What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[cooleddie74]

Even the Kelvin Timeline movies retained echoes of the TOS female uniforms and makeup looks. Miniskirt uniforms being one of those echoes complete with high boots. There were no sleeves and no plunging necklines but otherwise the female Starfleet duty uniforms bore a strong resemblance to TOS, far moreso than anything we've yet seen in DSC.

 

[1001001]

Robot Cthulhu did/does not have to be stupid. It's in the execution.

When it started to emerge, I laughed out loud.

I doubt that was the reaction they were going for…

 

[Brobdingnag]

The Picard golem... Way to connect Picard and Dune!

 

[cooleddie74]

The robotic AI tentacles were eye-roll inducing. These writers' fetish for high-tech, galaxy-threatening menaces that look like they came out of a Matrix film has already reached tiresome and gone beyond it. At least with the Burn in DSC its cause was original if weird and had nothing to do with nanotechnology, interdimensional machines who want to destroy all organic life or Section 31. Enough, guys.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I wonder which side the Borg would prefer to be on, the Synthetic AI Cthulu-like Life Forms, or us Organics, or their own hybrid Biological/Synthetic Hybrid Borg side?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Picard golem... Way to connect Picard and Dune!

In Dune, it's a ghola.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The robotic AI tentacles were eye-roll inducing. These writers' fetish for high-tech, galaxy-threatening menaces that look like they came out of a Matrix film has already reached tiresome and gone beyond it. At least with the Burn in DSC its cause was original if weird and had nothing to do with nanotechnology, interdimensional machines who want to destroy all organic life or Section 31. Enough, guys.

The cause felt like the origin story of a mutant from X-men.

 

[Brobdingnag]

In Dune, it's a ghola.

True but in essence, it's the same thing.

 

[JRoss]

You think the Changelings beauty dazzles all who see them? Or that they act like they've purged their evil impulses? Also that they originate in the alpha quadrant?

From Armus' perspective? Sure, they dazzle. They're changelings and he's black sludge. The Changeling species was stated as originally being humanoid. They're warp-capable on their own. The Great Link could have come from anywhere. They had to be nomadic while they were on the run before they managed to create the Dominion. So, yeah.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I think Data should have stayed dead and never been revisited.

Are you like, the Angel of Death? You want everyone dead!

 

[Brobdingnag]

Are you like, the Angel of Death? You want everyone dead!

This is Star Trek, death is only irreversible until it isn't.

 

[Commander Troi]

Just like comics... and other TV shows... and some movie franchises...

 

[dupersuper]

I think Data's Death was Unnecessary and he should be revived as a Disembodied AI that have proxy bodies he can hop into as needed.

You may like a story from the IDW Waypoint comics...

I wonder which side the Borg would prefer to be on, the Synthetic AI Cthulu-like Life Forms, or us Organics, or their own hybrid Biological/Synthetic Hybrid Borg side?

I don't get the impression that robocthulu would accept hybrid allies.

From Armus' perspective? Sure, they dazzle. They're changelings and he's black sludge.

Black sludge looks up to brown sludge?

The Changeling species was stated as originally being humanoid.

When?

They're warp-capable on their own. The Great Link could have come from anywhere. They had to be nomadic while they were on the run before they managed to create the Dominion. So, yeah.

It still feels like a huge reach to me.

 

[Farscape One]

The Female Changeling said to Odo in "THE SEARCH, PART II" that Changelings used to be 'monoforms'. I might be wrong on the episode, but I do know she said it to him once.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Female Changeling said to Odo in "THE SEARCH, PART II" that Changelings used to be 'monoforms'. I might be wrong on the episode, but I do know she said it to him once.

It's in "Behind the Lines" [http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/528.htm]:

ODO: Have our people always been shape-shifters, or was there a time when we were like the solids?
FOUNDER: Eons ago we were like them, limited to one form, but then we evolved.​

 

[Grendelsbayne]

^For accuracy's sake, though, those lines don't necessarily mean they were humanoid.

 

[at Quark's]

ODO: Have our people always been shape-shifters, or was there a time when we were like the solids?
FOUNDER: Eons ago we were like them, limited to one form, but then we evolved.
ODO (whispering): You mean .... you used to be humanoid, all those eons ago?
FOUNDER: What gave youi that idea? No, all those eons ago, we were nothing but the brown sludge you see before you. And we resented it!

 

[Grendelsbayne]

ODO: Have our people always been shape-shifters, or was there a time when we were like the solids?
FOUNDER: Eons ago we were like them, limited to one form, but then we evolved.
ODO (whispering): You mean .... you used to be humanoid, all those eons ago?
FOUNDER: What gave youi that idea? No, all those eons ago, we were nothing but the brown sludge you see before you. And we resented it!

Solid and humanoid aren't the same thing.

 

[tesral]

Solid and humanoid aren't the same thing.

I know plenty of humanoids that are not solid.

 

[fireproof78]

I know plenty of humanoids that are not solid.

Are they meat popsicles?