somewhere there are fan arguments on whether Tyson's Cosmos is canon or not.If they'd prefer Cosmos, they'd better hide their faces behind their knees when Carl zips through space in his "Spaceship of the Imagination."
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I think Star Wars was clearly aiming to incorporate a bit of fantastical stuff, right from the start. It never took itself seriously as a form of hard sci-fi, and nor did its fans. Star Trek - particularly in the TNG era - painted itself as sounding realistic, and a lot of fans bought into that. You rarely, if ever, heard talk in Star Wars of inverse polaron beams, or dynamic radiation, or tachyon emissions. Star Trek embraced technobabble, possibly with the aim of appearing credible.
gradually coalescing into the deflector dish becoming the Swiss Army Knife of plot points. How many new particles did Voyager invent during its run?
I so hope that this is the case.
I'm afraid to imagine! I'm pretty sure they were dining on kratatingtonlinear molecules by the end!
I prefer supercalifragilisticexpialaverteron particles!
Sounded good when
A "bit"? It's the story of a wizard enlisting a young hero to rescue a princess from an evil sorcerer's haunted castle! It was a fairytale with space trappings.
I don't think Star Trek was ever seen as realistic in how it uses science and tech. More along the lines that it was inspirational. Lots of of people got into science and space stuff because of their love for Star Trek.
While I’m fine with comic book science, sure, I wouldn’t mind them at least pulling back enough that I (a non-scientist) no longer have to sometimes sit there grumbling about it how it doesn’t work that way!…
Why, when the whole point of the Ship of the Imagination is that it’s imagination, not a literal ship one could build. That’s specifically what it’s there for in Cosmos.If they'd prefer Cosmos, they'd better hide their faces behind their knees when Carl zips through space in his "Spaceship of the Imagination."
We try. Sometimes. Things like a working lightsaber are pretty hard to see as realistic. There was some bitching about the Galaxy Gun, I mean Starkiller Base.
But how they keep getting away with spaceships making it to other star systems without hyperdrive is beyond me.
Here is a controversial opinion. I like season 1 Bashir on DS9. I enjoyed that the character had something or a arc. He started off being brash and constantly wanting to get with Jadzia and being annoying to people but I liked that about him. It's fun contrast to watch the show and see where he started and how he changed. Not only that but he went from having O'Brien dislike him to being best friends. He went with wanting to get with Jadzia to becoming friends to falling in love with Ezri Dax instead of Jadzia.
Sorry just me making a shitpost. But yeah Tyson had some involvement in the Pluto decision. He made a funny documentary about it.I LOLed.
But, wait, is that real*?
* - real as in not something you just made
Yeah, thing is the joke has to work…
Since 2009? Try 1965. Comics and Star Trek are the children of the pulps. Big headed telepathic aliens, human-alien hybrids and space empires are very comicbooky. Comics like to layer on the real science too.
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As I implied... it was a little joke... not any better... and certainly not any worse... than Kirk's in that scene. That's Kirk... laughing at his own lame joke... and he's the only one in the elevator laughing. Get it?
My goodness, tough room!
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