I think the fact that they have the ability to talk to a person they'd never thought they'd see again via a video message would mean more than what they're now wearing.
Should Voyager have switched to the new uniforms?
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You may laugh but in your heart you know what I said is the truth.
I really don't see people in the military concerned about what design their uniforms are regardless of homesickness. It hasn't been an issue even in our own reality and there have been plenty of real soldiers stationed in places far from home not knowing when they'll be returning home.
Iraq?
Hundreds of US military soldiers have been stuck their for years without any word of when they can return home. They've been over there for nearly as long as Voyager has seasons. I think that qualifies as to close enough. All of them extremely homesick, they don't give a shit about what the latest uniform designs are.
We know nothing of the sort.
Voyager was carrying more than one type of phaser-rifle all along.
I think that crew morale is as important as defending the ship, if not more...
I wasn't talking about the rifles...
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Type_2_phaser
There are several ways to get over being sad, there is no way to get over being dead.
Then why not use them from the start? Having more than one model of phaser rifle is understandable, but having an upgraded version of a weapon and keeping it in storage until you've been in the Delta Quadrant for months makes no sense...
For that matter, if you're equipping Voyager with the new phasers, why bother with packing the old ones? If you're mass producing them you're obviously not worried about design flaws...
For that matter, if you're equipping Voyager with the new phasers, why bother with packing the old ones? If you're mass producing them you're obviously not worried about design flaws...
Adding an ergonomically-curved handle instead of a straight one isn't exactly an upgrade.
Clearly Voyager set out with a combination of the older-shape and newer-shape.
In Year of Hell, Janeway tells Chakotay to stick her birthday present back into the replicator reserve (not those words) that that timepiece was a waste of a good pair of boots.
Every night they fed their uniforms back into the replicator reserve, and in the morning, they took out the same amount of "matter" out which they put in, which means they only lose a tiny chgarge used for conversion.
The same with food and poop.
Did you see a toilet?
I saw thousands.
Every replicator is a functioning toilet.
(Yes there was mention of waste proccessing on DS9, but Cardassians had standards HUmans obviously didn't.)
Actually, speaking of Year of Hell... They were all so very very very dirty.
Sonic showers, might mean a sonic laundry?
Every night they fed their uniforms back into the replicator reserve, and in the morning, they took out the same amount of "matter" out which they put in, which means they only lose a tiny chgarge used for conversion.
The same with food and poop.
Did you see a toilet?
I saw thousands.
Every replicator is a functioning toilet.
(Yes there was mention of waste proccessing on DS9, but Cardassians had standards HUmans obviously didn't.)
Actually, speaking of Year of Hell... They were all so very very very dirty.
Sonic showers, might mean a sonic laundry?
And that's why I don't let you use my replicator.
Makes you wonder if that was really Chocolate Ice Cream Troi was so fond of eating.
In RL, Officers have to buy their own uniforms.
They have to pay for everything.
Enlisted are given their uniforms, but they get into real trouble if stuff needs being replacing.
Consider the body armour issue, that the Army et all, will spring for updated cloth, but won't pay for standard Body army like they're supposed to STILL.
I remember some fiction/movie/tv about an army with a uniform so expensive, that it could only afford to have a single solder.
I recall it being mentioned in TOS's writer guide that Star Fleet uniforms were not laundered or anything like that. The cleaning process basically reduced them to basic components, separated out dirt and so forth, then reassenbled the uniform as new. Kind of a one-stop recycle-n-replicate deal, from the sounds of it.
Presumably (though there is no direct evidence either way), an upgraded form of this process still was used in TNG's time.
Which would also help explain why people were getting so grubby in 'Year Of Hell', if replicator usage was as restricted as it was said to be.
I would also guess that switching to the "new" uniform would have mostly involved reprogramming or updating Voyager's replicators. Given the amount of data they were getting from Star Fleet after 'Message In A Bottle', would have thought this was in one of the downloads - unless, of course, it was given a lower priority than silly stuff like tactical or scientific data.
Could have been that they simply decided to stick with the "old" uniform until Voyager returned to Federation space. Gotta figure that starships on especially long-distance / long-term missions would be allowed some leeway on such matters.
Presumably (though there is no direct evidence either way), an upgraded form of this process still was used in TNG's time.
Which would also help explain why people were getting so grubby in 'Year Of Hell', if replicator usage was as restricted as it was said to be.
I would also guess that switching to the "new" uniform would have mostly involved reprogramming or updating Voyager's replicators. Given the amount of data they were getting from Star Fleet after 'Message In A Bottle', would have thought this was in one of the downloads - unless, of course, it was given a lower priority than silly stuff like tactical or scientific data.
Could have been that they simply decided to stick with the "old" uniform until Voyager returned to Federation space. Gotta figure that starships on especially long-distance / long-term missions would be allowed some leeway on such matters.
And we know that the handle was the only difference, how?
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