Eh, they haven't really dug that deep. After Ortegas she's the most underdeveloped character.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I have no controversial Star Trek opinions any more, but I have a similar theory which I have explained in more detail previously in the SNW forum.
I believe that the unofficial pet name that a Captain may give his executive officer, ‘Number One’, is a transferable designation. For example, Commander Riker was unofficially Captain Picard’s ‘Number One’.
I think that Una may not be the same Number One that we see in ‘The Cage’. Captain Pike may have just learnt to fondly, if somewhat shallowly, refer to the new executive officer who eventually replaces Una as Number One, too.
I also have a controversial theory about the Gorn, but the writers keep ruining my theories so I would rather keep that one to myself now… oh the pain of having my decades old established head canon destroyed at the whim of the current nu-Trek writers.
Believe it or not: The Final Frontier and Insurrection are among my favourite instalments.
Change nmy mind.
Change nmy mind.
Oddly enough, I feel like those two movies are the most like an episode of their respective series.
I disagree that Una is underdeveloped. You can get a lot from a character just by their mannerisms and how they carry themselves. Una definitely fits into this category.
Besides the obvious augmentation status, she has shown herself to be intelligent, quick thinking on her feet, loyal, knows how to lead people, a problem solver before something becomes a problem, and is confident in her job and herself enough to tell the captain when he is wrong. And very respectful, because she only does this in private.
It's very easy to see her as knowing everything that goes on in the ship. She reminds of Ivanova from BABYLON 5. "The day something happens on this station without me already knowing about it... worry." This is Commander Chin-Riley, too.
Reminding me of Ivanova reminds me of how bad an actor Claudia Christian is.
Romjin is much better and has better material. She's does a lot with what she's been given. But what she's been given isn't on the same level as the others. Navia is in a similar situation. She owns pretty much every scene she's in.
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I do.
I always wondered what her actual name was. Where she came from. Now we know. I'm happy.
Ummmm, this is a very odd Controversial Opinion.
Like has been said, if "The Cage" hadn't been rejected, we would've found out more about Number One for sure. Especially since she was the First Officer! Not exactly a small role.
I don't know. I like the series we ended up getting, but if Number One were a main character in this series, it might've made TOS less sexist because one of the Big Three would be a woman. That would've been huge in the 1960s.
If we could see a series made in a "What If?" reality, I'd want to see how that version of TOS would've turned out. Just like I'd want to see Phase II.
But back to actual reality. In SNW, my three favorite characters are Una, La'an, and April.
Thanks, that’s what I’m gonna do. Going to rewatch and see if I can adjust my perceptions of the animation. I’d love if they one day redid the animation reusing the original voice performances (but redid the music, too; it’s exceedingly 70’s and not in a good way).
Never felt that. I mean the ridiculous special effects of V are undisputed. What you often hear also are complaints that these films are highly illogical. I would agree, but that also applies to others. The whole time travel stuff from The Voyage Home, Generations and First Contact just doesn't make any sense either. I love Generations for overall mood and production design but the Nexus stuff is so illogical that you prefer not to think about it.
Insurrection feels like "The Ensigns of Journey's End" and Star Trek V is "The Way to Adonais" probably. Also V is the cousin to that pre-TMP script where Jesus was a space probe.
The only part of the time travel in Voyage Home that doesn't make sense to me is the slingshot time travel method itself, which I assume most people just aren't going to be bothered by since: 1) it's basically the same idea that people had already seen in Superman and 2) Star Trek is built on obviously nonsensical technologies anyway, so if people can just accept that transporters work because that's what the movie says they can do the same for whatever method of time travel the movie says is possible.
And it's a previously established ability.
The giant stone heads are a little weird…
I agree - if your story needs a time warp, might as well use something that's already out there - unlike how the Ent-E returned to their century in Star Trek First Contact
Her panties are camouflage.
Yes. You heard it here first. Una rocks camo panties. And she's spectacular in them.
Yes. You heard it here first. Una rocks camo panties. And she's spectacular in them.
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