What do you mean? That it shouldn't be anchored, that it should be replaced - with a pedestal, a stage, a bubble in the ceiling, what?
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Especially a Klingon one.
The TOS and SNW chair is the most throne-like of them all but even they don't feel "wrong" in any way.
I mean, what other options do we want? A longue for everyone?
A treadmill? A Segway? A scooterboard? A hook on the wall?
The chair is just television shorthand for "this is the guy in charge".
Now I'm imagining if the captain had a special hat to wear instead. "Captain's crown" has a ring to it.
Here's my unpopular opinion for "Voayger:" both "Resolutions" and "Natural Law" are horrible episodes, and not because I'm against either pairing. "Resolutions" is treated as gospel for JCers, and "Natural Law" seems to be similarly cherished in the C7 community.
I ship C7, but hate "Natural Law," because it's a boring, trite, filler episode that combines so many tired formulas of the show. Two people with opposing vievws are stranded on a planet together, Seven learns a lesson, rubber-forehead aliens played by tools who couldn't act in a soap opera. This lame episode does absolutely noting for Chakotay and Seven's relationship, except give it a flimsy justification before their last-minute hookup in "Endgame."
JC is okay if it's well-written, but it's so often not, and the reason is "Resolutions." Jeri Taylor's romance-novel fantasy was cringey as hell. Chakotay completely simps for Janeway, despite the fact that at this point, he still thinks the Maquis war is still giong on back home, and that Seska is carrying his kid. Never mind his close friendship with B'Elanna, and others of his crew, who he'll never see again. None of that's ever mentioned. Just how giddy he is about being stranded forever with Kathryn. Spock's beard do I hate this episode.
Meaningful moments for both JC and C7 can be found throughout the show, but these two cliche piles of tribble droppings are not among them.
I ship C7, but hate "Natural Law," because it's a boring, trite, filler episode that combines so many tired formulas of the show. Two people with opposing vievws are stranded on a planet together, Seven learns a lesson, rubber-forehead aliens played by tools who couldn't act in a soap opera. This lame episode does absolutely noting for Chakotay and Seven's relationship, except give it a flimsy justification before their last-minute hookup in "Endgame."
JC is okay if it's well-written, but it's so often not, and the reason is "Resolutions." Jeri Taylor's romance-novel fantasy was cringey as hell. Chakotay completely simps for Janeway, despite the fact that at this point, he still thinks the Maquis war is still giong on back home, and that Seska is carrying his kid. Never mind his close friendship with B'Elanna, and others of his crew, who he'll never see again. None of that's ever mentioned. Just how giddy he is about being stranded forever with Kathryn. Spock's beard do I hate this episode.
Meaningful moments for both JC and C7 can be found throughout the show, but these two cliche piles of tribble droppings are not among them.
Hold on a second...
Vulcans at the time were linked with Spock, telepathy is a two way street.
WHAT IF Spock was the seed that started the whole thing? Logic was unknown then so such a disciplined mind was bound to be noticeable. Did someone pick up the idea?
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It makes sense to have a captain's chair for when the commanding officer is required to spend time on the bridge.
What I think is odd, is having the captain sit in the chair reading of a padd for an entire shift. It makes way more sense (as we have often seen) for the captain to be in his office, doing paper work, being able to have meetings with other officers, private communications with HQ, things like that. Whenever we have a scene where any captain is just there on the bridge looking at the screen while the ship is traveling somewhere, it think 'don't you have a job to do?'
And before people say, commanding the ship, that is what the above basically is. The department heads lead their own departments, the CO doesn't micromanage that to the last detail.
Yeah, I think the fact it's just chair in the center of a room, with no real consoles around that make it seem strange to me at times. As for the throne-like image, I agree its more prone in SNW and TOS. And then in Picard with the high steps on the Enterprise G. I much preferred BSG's table in the CIC, where the captain and XO could keep an eye on everything from the center.
Just a reminder that Romulan Ale is illegal.
There is possible precedent with that.
Miranda Jones in "IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY?" said she went to Vulcan to learn how not to read minds.
I remember her and that's what made me wonder if they are always telepathic but have to learn how not to, as well as all the emotion stuff.
Some people have an education, and some people don't...comparing two different cinema to each other is legit.
Again, that doesn't work given what Enterprise established about 22nd-century Vulcans believing that only a minority of the population was capable of telepathy. There's no way they could possibly have held that belief if it were active by default and they had to learn to turn it off.
The timing doesn't work. Spock was c. 5000 years in the past, which would've been c. 3000 years before Surak.
So, Enterprise is the lone outlier and, therefore, the one we can ignore.
Thats how that works, right?
No. If it were a reference in a single episode that contradicted every other canonical reference, that could apply (e.g. "James R. Kirk" or "faster than light, no left or right"). But this isn't such a case. It's a plot point that was central to multiple episodes, and it isn't contradicted by any actual canonical information, just by some handwavey, completely unsupported speculation some people in this thread are tossing around. Speculation does not outweigh hard data.
Space navy--like any military body--runs on a hierarchical system, so a captain's chair being a sort of a "throne" makes ideological and practical sense for the command structure of Starfleet ships.
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