Random Trek "Problems" That Bug You (and that you can't let go!)

[bdub76]

Please no scary

Come on. Scary Trek would be great.

It worked well with Doctor Who.

 

[The Wormhole]

There's no indication that the Borg are limited in how far back they can travel through time, therefore there's nothing to indicate that they could not have gone back that far. Assuming they were somehow limited, even going back a hundred years earlier would have been far more sensible than going back to stop the formation of the Federation by targeting first contact. It's a stupid premise in a stupid movie, regardless of how much you want to rationalize it.

The original story outline for the movie had the time travel being back to medieval times until Braga and Moore realized that made no sense as there was nothing intrinsic to that time period that had any significance to Trek lore.

 

[fireproof78]

Come on. Scary Trek would be great.

It worked well with Doctor Who.

That's when I turned Who off.

 

[Set Harth]

Hospitals are currently trying to figure out what's so special about natural sunlight. This research got super charged with COVID as they found that rolling patients outside and exposing them to natural sunlight made them get better faster. They're still trying to figure out why because it was something more than vitamin D.

UV light can act as a disinfectant. A guy tried to make that point once and was subsequently mocked over it for the rest of his life.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm with you. The Trek of the 90's always seemed to be celebrating equality among people of both sexes, all races, and even levels of ability. Some Kurtzman shows felt more like an apology than a celebration.

 

[Oddish]

That was... obscure.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[fireproof78]

You know what they say; hair today, gone tomorrow.

 

[Oddish]

House Party meets Star Trek.

 

[Mudd]

Speaking of "Tin Man", the power scaling in that episode bugs me a little because it causes some issues. One short, "incidental" strafing run by a Romulan warbird takes down 70 % of the Enterprise's shields making a warbird apparently more powerful than a Borg cube. The standoff in "The Defector" would hardly make sense since regardless of Klingon support Tomalak should still be able to win easily and survive.

A better solution would have been to have the Romulans use sensor-blinding space smoke-screens.

The thinking was that their orders to get there "at any cost" meant not only were they to run their engines to destruction, but overload and exhaust their weapon systems. No energy reserves, no safety factors.

That ship was Kleenex. It would never fly again, and the crew were sacrifices.

I don't expect that explanation to work for everyone. C'est la guerre.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The original story outline for the movie had the time travel being back to medieval times until Braga and Moore realized that made no sense as there was nothing intrinsic to that time period that had any significance to Trek lore.

They are horrible people that original story would have been better. I liked the original medieval idea

in the 80s and 90s was probably the best time between men and women, somhow in "balance" between the chauvinist paternalism shown in the 60s show and the grotesque "woke" deconstruction of the sexes we see nowadays

What a disgusting point of view?

 

[camdudetenger2018]

its kinda not the trekverse problems but its more like what i still can not let go

how strange new worlds is definley set in a different alternate star trek universe from tos tng ds9 voyager enterprise and even starfleet academy

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

SNW is one of the best of new Trek and I still love Discovery and Enterprise and not ashamed of it

 

[ichab]

This is why the Borg time travelling into the past makes no point in the first place. Humanity is already no meaningful threat to them; if they were going to time travel at all, you'd think they might time travel into the future to get a sense of whether humanity will become a genuine threat to them.

Huh? The Federation already had shown that they were a formidable foe when they killed the cube that was sent to earth. My only issue is the fact that after defeat, they sent all of ...........................ONE cube again.

 

[DonIago]

Huh? The Federation already had shown that they were a formidable foe when they killed the cube that was sent to earth. My only issue is the fact that after defeat, they sent all of ...........................ONE cube again.

Killing one Borg cube is the equivalent of stepping on one ant. It makes no difference to the collective.

 

[ichab]

Killing one Borg cube is the equivalent of stepping on one ant. It makes no difference to the collective.

It obviously meant something because they tried again and when that failed, tried to built a transwarp conduit to the Alpha quadrant. Why not just stay in the Delta quadrant?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

It obviously meant something because they tried again and when that failed, tried to built a transwarp conduit to the Alpha quadrant. Why not just stay in the Delta quadrant?

It was the Janeway charm, the Queen wanted her bad

 

[ichab]

It was the Janeway charm, the Queen wanted her bad

She wanted Data too. Plus she wanted to keep 7 of 9 human even after getting her back. The Queen had some very....peculiar tastes.

 

[DonIago]

It obviously meant something because they tried again and when that failed, tried to built a transwarp conduit to the Alpha quadrant. Why not just stay in the Delta quadrant?

Because the Borg are expansionist, not isolationist. If you believe their propaganda, they go out looking to improve other civilizations (by making them Borg). If you don't believe their propaganda, they go out looking to improve themselves by assimilating other civilizations.

 

[CoveTom]

What a disgusting point of view?

Nah, it's just a point of view. IDIC and all that.