That really sucks.
101 Things We've Learned From TrekLit
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That really sucks.
What sucked and in what book?
169. There are more than 101 things that we've learned from TrekLit.
The Vulcan Love Slave?
170. ... so is the "Not!" meme from the 80s.
(Children of Kings. A couple of times towards the beginning - I think from Pike. Whats funny about that is, its outdated NOW!)
(Children of Kings. A couple of times towards the beginning - I think from Pike. Whats funny about that is, its outdated NOW!)
The people using "suck" and "Not!" can get together with Bashir and O'Brien when they keep using "in the zone" on DS9...
Heck, realistically, the English language of the 24th century should be at least as weird to our ears as Shakespearean English, so the fact that they're speaking 20th/21st-century English at all is already a contrivance. So using present-day slang is really no more implausible.
171) For the love of all that's holy, THANK GOD that Gene Roddenberry only wrote ONE Trek novel (the TMP novelization).
Oh yeah? Well 'Far Q' too!
On the floor?
Oh yeah? Well 'Far Q' too!
I wonder where the Caliar fall.
On the floor?
172) Even on the most advanced starship/starbase/planet/computer system, security systems will never prove effective against an antagonist, to the point where one might wonder why security systems are developed in the first place. They are also sensitive enough that a pin dropping on the lower decks will disrupt their functionality...and you can just plain forget about time travel or spatial anomalies.
173) The shields of a starship can be "advanced by more than a decade" as many times as you like, but the modifications will:
a) never be shared with the rest of the fleet
b) still fail to adequately protect the ship against (from the shields' pov) "decades old weapons"
c) likely as not be forgotten soon after.
174) The Danteri have never been Federation members, except for when they were Federation Members.
a) never be shared with the rest of the fleet
b) still fail to adequately protect the ship against (from the shields' pov) "decades old weapons"
c) likely as not be forgotten soon after.
174) The Danteri have never been Federation members, except for when they were Federation Members.
175) Sulu's crew on the Excelsior had a pretty quick turnover rate.
176) Thallonian space borders Tholian space despite being several hundred light years apart, on opposite sides of the Federation.
They're sneaky, stubborn and greedy, those Tholians.
177. There were four near-invincible mile-long Destroyer-class Federation super starships crewed by elephant-sized nonhumanoid Denebians in service in the 2270's (The Wounded Sky, My Enemy, My Ally). They just never come up in conversation these days, and nobody thought to call them when the Borg invaded.
178) There were ridiculously overpowered Federation Weapons initially thought unworkable but whose concept was proven when they were used on Tezwa, but no one thought to equip the core worlds with them, or to try and replicate the effect on ships using massive pulse phaser cannons...
182)Its ridiculously easy to disable any Starfleet vessel and all Starfleet officers have the required computer skill to lock out all safety and redundant features.
