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

[Nerys Myk]

I read a lot of comments on the section 31 issue. Trying to be polite no the whatever that was they released. The concept of section 31 was great as a mysterious group hinted at and whispered in the books and later shows. However shining a light on a dark group takes away the mystery and kills the intrigue.
I'm still not understanding what they were thinking about with the Star Fleet Academy thing they had a great one started and deliberately killed it then give us that last whatever it was. What drugs are the Disney executives on?

Disney?

 

[Set Harth]

yeah wtf

 

[Firebird]

What drugs are the Disney executives on?

They may need to cut back on what they’re using if they’re fantasizing about a show they don’t own or produce.

 

[DonIago]

They may need to cut back on what they’re using if they’re fantasizing about a show they don’t own or produce.

...you mean like the way folks on this board fantasize about Star Trek?

 

[bdub76]

So Picard knocks up Crusher at some point, and he never finds out until his son is grown up.

What other crew members unknowingly knocked women while out in space? Why hasn't this problem been solved? You'd think birth control would be far more advanced by then, especially with folks in space.

 

[1001001]

So Picard knocks up Crusher at some point, and he never finds out until his son is grown up.

What other crew members unknowingly knocked women while out in space? Why hasn't this problem been solved? You'd think birth control would be far more advanced by then, especially with folks in space.

Picard’s Borg-powered sperm overcame the birth control.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Resistance is futile. You will be impregnated.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I read a lot of comments on the section 31 issue. Trying to be polite no the whatever that was they released. The concept of section 31 was great as a mysterious group hinted at and whispered in the books and later shows. However shining a light on a dark group takes away the mystery and kills the intrigue.
I'm still not understanding what they were thinking about with the Star Fleet Academy thing they had a great one started and deliberately killed it then give us that last whatever it was. What drugs are the Disney executives on?

Disney gets high on coke cut with mouse dander.

 

[bdub76]

Picard’s Borg-powered sperm overcame the birth control.

Doesn't Picard still have Borg tech in him? I wonder if Crusher now has it too. A Borg based STD.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So Picard knocks up Crusher at some point, and he never finds out until his son is grown up.

What other crew members unknowingly knocked women while out in space? Why hasn't this problem been solved? You'd think birth control would be far more advanced by then, especially with folks in space.

It’s a TV show, surprise relatives aren’t just for Soap Operas. So every character in the list. Birth control works at need of plot.

 

[Farscape One]

So Picard knocks up Crusher at some point, and he never finds out until his son is grown up.

What other crew members unknowingly knocked women while out in space? Why hasn't this problem been solved? You'd think birth control would be far more advanced by then, especially with folks in space.

In DS9's "THE DOGS OF WAR", it was established that men can take an injection that acts like birth control. Ben forgot around that time, given all that happened at that point (attack on Earth, the Defiant's destruction, finding out Section 31 created the Founders' disease, Gowron putting the entire war at risk, etc.), he had a lot going on at once. This is why Kasidy got pregnant.

So the solution exists.

 

[korblborp]

Jon Peters got his wish in The Wild Wild West.

which was fantastic!

 

[The Wormhole]

The concept of section 31 was great as a mysterious group hinted at and whispered in the books and later shows.

???
Section 31 was introduced in the show years before the novels started using it.

You'd think birth control would be far more advanced by then, especially with folks in space.

Birth control only works if people remember to use it.

 

[bdub76]

Birth control only works if people remember to use it.

You'd think it would be mandatory like a vaccine for Star Fleet. Gotta keep the head count down on those starships. Can't have a bunch of babies popping up while on a five year mission.

 

[The Wormhole]

You'd think it would be mandatory like a vaccine for Star Fleet. Gotta keep the head count down on those starships. Can't have a bunch of babies popping up while on a five year mission.

In an era where families are allowed to live on starships? Not sure why that'd be an issue.

 

[bdub76]

In an era where families are allowed to live on starships? Not sure why that'd be an issue.

How about TOS, where this whole family concept from TNG hadn't kicked in?

 

[The Wormhole]

Not really relevant to the matter of why Picard and Dr. Crusher didn't use birth control, which is what we were discussing.

 

[bdub76]

Not really relevant to the matter of why Picard and Dr. Crusher didn't use birth control, which is what we were discussing.

That was an example.

The overall thought was birth control in space in Trek.

 

[mb22]

Birth control in Starfleet was discussed as early as The Making of Star Trek in 1968.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

There would have been a babyspike 9 months after The Naked Time AND The Naked Now if birth control wasn't mandatory. So how did JL&B conceive? It must require periodic injections or some magical procedure yet as unknown to our primitive science that fades with time.

"I'm a Doctor, not an obstetr--oh wait."