Maybe if he'd been more prepared for the flat earthers they wouldn't have caught him.
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Sometimes I think it comes down also to how popular something is. Take the Klingons. Trek fans didn't complain when they changed the look of the Trill. But the reason people complain about the Klingons is a feel the look defined in TNG became Iconic. It's now how the first looked on TOS but when people think of Klingons they think about how they were shown and used on TNG and even DS9. Helped by the fact that the culture was given more debt to do having a series regular in Worf who was a Klingon.
It was also helped by the fact that the movie Klingons, while not identical to their presentation in TNG, were very close as well.
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Yeah, the Trill appeared in one episode two years earlier, one of the lowest rated of its season (but not quite low enough to be notorious). I doubt a lot of viewers could even remember what they looked like and even less of them could care. But if they changed the look of the Trill now, people would definitely notice and they wouldn't appreciate it.
How much people care about things also depends on the impact it has on the lore. One line could grab people's attention and drive their imagination (like the one about Klingon first contact being a disaster), while a whole episode could be entirely forgettable.
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Klingons were a terrible addition.
Ferengi certainly were, as initially presented and, in a way, even as later changed — it injected a certain disquieting element to the franchise’s “gaze”, for all that individual Ferengi characters like Nog could turn out amazing.
I still haven't figured out what 5 Klingon 9 equals.
Okay, let's define Roddenberry's term: "Galaxy travel fully perfected."
It doesn't require a "perfect" ship. What it requires is a great enough understanding of the Galaxy at large, that horrible events are easily detected ahead of time, and evaded.
Or going to FASA; this game had navigational deflectors of ten megajoules intensity. Counting as one point of protection. Please note that the hull of a given interstellar ship( not necessarily a starship) may take more damage than this per 1,500 tons of hull/superstructure. This figures that the 1,500 tons is equal to what the navigational deflectors can handle in material terms. It means that it was considered to be an acceptable level of protection for the ship per typical interstellar environment. It did not take into account surge protection events. Which the book 'The Star Trek the Next Generation Technical Manual ' mentions. Surge protection, is a must for unexpected changes in the local environment. This is reasonable.
Reasonableness is one of Gene Roddenberry's things to ensure good scripts. This fundamental to Star Trek, however, as pointed out by others, laziness has become the norm, which isn't Reasonableness. But cheap shots on the part of said authors.
It doesn't require a "perfect" ship. What it requires is a great enough understanding of the Galaxy at large, that horrible events are easily detected ahead of time, and evaded.
Or going to FASA; this game had navigational deflectors of ten megajoules intensity. Counting as one point of protection. Please note that the hull of a given interstellar ship( not necessarily a starship) may take more damage than this per 1,500 tons of hull/superstructure. This figures that the 1,500 tons is equal to what the navigational deflectors can handle in material terms. It means that it was considered to be an acceptable level of protection for the ship per typical interstellar environment. It did not take into account surge protection events. Which the book 'The Star Trek the Next Generation Technical Manual ' mentions. Surge protection, is a must for unexpected changes in the local environment. This is reasonable.
Reasonableness is one of Gene Roddenberry's things to ensure good scripts. This fundamental to Star Trek, however, as pointed out by others, laziness has become the norm, which isn't Reasonableness. But cheap shots on the part of said authors.
Again, how does this qualify as a controversial opinion?
They stopped being considered the bad guys. They still acted like the bad guys much of the time.
I still want to know what happened to The Empire and if the Federation is cool with the Klingons having subject worlds like Organia. (Organia was definitionally not the first.)
Is Rura Penthe still "the alien's graveyard?"
I believe the proper term is "Samurai Viking Bikers."
It means traveling from point A to point B is easy because they have "warp drive." It has nothing to do with an "understanding of the Galaxy" or making things too safe to generate a threat to our heroes and the ship. Remember it's an action adventure TV show not what ever the hell you seem to think it is. Citing some FASA guide or even the TNG Tech Manual is essentially meaningless because they aren't on screen.
When someone defines it please let us know.
Not that being onscreen matters much, either.
If a FASA guide is canon proof for anything then the argument was dead from the beginning.
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