What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Guy Gardener]

First season Troi is mostly emotional when she's sensing other beings, much like Spock. Or when she's emotionally compromised by a virus.

She's very direct and calls out the characters a lot on what they're really feeling versus what they're saying. Example: Troi basically tells Yar in front of the away team that she's horny for her kidnapper in "Code of Honor."

Troi was supposed to be the brain of the show. But as Sirtis puts it, the more cleavage Troi got the less brains she had. When she got the full uniform, Troi's brain returned. Suddenly she's an expert on Romulans and their tech, for instance.

"What's a warp core breach?"

Woman didn't even know that it was a cocktail.

I'd almost assume that as a child she always wigged out so much during routine travel and wouldn't get on the ship without screaming for hours and hours, after she found out how likely it was that even shuttles might explode for no reason, that Lwaxana deleted the term "warp core breach" from Deanna's lexicon.

 

[Dee1891]

I think this new version of Christopher Pike is boring and overrated.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I don't think this channel was built to withstand opinions that controversial.

 

[cooleddie74]

IT CANNAE TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS POUNDING!!!

 

[fireproof78]

Now that's a spicy meat-a-ball!

 

[Oddish]

I think this new version of Christopher Pike is boring and overrated.

That's Ok... I think Mariner on Lower Decks is overbearing and obnoxious.

 

[Vger23]

That's Ok... I think Mariner on Lower Decks is overbearing and obnoxious.

 

[gweeps]

I think this new version of Christopher Pike is boring and overrated.

There is a quality of blandness to Mount's portrayal. Maybe he's trying to show depression?

 

[gweeps]

That's Ok... I think Mariner on Lower Decks is overbearing and obnoxious.

An animated version of Burnham you say?

Seriously though, I've sorta warmed to Mariner.

 

[fireproof78]

I like Mariner. I like Burnham. I like Pike.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

There are no regular Trek characters that I dislike.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Even even characters that I initially disliked, such as Pulaski, I grew to like.

 

[Cox of Seagulls]

I like Pike

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[cooleddie74]

"Everyone is voting for Shran. 'Cause he's got what the pinkskins lack..."

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[Kamen Rider Blade]

The only time I've seen Phasers "Accurately" portrayed in travel time on screen was in ST: Lower Decks. Even in TNG, there was some "Travel Time" to the phaser where you can slow down the episode frame by frame and see the Phaser fly to the targeted area on the opponent.

I slowed down the same shots on Lower Decks space battles and the StarFleet Phasers truly function like they're traveling at the "Speed of Light" where they take only 1 frame to hit/reach the target given how close they're fighting and how fast a beam that travels the "Speed of Light" should take.

That, IMO, is true attention to detail and FAR better & more technically accurate way to portray the Phaser's Travel Speed where it's supposed to be traveling at the "Speed of Light". Basically a Laser, but with Phaser coloring and FAR more damage.

Even "Star Trek: Prodigy" made the same technical mistake as showing the Phaser having significant travel time to a target close by.

So IMHO, "Star Trek: Lower Decks" portrays the Phasers in the most Technically Accurate method since it follows the Technical Manuals details of how fast the beams are supposed to travel.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Have they ever said that phaser beams travel at the speed of light? We've seen people dodge them before, and not just when they'd been accelerated to super-speed.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Have they ever said that phaser beams travel at the speed of light? We've seen people dodge them before, and not just when they'd been accelerated to super-speed.

On the Memory Alpha Phaser article:

The 1991 reference book Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (pp. 123-125) explain the inner mechanisms of a phaser in more elaborate detail. "Phaser" is, according to the book, an acronym for "phased energy rectification" – named for the process of turning stored energy into an energy beam without an intermediate transformation. Energetic plasma is pumped to a prefire chamber made out of a superconducting lithium-copper. There, it undergoes a rapid nadion effect in which strong nuclear forces are liberated. A protonic charge forms and is released in pulses to the emitter made out of the same superconductive crystal. A beam of electromagnetic energy is released from it, at the speed of light. On starships, energy for phasers originates from the EPS, while on hand units, the charge of energetic plasma is stored into sarium-krellide. This material is used because it can't accidentally release the charge of plasma.

On StarShips / Shuttles / Fighters, it makes sense that you can pump out Phaser Energy at "Speed of Light" velocities when you dump enough energy to the emitters.

I can understand lesser power sources and devices like Hand Phasers & other Small Arms to be significantly slower than light, closer to modern day 21st century combat speeds given the limited device size and power source.

On a different subject matter / tangent:

I wonder if we can use modern day Nukes in Space for the EMP effect to jam enemy sensors and electronics temporarily.

US Government scientists have already testified in congress that the EMP blast high up in altitude would have a HUGE radius of affect.

Imagine what you can do with using Nukes in space to temporarily blind the enemy's sensor or mess with their computers.

Even in ST:VOY, when Janeway used the EM Pulse on the Druoda Warhead, all it did was piss off the AI and forced it to reboot and it only shut down the device momentarily for a split second.

Given advanced EMP and other types of Electronic Shielding, most Nukes would just function similar to modern day "Flash Bangs", but for space battles.

 

[Oddish]

There are no regular Trek characters that I dislike.

Mariner is my only one. There are many that I'm meh about, though.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Mariner is my only one. There are many that I'm meh about, though.

Many many many many that I’m meh about.

I do really like Mariner though. There’s no one I’m meh about in LDS.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm in the middle of watching Rocky vs. Drago. As much as I like Rocky IV, this is a lot better.

What does this have to do with Star Trek? I think Star Trek: Nemesis should get the Rocky vs. Drago Treatment. Cut the action scenes down by half, add in all the character moments that were cut, and I think that would make it a better film. And I can see that changing the film up to 50% like Rocky vs. Drago.

I'd even suggest re-color-grading the film and digitally altering the lighting scheme.