What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Danja]

Star Trek: Picard didn't need Seven of Nine. Hugh could have continued the revolt on the cube with greater purpose, and Jonathan Del Arco brought more acting talent to the series than Jeri Ryan.

The entire crew, not just Picard, should have remembered the events of All Good Things.

Hugh wasn't military.

He didn't have Seven's military background. He appeased the Romulans (and he paid for it with his life).

He did what he thought was the right thing and it turned out to be a mistake.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Hugh wasn't military.

He didn't have Seven's military background. He appeased the Romulans (and he paid for it with his life).

He did what he thought was the right thing and it turned out to be a mistake.

Neither was Picard. Or Raffi. Or Rios. Or Jurati. Or Elnor.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Neither was Picard. Or Raffi. Or Rios. Or Jurati. Or Elnor.

I think all but Jurati could be said to have military backgrounds.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I think all but Jurati could be said to have military backgrounds.

But they were not in the military at the time, were they? The point in season 1 was to make a Star Trek story in the Federation, but not Starfleet.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Is the name of their species a description of their reproductive cycle?

Vulcans.

Vulcano.

MASSIVE period of dormancy, followed by massive explosion, followed by anther massive period of dormancy.

 

[Nerys Myk]

But they were not in the military at the time, were they? The point in season 1 was to make a Star Trek story in the Federation, but not Starfleet.

Seven wasn't military either. The Fenris Rangers were paramilitary at best. Vigilantes.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Seven wasn't military either. The Fenris Rangers were paramilitary at best. Vigilantes.

Seven is also a unique special case.

She spent many years on USS Voyager, helping it get home.

Her knowledge rivals some of the most senior officers in StarFleet due to her Borg Experience.

She applied to StarFleet Academy and was rejected based on bigotry about her Borg past from other members of StarFleet Academy, despite Admiral Janeways support.

And her Fenris Rangers experience on top of that helped before she finally got fast tracked up to 1st Officer on the USS Titan.

 

[The Wormhole]

How many times has a Random StarFleet Officer been suddenly "Kidnapped, beamed away, disappeared, taken hostage, stranded somewhere"?

And those poor officers have nothing on their person but the clothes on their back.

At least if they filled their pockets with useful gear, they could be ready.

If they're kidnapped or taken hostage, their captors are likely removing anything and everything in their pockets.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

If they're kidnapped or taken hostage, their captors are likely removing anything and everything in their pockets.

If they're competent kidnappers, they would definitely do that.

If it's one of those situations where they accidentally fell through a portal into another time & another place.

Having the gear could still be useful.

 

[korblborp]

if you don't have pockets, where do you put cool rocks?

 

[cooleddie74]

Seven wasn't military either. The Fenris Rangers were paramilitary at best. Vigilantes.

Imagine the Texas Rangers, but more of a private militia that has even less outside governing authority than the real life Texas Rangers. Seven was basically Walker, only much more effective and not having to answer to powerful suits and legal codes.

 

[Firebird]

if you don't have pockets, where do you put cool rocks?

Those get stored in the Bridge bulkheads so they can be flung at unsuspecting duty officers if the ship gets so much as grazed by a photon torpedo.