General Trek Questions and Observations

[gweeps]

I do miss some of the sound effects from TOS that even regular weekly TOS dialed down on or abandoned. The transporter platform "throbbing" from "The Cage" is one of them. But I can understand why that effect would have added money to the weekly postproduction budget and distracted from dialogue in the transporter room.

Also, maybe they reasoned the transporter didn't take long to get going, so there wasn't any reason to keep it "idling"?

But you're probably correct: budget constraints.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I love the TNG Warp Core sound. It thrums like a bastard and sounds like pure power.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Watching For the Cause.

Eddington needs to stop watching Fox News.

 

[at Quark's]

Sisko contacts both factions and explains that information about the bioweapons is stored in the Federation's database. Killing Miles and Bashir is now pointless.

It is a nice solution, I'll give you that.

Except it makes the Federation look no less treacherous than, say, the Romulans. They are asked for help in destroying both the weapons and all information about them, and then act against the express wishes of those they are supposed to help. So if they believe Sisko, the name of the Federation is tarnished, if they don't, there's no reason for them to stop hunting Miles and O' Brien.

 

[dupersuper]

It is a nice solution, I'll give you that.

Except it makes the Federation look no less treacherous than, say, the Romulans. They are asked for help in destroying both the weapons and all information about them, and then act against the express wishes of those they are supposed to help.

Only after the people who asked for their help tried to kill two of his crew.

 

[Oddish]

The Federation could tell them that they wanted to keep information about the Harvesters to do research on developing counter agents for them and other bioweapons. Just in case they weren't totally gone.

 

[gweeps]

Gotta be honest. I never cared much for the Eugenics Wars. And Star Trek Into Garbage... well...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I do miss some of the sound effects from TOS that even regular weekly TOS dialed down on or abandoned. The transporter platform "throbbing" from "The Cage" is one of them. But I can understand why that effect would have added money to the weekly postproduction budget and distracted from dialogue in the transporter room.

But in TOS there was a far more subdued whirring sound that was obviously added in post whenever (or almost always?) we were in the transporter room. I really don't see how money was the issue. It seems more like an artistic and aesthetic choice to me.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

But in TOS there was a far more subdued whirring sound that was obviously added in post whenever (or almost always?) we were in the transporter room. I really don't see how money was the issue. It seems more like an artistic and aesthetic choice to me.

Same. It's not like the Enterprise didn't maintain it's own soundscape elsewhere in TOS.

Would it really have cost more to put a sound effect in the Transporter Room? I don't know enough about these things.

 

[The Rock]

About Dr. Noonian Soong and Khan Noonien Singh.......has there ever been a reason given that their names are somewhat similar to each other? I've always wondered this.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Same reason as the similarity between Chris Evans (radio presenter) and Chris Evans (actor).

Not to be glib, but they are just commonly used names, excepting maybe Soong.

A quick Google just taught me that approx. 36 million people have the surname Singh, it being the 6th most common surname in the world. 23 million Khan's worldwide as well.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

They were apparently both named after a Chinese pilot Roddenberry once knew called Kim Noonien Singh, who he'd lost contact with. The story I heard was he was trying to get his attention so he'd get in touch. I have no idea how true any of this is.

 

[Kor]

The name of Roddenberry's friend has also been given as Kim Noonien Wang. Apparently we only have Roddenberry's word that such a person actually existed. And there are no anecdotes about him ever being contacted by this friend after using the names in Trek.

Kor

 

[gweeps]

Two recently rewatched Voyager episodes choked me up near their ends:

1) Mortal Coil, when Neelix is tucking Naomi into bed after Chakotay and Samantha save him.

2) Drone, as Seven is trying to convince One to not give up.

 

[gweeps]

Anybody else go into a rabbit hole on YouTube with episode clips?

 

[fireproof78]

Anybody else go into a rabbit hole on YouTube with episode clips?

Only with Discovery and TOS.

 

[at Quark's]

Just rewatched a part of Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

At the end, Admiral Ross and Bashir have a 'heart to heart' talk - off the record. And they put their commbadges on the table.

Does that mean that when worn, these commbadges record everything, always?

That's a bit of a scary thought ...especially as we only very rarely see them without these commbadges, they usually wear them even in the most private of circumstances...

 

[gweeps]

Just rewatched a part of Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

At the end, Admiral Ross and Bashir have a 'heart to heart' talk - off the record. And they put their commbadges on the table.

Does that mean that when worn, these commbadges record everything, always?

That's a bit of a scary thought ...especially as we only very rarely see them without these commbadges, they usually wear them even in the most private of circumstances...

Probably just symbolism.

 

[fireproof78]

Does that mean that when worn, these commbadges record everything, always?

Yes. And in Voyager the ship is monitoring the crew's brain waves at all times.

Starfleet is not a private organization.

 

[tesral]

Yes. And in Voyager the ship is monitoring the crew's brain waves at all times.

Starfleet is not a private organization.

Largely primate with some exceptions.