It comes from The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture according to Memory Alpha.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Matt_Decker
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It comes from The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture according to Memory Alpha.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Matt_Decker
Does that make it canon?
Strictly speaking no, not canon. But it was Roddenberry's idea that Will Decker would be Matt Decker's son.
Star Trek: Nemesis was (iirc) set in the year 2379, so the continuity stops at that point.
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You said you didn't know why people thought they were father and son. I simply pointed to the source.
Whether it makes sense or not is completely up to you. Nothing in canon contradicts the possibility, nothing besides the last name points to any type of connection.
Strictly speaking no, not canon. But it was Roddenberry's idea that Will Decker would be Matt Decker's son.
Star Trek: Nemesis was (iirc) set in the year 2379, so the continuity stops at that point.
Actually, since Star Trek 2009 starts in the year 2387 of the Prime timeline wouldn't that be the stopping point?
I was going to wait until then, but my brain decided otherwise. My brain's stubborn like that
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Every tie-in and reference book for the past 30 years has assumed the Deckers were father and son, based on the intent of Rodenberry and co.
As for it's canonicity.... technically, rain isn't wet in Star Trek's world, because no character has ever said that it is.
I'm not sure if "starts" is the correct term when it's a mid-movie flashforward to an alternate future, but, yeah.Star Trek: Nemesis was (iirc) set in the year 2379, so the continuity stops at that point.
Actually, since Star Trek 2009 starts in the year 2387 of the Prime timeline wouldn't that be the stopping point?
(although I tend to think of the "present" in Trek to be 2384, where the most recent novels are)
Strictly speaking no, not canon. But it was Roddenberry's idea that Will Decker would be Matt Decker's son.
Star Trek: Nemesis was (iirc) set in the year 2379, so the continuity stops at that point.
Actually, since Star Trek 2009 starts in the year 2387 of the Prime timeline wouldn't that be the stopping point?
Why does there have to be a stopping point?
Strictly speaking no, not canon. But it was Roddenberry's idea that Will Decker would be Matt Decker's son.
Star Trek: Nemesis was (iirc) set in the year 2379, so the continuity stops at that point.
Actually, since Star Trek 2009 starts in the year 2387 of the Prime timeline wouldn't that be the stopping point?
Why does there have to be a stopping point?
It's not a stopping point, it's the last point that we canonically see the Prime Universe. I should have phrased it better.
About the warp drive question, I´d like to answer this in some more detail:
In reality a basic law of physics says that nothing can travel faster then the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299792458 m/s. There are three different standpoints on what warp drive does (depending who you ask) a) reducing the mass of the ship, b) transferring the ship partially into subspace (which is a fictional dimension beyond our known dimensions of time and space) where different rules then in ours apply...thus enableing the ship to go faster then light, c) an effect similar to real theoretically possible Alcubierre Drive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
In reality a basic law of physics says that nothing can travel faster then the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299792458 m/s. There are three different standpoints on what warp drive does (depending who you ask) a) reducing the mass of the ship, b) transferring the ship partially into subspace (which is a fictional dimension beyond our known dimensions of time and space) where different rules then in ours apply...thus enableing the ship to go faster then light, c) an effect similar to real theoretically possible Alcubierre Drive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
They represent different departments. In Classic Trek and Enterprise, Gold represents command, red is enginneering and security, and blue is science and medical. In TNG and the other series, Red is for command and gold is for engineering and security, but blue stays the same.
it's how they travel faster than light. Generally, you mix matter and antimatter, which releases a lot of energy. This energy is focussed by the dilithium crystals and sent to the warp nacellles, which create the warp field around the ship so they can go faster than light. The specifics have generally been left rather vague so they have some room to make things up for specific episode requirements.
Generally, the transporter doesn't have the range to beam from planet to planet. In TNG, it has a range of about 40,000 kilometers. There have been a few cases of transporters having much longer range, but Federation transporters generally don't.
I believe they got her out of the way so they could have Kirk going after a different space vixen each week.
I think that Enterprise established that they do.
Probably not. It's every seven years, like the guys.
No. They just need a good shagging.
A stardate is a way to make future dates sound future-y. Generally, 1000 star units equate to a season/year. So stardate 42500 is a year after 41500. It's generally best to avoid thinking too much about them, because they generally don't stand up to close scrutiny. Stardates for Classic Trek were pretty much random with only a vague notion of getting higher as the series progressed.
She gave him a private fan dance.
What cartridge things? The ones Spock keeps putting into his console, the coloured squares? They're floppy disks. ;P
That was his son.
They work because of the plot device, usually. We generally aren't told much about HOW they work, just that they do work.
Probably because they haven't been given proper names yet and are just listed in some catalogue. We do it today, with the Messier catalogue of space objects, and the New General Catalogue (NGC) objects.
The Federation is the government. Starfleet is the peace keeping and exploratory service of this government.
They share a common ancestor. it's generally considered that the Romulans used to be Vulcans, but they left a long time ago, rejecting Surak's teachings of logic and reason and no emotions. So some left to make their own civilisation and they became the Romulans.
No idea. She just wasn't needed up until then.
Captains get special outfits so they can feel special and important.
I think there was an episode where Spock calls him Bones, but I'm not sure.
She is half Romulan. Nothing in Canon to establish this, but when the script was written she was intended to be half and half.
Random crewmen with names like Jones or Brown would often go down to the planet with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. And when they needed to kill someone to show how dangerous the planet was, guess who got the short straw and snuffed it?
Not just the script. It was filmed.
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I wish they left that in. I can't really believe a Vulcan would cry at a funeral. A vulcan that embraces the vulcan way, at least.
I can't see Spock bawling even if he was at Kirk's Funeral.
But Vulcans and Romulans are virtually identical. And the Vulcan way is 100% taught, not some natural way of the people. So, her being half-Romulan doesn't make any difference to her emotions.
The (excellent) novel "The Pandora Principle" (as well as an issue of DC's old Trek comic) justifies it by having Saavik a feral wild child, found by Spock aged 6 or 7, the sole survivor of a failed and rather unpleasent Romulan colony. Her lack of emotional control is because she didn't learn these Vulcan disciplines from birth.
I don't really care what some non-canon novel says. I'm sure it's a great novel, but I like to keep that stuff separate.
If she was half romulan, it would at least give some explanation as to why she is BAWLING her eyes out. At least we could say, ok, well, she's only half vulcan, and we know romulans are a very emotional bunch... so it's not nearly as jarring when it happens. It also makes Spock seem like he didn't really do a good job of teaching her the vulcan way.
Not only that, but none of the crew seem weirded out that this supposedly stoic, logical vulcan, is crying in front of them. It's like they knew she wasn't full vulcan. (and from what i've heard, that's precisely how it was going to be, before it cut out)
But the Vulcan way is taught, not bred. Does half-human Spock cry at funerals? No. So it's no excuse for why half-Romuan Saavik does.
She wasn't bawling. She shed a single tear from each eye, IIRC. No wailing, no loud sobbing or sniffing. Many funeral attendees probably didn't even notice, especially through their own bowed heads and watery eyes.
When was Saavik taught "the Vulcan way", if you accept her background from the novelizations of ST II and III, where she essentially raised herself on the abandoned Romulan prison colony of Hellguard? Spock taught her some Vulcan discipline, but she hadn't learned it from birth.
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