The most imaginitative are so unimaginative...`

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Ok, take the Visitor, a great episode with great ating and an intruguint sstory. The "future" stuff works for me indsofar as the Kliongs/ Cardassian/ Space station stuff goes, but then you get to "theDefiant in mothballs" (despite the fact that, as a warship, I highly doubt this would happen" to Jake "rounding up the old crew" It looks they had no lives in the future, save for getting older.) I didn't help that the future uniforms look silly, I would like to think that these characters actually DID things in the future. A lot of the most imaginative premises are hindered by the actual imagination of what COULD happen in the episode. "Parallels" is an example..the premise is really interesting, but the differences from one reality to the other lack scale, scope, or imagination.

 

[Sector 7]

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[pookha]

?? is this supposed to be in deep space nine forum.
as for a warship being mothballed.
sometimes technical progress advances so quickly during war time a war ship may have a very short life span.
while some wwll ships saw a long life span the wwll enterprise did not.

 

[The Wormhole]

Ok, take the Visitor, a great episode with great ating and an intruguint sstory. The "future" stuff works for me indsofar as the Kliongs/ Cardassian/ Space station stuff goes, but then you get to "theDefiant in mothballs" (despite the fact that, as a warship, I highly doubt this would happen" to Jake "rounding up the old crew" It looks they had no lives in the future, save for getting older.) I didn't help that the future uniforms look silly, I would like to think that these characters actually DID things in the future. A lot of the most imaginative premises are hindered by the actual imagination of what COULD happen in the episode. "Parallels" is an example..the premise is really interesting, but the differences from one reality to the other lack scale, scope, or imagination.

1) About The Visitor. We do know some things did happen. Nog worked his way up through the ranks. Bashir apparently had a kid, based on Dax's comment about how he's always ranting about his "kid's new paper." Besides which, the story was about how Jake lived his life in the future, not everyone else. And in regards to the uniforms, those were acquired from AGT.

2) About Parallels. Budget and time constraints limited what they could do.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Ok, take the Visitor, a great episode with great ating and an intruguint sstory. The "future" stuff works for me indsofar as the Kliongs/ Cardassian/ Space station stuff goes, but then you get to "theDefiant in mothballs" (despite the fact that, as a warship, I highly doubt this would happen" to Jake "rounding up the old crew" It looks they had no lives in the future, save for getting older.) I didn't help that the future uniforms look silly, I would like to think that these characters actually DID things in the future. A lot of the most imaginative premises are hindered by the actual imagination of what COULD happen in the episode. "Parallels" is an example..the premise is really interesting, but the differences from one reality to the other lack scale, scope, or imagination.

1) About The Visitor. We do know some things did happen. Nog worked his way up through the ranks. Bashir apparently had a kid, based on Dax's comment about how he's always ranting about his "kid's new paper." Besides which, the story was about how Jake lived his life in the future, not everyone else. And in regards to the uniforms, those were acquired from AGT.

2) About Parallels. Budget and time constraints limited what they could do.

Thank you for understanding my post.

That said, I knew people would say that well the episode was about Jake not everyone else, but that's my point. It doesn't forgive that seemingly nothing truly interesting has happened to everyone else in the story. Nog as captain doesn' count.. Aron Eisenberg seemed silly in the role particularly once Jake was in his 40's

 

[sbk1234]

?? is this supposed to be in deep space nine forum.
as for a warship being mothballed.
sometimes technical progress advances so quickly during war time a war ship may have a very short life span.
while some wwll ships saw a long life span the wwll enterprise did not.

To follow up on the mothballing a warship stuff, as I recall, and I'm sure that someone will correct me, the battleship U.S.S. New Jersey was recommissioned in the mid-1980's, only to be de-commissioned a few years later. I believe it was less than 10. So, real world precedent supports this.