What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[CorporalCaptain]

Nacelles in the ENT and SNW/TOS eras are clearly descended from the tiny nacelles on Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix, so the nacelles are largely Terracentric.

Agreed.

One aspect of the world-building exercises that ENT engaged in, a part that it got right, was Vulcan's technological stinginess, which required humans to develop their warp-five starship on their own. Coupled with the UESPA references in early TOS, the premise that the nacelles of the NCC-1701 belong to the same lineage as the Phoenix and NX-01 and that these are largely human designs, even all the way into TOS, meshes perfectly. Add a helping of Tyler's remark in "The Cage" about the time barrier being broken for good effect that the design keeps getting betterer and betterer.

 

[knightgrace]

There's a reason for dim lighting. The human eye, as in maximizing contrast.

Try using your phone in bright sunlight...

 

[BillJ]

There's a reason for dim lighting. The human eye, as in maximizing contrast.

Try using your phone in bright sunlight...

I never had an issue with the lighting in pre-CBS Trek.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I never had an issue with the lighting in pre-CBS Trek.

No, dude, don't you understand? Movies and TV had all been doing lighting all wrong until the streaming era.

 

[Snowdrop82]

Honestly this would have been great to me. Riker has an amazing personality and watching someone so.... "human" have Data as his First Officer or Worf, when they both have a thing for Deanna, would have added a lot of interesting stuff. Alas, TNG was not that kind of show

I love Picard but at the same time Riker as Captain with First Officer Data would be amazing. I love seeing Data in the Command uniform.

 

[Farscape One]

The few times we did see Data in command or as XO, he was flawless.

Yet another reason him stuck at the same rank for 15 years is even worse than Harry Kim.

 

[cooleddie74]

In my head canon Data refused promotions above Lt. Commander and was content with remaining at his two-and-a-half pip status, so long as he remained assigned to an Enterprise and was serving alongside his friends. Starfleet Command offered, but he wasn't interested.

 

[SurfingtheInterweb]

In my head canon Data refused promotions above Lt. Commander and was content with remaining at his two-and-a-half pip status, so long as he remained assigned to an Enterprise and was serving alongside his friends. Starfleet Command offered, but he wasn't interested.

Its the only possible explanation. the man should have been commander by the end of show with Deanna. I'm surprised it wasn't a joint episode where they both get their next pip

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If he took on more responsibility, he would have had less time to experiment with becoming more human.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Silicon ceiling

 

[SurfingtheInterweb]

More interactions with Riker and Data in general would have been good. I think its a missed opportunity to not have had an episode where this arrangement was taken up.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Synthetics prejudice existed way past the TNG timeline.
Even Scotty was irritated that they had a synthetic Commander on the ENT-D.
The officer during battle-time refused to take orders from Data, a fact for which Data had to fake anger in order for the officer to do as told.
We of course don't talk about Pulaski.
Inferring that Data faced extreme prejudice as a Synthoid during his time at the Academy, and he logically refused to go beyond a certain point in promotions.

 

[Farscape One]

If he took on more responsibility, he would have had less time to experiment with becoming more human.

I doubt it, considering how efficient and smart he was. If anyone would have been able to take on more responsibilities and would still be able to keep their off time intact, it's Data.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe if he did so alone, but if he required less efficient humans to help him carry out an experiment, he would be limited by their limitations.

 

[Cicero]

No one should be complaining about Abrams Kirk making captain so quickly anymore. Seven made it to the captain’s chair in about a year.

As much as this has been litigated before, I think that most people don't realize how close a match Kirk's promotion timeline is for Stephen Decatur's.

The son of a famed Continental Navy officer, Decatur was appointed as a midshipman in 1798, made a lieutenant roughly a year later, and assigned as first officer of the frigate Essex in 1801.

Two and a half years later, his performance in a crisis—the burning of the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor—was so exceptional (Admiral Nelson is said to have called it "the most bold and daring act of the Age") that he was promoted directly to captain and given command of the heavy frigate Constitution.

The movie compresses the period after his appointment as first officer, but the parallels are otherwise mostly faithful (Decatur actually achieved his first command, the brig Argus, in 1802, and had been in command of the sloop-of-war Enterprise for about a year when he led the burning of the Philadelphia).

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

An Enterprise and a Constitution. Nice.

 

[SurfingtheInterweb]

Denise Crosby's continuous association with Trek irks me to no end after she left during the very first season of TNG. Her insistence on being apart of Trek and seemingly trying to reverse her decision does not come across very proper to me. If anyone has more insight on this, I'll gladly hear it, but from my little knowledge, it seems she regrets missing out on what could have been a very successful role for her

 

[fireproof78]

She felt she was receiving subpar material and when she asked for more was told "It's Picard and Data's show and you're there to look good "

 

[XCV330]

Denise Crosby's continuous association with Trek irks me to no end after she left during the very first season of TNG. Her insistence on being apart of Trek and seemingly trying to reverse her decision does not come across very proper to me. If anyone has more insight on this, I'll gladly hear it, but from my little knowledge, it seems she regrets missing out on what could have been a very successful role for her

She was in a movie and had a shot at upgrading her career, not to mention Roddenberry thought there were too many women on the show, and he wasn't firing Sirtis cause Majel liked her. She's an actor, she does acting for money. What part of doing a job is proper? Was it proper for Nimoy to come back? Did she need to ritually cleanse before stepping onto the set?

 

[cooleddie74]

It didn't help that Roddenberry and Berman gave her little to work with on the show and didn't really want her there. There's only so far we can go with calling Denise a grandstanding quitter when the environment on-set in 1987 and 1988 was hardly the happiest for her.