Then it really isn't the same Worf.
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Then it really isn't the same Worf.
The Klingon version sure, but not the Romulan.
if my enemy has a new secret technology that can win them the war, I better come up with counter measures, no matter how many ships are equipped with it
If the character talks and exacts exactly the same as he did in TNG, he's Worf.
Nothing in canon says they're the same tech.
actually, and I might be mistaken here, somwhere around DS9 it was stated that they indeed aren't
Since Spock served during the war. Don't you think he would've mentioned that the Klingons had proven it wasn't theoretical and had solved the power cost issue?
Balance of Terror said:
read that quote again: "But the power cost is enormous. They may have solved that problem." No "We have never encountered this before", no "We thought it was impossible", just "Well it needs a lot of power, but the Romulans figured that part out."
And the Romulans figuring that part out does in no way mean OTHERS haven't figured it out before. In fact, if the Romulans can do that, others can do it too and probably already have
WAIT. Are you saying they should ignore parts of canon which you or they don't like? Doesn't that completely and utterly undermine your stance that the shows are totally compatible??
If you notice the entire quote: "invisibility is theoretically possible".
no, all I'm saying is that I personally hate that part off unnecessary bullshit they come up with to silence a few obsessive fans. And to not talk about it doesn't make the shows less compatible
then nothing changes, what's your point?
Theoretically would mean they haven't encountered it in the real world, but now they have just a few years prior. We've never went faster-than-light, but we know based on our understanding of physics, that the power cost will be enormous.
At least with Enterprise, you can chalk some of it up to information falling through the cracks because the encounter happened a century before. Here, we're dealing with characters who just lived through a widespread war with the Klingons, yet seem to have forgotten all of it.
nah, that's just you overanalyzing the word 'theoretically'
'Theoretically I can go to the suprmarket and buy some milk' doesn't mean I never went there in the past
'Theoretically I can go to the suprmarket and buy some milk' doesn't mean I never went there in the past
So you think Spock, of all people, would casually throw around the word "theoretically"?
especially Spock, especially in that context
Then we watched two completely different TV shows. The Spock in the Star Trek I watched, always strove to talk with precision especially in crucial situations. He just didn't make shit up to sound dramatic.
Yep, it's this ridiculous notion of going blatantly against the intent of a scene or line in order to try and prove in the most pedantic way imaginable that there is no discontinuity.
How much sense does it make that they're basing this story arc events from ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly" but are totally ignoring the Augment Virus are which came immediately after, and would have saved poor Voq a LOT of suffering?
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