oh my, that was completely brilliant
General Trek Questions and Observations
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I guess he picked a shop that didn't ask questions.
You know, the "When it Rains"/"Tacking into the Wind" two-parter reminds me of the story of Oedipus, and many similar tales that came after it: faced with the possibility of an event happening (Martok challenging him for the chancellorship), Gowron attempts to prevent this event (by disgracing Martok), and winds up causing the event to happen (Worf challenges him, defeats him, and installs Martok as chancellor).
Life is full of strange ironies...
Life is full of strange ironies...
Here's a question for you... which is the most crazy contrived reason for "bringing back" a character who was departed from their show...
A. Having Enterprise go over to an alternative reality, having said reality's not-killed version of Tasha Yar go back in time and produce a daughter (in this reality) who looks and sounds exactly like her.
B. Bringing Ezri Dax on as DS9's station counselor when it never had one before... add the fact that one, she's actually more neurotic than her patients are; and two, she doesn't seem to do a lot of counseling.
C. Randomly reducing Brad Boimler to ensign (because apparently there's no slot for a lieutenant JG anywhere in the fleet) so that he can return to the lower decks on the Cerritos.
A. Having Enterprise go over to an alternative reality, having said reality's not-killed version of Tasha Yar go back in time and produce a daughter (in this reality) who looks and sounds exactly like her.
B. Bringing Ezri Dax on as DS9's station counselor when it never had one before... add the fact that one, she's actually more neurotic than her patients are; and two, she doesn't seem to do a lot of counseling.
C. Randomly reducing Brad Boimler to ensign (because apparently there's no slot for a lieutenant JG anywhere in the fleet) so that he can return to the lower decks on the Cerritos.
Spock comes back from the dead and immediately is restored to rank in Starfleet but not reassigned his previous billet at the Academy.
They had a counselor before. I can't remember their name but O'Brien avoided going to him/her after he was in that alien mind-prison.
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Touché.
Shhh, don't ask about any plot contrivances, especially if the movie that's said to be the best of the bunch is meant solely for lighthearted laughs.
Quark's has the perfect sound balance! You can have a conversation with the person sitting next to you without straining to hear and listen to all the activity from Dabo players and customers making their way to and from the holosuites. There's no blaring thumping music or multiple video feeds assaulting the senses.
No wonder it was so successful!
No wonder it was so successful!
It was the 80s
I thought bringing back Dukat , resurrected in his original Cardassian form (but of course with Evil Red Eyes) was pretty crazy, even if he'd only 'departed from the show' in the same episode only five minutes before.
Nitpick - the Enterprise didn't travel to the alternate reality, it's own timeline was altered so that it had ALWAYS been in that reality. Then it was altered BACK.
Maybe someone knows, I don't....
but was Tasha planned to return somehow at some point after 'Yesterday's Enterprise' so that's why they sent her into the past or was it something Ron Moore came up with when writing 'Redemption'?
I can buy this. Considering what they do with force fields sound suppression would be easy.
And you could walk into airports right up to the gate to see people off, without security. The past is a strange county, they do things differently there.
As I'm sure you all know, Jonathan Frakes is the John Ratzenberger of Star Trek, popping up in nearly every franchise after the original series (and I'm even giving him "honorable mention" status with TOS because of that Friends and Family commercial). However, his work is not yet done. There are, after all, no fewer than three, maybe four active franchises where he hasn't managed to turn up. To that end, I am suggesting ways by which this oversight could be rectified...
Strange New Worlds: Though set nearly 100 years before Riker was born, Will Riker was known to have a 500y ancestor who looked like him. Since the Riker clan was known to be from Alaska, simply have someone from the Enterprise crew visit there, and happen to run into another of those ancestors, a graying gent, possibly in some uniformed civil service or other.
Prodigy: Have VAdm Janeway call for Starfleet reinforcements to aid in the search for the Protostar. One of these ships is the USS Titan. Easy, right?
Discovery: Ooooo, not so easy. It's 800 years in the future, and they've already done "cryogenically frozen", "locked in transporter buffer", "distant descendent", and "hologram". However, Star Trek is not averse to reusing such things... maybe they could even swap out Will with Tom, say that the latter was placed in cryogenic suspension by the supervisors at his labor camp, then forgotten when the Jem'Hadar flattened the place.
Short Treks: Not sure if these are still a thing, but if they are, their sheer variety ensures an endless number of ways to pop in Riker or some variant thereof.
Strange New Worlds: Though set nearly 100 years before Riker was born, Will Riker was known to have a 500y ancestor who looked like him. Since the Riker clan was known to be from Alaska, simply have someone from the Enterprise crew visit there, and happen to run into another of those ancestors, a graying gent, possibly in some uniformed civil service or other.
Prodigy: Have VAdm Janeway call for Starfleet reinforcements to aid in the search for the Protostar. One of these ships is the USS Titan. Easy, right?
Discovery: Ooooo, not so easy. It's 800 years in the future, and they've already done "cryogenically frozen", "locked in transporter buffer", "distant descendent", and "hologram". However, Star Trek is not averse to reusing such things... maybe they could even swap out Will with Tom, say that the latter was placed in cryogenic suspension by the supervisors at his labor camp, then forgotten when the Jem'Hadar flattened the place.
Short Treks: Not sure if these are still a thing, but if they are, their sheer variety ensures an endless number of ways to pop in Riker or some variant thereof.
Interesting juxtaposition...
EPISODE: Chain of Command Part 2.
SITUATION: Picard has been imprisoned, savagely abused, and essentially broken by a sadistic Cardassian torturer. He's likely to have massive PTSD and emotional issues.
RESPONSE: Return him to his post like nothing happened.
EPISODE: Rascals.
SITUATION: Nothing has happened to affect Picard's mind. But because he's shorter and has hair now, he just doesn't look like Picard anymore.
RESPONSE: Bully him into giving up command at the earliest available opportinity.
EPISODE: Chain of Command Part 2.
SITUATION: Picard has been imprisoned, savagely abused, and essentially broken by a sadistic Cardassian torturer. He's likely to have massive PTSD and emotional issues.
RESPONSE: Return him to his post like nothing happened.
EPISODE: Rascals.
SITUATION: Nothing has happened to affect Picard's mind. But because he's shorter and has hair now, he just doesn't look like Picard anymore.
RESPONSE: Bully him into giving up command at the earliest available opportinity.
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