What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[FederationHistorian]

Harry Mudd kind of is like the Joker... from the Silver Age.

Both start off more serious (Mudd was a space pimp at first and the Joker actually killed people back in 1940), then they quickly become pranksters who aren't doing things that are really that bad. And, at the end of each story, they go to jail, and everyone has a big laugh. And we all know they'll escape again.

Makes me wonder what Harry Mudd would be like if they made him darker and edgier. Like what happened with the Joker.

DIS kind of touched on this.

 

[Vger23]

Controversial Opinion:

I can’t think of any recurring character that interests me less than Harry Mudd.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

The Discovery version of Mudd is superior to the TOS version. TOS Mudd’s a doofus.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Starships seem to operate on a similar principal, IE with rare exceptions the helm is typically located on either the right or left side of the front of the bridge. Likewise runabouts and some types of shuttlecraft have their pilot sit on either the left or right as opposed to a center position. With that in mind it's not that much of a stretch ground vehicles of the future still have the driver sit on the left or right side as opposed to a center position. After all, why mess with something that's worked since the days of a horse and buggy?

If ST:VOY & the Intrepid Class along with ST:PRO & the USS Protostar got anything right, it was having the CONN station located in the center =D

And F1 Racing with Driver in the center + Fighter Jet Pilot seats placed in the center is superior than being off-center.

Same with everybody's favorite Delta Flyer =D

For a pilot, having your location be in the center while you pilot the vehicle and feeling the forces as you manuever is optimal.

It's something you need to experience, once you've done it, you'll understand.

Even if it's just a basic Full Motion simulator.

 

[Citiprime]

Controversial Opinion:

I can’t think of any recurring character that interests me less than Harry Mudd.

Agree. He's basically Quark without the nuances/redeeming qualities and the outsider's perspective of humanity. So Mudd becomes a very 2-dimensional character.

 

[MikHutch]

The Discovery version of Mudd is superior to the TOS version. TOS Mudd’s a doofus.

I actually agree. One thing DSC did better

 

[Mytran]

Starships seem to operate on a similar principal, IE with rare exceptions the helm is typically located on either the right or left side of the front of the bridge. Likewise runabouts and some types of shuttlecraft have their pilot sit on either the left or right as opposed to a center position. With that in mind it's not that much of a stretch ground vehicles of the future still have the driver sit on the left or right side as opposed to a center position. After all, why mess with something that's worked since the days of a horse and buggy?

There's a similar oddity at the end of Ensigns Of Command where Data has the right hand door of the shuttlepod open which means every time he gets in/out he must awkwardly scooch over to the left hand seat to use the pilot controls.
He's on his own and the controls are reconfigurable touch sensitive panels - just swap them to the right hand chair!
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[fireproof78]

And F1 Racing with Driver in the center + Fighter Jet Pilot seats placed in the center is superior than being off-center.

And we all know drivers should feel superior.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

And we all know drivers should feel superior.

Is that supposed to be a joke?

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Is that supposed to be a joke?

Humour... a difficult concept for some.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Humour... a difficult concept for some.

Especially since I can't hear the sarcastic tone of his voice over text on a messageboard.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Especially since I can't hear the sarcastic tone of his voice over text on a messageboard.

Ah, there's your mistake. I find it helpful to read every one of Fireproof's posts while using the voice of Garfield in my head:

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[Citiprime]

Since Voyager doesn’t have a traditional captain’s chair (i.e., a single chair that’s the focal point at the center of the room), but instead has the shared 2 command seats for the Captain and First Officer, I wonder if there were any discussions about whether Janeway should sit on the left or right, and whether there was any rhyme or reason to why she sits on the left?

Interesting to note, The Orville has a similar setup on the bridge for the command officers, but the captain sits on the right side there.

 

[fireproof78]

Is that supposed to be a joke?

Yes, indeed.

A pity irony marks never got on.

Ah, there's your mistake. I find it helpful to read every one of Fireproof's posts while using the voice of Garfield in my head:

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That's probably the best compliment I've received. Garfield's voice is the best., next to a couple of others.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Yes, indeed.

A pity irony marks never got on.

You can still put them in manually, people will understand.
[Irony]……………[/Irony]
[Sarcasm]……………[/Sarcasm]

 

[fireproof78]

You can still put them in manually, people will understand.
[Irony]……………[/Irony]
[Sarcasm]……………[/Sarcasm]

It's not the same.

And I appreciate @Richard S. Ta's interpretation of my voice anyway.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It's not the same.

And I appreciate @Richard S. Ta's interpretation of my voice anyway.

It’s a good voice. Bill Murray’s voice generally works for you as well. It is meant as a compliment!

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[Space Socialist]

TWOK is better from a 2020s perspective if you take Khan’s boasting about superior intellect and superior genetics to be hollow self-delusions, and that’s he more like an alt-right, MRA YouTuber type, overly theatrical and lacking any self awareness. That makes him a creepier villain from a modern perspective, explains his personality cult, and why other than exploiting Kirk’s complacency, makes mistake after mistake once he commandeers the Reliant.

 

[Weyoun 251]

TWOK is better from a 2020s perspective if you take Khan’s boasting about superior intellect and superior genetics to be hollow self-delusions, and that’s he more like an alt-right, MRA YouTuber type, overly theatrical and lacking any self awareness. That makes him a creepier villain from a modern perspective, explains his personality cult, and why other than exploiting Kirk’s complacency, makes mistake after mistake once he commandeers the Reliant.

Khan as an Alex Tate character works quite well actually - I like it

 

[Grendelsbayne]

It kind of undermines the whole franchise pillar about how Khan (and his fellow supermen) were so terrible and succesful the Federation/Earth had to permanently ban genetic engineering, though.