What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Nyotarules]

Amanda (Mrs Sarek) was a bad mother

 

[Discofan]

Amanda (Mrs Sarek) was a bad mother

I wouldn't mind some explanations...

 

[tesral]

Amanda (Mrs Sarek) was a bad mother

That would be a viable theory if Spock had not been her only child. Sarek apparently is a serial monogamist with a kink for Humans. Unknown Vulcan woman, Amanda, then Perrin. That we know of that TPTB have not ret-coned yet.

 

[Silvercrest]

The technobabble required to explain why time dilation doesn’t happen would be both glorious and terrible.

You sound like a Klingon scientist!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Amanda (Mrs Sarek) was a bad mother

Shut your mouth...

 

[1001001]

Amanda (Mrs Sarek) was a bad mother

 

[Discofan]

That would be a viable theory if Spock had not been her only child. Sarek apparently is a serial monogamist with a kink for Humans. Unknown Vulcan woman, Amanda, then Perrin. That we know of that TPTB have not ret-coned yet.

Yeah, but he doesn't divorce them so that's a good thing. Otherwise, he would have married like forty of them or about.

BTW, the unknown Vulcan woman was a princess and she gave him the laughing Vulcan... Sybok.

 

[Tribble Threat]

You know it's funny because in the 1950's most sci. fi. writers didn't understand squat about Einstien's Relativity so they thought that light speed was something like the sound barrier, you just had to move past it (by a few engine modifications maybe ) and then you could go as fast as you wanted without any time effects...

They sure did ignore the light barrier. But I think they all heard of relativity, and a light speed limit, and chose to ignore it for better stories. Similar to how Asimov often ignored the fact that most worlds in our solar system can't produce life. If you want people to meet aliens, it's easiest to ignore science.

 

[Worf factor9]

Similar to how Asimov often ignored the fact that most worlds in our solar system can't produce life. If you want people to meet aliens, it's easiest to ignore science.

Or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

https://literature.fandom.com/wiki/Barsoom_series

The known science of the time prevails, and then you stretch it through imagination.

 

[Nyotarules]

I wouldn't mind some explanations...

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/why-are-spocks-siblings-so-dysfunctional.306969/#post-13672494

 

[Nerys Myk]

Or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

https://literature.fandom.com/wiki/Barsoom_series

The known science of the time prevails, and then you stretch it through imagination.

Loved Burroughs as a kid. Life on Mars, Venus, at the Earth's core and beyond the farthest star. Plus an Africa teeming with lost cities.

 

[tesral]

If you want people to meet aliens, it's easiest to ignore science.

Science Fiction will teach you more about the time in which it was made, than of any future, possible or impossible.

 

[Discofan]

Science Fiction will teach you more about the time in which it was made, than of any future, possible or impossible.

Yeah, that's so true.

 

[Silvercrest]

Loved Burroughs as a kid. Life on Mars, Venus, at the Earth's core and beyond the farthest star. Plus an Africa teeming with lost cities.

Or more than one of the above. Re-reading Tarzan at the Earth's Core now.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Science Fiction will teach you more about the time in which it was made, than of any future, possible or impossible.

Case in point Jules Verne.

 

[cooleddie74]

H.G. Wells.

 

[Worf factor9]

H.G. Wells.

Jules Verne.

Edgar Rice Burroughs.

This is starting to sound/look like a separate thread.

"Origins of sci-fi." But I do not know where to put it.

Tag me when it gets started.

 

[cooleddie74]

Sounds like we need to grab a bite at that Scottish place.

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[Gordie]

I'll start.

I don't think The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek movie or even as good a movie as my fellow fans think it is.

I feel the same. In my opinion, the original series and the their movies are not that great. Tried binge watching TOS a couple dew tears ago. Couldn't do it.

 

[Worf factor9]

Sounds like we need to grab a bite at that Scottish place.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/haggis



But I loved that movie.