The better to see their "Decker Units."
Pitfalls the new series should avoid
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Would Trek still be Trek without a lot of technobabble? I would be willing to take a risk and watch a show in which that is written out of the script.
I don't want to lose that so much as I want to see more variety.
That is going to make costuming very interesting.
That reminds me of another 'thing'. Childbirth. Surely in the 24th century they have somehow managed pregnancy/labor easier? As in no more morning sickness? I know Cassidy Yates 'chose' not to take drugs but can they at least let us know that there are options available? I hope they don't do a scene with some screaming woman doing it the 'old fashioned' way or showing a pregnant women throwing up.
Um, that was explored in an episode of Voyager. And, there is apparently a risk of babies turning in to a pile of goo, called "loss of celluar cohesion" or something. Which sounds awful...
Um, that was explored in an episode of Voyager. And, there is apparently a risk of babies turning in to a pile of goo, called "loss of celluar cohesion" or something. Which sounds awful...
I wonder why that was. No one else turns into goo...and babies are made of the same material as everyone else as far as I know.
Material yes, but still relatively new, and it isn't like there is a transporter in the womb for the baby to get used it. There are many things that people do with even 1 year olds that they don't do with newborns, simply due to their inherent fragile state.
TOS has very little technobabble.
Give practical, useful, explanations when they're needed. Not "If we modify the magic dish we can do progress the plot."
Just bad writing. There is literally no reason a baby cannot be beamed out of the womb. If they can beam a pregnant person around, they can beam the baby out of the pregnant person. They simply wanted to contrive drama is all.
Right. The transporter can do surgeries now?But what about, you know? placenta etc..and umbilical cord?
Didn't they transport Keiko's baby to Kira's womb in Body Parts?
This sort of thing is the biggest problem I have with the transporter in ST. I understand why it was conceived and used, but it hands down the single most advanced piece of technology in the show, leap years beyond even warp drive. Think about what it actually does.
Think about all the Trek-like technology we've achieved in the 50 years since TOS. Three big things that are still waay out there: anti-matter production/use, FTL 'stuff', and the transporter. Of those three, the transporter is the one thing I'm not sure we'll ever be able to do, even 1000 years from now.
Think about all the Trek-like technology we've achieved in the 50 years since TOS. Three big things that are still waay out there: anti-matter production/use, FTL 'stuff', and the transporter. Of those three, the transporter is the one thing I'm not sure we'll ever be able to do, even 1000 years from now.
You might need special equipment that can be beamed into the womb, where it cuts and cauterises the cord, and is then beamed out with the baby.
Maybe Huxley had the right idea...
For the same reason that Breast Is Best.
