What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[137th Gebirg]

IIRC, it was something about Patrick Stewart simply didn’t look good in gold and better in red. Something about his complexion maybe? Or possibly Spiner’s gold makeup looked better with a gold uniform. Or both.

 

[fireproof78]

IIRC, it was something about Patrick Stewart simply didn’t look good in gold and better in red. Something about his complexion maybe? Or possibly Spiner’s gold makeup looked better with a gold uniform. Or both.

Spiner was in blue but the gold was better I seem to recall.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[drt]

Considering the shade of TNG red was so close to that of the movie uniforms, I had always assumed that was the reasoning for putting the command officers in that color - Spiner was the only one who changed colors due to complexion. Well, other than Uhura and some of the other female actresses in TOS.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Did not know that Data was in blue originally.

Huh.


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This is fakery I found on Google. Interesting. I think Stewart/Frakes look fine in yellow, but Data does look really weird in blue.

 

[drt]

It is sort of interesting that when they discovered Data's gold makeup clashed with the blue, they changed the uniform instead of the makeup - I guess they decided a silver or grey color was too cliché.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think it would have looked fine. Would have also put a nicer color balance of uniforms on the bridge besides just red and gold. The Enterprise was intended to be a science and research vessel, after all. Would have made sense to have science branch personnel represented on the bridge a little more.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think it would have looked fine. Would have also put a nicer color balance of uniforms on the bridge besides just red and gold. The Enterprise was intended to be a science and research vessel, after all. Would have made sense to have science branch personnel represented on the bridge a little more.

Yeah. No science officer in the main cast.

 

[Farscape One]

Data was the de facto Science Officer, in practice if not in title.

VOY didn't have a Science Officer, either. But they had multiple people that helped fill that role, including Janeway having a Science Officer background.


In TNG, I can somewhat see few blue shirts on the bridge, despite two of the rear consoles being Science I and II. They were all below doing science things, while the bridge was more about making sure everything functioned fully for them.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I may have posted this elsewhere in this forum, but the average age of the attendees/signers at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1778 was 42 years old.
The average life span of an adult male living in the Western world in the 18th-19th Centuries was forty.
Our lifespan didn't start going up until the 20th Century with the development of vaccines, a better diet, and a move from agriculture/manufacturing to office work.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I may have posted this elsewhere in this forum, but the average age of the attendees/signers at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1778 was 42 years old.
The average life span of an adult male living in the Western world in the 18th-19th Centuries was forty.
Our lifespan didn't start going up until the 20th Century with the development of vaccines, a better diet, and a move from agriculture/manufacturing to office work.

80 is different in 2023 than in 1776 – but even back then, a grizzled Franklin led alongside a young Hamilton

As a biographer of Washington, I can assure you that his well-known description of his condition may have been a bit of an exaggeration. Washington wasn’t that old, really, although the average life expectancy in that era was 38.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Data was the de facto Science Officer, in practice if not in title.

I thought he was Chief Exposition Officer

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I thought he was Chief Exposition Officer

Nothing says he can't be both.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nothing says he can't be both.

It's a joke. Science officers are often given expositional dialog, as was Data.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

*whoosh*

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It's a joke. Science officers are often given expositional dialog, as was Data.

I thought he was given the expositional dialog because Data was a Android & the effective equivalent of a Walking Encyclopedia.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I thought he was given the expositional dialog because Data was an Android & the effective equivalent of a Walking Encyclopedia.

As was Spock.

 

[Tomalak]

Didn't they invent the "Operations Manager" title for Data because they thought that an emotionless science officer was a bit on the nose?

 

[Tomalak]

I may have posted this elsewhere in this forum, but the average age of the attendees/signers at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1778 was 42 years old.
The average life span of an adult male living in the Western world in the 18th-19th Centuries was forty.
Our lifespan didn't start going up until the 20th Century with the development of vaccines, a better diet, and a move from agriculture/manufacturing to office work.

Isn’t average lifespan a little deceptive, because infant mortality was so much higher? If you made it to adulthood, you had a decent chance of living to old age.

IIRC life expectancy went down during the Industrial Revolution, as people had poorer diets and disease thrived in crammed urban conditions, until modern medicine and scientific understanding improved in the late-19th and into the 20th century.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Leland T. Lynch should have been permanent Chief Engineer, just so he could have bizarrely stated his full name in communication more times in the series.

He’s hilarious. What’s with that?

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He only appears in Skin of Evil and only gets a few scenes but for some bizarre reason responds to Picard over the comms by announcing his full name. He does it twice I think.