What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Tallguy]

I think it's silly how Romulan ships look like birds.

*GASP*!

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Nope. It’s cool that they look like birds. Normally I can get behind the ideas here theoretically, but not that one. :-)

 

[kkt]

She's actually decided to watch every series. She's already done TNG with me, TOS, TAS and is on S3 of Enterprise. This is someone who would refuse to watch TNG with me until I made the deal to watch Buffy with her in return.

To tie this in with "controversial Trek opinions", I think you're getting the better of the deal.

 

[kkt]

And that's just if no one's used CPR. Or a magic axe. So while I agree with Ro, she's definitely not the end of the discussion, either.

Honestly, I'd probably also nominate Seven, Uhura, Una, L'Rell, Princess Po, Jadzia Dax, Leeta, Seska, B'Elanna, Jaylah, Tasha Yar, Anne Mulhall and I know I'm surely forgetting a bunch of others.

What, all those nominees but NOT Kira, who could actually slay people? Who'd Leeta ever slay?

 

[cooleddie74]

Rom's heart.

 

[Tallguy]

Rom's heart.

Awwwwww.

 

[kkt]

"Far Beyond the Stars" is the best DS9 episode, hands down. But, of course, it doesn't stand alone. The cast and character references depend upon one having seen prior episodes, and getting all the Easter eggs requires knowledge of TOS. Still, a brilliant episode, that may (or may not) have been inspired by real-word events [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Comics#.22Judgment_Day.22]. Given the pushback against Sisko from some quarters, "Far Beyond the Stars" sadly also works as a self-referential commentary on itself.

And it helps to have some knowledge of 1940s and 1950s science fiction publishing too.

 

[kkt]

To be fair, I think MacGyver once did a medieval episode.

Also, I would argue that part of the appeal of sci-fi is its broad range of ideas. Each episode of Star Trek is certainly, on average, more unique than each episode of a series like CSI.

And Buffy did a musical, and a few historical flashback episodes.

 

[FormerLurker]

If I had to live in a "Trekkish" universe it'd have to be a version where matter transportation were limited to inanimate objects, rather than living beings.

There's no way in hell I'm getting ripped to atoms and replaced with an identical clone of me. I'll still be dead, no matter how it looks from anyone else's perspective. :P

If you can perceive the transit corridor then you don't die.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think it's silly how Romulan ships look like birds.

And Klingon ships. And zone Orion ships. And 10,000 guest ships.

Federation ships look like they do for warp field purposes, yes? So why do no others? (Real life reasoning: Marketing)

 

[suarezguy]

So, what would you rather have in principle?

Productions from professional people that are good at their jobs but have no special love for Trek, or productions from people that love trek, but are amateurs with not that much experience and perhaps not as talented, too ?

People who are good at the work regardless of how much experience they have and pay they get.

Good intentions does not equal good entertainment

Neither does experience.

For what it’s worth, Nicholas Meyer didn’t love Star Trek to the point of fundamentally altering it to better fit his vision.

I hear most fans think TWoK is pretty good though.

He initially didn't know it, when he did watch it I believe he enjoyed quite a bit. Of course he wanted to add elements and change some but I don't think he thought he was fundamentally altering it.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Of course he wanted to add elements and change some but I don't think he thought he was fundamentally altering it.

Maybe you don’t think so.

Gene Roddenberry thought so though.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

So, what would you rather have in principle?

Productions from professional people that are good at their jobs but have no special love for Trek, or productions from people that love trek, but are amateurs with not that much experience and perhaps not as talented, too ?

I would just be glad to see high-mark ST again, no matter who was behind it, and that's not happened in a very long time.

 

[Wingcommanderdarkwolf01]

TOS NCC-1701 looks like a toy.

 

[Lord Garth]

I love that Section 31 has Kirk's body.

"Whaaattt????" Controversial Opinion!

I don't need to see The Shat as Kirk again. But just knowing that Generations might not be the end of Kirk's story, whether we see it or not, is good enough for me.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

If I had to live in a "Trekkish" universe it'd have to be a version where matter transportation were limited to inanimate objects, rather than living beings.

There's no way in hell I'm getting ripped to atoms and replaced with an identical clone of me. I'll still be dead, no matter how it looks from anyone else's perspective. :P

Painless croakings are the best.

 

[Tallguy]

TOS NCC-1701 looks like a toy.

 

[Commander Troi]

That almost looks like a luxury yacht.

 

[cooleddie74]

I miss Riptide.

 

[XCV330]

in fairness, the Zumwalt looks like a low-rez 3d model with a really low Length of Draw in an early 0's video game.

I miss Riptide.

I think the only celebrity I ever met outside of a convention was the guy who played Murry Bozinsky when I was a kid. I can't recall the show very much. I seem to recall it kind of being a poor-man's Magnum PI with a dash of Simon and Simon.