What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Vger23]

It happens. Humans are humans. We need to try to do better without causing an all-out war with each other and causing even more hate and dissention than we already have.

Anyway......I'd love to get back to Star Trek and away from social commentary about "the fans" or whatever else. Just my humble request as a fellow poster.

 

[fireproof78]

It happens. Humans are humans. We need to try to do better without causing an all-out war with each other and causing even more hate and dissention than we already have.

Indeed.

 

[AresB]

Yeah, I never understood why Starfleet didn't just build a huge medical complex on the other side of the planet.

Because the Son'a didn't want to live there.

Admiral Matthew Dougherty: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your chief engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. Would you take that away from him?
Jean-Luc Picard: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this one planet?
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damn thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.
Jean-Luc Picard: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.
Jean-Luc Picard: Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on the planet until we do.
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. Who would?

 

[Oddish]

That actually sounds suspiciously like trying to get all the golden eggs at once. The Federation and Son'a might have found themselves up to their elbows in goose guts.

Better to say screw the Son'a, and quietly establish a Federation colony of their own. But Starfleet admirals aren't known for making sound decisions...

 

[tesral]

Better to say screw the Son'a, and quietly establish a Federation colony of their own. But Starfleet admirals aren't known for making sound decisions...

It's what they DO! Give you a mission, and make bad decisions.

 

[oldtrekkie]

That actually sounds suspiciously like trying to get all the golden eggs at once. The Federation and Son'a might have found themselves up to their elbows in goose guts.

Better to say screw the Son'a, and quietly establish a Federation colony of their own. But Starfleet admirals aren't known for making sound decisions...

"Science" in the Star Trek world is not based on (what we call) logic, coherence, continuity, or even precedents. It's whatever they say at the moment and for the reason that they give you, assuming that they do so,

If they tell you that the particles only work Monday when it rains then you have to take their word for it and not try to make any sense of it. It would be a waste of time.

 

[dupersuper]

Because the Son'a didn't want to live there.

Admiral Matthew Dougherty: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your chief engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. Would you take that away from him?
Jean-Luc Picard: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this one planet?
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damn thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.
Jean-Luc Picard: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.
Jean-Luc Picard: Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on the planet until we do.
Admiral Matthew Dougherty: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. Who would?

Screw what the Son'a want. Open diplomatic relations with the Ba'ku, get permission for a medical colony, act as mediators between the Ba'ku and So'na trying to make peace, defend the Ba'ku if the So'na attack.

 

[Oddish]

It's what they DO! Give you a mission, and make bad decisions.

Of course, forgive me for forgetting...

 

[oldtrekkie]

Screw what the Son'a want. Open diplomatic relations with the Ba'ku, get permission for a medical colony, act as mediators between the Ba'ku and So'na trying to make peace, defend the Ba'ku if the So'na attack.

The irony is that we don't know what the Ba'Ku's answer would be to any of these questions because somehow they're never asked any of them during the movie. That's the weirdest way of eluding a question ever used in a movie. It would be like a trial where the accused is never asked by either party if they've committed the crime. The worst part is that they do that kind of stuff all the time, like in Enterprise's Acquisition where the Ferengi never say who they are and later the Borg do the same thing...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Hey Quantum Leap, NCIS New Orleans, and Enterprise are one big extended timeline, I stole that from the comments in this video.

Fan theories are funny

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[cooleddie74]

WeGotThisCovered(so who gives a shit) reported on a theory that some fans of Titanic see the movie as a prequel to the Terminator franchise.

So...yeah. There's no way that click would have ended well. There are times I hate myself but not that much.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

WeGotThisCovered(so who gives a shit) reported on a theory that some fans of Titanic see the movie as a prequel to the Terminator franchise.

So...yeah. There's no way that click would have ended well. There are times I hate myself but not that much.

Lol...........

But Sam Beckett is Future Guy

 

[Coops]

Anyway......I'd love to get back to Star Trek and away from social commentary about "the fans" or whatever else. Just my humble request as a fellow poster.

OK, how's this - 'The City On The Edge Of Forever' isn't as good as it's made out to be. Fight me.

 

[Farscape One]

I heard the writers wanted Archer to be Future Guy.

In a sense, that DID happen. In "SHOCKWAVE, PART II", he got back because he took on that form. Even calling Silik an 'ugly bastard'.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I heard the writers wanted Archer to be Future Guy.

In a sense, that DID happen. In "SHOCKWAVE, PART II", he got back because he took on that form. Even calling Silik an 'ugly bastard'.

That would never have been as bad as the whole of DS9 being some kind of dream

 

[plynch]

Love that DS9 concept, actually

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Love that DS9 concept, actually

Are you kidding? Why?

That's just the laziest way to end a story

 

[cooleddie74]

It'd be the boldest writing decision in all of Trek history but I would have hated it.

 

[Oddish]

It'd be the boldest writing decision in all of Trek history but I would have hated it.

Not sure how I would've felt about it...

My favorite fan theory is still the one that Janeway secretly had it in for Harry. It just explains so much...

 

[oldtrekkie]

Someone once suggested (as a joke) to someone from Enterprise's writing team (I don't remember whom) that the last words of the series should be "Computer End Program" and what do you know? That's exactly what they were!