Stuff that make you wonder but not own thread worthy

[JediKnightButler]

Are there some little thing that make you wonder, whaaaat? but it's not enough to create own thread for it?

This could be a place for those little things. =)

I felt like I have to mention these....
In 'Aquiel', Aquiel starts packing and tells Geordi she's leaving.
How exactly, how are you going to leave and how far do you think you can get?

another....

In 'Emergence' there is theta flux distortion building around the Enterprise and ready destroy she ship.
Why didn't no one notice the problem?
Explanation: Scanners weren't desingned to detect theta flux distortion.
What? Shouldn't scanners be designed to detect.... well, everything? That's like what they do.

I love the episode Datalore (and many of the Data episodes in general), but I don't understand, based on what was presented on the show, what the timeline was for the destruction of the Omicron Theta Colony. We know that Lore lured the entity there and was disassembled by Soong at the request of the other colonists but how long did it take for the Crystalline Entity to reach OT after being summoned by Lore and how did Lore even find out about it to summon it?. The colony was of course later attacked by the Entity and all life on the planet was killed/destroyed (except for Soong who escaped) but the people on the colony must have survived for at least a short amount of time because there was obviously time enough for a child to see and draw pictures of the Crystalline Entity. If the lab was protecting them from the Entity like the cave did in Silicon Avatar, how or why did the survivors eventually die (no bodies were found in the lab)? Like Picard said in a later episode: "So many questions, damn few answers."

 

[JediKnightButler]

Also: What happened to the Enterprise-E after Picard resigned and was there an F? I think we're supposed to be seeing a "Titan-A" in S3 of the Picard.

 

[trekshark]

Ever since SNW premiered, I do have one question.

Did the Captain's quarters on the Enterprise get seriously downgraded when Pike left and Kirk took command?

all the quarters apparently did. Spock's were bigger in SNW than even Kirk had in TOS
Must have happened before Scotty came on board
from Relics:

• Scotty : Good Lord, man! Where have you put me?
  
  Ensign Kane : These are standard guest quarters, sir. I can try and find something bigger if you want.
  
  Scotty : *Bigger*? In my day, even an admiral would nota had such quarters on a starship.
  

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe they needed more room for some new technology, additional guest quarters, etc. Or it was due to massive damage, necessitating a significant refit.

 

[somebuddyX]

Is Worf the only one firing the weapons on the Enterprise-D at one time? There's no guys in phaser turrets shooting lasers like in TOS or BSG?
If they'd imprisoned Lore on Earth would reprogramming him to not be such a psychopath be unethical?

 

[Oddish]

If they'd imprisoned Lore on Earth would reprogramming him to not be such a psychopath be unethical?

They needed to stick him in that place from "Lower Decks"

Spoiler

where they locked up AGIMUS and Peanut Hamper.

 

[somebuddyX]

Has anyone ever made up like a crew roster for any of the ships and how that would work? It might be easier for something like the TOS Enterprise but I was thinking about how the Star Trek ships run something like two or three shifts, so you have people doubling/tripling up on the same jobs and also have backups and whatnot. I also think it would be interesting to use some naval ship of similar crew capacity to see how that would work out, with say is there a minimum of medical personnel or if you compare redshirt/yellowshirt security guys to whoever provides the same kind of job on a naval destroyer. Star Trek has that extra consideration that no matter if when you arrive on some planet some part is always day or night. What's up with night shift dimming the light in "Data's Day"? I don't think they did that again when Beverly is running the night shift in "Thine Own Self." Also did Beverly pull double shift that night or do they roster her a separate shift away from sickbay?

 

[Oddish]

I was thinking about how the Star Trek ships run something like two or three shifts, so you have people doubling/tripling up on the same jobs and also have backups and whatnot.

Pretty sure it's three or four. Otherwise, shifts would be 12 hours, pretty grueling. That's also why transitioning from three shifts to four should be done over a period of routine operations: people are waking and sleeping at different times, and other people are having to learn different jobs and establish a smooth working relationship with other people.

Also, because some departments need not run 24-7, there can still be periods of reduced activity, say from 2300 to 0700... most of the science personnel go to bed, along with schools, service personnel, etc., while departments like security, engineering, and operations run constantly.

What's up with night shift dimming the light in "Data's Day"? I don't think they did that again when Beverly is running the night shift in "Thine Own Self." Also did Beverly pull double shift that night or do they roster her a separate shift away from sickbay?

It's probably done in a number of areas, it's a psychological technique to establish set periods of "day" and "night" on the ship. People tend of be affected by their natural circadian rhythms, so best not to mess with them.

Beverly's decision not to do it was likely simply her style of command.

