What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

When Data fought against Sela, it was at extreme ranges.

And long distance fighting can be portrayed in space battles and done right.


Babylon 5 showed that you can do it correctly with the Battle of Gorash 7.

 

Controversial Opinion: I don't mind Sela. I'd like to see her in PIC Season 3.

 

I wouldn’t be surprised…!

 

Controversial opinion: the colored food cubes in TOS look good. I mean, they're a rainbow of colors and were once even made of marshmallows tinted with food coloring. SNW needs at least one scene with Pike eating from a plate of them.

 

I buy them at the store or get them out of the vending machine sometimes. But here, in the 20th & 21st Centuries, we call them Starbursts!

 

Starfleet of the mid-to-late 23rd century endorses candy colored food. See? It's a counterbalance to all those corrupt and deranged Captains and Admirals.

 

Almost everyone in Trek is a wet blanket, whose idea of fun is going to see Data recite poetry in Ten Forward, or Harry Kim play his clarinet.

My idea of fun? The crew getting smashed in "Magic to Make the Sanest Men Go Mad". Real people, unwinding from real stress in believable ways.

 

I don't know about 'almost everyone'. We saw a lot of people who played sports, played instruments themselves, loved to read, enjoyed food and traveling, and enjoyed holodeck programs that were very often a 24th century equivalent of the kind of games people play today. And there was certainly no shortage of alcohol lovers, either.

 

In the end different people enjoy different things that doesn't make them any more or less "real".
I never got "smashed" in my entire life. I often play games to unwind, and that exists in Trek through holodeck.
And if I remember correctly everybody was bored to tears by Data's poetry and only was there to be polite.

 

Well, I still liked 'Ode to Spot'. But an entire evening of that kind of stuff would have been unbearable.

 

"Correctly."

 

In the future, mankind has evolved beyond the need to get absolutely hammered.

Or something.

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

I tried that a couple times. I ended up getting very dizzy. Then I thought to myself, "What the Hell do people see in getting high?!"

 

You might like freeze dried Starbursts.

Glad I'm not the only one with that reaction.

I have yet to enjoy it either and see no reason to waste my money on something that isn't fun.

 

God, that was awkward. Self-conscious and clumsy.

The chess club annual blowout in Francis' dad's finished basement.

It ranked with "Let's have the nerd girl say 'fuck.' Once."

 

I'd actually would kind of like it if they invented those nutrition cubes, I wouldn't even care what they would taste like. It would be so much easier to have a balanced diet if all had to do was scarf down half a dozen bright cyan coloured cubes. Especially during a working week.

I also assume they'd have to have a fruit-like texture, since otherwise people would have huge problems with plaque. Then again, they might have a magic toothbrush in their bathrooms were all they have to do is shine a blue light on their teeth to remove that.

 

Or simply have a supply of dentics. Just don't swallow them.

(For the FARSCAPE fans... bless you if you remember them.)