What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Detached Nacelle]

Unnamed alien races really bother me. Like genuinely frustrates me when one is introduced and there isnt even a script note with the name on it. I'll take anything.

Was recently thinking about the moss loving Titan XO and the prototype Saru serving as Shelby's XO and just wondering why no one saw fit to name them.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Was recently thinking about the moss loving Titan XO and the prototype Saru serving as Shelby's XO and just wondering why no one saw fit to name them.

You must hate "Journey To Babel."

 

[cooleddie74]

Trek always has unidentified but recurring background alien species. It's fun like that.

Sometimes that alien sitting in Quark's Bar or in the background of a crowd on a planet looks like one you're familiar with but....not quite. That's part of the fun.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

More room for speculation and imagination. MA currently has a system to classify them - some species have pages named after a prominent named member of said species. Others are on an unnamed species page.

 

[Shawnster]

Trek always has unidentified but recurring background alien species. It's fun like that.

I'm to the point right now where I would rather see fewer aliens/no aliens of the week and instead develop better the ones already introduced.

Half a Life is a great TNG episode that introduced the Kaelon, an alien civilization we never saw before or again. Instead, why not make Timicin Andorian and develop the Andorian further (this was before ENT. Yes, I know Andorians are a poor example because the Kaelon cultural euthanasia was a surprise). Or, why not use the Kaelon in another episode down the road where a one off species was used?

The Trill are an example of how to implement this despite their radical visual change. The Trill were introduced as a on off alien of the week in The Host yet they returned and were greatly developed throughout DS9 and the rest of the franchise.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

One-and-done alien species of the week is very much in line with TOS.

So, loving TOS as I do, I'm perfectly fine with it.

They had some recurring species, so that's fine, too.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It depends on when you set the show in relation to when the species is being encountered. If you're doing an episode about a species your characters/the Federation know nothing about and are meeting for the first time, then you can make up anything you want about them. If you're featuring a species they're already supposed to know quite a lot about, whatever you add to knowledge about them can't be something that would have come up all the time, (unless they can hide it well).

 

[Henoch]

As a dog owner, I've had/have 8 dogs over 20+ years, 3 of them beagles (Dixie Doodle; Daisy; and Polly the Pooh). So yeah, Enterprise hooked me to the show.

 

[Tallguy]

What kind of dogs do I have? Idiots. (Picard season 3?)

 

[cooleddie74]

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[knightgrace]

Depends upon the era. TNG? Fancy replication?? Then no problem. TOS? Then slight problems. Dico/Slightly greater problems. ENT? Much greater problems.

 

[Snowdrop82]

I wish that in Voyager there was a Cardassian crew member for the whole episode.

 

[Arpy]

I'm to the point right now where I would rather see fewer aliens/no aliens of the week and instead develop better the ones already introduced.

Half a Life is a great TNG episode that introduced the Kaelon, an alien civilization we never saw before or again. Instead, why not make Timicin Andorian and develop the Andorian further (this was before ENT. Yes, I know Andorians are a poor example because the Kaelon cultural euthanasia was a surprise). Or, why not use the Kaelon in another episode down the road where a one off species was used?

The Trill are an example of how to implement this despite their radical visual change. The Trill were introduced as a on off alien of the week in The Host yet they returned and were greatly developed throughout DS9 and the rest of the franchise.

I'd also like to see aliens used more often and explored in different ways. Whole species needn't be monolithic. Not all the baddies are entirely bad or the goodies entirely good. Both goodies and baddies and everything in between could have been fleshed out further.

And did we need the Miradorn, Tzenkethi, and the Breen, when we already had the Talarians, Jarada, and the Sheliak? Or the Tholians, Zalkonians, and the Gorn? The Conspiracy parasites, Kzinti, and, hell, the First Federation? Whatever happened to Nagilum and his people, and the trans dimensional aliens in "Schisms" aliens, and others?

Plus, there are too many humanoids in the Trek universe. It actually got worse after TOS. TOS had the greatest number of humanoids indistinguishable from humans, but, likely also for budgetary reasons, it didn't use as many extras and unique humanoid alien peoples. It also used per capita more non-humanoid aliens, if often in the form of gas or energy beings. Still, it wasn't a slave to its own success with latex forehead aliens and viewer expectation of such and thereby got more diversity to the screen. We need more of that.

 

[knightgrace]

As Earth went to the stars, problems occurred. In some cases ignorance, in other cases, criminal activity...


At some point, early on the Kzinti were contacted, and they discovered a new food source. This wasn't a minor issue. Unless you like the thought of getting eaten.

My expectations are that for every few years of Star travel, you meet someone not so nice. Some are great enough to cause problems - Romulans, hence the Earth-Romulan war. The Romulans were about a century behind Earth, just starting to expand. The Klingons were about fives behind the Federation technology, which means a real problem. Dr. Carl Sagan(real world) figured out that this was the minimal separation of technological differences that would permit either conquest or a defense against conquest. Please read Cosmos by Carl Sagan, and/or watch the miniseries. Very insightful...

The point being that the Earth, and later the Federation are going to encounter problems. One, followed by four, followed by nine, followed by sixteen...

 

[cooleddie74]

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[Tenacity]

You know what would kind of be interesting, to see what average "Civilian Life" for Non StarFleet folk within the UFP Member Worlds.

Would a "average" person in the future, going about their everyday life, even be aware that their civilization had a association with the Federation? Some few people would I'm sure, but it would be little more than a minor piece of trivia.

How many people today spend any time thinking their country is a member of the united nations?

People complained about him not being Kirk

One of my biggest problems with Archer is what it said about the state of Starfleet. I mean Archer was the best they could come up with for their new ship?

 

[Tenacity]

I wish that in Voyager there was a Cardassian crew member for the whole episode.

There was a frequent Cardassian, Seska.

 

[knightgrace]

The real problem is with Hollywood accounting methods. They don't have a clue to something called "Reality".

For example a deep space probe like the Enterprise NX-01, would have an itinerary, that would be very precise in nature.

That is, since fuel supply is the major part of the problem, then this places limits on where you and how far out you go...

Hollywood? The good guys don't reload after firing five shots from a five shooter...

If the Enterprise NX-01 made us of antimatter, and antimatter was expensive to produce, then as little as possible would be onboard.

Not because of safety concerns, but expense concerns.

So, Archer's father's problem was insuring safe storage of the antimatter onboard...

Hollywood? Doesn't care.

So don't by any Starships made in Hollywood.

;^DD

 

[Shawnster]

Would a "average" person in the future, going about their everyday life, even be aware that their civilization had a association with the Federation? Some few people would I'm sure, but it would be little more than a minor piece of trivia.

How many people today spend any time thinking their country is a member of the united nations?

This goes back to what you view the UFP is analogous to.

No, most common citizens do not go around thinking they live in the United Nations. Of course, there is no rival coalition of nations to compare it to.

On the other hand, people in the United States continuously jump back and forth between identifying with the state they live in and the country they live in. One moment they talk about living in Idaho and the next they say they are from the USA.

So if states = planets and USA) UFP, then the average citizen will be comfortable identifying with either. It will depend on the context. Are they talking to an Andorian or are they visiting Cardassia?

 

[Farscape One]

There was a frequent Cardassian, Seska.

She wasn't discovered to be a Cardassian until the back half of her final episode as a crew member, in "STATE OF FLUX".

I do wish they didn't kill her off. She was a great villain. But I do understand the reasons. (Leaving the Kazon behind, showing progress toward the journey home, etc.)