Not as long as the inertial dampeners are working. Voyager's didn't go offline when she was pulled into the Delta Quadrant, at least not that I can remember from any dialogue.
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HIGHLY controversial opinion:
If you take away the absolutely horrible/borderline-racist casting decisions, Code of Honor isn’t a terrible episode as written on the page.
I'm actually of the same opinion, and have said as much in the past. At the very least, it gave us the Geordi shaving scene with Data, which was a great look at how they became such close friends.
To be fair, we don't know if the Caretaker's technology caused massive acceleration like that. Maybe that initial hit of the wave, but once the wave hit, it might have been like simply appearing by his array.
But that wasn't typical warp travel, or even transwarp. Those methods certainly require inertial dampeners.
My thinking is the tetryon wave snagged them with a hard first jolt, which caused all the damage and deaths, and the wave itself creates a sort of wormhole that brought them directly to the array. With the sensors out and the crew beat for those few minutes, they would have no way of knowing if a little wormhole was made due to the tetryon pulse.
My thinking is the tetryon wave snagged them with a hard first jolt, which caused all the damage and deaths, and the wave itself creates a sort of wormhole that brought them directly to the array. With the sensors out and the crew beat for those few minutes, they would have no way of knowing if a little wormhole was made due to the tetryon pulse.
I mean, even if the Ligonians had not all been played by black folk, "Code of Honor" is still a story about this alien culture is so primitive and so tribal compared to us, the point-of-view culture (the Federation), and one of them wants to abduct our women.
Like, even without the overt white supremacy, it's still a story that codes this alien culture as primitive and inferior and a sexual threat. It's similar to a lot of colonialist European propaganda against the nations they conquered.
Fixed that for ya.
"Code of Honor(TNG)" had a garbage story no matter what the ethnicity of the actors playing the alien tribespeople. Their skin could have been white and it would have been a bad episode. The message was just an atrocious one.
Star Trek is so woke and progressive!
Star Trek, featuring the episode Code of Honor.
I mean they try, but... yikes.
Star Trek, featuring the episode Code of Honor.
I mean they try, but... yikes.
At the end when Yareena says "Then I will have you as my Number 2", that's more on the nose than we realize, since the entire episode is a load of Number 2.
The worst part about Code of Honor is the backlash stopped Trek from doing sensible casting for planets of the week (i.e., having occasional planets or colonies where everyone was nonwhite) so we've since been stuck with either 100% white or inexplicable diversity even where it doesn't make sense (like colonies isolated for hundreds of years where everyone should be mixed).
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Trek could stand to be more diverse in their "planet of hats" episodes.
For example, "A PIece of the Action" should have kept the gangs, but given them all Minnesota accents.
"Ah hon, ya gotta keep dialin, Okmyx, dontcha know."
Also the "Miri" kids should all have been from Yorkshire ("Boonk! Boonk! Boonk on t' head!").
For example, "A PIece of the Action" should have kept the gangs, but given them all Minnesota accents.
"Ah hon, ya gotta keep dialin, Okmyx, dontcha know."
Also the "Miri" kids should all have been from Yorkshire ("Boonk! Boonk! Boonk on t' head!").
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Those that call them nurnies are not of the body..
I remind you all, Star Trek: Picard has given us northern and southern, and Irish and Australian Romulans.
I'm talking about certain episodes, like Children of Time, that show an isolated colony formed by a multiracial group of castaways centuries prior.
We have real world analogues to this in the form of isolated islands, and cultural taboos against interracial marriage fall to the wayside pretty quickly in small communities. Even if there was a black extra off camera Sisko chose to have a family with, his kids may be hard up to find other black people to settle down with. After 200 years there should be no visibly black or white people, just brown people.
The weird thing is the episode did it well with the part Klingons, where Worf's descendants had few Klingon features and some looked nothing like him at all.
Regarding the Klingons in that episode, some of them were not descendants of Worf. They chose the Klingon lifestyle.
And add those to the English Centurion in "Balance of Terror(TOS)" and you've got a widening representation of Earth nationalities and accents in the Romulan ranks.
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