Maybe a clear sign the episode did well?
Spoilers Strange New Worlds 1x01 - "Strange New Worlds"
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We know that in TOS there isn’t one. Why else would you beam a wounded Spock to the Transporter Room instead of Sickbay in “A Private Little War”?
Clearly some of the refits added between 2259 and 2267 are not for the better. 
I think we should probably get to thinking about TOS tech as being identical in most respects to TNG tech.
This is a practical matter, for the writers. More people now are familiar with the ins-and-outs of the Picard/NCC-1701-D era than with Kirk's ship as it first appeared on television, and asking the drop-in (or "casual," as we usually say) viewer to intuitively accept and embrace an environment in 2022 that's less advanced than the one they watched in the 1990s or that they see in reruns now is an unnecessary challenge for this series and those that come after it to take on.
This is not history, nor is it educational TV. It never was.
There is a symmetry of sorts here. The tech of each new version of Trek moving forward in time is fairly stagnant, with only minor innovations and appearances separating each new era from the previous. By the same token, stepping back into an earlier era on an ongoing basis encourages bringing it into sync with what has gone before (chronologically in our real-world viewing experience, not in the interior narrative of the shows).
I was interested and a bit bemused that a transporter signal turns out to work like some kind of communications carrier wave, or something; a small aperture or break or seam in shielding enables it to penetrate sufficiently to "lock and scan" or whatever it does, and pull the Feds back. There's not an evident need for line-of-sight or any kind of focus.
This is a practical matter, for the writers. More people now are familiar with the ins-and-outs of the Picard/NCC-1701-D era than with Kirk's ship as it first appeared on television, and asking the drop-in (or "casual," as we usually say) viewer to intuitively accept and embrace an environment in 2022 that's less advanced than the one they watched in the 1990s or that they see in reruns now is an unnecessary challenge for this series and those that come after it to take on.
This is not history, nor is it educational TV. It never was.
There is a symmetry of sorts here. The tech of each new version of Trek moving forward in time is fairly stagnant, with only minor innovations and appearances separating each new era from the previous. By the same token, stepping back into an earlier era on an ongoing basis encourages bringing it into sync with what has gone before (chronologically in our real-world viewing experience, not in the interior narrative of the shows).
I was interested and a bit bemused that a transporter signal turns out to work like some kind of communications carrier wave, or something; a small aperture or break or seam in shielding enables it to penetrate sufficiently to "lock and scan" or whatever it does, and pull the Feds back. There's not an evident need for line-of-sight or any kind of focus.
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Perhaps Scotty had them offline for awhile because of some glitch he found while fiddling with them?
Or even more so, Dr. McCoy had them turned off because of his intense mistrust of them?
McCoy DID hate transporters. If there was an unseen emergency transporter pad in the TOS Sickbay complex maybe it just didn't get used due to McCoy's very pronounced and loud hangups with transporter technology and not wanting to risk further injuring a crewperson or other patient.
Does that include every time someone injured was beamed to the Transporter Room in TNG?
Things like this are why Trek works better as a multiverse at this point.
If you have to beam them up to retrieve them, what exactly is the difference of which pad they go to?
Just because it is neither of those things doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make sense. CBS is the one constantly pushing the Prime angle, it is on them to keep stuff straight.
His sickbay, His rules.
We saw that on more than one occasion.
Isn't this like the third time you've made the same joke? Get some new material, dude.
"And would you get that muscleman out of my Sickbay?"
McCoy even barred ship's security from being present when a potential danger to the Enterprise was lying on a biobed. He took no prisoners and Kirk knew it.
McCoy even barred ship's security from being present when a potential danger to the Enterprise was lying on a biobed. He took no prisoners and Kirk knew it.
I'm curious about this as well, because having the ability to selectively modify genes - if only on a limited basis - seems inconsistent with what other series have established about the Federation not using genetic modifications, even in cases where they'd be medically practical and not run the same risks that were a factor in the Eugenics Wars. Bashir's father ultimately wound up going to prison because of how his son was modified to correct genetic flaws, and there was no legal option available to the family.
I get that the Feds have an understandable basis for some of this dislike, but I also get there are a lot of possibilities with the level of technology we often see. Saying that groups like the Jack Pack "deserve" to be treated like outcasts because legal options aren't available to them (and the experimental therapies they do receive aren't necessarily reliable, causing long term problems that could be avoided) is not a very enlightened view.
Overall, though, I enjoyed the episode and I think it's a good start.
I do have some other nitpicks, like Pike's future self being apparently seen (at least by him) as a given, but I'm also curious to see how the series will dive into that further. It will be interesting to see where the first season goes.
I don’t think McCoy would risk the health of his patients over something that is happening anyway.
Is this really the road that we want to go down? Where future characters have to be idiots to justify the choices that the current PTB make?
Second time but that was pages ago. No one goes that far back.
Wow, you repeatedly come across as being very defensive about the poll. Fascinating.
Fair enoughSecond time but that was pages ago. No one goes that far back.
This.
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