Drago-Kazov
Fleet Captain
Yep, isn't trek techs the same besides minor changes?
I actually like the Vong books, were you only complaining about LOTF and FOTJ or the Legacy comics too?
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Does Trek EU has the same problem as SW EU...
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Technological progress isn't a constant. In real history there have been long periods of stability and slow progress punctuated by bursts of rapid advancement; we just happen to be in one of the latter, so we expect it to be the norm.
I just assume the Galaxy Far, Far Away reached a plateau level of technology thousands of years BBY. If they were already as advanced as they could feasibly get, there wouldn't be much change from then on, except socially. Or there could've been a Dark Age, a period where they lost technology for a time, followed by a recovery to their earlier level.
That's your privilege to enjoy them. I'm typically not going to buy a comic book, SW, Trek or otherwise these days. For whatever reason they just don't set the atmosphere for me that well anymore.
I got four or five novels into the Vong books before I gave up on them. I just wasn't enjoying them or the concept. My subsequent "checking up" on the timeline to see if it had improved just involved a very occasional skimming of Wookiepedia. I've moved on from the SW EU, plenty of other scifi/fantasy material out there.
Thankfully Trek is mainly much more concise time-period wise. There have been a few ventures into far past / futures but no ongoing series thousands of years in the past.
That's not to say there couldn't be...
The tech tends to play such a small role in the SW stories, that it honestly never bothered me.
The bigger mystery is why technology in the Trek novels hasn't plateaued, what with all those hundreds of UFP member cultures having finished bringing their own unique knowledge into the mix decades ago. Instead of "synergy", the true state of such multicultural RD effort after the initial mixing might be one of "chaos", reducing the speed not only to the level of a single culture, but actually below that.
The Borg are a mixture of sources, too, but they seem to be stable enough...
Timo Saloniemi
The Borg are a mixture of sources, too, but they seem to be stable enough...
Timo Saloniemi
Drago-Kazov
Fleet Captain
It would be nice to see a Federation bioship for once.
Drago-Kazov
Fleet Captain
Wasn't there a bioship in one of the Leah Brahms episode or even in Tin Man?, Also considering that the Federation is like the UN why wouldn't be a special training academy in San Fransisco where species with an affinity toward bioships would be able to specialise.
Not quite a bioship, but the old Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology postulated future Federation starships which used "variable magnetic matrix sheathing" instead of a traditional metallic alloy hull to reconfigure the shape of the vessel as per mission requirements.
Basically, ships that change shape.
Basically, ships that change shape.
Would ships that use bio-neural gel packs be considered bioships?
Drago-Kazov
Fleet Captain
What?
Drago-Kazov
Fleet Captain
They just probably have some bio parts but i would not call them bioships.
To be entirely fair, about 10% of US presidents came from New York; almost a sixth of them if you use home state instead of birth state. And for some reason, over a third of US presidents were born in either Ohio or Virginia.
