General Trek Questions and Observations
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Marketing.I've always found it funny how on the Star Trek II: WoK movie poster it shows the Enterprise attacking Regula I lol. What's that about?
It occurs to me that for the usual “Starfleet: Military, or Do They Just Do All the Fighting?” argument, the SyFy show The Ark provides an interesting counter example, in that they’re absolutely NOT a military by any stretch of the imagination, but maintain a military-like organizational structure: Captain, Security, etc. Which is what some try to argue about Starfleet, but the Arks don’t fight wars.
They may have started out as separate forces, but eventually everyone realized it was more efficient to combine the agency of people who discover, investigate and study new places, people, and things with the ones who have to handle the threats these discoveries pose and wars fought as a result.
The little-known Deleted Scene where David calls his father an irresponsible warmonger, so Kirk proves his son right.I've always found it funny how on the Star Trek II: WoK movie poster it shows the Enterprise attacking Regula I lol. What's that about?
It's a little known deleted scene where Kirk forgets his glasses and meant to fire a warning shot across her nose, but fires up it.
The last part is very much the important part as most of the main roles (even Science Officer, up to a point) can be found on the average purely civilian cruise ship IRL, though The Ark does also hit the key points as well.
Is that before or after Tuvok yells: "We ain't found s***"?
It's right after he pats himself on the back for a job well done beaming tow people to death and "Smoke if you got 'em".
It gives a STAR WARSy vibe, which can only boost TREK box office.I've always found it funny how on the Star Trek II: WoK movie poster it shows the Enterprise attacking Regula I lol. What's that about?
I'm certainly not the first to note the inconsistencies in Data's intelligence during the series, but I'll add more:
It occurred to me yesterday that Data said (and I did look this back up) he can processes with his positronic brain sixty trillion operations per second (something in our time Google has already surpassed), has four quadrillion bits of storage capacity and has a lot stored, so he should be pretty damn smart, yet...
In one episode he's baffled by how to get out of a paper Chinese finger trap. And doesn't just break it (it's not paper).
Then in another episode there's some kind of time phase and Data has to put something back in place and there are multiple Data's all doing the same thing, and one asked which one is the real one, and instantly prime universe Data knows it's him.
Never mind how in the world can he even be sure of that or how would any of the other Data's even know they aren't the real one, that's cake walk, but Chinese finger traps -- that's serious business.
It occurred to me yesterday that Data said (and I did look this back up) he can processes with his positronic brain sixty trillion operations per second (something in our time Google has already surpassed), has four quadrillion bits of storage capacity and has a lot stored, so he should be pretty damn smart, yet...
In one episode he's baffled by how to get out of a paper Chinese finger trap. And doesn't just break it (it's not paper).
Then in another episode there's some kind of time phase and Data has to put something back in place and there are multiple Data's all doing the same thing, and one asked which one is the real one, and instantly prime universe Data knows it's him.
Never mind how in the world can he even be sure of that or how would any of the other Data's even know they aren't the real one, that's cake walk, but Chinese finger traps -- that's serious business.
And, the best way to demonstrate the Federation's superiority is to send those finger traps to the Ferengi.
Maybe Riker is thinking "if Data can't solve it then we can defeat the Ferengi easily."
"Dax" and "The House of Quark" are both missing, if I'm not mistaken.
And "Darmok".
Also, if you list Cupid should Lorelei not also count?
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Thanks. Good catches!
In Star Trek Into Darkness, when Spock does a mind meld with a dying Christopher Pike, I always thought it was rather cold and callous of Spock to do that to a dying (and suffering) man just to experience what he was feeling. But is it possible that one of the goals of said mind meld was to alleviate Pike's suffering so he didn't have to die in pain?
Also just thought of Bride of Chaotica.
That was my impression was that Spock was trying to help Pike's fear and ease his pain in the final moment, though it also aided his own struggle of sorting his own emotions.
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