Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”

[Charles Phipps]

Trekyards mentioned a possible plot hole. The phasers used in calica are said to only be capable of beaming the target to the penalty box. But, when Genesis shoots the replicators, it creates smoke. First, why would shooting replicators create smoke? Second, shouldn't the phasers had beamed the replicators to the penalty box since that is the only thing they are designed to do?

I thought the implication was she teleported out parts of it versus the actual whole thing.

 

[cooleddie74]

Genesis and Jay-Den are the only two Cadets I actually want to see talk a lot, which is no shade cast at the other actors, but three episodes in there are Cadets that annoy me more than anything else.

 

[Jag2112]

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[Fateor]

I'm completely fine with the script ignoring the established facts about replicators if it means a situation can be constructed where Thok is upset that her dinner is literally unable to exist.

Except that situation can be constructed without ignoring established facts by just having it be "You didn't get around to fixing the replicator" instead of the other thing.

Probably illegal technology now. If all temporal technology is outlawed that probably includes time messaging technology as well as travelling.

Well... Daniels was certainly still using temporal technology...

And you can apparently buy it in various marketplaces...

So really, it's only illegal for the regular peons of Starfleet... Which is kind of hilarious to think about given a temporal rift generator locked to only take you 1 second into the future would have allowed them to completely bypass the whole burn warp travel problem.

Trekyards mentioned a possible plot hole. The phasers used in calica are said to only be capable of beaming the target to the penalty box. But, when Genesis shoots the replicators, it creates smoke. First, why would shooting replicators create smoke? Second, shouldn't the phasers had beamed the replicators to the penalty box since that is the only thing they are designed to do?

Yeah... That was a rather noticeable plot hole...

 

[Romulan_spy]

I thought the implication was she teleported out parts of it versus the actual whole thing.

That does not make sense. We are told the only function of the phasers is to beam the entire target to the penalty box.

 

[Charles Phipps]

That does not make sense. We are told the only function of the phasers is to beam the entire target to the penalty box.

Yeah, but it's not aimed at a person but a machine.

 

[Tuskin38]

Agreed. SAM comes across a bit annoying to me.

So she's a teenager

 

[Greg Cox]

So she's a teenager

Somebody, whose name escapes me, made an interesting observation in another group: that fandom has always been cool with Starfleet officers waxing nostalgic about their rowdy Academy days, and the antics they got into in their callow youths, but apparently some fans really don't want to see that in the present tense!

 

[TRON JA307020]

Somebody, whose name escapes me, made an interesting observation in another group: that fandom has always been cool with Starfleet officers waxing nostalgic about their rowdy Academy days, and the antics they got into in their callow youths, but apparently some fans really don't want to see that in the present tense!

Being rowdy is fine. Swallowing a comm badge or screaming red alert, red alert is just really dumb for a academy cadet. If she becomes s captain one day I wonder if she'll tell that story to her shipmates. Lol

 

[Tuskin38]

Being rowdy is fine. Swallowing a comm badge or screaming red alert, red alert is just really dumb for a academy cadet.

That wasn't SAM.
and she was stressed it was her first day.

Except that situation can be constructed without ignoring established facts by just having it be "You didn't get around to fixing the replicator" instead of the other thing.

It's not ignoring any established facts.
They've talked about preparing replicated meals in other shows before.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Genesis and Jay-Den are the only two Cadets I actually want to see talk a lot, which is no shade cast at the other actors, but three episodes in there are Cadets that annoy me more than anything else.

But seriously, don't be shy. Tell us how you really feel.

 

[TRON JA307020]

I think that is thinking the only thing affected was space travel when I think it triggered a Fallout-esque universe as a whole.

The galaxy went from Star Trek: TNG to Borderlands.

Which is to say everyone might be using analog technology and the replicators aren't nearly as good as they used to be.

Well dilithium is only there to regulate the matter/anti matter in the engines and keep them from colliding and exploding the ship. Warp drive/space travel in the star trek universe is still even possible without dilithium as well. Zephram Cochrane used old fashioned containment fields to regulate the matter/antimatter flow. Think like crude electrostatic force fields powered by a mechanical engine. Basically not a good way to do it so that's why he only was able to keep warp drive for a brief time. Any longer the ship probably would have exploded.

The other technology in trek is powered things like planetary reactors on earth. Most likely fusion reactors.

Also remember starfleet was using programmable matter during and after the burn. So their technology had not stagnate into analog. All they lost was warp drive. Im still surprised they couldn't come up with a solution. Not all species the federation has come on contact with use dilithium.