Stuff that make you wonder but not own thread worthy

[Farscape One]

"WHISPERS" was playing on the 'More Star Trek' channel on Pluto TV late last night, and seeing the end reminded me of something I wondered for a long time.

If the Paradas made replicants so perfect, could they have been members of the Dominion?

 

[Oddish]

Very possible... the Dominion presumably controls most worlds on the region of the wormhole, but may not dominate them equally. Join of your own free will, pay whatever tribute they demand, they might let you do your own thing. Defy them, and they'll inflict some planet-wide torture disease on you.

 

[Finn]

Am I the only one who thinks in season 1 & 2 Picard's haircut neckline is crooked?

It was like this a lot, but later they seemed to sort it out

I did notice the difference in his hair, not the hairline, but it did seem more trimmed in latter seasons .

 

[Mister Spock]

There's a few times when Patrick Stewart has clearly just had a haircut, so it looks neatly clippered, and it's very nice on him.

Riker's hair looks nicer when he starts to gel it back and loses the boyish parting and fringe of the early seasons.

 

[somebuddyX]

I quite like the Season 1 and 2 designs of some aliens, like the Selay, Anticans, the prawn guys, the Benzites, and especially the Borg. I wonder if they could have done some more weird stuff with muppets or animatronics. They could have had Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit" wandering the halls as a Starfleet officer from a robot planet.

 

[Qonundrum]

I quite like the Season 1 and 2 designs of some aliens, like the Selay, Anticans, the prawn guys, the Benzites, and especially the Borg. I wonder if they could have done some more weird stuff with muppets or animatronics.

They were too busy and understandably recovering from "Catspaw" instead of trying semi-opaque fish line instead of thick black yarn for the marionettes...? By then animatronics had taken off and it'd be easier to slap on a new papier mache mask around the frame than to use marionettes...

They could have had Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit" wandering the halls as a Starfleet officer from a robot planet.

Thus sprang another Data romance story arc...

 

[somebuddyX]

Are there any other one episode aliens like the Husnock and Tamarians that show up in TNG with impressive ships?

 

[Farscape One]

The Romulan warbird was pretty impressive.

 

[somebuddyX]

The Romulan warbird was pretty impressive.

Oh yeah definitely! And there's that version that Andy Probert designed that's tall as opposed to wide. But I was thinking of ships that only show up in one episode and never seen again. I was trying to think of what powerful aliens races were around at the time of the Dominion War but not mentioned. Obviously the Husnock all got blown up although maybe their ships survived, and the Tamarians might have felt too complicated to include if anyone had even thought of it. There's also the Talarians from "Suddenly Human." And they did mention the Miradorn whose ships appeared in "Gambit."

 

[Farscape One]

Oh yeah definitely! And there's that version that Andy Probert designed that's tall as opposed to wide. But I was thinking of ships that only show up in one episode and never seen again. I was trying to think of what powerful aliens races were around at the time of the Dominion War but not mentioned. Obviously the Husnock all got blown up although maybe their ships survived, and the Tamarians might have felt too complicated to include if anyone had even thought of it. There's also the Talarians from "Suddenly Human." And they did mention the Miradorn whose ships appeared in "Gambit."

The thing is that even though those alien ships only appeared once, the same ships were uses again multiple times, either just repainted or added a small detail.

For example, the Tamarian ship... also used in DS9's "ARMAGEDDON GAME" as a Kellerun ship.

The Talarian ship was reused probably at least a dozen times in TNG and DS9 as other races' ships.

I think the Husnock one was reused, too.

 

[somebuddyX]

Another one I just realised is the Borg ship from "Descent" which could just be a Borg ship and I'm convinced I saw a diagram of the ship in a Voyager episode, but I remember at the time thinking the Borg just stole some random passerby's ride.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I did wonder for a while why the 1701-D warp core set looks like a big and cheap-looking plastic doggie toy and nothing like the more industrial-looking set that TMP used. Never mind why 1701-E's looks like an even bigger, slightly more expensive-looking doggie toy.

At least what remained of the TMP set was reused on VOY...

It's actually all the same set.

For instance, remember the corridor that mysteriously opens up in Engineering? I can't remember if it's in GEN, or during the later seasons of TNG, but somewhere along the line a corridor appears in the Ent-D's engineering section where previously there was a solid wall.

This very same corridor appears in TMP, in the 1701's engineering, when the abortive transporter process begins (and kills Sonak and Adm. Ciana). Scotty says "Transporter room, do not engage!", his assistant Cleary says "It's too late, they're beaming now!" and then Scotty and Kirk go running off down that corridor.

 

[Mike Farley]

Ever since SNW premiered, I do have one question.

Did the Captain's quarters on the Enterprise get seriously downgraded when Pike left and Kirk took command?

According to The Cage Pike's Enterprise had a crew of 200. Maybe when the crew size was doubled for Kirk's 5 Year Mission some internal adjustments had to be made.

 

[Farscape One]

According to The Cage Pike's Enterprise had a crew of 200. Maybe when the crew size was doubled for Kirk's 5 Year Mission some internal adjustments had to be made.

That's certainly possible.

 

[Qonundrum]

It's actually all the same set.

For instance, remember the corridor that mysteriously opens up in Engineering? I can't remember if it's in GEN, or during the later seasons of TNG, but somewhere along the line a corridor appears in the Ent-D's engineering section where previously there was a solid wall.

This very same corridor appears in TMP, in the 1701's engineering, when the abortive transporter process begins (and kills Sonak and Adm. Ciana). Scotty says "Transporter room, do not engage!", his assistant Cleary says "It's too late, they're beaming now!" and then Scotty and Kirk go running off down that corridor.

Oops, I meant just the prop. Not sure why I said "set". :blush: Yeah, I saw some corridor reuse, but nothing stuck out more or worse than the new big blue novelty...

 

[Farscape One]

This is going to sound off the wall, but a line of dialogue from "We'll Always Have Paris".

Data says that a hiccup was an incorrect analogy for the time issue during the episode. He said if it were to be compared to a bodily function, it would be more like... we don't know, since Picard cut him off.

I always wondered: what was the bodily function?

When it first aired, I imagined it to be a fart. Now, 35 years later... I still imagine what he said would be a fart. But, damn it, I want confirmation!

 

[Oddish]

There are three bodily functions that might warrant such censorship: urination, expulsion of solid waste, and flatulence. Which seems most apt?

 

[at Quark's]

That's assuming these taboos are still the same in the 24th century. They may have disappeared, or new taboos may have been added.

Alternatively, Picard might have simply shut him off because on second thought he might have thought exploring the analogy was irrelevant after all.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Am I the only one who thinks in season 1 & 2 Picard's haircut neckline is crooked?

It was like this a lot, but later they seemed to sort it out

Mot sneezed.

 

[Oddish]

That's assuming these taboos are still the same in the 24th century.

It took 14 years of Trek series (3 TOS, 1 TAS, 7 TNG, and 3 DS9) and seven movies before anyone even mentioned having to "take a leak". The taboos seem to be holding up just fine.

Regarding Mot, maybe he wasn't onboard yet. His debut was in "Ensign Ro".

Possibly, Picard got tired of receiving bad haircuts from the random Starfleet crewman tasked with the job and told Starfleet to send him a competent stylist already.