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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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Not with this kid.
I have been 'anal retentive' from a very young age.
Every Soldier and every Monkey collected, sorted and accounted for each and every time.
On the other hand, Scotty was unable to fabricate that missing fuel pump in "Devil in the Dark," McCoy wasn't able to fabricate that rare drug he needed to stop the Rigellian fever outbreak in "Requiem for the Methuselah," Kirk couldn't just replicate all the precious grain the tribbles ate, etc.
Not to mention the fact that the Enterprise was constantly on route to deliver vital medical supplies or food or whatever to some poor colony that had been stricken by a plague or blight or famine or some such . . .
It's not as though they could just whip up anything in any quantities at the drop of a hat,
Medical supplies are tricky to replicate - the D has to transport them on multiple occasions
Yup. It starts on Page 121 of the General Discussion Thread, then goes all the way up to Page 133, when I finally decided it was time to use the Corbomite Device. Good to know it still works.
And keep in mind that things have moved on, peace and order has been restored, all that crap.
I should check out a link before I click on Dix' picks.
But the Enterprise can replicate a red angel flight suit 10 years before any of that. Strange. I suppose it's not made out of grain.
Chicken soup, chicken sandwiches, I guess chicken isn't too difficult.
Needs of the plot like all Trek Tech.
Thanks, I’m hit with the weight that it’s probably been over 20 years since I’ve watched most of Voyager.
The TOS Enterprise also manufactured 285 ultraviolet bombardment satellites from scratch before the end of an episode to destroy the neural parasites on Deneva. That's bordering on "fleet of drones on the main hangar deck" capabilities. TOS even contradicted itself and within just four episodes of its first season.
Maybe the replicators were prone to malfunction just like the holograms and holodecks. wouldn't surprise me,
Just rewatched the episode again. I liked it a bit more on the second viewing, however I still feel like a lot of the dialogue in the episode was just poorly done. There was way, way too much clumsily-handled exposition in this episode. It felt like almost every bit of dialogue was either one character explicitly informing another of something, or characters talking about their feelings (rather than merely expressing them). Honestly I feel like it could have been better handled in places with more flashbacks and the like - because it would allow us to be shown, rather than told, about things like Seven's backstory or Raffi's bad parenting.
Some of the best writing in this episode actually was watching Jurati come unglued as the episode moved along. It wasn't clear in the first viewing, but she conveyed so much with her increased state of depression/agitation as the episode went on. It would have been so much better if she was just a tiny bit less explicit when she killed Maddox at the end though - because once again it was just sort of expository overkill.
Some of the best writing in this episode actually was watching Jurati come unglued as the episode moved along. It wasn't clear in the first viewing, but she conveyed so much with her increased state of depression/agitation as the episode went on. It would have been so much better if she was just a tiny bit less explicit when she killed Maddox at the end though - because once again it was just sort of expository overkill.
Agree with the overload of exposition except for one thing. Jurati's speech on killing Maddox needed more exposition, not less. Pretty sure Maddox died without knowing why, and the only reason was for fourth wall breaking over-secrecy on the Zhat Vash secret.
Most of the episode had exposition overload, and the sole element that needed more exposition was lacking.