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What are your unanswered Star Trek questions?

What really was that thing at the center of the galaxy, and was the Great Barrier a natural phenomenon or something constructed to contain it? The creature says it has been “imprisoned…” Is that literal, or has it just been trapped there? How did it influence Sybok?

It must have had an amazing range if it could influence him back on Nimus III but I wonder if it had reached out to him back on Vulcan. Yeah but the how and the why would make for an interesting story or two.
 
I know Lower Decks has one in the crew but I am referencing only the live action Trek universe.

I mean...same universe.

What happened to the aliens from "Conspiracy?" What was their purpose?

They do pop up in DC Comics TNG annual #3 and the now alternate timeline Litverse.

Why didn't picard just go back to before he met Soran and stop him before he got to Veridian?

I always assumed that you could only leave the nexus within a certain distance from the anomaly

What really was that thing at the center of the galaxy, and was the Great Barrier a natural phenomenon or something constructed to contain it? The creature says it has been “imprisoned…” Is that literal, or has it just been trapped there? How did it influence Sybok?
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According to the Q Continuum novel trilogy he was placed there by the Q.
 
Why don't they transwarp beam everywhere? Especially in Discovery, I was sure every jump in S03E01 was a different planet but no.
 
I mean...same universe.


I always assumed that you could only leave the nexus within a certain distance from the anomaly

Guinan told Picard he could go 'anywhere anytime', and Kirk leaves 78 years after no doubt a significant distance from where he entered.
 
What happened to the aliens from "Conspiracy?" What was their purpose?

They were what the Borg was supposed to be till they changed their mind and made them cybernetic. I'd like to think they are still out there somewhere and still heading for Earth
 
My unanswered Star Trek question, which I have mentioned before... what ever happened with the Morgs and Eymorgs? Greg Cox has revealed Pocket Books' view on this, where the novels are concerned. But I still say this is one of the great mysteries of Trek that needs to be answered! I will die on this hill. :techman: Maybe "Lower Decks" would be a suitable place to explore this dangling plot thread. Hint, hint... any production staff out there reading this?

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Why doesn't the Defiant have that cloak that lets ships pass through solid matter?

That interphase-cloak technology was experimental, and prone to disastrous accidents like what happened with the USS Pegasus twelve years prior to the episode "The Pegasus." According to the earlier TNG ep "The Next Phase," the Klingons had been working on something like this, but "it never got out of the preliminary stages" because of repeated accidents. In that episode we saw the effect occurring on a small scale with humanoid-sized life forms because of accident/malfunction with the Romulan equipment. The Romulan experiments must not have gotten very far, since we never saw any Romulan ships equipped with the interphase-cloak after that.

In fact why are the Klingons and Romulans allowed to keep their cloaking tech but the Federation is banned from having it?
Because of The Treaty of Algeron. As to why the Federation would agree to that particular treaty stipulation...? That's a discussion topic in itself.

Kor
 
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Why did scotty think it possible kirk came on the enterprise to rescue him at the dyson sphere ?
 
He was a bit confused after having been in the transporter pattern buffer for so long, it only lasted a minute or so.

Was it the original plan to have T'Pring pick Stonn as her champian?
 
Why didn't picard just go back to before he met Soran and stop him before he got to Veridian?
Depending on when in the timeline Picard decided to go to, I could see how he could run into some legal issues about detaining Soran without probable cause for stuff that he "hasn't done yet." Perhaps show up on the Amargosa Observatory when Soran turns on Geordi and Data and before he launches the probe toward the Amargosa star. There should be evidence there that Soran is up to no good.

Kor
 
Why did Picard think asking Guinan to go back and help him in a punch up with soran was a good idea?
Picard still wasn't quite the action hero that he would be in the following movies. Maybe he thought that Guinan could appeal to Soran's reason and talk him down, and that he would be more likely to listen to a fellow El-Aurien with Nexus experience?

Kor
 
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