More post TMP stories? (Ex Machina)

[JD]

I think the uniforms are fine. They have a lot of variety and strike me more as both practical and futuristic attire than any other uniforms we've seen. The only change I'd make is to make the colors a little more vivid, but not too much. (And improve the lighting in the bridge so the uniform colors aren't so washed out in those scenes.)

Yes I rather like them, although I would have preferred it if there had been more logic to the uniform colour scheme. I noted that bio-belt style monitors made it into the new movie too. However, the uniforms do seem quite unpopular with most fans and the actors hated that they were so revealing. Only a few of them seem to have pockets too. I could certainly live with it if they kept the rough colour-scheme but updated the uniforms a bit.

I'm not a big fan of the one piece versions, but I've never had any problems at all with the two piece versions. Honestly, when we take into account when the movie was made, I don't see where they're any worse than the costumes we saw in most of that era's sci-fi movies.

 

[Christopher]

The TMP uniforms had some great functional aspects that weren't used later on. Like the perscan belt buckles for tracking crewmembers' medical status. Why would Starfleet give up using those? Not to mention, why would they give up the armor and helmets for the security guards? There's just no sense to that.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Like the perscan belt buckles for tracking crewmembers' medical status.

I reckon all that happened is they were miniaturized. That little round dot in one top corner of the metal chest insignia; it always puzzled me that it may have had some undeclared function. (And TNG's combadges were a further increase in functionality?)


My customized USS Hood insignia badge by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

 

[Christopher]

We know that TNG communicators could be used to track people, but they didn't seem to have the lifesigns-monitoring functionality, given that they functioned as simple locators that didn't even tell you whether they were being worn or not, so that characters were constantly leaving them behind to throw people off their trail.

One thing I liked about the '09 movie was the way even back in the days of the Kelvin, they were constantly monitoring the captain's vital signs while he was off the ship. Really, that's the way it should be -- landing parties/away teams should be constantly in touch with the ship and constantly monitored by audio, video, and telemetry every step of the way, not just checking in by communicator every couple of hours.

 

[ATimson]

I can't see Kirk keeping his condoms attached to his waist on velcro.

Why would Starfleeters need to carry them on their person? Who says they are even being used?

According to canon, Sisko used to get regular injections.

That deals with pregnancy, but STIs are still going to be an issue (especially when interacting with non-Federation members).

 

[Therin of Andor]

That deals with pregnancy, but STIs are still going to be an issue (especially when interacting with non-Federation members).

I'm sure there are broad spectrum medications. A mini force field attached to a cockring?

By TNG, the transporter can filter out a lots of things.

 

[Thrawn]

A mini force field attached to a cockring?

Well, that's certainly a sequence of words I've never previously encountered.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Well, that's certainly a sequence of words I've never previously encountered.

Hey, if it's not (turned) on, it's not on!

 

[Pauln6]

Drug-resistant space herpes can be a real bitch. Why else would Kirk have make-up in his cabin in the Enemy Within?

I too am a fan of the belt buckle monitors. I would go so far to say that crewmen should really to be wearing either a belt monitor or on an open communicator channel to beamed up. I've never really understood how the ship could perform quantum level scans without all that equipment on the transporter pad. The belt monitors help to fill in that gap.

 

[CaptainMatt]

*sigh* isn't technology wonderful? *laughs*

 

[Plaristes]

There was a syndicated comic strip using TMP costumes and such. I've never read it

Story arc guide:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/ustosstrips.html

Read them here:
http://www.hassleinbooks.com/startrek/US_Comic_Strips/LA_Times_Syndicate/

Cool, thanks! On a different note, Christopher, since they all involve alternate timelines, how about subtle references to Infestation, Star Trek/X-Men, and the recent Legion crossover?

 

[Christopher]

Alternate timelines are one thing, but I consider the comics crossovers metafictional events which are "imaginary stories," as DC would call them. There's no way an alternate timeline could produce the wildly different laws of physics, biology, etc. you get in comic-book universes.

 

[Plaristes]

Alternate timelines are one thing, but I consider the comics crossovers metafictional events which are "imaginary stories," as DC would call them. There's no way an alternate timeline could produce the wildly different laws of physics, biology, etc. you get in comic-book universes.

Sure, but even if that's right it doesn't have to preclude easter egg references like those in DTI:WTC for Doctor Who and The Time Machine.

 

[ryan123450]

Couldn't things have worked out differently in the first moments of the universe to produce somewhat different laws of physics and the like?

 

[Christopher]

Sure, but even if that's right it doesn't have to preclude easter egg references like those in DTI:WTC for Doctor Who and The Time Machine.

Oh yeah, I did do that, didn't I? Didn't occur to me to do it for the X-Men crossover, and I haven't read the others (I might check out the Legion one sometime, but I have zero interest in zombie stories).

Couldn't things have worked out differently in the first moments of the universe to produce somewhat different laws of physics and the like?

Well, if the laws of physics were even slightly different, there probably wouldn't even be stars and planets. There certainly wouldn't be any reasonable expectation of Earth and humanity forming if the initial conditions were altered that far back.

 

[sulfur]

(I might check out the Legion one sometime, but I have zero interest in zombie stories).

Just read it as if they're not the zombies we all know and love from Romero. It's some weird TOS-era disease or something.

 

[Christopher]

I don't care what the origin is, I just don't want to look at the disgusting things.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I don't care what the origin is, I just don't want to look at the disgusting things.

Spock's... brain!

 

[Pauln6]

I quite like them mixing genres actually and a 28-days later style story could have been a cool twist on the away team in peril story - we were half way there with Miri already.

Their mistake in my view was making it a bog-standard Kirk/Spock/McCoy story with security guard fodder. It would have been more interesting with a better mixture of characters where it wasn't quite so ovbious who was going to live and die.

I've done a silly Alien-style story and I'm doing a Babylon 5 one. I think a zombie story could be quite fun to do. Or maybe vampires...

 

[Plaristes]

Any references to the recent Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor series set shortly before TPM?