Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Firebird]

Truly advanced civilizations will revert to using togas. That's just science.

Wake me when stone knives and bearskins comes back in fashion.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Q said that clothing is redundant once you can control climate.

Also when you don't have physical bodies.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Also when you don't have physical bodies.

It is weird that the Ocampa were still fully dressed as they returned from Susperia's realm in Coldfire.

Legend has it that no one asked Shanks to do nude scenes whenever his character Daniel Jackson descended from a higher plane. He just made a natural assumption the first time around, and everyone was fine with it.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Don’t care what they wear.

Don’t care what kind of tricorder or whatever it is they use.

It doesn’t matter.

I feel sorry for anyone who lets silly things let that spoil their entertainment.

 

[Jayson1]

Do they need to wear anything? Why aren't nudist represented in the future?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Do they need to wear anything? Why aren't nudist represented in the future?

Go to a Betazed wedding.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even before tricorders and force fields and shields Starfleet largely worked the same. Hand scanners, experimental energy fields and polarized hull plating. 32nd century Starfleet is just a sleeker and fancier-sounding version of what Archer's crew dealt with a thousand years before.

The drapings change, but the overall decor doesn't very much.

 

[Fateor]

I'm aware of how they did it.

I just didn't notice a problem with it.

Ironically you can also blame Glenn Hetrick for that.

His show Face//Off did a really good job of showing how to identify both good and badly done makeups.

 

[Michael]

Can people not hint at spoilers here? I feel like I might have already been spoiled. Put your gags relating to spoilers behind spoiler tags too, please.

Sorry about that. Traditionally the series specific “general discussion” threads have had a spoiler tag added to the thread title, since discussion will inevitably veer into mentioning something from an upcoming episode etc., but on this one I just forgot. Added it now. So be warned, possible spoilers from here on out.

Physical PADDs and tricorders? What happened to the Tricom?

Can’t say I’d be too sad about losing the Tricom, to be honest. I appreciate that they wanted to create something new and more futuristic for the 32nd century, but the visual never quite worked for me and looked kinda goofy.

 

[The Wormhole]

Physical PADDs and tricorders? What happened to the Tricom?

I suspect this might be production related, it's cheaper to make practical props than it is to have to use the VFX budget to have the holographic interface floating in front of the characters. Plus, I'm sure the actors like having something to actually interact with rather than waving their hands around at empty air as though they're operating an interface.