 

[Summer Solstice]

Has anyone ever made up like a crew roster for any of the ships and how that would work? It might be easier for something like the TOS Enterprise but I was thinking about how the Star Trek ships run something like two or three shifts, so you have people doubling/tripling up on the same jobs and also have backups and whatnot. I also think it would be interesting to use some naval ship of similar crew capacity to see how that would work out, with say is there a minimum of medical personnel or if you compare redshirt/yellowshirt security guys to whoever provides the same kind of job on a naval destroyer. Star Trek has that extra consideration that no matter if when you arrive on some planet some part is always day or night. What's up with night shift dimming the light in "Data's Day"? I don't think they did that again when Beverly is running the night shift in "Thine Own Self." Also did Beverly pull double shift that night or do they roster her a separate shift away from sickbay?

There have been quite a few threads about shift patterns in the general trek discussion forum. In the real world shift patterns are surprisingly complicated.

It makes sense that engineering, sickbay, the bridge etc need to have a minimum number of people working at any time, but I wonder whether some of the other departments do eg stellar cartography. They might be able to work 9-5.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Computers can be left running analyses all night, to be checked in the morning by the crewmember(s) who are working on it. A generalist/sleepless crewman/security crewman can wander in every now and then to see if everything is going smoothly (and hopefully not be accosted by antagonist-of-the-week).

In the event that vital information is uncovered, the computer can alert the crewman to the urgency with an alarm set to wake them. Perhaps falling asleep next to a computer that's running these programs isn't as frowned upon as if you fell asleep on the bridge/in battle, etc.

 

[Leviathan]

Are there some little thing that make you wonder, whaaaat? but it's not enough to create own thread for it?

Lore was dismantled and had his emotion chip extracted...no 'Measure of a Man" for that guy!

 

[Oddish]

Well, Data didn't murder 200+ people.

 

[Dukhat]

If Andrew Probert had been given the opportunity to design a new Klingon ship for the first season of TNG, what would it have looked like?

 

[Mojochi]

Lore was dismantled and had his emotion chip extracted...no 'Measure of a Man" for that guy!

Data recommended dismantlement. We never saw it, & even if that had happened, one could hardly call that a permanent state of finality for a Soong android. That was the state they found him in.

Also, the only emotion chip extracted from Lore had been hijacked by him from Soong, & designed/intended for Data

 

[Oddish]

If anyone ever earned a death sentence, it was Lore. And the chip was broken anyway.

 

[Mojochi]

If anyone ever earned a death sentence, it was Lore. And the chip was broken anyway.

Was it? I don't remember that. I remember that it certainly didn't function too well in Lore, & Data had some kind of weird adjustment period in Generations, but after that it seemed to be fine, didn't it?

Speaking of Lore's final days, I've always wondered just how credible a threat Lore & his converted Borg drones could've actually been to the Collective. He seemed to think he was capable of felling the Federation & maybe ruling the galaxy with them, & considering how within only a short time of accessing Locutus, Data was able to gain access to their low-level systems, my guess is that with enough experimentation, Lore may very well have been able seize control over the collective, or supplant the Queen himself or something

Doing so certainly could've made him able to conquer just about everything & everyone he wanted, & it's possible that the main reason he opted to rope Data into the plan at all was because being exactly like him meant he was perhaps the only thing in the entire galaxy capable of stopping him. With Data in check, he could've been nearly unstoppable

 

[Oddish]

Well, Lore was dismantled... but they could still put his head in the Daystrom Evil AI Prison.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

all the quarters apparently did. Spock's were bigger in SNW than even Kirk had in TOS

As of SNW, the Enterprise has the crew complement of 203 that Pike had originally mentioned in "The Cage". One of these years, the size of the crew will more than double, to the 430 they had in TOS. I can only assume that at this point, most people's quarters will get smaller.

I don't know if this will ever actually be a plot point on the show, but since the showrunners bothered looking it up in the first place, I guess they do have plans for it. We'll just have to wait and see.

If Andrew Probert had been given the opportunity to design a new Klingon ship for the first season of TNG, what would it have looked like?

Was Probert the one who was working on a Romulan warbird that was oriented Vertical? Now THAT I'd have loved to see.

 

[Leviathan]

Well, Data didn't murder 200+ people.

If anyone ever earned a death sentence, it was Lore. And the chip was broken anyway.

No trial for captured AI's! That'll keep `em in line

...or lead to open revolt...

Either way, it'll be entertaining

 

[Dukhat]

Was Probert the one who was working on a Romulan warbird that was oriented Vertical?

That's correct. He designed all the ships for the first season of TNG. Since Roddenberry initially didn't want to have the Klingons be part of the show, he didn't have Probert develop a new ship for them (and when they did show up, they just used stock footage of movie-era ships.)