Forgetting about the Organians, Thasians, Travelers among others?
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Ethan Phillips is a good actor.
Neelix is a great facial baseball.
There’s speculation Trelane and Q could be connected, but as a general rule one and done is enough for each character/species of this type.
Now that's controversial.
I can't imagine not getting more of Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons Organians, or Bajorans.
I edited my comment to add “of this type”, i.e. the ones you listed. I do tend to lean towards episodes with unique species though.
Not to belabour the point but I'm curious why only one of this type? The Galaxy is a massive place but no room for non corporeal types of life?
I meant I don’t mind all the species you listed, provided they mostly stay in their one episode. Provided each new non corporeal species puts a new spin on things, I don’t mind new species.
However, I do feel god like and psychic species and characters tend to be overpowered and end up dull. Q was an exception but we didn’t need how many episodes with him.
Yes. Because it's not a real event and putting them in 2054 doesn't change the story.
Ah. I don't mind god like brings even though Q is quite annoying and largely overstayed his welcome by the second episode.
I like his interactions with Picard and wish they had leaned into that more, like Q and Picard have a Captain’s Holiday episode.
The term used in "Journey to Babel" for the open heart procedure needed to save Sarek's life (regardless of whether it arose out of an actor's mispronunciation of "cryogenic" or not; the script is not canon; the finished episode is!*) should properly be spelled "serogenic," because it requires massive amounts of blood, the liquid part of which, by definition, is "serum."
(Consider that fluid and inflammation of the middle ear, typically from an infection, is called serous otitis media.)
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*And if you don't take my word on the script not being canon, prepare to find out the hard way how sharp my bat'telh is. And if you don't know what a bat'telh is, look it up. Under bat'leth.
(Consider that fluid and inflammation of the middle ear, typically from an infection, is called serous otitis media.)
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*And if you don't take my word on the script not being canon, prepare to find out the hard way how sharp my bat'telh is. And if you don't know what a bat'telh is, look it up. Under bat'leth.
Not quite; far beyond naming the 1st shuttle after a fictional starship, too many in various industries--from aeronautics, medicine, weapons engineering, etc. have cited Star Trek as an influence on their dreams and work over the decades--largely thanks to TOS and to a certain degree TNG.
While I certainly understood how representation of importance, such as Uhura on TOS was something to make many look toward a better future (as opposed to the racially chaotic one they were experiencing, especially in 1960s America), personally, the overall Star Trek idea was not one I imagined or desired to become some sort of reality. I accepted it as science fiction, not some template for real life of the present or future.
Says who? What makes that a better spelling than "cyrogenic," the way Memory Alpha spells it?
@alchemist, how did the script spell the term?
"God-like" beings' power usually gave the series heroes a challenge not easily won with all we were told made them formidable. In other words, the heroes would have to do more to overcome such beings in some imaginative or fortunate manner. That said...
Q's best episode was "Q Who?", where all of his judgements about the arrogance & flaws of humans were played out with the one and only time the Borg were actually mysterious and chilling. After that, he was just a glorified Trelane-esque trickster / pest again, and that was annoying.
I know this is your opinion but mine is Wesley was so hated because he kept showing up trained professionals that were at least nearly twice his age. When he wasn't a wunderkind he was causing the story conflict.
Wes was much better after he entered the Academy.
I love how he turned out in modern Trek, though.
Partially true.
Tapestry (TNG) and Death Wish (VOY) are both magnificent episodes, IMHO.
I will also grant All Good Things.
See also "Gumato/Mugato."
I don't feel it to the same level, but I feel a little of that about Beckett Mariner.
Since this is the controversial thread...
Spock is the racist one, not McCoy. He's always pointing out how illogical humans are, and how superior is the Vulcan way. Most of the times that McCoy is harsh to him, is because Spock had been unnecesarily unpleasant beforehand, or downright hurtful when shown some kindness (for example, the scene in "Bread and Circuses"). Doubly guilty, because Spock does in fact understand emotions, yet uses his apparent lack of them as excuse to hurt others' feelings without the need to say "sorry", because he's just being "logical".
Spock is the racist one, not McCoy. He's always pointing out how illogical humans are, and how superior is the Vulcan way. Most of the times that McCoy is harsh to him, is because Spock had been unnecesarily unpleasant beforehand, or downright hurtful when shown some kindness (for example, the scene in "Bread and Circuses"). Doubly guilty, because Spock does in fact understand emotions, yet uses his apparent lack of them as excuse to hurt others' feelings without the need to say "sorry", because he's just being "logical".
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