By no means the worst continuity error, what about the inconsistant ability for Troi to sense emotions from Ferengi, in one episode she cannot sense them. then the next she can then in other series they cannot again.
What is THE Worst continuity error in Trek history..?!
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When could she sense Ferengi? As far as I remember, they've always been pretty consistent about.
Now the Ferengi's opinion on the value of gold, that actually does change quite a bit. Even Quark can't decide if it's valuable or worthless.
Maybe the market is in flux.
Unfortunately one of the occasions when gold is said to be worthless, it's with the implication that it has always been historically so. This is part of the backstory provided explaining the origins of latinum as the Ferengi's primary currency.
I can't give you a episode name but I saw it on one of the continuity videos on youtube. She cuts a Ferengi's transmission and tells Picard that she senses much deception on his part. I think the name she used was Bok?
They had trouble writing for Troi- most of the time they had to find a way to get her perceptions nullified so they could advance the plot.
IIRC there was a novel where it was explained that the Ferengi considered Gold Pressed Latinum to be their currency because it was one of the only things which could not be replicated- something to do with it's very unusual structure.
For a technological society where you can create anything from energy I can see the advantage to having a currency which could not be rezed up on demand.
What I don't remember is whether or not it could be moved by transporter which should have had the same issues.
IIRC there was a novel where it was explained that the Ferengi considered Gold Pressed Latinum to be their currency because it was one of the only things which could not be replicated- something to do with it's very unusual structure.
For a technological society where you can create anything from energy I can see the advantage to having a currency which could not be rezed up on demand.
What I don't remember is whether or not it could be moved by transporter which should have had the same issues.
Maybe Troi sensed deception from the Ferengi by 1) reading their body language, general attitude, facial expressions, etc. or, 2) realizing that deception is a way of life for all Ferengi
Either works.
Either works.
but, but, but, they were twiiiiiiinsssszzz..!!?!!,sd
Yeah...since most of the time when her power did work she was playing Counselor Obvious, that she managed to figure something out that anyone without her power could figure out isn't that big a deal.
"Flashback" can be explained away by a very simple method: Tuvok's memory wasn't quite perfect.
It sounds as if you're straining very hard to come up with reasons to show that Vulcans have love and sex in the same way humans do. To do it, you have to dismantle the episodes and sort of turn them inside out. Why bother? Just go with it.
It guts the drama of these stories if you make them not be about Spock dealing with crossing that emotional boundary, or not being able to cross it.
Naked Time -- they go straight into that scene of Spock agonizing over what he's lost through emotional control. It was the scene with Christine, and being unable to love her, that sparks the briefing room scene. And T'Pring was not thought of yet, so that wasn't their intent.. . as if they'd go soap opera like that ..
TTO Paradise: Spock crossing that emotional barrier was obvious. Are you just talking about sex and a seven year limit, whether they had it then? I'm losing interest.
I never said it made total sense for the urg e cont rol to make its way into affecting basic biology, just that this appears to be how it is on the show.
Which makes me just wonder things like Why don't officers have weekly/monthly transformer pattern "backups" so if something happens, their dead body can be beamed back into the saved pattern.... or why some scrupulous group never used raw replicator-fuel to create an army of duplicates / super soldiers....
Flashback isn't consistent with TUC at all. In Flashback, Tuvok says Kirk and McCoy were arrested by the Klingons days after Praxis, when in the movie it was months.
BTW, spell checker weirdness. Tuvok gets flagged as misspelled, but Praxis doesn't.
A perhaps better explanation than Tuvok, a Vulcan, having an imperfect memory; the virus altered the memories to make Tuvok less likely to examine them, so as to avoid an emotional response.
Because praxis is a word. Unless you are saying tuvok is also a word?
What about T'Pol? That never gets flagged and I'm pretty sure that isn't a word outside of Star Trek.
Spellcheckers often are programmed to ignore words with embedded numbers or symbols, as they aren't likely to be proper words anyway. Maybe the apostrophe is considered a symbol in this regard.
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