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Nitpicky Things that just get on your nerves

Did you mean VI? I don't think Meyer was ever involved in TVH? Either way, what is this script you speak of, and what are the major differences?
Yeah, I did. Corrected. Meyer wrote the 20th century sequences in IV, though.

A sequence that gathered Kirk's crew together was cut from STVI to save money. It would've shown what Kirk's crew were all up to when they weren't aboard the Enterprise.
 
Yeah, I did. Corrected. Meyer wrote the 20th century sequences in IV, though.

A sequence that gathered Kirk's crew together was cut from STVI to save money. It would've shown what Kirk's crew were all up to when they weren't aboard the Enterprise.

I forgot about that implication - I actually really dislike the notion that they are all scattered and need to be reassembled just a couple years after they get their new ship (and full crew complement) in IV/V - i would have assumed there was a steady stream of missions for the "A" for a few years at least after its maiden voyage, with TUC being the final one. I personally pencil in a 3rd 5YM here, actually.
 
I forgot about that implication - I actually really dislike the notion that they are all scattered and need to be reassembled just a couple years after they get their new ship (and full crew complement) in IV/V - i would have assumed there was a steady stream of missions for the "A" for a few years at least after its maiden voyage, with TUC being the final one. I personally pencil in a 3rd 5YM here, actually.
There's space for that. According to the official ST Chronology, there's six years in between the two movies (2287 to 2293).
 
They were caught while using their first one, and the technology was exposed - and who says that after the fact they didn't? After TUC is wide open territory.

It's not like the Klingons would admit it, would they?

Chang was a renegade, likely kept the schematics hidden and secret, possibly aboard the BoP itself. In which case, they went boom along with him.

Never though of that idea before. :)

Plus, the Enterprise figured out how to detect it anyway, reducing its value.

"Hey, let's mass-produce that ship with the highly detectable exhaust that was destroyed in its first real battle."

Why not fix the highly detectable exhaust then so that it's not detectable and it gets its value back?

The novel has it being a one off prototype that couldn't be reproduced easily. And Azetbur didn't want to pursue it.

A hard to produce prototype is believable.

There doesn't need to be a treaty we're aware of. Heck, there doesn't even need to be a treaty. That BoP got introduced in the middle of a Klingon peace overture. All the Federation had to do was say, "As a gesture of good faith, you will immediately scuttle any further development of that ship, or we walk!"

That's completely plausible. Klingons value their honour and were not in a state to violate that agreement.

...Because the Enterprise figured out its big weakness and blowed it up real good? Cloaking has no tactical advantage if you know how to detect the cloak.

Does seems like the Klingons never put in the effort to fix that flaw...

I got the sense that they were only able to detect it because of that special equipment they were carrying for Starfleet's gaseous anomaly cataloging project. So were normal sensors not, uh, sensitive enough to detect the exhaust emissions?

Kor

And that's probably why, if that special equipment became standard issue for all Federation starships.
 
Does seems like the Klingons never put in the effort to fix that flaw...
How do you know that they didn't? Maybe it was a problem that they just couldn't lick, or maybe it was an issue that they didn't think was worth the effort to try and fix. Or, very possibly, they weren't about to do something as foolish and shady as to try and perfect a Bird of Prey that could fire when cloaked when the government was working for peace that their very survival depended upon.
 
Here's one i just thought of:

How come every time our heroes need to contact whoever....they (the whoever) arn't in bed? Or don't answer with "Do you have any idea what time it is here??"
 
Here's one i just thought of:

How come every time our heroes need to contact whoever....they (the whoever) arn't in bed? Or don't answer with "Do you have any idea what time it is here??"
Walker and Hanson woke Picard when they called
 
I'm referring to basically...our heroes contacting someone else. Not when the main cast is contacted.
Moreover, they usually answer instantly, standing right in front of the screen/camera, as if they were just standing there waiting for the call.
 
Here's one i just thought of:

How come every time our heroes need to contact whoever....they (the whoever) arn't in bed? Or don't answer with "Do you have any idea what time it is here??"
I mean... I assume that Starfleet Admiralty has a night shift.
 
I mean... I assume that Starfleet Admiralty has a night shift.

It's pretty much necessary considering the astronomical amount of different time tables the various ships,s tar bases etc. would be on. Gotta makes you wonder how many admirals there are for a huge organization like Starfleet.
 
But, they are apart of the "Terran Empire." I always thought it made sense...:shrug:

I guess I just feel there should be a distinction between the use of the word "Terrans" referring to people from Earth, and "Terrans" from the Mirror Universe Terran Empire. But it's just a small, small, small, small, small thing that bugs me. The title of the thread did say "nitpicky things".
 
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I guess I just feel there should be a distinction between the use of the word "Terrans" referring to people from Earth, and "Terrans" from the Mirror Universe Terran Empire. But it's just a small, small, small, small, small thing that bugs me. The title of the thread did say "nitpicky things".
No, that's fair. I was just trying to follow the logic and that makes a better distinction.
 
It's pretty much necessary considering the astronomical amount of different time tables the various ships,s tar bases etc. would be on. Gotta makes you wonder how many admirals there are for a huge organization like Starfleet.

Then there's different species who need different amounts of sleep. I guess Jellico was really onto something with the four 6 hour shifts. More flexibility.
 
Referring to everyone from the Mirror Universe as "Terrans". Terran comes from the name Terra. Terra means "Earth" in Latin. Terran should just be a term in reference to individuals from Earth as an alternative to "Earthling" or "Earther". If you're from Earth, you're a Terran, regardless of quantum reality.

The Roman Empire was comprised of "Roman citizens" mostly outside of Rome, even when it split in two and half of it was ruled by Greeks. The definition got a bit... byzantine as the centuries went on.
 
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