General Trek Questions and Observations

[Oddish]

I've been rewatching the "Homecoming/Circle/Siege" three-parter, snd I find myself wondering... what happened to Colonel Day afterward? After all, he is believed to have murdered Bajor's greatest freedom fighter. If they sent him to prison, he'd probably wind up in several large pieces. So he'd have to spend forever in isolation... unless the Bajoran militia has a policy of shooting traitors.

 

[Farscape One]

I guess it would depend if he knew about the Cardassian's involvement or not. If he didn't and thought it was "Federation lies", as he said to General Krim, then he almost certainly went to prison. If he did know, then that puts him in the camp of being a collaborator... before he killed Li Nalas, he probably would have been exiled like Secretary Kubas was sentenced originally in "THE COLLABORATOR". But killing Li and being a collaborator? I'd bet money that he was shot.

 

[think]

What if,..

Star Trek was really a top secret documentary that was leaked out to TV?

Are the aliens from the future trying to prepare us for a friendly invasion or maybe an intervention?

 

[Oddish]

Star Trek was really a top secret documentary that was leaked out to TV?

Reverse Galaxy Quest, then?

 

[Tenacity]

At this point rebooting TOS as a continuation of SNW might be the better option.

Or, rebooting TOS as a continuation ... of TOS.

Jettison SNW in it's entirety, re-set to TOS as almost a "period piece" of the first Trek in themes, morality, situations. No not everything would be the same, but many things could be.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or, rebooting TOS as a continuation ... of TOS.

Jettison SNW in it's entirety, re-set to TOS as almost a "period piece" of the first Trek in themes, morality, situations. No not everything would be the same, but many things could be.

So jettison SNW and replace it with SNW?

 

[Tenacity]

So jettison SNW and replace it with SNW?

No, differences between TOS and SNW are obvious, certainly in terms of style. Pike and (original) Kirk aren't close to the same in judgement or temperament.

 

[Nerys Myk]

No, differences between TOS and SNW are obvious, certainly in terms of style. Pike and (original) Kirk aren't close to the same in judgement or temperament.

Of course not, they are different characters, though close in many ways. But we were speaking of "themes, morality, situations" not who's in the Captain's chair.

 

[Finn]

No, differences between TOS and SNW are obvious, certainly in terms of style. Pike and (original) Kirk aren't close to the same in judgement or temperament.

We barely saw Jeffrey Hunter's Pike, plus the version we saw was years before we first saw Anson Mount's version not to mention seeing that vision of him in the beep beep chair would change a person....


But so what if they differ in judgement or temperament ?

 

[Oddish]

Pike and (original) Kirk aren't close to the same in judgement or temperament

Which is kind of the point in "A Quality of Mercy", and the irony. Pike's textbook Starfleet response results in a war, when we know that Kirk's more loose cannon style would have prevented one.

 

[Shawnster]

Nah... Reboot TOS as a sequel to SNW.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

@Oddish which is odd because one would think the opposite would be true. Kirk has a knack for making the right, if counterintuitive, decision.

 

[Oddish]

@Oddish which is odd because one would think the opposite would be true. Kirk has a knack for making the right, if counterintuitive, decision.

Hence, the irony. Starfleet doctrine, as high-minded as it was, would have ignited a war. And Kirk's cowboy tactics prevented one.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The Great Gazoo is Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble's Q.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Great Gazoo is Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble's Q.

What I wouldn't give for Q to greet Picard and Riker with "Hello, dumdums."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Too bad Harvey Korman couldn't have played Q's father.

 

[gweeps]

Man, for me the last really entertaining Trek movie was First Contact.

So much for the old "every other movie is a masterpiece" idea. Though since I like Search, Final, and Generations, I never bought into that.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Lacking a "General Discussion" thread for TNG:

I'm sure most of us remember Riker's trombone solo from TNG: "11001001," and most of us are aware that Frakes really does play the trombone. And some of us are probably aware that the solo was Hoagy Carmichael's 1937 jazz standard, The Nearness of You.

Imagine my surprise when that piece turned up on a recent episode of From the Top, a weekly National Public Radio series featuring young musicians. It's episode 460, and it turns up 12 minutes into the show (there's an embedded SoundCloud version of the episode right in the page), as a piano/melodica duet with host Peter Dugan and guest Tinashe McGowan (who had just played Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20.

 

[fireproof78]

Lacking a "General Discussion" thread for TNG:

I'm sure most of us remember Riker's trombone solo from TNG: "11001001," and most of us are aware that Frakes really does play the trombone. And some of us are probably aware that the solo was Hoagy Carmichael's 1937 jazz standard, The Nearness of You.

Imagine my surprise when that piece turned up on a recent episode of From the Top, a weekly National Public Radio series featuring young musicians. It's episode 460, and it turns up 12 minutes into the show (there's an embedded SoundCloud version of the episode right in the page), as a piano/melodica duet with host Peter Dugan and guest Tinashe McGowan (who had just played Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20.

Could add it to this thread.

Stuff that make you wonder but not own thread worthy

I guess JL can order his Earl Grey while sitting on the throne.

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[Oddish]

Something recently occured to me... the preservation of history did not require Edith Keeler's actual death, just her to not exist in our timeline. So why doesn’t Kirk just bring her back to the 23rd century with him?