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2: Sagen's a tool. He's also the one who pretty much thinks there's nothing out there, or that we'll never find them, and I heard he actually changed that idea and said differently shortly before he died. And from my own experiences, I've seen various UFO's ~awaits the eye rolling~ that have already violated both NEwton's and ~sarcastic gasp~ Einstein's physics. And if they can do all that, I am sure going faster than light, as well as doing it right away, would be a no brainer for them. See, just because we can't officially go faster than light, I am certain that given that many stars are much, much older than our sun, that there's species out there with a million, if not billion, years ahead of us. And they'd make any of our so-called high technology look like prehistoric junk.
No eye rolling here
3: Yea, they are gotta be locked up in sardine cans with no warmth or personality, especially when going out there to explore the great beyond, though I feel you'd be against that and more for mainly military based missions, instead. Bars and halodecs, and a bunch of other stuff, are needed to help keep crews from going crazy, especially if they are going to be out there for years.
The French Navy has liquor onboard-God Bless them. So, I understand your argument on bars. I just can't see having families on board a military vessel. Sorry but no matter what century we are in that will never happen. I wasn't against any form of entertainment just the way it is portrayed in the series. You can't physically interact with a hologram. I was thinking more along the lines of 'The Matrix' or 'Inception' and how they do it. Not with a big needle in the head but maybe something the wear. Have you ever seen 'The Cell'? More like that way. If you notice some dreams seem very real at times. Maybe by then they will have figured out a way to manipulate the human brains dream state?
4: In the future, our terminology will probably be laughed at. I'd rather see "beam me up" than today's crap of LOL, WTF, 1337, and so on. Plus a lot of today's scientific terms sound even sillier.
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5: you mean, dark, distopian and showing man, and everyone else, at their worse times, rather than something hopeful and good?
NO, i am referring to the visual asthetic of the show. If you have ever seen Riddick and Pandorum, that's what I mean is the visual asthetic.
6: That I don't mind, and that's going to be an element of my own stories. I give you Kudos for knowing what Annunaki are ~gives you a cookie~ And I am shooting for many aliens who look nothing like we'd expect. Though I am sure there are room for some human looking aliens, like the Nordics.
Cookie was great! Yeah there can be tons of room for humanoid aliens. I mean if you watch Ancient Aliens on HD2 you'll have come across and episode where they reffer to us being made in 'thier' image. I'm also on the Ancient Aliens forums as 'MONOLITH' here's one of my threads: http://www.legendarytimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4892 This one I was 'SPEKTRE76' but the devs messed up the site and I lost my profile.
7: Prequels are always a very risky thing, George Lucas practically alienated a lot of the loyal, long time Star Wars fans by doing so.
Point taken but I only wanted each century 21st -24th to last only a frew episodes or a couple of seasons. The 25th century is where I really feel we should be since we've already seen the 24th?
8: Doing that in my own planned stories. I've done a lot of background material on them, and going to put them in somewhere, though getting to the main stories is the most important thing.
9: Ehhhh...I like classic Trek ships. Like with 5, Trek deviated from the norm. I never liked the giant, flying shoe boxes seen in the alien films, plus city sized space ships can be a pain the ass to handle and most giant ships I associate with hostile conqueror types. Like Star Destroyers. Plus there's sure to be enough saucers by their own out there, in my own stories, the saucers are mainly Dalek vessels.
10: Uniforms are just fine....in fact, I am glad they are not camos or fatigues. And seeing as how Starfleet is not the US Military, thank goodness, and is the main scientific/exploratory/diplomatic/defense entity of the Federation, we're not going to have everyone in Starfleet shouting "Sir, yes sir!" and acting like the Marines from Aliens, and I sure as hell don't want to see them start wearing black uniforms and toting large blasters around. As for weapons, I like that they are small, functional and different....the weapons seen often in Star Wars or Aliens are mainly just for looking 'kewl' on screen and, to me at least, look obnoxious. And seeing phasers used also for tools makes them even more useful than big ass cannons we see in other science fictions.
LOL, no fatigues my brother. I was thinking more like modernized astronuat fligh suits for 'working uniforms'. And as far as weapons, something like the KRISS V smg that fires a sabot round that can be electronicaly charged in a way to break on impact and stun or become explosive on impact which you wouldn't want to set it to ever aboard a startship, lol.
11: Once again, this is not the US armed forces. And I think it's refreshing to see the head officers actually do stuff then just bark the orders and everyone else shouting "sir, yes sir!" and what not. Like in both "The NAkek Time" and "the Doomsday Machine", we saw Kirk and Scotty doing repairs, and I liked that. I like seeing the head officers going on away missions, and not with marines kitted out for battle.....a bunch of armed marines on a new planet the Federation is having an official first contact is not going to hold up well, especially if the people on the planet are against violence and so on, marines might make them think they are going to be either occupiers or conquers rather than someone wanting to say hi and offering friendship.
I see what you are saying and you hit it on the head. I'm not saying it should be the US military. I only refference it because it's what I can relate to. Officers should be used for diplomacy more than 'ship work'. Granted I have seen officers working before while I was deployed but it wasn't all the time like in ST. Officers should go on away teams but not a team comprised of officers entirely especially when heading into a hostile zone.
12: You might not hear sh!@ in space, but often, especially with action sequences, don't work right on screen.
I still like the way J. J. Abrams did it. In fact the characters act is exactly how I would like it. They seem more realistic and unscripted to me anyway. I loved how they did 'Bones' and 'Scotty'.
Really? I'm acting offended?
