General Trek Questions and Observations
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Oh, yes. Movies have been using "Library Music" since the days of Cecil B. DeMille.
I have to laugh at this. Considering what Worf did with the lute later on.....
Indeed! ... in the very deed.
Can the replicator make "lean" or "purpo drank?" Space can get tedious and lonely. In the 24th century, would the replicator be able to make the popular hip hop drink 'lean' to lighten the mood?
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Are Bajorans meant to represent Jews ... or the Palestinians?
Another contributery factor may be the wellknown abbreviation NGC for New General Catalog. Many star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies are known by their NGC numbers. Apparently in the era of TOS a different NGC listing is used since star cluster NGC 321 ("A Taste of Armageddon") is actually a different and distant galaxy. Maybe in TOS NGC stands for Nakamura Goldstein Catalog or Nearby Galactic Clusters or Newer Galactic Catalog or something.
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Both and neither, I guess.
I remember a novel, co written I think by Arthur C. Clarke, in which the moon was described as having giant airlocks to let spacehips land and everywhere else there was an atmosphere held in by a covering of nano machines all holding on to each other and not letting air molecules pass out. Putting a roof over your world to keep the air in always seems like a good idea to me.
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I always pictured them more like the Tibetans, myself.
interesting, never thought of that particular comparison before (hopefully the "cardassians" will be gone one day from tibet).
My comparison would be imperial japan invading Indonesia during the second world war. The Japanese didn't want to colonize, they wanted the natural resources. Oil, rubber, etc.
My impression is the cardassians never intended to colonize bajor, they primarily wanted natural resources.
If there was any intention of Jewishness in the Ferengi, that's awful. Though I heard Nimoy talking about Roddenberry verging on anti-Semitism. The Ferengi do seem very much like the anti-Semitic picture of Jews.
In The Prime Timeline, is James T. Kirk actually bald and wearing a bad rug OR ... are those locks supposedly his for real?
This sounds like Jeremy Irons and to me only certain people have the voice to successfully read those words. Of course Kirk and Picard and Leonard Nimoy being the few
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Data was wrong about his strategema match with Kolrami. He did win. Kolrami may have suspended the match, (Which I figure means paused) but I assume they never resumed it, because of how insulted he was, so he ultimately forfeited (Which technically isn't the same as a stalemate anyhow. It's a loss)
But even if he hadn't suspended the match. Data still kind of won, because even though his strategy was to play for a draw, he essentially found a way to play, that meant he could sustain the game indefinitely, by sacrificing winning advantage.
Being able to sustain the game indefinitely means Data won, because the guy is humanoid. Unlike Data, He'd fatigue eventually, even if he managed to pause the game once in a while, to avoid making a critical mistake, before that happened, how long could someone go on like that without some kind of error?
He might be able to beat Data in a game, but I doubt he could outlast him, & that's how Data busted him up. lol
But even if he hadn't suspended the match. Data still kind of won, because even though his strategy was to play for a draw, he essentially found a way to play, that meant he could sustain the game indefinitely, by sacrificing winning advantage.
Being able to sustain the game indefinitely means Data won, because the guy is humanoid. Unlike Data, He'd fatigue eventually, even if he managed to pause the game once in a while, to avoid making a critical mistake, before that happened, how long could someone go on like that without some kind of error?
He might be able to beat Data in a game, but I doubt he could outlast him, & that's how Data busted him up. lol
The actor is bald. The character has real hair, presumably. Just like we're supposed to ignore wardrobe mistakes and bad makeup on aliens, we should ignore the bad wig job on Kirk.
I doubt Troi is meant to be the only Betazoid in Starfleet, since she cannot read minds, just feelings Picard should transfer a full blooded, telepathic Betazoid officer to his ship.
Well, we're not putting you in charge of equality in the HR department, then.
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