, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Support. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:15, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
Which, styles or genres? LauraCC (talk) 03:46, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Forensics

From the list @Forensics. Subcat of Chemistry, Medicine, Physics, and Law. LauraCC (talk) 00:55, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Starnes Exploration Party personnel

For the 13 individuals listed @ Starnes Exploration Party. LauraCC (talk) 01:18, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Non-existent titles and abbreviations

Moved from "Category talk:Memory Alpha hidden categories"

What's the hidden category for "episode titles that don't exist" errors (see the fix I made @ suicide, for instance)? -LauraCC (talk) 03:31, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

There isn't one. Probably should be, though. When I get a chance, I'll see what's the best way to go about it. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 03:37, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I suppose the same principle would additionally apply to series abbreviations that don't exist. Typos such as {{s|TMG}} instead of {{s|TNG}}, for example. -LauraCC (talk) 12:32, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Writer pseudonyms

For names like Lee Cronin, L.A. Graf, etc. used by Trek writers as pseudonyms, collective or individual. LauraCC (talk) 14:20, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Assay office clients

For the names @assay office. LauraCC (talk) 23:48, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Hair stylists

Just looking at a few pages for these staff members, many of them are just hair stylists, not make-up and hair. Subcat of Category:Makeup staff, or alongside it, whichever. LauraCC (talk) 14:01, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Science fiction literature

Subcat of Category:Literature, for the titles @ science fiction. LauraCC (talk) 00:40, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Or perhaps a larger sci fi category for all in-universe sci fi, film and books. -LauraCC (talk) 20:27, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Desilu production staff

For the staff members listed @Desilu. LauraCC (talk) 01:31, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) library computer images

For every image showing files contained in the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) library computer. LauraCC (talk) 01:42, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Linens

From the list at User:LauraCC/Linens LauraCC (talk) 23:25, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha Human redirects

Subcat of "Memory Alpha people redirects". LauraCC (talk) 02:33, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Noodles/pasta

From the list @ pasta. LauraCC (talk) 01:31, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Planetary locations

"Mars locations" and "Luna locations" from the lists at Mars and Luna respectively. LauraCC (talk) 23:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Cheese

From the list @ cheese. -LauraCC (talk) 23:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha images (Guardian of Forever)

For all the pictures of the Guardian of Forever as seen on that page. LauraCC (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

French language

For terms originating in French. I count 27, including the French language page and lists there, at least. LauraCC (talk) 01:36, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Viruses

From the list @virus. LauraCC (talk) 16:08, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Museums

From the list @museum. LauraCC (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Sisko family

Numerous Sisko family names are now listed on the SA: "Series Acclimation Mil" family tree. Whatever members there are post-first contact may not be fully Human, so there'd be members listed in two different categories, "Humans" and "Individuals" (possibly 3, "Bajorans"). LauraCC (talk) 14:31, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

How many of them have pages yet? Can you point me to a list? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 20:03, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
Series Acclimation Mil (episode)#Sisko family tree references. LauraCC (talk) 20:04, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
Thanks. At the bare minimum, someone should update Sisko family before we create the category. It should include a bullet-list family tree, like the one on Picard family. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 20:08, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Wines

Subcat of alcoholic beverages. From the list @ wine (champagnes are a type of wine, too, apparently). LauraCC (talk) 23:37, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Hollywood Walk of Fame honorees

An award category, although I suppose you could argue that unlike, say, Category:Academy Award winners, most honorees are not specifically being honored for their Star Trek involvement, though some are more than others. LauraCC (talk) 20:59, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Algorithms

From the list @algorithm. LauraCC (talk) 03:05, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Transportation infrastructure

Examples: road (currently in Infrastructure), bus stop (currently in Earth structures), bus route (currently in Vehicles), parking (currently in Architecture), public transportation system (currently in Transportation technology), public transporter (currently in Transporter technology), space elevator (currently in Technology), etc.

Proposed subcategory layout: 

   Infrastructure        Technology
           |                 |
           |        Transportation technology
           \                 /
      Transportation infrastructure
                    |
                  Roads

Current layout for comparison: 

   Infrastructure       Technology
               \            /
          Transportation technology
                     |
                   Roads

— Atosen (talk) 06:29, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Extended list:
—Atosen (talk) 21:10, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
We also have the categories "roads" and "Earth roads". LauraCC (talk) 15:17, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

COVID-19 staff

Should these crew have their own category, or be a part of "Set medics" (which has 11 individuals, COVID staff would have 10)? Maybe it would be "health and safety dept"? LauraCC (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Julian Bashir: Secret Agent

For everything associated with that holoprogram. LauraCC (talk) 23:36, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

-LauraCC (talk) 23:43, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Seems reasonable. We have categories for other holoprograms, and this seems like a decent number of articles. —Atosen (talk) 04:15, 1 June 2026 (UTC)