What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Just hilarious the hair splitting. If I say I think the pylons on the TOS Enterprise look too thin then it's magic high tech materials that are super strong.
But, detached nacelles? That's absurd!
But, detached nacelles? That's absurd!
It was simply a visual gag to indicate that technology was more advanced. In plot terms it made no more difference than Voyager's pivoting nacelles.
It's fine. I just assumed it's more efficient somehow, therefore saving precious post-Burn resources, and using some clever subspace Bluetooth to keep them linked to the parent ship at all times.
It's fine. I just assumed it's more efficient somehow, therefore saving precious post-Burn resources, and using some clever subspace Bluetooth to keep them linked to the parent ship at all times.
i apologize. this attack upon their vessel was not authorized by my government.
in fairness to me, your statement was not visible while i was typing that up. but i should have left that part as something more like "it's weird to tell someone to grow up over this".
Sulu and the others on the surface did that as well in "The Enemy Within."
Yep, and that was both the fifth episode ever produced as well as aired. Phasers used to heat up inanimate surfaces was already a thing before the series even got a shuttlecraft.
Welcome to Trekdom, this ain't controversial at all!
My whole issue with the floating nacelles is there doesn't seem to be a purpose to them. The nacelles don't change position or alignment, they just float there for no other reason than to be futuristically "kewl."
Blame the DISCO Production staff for making use of the floating nacelles once by moving it out of standard position.
IMHO it is kind of cool, though
The Enterprise is such a silly and impractical shape, with the bridge a big vulnerable target on top, that floating nacelles are only an issue for people who haven't REALLY thought about it.
I just wish they did more with the futuristic concepts. Even the giant turbolift caverns could have been amazing if they said they were using magical TARDIS technology.
I'll take floating nacelles over roller coaster and TARDIS turboshafts. Those still demand somebody do hard time in prison to serve justice.
Yes. "Hard Time (DS9)" hard time.
Yesterday I watched movies 5, 6,7, and 8. I don't think 5 is a terrible movie as people say. The ending of the 6th movie, with what they said at the end of the 'kirk' movie, was like a final word to the original series cast. Why did they use Forty again in the 7th movie, take it 73 years ahead, and kill him off? It was an extremely unnecessary move. The 6th movie has a good final word. In the 7th movie, they could have just said "73 years later in the peace treaty with the Klingon" and moved straight to Captain Picard. As for the 8th movie, it's simply great, the series is the best.
Call me contrarian, but I don’t like First Contact. I think all of the TNG films are awful dreck that do very little to add anything to the overall Trek universe and are paper thin in their characterization and plotting. FC is no different.
And I love TMP. Warts (and boy are there warts) and all.
And I love TMP. Warts (and boy are there warts) and all.
The TurboLift Cavern made no logical design/engineering sense.
If you have access to Magical TARDIS-like Tech, you wouldn't need entire large StarShips.
You would obviously have the outside be the size of a shuttle and the inside be as large as you want like what we saw in ST:ENT.
I too do not enjoy enjoy First Contact that much. Easily would watch TMP before it.
I mean, Star Trek is made for popular entertainment. Visual flair and stuff that looks "kewl" is part of the deal.
Well you see this done so a ship can go into battle mode without the engines connected to the ship thus removing them as a target from enemy fire. No matter how much damage is done, the ship can always connect back to it's engine nacelles and go to warp, thus removing the risk of a ship being dead in space and not being able to move.
The warp core is still within the ship and thus can still be damaged and potentially breach. At which point the nacelles aren't going to do any good no matter if their with the ship or not.
Funniest part of the Floating nacelles is you'd think that they exist to make it harder to sabotage them and cripple the ship because they are disconnected...and then the season ends with them going to the nacelle and sabotaging it to cripple the ship.
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