What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Deks]

Because of Star Wars doing it like that first

Eh, Trek shouldn't really be copying Wars for stuff like that. It looks annoying (to say the least).

There's a reason why I call them "Ultra Dense" Asteroid Fields instead of standard Asteroid Fields.

You do realise that if you had 'ultra dense' asteroid fields like Trek frequently portrays them, they wouldn't really last at all but would in fact attract each other due to gravity until they form something akin to a rocky planet.
In short, that kind of asteroid field would't be sustainable by a long shot.

In the shows, nothing was stated that those asteroid fields were 'recently formed'... as such they really make little logical sense.

That's not what is being portrayed.

Maybe it should be.
I'd like to see Trek using established in-universe figures for example to portray them in VFX for a change. Would cause a 'blending' of real and science fiction.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Eh, Trek shouldn't really be copying Wars for stuff like that. It looks annoying (to say the least).

Tell that to the VFX crew

You do realise that if you had 'ultra dense' asteroid fields like Trek frequently portrays them, they wouldn't really last at all but would in fact attract each other due to gravity until they form something akin to a rocky planet.
In short, that kind of asteroid field would't be sustainable by a long shot.

I know, but that's not what the VFX house chose to do.

In the shows, nothing was stated that those asteroid fields were 'recently formed'... as such they really make little logical sense.

I know, but that's what was ordered of them.

Maybe it should be.
I'd like to see Trek using established in-universe figures for example to portray them in VFX for a change. Would cause a 'blending' of real and science fiction.

It would be nice.

 

[fireproof78]

When it stops making money they might change.

 

[Vale]

The ships in the current productions look great but lack gravitas.

Iain M Banks would approve.

 

[BillJ]

There is no one timeline, Trek is a vast multiverse.

 

[Nyotarules]

Pike's quiff deserves its own episode

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Iain M Banks would approve.

Post of the day. Beautiful.

 

[Picard578]

Dominion War storyline is the best thing in Star Trek, ever.

 

[Commander Troi]

Dominion War storyline is the best thing in Star Trek, ever.

I thought this was for controversial posts...

 

[Paul755]

There is no one timeline, Trek is a vast multiverse.

I don’t think that’s controversial. It’s been a multi-verse since “Mirror, Mirror”.

 

[maneth]

I don't understand why Sub Rosa is the most hated TNG episode. Granted, it's by no means one of my favorites, but I don't hate it either.

 

[Picard578]

I thought this was for controversial posts...

I thought it might be controversial due to TOS...

 

[Qonundrum]

I don't understand why Sub Rosa is the most hated TNG episode. Granted, it's by no means one of my favorites, but I don't hate it either.

By season 7, they shouldn't have been digging up scripts that were so bad that they were rejected from season one? (Well, at least that's what Sub Par Rosa feels like.) Having just rewatched a fifth of season 1, including one of the infamous episodes, it has more and a bigger sense of adventure and action than the plasma g-g-g-g-ghost-with-good-hair ever could.

 

[maneth]

By season 7, they shouldn't have been digging up scripts that were so bad that they were rejected from season one? (Well, at least that's what Sub Par Rosa feels like.) Having just rewatched a fifth of season 1, including one of the infamous episodes, it has more and a bigger sense of adventure and action than the plasma g-g-g-g-ghost-with-good-hair ever could.

Mmm... You probably have a point there. Perhaps this episode would get less flak if it had been shot and broadcast in the first two seasons. I don't think Sub Rosa is any worse than, say, Angel One, The Naked Now, The Child, or The Outrageous Okona...

 

[Oddish]

I don't understand why Sub Rosa is the most hated TNG episode. Granted, it's by no means one of my favorites, but I don't hate it either.

Didn't know it was. I thought that it would be either the racist "Code of Honor" or the clip show "Shades of Gray" (which I actually kind of liked).

 

[Dee1891]

Why didn't DS9 Season Seven or any of the TNG movies do a follow-up on the Romulans being deceived into allying itself with the Federation and the Klingon Empire against the Dominion?

Why did Starfleet prevent Picard's crew from participating in the Dominion War? The third TNG movie, "Star Trek: Insurrection" was released in the middle of DS9's last season. The movie could have depicted the Enterprise-E crew's experiences during the war.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Sub Rosa" isn't even close to the most hated TNG episode. Most memed and made fun of because of ghost sex and a candle? Sure. But "Code of Honor" is actually offensive on certain levels and not for a "lazy writing where we have a main character bang an alien with a Scottish accent" reason.

 

[Oddish]

They're bad in different ways...
Sub Rosa is just ridiculous.
Code of Honor is stereotypical and offensive.
Shades of Gray is what you get when you give your cast a ludicrous timeframe and a shoestring budget.

 

[cooleddie74]

Trek is a master franchise at disappointing on so many different levels when it wants.

 

[TheAdmiralty]

There is no one timeline, Trek is a vast multiverse.

I have always liked the idea some people have that TOS is in universe legends and tall tales about Kirk's exploits but not what "really" happened. Because a lot of it is definitely a bit OTT to imagine in the same universe as the later Berman series or even the TOS films. It's briefly hinted at in the TMP novelization. That would have been an interesting jumping off point for a TOS reboot in fact, like they're showing us the "real" thing that's in the same universe as the TOS movies and TNG this time.