A literal landmark would have transporter coverage.
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A literal landmark would have transporter coverage.
Why? Is there a transporter atop Mt Everest, too?
How do you know there isn’t?
From what we know of Earth, transporters for traveling from one part of the planet to the other isn’t that widely available because people still use shuttle transport. We learn when Sisko was in the academy he would use up his Federation credits just so beam back to New Orleans quicker rather than public transport. Heck, the very first time we see Earth in the franchise is when Kirk is using a shuttle to Starfleet HQ. I think the implication is that people only use transporters within Earth for emergencies or if they’re coming from a ship or station in orbit.
Again, why would there be one at Vasquez Rocks?
Sisko didn’t contrast that with public transport, only with his later practice of no longer beaming home for dinner. Picard did have an emergency and he did beam to Starfleet Headquarters, but not to Raffi’s place for some reason. It seems there is no transporter coverage as Vasquez Rocks is a place few on Earth would want to visit, and Raffi likes it that way.
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All I mentioned was transporter coverage. You brought up the idea of a receiving device on top of Mount Everest, which doesn’t seem implausible if we imagine that it has become a major tourist site unlike Vasquez Rocks, which seems to be sufficiently uninteresting for Raffi’s place not to disturb an overall vision for the area.
Kurtzman takes a very corporate approach to content, and we've absolutely seen this with ST under him.
PIC and DISC are more corporate check lists than they are actual stories born of creative urge.
I understand this is a business. You've got to balance business interests and creative interests, but the pendulum has swung too far to the former.
PIC and DISC are more corporate check lists than they are actual stories born of creative urge.
I understand this is a business. You've got to balance business interests and creative interests, but the pendulum has swung too far to the former.
What's the list look like?
Very much so. It's the sit-down chain diner verity. It's more expensive than fast food, but the food quality is only marginally better. You're paying for 'atmosphere'.
Specifically, it's Applebee’s: it's a national copy pasta food chain dressed up in the veneer of local knickknacks and memorabilia to sell the false sense of provincial familiarity.
No they're not.
Probably developing shows which could draw other audiences than just Star Trekers.
That's a short list.
"It's gone corporate"
"It's gone woke"
"It's gone dark"
"It ruined X character/ship/race"
"It breaks canon"
"It references too much canon"
You meant the whinging about new series list, right?
Basically, the past several years of me taking pot shots at Disco and all things Kurtzman-related has been the equivalent of going to McDonalds and demanding a New York cut sirloin w/ truffle potatoes and red wine reduction, hasn't it?
I had been toying with a fast food analogy a while back.
I don't know if I would compare any Trek to a New York cut.
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