What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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It does!
Personally I love history, it the idea that many are bored by it is hardly ‘out there’.
Though we really had no insight into 22nd century Romulan technology other than warp drive and cloaking devices in TOS, so they could have had such advanced remote sensory technology in the 2150s as that wouldn't contradict any level of established canon. Clearly the Romulans did have electronic telepathic interface technology in 2154, along with more primitive cloaks.
We still don't know how many of their actual combat vessels manned by live Romulans used anything like cloaking tech in the war with Earth. For all we know that was limited to the drones. And the NX-01 logs about invisible Romulan ships were strictly access-restricted to upper brass for the next century. Kirk would have never known anything about cloaking devices in "Balance of Terror(TOS)." It's clumsy enough that DSC has the Klingon Sarcophagus Ship using a cloaking device just ten years before TOS and it's a stunning thing that a Klingon D7 has a cloak in "The Enterprise Incident(TOS)."
Common variable in all these: writers don't value or respect canon.
The DSC use of cloaks bugs me 100 times more than ENT's ever did. Those Klingons used a cloak on a massive vessel in the biggest battle Starfleet had fought in years and just ten years later - cloaks are a huge surprise. At least with ENT you can say "it's been over a century, and the Romulans disappeared and went into isolation for a hundred years so anyone who'd remember is probably long dead."
Ten years, though? Just how much is Starfleet going to classify and lock in a vault away from eyeballs just so continuity isn't screwed up?
Ten years, though? Just how much is Starfleet going to classify and lock in a vault away from eyeballs just so continuity isn't screwed up?
Which novel was that?
DSC:Ten years, though? Just how much is Starfleet going to classify and lock in a vault away from eyeballs just so continuity isn't screwed up?
> Spock's sister
> Uglier Klingons that eat humans
> Kelpiens
> Mirror-Universe hopping
> Spore Drive
> Tardis like interior space in Discovery turbolift tubes
> Section 31 being CIA and not NSA
What'd I miss?
Those turbolift tubes ought to be encoded in international law as Hague-worthy.
Are people bored by history "because they know the ending"? For a while the most successful film of all time was Titanic. (Of course 1) The Ship Sinking isn't "the ending" but even then 2) People know the end of Titanic like they know Darth Vader is Luke's father.)
THERE WAS NO REASON TO CLASSIFY SPOCK'S SISTER! SPOCK HAVING A FOSTER SISTER DOESN'T CONTRADICT ANYTHING! (Throws things. Thinks about kicking a pet. Kicks a table instead. This alarms the pets.)
And fandoms obsess about it too much.
It's a stunning thing that the D7 has a cloak that Spock can't crack like he did the Balance of Terror cloak.
Yeah, pre-TOS shows should dispense with cloaking tech entirely.
But hey, I remember when Zephram Cochrane being "the discoverer of the space warp" was a freaking big deal. FOR EVERYONE. Forget Garrett Wang or even Terry Farrell. THAT'S what I'm mad at Berman about.
Has anyone even tried to explain what those things are supposed to be?
Why would I? It's there, it was silly, and I moved.
I meant was there anyone who tried to defend why it was not the dumbest thing ever seen on Star Trek? (Imagine that as a bar to not clear?)
Hardcore Discovery Fan. Defended it fiercely while it was on. I was prepared to fight to the death. Cue "Amok Time" music...
... and even I wouldn't defend it. I just thought, "That was weird!" Then moved on with the rest of the episode. Whatever episode it was. It was definitely a couple times. The one that stands out to me the most was when Book kicked that guy with the mullet down that crazy turbo shaft. "She's a queen!"
Same!!
Oh, like so. Honestly, I don't think so. It was so supersilly, but oddly enough I liked the visuals. If that makes sense.
Fuck it, people compared it to the TARDIS, and even in Doctor Who the Doctor literally once said 'wibbly wobbly' to explain temporal mechanics. I'm good with just saying 'wibbly wobbly' when it comes to the interior of Discovery and enjoy the show.
There's a series of holographic projectors inside the lift tubes designed to confuse the senses to make ingress and navigation by hostile boarding parties difficult, like trying to walk through an mc Escher painting. . It was one of the many high tech ideas tried out on the Discovery (apparently not on the Glenn) that didn't work out, long term.
Discovery is a really weird ship.
There.
Discovery is a really weird ship.
There.
Fuck it, I'm down with that. You win the internet.
Not to put salt in the wound, but didn't they show a similar interior for the Enterprise before we got SNW?
I love the Disco shuttle deck, though.
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