I cringe every time the word cheese is mentioned in ENT.
Aww, what would Porthos do without it?
Did the recurring items ever annoy anyone else?
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Aww, what would Porthos do without it?
Same here. I have even been thinking about marking the episodes in the booklet that let me skip the titles (and only the titles) but I was to lazy in the end.
Most of the recurring stuff doesn't bother me, not even the repeated techno-babble. Some, like the self-sealing stem bolts, I find in fact rather amusing.
I actually do watch the titles about 1 out of every 10 episodes. I rather enjoy them.
And I've found the DVD chapter marks skip to straight after the title a good percentage of the time. But it is super annoying when they don't. A play all function would also be useful. You would think they would have fixed these things with the newest TNG boxed set.
Let's speculate...
In the days of Mendeleev et al, elements related to chemistry, which was more about atomic radius, electronegativity and valency, more than anything else.
There are other elemental series in the trek universe which I'd choose to interpret as atoms with fundamentally different chemistry -- not necessarily different number of subatomics. These series may introduce new subatomics like the strange quark hadrons. In atomic configurations their longevity may be much higher, just as it is with neutrons. I don't think we've ever had these hadrons long enough to introduce them into nuclear cores, so we don't know.
In our universe, there is at least the possibility of alternative nuclear arrangements even if we stick with just protons and neutrons. For example, in highly curved or tightly looped space, the internal geometry of an atom in that space would be different. Or if protons are mainly at the outer layers of the nucleus, it would set up an e-m dipole with an additional inverse-square potential.
If these changes are enough to distort electron orbitals, it will give different chemistry. I'd argue that this is sufficient to label an atom as being a fundamentally new element.
Let's say it's an atom of Iron-56 which has a rare nuclear arrangement, causing the atom to have electron orbitals with unusual energies and shape. It may refuse to bond with some anions that iron-56 normally does, and bond with others that iron-56 normally doesn't. If purified, this metal might be more dense and have higher young's modulus than iron-56. Chemists would want to study this metal, and might not like calling it iron if it has fundamentally different chemistry. They might call it mithril.
I suspect that many Beagles have an affinity for cheese. One particular Beagle of my acquaintance was such a fan of cheese that you couldn't even say "cheese" aloud without him starting to drool in anticipation. We'd have to spell it out in front of him, and I'm not entirely convinced that he wasn't onto us, even then.I cringe every time the word cheese is mentioned in ENT.
Aww, what would Porthos do without it?
I always accepted the references to cheese on ENT based on the assumption that this was the case.
Seeing Mirandas being pretty much flying bullseyes that go boom with one hit, no Constitutions in 24th century, Romulans and Vulcans all having Moe Howard hair ( come on, we seen Vulcans babes with long hair before 
), Barcley, Prime Directive, lone cargo ships in space without any weapons to defend itself.
), Barcley, Prime Directive, lone cargo ships in space without any weapons to defend itself.Wasn't that because they were pretty much outdated? Even in the late 23rdC we see Excelsiors replacing them.
What about the Mirandas? There's not too much of a time difference between them. Plus on every sereis from TNG onwards, they are now the TIE fighters of Trek, even down to blowing up if you so much as sneeze a them.
What about the Mirandas? There's not too much of a time difference between them. Plus on every sereis from TNG onwards, they are now the TIE fighters of Trek, even down to blowing up if you so much as sneeze a them.
Aren't Mirandas a generation younger than Constitutions?
Technically the "writers" leave a lot of that technobabble blank, and then somebody else comes in and fills those slots with babble
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I can tell you that I have a french press coffee with one sugar and a pinch of half & half every morning.
But you're right. The writer's liked to define some characters by their favorite replicator beverages.
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