List of Trek questions that keep us up at night

[charliefox]

Perhaps newly assimilated drones were unviable with all their memories erased and merely submerging memories made more efficient drones, as it made adding their distinctiveness easier.

They were like HAL, all they could do is sing Daisy all day.

 

[at Quark's]

In some VOY episodes (e.g. Swarm), we see the EMH sterilize ('scrub') his hands in some device elaborately before doing surgery. Why ? He's a hologram. Wouldn't it be far more efficient to dematerialise and rematerialise immediately?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Why don't they have curtains? In the year 3801 on the planet Blorbox XII, the light rays from the Enterprise at Rigel IV in 2266 are just arriving, and the locals are perving on Uhura walking through her quarters naked.

 

[at Quark's]

A question that I have genuinely wondered about: What keeps the Enterprise computer + software, so powerful that it can create sentient life based on nothing more than a carelessly phrased command (Moriarty) from developing sentience itself ?

 

[The Wormhole]

In some VOY episodes (e.g. Swarm), we see the EMH sterilize ('scrub') his hands in some device elaborately before doing surgery. Why ? He's a hologram. Wouldn't it be far more efficient to dematerialise and rematerialise immediately?

I remember this question was asked in the old Star Trek Communicator magazine. Their answer was that medical protocol and procedures are such a key part of the EMH programming that they do things a biological doctor would be simply by rote. This also has a psychological benefit of providing the patients of seeing normal procedures, thus not being a distraction to them or upsetting them.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I remember this question was asked in the old Star Trek Communicator magazine. Their answer was that medical protocol and procedures are such a key part of the EMH programming that they do things a biological doctor would be simply by rote. This also has a psychological benefit of providing the patients of seeing normal procedures, thus not being a distraction to them or upsetting them.

"Always remember to wash your photons before every meal and surgical procedure,"

So if he was treating another hologram in a program and had holo-germs on his hands, that hologram could catch them from him?

 

[Six of Twelve]

What happened to the Vorta and Jem Hadar after the war and Odo took over leadership of the Founders?

 

[Captain Rob]

The Jem Hadar all had a huge party and invited the Vorta. And cut them up and ate them.

 

[at Quark's]

I've never interpreted Odo taking leadership of the founders at the end of DS9. I don't even think they have a leader as such. More that he would act like a kind of bridge between the Founders and the alpha quadrant solids, to learn them to trust us.

 

[Six of Twelve]

He replaced the female founder and joined the link to teach the others an entirely new way of relating to the galaxy. I'd call that leadership.

 

[Cyke101]

Lunchtime thoughts:

I wonder, what meal would I be able to identify between replicator and the real thing? How would my favorites fare?

Or, for that matter, if 24th century replicators can make raw oysters, how close could replicator tech be to replicating life itself?

 

[at Quark's]

He replaced the female founder and joined the link to teach the others an entirely new way of relating to the galaxy. I'd call that leadership.

I suppose you could call him a (moral) leader of sorts regarding the part of showing the Founders another way to relate to the solids. The part of replacing the female Founder ....well, the fact that she usually was the great link's mouthpiece and she conducted the war on the AQ side doesn't necessarily indicate anything about her position within Founder society, in my view).

 

[Mojochi]

^Still, the inference is that him rejoining them is a new chapter for them, & his impact & perspectives will be of revolutionary influence. That's certainly messiah-ish in my book too

 

[at Quark's]

^Still, the inference is that him rejoining them is a new chapter for them, & his impact & perspectives will be of revolutionary influence.

I agree with that. There's little doubt that he will be very important to founder society -- assuming they'll listen to him. But that's likely, if the apparent ease with which he convinced the female Founder to surrender is any indication.

 

[Six of Twelve]

In Day of Honor, why did Tom and B'Elanna keep talking while floating in space after losing most of their oxygen? Surely they knew that talking would use it up faster.

 

[Hey Missy]

In some VOY episodes (e.g. Swarm), we see the EMH sterilize ('scrub') his hands in some device elaborately before doing surgery. Why ? He's a hologram. Wouldn't it be far more efficient to dematerialise and rematerialise immediately?

I think sometimes the writers forget that the EMH is a hologram. Like in "Latent Image" when Tuvok's security team has to restrain him.

 

[The Wormhole]

In Day of Honor, why did Tom and B'Elanna keep talking while floating in space after losing most of their oxygen? Surely they knew that talking would use it up faster.

Would have been a pretty boring episode otherwise.

I think sometimes the writers forget that the EMH is a hologram. Like in "Latent Image" when Tuvok's security team has to restrain him.

Well, that was so Tuvok could get to the mobile emitter and deactivate him.

 

[Six of Twelve]

If humans smell bad to Vulcans and Klingons smell bad to humans, then Klingons must REALLY smell bad to Vulcans.

 

[Captain Rob]

"Klingon" is probably actually the Vulcan word for "vomit".

 

[The Wormhole]

If humans smell bad to Vulcans and Klingons smell bad to humans, then Klingons must REALLY smell bad to Vulcans.

Not necessarily. Maybe humans and Vulcans have different definitions of "bad smell." Hmm, they should have played with that on Enterprise, have Trip ask T'Pol why she never complains about how Klingons smell like she does humans, and have her respond that Klingons smell preferable.