What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[ChrisPiiike]

Everyone on the Enterprise D that wanted contraception, had to go to sickbay once a month and ask Dr Crusher to give them a shot in the arm.

But what about Wesley?

In the fictional world of Star Trek, the details of characters' personal lives, including matters related to contraception, are not extensively explored or discussed. Therefore, there is no specific information available about Wesley Crusher's approach to contraception or whether he would have needed to visit Dr. Crusher for any related reasons.
It's possible that Wesley, like other crew members, may have had access to various forms of contraception or reproductive health options that were not explicitly mentioned in the show.
Wesley Crusher's specific approach to contraception remains a matter of speculation and is open to individual interpretation or fan theories.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

A great deal of confusion and debate over the years could have been prevented by just having the refit Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture be the Enterprise NCC-1701-A, built on the bones of the old NCC-1701 using whatever parts were salvageable... but still being essentially a new ship, which we're told it is. Instead we're now stuck with this whole "Ship of Theseus" problem compounded by the laissez faire attitude of present-day production teams to what merits a letter suffix or not.

The canonical Enterprise-A should have had some small physical differences from the refit Enterprise, so the Not-We wouldn't care but the We would be able to see it's still a different generation of starship. This idea from MorganDonovan on DeviantArt giving her Excelsior-style nacelles and a rear-firing photon torpedo launcher below the undercut would have been ideal:

I'd rather they just never started with suffixes at all. The number is meaningless. It's the name that matters.

 

[1001001]

In the fictional world of Star Trek, the details of characters' personal lives, including matters related to contraception, are not extensively explored or discussed. Therefore, there is no specific information available about Wesley Crusher's approach to contraception or whether he would have needed to visit Dr. Crusher for any related reasons.
It's possible that Wesley, like other crew members, may have had access to various forms of contraception or reproductive health options that were not explicitly mentioned in the show.
Wesley Crusher's specific approach to contraception remains a matter of speculation and is open to individual interpretation or fan theories.

ChatBot much?

 

[Macintosh]

I'd rather they just never started with suffixes at all. The number is meaningless. It's the name that matters.

If I remember rightly back in very early pre-production for TNG the Enterprise-D's registry would to have been NCC-17017. But you're right, the registry number shouldn't matter, and it's odd how prominent they are in Star Trek compared to real naval ships. The registries of the US aircraft carriers named Enterprise are CV-6, CVN-65, and CVN-80 after all, not CV-6, CV-6-A, and CV-6-B...

 

[Commander Troi]

ChatBot much?

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that!

 

[Tenacity]

Wesley Crusher's specific approach to contraception remains a matter of speculation and is open to individual interpretation or fan theories.

When Wes first started puberty, Beverly used a meat clever to remove his balls.

 

[Guy Gardener]

When Wes first started puberty, Beverly used a meat clever to remove his balls.

I saw Wes on a rerun of Love Boat the next wave opposite his tv fiance yesterday, a second virgin, who planned a sex weekend at sea with everyone else on the ship, so that they can enter marriage as fully rounded sexual beings.

They both disembarked the Love Boat untouched.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This idea from MorganDonovan on DeviantArt giving her Excelsior-style nacelles and a rear-firing photon torpedo launcher below the undercut would have been ideal:

I like the rear torpedo tube, a lot. Not hot about the nacelles, though.

 

[AresB]

As much as I enjoy the current Trek series (and that's pretty much indeed), would it hurt them to hold the camera still for a moment? The queasy cam has annoyed me since NYPD Blue.

A shot of a starship rumbling serenely from left to right through black, empty, nebula-free space, no jumps, flips or zooms, is probably out of question too.

 

[Rahul]

We have too many Enterprises already.

• The classic one is iconic.
• The refit for a movie was necessary & so good it also became iconic.
• That "The Next Generation" also took place on a next generation Enterprise was also the right choice
• Having a completely new & different TNG movie Enterprise was already iffy
• The NX-01 should definitely not have been named Enterprise
• The reboot having an Enterprise was a given
• Having two(!) new Enterprise versions in "Beyond" was dumb as hell
• SNW is more interesting - a reboot on the same ship. But it should have been much closer to either the original or the reboot. Not a complete new interim-version. And not so close after the reboot.
• The Enterprise-F and Titan-A Enterprise from PIC was just utter bullshit

At this point, I would be happy if history forgets the name "Enterprise", before it loses all its remaining meaning.
Just use some new bloody ship names. Or existing ones (Stargazer, Titan, Endeavour, whatever). I'm just completely burned out on Enterprises in Star Trek already.

 

[Tallguy]

The refit for a movie was necessary & so good it also became iconic.

Hilarious, but true.

The reboot having an Enterprise was a given

But having a good one was not.

Having two(!) new Enterprise versions in "Beyond" was dumb as hell

No matter the timeline, if you blow up an Enterprise there's another one in the Starfleet Pez dispenser.

SNW is more interesting - a reboot on the same ship. But it should have been much closer to either the original or the reboot. Not a complete new interim-version. And not so close after the reboot.

You can find pages of posts that tell you that this was a great choice. PAGES. PAGES. (Wait, you would make me watch the JJ-prise every week?!? Why would you do that?)

At this point, I would be happy if history forgets the name "Enterprise",

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(0:38)

I'm just completely burned out on Enterprises in Star Trek already.

I would love a show set on the Bonhomme Richard.

I'd love a show set on a ship without a saucer.

I'd love a show with a crew of 50.

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(1:37) "I wish a lot of things!" (I wish TrekBBS would take you to the timestamp when you post YouTube videos!)

 

[fireproof78]

At this point, I would be happy if history forgets the name "Enterprise", before it loses all its remaining meaning.

It already has. It did with the D and E.

 

[RedshirtP4C-970]

The Vulcan made first contact with Earth and allied with them so as to use Earth as muscle in wars against Klingons and Romulans.

 

[cooleddie74]

There's always a reason for Vulcans to do anything.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There's always a reason for Vulcans to do anything.

or do nothing. - Henry Archer

 

[cooleddie74]

That's complex.

Warp Five complex.

 

[4Lights]

I don't care for TOS.

 

[Macintosh]

I don't care for TOS.

Me either. If it was all Star Trek was – TOS and the first six movies – I doubt I'd consider myself much of a fan.

 

[Lord Garth]

I love TOS... but as a '60s TV show and an '80s Film Series.

NOT as something Sacred and Holy.

 

[at Quark's]

I love TOS... but as a '60s TV show and an '80s Film Series.

NOT as something Sacred and Holy.

I agree - not just about TOS but about Trek more in general, and despite some of my other posts and questions about 'canon' in other threads, I can't really use that term in a Trek context without experiencing some feeling of irony.

Though I think there are interesting parallels with religion. The 'splits' in fandom between different factions (nu-trek vs older forms of trek), the eternally returning questions (Is Starfleet Military?) people keep arguing about, the differences in attitude between 'traditionalists' and 'liberalists', the convoluted explanations some can come up with to reconcile several contradictory sounding script snippets with one another (Inerrancy of Scripture, sorry, I mean, scripts), and so on.

I'm only half serious about those parallels, but still, they are there.