Discovery at SDCC - Consolidated Thread
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But Good God, man! I've traveled with adapters for European power outlets, can adjust the transformer in a guitar amp to different voltages, and they can't adapt power for the ship?????Supposedly it was an incompatible power source. That's canon folks!
I'm really stuggling to remember one after "The Big Goodbye". But then it's kind of like the Klingon episodes, "Heart of Glory" pretty much covered all the bases and everything else felt derivative.
While they did overuse it in TNG and Voyager, I don't think there's anything wrong with the Holodecks. They just have to be careful how they use them.
As for good Holodeck episodes, I'd say Elementary, Dear Data, The Big Goodbye, A Fist Full of Datas, Ship in a Bottle, The Killing Game, It's Only A Paper Moon and The Bride of Chaotica are pretty high up there.
Not to mention that there were a quite a great episodes that have a one or even a few scenes on the holodeck.
If we were to ban everything that had a few bad episodes focused on it from ever appearing on TV, there'd be nothing left to watch.
As for good Holodeck episodes, I'd say Elementary, Dear Data, The Big Goodbye, A Fist Full of Datas, Ship in a Bottle, The Killing Game, It's Only A Paper Moon and The Bride of Chaotica are pretty high up there.
Not to mention that there were a quite a great episodes that have a one or even a few scenes on the holodeck.
If we were to ban everything that had a few bad episodes focused on it from ever appearing on TV, there'd be nothing left to watch.
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It was ST:VOY, that's why. I mean your suggestion makes sense; which is why they COULDN'T use it on VOY.
Well the whole holodeck addiction thing was the conceptual core of the character.Yeah, but it's not like they couldn't have made a stupid episode about Barclay without it. I never doubted you can write bad holodeck episodes.
And also because, in a world governed by otherwise perfect people in paradise, socially dysfunctional nerds are still a thing.
Even worse about Voyager was that after going to all the effort early on to explicitly note that the holodeck power system was incompatible with the power on the rest of the ship (thus giving the writers another 'out' on things that we should ration that they don't - shuttles, torpedoes...) was that later on they forget and can suddenly route power from the holodecks to supplement other ship systems (they try it in "Night" but the relays are "frozen", and I am pretty sure they succeed at it in one other later episode).
True, the NX-01 itself didn't have one. But they encountered an alien holodeck in that episode where Trip got pregnant, and the Klingons obtained the holographic technology too.
And then we were subjected to that classic line "I can see my house from here!"
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I seem to remember a thread a couple months ago discussing whether or not officers would be smoking pot on Discovery.
Man, remember how horrible life was back when we didn't get weekly updates and info on Discovery? Dark times.
Yeah, I especially liked the rumors that the Production was/is in trouble and stuff like this:
https://www.change.org/p/cbs-cancel-star-trek-discovery-and-greenlight-a-post-nemesis-series
Supposedly it was an incompatible power source. That's canon folks!
Lol, except for the times that it is compatible. Good old Voyager.
IDK - Gotta love tech that could KILL the living people inside (From TNG's "The Big Goodbye") :
So yeah, you can't just turn it off out of sequence or you kill the people using it...
"To seek out new life, and new civilizations. To waste an hour on the frakkin' holodeck".
What TNG episode was "thought provoking", other than thinking you might want to change the channel?
Dr.Moriarty becoming an independently thinking entity. I still think about that one as it's something we will soon be facing later this century.
Explain how that can even happen. It's like when Voyager was going to try transwarp with what little they had but Starfleet with all their resources couldn't do it.
They worked out how to transwarp in about 5 minutes flat in Descent anyway and promptly forgot. It's probably on a PADD somewhere with the psychotricorder and the genesis device.
The Moriarty thing always bugged me, because the computer can apparently create sentient life, on a whim, simply by being asked to create an opponent to Data. If it can do that, something not even Data can do, as per Measure of a Man, is the enterprise computer not a sentient being with the right to free will?
The Moriarty thing always bugged me, because the computer can apparently create sentient life, on a whim, simply by being asked to create an opponent to Data. If it can do that, something not even Data can do, as per Measure of a Man, is the enterprise computer not a sentient being with the right to free will?