What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Gingerbread Demon]

You mean Scarlett Pomers? Yes, she's very pretty. And even as a child, she was quite an actress much better than the other child actors that we've seen in Voyager.

Yes I meant Scarlett Pomers. She's a great actress, looks amazing and would have made an amazing grown up Naomi.

Controversial opinion: Voyager should really have been a very different looking ship by the time it returned home if they had really taken and adapted all the tech they had found along the way, the ship should have changed a lot.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Yes I meant Scarlett Pomers. She's a great actress, looks amazing and would have made an amazing grown up Naomi.
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Yes, unfortunately, according to wiki she's no longer an actress, she's sort of retired.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Controversial opinion: Voyager should really have been a very different looking ship by the time it returned home if they had really taken and adapted all the tech they had found along the way, the ship should have changed a lot.

Supposedly they toyed with the idea of her losing a nacelle and having an alien one bolted on, but decided it would cost too much to redo all the stock footage flybys.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Supposedly they toyed with the idea of her losing a nacelle and having an alien one bolted on, but decided it would cost too much to redo all the stock footage flybys.

That would have been cool but in I'd imagine more then just changing one nacelle. I figure with all the travel they have done, all that they have seen and information they had gathered that ship should have come back to Earth looking very radical to how it started off.

 

[Tim Thomason]

What bold? They didn't make it home, they just made it back to Sector 001. Anything could have happened after the credits rolled, with them never making planetfall. For all we know, they got caught in some battle or other before they could make orbit, and only Janeway survived (so she could cameo in Nemesis). Nothing we saw with future Janeway ever happened in the corrected (skewed?) timeline, so no one got their happy ending.

Paris, Chakotay, Seven, Icheb, and Harry Kim also survived. Ensign Rutherford also seems curiously familiar with the sound of Voyager's warp engines. All signs point to survival of a ship, nearing Earth, surrounded by friendlies. Certainly it's out-of-the-blue destruction would've been mentioned on one of the two series that have thus far featured former Voyager crew. Undoubtedly, Prodigy will cover some of Voyager's fate in its dialogue.

 

[cooleddie74]

In the original history where Janeway took an extra 16 years to get back to the Alpha Quadrant Voyager became a museum ship on the grounds of the Presidio in San Francisco so perhaps something similar happened after the future Admiral Janeway traveled back to change history?

 

[Paul755]

Voyager may have ultimately ended up in the fleet museum. But so soon after the war, I gotta think Starfleet would have pressed it into service after a upgrade/refit.

 

[cooleddie74]

Especially if she came home with futuristic ablative armor and transphasic torpedo technology from an alternate timeline.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Especially if she came home with futuristic ablative armor and transphasic torpedo technology from an alternate timeline.

Voyager is filled with paradoxes. Like the Doctor's portable emitter, "A piece of 29th-century technology" How can possess such a thing not change future history? That makes you wonder about the guy who got it in the first place. Why did he even have to go to the future to get new technology? Had he commercialized his complete mastering of holograms he would have been a rich man (even more than he already was). Sometimes the plots are just plain dumb.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Voyager is filled with paradoxes. Like the Doctor's portable emitter, "A piece of 29th-century technology" How can possess such a thing not change future history? That makes you wonder about the guy who got it in the first place. Why did he even have to go to the future to get new technology? Had he commercialized his complete mastering of holograms he would have been a rich man (even more than he already was). Sometimes the plots are just plain dumb.

Just imagine pairing "The Doctor's" EMH in mass produced form with one of those Anti-Grav remote drones that Archer was playing with as a kid. Then the EMH can hide his Anti-Grav Floating Mobile Emitter within the Holographic Projection so that it doesn't get knocked down or off all the time like in Voyager.

Even if it gets knocked down, it can float back up and fly away as needed on it's own power and be built in a tough and compact saucer like shape about the size of a Hockey Puck; but with built in Shields, tiny Circular Phaser Arrays around the mini saucer's rim.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Just imagine pairing "The Doctor's" EMH in mass produced form with one of those Anti-Grav remote drones that Archer was playing with as a kid. Then the EMH can hide his Anti-Grav Floating Mobile Emitter within the Holographic Projection so that it doesn't get knocked down or off all the time like in Voyager.

Even if it gets knocked down, it can float back up and fly away as needed on it's own power and be built in a tough and compact saucer like shape about the size of a Hockey Puck; but with built in Shields, tiny Circular Phaser Arrays around the mini saucer's rim.

There are some bizarre inconsistencies like in "Live Fast And Prosper" the doctor is able to hide the emitter and masquerade as a woman but then when he runs we can see him being out of breath!! What were they thinking?

Until "Renaissance Man" the Doctor is the clumsiest man that ever lived (unable to keep people at bay with a gun for example) but then all of a sudden he becomes some kind of superhero with powers beyond reason....

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

There are some bizarre inconsistencies like in "Live Fast And Prosper" the doctor is able to hide the emitter and masquerade as a woman but then when he runs we can see him being out of breath!! What were they thinking?

Until "Renaissance Man" the Doctor is the clumsiest man that ever lived (unable to keep people at bay with a gun for example) but then all of a sudden he becomes some kind of superhero with powers beyond reason....

I think the Doctor was spending his free time learning how to become an "Action Hero" =D

 

[oldtrekkie]

I think the Doctor was spending his free time learning how to become an "Action Hero" =D

That must be it.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That must be it.

One advantage of being a EMH that has freedom and full autonomy, including what he looks like.

He can change his appearance in the future on a more permanent basis (to justify a new actor) and still be around for the rest of future Trek incarnations, even once Robert Picardo retires from acting or passes away.

Kind of like "Doctor Who" with 'The Doctor' on that show who periodically reincarnates himself into a new body.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Am I the only one who thinks that the dance of the Orian girls in Enterprise wasn't sexy at all. It's a good thing they have the "hormones" to explain (why Archer and Reed get all... heady) because I've seen sexier amateur belly dancers in wedding parties.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Am I the only one who thinks that the dance of the Orian girls in Enterprise wasn't sexy at all. It's a good thing they have the "hormones" to explain (why Archer and Reed get all... heady) because I've seen sexier amateur belly dancers in wedding parties.

I'm with you right there. That whole episode kind of makes me cringe.

 

[cooleddie74]

If it weren't for the existence of "TATV..." it'd be the worst episode of the entire final season. It is never one that lands on my rewatch lists even for any titillation value. The only good things to come out of the episode were that we learned that the women in Orion society are dominant and just allow the men to pretend otherwise and that the Gorn government and/or native political entity is officially called the Gorn Hegemony.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Porthos was lost in a transporter accident, but no he's safe and well, it sent him to an alternate universe where sentient canines evolved to stand up like humans, and he's president of that universe's Federation where dogs rule the stars, humans live in cages

 

[cooleddie74]

I'd watch it!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd watch it!

So would I. And I wrote it, well I would if there was money in it