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

[firehawk12]

This is certainly relative; Trek has never been Dune.

Star Trek doesn't do "world-building;" the creators improvise whike trying to keep up and pick and choose from all the contradictory stuff that's been established in one story or another over the decades. Some productions employ people to research that, but it's then disregarded when that's desirable.

But they obviously try to keep things consistent. They made up a whole unique afterlife for Klingons on Voyager. All the complicated rules for honor killings and being disinherited comes from TNG and DS9. Hell, it's why they had to come up with a dumb reason for why there are "smooth Klingons".

The fact that Jay-Den doesn't want to be a braindead murderer who dines on the blood of his enemies depends on everything Star Trek has done to build out the Klingon culture.

DS9 did the same for Ferengi and examining their patriarchal society (however problematically by making Quark a woman). Even Lower Decks built out the Pakled lore.

To say that there's no consistent world building in Star Trek and that none of that matters when even the modern writers feel the need to keep Vulcan stoicism canon (even if they made it genetic in SNW) kind of belies the material reality of Star Trek as a franchise.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I mean either you want to create lore or you don't. Why invent "Klingon Opera" let alone a Klingon language (and a Vulcan language) if they're not relatable? Why don't they have Klingon ships with English display panels instead? Why make Klingons shout Q'apla all the time?

It's not either or. Trek has always blended real world references with fictional ones. When they want to emphasize "alien" they go with the latter.

 

[Fateor]

I kind of assume most of that was a combination of the volume and classic Trek styrofoam boulders. lol

Well, the flamethrowers were real at least.

This is certainly relative; Trek has never been Dune.

Star Trek doesn't do "world-building;" the creators improvise whike trying to keep up and pick and choose from all the contradictory stuff that's been established in one story or another over the decades. Some productions employ people to research that, but it's then disregarded when that's desirable.

It's literally a well known fact that the writers of TNG to Enterprise had a thick series of ever growing world bibles.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Well, the flamethrowers were real at least.



It's literally a well known fact that the writers of TNG to Enterprise had a thick series of ever growing world bibles.

Isn't that how the Encyclopedia came to be? Stern and the Okudas transformed their "notes" into an actual book.

 

[cooleddie74]

I write my fan films and short stories and toss in "lore" to establish backgrounds for characters and the like, but because I think they need backgrounds and those little details to help flesh them out as three-dimensional people within the context of the story. I don't write simply to "create lore," the lore comes as a natural byproduct of me writing the stories.

The histories, continuity and associated datapoints are a fun side effect of the writing process.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Well I gave this a 1. The show is getting worse not better. I can't stand any of the cadets. Seven more of these to go.

 

[Fateor]

Isn't that how the Encyclopedia came to be? Stern and the Okudas transformed their "notes" into an actual book.

Yup, and the technical manuals.

 

[Char Kais]

Well I gave this a 1. The show is getting worse not better. I can't stand any of the cadets. Seven more of these to go.

17. Season two is already shot and in post-production.

 

[Firebird]

Isn't that how the Encyclopedia came to be? Stern and the Okudas transformed their "notes" into an actual book.

There's a couple different things going on with this. Sternbach & the Okuda's technical memos eventually became the internal Writers' Technical Manual for season 3, which was then revised again in the fourth and fifth seasons. After that, it morphed into the final retail book.

The actual Writers' Guide was divorced from the technical minutiae beyond a quick glossary in the back of the document for prospective writers' orientation. The bulk of the guide was character bios, set descriptions, and the basic dos and don't's of writing scripts for the show. That document was revised for each of the first three seasons, and then a final version in the fifth season primarily for freelancers coming in to pitch.

 

[fireproof78]

While I enjoy lore and world building it is not why I watch Star Trek. Otherwise, I'd left right after TMP and the debacle of a Bird of Prey being a Klingon ship.

I try very hard to let seasoning of the minutia become the steak of characters and story.

 

[TRON JA307020]

17. Season two is already shot and in post-production.

Oh my gosh. I forgot about those. Well to paraphrase Picard. SynthaTrek heightens our appreciation for the real thing.