the MACOs should come back.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Yeah, fan perception is that TOS, the 80s movies and Berman era hang together continuity-wise quite tightly, when they most certainly do not. Even the Berman era shows themselves have significant retcons along the way.
Edison taking command of Franklin is before the timeline split, so it would seem that to a large extent the MACOs were just folded into the Federation Starfleet, which is a nice way to retcon how we never saw them after Enterprise.
"We're a combined service,"
~James R. Kirk, probably.
~James R. Kirk, probably.
The "troops". They get a chance to meet a genuine hero. Also the civilians who get to do the same. Is this really an unfamiliar concept?
And seven years in the Delta Quadrant ending by coming home alive, in one piece, a new father and as the pilot of one of the most famous starships in the Federation would be all the reasons you'd need to send Tom out on a goodwill tour.
I think that, in the interests of having exciting, kinetic action scenes where people are thrown around the bridge during space battles and such, there’s been a general forgetting of just how nigh-magical early-TNG-era gravitic and inertial-dampening tech must have been. I remember more than one incident from early TNG where Q or some impact suddenly punches the ship into spinning away, whereupon we switch POV back to the bridge and they’re all still standing calmly, if concerned. I’m sure that was quite intentional, as a contrast to the old TOS thing of being thrown back and forth. I quite liked the implication from that of how things had developed in 78 years.
I know there’s a common view that in general Starfleet hull sizes should go up over time, but I’m sanguine over the idea that the fashions change back and forth as technologies and mission profiles do. So say, first you get the 22nd century ships; later you get the Kelvin era of monster-size hulls; later (in the Prime timeline) they pull back to hulls in the 300m range; later you have Galaxy hulls that are twice that but others that are smaller, including the eventual Constitution-III class; about 150 years later you have (if they also build it in this timeline, and I hope they do) the Enterprise-J so huge there are (small) cities, highways, forests and gravitically-stabilized bodies of water inside; then they go small yet again; and eventually the seemingly-huge pre-Burn Constitution class is big, sure, but only maybe half the J’s length. And up and down forever. And really, that’s fine.
(Teenage me had a different view, and liked the idea that eventually you’d have an Enterprise visibly larger than the planets it visited. I got better. That kid wanted a dark Doctor Who played by Paul Darrow, too.)
(Teenage me had a different view, and liked the idea that eventually you’d have an Enterprise visibly larger than the planets it visited. I got better. That kid wanted a dark Doctor Who played by Paul Darrow, too.)
Prepare the Timelash!
No! Not the Timelash!
In the Voyager: The Killing Game, Neelix, thinking he is a Klingon from the dark-ages celebrating total victory over the enemy, impregnated most of the women in the crew on that holodeck in that simulation, and tried to impregnate the men too... And maybe some Hirogen?
Point is, someone probably kept their half Talaxian baby, but mother and child were relegated to the night shift, never to be seen or heard from again.
Point is, someone probably kept their half Talaxian baby, but mother and child were relegated to the night shift, never to be seen or heard from again.
Ahhh. I see you interpreted "No, not the timelash" as being spoken in a manner that might resemble how a person might speak. Clearly I did not.
Which bit?
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