What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Tomalak]

I've got one, although someone's probably posited similar before.

'Federation Credits' are a system of social credit, which governs access to resources within the Federation.

Sure, you can choose not to work, and you will have adequate housing and food. But you will live on the shittiest planets and eat nothing but food cubes until the Crystalline Entity or the Doomsday Machine lays waste to your colony.

If you aspire to anything better than subsistence, you have to grow your social credit. The fastest way to do that is to sign up to Starfleet. If you can, get into the Academy and you're set for life.

If you can't, enlist as a redshirt. If and when you're turned into a cuboctahedron and crushed into dust, or de-evolved into a tadpole and eaten by Data's cat, your family will be rewarded with credit on your behalf.

You can, or course, pursue other careers with social cachet: not just medicine or other professional vocations, but you could also become an artist or a writer, or a musician or athlete. Or you can run a popular New Orleans restaurant or make fancy booze in France.

But if you don't make the cut, it's the Pergium mines for you.

 

[knightgrace]

Just had a thought...
Subsonic, Trans sonic, super sonic. -> space warp, Transwarp, and Time warp.

Subsonic goes from zero to 95% of the speed of sound.
Trans sonic goes from 95% of the speed of sound to 1.05% of the speed of sound.
Supersonic goes, essentially from 1.05% of the speed of sound and up.

Please note that the USS Yorktown, traveled at .73 of one light-year per hour...
So, the question then becomes what purpose does traveling in Transwarp give?

My answer: Time Warp factors become more usable.

 

[kkt]

Just had a thought...
Subsonic, Trans sonic, super sonic. -> space warp, Transwarp, and Time warp.

Subsonic goes from zero to 95% of the speed of sound.
Trans sonic goes from 95% of the speed of sound to 1.05% of the speed of sound.
Supersonic goes, essentially from 1.05% of the speed of sound and up.

Please note that the USS Yorktown, traveled at .73 of one light-year per hour...
So, the question then becomes what purpose does traveling in Transwarp give?

My answer: Time Warp factors become more usable.

Ships travel at the speed of plot. Always have, always will.

 

[Firebird]

Please note that the USS Yorktown, traveled at .73 of one light-year per hour...

 

[drt]

It's from the "Star Trek pitch" document, dated 11 March 1964, described as SS Yorktown's "maximum velocity" on page 9.

I always wondered why the changed it for later writer's guides, considering it fits in better with what was seen on the show than the laughably slow wf^3 formula .

 

[knightgrace]

Which raises the question as to what EXACTLY is a time warp?

Rate one takes a "long" time to get up to that 'velocity'. Rate two takes 1/8 the time, rate three takes 1/27

Assuming that maximum power is really fuel consuming, then 'high' output can't be maintained for long. So the briefer the better. If the power supply can handle it

 

[Jayson1]

Which raises the question as to what EXACTLY is a time warp?

Rate one takes a "long" time to get up to that 'velocity'. Rate two takes 1/8 the time, rate three takes 1/27

Assuming that maximum power is really fuel consuming, then 'high' output can't be maintained for long. So the briefer the better. If the power supply can handle it

Here is a meeting at Starfleet Headquarters Engineering Department as they actually studied the warp propulsion system.

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[cooleddie74]

"It's just a wormhole jump....TO THE LEFT."

 

[BillJ]

Please note that the USS Yorktown, traveled at .73 of one light-year per hour...

The Enterprise covered a thousand light years in 12 hours in “That Which Survives”.

 

[cooleddie74]

That Losira was an even better jerry-rigger than Sybok's people would be.

 

[knightgrace]

Coffee, lots of coffee.

Should be from Tim Hortons.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Which raises the question as to what EXACTLY is a time warp?

"It's just a wormhole jump....TO THE LEFT."

Whatever it is, we should definitely do it again.

Now, I am wondering who else besides Eddie and me recognizes this archaic reference.

 

[CoveTom]

Look, I don't know about warp speed, but I'm at least happy we have clear, consistent on-screen indisputable canon evidence for the speed of impulse power.

One half impulse power is very slowly backing away from an attacking ship, and also traveling across the entire solar system in about 5 seconds.

Hey, it's canon.

 

[Farscape One]

"It's just a wormhole jump....TO THE LEFT."

"And quantum step to the riggggggggght!"

 

[fireproof78]

He is a meeting at Starfleet Headquarters Engineering Department as they actually studied the warp propulsion system.

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Well..
This saved me from referencing it since I can't not think of this when I hear "time warp." And then I think of TVH.

 

[1001001]

Now, I am wondering who else besides Eddie and me recognizes this archaic reference.

It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Related to recent episodes:

Spoiler

if SNW had been made like Berman-era Trek, 26 episodes and all, writing from page to camera, the writers would have realized the chemistry between Peck and Chong in Memento Mori. They would have not felt committed to a Chapel-Spock romance, which hadn't been in evidence up to that point, and focused on relationships that had more dramatic potential.

 

[Worf factor9]

Now, I am wondering who else besides Eddie and me recognizes this archaic reference.

Meatloaf...AGAIN!

 

[Rahul]

I've got one, although someone's probably posited similar before.

'Federation Credits' are a system of social credit, which governs access to resources within the Federation.

Sure, you can choose not to work, and you will have adequate housing and food. But you will live on the shittiest planets and eat nothing but food cubes until the Crystalline Entity or the Doomsday Machine lays waste to your colony.

If you aspire to anything better than subsistence, you have to grow your social credit. The fastest way to do that is to sign up to Starfleet. If you can, get into the Academy and you're set for life.

If you can't, enlist as a redshirt. If and when you're turned into a cuboctahedron and crushed into dust, or de-evolved into a tadpole and eaten by Data's cat, your family will be rewarded with credit on your behalf.

You can, or course, pursue other careers with social cachet: not just medicine or other professional vocations, but you could also become an artist or a writer, or a musician or athlete. Or you can run a popular New Orleans restaurant or make fancy booze in France.

But if you don't make the cut, it's the Pergium mines for you.

For me "Federation credits" and "no money" were never a direct contradiction.
There always was an economy and Trade in Star Trek. Just the scale of it is beyond single individuals. Like nobody needs money to buy food, medicine, housing, entertainment.
But if you want to have a spaceship, rare relics, unique art or property - there clearly needs to be something to barter with.
Like trading Latinum for dilicium crystals. Replicators for alien spices.

"Federation Credits" might simply be more closely related to shares in a stockmarket. Not for people to use in day-to-day business. Maybe not even as a symbol of "property". But as a measurement of "availability" of unique things for use.

 

[FredH]

Whatever it is, we should definitely do it again.

Now, I am wondering who else besides Eddie and me recognizes this archaic reference.

Has it really stopped being a rite of passage? Back in my college days it seemed to be universally a thing that everyone did once, even if they didn’t come back and become regulars…