the dumb questions you were afraid to ask thread

[STIntergalactic]

Timo said:

Okay... in All Good things, they all talk about the anamoly and how Big E's from each period started it. However in the future the medical ship actually started it. Picard even says this, but seems just as confused as the scriptwriters. what do you make of it?

Depends on which scan started the anomaly. Note that the Riker-commanded future E-D does eventually arrive at the anomaly (which seems to expand towards the future just as much as it expands towards the past) and senses the tiny antitime anomaly. Perhaps it used an inverse tachyon beam to sense it, thereby "fulfilling the prophecy", before Picard began jumping from time to time and telling everybody to shut their beams down.

No way...After the Pasteur ran it's tachyon scan, they got attacked. The 1701-D showed up and saved them and booked it out of the sector to avoid the Pasteur going kablamo. The first thing they do when the D does go back to the Devron system is find the anomaly there waiting for them. And immediately Data says that it's the tachyon pulses in the other timelines that is sustaining the anomaly. Picard says he'll shut the others down ASAP, and he does. The "future" D did not run an inverse tachyon scan. There was simply no time.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I once asked the question "what would a Cheronian of mixed race look like?" I came up with a pretty good answer, if I say so myself--one which went a long way toward lending credence to the persistence of deep bigotry on the planet. Want to hear it? No? Too bad:

Once I discarded the smart-ass responses of pin-stripes, polka dots and checkerboards, I discarded the shades of gray response since it would have resulted in a gray species (or at least one with much less dramatic b/w contrast) and arrived at a genetic coinflip: the kids would inherit either one or the other parent's coloring. For a child of directly mixed parentage, it's 50-50, for a second generation, it would be 75-25, for the next generation 82.5-12.5 and so on. Since hidden "bad blood" could crop up at any time and cause a scandal several generations out, it would create a super taboo against miscegenation and explain how the planet could sustain such psychotic levels of racism long after reaching warp capability.

What a good boy am I!

 

[FTV]

How... how do trill tummy worms... reproduce?

 

[Brutal Strudel]

They fuck in the mud.

 

[FTV]

...seriously? They can hang out... outside tummies?

 

[captcalhoun]

there's special pools they live in on Trill and they reproduce there

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Jadzia went there once to commune with a former host telepatically and Sisko mocked Ezri with the prospect of spending the rest of her days "stirring mud," which sounds like she was going to buy a strap-on, now that I think on it...

EDIT: Yes, I know, I'm disgusting. I've gotten used to it, I suggest you do the same.

 

[Timo]

...But yeah, it seems that the worms only reproduce in those pools before they get inserted - whereas their hosts can of course perpetuate their respective species with or without having worms in their tummies.

Alternately, an already tummied-in worm might send out some genetic material through a suitable orifice in the host body to facilitate reproduction with a free-roaming worm. Perhaps a tummy-tucked individual might even be able to reach another intrahostal one somehow (possibly when the hosts are having mutual fun), but getting the offspring out of the host(s) would then probably require surgery or a Beyond Parental Guidance splatterfest.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DAMjim]

Did kirk ever know Rand in the biblical sense?

 

[captcalhoun]

if you wanna know if he screwed her, no.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Was Janeway masturbating with her pal DaVinci in the holosuite? She was marooned with Chokota for a very long time, yet avoided physical intimacy with him just to keep hope alive, if I remember. What's up with that/her?

Excuse me, on the holodeck.

 

[Bill Morris]

Okay, you wanted dumb and afraid-to-ask. A lot of Trek actors (nearly all?) have appeared on L.A. Law, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Public, and Boston Legal, so I wonder what a Trek series would be like with David E. Kelley writing and running the show.

 

[MetalPants]

Does Data ever need to poop or pee?

 

[CoveTom]

Brutal Strudel said:
Funny thing is, while this is the obvious explanation, you'll still find tons of people in the DS9 forum looking for another answer. People are fascinating and by fascinating I mean--

I accept the explanation as the intention of the scene. But it still strikes me as coming off unnatural. Regardless of their respective ranks, Riker and O'Brien had served together for years and, although certainly not the best of friends, were colleagues and at least good acquaintences who respected one another.

For Riker to come out of the blue with some cryptic remark about there being nothing to say and "I think you know why," and the O'Brien to just accept that and leave without questioning it in the slightest seems a bit... off. I just don't see that as being the way people would really behave. I would think O'Brien would be taken aback by Riker's comments, and make an attempt to inquire.

Something as simple as O'Brien saying "I... beg your pardon, sir?" and Riker replying "I have nothing further to say to you chief, you're dismissed" would make that scene play a whole lot more naturally to me.

 

[captcalhoun]

MetalPants said:
Does Data ever need to poop or pee?

no because he deosn't eat or drink. apart from that one time in GEN...

 

[Finn]

^Oh yes he has during the series a couple of times. I remember him describing the contents, without emotion on one occasion.

 

[cultcross]

How did the Trill evolve, when the symbiotic relationship seems to require advanced surgery? (Invasive Procedures)
Is there a more painful/gruesome way for the symbiote to join which surgery avoids, á la SG-1 or Conspiracy?

 

[Alyssa]

Do Vulcans find earth somewhat dark? Becouse many times it has been said that Vulcan has a very bright sun.

 

[22 Stars]

Love this thread. Reminds me of the Steven Wright routine.. "Most people are afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths"

Or "If a Bolian and a Nausicaan leave Risa at Warp 10, and a Horta leaves Feringinar at Warp 2, what time would the cross paths in the Expanse?"

 

[captcalhoun]

cultcross said:
How did the Trill evolve, when the symbiotic relationship seems to require advanced surgery? (Invasive Procedures)
Is there a more painful/gruesome way for the symbiote to join which surgery avoids, á la SG-1 or Conspiracy?

actually IP only established surgery was required to remove one symbiote from a host when said host was alive. the flashback in Emissary where Dax is tranfered to Jadzia would be a better guide.

Do Vulcans find earth somewhat dark? Becouse many times it has been said that Vulcan has a very bright sun.

good point. never been said. probably...