I've got no problem with Ferengi in TOS era. TNG era already had continuity issues with the Ferengi throughout it's run.
Exactly.
The Last Outpost is almost the continuity error, in retrospect. Both later TNG and DS9 don't really follow either the 'newly introduced aliens' thing, or the personalities and traits shown in that episode. I have no problem with the occasional interaction between the Federation and the Ferengi prior to TNG. After all, Data seems to know a lot about them in that episode, that must have come from somewhere.
Watched
The Holiest Thing yesterday. Overall, I rather enjoyed it. Consistently,
New Voyages is the fan production I enjoy the most. The production values are consistently very good for a fan film, the acting passable at least, and in particular the costuming, set design and CGI is basically flawless. Others have pointed out that only the
Enterprise looks 60s, and there is some truth to this, but I don't think it detracts from the experience at all.
I would have liked to see a bit more of an 'A' plot to this episode, the mystery of the terraforming colony works as a story but needed a few more layers to it. And I'm not 100% sure on the protomatter introduction. I was under the mistaken impression Carol knew about the protomatter in TWOK/TSFS so it made perfect sense when I watched it, but this thread reminded my addled brain that it was
David who used protomatter. Not impossible for David to have picked up the idea from Carol's notes on these events, of course, it was always kind of silly that Carol wouldn't know how a fundamental part of the project she led worked.
The Kirk/Carol romance which has divided the thread... Initially, made perfect sense. In fact, it was a standard Kirks-woman-of-the-week plot with perhaps a bit more feeling than usual. Nice chemistry and a James Bond style love scene. But that last scene... good lord. Totally wrong-footed and out of place. It was going so well, too. Set up Kirk and Carol. Set up how she got pregnant, and Kirk's loneliness in command. Then have her walk away with a bit of a poignant line implying they'll see each other again. You can even throw in a line about different worlds to set up her objection to Kirk knowing David. And it's all perfect. There is no need, continuity wise, for the last scene to happen in this story. It undermines the romance up to that point and you exit the episode thinking 'da fuck?' instead of 'hey that was a cool episode'. We know that Kirk, many years later, would regret choosing his career over romance - this is the set-up for his scene in
Generations. But we also know from that scene and from the dialogue with Carol in TWOK that as a young man, he did exactly that - chose his captain's chair over family or settling down with someone.
