The Nitpickers thread - where complaints go to Gre'thor

[Timo]

If you want to do that, that's fine. Some of us like to attempt to rationalise things, both internally and externally. The "consistency doesn't matter" mantra is tiring. Trek isn't hard sci-fi, but it isn't fantasy. It has rules, and has internal technology that allows it to break physical laws (Heisenberg compensator, warp drive, etc).

...Pretty much like Harry Potter. That one isn't soft fantasy, either: while its tech may be fantastic, it has rules, and the characters are obsessed with the rules, trying to find out how stuff works and how to turn that into their advantage. It's all about the scientific method there, really.

Much of what's good in Trek happens by accident anyway. Spock and Worf both became finger-licking good basically against writer intent. The transporter is interesting for what the writers did not write it to be. The pseudohistory is formed through its omissions. Warp and impulse drives, too, are at their most interesting when compared against real-world knowledge and (largely unintentional) Trek precedent-context.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Charles Phipps]

I view Star Trek as light space opera.

Science is something it has a THEME but not as a REQUIREMENT.

No, it doesn't throw science out the window as irrelevant but it works like magic. That's not an insult to Trek but a statement the Federation has reached a light "sufficiently advanced" point where it can work wonders.

 

[Paul Weaver]

That's not how acceleration in space works.

Velocity is all relative anyway, for one person the enterprise is travelling at 0.25c, for another person its 0.1c, for another its 0.5c.

 

[Beckler]

Character A: I'll never accept that and it's logically impossible anyway.
Character B: [Insert 1-sentence argument]
Character A: You're right and I'm in full agreement; let's do it because of what you just said. Like my intelligence, my vocabulary is also limited.

There's fast paced but this is getting ridiculous and more than just pace; all the dialog feels unnatural and fake. Who behaves like this? Maybe it makes sense - it's star trek for the twitter generation. It's getting annoying already though; nobody considers anything or thinks, they just react instantly and describe their reaction in real time and that's about the level of the dialog so far. It's also the feel of the show overall.

So, if they have time for boring 30-minute flashback scenes, they have time for more deliberate dialog and directing instead. Anyone?

 

[Mudd]

Well, moving too quickly is not really a problem that this show has.

 

[zar]

I don't know what show you were watching, Becky. The one I watched went more like this:

Character B: [insert 7 months of repression]
Character A: What are you doing with your mouth?

 

[bajorangirl]

I’m really liking the series so far it did take me a couple of episodes to warm up to it but I am fully immersed into this new series. One thing that really bothers me is the Klingon scenes. I can cope with the change of look that doesn’t bother me but I cannot cope with the s**t they’re spouting off none of it seems to make sense.
It’s just my opinion but I cannot be arsed watching the Klingon scenes they’re getting on my nerves.

 

[Tuskin38]

Spoiler

They called the Enterprise a Constitution class, not Starship-Class.

 

[Albinator]

There should be a rule on this site to keep all nitpicks here, so they don't invade other discussions.