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I think my last pos wasn't exactly addressing op's question. So: the cloaking device Kirk stole in The Enterprise Incident.
Since we are (are we?) talking about cloaking devices, the only gripe I have with STIII (I love that movie) is that Kirk and the guys detected Kruge's cloaked ship with the naked eye. What?
Since we are (are we?) talking about cloaking devices, the only gripe I have with STIII (I love that movie) is that Kirk and the guys detected Kruge's cloaked ship with the naked eye. What?
Something something about activity in the neural pathways.
I always wondered about that 'skeletal lock' that B'Elanna used to beam someone out of somewhere (can't remember the episode). It obviously worked...so why not use it again?
I've always assumed that what's on the viewscreen is a composite sensor image, and not simply a image from a visual camera. This is why they can see another ship in interstellar space where light is "dim."
Watching for a cloaked ship's distortion field using the largest screen on the bridge to display sensor readings make sense.
I don't see how the neural pathways of someone who had been dead for, what was it, several hours, could be more viable to someone whose body had not even grown cold. Unless being shot with an energy weapon at the exact moment of beaming had something to do with it. They needed someone to be the "redshirt" for that mission hand I guess it was just written that way to not try to save him.
Was the "skeletal lock" in Year of Hell? It was a great idea and should have been used again.
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Scorpion, actually.
^ At times when the view screen is NOT being used by the crew to observe something of actual, particular interest, maybe there is a 'viewscreensaver' that we (the audience) have never seen? Like Flying Toasters? An aquarium? Or that ball that keeps bouncing off the edges of the screen?....
In both TMP and WNMHGB the viewscreen displayed screensavers of sorts.
^ I don't think that first one is a screensaver, I always assumed it was some kind of calibration tool or targeting scanner (used to test the new viewscreen).
Just finished watching the episode The Jem'Hadar, Eris the Vorta uses natural telekinetic abilities to defend herself and later escape from the cell, which conveniently no other Vorta seen in DS9 is capable of.
Eris was probably given that ability for that specific mission. It was necessary for her cover identity as a 'prisoner'.
The reason no other Vorta have that ability is simply because they don't need it. (Most Vorta rely on the Jem'Hadar for protection.) Eris did, because she needed to look like somebody who had to be rescued.
The reason no other Vorta have that ability is simply because they don't need it. (Most Vorta rely on the Jem'Hadar for protection.) Eris did, because she needed to look like somebody who had to be rescued.
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Who says they were natural? For all we know, they fitted her with an unknown device for that mission. Of course, that would make said device a one-and-done tech anyway, so it all amounts to the same thing.
I'm still annoyed by that.
Hell, even the Ent-E's subsequent appearances (Insurrection and Nemesis) removed the ability to turn off the screen. Why the hell did they do that?
Because it was a craptasticly dull and pointless idea that made the bridge feel more like a waiting room at a dentists office.
The controlled implosion formula from "The Naked Time" that apparently would have made time travel relatively commonplace.
The "homing torpedo" from TUC.
The alien shape shifters from "Encounter at Farpoint"
The TOS phaser rifle from "Where No Man"
Gillian Taylor
The Nexus
The weird "engineering room" where the dilithium crystals were kept in "Alternative Factor"
The "homing torpedo" from TUC.
The alien shape shifters from "Encounter at Farpoint"
The TOS phaser rifle from "Where No Man"
Gillian Taylor
The Nexus
The weird "engineering room" where the dilithium crystals were kept in "Alternative Factor"
They were assigned to babysitting duties of the Borg baby.
Chell ended up in the video game "Elite Force". That was a really fun game.
What ever happened to the Kelvans and their enhanced warp drive tech?
What ever happened to the Kelvans and their enhanced warp drive tech?
Future Guy.
Actually, they DID use it in some subsequent episodes ("Tomorrow is Yesterday", "Assignment: Earth"), but given the great risk of contaminating the timeline, I can see Starfleet eventually drafting rules against deliberately using time travel, except in emergencies (such as "First Contact").
It's been suggested that cloaking and detection technologies are in a constant race and any advantage that either side achieves is short-lived.
There's lots of spaceborne lifeforms. No reason to expect to see them again, especially if they travel at sublight speeds.
Gillian Taylor was probably studying and/or teaching the 23rd century population about humpback whales, which would keep her on or near Earth. Little reason to expect her path to cross with Kirk again (any more than the bevy of women he's hooked up with).
The Nexus ribbon only enters the galaxy every 39.1 years.
Lots of parts of the various ships that we only saw once.
You can chalk that up to premature cancellation before they could settle that. (In retrospect, they really should've used him for the season 4 premiere, instead of coming up with Vosk).
Incorrect. Both episodes used the slingshot effect to travel back in time, not a controlled implosion as demonstrated in "Naked Time."
A homing torpedo would have other applications, and wasn't limited to tracking cloaked ships. The ability to track the BoP had nothing to do with cloaking technology.
Gillian Taylor was a refugee out of time (from our own past). That makes her unique in many ways.
If the Nexus only "enters the Galaxy" every 39.4 years, it still needs to travel through it after entering it. So, that's not an excuse.
I'm not sure what the point of your post is. The idea of this thread was to point out things that we had only seen once. I don't think it was to say that that was stupid per se, so I'm not sure why you're making a bunch of (damp or outright incorrect) excuses for these things. I wasn't implying these were flaws..just that they were things never seen again.
This is a bit of a quandary...what would have made sense?? Well, nanotechnology in "Evolution" should have been ubiquitous in the 24th century..the problem..how to retrofit it into the shows...which makes less sense to do. So it was left out except for the Borg. The implications of such tech is far too drastic to really let it permeate the show that late in the game.
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