Spoilers Episode 7 "Nepenthe"
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The Federation from Star Trek: Insurrection, "Pen Pals," "I Borg," "Symbiosis," etc would like a word.
Well, I sure am glad that the train wreck of a thread-derailing religion tangent seems to have moved on. There's a reason that we prefer to keep discussion of religion in Miscellaneous and TNZ. Here are some pretty good examples why...
And none of this had anything to do with what was actually in this episode.
If this topic rears its head again, there will be reply bans at the least.
Extremely insensitive and insulting to anyone who is religious.
I'll let this go this time because of what you were responding to, but this is not something that I want to see around here.
And none of this had anything to do with what was actually in this episode.
If this topic rears its head again, there will be reply bans at the least.
This was not a TNG episode.
Ooh, that's a good point...he knew exactly what Raffi was up to on Freecloud.
I’m pretty sure she did this in an earlier episode as well.
All-in-all this was a great episode. I didn’t realize how much I missed the old crew. While Nemesis may have left a bad taste in my mouth, it would have been nice to have one more feature film with Picard, Riker, Geordi, etc...
One thing I noticed, and this may have been mentioned already in this thread... I'm too lazy to read through 60+ pages of comments... anyway, in the flashback scene, Commodore Oh states to Jurati that she (Jurati) sent 300 gigabytes of data to Picard. Bytes, not Quads, which was the unit of measure for data used in all previous incarnations of Trek (at least in the 24th century). Do you (the general community) think this was deliberate or a writing gaffe?
If it was deliberate, it seems that the UFP decided to embrace binary again and abandon the computing architecture used in TNG, DS9 and VOY (quantum based or whatever it was). Perhaps Quad-based computing more easily lent itself to AI and artificial lifeforms?
Because I suspect the remaining xBs are going to revolt against the Romulans, and restart / regenerate the Cube for their own purposes.
That may be, but he didn't pick up at all on Agnes' distraught facial expressions when she was trying to tell him.
He went off on a tangent cutting her off instead of letting her continue.
The Titan is the Brian Brophy of starships.
I always thought it was Quad = Quadrillion bits or 1000 Terabytes. I.e. they have so much data in everything a quadrillion bits or bytes were now the base unit. Was it supposed to be a 4 state logic or something? Quantum is qubits they are entirely different from binary. Whatever it was, computers and tech have come a long way in the last 35 years. 300GB sounds reasonable for what she could have sent him. We get that now. In '87 we had floppy disks and these ridiculously expensive Hard drives that held a megabyte or 10. Something like the size of a few modern cell phone photos.
My point is why consider anything lazy that doesn't conform to scifi bullshit written decades ago? The world changes, we learn, shouldn't that learning influence the scifi regardless of whether the franchise is decades old? Do you want this to be pure fantasy based on TOS? Or do you want stories that related to you with details that make sense? I think a made up unit that made no sense replaced by a decent guess at something based on modern life is the same as replacing cardboard with tacky lights with touch screens and augmented reality.
What starship will they substitute for it?
Vic Fontaine. Duh!
I stand corrected. I still don't know if they would dump the contents of the Ring tape into someone's mind before they had attempted a logical argument.
So we were told. The truth appears to be more complicated. She was clearly more involved with Maddox and his projects than she let on originally.
Ahhh...
Find Kirk you say?
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