What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Oh yeah. My point is, he played himself, Tom Baker as an idealised hero. There's a lot of the erudite, learned, witty and affable Tom in his Doctor, whereas in reality he was a womanising, self-entitled drunkard as well as being erudite, learned, witty and affable
Much like Shatner most likely magnified his better aspects for Kirk, whilst leaving his less savoury qualities off of camera.
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Ok, I got one for DS9 and one for Voyager.
DS9 should have had the Defiant from the start. Maybe not as a badass warship. But a small ship would have been better than 3 Runabouts.
On Voyager, they should have left Seven in full Borg makeup for at least half the first season she was on the show. Make it a gradual change to “Borg Babe”.
DS9 should have had the Defiant from the start. Maybe not as a badass warship. But a small ship would have been better than 3 Runabouts.
On Voyager, they should have left Seven in full Borg makeup for at least half the first season she was on the show. Make it a gradual change to “Borg Babe”.
Yes. Hell, there could've been a break for Jeri Ryan with Year of Hell when the timeline shifted and in The Killing Game episodes.
They should have kept her in the Borg make-up, period. If you’re gonna do something, then do it.
Well, TPTB thought the show needed the Defiant, and it seems to have been a fairly popular decision, so I'm not really sure how that's controversial.
I mean from the start of the show. From “The Emissary” onto when it does arrive and is needed at the start of S3. Clearly if they thought the ship was needed at the time, it would have been there from day 1.Well, TPTB thought the show needed the Defiant, and it seems to have been a fairly popular decision, so I'm not really sure how that's controversial.
Yeah, I got it.
Clearly.
What I'm saying is that adding the ship was an implicit acknowledgement that the original premise could have been improved to begin with.
The intended format of DS9 when it began was not quite the same as where it was at the beginning of Season 3. Initially they were going to great pains to differentiate themselves from being just another "spaceship" show. The presence of The Dominion tweaked that formula.
The ratings slipped. Even adding the Defiant and then Worf didn't stop the slide, but they tried.
I suppose the execs were afraid to lose the viewers again that only tuned in for the season finale, so they had to throw in the 'babe factor' immediately at the end of that episode?
I didn't say that the tweaking of the formula was uncoerced
Perhaps not controversial, but I thought Seven looked much nicer in a Starfleet uniform (Year of Hell, Relativity) than she did in the catsuit.
Same goes for Troi.
Remember that the Defiant didn't really work right at the time. Starfleet had figured out how to make her fast, maneuverable, and lethal. But they hadn't worked out all the bugs yet.
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One of the most annoying aspects of the Berman era is the token "this woman needs to be in something different to the standard uniform because boobs" almost every series had to have. Troi, Seven, T'Pol. DS9 kind of avoided this until Kira's inexplicable uniform redesign in season four, where she gets a slinky jumpsuit version lacking the regular shoulder panels of other Bajoran Militia officers.
ok, I gotcha now.
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