General Trek Questions and Observations

That film that had a lot of Trek alumni and a walking puppet??

Does anyone remember what it was called? I've tried Google searching but found nothing. Also, was it actually released?

 

It's called Unbelievable!!!!!


I just read about it and I have to see that movie! I'm surprised it hasn't had more discussion on the boards here!

 

Here's a discussion thread about it. It hasn't been released.

 

I once commented that there were never any Constituton class refits used in any of the Trek shows.

I just found out I'm technically wrong!

Part of the stardrive section briefly appears in the wrecks of Wolf 359 and also a damaged saucer.

The stardrive section:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/o...othworldsii/08-thebestofbothworldsii-10-r.jpg

 

^I noticed that the first time I saw the episode.

 

Yup, that's a famous "Did you see that?" moment in fandom, and resulted in a lot of videotape rewinding.

 

I just re-watched the battle from Deep Space Nine and I don't see any Constitution-class ships in there. I did, however, spot an Ambassador class in two scenes.

Also, I saw a ship I did not recognize, above Sisko's ship in the background, right before Sisko's ship explodes.

 

It's in Best of Both Worlds, when the Enterprise D enters the aftermath of the battle zone.

 

I know. Only mere posts above yours.....

 

Isn't that the remaining half of the Excelsior class that gets its saucer sliced in half in the opening seconds?

 

Yeah, which was not in the Wolf 359 TNG battle; early study models of the Excelsior were there. Another change. They George Lucas-ed the battle some.

 

I suppose you could handwave that by imagining it drifted away or was vaporised later in the battle, and that ships we saw in the graveyard that weren't in the DS9 sequence just showed up after the Saratoga's escape pods left the scene.

 

How is it that in every film and in all of the various guises, when the Captain asks for an ETA he never gets the right response?

 

You mean, they ought to give a time-of-day, a clock readout, instead of telling the skipper how long it takes?

Doesn't make much sense to give a time, as opposed to a time interval. It's only the latter that is of interest to the captain, after all. He doesn't care whether he arrives late in the afternoon or just before breakfast - he wants to know whether he will be there before the local star blows or after his crew perishes from running out of oxygen or whatnot.

That aside, ETAs in Trek tend to be pretty accurate, which shouldn't be surprising, considering how featureless space is. The helmspeople ought to have all the variables at their fingertips.

Timo Saloniemi

 

I never realised this, but Mitchell Ryan -- the actor who famously played Commander Will Riker's father in TNG -- was nearly cast as none other but Captain Jean-Luc Picard, himself ...

http://www.startrek.com/article/mitchell-ryan-rikers-dad-and-nearly-picard

 

I consider anything that's an inconsistency to take place in the Mandela Timeline. Named after The Mendela Effect. The Mandela Timeline changes from time to time as well. TOS can take place in the 22nd Century or, in "The Squire of Gothos", take place in the 27th Century. In TNG's "The Child" and "Where Silence Has Lease" we have the Morgana Quadrant. So those episodes takes place in the Mandela Timeline.

In the Mandela Timeline we have a race called the Bajora in "Ensign Ro", Trill who look like they do in "The Host", and Janeway has her fifth season bob during the "third season" in "Latent Image". Thanks to the Mandella Timeline, Ensign Lyndsay Ballard from "Ashes to Ashes" was a valued member of the Voyager crew.

 

I was watching "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the other night (starring Leonard Nimoy) and when Donald Sutherland's character's at the docks, alone in the soundtrack, there's this bagpipe playing "Amazing Grace." Was this sampled for Spock's funeral in TWoK? I am beginning to wonder ...

 

Becuase it's unlikely that they could find another bagpipe player to play Amazing Grace again?

 

Not at all, sir. Because the late James Horner was not the most original composer in Hollywood; that's why. He would not have been above it.

 

Nobody is that lazy.....are they?