T' - Does the prefix have to be feminine?

[F. King Daniel]

The episode is interesting and well made. The concept is not even plausible pseudo-science, let alone science fiction. It is basically intelligent design. Very embarrassing.

Yeah but how else do you explain 99% of Trek aliens being humans with weird bumpy foreheads? I think they were trying to explain the obvious ridiculousness of Trek's premise. And it's hard to do that without the end result also being ridiculous.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah but how else do you explain 99% of Trek aliens being humans with weird bumpy foreheads? I think they were trying to explain the obvious ridiculousness of Trek's premise. And it's hard to do that without the end result also being ridiculous.

Maybe just not try to explain it? Fanboy thinking is rarely a good idea.

 

[Kor]

Yeah, certain things should just be left as complete mysteries, such as why Klingon appearance changed, why the Ferengi went from being sadistic, militaristic raiders to a bunch of bumbling businessmen, and how species from completely different planets resemble each other so much and are even able to reproduce together.

Kor

 

[Longinus]

Maybe just not try to explain it? Fanboy thinking is rarely a good idea.

Exactly. No explanation is better than stupid explanation.


See also

• Augment virus
• Half of Trek novels ever published

 

[FormerLurker]

why the Ferengi went from being sadistic, militaristic raiders to a bunch of bumbling businessmen

I had to do this:

They didn't. Sadistic militaristic raiders is what happens when you give bumbling businessmen guns.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I am now writing a 1500 page novel on how Captain T'Pol travels back to Surak's time to stop an assassination by future Klingons involved in the Temporal Cold War, and invents the name "T'Plana-Hath", becoming the legendary Matron of Vulcan Philosophy. All Vulcan women will adopt the T' epithet in honor of her. Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[MAGolding]

Yeah, certain things should just be left as complete mysteries, such as why Klingon appearance changed, why the Ferengi went from being sadistic, militaristic raiders to a bunch of bumbling businessmen, and how species from completely different planets resemble each other so much and are even able to reproduce together.

Kor

I had to do this:

They didn't. Sadistic militaristic raiders is what happens when you give bumbling businessmen guns.

Or one can assume that the crews of Ferengi marauder ships are a tiny minority of Ferengi, and so might be recruited from a minority ethic, religious, financial, or social subset of Ferengi who have a subculture that is very different from that of the majority of Ferengi. That is both quite plausible and also makes Ferenginar less of a "planet of hats".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats