This is why the TNG episode Devil's Due is actually great.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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That was a re-write from Phase II wasn't it?
Yeah, that and The Child were the only two if I recall. My controversial Star Trek opinion is that The Child is less good.
Murdoch Mysteries did a musical episode this past season, too. (They've previously done two Halloween horror episodes that have no basis in the show's reality - I suppose you could write them off as nightmares) The way they made it possible was that the main character, Detective William Murdoch,
was shot and went into a coma, in which he imagined his friends, colleagues, and random strangers singing. So it wasn't really happening for everybody - it was just his mind messing around with things he heard people saying around him.
I only realized something like that some seven seconds after clicking "Post reply", but didn't go back to alter it.
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Yup. TNG largely did a great job in rewriting and shoehorning it into TNG's universe, even if some nitpick that Ardra wouldn't be drooling over Picard like that. Which now begs questions of people's individual tastes and not in that Soylent Green sorta way... but I didn't see any issue with it. Now I know at least one episode to rewatch this weekend... I remember it was a "fun" piece with serious elements. And Fek'lhr! Everybody loves Fek'lhr!
/pedant on
It's incense and peppermints.
Very true. I couldn't help but to twist the proverbial lemon on that as times seemed more innocent back then (or perhaps not...?), despite it all. A great song from the 1960s, whose title does encapsulate the decade somewhat...♪ Catchy song that really has withstood the test of time, as well as compelling me to rewatch "The Immunity Syndrome" again. For 1967 and a small soundstage, the cinematography utilized for a tv show bit is rather fairly nifty. To say nothing of the outfits and set design, which - if you dig the sixties - is something of a treat. Or was ubiquitous back then, if nothing else. I miss that hair. I miss having hair. My cat keeps licking too much of hers so it's time to call the vet, but I digress --
Nowadays, with autotune and computer-generated music for real, so here's a more recent "music video" of sorts:
The simplest explanation for a CPU socket's pins being at an angle, aimed in harmony with the placement of the CPU as one pushes the lever of the ZIF socket down - which, forget the transistor, really is the most significant invention ever as so many bent pins and damaged CPUs gets costly mighty quick... relative size of the pins and density of the material can help as well, but I wouldn't be jamming a song or a fork into it for sure... Not to mention, after that at 0:50 in, are likely ceramic capacitors of the sort that won't begin to bulge or leak after ten years, which can cause damage to the board or, if nothing else, reduced efficacy of their voltage handling as their presence is crucial for the microchips to get continually conditioned energy... (the ceramic type generally last 1000 hours, if kept at 45c...) I don't think they're aluminium polymer capacitors, but looks aren't everything...
/sheldoMode
Because I had to do it...
The transporter turns crew members into children.
"Worms" in the transporter sequence used to be people.
Yeah, that TNG transporter certainly has many unintentional capabilities.
Plus the TOS transporter creating a good half and a evil half but still whole people. That's s lot of matter conjured up out of thin air.
You missed out the most bizarre part of that episode, where they decide to recreate an accident by beaming a sample right next to the warp core and scanning it until it explodes.
But yeah, the worms in the transporter are people... what? How does that make any sense at all? Oh, turns out that it was written by Brannon Braga, so that explains it.
There's two Rikers, too.
Not to mention the reverse, with Tuvix. Where they crammed the matter of two people into one. The extra matter likely went to the replicator pool.
The Voyager episode Deadlock showed that space anomalies can duplicate matter on their own, so who even knows what happened.
This is the kind of space weirdness I like, where it seems like there's probably a reasonable explanation for what happened, but you'd need to be a 24th century physicist to come up with a decent theory and even then it could be wrong.
This is the kind of space weirdness I like, where it seems like there's probably a reasonable explanation for what happened, but you'd need to be a 24th century physicist to come up with a decent theory and even then it could be wrong.
Not to mention the reverse, with Tuvix. Where they crammed the matter of two people into one. The extra matter likely went to the replicator pool.
It was saved in case they needed to make a duplicate Tuvix.
Once you accept humans are the Big Cheese of the UFP, despite being the new kids on the block, anything is possible.
It made more sense in TOS when they weren't the new kids on the block. Which is why you rarely had Spock saying "Ahhh yes, we're coming up on abandoned Vulcanian expeditionary outpost 7. (It was supplanted by the introduction more advanced S'uper class exploratory equipment in your 19th century.) If you will consult our research findings from 1742 (Earth Dating)..."
Reminds me of the way Scrubs handled their musical episode.
I think it was on TV Tropes where I first saw this suggested, but it (kind of) makes sense if you imagine United Earth as the United States and the Vulcan as the United Kingdom.
At the start of the 20th century, the major powers in the world are (arguably) the UK, France, and Germany. At that point, the US military was relatively small compared to other nations. After World War II, there's been a total reset where the US and the Soviet Union are the new superpowers. In the span of decades, the United Kingdom has gone from an empire the sun never sat on to being a partner and ally to the new upstart.
Basically, it's possible to see the Earth-Romulan War resetting the state of play.
Which makes one (this one anyway) wonder what was Vulcan's involvement in the war and how did it come out the other end diminished? Or did they stay still and it was Earth that was vaulted into a "superior" position?
Not being an ENT watcher, I don't know where Vulcan and Andoria stood in the pecking order only that they were at each other's ears and antennae (and had been for some time?).
Season 4 of ENT explains/hints at what might have happened. The Vulcan leadership (which has been corrupted by Romulans) is toppled by the Syranite faction, which advocates a different interpretation of Surak's teachings on logic.
That leads to mentions in season 4 of the Vulcans pulling back, becoming more pacifistic, and abandoning aggressive expansion against the Tellarites and Andorians.
That's pretty much The SInging Detective, isn't it?
Good heavens. It's almost enough to make me interested in ENT.
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