Was *this* lost era ever dealt with?
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Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
What, has that phrase somehow become trademarked?
Don't worry buddy, I'm with you.
Some people here, or maybe one, really over-analyze everything and will tear apart someone's thread, even if it's a truly innocuous opinion on some Trek minutiae with such thoroughness that you are really frightened as to how they could possibly pull off a successful dinner appointment with a possible romantic partner.
Lazarus
Fleet Captain
Don't worry buddy, I'm with you.
Some people here, or maybe one, really over-analyze everything and will tear apart someone's thread, even if it's a truly innocuous opinion on some Trek minutiae with such thoroughness that you are really frightened as to how they could possibly pull off a successful dinner appointment with a possible romantic partner.
Quality
Nardpuncher....i totally agree with you....the sad think is when this person is confronted with how he comes off rude/condescending, he turns it on us and says its his "writing style" I suppose in essence he saying, "I naturally over-analyze people who post around here and rip it to shreads, I can't help myself."
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
It is usually explained later as just being an attempt to provide alternate viewpoints in a forum of open and free discussion.
I don't know if the knowledge he has shown here is genuine, or googled up after a post is read and then thrown in someone's face. God I hope it's not the latter.
Guys, guys...don't argue because of something I said. The poster does have a point, after all. I should have phrased my question more carefully - "why was there no Enterprise for 20 years after the destruction of the C?" And since no book or episode has dealt with this, we may never know the answer, so all we can do is guess.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Nah..that title's too long, and not as many would click it because you have the whole gist of it in the title.
No offense intended MLB, but TBH that probably could have worked a little better. I don't know about anyone else, but I was expecting something about the time between TOS and ENT or something like that. Again no offense intended.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Yeah, but since we're not curing cancer here, his thread title was OK.
How much time have I wasted clicking on one of RobertScorpio's threads out of curiousity of his teasing titles?
How much time have I wasted clicking on one of RobertScorpio's threads out of curiousity of his teasing titles?
PSPTrooper
Cadet
I'm a longtime lurker, rarely a poster, I also agree with Nardpuncher & Nathan about the poster's ripping apart trek fans threads...i've seen him do it on many occasions....i do have a bad feeling he relies on google searches, finds the answer and acts like he came up with it all his own.
What really gets me is that he acts like he does no harm....yeah he acts like he is promoting free discussion, but if you disagree with him, he treats you like crap in his posts (yeah, he claims no ill will, yet repeatedly he's told about it). It seems cuz he wrote a few books we have to kiss his @$$. I wonder if he wasn't author and just a fan, that he'd be told by the moderators to think before he types.
I just wonder how many people he alienates? I know of some people that won't buy his books just based on him being rude to general trek fans.
I hope he read the other poster's line about how he would struggle over a dinner appointment with a potential romantic partner. That gave me a grin about 12 parsecs wide!
What really gets me is that he acts like he does no harm....yeah he acts like he is promoting free discussion, but if you disagree with him, he treats you like crap in his posts (yeah, he claims no ill will, yet repeatedly he's told about it). It seems cuz he wrote a few books we have to kiss his @$$. I wonder if he wasn't author and just a fan, that he'd be told by the moderators to think before he types.
I just wonder how many people he alienates? I know of some people that won't buy his books just based on him being rude to general trek fans.
I hope he read the other poster's line about how he would struggle over a dinner appointment with a potential romantic partner. That gave me a grin about 12 parsecs wide!
There have been times in my life when I've argued a point for way too long, not giving up because I believed that if I could just present my case more clearly, people would understand that I'm right, and the fact that they keep disagreeing just means I'm not making my point clearly enough. No know-it-allness intended, no rudeness intended, just a kind of well-meaning but socially inept obstinacy. But that's not the way it comes across to some people.
Could be some other people do the same thing.
Could be some other people do the same thing.
All posters here, including the authors, must follow the rules of the board. If one says or does something that warrants moderator intervention, it will be done.
Being generally condescending or rude isn't against the rules (however unfortunate that may be), personal attacks are.
And the various posts here are coming close to that. Please keep this topic on topic and not about other posters please!
Thanks
That's a crime now?
So any time one of us checks half-remembered facts with Google we must say that that's how we did it?
It wasn't that long ago we had people saying here that posters reminding other posters that "Google is your friend" was condescending, and that we should assume that people are intelligent enough to know how to use search engines effectively.
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I haven't read many TNG books in a number of years myself, but as I understand it from the TNG series and my own random assumptions, the Enterprise C was destroyed defending a Klingon outpost.
All the other Enterprise crews and ships never met such an end before, and probably out of respect for the C crew, they left a period of time between them and the D Enterprise.
At least that's my theory anyways.
I haven't read many TNG books in a number of years myself, but as I understand it from the TNG series and my own random assumptions, the Enterprise C was destroyed defending a Klingon outpost.
All the other Enterprise crews and ships never met such an end before, and probably out of respect for the C crew, they left a period of time between them and the D Enterprise.
At least that's my theory anyways.
Personally, I think that if a Federation ship went down fighting to protect a people that were uneasy allies to begin with, that Starfleet would be more likely to name another ship Enterprise sooner than 20 years later to show how proud they were that their officers would defend federation ideals all the way to their deaths. Even for frenemy.
Maybe not naming another ship Enterprise for a few years as a sign of respecting the dead, but 20? I don't think it would be disrespectful to do so
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Maybe not naming another ship Enterprise for a few years as a sign of respecting the dead, but 20? I don't think it would be disrespectful to do so
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As was discussed upthread, if the Galaxy-class development project was underway for the bulk of that time, and Enterprise was a name slated for one of those ships at some point during the process, then they didn't really wait 20 years.
^True. This would mean that SF did name another ship Enterprise without much of a delay; it just didn't get off the line for some time. When the Enterprise-A showed up, AFAIK, it was just another constitution-class ship renamed in short order. It wasn't a new ship. We also have no idea how long a time was between the E-B and E-C. 20 years may not be out of the ordinary...
Personally, I think that if a Federation ship went down fighting to protect a people that were uneasy allies to begin with, that Starfleet would be more likely to name another ship Enterprise sooner than 20 years later to show how proud they were that their officers would defend federation ideals all the way to their deaths. Even for frenemy.
Maybe not naming another ship Enterprise for a few years as a sign of respecting the dead, but 20? I don't think it would be disrespectful to do so
Maybe they just forgot?
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