Almost feels like HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES with so many of the villains having names starting with 'K".
So many Klingons had names like Kor and Koloth and Krang and Kahless, it was kind of a relief that Next Generation introduced a 'Worf.' And a few more non-K Klingons, like Gowron.
Vulcans, almost as bad. Boys have names like Sarek, Spock, Surak or Stonn and girls have names that start with T'p, like T'Pring and T'Pol. Tuvok, Selar and Saavik are, at least, exceptions! But can we get away from names that start with S or T? More like B'avi?
But for real annoyances, worlds that are mono-climates. Star Wars did the same thing with worlds that are all desert (Tattoine), arctic (Hoth) or swamp (Dagobah), and it bugs me to see a world like Vulcan that is entirely a desert, or Andoria, which seems to be entirely arctic. Our world manages to have *both* deserts and arctic regions, and jungles, and plains, and oceans, and swamps... Why are so many alien worlds so same-y?
TSFS started non 'K' male Klingon names (Maltz, Torg). TOS already had Mara, a female Klingon.
Klingons officers - not midshipmen. Enlisted?? Don't know.John M. Ford made it a plot point in the novel the Final Reflection that Klingons joining the Navy change the first letter of their name to K, Marines to M, scientists and technicians to A, etc.
I blame Dune.
Maybe the biggest plot hole of Deep Space Nine; in the two-parter Tears Of The Prophets and Image In The Sand:
DUKAT [on monitor]: Well you should. The Bajoran people have been cutoff from their gods, perhaps forever.
DAMAR: How does that help us?
DUKAT [on monitor]: Because Sisko has been cut off from the Prophets as well. And without the Prophets, he's just another Starfleet captain.
[...]
DAMAR: As you can see, we've halted the Klingon advance against Monac Four. We estimate their casualties to be at least thirty percent.
WEYOUN: They should've been higher. Nevertheless, congratulations,Damar. The enemy remains bottled up in the Chin'toka system and that's where they'll stay until we destroy them.
[...]
DAMAR: We owe Gul Dukat a debt of gratitude.
WEYOUN: Unfortunately, I agree. Somehow, releasing that Pah wraith into the wormhole has shifted the momentum of the war into our favour.
It does not make sense; yes, he is involved in some important battles, but Sisko is not the supreme commander of Starfleet or the Klingon forces. How does him being cut off from the Prophets suddenly shift the momentum of the DW? It appears he had maintained some sort of "battle meditation." Hate it.
DUKAT [on monitor]: Well you should. The Bajoran people have been cutoff from their gods, perhaps forever.
DAMAR: How does that help us?
DUKAT [on monitor]: Because Sisko has been cut off from the Prophets as well. And without the Prophets, he's just another Starfleet captain.
[...]
DAMAR: As you can see, we've halted the Klingon advance against Monac Four. We estimate their casualties to be at least thirty percent.
WEYOUN: They should've been higher. Nevertheless, congratulations,Damar. The enemy remains bottled up in the Chin'toka system and that's where they'll stay until we destroy them.
[...]
DAMAR: We owe Gul Dukat a debt of gratitude.
WEYOUN: Unfortunately, I agree. Somehow, releasing that Pah wraith into the wormhole has shifted the momentum of the war into our favour.
It does not make sense; yes, he is involved in some important battles, but Sisko is not the supreme commander of Starfleet or the Klingon forces. How does him being cut off from the Prophets suddenly shift the momentum of the DW? It appears he had maintained some sort of "battle meditation." Hate it.
It just shows who the idiots are in Deep Space 9.
That is all.
My mother always warned me - you can have an IQ of 200 and still be stupid.
Or should I have used 'Muther'?(Reference: 'Alien', to accommodate some people?)
That is all.
My mother always warned me - you can have an IQ of 200 and still be stupid.
Or should I have used 'Muther'?(Reference: 'Alien', to accommodate some people?)
Sisko directly appealed to the Prophets to have them make an entire armada of Dominion ships on their way from the Gamma Quadrant disappear.
With the Wormhole completely cut off, there's no direct risk to the Dominion anymore at that scale. It completely shifts the power balance.
MU/TH/UR
I'm not sure I understand what you mean? The Dominion reinforcements are still gone, and there's no new ones arriving anytime soon.
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The forces still in the Alpha Quadrant pretty quickly got rolling on building shipyards, vessels, and cloning plenty more Jem'Hadar.
It absolutely does. If the Prophets were able to wipe out that large of a battle group in one fell swoop, that's a greater threat than an armada of Federation ships. The collapse of the Wormhole is what pushed the Dominion into building facilities on the Alpha side of the galaxy.
Apparently you are confusing this with the events of "Operation Return." I was talking about the two-part episode starting at the end of season 6. After killing J. Dax, Dukat releases a Pah-Wraith into the womhole which cuts off Sisko from the Prophets and turns him into average Starfleet Joe. It somehow makes the Dominion war efforts more successful.
No, I’m aware of the chain of events and stand by what I said.
You think the collapse of the Wormhole motivates the Dominion to try harder? Makes no sense; it also directly contradicts the dialogue in the episodes. Again with a little more context:
Weyoun gets shocked because of the loss of the wormhole plus no chance of reinforcements. Dukat assures him everything is great since Sisko had become a regular guy. Weyoun does not understand how that would be useful, and when the fortunes of war start favouring the Dominion...
...Weyoun himself still does not understand ("somehow").
Agreed. Tom Hardy's full lips and Patrick Stewart's thin lips meant that they didn't look much like each other.
Because it's a good shorthand for the viewing audience.So many Klingons had names like Kor and Koloth and Krang and Kahless, it was kind of a relief that Next Generation introduced a 'Worf.' And a few more non-K Klingons, like Gowron.
Vulcans, almost as bad. Boys have names like Sarek, Spock, Surak or Stonn and girls have names that start with T'p, like T'Pring and T'Pol. Tuvok, Selar and Saavik are, at least, exceptions! But can we get away from names that start with S or T? More like B'avi?
But for real annoyances, worlds that are mono-climates. Star Wars did the same thing with worlds that are all desert (Tattoine), arctic (Hoth) or swamp (Dagobah), and it bugs me to see a world like Vulcan that is entirely a desert, or Andoria, which seems to be entirely arctic. Our world manages to have *both* deserts and arctic regions, and jungles, and plains, and oceans, and swamps... Why are so many alien worlds so same-y?
How much of a role would epigenetics play in his development, though?
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