It was solid black. It looked more like the insignia on Burnham's prison uniform from "Context is for Kings".
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It was solid black. It looked more like the insignia on Burnham's prison uniform from "Context is for Kings".
Dilithium really doesn't do anything super magical. It is not even strictly required for the Warp Drive (which is basically an Alcubierre Drive,) it is just used to channel the massive energies of the anti-matter reaction which is required for high warp speed. And it certainly does jack shit when not attached to the engine.
While I don't entirely mind the concept of magic time distorting crystals, I do find the term "time crystal" itself to be rather annoying. It puts me in mind of a story from a friend who knew somebody who'd once asked him how he could get hold of some science crystals to make him smarter...
The sillier the tech and the greater the frequency of, the harder it is on the suspension of disbelief.
As is bad fiction.
Basically it's filled with tunnels that prevent the thin streams of antimatter touching it as it passes through to contact matter, while still providing a focusing medium instead of an open contact.
Except for Into Darkness where the two streams are allowed to arc into each other...somehow.
Yeah. I seem to remember this being a big complaint against Voyager.
It is if it’s a TV show choosing to stay away from a manufactured plot convenience.
Well, that certainly was one of my many issues with that show. Technobabble can be dangerous. The world and the story loses cohesion, if you can just technobabble anything to happen.
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What “plot conveniences” aren’t manufactured? Stories are not discovered inchoate and later revealed; all narrative is made by showing how A leads to B. For instance, the time travel shown in “The Naked Time” was intended to lead to “Tomorrow is Yesterday”. The two-part episode was abandoned, but the vestige of that idea remained if only to tie up the earlier references to time and antimatter.
I thought that was debunked somewhere along the way?
I’m relying on Dave Eversole’s piece from “Unseen Trek”, and I think it might be referenced elsewhere. I’ll certainly withdraw my comments if this isn’t the case.
There is so much information that conflicts about TOS, it is possible that I've mixed it up with some other piece of behind-the-scenes information.
Not all plot is created equal. A story about Nazis attacking is no surprise. One about Nazis from the future takes effort. If it’s a well told story and not followed by Visigoths from the future also attacking, you let it slide and enjoy. If the Visigoths do, you wonder 1) if that story is told super well enough to let it slide or 2) what else is on.
Star Trek is full of "greatest threats." It's a part of the show.
I don't need help because Star Trek is full of fake tech and fantasy tech that doesn't bother me. I'm not going to pretend it's scientific in any way.
Time Crystals intrigue me. Star Trek fans have worked to make things connect together for years. It seems that only DSC doesn't receive that consideration.
I think so.
It really is.
Unfortunately, Star Trek went to warp on that a long time ago.
This is something I vehemently disagree on. If the standards on any area for a new Star Trek series is the lowest point any previous series reached, then we really don't have standards. That something stupid happened in previous iterations is not a reason to repeat it. Indeed, one would hope that the past mistakes would be something one could learn from.
Except in ENTERPRISE they weren't Nazis from the Future...
They were Aliens from the Future that convinced some of the Nazis during that time period to let them be in control, with their future tech.
And all the time, those Future Aliens were plotting against a future Federation Starship Captain and really had no interest in what the Nazis' goals were beyond getting them to help build the alien contraption.
It was certainly very convoluted, but I found it to be quite an entertaining story.
It still confuses to me as to why they would build their machine in New York, and not somewhere in Europe where the Nazi's would have had a more solidified control.Except in ENTERPRISE they weren't Nazis from the Future...
They were Aliens from the Future that convinced some of the Nazis during that time period to let them be in control, with their future tech.
And all the time, those Future Aliens were plotting against a future Federation Starship Captain and really had no interest in what the Nazis' goals were beyond getting them to help build the alien contraption.
It was certainly very convoluted, but I found it to be quite an entertaining story.
You can disagree all you want. I don't like it, and certainly, don't support it. But, it doesn't break immersion for me either because of it as part of Star Trek to me.
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