What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Nerys Myk]

More like "surprise" babies are seen as an interesting plot device. Alexander, too. What are the odds on a medium-sized space station?

Depends on how much sex is happening.

 

[Farscape One]

A bit implausible. Even with 2025 technology either slow-release hormones or an IUD could have been put in when they had their first date and still been working when Ben joins the prophets.

Maybe Kasidy isn't a fan of using them on herself.

 

[CoveTom]

A bit implausible. Even with 2025 technology either slow-release hormones or an IUD could have been put in when they had their first date and still been working when Ben joins the prophets.

Just because certain medical technologies are available, doesn't mean everyone is going to use them. Even today with all of the hormonal birth control options available, some people still choose to use condoms. And I mean choose for birth control, not for STD prevention. Some people don't want to take hormones. There are various reasons.

Point is, Sisko and Kasidy may have had their own reasons for using the method they were using.

 

[cooleddie74]

Depends on how much sex is happening.

Well, if Julian Bashir is involved, not much.

 

[korblborp]

Do people really want "Code of Honor" to be banned, taken off Paramount+, or taken out of the syndication rotation? I've been around TrekBBS for 22 years and I don't ever remember hearing anyone argue that.

here? i don't think i've seen. elsewhere? i've seen it a few times.

Geordi. Yar. Troi. All young and sexy
Dax. Bashir. Even Kira. All young and sexy

and crosby had done modeling and playboy, although i don't know if that was played up at the time the way it might have been more recently

I will say this: on his web show, Dominic Keating said that studio executives and Berman told him that they did have youth and sex appeal that would lead to Enterprise replacing TNG in the movies (unlike DS9 and Voyager). It was very clear they were going after an audience.

i do vividly remember jolene blalock's maxim spread for the fall tv lineup that ENT premiered...

Yeah, it’s drama. It’s like in old movies where the wife tells the husband she’s pregnant and, while deliriously happy, he’s also completely surprised.

obviously the prophets intervened :P

 

[The Wormhole]

Geordi. Yar. Troi. All young and sexy
Dax. Bashir. Even Kira. All young and sexy

They all played older, with the exception of Siddig.

They were all pretty close to their actual ages. Memory Alpha says Geordi was supposed to be 29 in TNG S1, LeVar Burton was 30. Denise Crosby was 29 when the season began filming, Tasha was 27, according to MA. Marina Sirtis was 32 while Deanna was 28 (also according to MA).

Jadzia Dax said she was 28 in Emissary. Terry Farrell was herself 28 when that episode was filmed, though it was a few months prior to her 29th birthday. Bashir was also stated in Emissary to be 27, Alexander Siddig actually was 27. Nana Visitor was 35 during DS9's first season, according to Memory Alpha Kira should have been 26.