Maybe Klingons have their tear ducts rerouted so they empty into the mouth, like Molly Millions from Neuromancer... and they cry by panting like dogs.
Nah, too cute.
Nah, too cute.
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There's no such thing as Klingon tears. It's just Liquid Honor.
I'd say one of the biggest ones was the "turbolift shaft with 70+ decks in it". No matter how you look at the explanations (sub-decks/jeffries tubes were included in the numbering, the shaft was a horizontal ones, etc..) none of them make any sense given any of the size estimates we've seen.
I think it's highly significant because unlike a simple inconsistency (for example, stating an event took place one specific year, and then saying it took place a year or two later) this one can really present a false image of the Trek universe. I started watching Star Trek by seeing the movies, and this scene (and to a lesser extent a few others) made the Enterprise and the other ships seem a lot larger than I now know they were.
I think it's highly significant because unlike a simple inconsistency (for example, stating an event took place one specific year, and then saying it took place a year or two later) this one can really present a false image of the Trek universe. I started watching Star Trek by seeing the movies, and this scene (and to a lesser extent a few others) made the Enterprise and the other ships seem a lot larger than I now know they were.
That was on tele last night. I'm sure they explained it.
Speaking of that episode, they called Troi a human.
I never took Scotty's line about Kirk pulling the Enterprise out of mothballs as a continuity error. I thought Scotty was just using an expression...like the improbability of the Enterprise (the most famous and recognized ship from Scotty's day and the one that we was more intimately familiar with than any other had shown up to rescue him?) being the ship to find him was as improbable as a (presumably) dead Kirk re-appearing and stealing the original Enterprise...he didn't mean it literally...
They always ignore one side of her heritage or the other. I've often wondered what the point of making her a hybrid was altogether, since it plays so little part in her character development. She's either human or Betazoid depending on plot need.
Yeah, that always bugged me. She'd sense a presence and describe it as 'not human'. WELL NEITHER ARE YOU! OR WORF!
Or Picard would give one of his speeches in front of her or Worf, constantly talking about 'humanity'... i think he's a latent racist
Humans don't have different blood colors, but do have variation in blood composition, and do have variation in colored compounds in other areas, like skin. So it doesn't seem unreasonable that Klingons could have a variation in colored compounds in their blood, hence the different blood colors.
The color of their blood is dependent on how much 'honor' in in it
That's a good explanation, but it raises another question: If suitable planets were that rare and that difficult to find, how useful would Genesis be as a tool anyway?
Either way you hear the line, doesn't that mean that prayer still exists in the 23rd century? Isn't that a continuity violation in and of itself?That way we can interpret it as Kirk saying 'you'd better pray they kill you rather than take you prisoner' and thus avoid 43 years of continuity violation.
I think they might have done it in order to not make her a full-on telepath, which I guess they thought would cause story complications later. Not that anything like "we can't do x because y" has ever stopped a Star Trek writer ever.They always ignore one side of her heritage or the other. I've often wondered what the point of making her a hybrid was altogether, since it plays so little part in her character development. She's either human or Betazoid depending on plot need.
The color of their blood is dependent on how much 'honor' in in it
That sounds like such a Robau line: ie, Robau would bleed liquid gold, if he bled at all.
The ep of TNG escapes me, it was the one when Pickard has his death faked all to join some search for the parts for a missing Vulcan mind weapon. Riker was also in the Ep. It was supposed to be the end-all for weapon technology, if fact it was slow, easy to defeat and just a clumsy weapon in all aspects...
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Either way you hear the line, doesn't that mean that prayer still exists in the 23rd century? Isn't that a continuity violation in and of itself?That way we can interpret it as Kirk saying 'you'd better pray they kill you rather than take you prisoner' and thus avoid 43 years of continuity violation.
I think that's kinda the point - he's saying 'the situation is so hopeless that you might as well resort to praying'. If he believed that the 'power of prayer' were effective, it would be the first resort, not the last!
Was just watching the episode 'Cardassians' - there's a Cardassian boy who is described as an orphan, left behind when the Cardassian occupation ended. He looks to be about 10-12 years old. He has apparently 'been raised' to hate his own kind.
Problem is, the occupation only ended a year ago at this point...
Edit: Actually, watching further, I'd say he's 13-14...
Problem is, the occupation only ended a year ago at this point...
Edit: Actually, watching further, I'd say he's 13-14...
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Was just watching the episode 'Cardassians' - there's a Cardassian boy who is described as an orphan, left behind when the Cardassian occupation ended. He looks to be about 10-12 years old. He has apparently 'been raised' to hate his own kind.
Problem is, the occupation only ended a year ago at this point...
Cardassians abandon orphans or, at best, put them in a workhouse somewhere where they receive minimum care. Young Rugal was probably left on Bajor after being labeled an orphan (Dukat did put him in an orphanage if I recall) but before the occupation ended and simply forgotten. Bajorans adopted him.
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Why do the arboretum windows on the E-D glow blue.
or why are there no escape pod hatches on the E-Refit even though Saavik orders the crew to abandon ship in the Kobayashi Maru training simulation in TWoK.
or what happened to the Aeroshuttle under the Voyager's primary hull. Why wasn't it use?
or why are there no escape pod hatches on the E-Refit even though Saavik orders the crew to abandon ship in the Kobayashi Maru training simulation in TWoK.
or what happened to the Aeroshuttle under the Voyager's primary hull. Why wasn't it use?
Yes, I always figured that was their game plan...and honestly, it wouldn't have bugged me if they had made more an effort at specifying how her empathy differed from the usual talents of full Betazoids. Or rather, why. They seemed to want an alien without full alien hang-ups. Best of both worlds, etc, etc. Seemed lazy writing.
It didn't REALLY irk me until First Contact, though...while Deanna was helping give Cochrane the 'humanity doesn't have to be alone anymore! You can find good friends out in space!' speech, she conveniently forgot to mention that she was living proof of it standing right in front of him.
the escape pod hatches are covered by hull plating.
the aeroshuttle was never installed, it was a fake for warpdynamic reasons.
