What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[137th Gebirg]

I don't think the decision to use "Faith" was really all that controversial in retrospect - although I clearly remember the unhinged apoplexy that people exhibited back on Teh Interwebz back then.

I think a more appropriate word to use in this context - and to describe B&B writing in general during that time - is "safe".

 

[Farscape One]

We're gonna have words this Saturday.....

And those words are, "I agree with you, Farscape."

"Thank you, Hot Rod. That's mighty kind of you."

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

ST:ENT Season 1/2 version/rendtion of "Faith of the Heart" is the best version!
Every other modified version seems to make it worse.

 

[cooleddie74]

That's not even controversial. That's Science™.

 

[Disposable_Ensign]

That first appeared in TOS which was just a few centuries in the future. If TOS had been set thousands of years in the future, and if slower than light interstellar colonization went on for millennia before warp drive was invented, and if warp drive was very new in the era of TOS, they could have discovered many planets settled by colonists from Earth thousands of years ago. But the chronology of TOS and Star Trek in general does not allow enough time for many lost Earth colonies to be founded and be rediscovered.

By theory is that the human-looking aliens didn't come from Earth after the invention of interstellar travel, but where taken from Earth by advanced alien societies such as the Preservers centuries and millennia earlier.

For a while after the invention of the warp drive, ships could "only" travel at the speed of light or slightly above (not above warp 5), meaning that it could take generations to reach other stars.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

For a while after the invention of the warp drive, ships could "only" travel at the speed of light or slightly above (not above warp 5), meaning that it could take generations to reach other stars.

Remember, civilian vessels only get "Last Generation" proven Warp Drives that are proven to be reliable with solid test trials with proven "Track Record of MANY LY (Light Years)" tested & validated on the engines before going into mass production for civilian purchase.
So they're usually, "At Best", 2 generations behind whatever StarFleet is in the process of testing.

StarFleet is usually testing the "Latest & Greatest" Warp Drives.

Just look at ST:ENT & Travis Mayweather.

His family was on the J-Class ECS Horizon.
That was a "Warp 2 Maximum" speed freighter with Warp 1.5 when fully loaded with Cargo.
It was a "OLD Cargo Freighter" that he grew up on.

Warp 3 engines were most likely what would've been considered a "Top of the Line" civilian Warp Engine that can be attained.

At the same time...

Travis Mayweather was the Chief CONN officer on the NX-01 USS Enterprise.
The NX-class was testing the Warp 5 engines.

The rest of Earth's StarFleet were just getting Warp 4 engines in mass production across the regular United Earth's StarFleet.
The USS Franklin (Freedom class) that got stranded on Altamid was a Warp 4 StarShip of it's era for UE's StarFleet.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Faith of the Heart is for me pretty far from being the worst Star Trek theme.

For me that would either be PIC (liked it in Season 1 but it became increasingly over-egged as the show ground forward) or PRO.

The PRO theme is just so bland. It’s like an AI’s idea of what a Trek theme should be like. I watched all 40 episodes of that show, and I couldn’t even hum the first bar of it if asked.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Faith of the Heart is for me pretty far from being the worst Star Trek theme.

For me that would either be PIC (liked it in Season 1 but it became increasingly over-egged as the show ground forward) or PRO.

The PRO theme is just so bland. It’s like an AI’s idea of what a Trek theme should be like. I watched all 40 episodes of that show, and I couldn’t even hum the first bar of it if asked.

To Each, his Own.

I LOVE ST:PRO's opening theme.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

To Each, his Own.

I LOVE ST:PRO's opening theme.

I like the visuals and the show. The characters too.

Theme just doesn’t do it for me.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I like the visuals and the show. The characters too.

Theme just doesn’t do it for me.

That's fine, everybody's taste in music is different.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Faith of the Heart is for me pretty far from being the worst Star Trek theme.

For me that would either be PIC (liked it in Season 1 but it became increasingly over-egged as the show ground forward) or PRO.

The PRO theme is just so bland. It’s like an AI’s idea of what a Trek theme should be like. I watched all 40 episodes of that show, and I couldn’t even hum the first bar of it if asked.

The Picard theme just got better in season 2 though!

I wasn't completely won over by Prodigy's theme either, until I heard the full version of it.

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It adds a minute and a half to the start, giving your brain a chance to lock on to the melody before all the other instruments come in.

 

[Nyotarules]

I'm watching SNW Lost in translation, the scene between the Kirk brothers in the bar makes Prime Daddy Kirk sound like an asshole parent

 

[FormerLurker]

I want to hear the DS9 theme played on one of these:

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[Frontis]

Btw, this is great...

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[FredH]

To Each, his Own.

I LOVE ST:PRO's opening theme.

It’s by far the most dynamic of recent Trek themes.

 

[Jayson1]

Here is one. I like Ezri better than Jadzia. Don't hate Jadzia but I wish we had more seasons with Ezri on the show.

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[cooleddie74]

I also prefer Ezri.

Don't hate the player, hate the symbiont.

 

[Jayson1]

Hopefully she will show up again when we finally get our desired Star Trek:Legacy show.

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[Frontis]

I prefer Jadzia even when she was more boyish than Ezri.

 

[Citiprime]

I was watching The Undiscovered Country and something struck me... The clock.

It's the only iteration of Star Trek where a very visible clock is a significant part of the bridge (with the time of Gorkon's assassination being important to the plot). But I started to wonder about the implications of that clock and whether ALL Starfleet vessels, no matter where they are, operate by a standardized time/clock?

And what would they set the time by? It's a 24-hour clock, so it seems to be based on an Earth time.

• But would Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Zulu/UTC still have dominance in the 23rd century?
• Since the Federation President and Council seem to have their main offices in Paris, would it be the Central European Time Zone?
• Or, since Starfleet Command is in San Francisco, would Starfleet vessels base their clocks on the Pacific Time Zone?

To further complicate this, Deep Space Nine implies the station operates on a 26-hour day. However, it is a Bajoran station. So the Bajorans can set the time to whatever they want on their station.