Stuff that make you wonder but not own thread worthy

[at Quark's]

^ You're right, the script seems to indicate something in that direction.

One might still wonder why, as it didn't have any need to do so when creating sapient holograms such as Moriarti, but OK.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^ You're right, the script seems to indicate something in that direction.

One might still wonder why, as it didn't have any need to do so when creating sapient holograms such as Moriarti, but OK.

I have a theory about that and posting in the headcanon thread

 

[Mojochi]

Why don't they use holidecks for haircuts.

Why are their beauty mask facial treatments when dermal regenerators would fix any imperfections over a temporary fix

Why didn't they try to activate data's head found in a cave since it can operate independently from his body

1 & 2 - They probably do both. I suspect that just like everyone gathering in Ten Forward instead of using a holodeck bar, sometimes they just prefer the real life community aspect of a thing like a salon, or the relaxing aspect of a mud bath or whatever.

3. His head wasn't functioning until Geordi had time to dig around in there to suss out why. They may have originally assumed it was permanently nonfunctional, until it became a matter of life & death for him, & Geordi went all in on fixing it. There may have even been more issues than just the iron filing. For all we know, he could've performed a near full overhaul of the tech in an attempt to preserve the positronic matrix.

 

[Oddish]

Maybe Voyager does use the holodeck for haircuts. Given that the Maquis are the same well groomed recruiting poster fodder as the Starfleet crew, they have to do something.

 

[at Quark's]

Given that they have both transporter and replicator technology, I don't see why they'd even bother with the holodeck in the first place. I'd expect them to have a kind of cap or helmet you can briefly put on, that beams out and rematerializes your haircut as desired in seconds.

Can't be too hard given they can reconstitute entire bodies and dishes.

 

[Oddish]

Given that they have both transporter and replicator technology, I don't see why they'd even bother with the holodeck in the first place. I'd expect them to have a kind of cap or helmet you can briefly put on, that beams out and rematerializes your haircut as desired in seconds.

Because of what happens in the event of a malfunction: the gizmo turns your head into melon salad.

 

[at Quark's]

Because of what happens in the event of a malfunction: the gizmo turns your head into melon salad.

I think the transporter would potentially be more risky, given that that dis-and re-assembles your entire body - and that is supposedly 'the safest way to travel' according to Geordi (even though there are weird incidents with it with alarming frequency in my eyes, but I guess Geordi knows better than me ...).

The helmet would only need to dematerialize your hair, and not even down to the skin. I'd think additional safety measures could be built in to ensure that it doesn't.

 

[Oddish]

Speaking of barbers, as an aside, I do think it's strange that Starfleet doesn't seem to consist of any cultures where long hair is typically the norm for males. Every male officer except late-season Worf and (in AU's) Neelix has a short neat military haircut.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

That is a bit strange, especially as you'd expect an organisation so keen on equality to be completely fine with it.

Though I just remembered that Elnor has long hair as well.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Safety hazard if caught in machinery or pulled on by an enemy.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Sure, but no one ever made Beverly Crusher cut her hair off in case it got caught in... I dunno, a biobed.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Speaking of barbers, as an aside, I do think it's strange that Starfleet doesn't seem to consist of any cultures where long hair is typically the norm for males. Every male officer except late-season Worf and (in AU's) Neelix has a short neat military haircut.

See people. Proof that Starfleet is military

 

[Artoo Atari]

It's been indirectly implied that Starfleet doctors attended Starfleet Medical Academy after graduating from Starfleet Academy (based on Dr Crusher's record showing 8 years at the academy and from comments made by DS9 writers).

Anway, my stupid question: Would Starfleet medical students wear cadet uniforms since they are still attending an academy, or would they wear officer uniforms since they are ensigns having graduated from the regular academy?

 

[fireproof78]

Anway, my stupid question: Would Starfleet medical students wear cadet uniforms since they are still attending an academy, or would they wear officer uniforms since they are ensigns having graduated from the regular academy?

Probably officer uniform with something indicating cadet, like an insignia. In TWOK Saavik is wearing cadet red turtleneck but has the insignia of lieutenant and addressed as lieutenant.

 

[Tomalak]

Wouldn't they go to Medical school and then bootcamp rather than the Academy proper? Medical staff aren't necessarily line officers.

 

[Oddish]

Anway, my stupid question: Would Starfleet medical students wear cadet uniforms since they are still attending an academy, or would they wear officer uniforms since they are ensigns having graduated from the regular academy?

I pulled several online pics of military doctors in training, they appeared to be in standard uniform. I would think Starfleet would do the same. Once you graduate the academy snd start advanced medical training, you wear standard blueshirt ensign uniform.

 

[MaximRecoil]

I don't know if this has been mentioned in this thread or not, but in Time's Arrow, Captain Picard picks up a revolver and Data says, "The weapon is a forty-five caliber double-action cavalry pistol, invented by Colt Firearms in 1873."

I always wonder how such blatant errors make it to the screen, and this one is especially blatant because the correct information is right in the gun's name:

Colt Single Action Army - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So someone knew enough about it to know that it was introduced by Colt in 1873, and that the 7½" barrel length version that Picard was holding was issued to the US Cavalry (which is why it's commonly called the Cavalry Model), and that the ones issued to the Cavalry were .45 caliber, yet they thought the Colt Single Action Army was double-action? Bizarre. I wonder if "double-action" was in the script or if it was "single-action" in the script but Brent Spiner botched the line and no one noticed.

Colt introduced their first double-action in 1877. It looked somewhat similar to the SAA, but unlike the SAA which is one of the most famous, iconic, and copied guns of all time, it's not very well known:

Colt M1877 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Tosk]

I wonder if "double-action" was in the script or if it was "single-action" in the script but Brent Spiner botched the line and no one noticed.

It's 'single action' in the script. Not the last time that Spiner made a boo-boo that they left in.

"I have found that humans prefer a body temperature of twenty one degrees Celsius..."

 

[Oddish]

Both were one-word gaffes. Single instead of double, and body instead of room.

Bit yes, I think I remember noticing the gun gaffe as well. The Colt 1873 Peacemaker is an iconic weapon, and definitely not double action.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Data has a glitch in his linguistic subroutines that crops up now and then. Nobody bothers to fix it because they know what he means, and it makes him more human.