General Trek Questions and Observations

Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by The Old Mixer, Nov 3, 2016.

  1. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    Given "The Enemy Within" and "Tuvix", would it be possible for an individual to be, via transporters, the sum total of a planet's/ship's population combined? Like, suppose there was an accident and only one working escape pod, so thinking quickly, they combined everyone on the ship into a handful of people/one person, and send them to safety.
     
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  2. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    An interesting thing for an alien species to notice about Humans, in addition to "pinkskin" and "bags of water".
     
  3. fireproof78

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    Same, toastyglow, same.
     
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  4. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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  5. Ar-Pharazon

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    I've been cleaning out & sorting my junk room for an eventual move and came across a pile of bumper stickers I must have bought at Gen-Con '88, since the 15 Mere Dragons ones are dated '88.

    Nine of them are Star Trek related, but this one that isn't actually feels like an Anti-Red Shirt message.
    10-Fantasy Not Expendable, Not Stupid, Not Going (Large).jpg
     
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  6. FredH

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    I think that’s a fascinating idea, and you should write that story.
     
  7. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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  8. Mister Spock

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    Very cool. If anyone is interested, it's a line from the character Avon in the Blake's 7 episode Horizon.
     
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    Good to know. I've always wanted to watch that show.
     
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  10. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    The Picard likeness Jean-Luc is holding up here:
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    I just noticed it has little pins at all the joints to make them bend.
     
  11. TheAdmiralty

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    It did seem like that was how Star Trek treated alien races sometimes. Like they all had the same personality or quirk.
     
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  12. Oddish

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    They should have called "What you Leave Behind" the "Perma-Death Episode".

    Usually, when a major character dies on Star Trek, they just bring them back a short time later. Spock is regenerated by the Genesis device, Tasha comes in from a new timeline, Dax comes back in a new body and basically does the same job as before, Weyoun gets cloned again, Culber gets... something to do with space mushrooms, Shaxx just comes back and no one explains how, and then there's Data's journey over multiple Picard seasons (no spoilers).

    Contrastingly, when people go down in the last part of DS9, it's quite final. Even the apparently indestructible Weyoun is supposed to be permanently dead.
     
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  13. at Quark's

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    <In a random episode>

    - 'X! But weren't you supposed to be dead? We all saw the entire planet you were on disintegrate in that cataclysmic explosion; no one there could possibly have survived that!'
    - 'Quite true. But now I'm back. The writers said they had used up all even remotely plausible sounding excuses on earlier cases already, couldn't be arsed to think up something original and therefore are asking you simply go with it.'
    - Fair enough. Just assume your old post at tactical, we've saved you a seat.
     
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  14. Oddish

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    Precisely. Aside from...
    1. You're a TOS guy in a red shirt.
    2. You're in the third season of Enterprise.
    3. You're in the last few episodes of DS9.
    4. You're Joe Carey.
     
  15. Nerys Myk

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    Memory Alpha image. It won't show up, Might want to make it a link.
     
  16. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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    Tribbles are real and this picture proves it!

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  19. Laura Cynthia Chambers

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