What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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We have more than BATTLESHIP. Still apply the same zest for making sure everyone has fun, no matter the game.
(Besides, BATTLESHIP is fun, too.)
okay, change of topic.
since klingons were brought up...several pages ago...
i never ENT's explanation for the difference between TOS klingons and post TMP ones. i think Undiscovered Country actually did a good job of it simply by showing us a bunch of different klingons all in the same movie. chang's got the "spinal" ridge, but it stops before going down his forehead. his other ridges are subtle enough that if he had hair you could forgive them for being mistaken for wrinkles, or weird shadows. azetbur is similar, though her "spine" reaches her nose, but it is soft. there are examples of "basically just vertebrae down the middle but otherwise smooth" akin to TMP's in the form of the border station officer and the rura penthe warden. there's some "a few vague lumps" types. kerla has a trio of sharp ridges radiating from his brow in a way that i don't think i have quite seen again, although the one maskless klingon in into darkness kinda reminds me of it.minus the jewelry.
there's background klingons on khitomer that have the whole kit and kaboodle of ridges and striatians
none of them look like a xenomorph fish with actors struggling to act through them, though.
from watching Worf (and some other recurring characters) over the years, we know the ridges wax and wane. indeed, in picard they are nearly as smooth as his ancestor's, though perhaps not quite as flat!
i think i have fallen into my "lose track of what i was thinking and ramble" mode...
something so important to the structure of your head, so selectively dissolved, and not just leaving holes in their heads. we've even seen klingon skulls, and the ridges don't seem to be separate objects... it's also why i didn't like it when worf was deklingoned for one episode to blend in (i think it was the one with his brother). that is your skull, dammit! it's different when things are inserted into other characters
since klingons were brought up...several pages ago...
i never ENT's explanation for the difference between TOS klingons and post TMP ones. i think Undiscovered Country actually did a good job of it simply by showing us a bunch of different klingons all in the same movie. chang's got the "spinal" ridge, but it stops before going down his forehead. his other ridges are subtle enough that if he had hair you could forgive them for being mistaken for wrinkles, or weird shadows. azetbur is similar, though her "spine" reaches her nose, but it is soft. there are examples of "basically just vertebrae down the middle but otherwise smooth" akin to TMP's in the form of the border station officer and the rura penthe warden. there's some "a few vague lumps" types. kerla has a trio of sharp ridges radiating from his brow in a way that i don't think i have quite seen again, although the one maskless klingon in into darkness kinda reminds me of it.minus the jewelry.
there's background klingons on khitomer that have the whole kit and kaboodle of ridges and striatians
none of them look like a xenomorph fish with actors struggling to act through them, though.
from watching Worf (and some other recurring characters) over the years, we know the ridges wax and wane. indeed, in picard they are nearly as smooth as his ancestor's, though perhaps not quite as flat!
i think i have fallen into my "lose track of what i was thinking and ramble" mode...
something so important to the structure of your head, so selectively dissolved, and not just leaving holes in their heads. we've even seen klingon skulls, and the ridges don't seem to be separate objects... it's also why i didn't like it when worf was deklingoned for one episode to blend in (i think it was the one with his brother). that is your skull, dammit! it's different when things are inserted into other characters
If you are ever near RTP, ...
Here's my take: Star Trek, as originally conceived was supposed to have 'Galaxy travel fully perfected.' This after two centuries of FTL exploration at a maximum speed of .73(6,400c)of one light-year per hour. And, yes, there are indicators that this was the suggested actual typical across galaxy speed...
This is the problem. The learning curve is.
In other words what was happening during the first fifty years HAD to have been expensive in terms of human life lost. Had to be. Why? If you think you know the Universe, then you have a major problem. Such by the time of Kirk, hard lessons had to have been learned, very pain filled ones. Such that deflector screens (not shields) are the real breakthrough.
But what about medical technology? This too must have undergone major advances. And so on...
The unedited Little Dorrit from 1988 feels shorter than this thread.
Yep.
I just had an unusual thought:
Star Trek: The Wrath of Karen
Star Trek: The Wrath of Karen
Karen Farris was KIA in DS9: "Valiant".
Are you talking about Dr. Karen Loews, Sarina's guardian (DS9: "Chrysalis"), the lamp operator (TNG: "Suddenly Human"), or some other Karen from some episode?
We need to get back to the Controversial Opinion classics. I'll start.
Discovery is underrated and underappreciated!
Discovery is underrated and underappreciated!
The Enterprise-B refit configuration later seen in the Lakota looks better than the regular/original Excelsior-class design.
Very much so, I think.
Sage advice, but I'm going to beat a dead horse on that last issue: Wolf 359.
I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you clarify what you are referring to with "Wolf 359"? The battle? The battle as some sort of example about battles in Star Trek? What sort of example?
Actually, I kind of wonder why the engagement took place at Wolf 359 anyway. If the Borg were heading straight for Sol, why stop by Wolf 359 first? I doubt they needed a gravity assist. (EDIT: For that matter, why pass Mars first, knocking off some irrelevant defense ships/drones/whatever? Why not come down/up “vertically” to the ecliptic and just hit straight to Earth?)
Short, to the point, minimal, effective. It's all the realism that was needed.
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