If the UFP has a population in the trillions than losing 6 ships for a galactic organisation would not be a lot.
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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x03 - "Shuttle to Kenfori"
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One would think, but losing 11 seemed significant in TNG too.
Regardless, there would still be time and training needed to replace those personnel.
Depends on when he started his career. He could have joined Starfleet as a mature student, everyone does not have to attend SFA at age 18 e.g TOS McCoy
If they ever reboot the whole TOS - VOY Trek franchise on TV, I hope the small galaxy syndrome will never be used.
Unfortunately, that would require awareness of the scale of a galaxy which few seem willing to try and accomplish in their writing.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
It's no different than people in their 30s or 40s going to college for the first time.
Well sure. Hence why I said, "Sure, it's possible." But it still doesn't ring true to me. YMMV.
It makes a neat story arc and I'm sure that's why they're doing it.
It's difficult for people to comprehend the vastness of space!
Exactly, especially in a universe where beings live way pass 100 and probably retire as centenarians.
I expect people to have at least three long careers before they move to Retireville.
In the 23rd century, 100 is the new 50!
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I see it a lot in my field.
Indeed, yes, so familiar reference points are needed to keep it relatable. The immense size isn't just difficult, it's overwhelming and promotes disengagement.
To be fair for its first 40 years that version of "Space" was depicted mostly on 19" diagonal TV screens.
A lack of understanding of scale has been a general problem in the Disco verse writers room since the beginning.
So much so that they had to retcon the losses from the Klingon War in Strange New Worlds so they could given characters a proper war background.
It did make me wonder how well the TOS cast would have performed if something similar had happened.
Nichelle could sing very nicely. Not quite so sure about Shatner and Nimoy, but I'm completely bereft of knowledge about the rest of the cast and their musical accomplishments or abilities.
Even Family Guy parodied Shat's singing.
He'd have been just fine.
It’s a franchise wide problem. Starting with TOS.
Not really.
TOS had some small one's, sure, but they mostly avoided that because they kept specifics fuzzy.
While the TNG-ENT era's utilized series bibles to keep themselves on track.
Sure.
I think I get his point, though. TOS was intentionally vague, and it worked because everything from speeds to dates to distances were never specified.
The later series suffered under the weight of accumulated continuity; they couldn't help it, writers started to nail down specifics which ironically made the remaining vagueness stick out (to a certain type of fan.) It's why B&B could put the line in "Broken Bow" about "Neptune and back in six minutes" – because by that time, somebody somewhere had kept track of how fast these ships were "supposed" to be, and that line was, apparently, "accurate." And then the ship gets to Qo'nos in 4 days and the math doesn't work at all.
They would have been better off if nobody knew where Qo'nos was, or how fast warp 5 was supposed to be.
And the irony with that is that they did have a "why" in the series bibles that made those inconsistencies make sense.
That why just never found it's why into the actual show.
Indeed. And even if the writers bibles have it if it isn't in the show it doesn't help the audience members.
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