What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Ray Hardgrit]

I never had any problem with the concept of polarising the hull plating to make it stronger, but I did think that introducing a technology that's functionally identical to shields in all but one way (blocking transporter beams) was a bad move for a series that was supposed to feel different from Voyager.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I never had any problem with the concept of polarising the hull plating to make it stronger, but I did think that introducing a technology that's functionally identical to shields in all but one way (blocking transporter beams) was a bad move for a series that was supposed to feel different from Voyager.

The only real difference was the wording in the script.

 

[Oddish]

It's kind of ironic, though... they created the Maquis, did a whole arc on DS9 and a couple episodes on TNG to boot... but on the show it was created for, it fizzled faster than a cheap sparkler.

 

[cooleddie74]

Okay, I like this deleted scene. It's awkward and ridiculous as Hell but it makes me smile.

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[gweeps]

Okay, I like this deleted scene. It's awkward and ridiculous as Hell but it makes me smile.

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Ha ha. Don't think I've seen that before. Thanks.

Shatner's movie is unfairly maligned.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Okay, I like this deleted scene. It's awkward and ridiculous as Hell but it makes me smile.

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I somehow forgot that David Warner is in TFF. Another reason to like it for me. :-D

 

[cooleddie74]

His facial expression right after Caithlin Dar says that Nimbus III is a "Great Experiment" is hilarious.

 

[The Knappos]

Voyager should have doubled down on the Threshold salamander offspring thing.
Or.., those salamanders, or their descendants, should appear in Discovery in a storyline.

 

[Oddish]

Voyager should have doubled down on the Threshold salamander offspring thing.
Or.., those salamanders, or their descendants, should appear in Discovery in a storyline.

I think "Lower Decks" would suit our salamanders better.

 

[The Knappos]

I think "Lower Decks" would suit our salamanders better.

Well, now, I love Lower Decks. I love it. But, that's not the place for doubling down on the salamanders, in my view.

Caption at the end of TMP says "The human adventure is just beginning" and they're a hyper-evolved set o' humans. In DISCO they've had a millennium to breed, grow and potentially encounter other life. Perhaps help improve their technology. Perhaps build their own. And then travel the 70 odd years to their point of origin.

I mean, it's never, ever going to happen. If only because, to properly double down on it, they'd have to be salamanders, not bipeds with funny foreheads (which would be a de-evolution, right?). Which means puppets or really good, budget killing CGI.

But, they're the next step in evolution and the CSA should have been after Janeway and Paris about them.

I'm also thinking in the sense of Space Seed, "It will be interesting to see what grows from the seed we planted here."

 

[XCV330]

Voyager should have doubled down on the Threshold salamander offspring thing.
Or.., those salamanders, or their descendants, should appear in Discovery in a storyline.

Prodigy, calling the Janeway hologram "mommy" with no context at all.

 

[Lord Garth]

Some people argue that over time Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, eventually became more like Captain Shatner.

Between his Twitter and all the behind-the-scenes stories that have cropped up, I disagree. Shatner played Kirk as Kirk all the way up to Generations. The character may have gradually changed but it's all still Kirk.

If he played Captain Shatner in the later movies, then it would've been completely different. The level of assholery displayed by Kirk would go straight through the roof.

 

[Oddish]

Prodigy, calling the Janeway hologram "mommy" with no context at all.

I can see the look on Holo-Janeway's face when that happens...

 

[Nyotarules]

Discovery season 4 is an experience I will never repeat

 

[Jinn]

Discovery season 4 is an experience I will never repeat

I can't tell if that's a compliment or not

 

[gweeps]

Discovery season 4 is an experience I will never repeat

Broke the bank, eh?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Spoiler about the Lower Decks episode "Much Ado About Boimler":

Spoiler

There's a salamander-like creature named Anthony who goes to the Division 14 "Farm" for treatment, who could have been a victim of breaking the transwarp barrier.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Anthony

 

[Nyotarules]

Broke the bank, eh?

Put me to zzzzzzz

 

[tesral]

Some people argue that over time Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, eventually became more like Captain Shatner.

Shantner himself stated that they didn't give him a lot to base the character on, so he played it close to the chest. Ergo it was always Captain Shantner.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Shantner himself stated that they didn't give him a lot to base the character on, so he played it close to the chest. Ergo it was always Captain Shantner.

An idealised version of himself perhaps. Much like the difference between Tom Baker's Doctor and Tom Baker the drunken git.