List of Trek questions that keep us up at night

[F. King Daniel]

Feel free to answer, feel free to ask your own deep and meaningful Star Trek questions.

1. If you did the Death Star with a Genesis torpedo, would it become a little planet?

2. If you did the same to a Borg ship, would you end up with a tiny cuboid planet?

3. Why is the Enterprise the weird shape that it is, and if that shape is somehow beneficial, why don't any aliens use it?

4. Ditto Starfleet and Klingon ship designs.

5. Surely there must be some legal issue with using the faces of people you know on holodeck characters.

6. ...and an even bigger issue with giving access to technology that basically creates artificial life (or is at least depicted that way in Voyager and a couple of Next Gen's)

 

[F. King Daniel]

7. Does Troi or any other telepath on board know when other crew are having sex or masturbating?

 

[Tosk]

5. Surely there must be some legal issue with using the faces of people you know on holodeck characters.

Riker "This is a violation of protocol. Crewmembers should not be simulated in the holodeck.
LaForge: "Commander, I don't think there's any regulation against..."
Riker: "Well there ought to be."

7. Does Troi or any other telepath on board know when other crew are having sex or masturbating?

She does, but only joins in about 5% of the time.

 

[DeepSpaceYorks]

Yeah, that's a conversation you don't want to have. "Oh, hi there Mike. What have I been doing? Well, I've actually been doing your wife on the holodeck. Have a good day"

 

[locutus101]

Yeah, that's a conversation you don't want to have. "Oh, hi there Mike. What have I been doing? Well, I've actually been doing your wife on the holodeck. Have a good day"

I don't think it raises more issues than when people masturbate while looking at pictures of naked women. It's practically the same problem with more sophisticated technology.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I can't honestly say that any question about Trek 'keeps me up at night.'

There are some funny ones in here, though!

 

[jamestyler]

If the Borg did managed to assimilate everyone on the Enterprise, would they still have to assimilate Spot? Or are pets exempt?

If Klingon foreheads are unique to family, why was Worf susprised that the other guy with the exact same forehead pattern was his brother?

 

[locutus101]

If the Borg did managed to assimilate everyone on the Enterprise, would they still have to assimilate Spot? Or are pets exempt?
...

Not according to Seven. She said that the borg had deemed the Kazon unworthy of assimilation. It may not be by much, but I am pretty sure that the Kazon are more evolved than cats.

 

[jamestyler]

Not according to Seven. She said that the borg had deemed the Kazons unworthy of assimilation. It may not be by much, but I am pretty sure that the Kazons are more evolved than cats.

Unsure. The cat got better scenes.

 

[locutus101]

Unsure. The cat got better scenes.

 

[Tenacity]

^ In the Shatner-verse novels (iirc), the reanimated Kirk encountered assimilate dogs.

 

[locutus101]

^ In the Shatner-verse novels (iirc), the reanimated Kirk encountered assimilate dogs.

But, but Kirk never even met the Borg!!

 

[Push The Button]

Feel free to answer, feel free to ask your own deep and meaningful Star Trek questions.

3. Why is the Enterprise the weird shape that it is, and if that shape is somehow beneficial, why don't any aliens use it?

The design of the Romulan Bird of Prey from TOS was supposed to have been partially copied from stolen Starfleet blueprints, or something to that effect. It does sort of look like a Miranda class ship in some ways. (In my personal canon, there were pre-refit Mirandas in Starfleet with cylindrical nacelles, we just never saw any onscreen. In TWOK, the way that Reliant's bridge is brightly lit and the color scheme as compared to Enterprise remind me of a TOS-era bridge.)

 

[Tenacity]

But, but Kirk never even met the Borg!!

It's been a while since I read it, but Kirk's corpse is taken from the rock grave where Picard interned it at the end of GEN.

He is returned to life (somehow), and this allows James Kirk's adventures to continue. I remember the story as being pretty good.

 

[tharpdevenport]

^ In the Shatner-verse novels (iirc), the reanimated Kirk encountered assimilate dogs.

Oh my God, rock monsters and now Borg dogs? For the love of Gene, stop this inShatiny now!

 

[eobard]

8. What happens if a Borg assimilate another Borg?

 

[BillJ]

If the Borg did managed to assimilate everyone on the Enterprise, would they still have to assimilate Spot? Or are pets exempt?

If pets are exempt, which drone is stuck cleaning the litter box?

 

[locutus101]

8. What happens if a Borg assimilate another Borg?

What happens when a borg meets a founder?

 

[Kevman7987]

8. What happens if a Borg assimilate another Borg?

Borgception?

 

[Captain Rob]

What happens when a Borg meets up with a Gorn?
Or worse...a Pakled?