What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Guy Gardener]

Much of the time the Romulans swoop in on the pretext that the zone has been violated, to milk playing the victim. They're probably all over the place inside the zone, but the Federation just can't detect them.

A novel I read years ago described a cloak gap.

Can the Federation crack the latest Romulan Cloak, before they roll out the next generation which will definitely confuse the soldiers of the Federation, unless their spies have infested all the Romulan Universities and weaseled their way into the highest levels of the war department?

 

[Crewman Commander]

A novel I read years ago described a cloak gap.

Can the Federation crack the latest Romulan Cloak, before they roll out the next generation which will definitely confuse the soldiers of the Federation, unless their spies have infested all the Romulan Universities and weaseled their way into the highest levels of the war department?

One of the points of "The Enterprise Incident" is that it's a never-ending race.

 

[Frightscape One]

Regarding Picard as a leader...

He has great traits that work in his favor. (Excellent diplomat, highly ethical, one of the biggest champions of personal freedom, and a few others.) But I wouldn't want to serve under him.

Why?

Because he's not really approachable. Outside his senior staff, he is almost completely closed off from the crew. One of the traits of good leadership, in my experience, is approachability. If you have a leader who is not, you never want to go to them when a problem is occurring.

This is one of the areas where Sisko really shines. He's very approachable on a regular basis. He'll take Emissary requests while he's in Quark's having a drink ("ACCESSION"), he'll take a few minutes to talk with people on the Promenade (a distraught Rom in "FERENGI LOVE SONGS", agreeing to marry Leeta and Rom in "CALL TO ARMS", talking to children in various episodes, etc.), he cooks for his officers (multiple episodes)... he's very much a leader who understands the value of keeping his crew happy.

(In the end of "RULES OF ENGAGEMENT", Sisko explains to Worf how being a leader is knowing when to smile for your crew even if it's the last thing you want to do.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

One of the points of "The Enterprise Incident" is that it's a never-ending race.

I thought that the point of the Enterprise Incident was that the humans were too dumb to science their way out of a wet paper bag?

 

[Crewman Commander]

I thought that the point of the Enterprise Incident was that the humans were too dumb to science their way out of a wet paper bag?

I said one of, not the only.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I thought that the point of the Enterprise Incident was that the humans were too dumb to science their way out of a wet paper bag?

Fortunately, the Romulan Commander in that episode was even dumber.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

@Frightscape One Sisko's a small town mayor, Picard's a company CEO.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Fortunately, the Romulan Commander in that episode was even dumber.

I want to say to that lady "Wrong Picard Maneuver Honey."

She spent the whole episode pulling on her two tone tunic, failing to keep her business area secret, when she should have been making certain that her invisible ship stayed invisible.

Seriously, what would the plan have been if the Commander had been a dude? Or did they single out that ship above all others, specifically because there was a lady boss on the bridge laying down the law?

 

[Frightscape One]

@Frightscape One Sisko's a small town mayor, Picard's a company CEO.

A fair analogy.

Leadership is still leadership, and leaders need to be approachable at all levels, including the top.

 

[Set Harth]

Fortunately, the Romulan Commander in that episode was even dumber.

So it was the Episode VIII of Star Trek?

 

[knightgrace]

He's probably dead...

See!? Being dead, makes him a bad Captain.

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

See!? Being dead, makes him a bad Captain.

Kirk's been dead. So has Picard.

 

[drt]

Agreed. Sometimes they get it right, and it seems to be consistently shown on maps.

The Klingon "neutral zone", however.... yeesh. Why was it shown as a spheroid in TWOK? That made no sense to me.

There was never a Klingon neutral zone in TOS, the idea there was one probably arose from the Franz Joseph Technical Manual where an “Organian Treaty Zone” appears that’s essentially the same as the Romulan one. Although, there was some speculation back in the day that part of the Kobayashi Maru test’s surprise was being attacked by Klingons inside of Romulan territory.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

Scotty was dead at one point, he has the rank of Captain and is one of the coolest characters in all of Trek.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Spock was a Captain the first time he died...

 

[fireproof78]

Spock was a Captain the first time he died...

And probably retired a captain before becoming an ambassador.

 

[kkt]

He was very stern in TNG's first season, which to some is "unlikeable."

I'd be stern, too, if some kid kept showing up on my bridge without an invitation.

 

[kkt]

I thought that the point of the Enterprise Incident was that the humans were too dumb to science their way out of a wet paper bag?

I thought it was that the Romulan captain was easy to hoodwink.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I thought it was that the Romulan captain was easy to hoodwink.

The sexist Federation (of that era) by it's very masochistic nature doesn't believe that Women can command Star Ships, if you read the the final episode in just the wrong way.

 

[James Cole]

For all the HILL STREET BLUES talk... TNG season 3 was originally going to be showrun by Michael Wagner, who came up on the former. He gave up after 3-4 weeks and TPTB then brought "Evolution" co-writer Michael Piller aboard instead (TWIN PEAKS co-creator Mark Frost also came up on HILL STREET...).

After the "Chaos on the Bridge" during seasons 1-2 that saw the shedding of first TOS veterans and then promising newcomers like Tracy Torme, another major path not taken for the franchise would've been what if Wagner had stayed on and Piller ended up on another project. Wagner co-wrote the story for "Evolution" then wrote "Survivors". What we think of as the "Berman era" was really the Berman-Piller era. Until ENT season 4, every season of Greater 90's Trek was showrun by Piller or someone hired / mentored by him.