^So you feel entitled to start a thread expressing your disagreement with the use of the "wrong" phaser color in a couple of books, but you don't think other people have the right to express disagreement with you? Double standard much?
Blue Phasers?
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Christopher;3978921 not worth all this [I said:
BUT MY STAR TRACKS!
But no seriously, being accurate to the little details is just being respectful to the universe you're writing in. People like it when authors do their homework. In part, it helps us to believe that the author isn't just doing it for a paycheck, that they are fans just like us. We like Star Trek, and we like the look of Star Trek. Christopher, you come across like a walking Star Trek encyclopedia in your posts, and your books are better off for it.
And the Trek BBS continues grinding along with increasingly less new Star Trek to talk about, so expect it to get much much worse than oh my word the guns are BLUE now?!
I had a question if you don't have an aswer besides attacking me for asking it please leave my thread.
It was a rather redundant question though.
Sheriff: "Yes, you should raise your eyebrow. I got me a pair o' those new-fangled six-shooters, so now you're gonna have to dance, boy!"
Have I missed something?
The novels are still coming out - in chunky MMPBs and meaty trades - at least one per month and often two - and there's a new ST film in pre-production. And lots of IDW comics. And "Star Trek Online".
What is this "increasingly less" ST?
Well it's really open to interpretation whether this is really your thread at all at this point. Wouldn't you agree? It's really more common property now, and there's jack all you can do about it. Don't want a recipe for buttermilk pancakes in YOUR thread? Too. Damn. Bad.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons white sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk
3 eggs
1/3 cup butter, melted
3 tablespoons white sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk
3 eggs
1/3 cup butter, melted
Directions
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl, beat together buttermilk, milk, eggs and melted butter. Keep the two mixtures separate until you are ready to cook.
- Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. You can flick water across the surface and if it beads up and sizzles, it's ready!
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture, using a wooden spoon or fork to blend. Stir until it's just blended together. Do not over stir! Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/2 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
The techie fans who aren't colourblind might notice that very minor goof, but the same editorial team might spend so long getting the colours of beams right they overlook giving a character a male child when a previous author had made the child female (the Nurse Ogawa offspring problem), or assign someone to two ships heading different directions (the Ensign Rager problem), or - as happened in earlier days of TNG - make a one-off canonical character resign Starfleet to adopt an Andorian child (Dr Selar does this in "The Eyes of the Beholders"), only to have the canonical episodes keep paging the character on air!
So there are goofs that only certain readers will notice and other goofs that only other certain readers will notice. It's going to happen.
But, as a mostly red/green colourblind man, I have to ask: are there really differently coloured beams - yellow, red and "boring" orange - in "Star Trek"? What, no green ones?
I thought lots of Star Trek beams were blue. No?
If you just write stuff off when you see someone being shot by a blue phaser - they're still injured by the blue phaser.
Please don't try this at home!
Honestly, sometimes I think people who adhere to canon this much should be applauded. But most of the time, I reckon they should be loaded *into* the canon.
Please don't try this at home!
Honestly, sometimes I think people who adhere to canon this much should be applauded. But most of the time, I reckon they should be loaded *into* the canon.
Mmmm, pancakes...
Here, have a pancake. I never knew there were blue pancakes. Matches my skin...
Yeah, but you mean they're actually blue? After 40 years of pancake coloured pancakes? Pulls me straight out of my recipe. Where was the editor?
I've read several hundred Star Trek books and I've been watching Star Trek for most of the last forty years, and all I noticed is that this is one of the least essential subjects ever to come up twice here.
Sometimes a change is just floated (without explanation) so that we can ponder the possibilities.
For example, at the conference held during the climax of "ST VI: The Undiscovered Country", Klingons wore red sashes, neutral planets wore green, Federation races wore blue but... the Vulcans (including Ambassador Sarek) and the Romulans (including Ambassador Nanclus) were both wearing yellow!
It is left to the audience to notice, or not notice, such things. The inference seems to be that the two groups have been attempting a degree of unification since ST V, which ultimately falls apart when Nanclus is revealed as one of the secret co-conspirators against the peace talks between the Klingons and UFP.
But nothing gets said about it. It was just a costuming choice. Not necessarily an error. Or perhaps a deliberate choice by the director (Meyer) or executive producer (Nimoy), as an Easter egg for those of us who notice such things.
Well you haven't been paying very close attention then. Because this thread is now about breakfast, both canonical: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Breakfast and non-canonical: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Breakfast
Edit: Yummmm plankton loaf: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Plankton_loaf ! Come on Miles give it another shot!
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