What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Macintosh]

What I am going by, is Navigator Jose Tyler's comment that the time barrier had been broken. Where I get my twenty fold improvement is from Kirk's comment about how long freighters take to get out there. If the time barrier is broken, then it makes more sense to have done a series about the after affects of that breaking. Twenty fold improvement in speed, is a radical change. Furthermore I am looking at the specifications of the original USS Yorktown, having a maximum speed of 6,400c. I postulate that a 'time warp ' contracts time in a similar way that a space warp contracts linear distance. I am also taking into account another comment about the early Galactic Survey Cruiser Valiant, having weak impulse power. Which implies directly low acceleration, meaning that it took time to get up to speed. Hence the need for a time warp. This implies that the four days for the Enterprise NX-01 to get to the Klingon home world, is reasonable. "Acceleration " is a component to the warp field.

Yes, I've seen "The Cage", I just don't think that line tallies with virtually everything else we've seen about the way warp travel works even in TOS, and should probably be ignored.

6400c would be absurdly fast in Star Trek terms – around warp 9.985 on the TNG scale and over ten times the original 1701's top speed of warp 8 on the TOS scale.

 

[cooleddie74]

I look at José Tyler's comment as an implication that warp engines since 2236 somehow got significantly faster thanks to some unspecified improvement made since the S.S. Columbia crashed on Talos IV.

 

[BillJ]

6400c would be absurdly fast in Star Trek terms – around warp 9.985 on the TNG scale and over ten times the original 1701's top speed of warp 8 on the TOS scale.

In “That Which Survives”, the Enterprise covers a thousand light years in 12 hours.

 

[Nerys Myk]

In “That Which Survives”, the Enterprise covers a thousand light years in 12 hours.

When the flux capacitor interacts with the oscillation overthruster...

 

[fireproof78]

Really lost me at the Jaws "homage".

This. I thought the protest against Star Trek was too much 21st century people, like Raffi or Clancy or Rios. They swore too much, drank too much, were too flawed to fit in to the utopian 24th century. That Picard should be past his trauma with the Borg.

But, then Shaw is inspired by a 20th century horror movie character with deep flaws and trauma out the shuttlebay, requesting an XB as his XO, yet treat her poorly, and I'm supposed to accept this as the 25th century and be entertained?

 

[cooleddie74]

In “That Which Survives”, the Enterprise covers a thousand light years in 12 hours.

And the fact the only explanation is ever "well, Losira sabotaged the warp engines to make it possible" still works and perfectly. Advanced Kalandan technology made it possible for a mid-23rd century starship to travel almost 1,000 light years in half a day.

 

[BillJ]

And the fact the only explanation is ever "well, Losira sabotaged the warp engines to make it possible" still works and perfectly. Advanced Kalandan technology made it possible for a mid-23rd century starship to travel almost 1,000 light years in half a day.

She zapped them out, but I don’t remember any feeling of things being out of the ordinary when they head back. That covering that much distance was unusual.

 

[cooleddie74]

I just head canon that they were able to briefly replicate the alterations to get back to the planetoid to rescue Kirk, McCoy and Sulu and then the tech was disposed of as being too risky and dangerous for Starfleet.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I just head canon that they were able to briefly replicate the alterations to get back to the planetoid to rescue Kirk, McCoy and Sulu and then the tech was disposed of as being too risky and dangerous for Starfleet.

Off to the Raider's warehouse with that!

 

[cooleddie74]

Along with spore hub drive technology, transwarp drive, the Genesis Device, Federation cloaking technology, the secret to Kirk's hair....

 

[Nerys Myk]

Along with spore hub drive technology, transwarp drive, the Genesis Device, Federation cloaking technology, the secret to Kirk's hair....

You want androids? They got androids! You want speed water? They got speed water! You want TK pills? They got TK pills!!!!

 

[cooleddie74]

Starfleet wouldn't even reveal what was in the Delphic Expanse after it ceased to exist. Even before the Federation existed Starfleet was a better coverup artist than the CIA, MI6 and KGB combined.

 

[fireproof78]

Starfleet wouldn't even reveal what was in the Delphic Expanse after it ceased to exist. Even before the Federation existed Starfleet was a better coverup artist than the CIA, MI6 and KGB combined.

When you control all the news outlets it's much easier.

And the fact the only explanation is ever "well, Losira sabotaged the warp engines to make it possible" still works and perfectly. Advanced Kalandan technology made it possible for a mid-23rd century starship to travel almost 1,000 light years in half a day.

Star Trek fans: the spore drive is too fast.

Me:

 

[cooleddie74]

The Enterprise-A got to the center of our galaxy so fast that Sybok's engine modifications were also buried by Starfleet Intelligence, it seems.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Enterprise-A got to the center of our galaxy so fast that Sybok's engine modifications were also buried by Starfleet Intelligence, it seems.

Sybok's modifications were way beyond the Kelvan modifications that were gonna get the E-OG to Andromeda. Of course they got buried!

 

[Firebird]

Yeah, the lighting across all three seasons of PIC sucked and the lighting in all five seasons of DSC was even worse.

I will say the lighting on season 1 of Discovery wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered on a recent rewatch. It was really once the show went to full 2.35:1 anamorphic beginning with season 2 that it got worse. Chasing that "it's gotta be CINEMATIC!!!!" high has been to the detriment of the franchise.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I really don't have issue with more episodes of "The Borg" as along as they delve into it with greater detail and don't retread the same plot points.

Which they didn't. Each time, they approached "The Borg" topic from a different angle and I appreciated that.

It gave them depth and it showed in ST:PIC that the Ex-B's are victims of the Borg and that the survivors of Assimilation are just as much victims that need compassion and help to return to individual lives.

 

[Snowdrop82]

It's possible that saucers and nacelles ARE the alien influence.

In what way?

 

[cooleddie74]

Nacelles in the ENT and SNW/TOS eras are clearly descended from the tiny nacelles on Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix, so the nacelles are largely Terracentric. The spikier, longer ones might have more of a design influence from other Federation member worlds but we don't know that in canon.

Saucers seem to be pretty much Earth's idea, starting with the NX-class but even the Intrepid-class warp vessels in service in Starfleet in that timeframe had partial saucers. Seems to me most Starfleet ships from the mid-22nd century to the Picard/Sisko/Janeway era take most of their design cues from humans.

 

[Snowdrop82]

I also have the opinion that STO feels way too over-saturated with too much content and the like.