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I love how people are just accepting Q at his word.
I agree. Honestly, when does Q ever tell the truth? Even when he's slightly telling the truth, it's shaded. No one should ever take Q at his word. (Leave humanity alone forever... not).
 
Janeway seemed to think that Q never lied, but SFDebris' little musical compilation soon refuted that!
 
Here's one that I seem alone in...

The Voyager Episode Fair Haven is...fine. It's not a good episode by any means, but its not the pile of misbegotten shite that Trek fandom seems to make it out.

The "sequel" Spirit Folk on the other hand...
 
"Fair Haven(VOY)" is the better of the two episodes. I'll grant you that.

But that's it. ;)
 
Nothing wrong with a holodeck program that runs a little Irish town with a good pub.

It went off the rails when they were willing to risk actual danger to save the program. And of course “delete the wife”...:lol:
 
Why is it grey like Archer's Enterprise?

I always thought that since the Ent-J comes from a timeline in which the war against the Sphere Builders dragged out so long, somehow this held back starship development - all available technology would be put to the war effort, leaving little remaining to develop new kinds of ships. So this is why the J looks like an overgrown NX-01.
 
Nothing wrong with a holodeck program that runs a little Irish town with a good pub.

It went off the rails when they were willing to risk actual danger to save the program. And of course “delete the wife”...:lol:

The Doctor: "Of course they're real, captain, except for the one you erased...":lol:
 
Logically, every time travel episode in Trek, even after the problem is “fixed” creates a new timeline but the characters are almost always unaware, as they end up in a new branch that is virtually indistinguishable from their original one. As we follow the crew, it’s not intended for us to notice either, unless the storyteller wants us to notice (à la Kelvinverse Trek).

(I don’t view them all that way—I take whatever rules the story provides at face value—but upon close examination, they all have to be as described above.)

Also, Spock’s KHHAAANNN! is more narratively coherent than Kirk’s (regardless of what one thinks of the performance of either actor).
 
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