General Trek Questions and Observations

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

They'd probably adapt the disease's mechanism of transmission to make Borg nanoprobes contagious. Imagine a Borg plague that assimilates people remotely from any existing Borg individuals and unites them into a collective group tied to their ship or living facility.

 

[at Quark's]

^a possibility I never thought of.

I had already thought of the Borg obtaining Vidiian technology and being able to beam nanoprobes directly into their victim's blood from a distance, assimilating entire fleets without ever leaving their own Borg cubes.

 

[Praetor]

In "Dark Frontier" the Borg Queen was going to use a virus released in Earth's atmosphere to do the deed.

Nobody said where the virus came from, so it could be a result of assimilating an infected Vidiian.

 

[Finn]

Suppose the Borg assimilate a Vidiian, infected with the Phage. Would the Borg be able to 'cure' the assimilated drone of the Phage? Or would the Borg know and refrain from assimilating Vidiians in the first place?

Depends on the plot.

seriously, I don't think it'd faze the Borg.

 

[haddie moonfall]

Can you really call 10 episodes a 'season'?

When I was growing up, as school started (in the US) the new television 'seasons' began and would take you until Summer. At least that's how i remember it. Then the Summer season we'd spend outside and didn't watch TV.

I miss the 26-episode Star Trek when you really got to know the characters in episodic stories ....a beginning and an ending to each show, sometimes a 2-part episode....

the characters still had memories and character development (it wasn't a sitcom).
I suppose those days are over.

And now they're fighting for new 'seasons' of only 10 episodes.

 

[at Quark's]

On the other hand, it might be more forgiving on the actors. Churning out 26 45-minute episodes each year for 7 years straight sounds pretty exhausting to me.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

On the other hand, it might be more forgiving on the actors. Churning out 26 45-minute episodes each year for 7 years straight sounds pretty exhausting to me.

Brent Spiner has confirmed as much, many times. He's explained it this way: "If you stay on your mark, say the line right, and don't look at the camera, that's a print. On top of that, you're doing at least 10 script pages a day, whereas on a film you might do 3 pages a day. So its a grind, and even if you feel that as an actor, you might have a better take left inside, there's just no time left for it."

 

[fireproof78]

On the other hand, it might be more forgiving on the actors. Churning out 26 45-minute episodes each year for 7 years straight sounds pretty exhausting to me.

Indeed, yes. The stress of the TV production schedule is the biggest reason why I'm not so harsh about 10 episode seasons. These are people who really don't want to burn out in a daily grind and give their best to the art. So, why should I want them to nearly kill themselves in the name of my entertainment? Seems profoundly unfair.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

Indeed, yes. The stress of the TV production schedule is the biggest reason why I'm not so harsh about 10 episode seasons. These are people who really don't want to burn out in a daily grind and give their best to the art. So, why should I want them to nearly kill themselves in the name of my entertainment? Seems profoundly unfair.

That's probably one reason why, at least on the "TNG" set, most of the actors kept goofing around between takes. They had to do something, just to keep the stress level down. It was their own way of maintaining their individual and collective sanity.

 

[Verteron]

In Voyager, Message in a Bottle, when the Prometheus separates into components, the Doctor remarks 'this part gets a little bumpy' and the two EMHs hold on to a railing on the bridge.

But why would an EMH, who is a massless collection of photos and force fields, projected by a holoemitter that is bolted to the deck plates, be affected in any way by inertia? Surely since their holoemitters would 'judder' along with the ship, they would 'judder' exactly in time with the ship's movements and experience nothing.

 

[fireproof78]

In Voyager, Message in a Bottle, when the Prometheus separates into components, the Doctor remarks 'this part gets a little bumpy' and the two EMHs hold on to a railing on the bridge.

But why would an EMH, who is a massless field of energy and light, projected by a holoemitter that is bolted to the deck plates, be affected in any way by inertia? Surely since their holoemitters would 'judder' along with the ship, they would 'judder' exactly in time with the ship's movements and experience nothing.

Because EMH's are meant to simulate human interaction, so they're going to respond like the person they are modeled off of.

 

[Verteron]

Because EMH's are meant to simulate human interaction, so they're going to respond like the person they are modeled off of.

It would seem like having them fall about when the ship gets hit would be a disadvantage to their primary function as medical holograms.

 

[fireproof78]

It would seem like having them fall about when the ship gets hit would be a disadvantage to their primary function as medical holograms.

It would but this again is designed as an interactive presence to put patients at ease and assist medical personnel. There are going to be some oddities.

Also, maybe it's a mimic behavior due to power fluctuations that cause consoles to explode.

 

[NCC-73515]

In that episode, he also can't see the Mark 2 like he disappeared, but he was just ducking under the console

 

[KennyB]

Just saw Tim Russ as the victim of the week on NCIS……good to see him but seems like he deserves a bigger role unless he’s just doing it as a hobby now.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/japan-sato-only-name-by-2531-marriage-law

"Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor


Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname"

 

[Finn]

Just saw Tim Russ as the victim of the week on NCIS……good to see him but seems like he deserves a bigger role unless he’s just doing it as a hobby now.

I'm pretty sure they had more well known and excellent actors (and not struggling to find gigs) as a victim on one of those cop shows time to time.

 

[Verteron]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/japan-sato-only-name-by-2531-marriage-law

"Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor


Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname"

Their proposed solution makes no mathematical sense.

In any country where the tradition is to have women adopt their husband's surnames, there is a gradual erasure of unique surnames since whenever two parents only have girls, their surname is lost.

Eventually this will lead to us all having the same surname.

But encouraging women to keep their own names has absolutely no impact on how fast this will take place, since if the kids all take the husband's surname, the result will be the same.

Really the only ways to solve this is to create a culture where it's acceptable for men to take their wife's name, and for couples to decide on equal footing which surname they prefer. Or just do away with inherited surnames completely, go with the Icelandic system (Worf, son of Mogh style).

BTW: even the Spanish system doesn't solve this, as womens' surnames are still lost, just a generation later.

 

[at Quark's]

Because EMH's are meant to simulate human interaction, so they're going to respond like the person they are modeled off of.

^This, I guess.

EMH: "Stop breathing down my neck!"
Mark II: "My breathing is a simulation."
EMH: "So is my neck, stop it anyway!"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Empress Sato: