What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Tenacity]

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

Travel across the entire Milky Way galaxy in 50 days, Voyager could have used that.

My take, in That Which Survives when the Enterprise was "thrown" a thousand light years, a temporary corridor was briefly left behind, when the Enterprise started back toward the planet it discovered this corridor and made use of it. They never figured out how to recreate such a corridor.

 

[BillJ]

No one should be complaining about Abrams Kirk making captain so quickly anymore. Seven made it to the captain’s chair in about a year.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

We can complain about two things.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

It looks like you are just looking for something to blame TNG for. It created the Borg, it used them a limited amount of times and fewer times than TOS used the Klingons, across twice as many episodes.

Nope. I recognize the point when a concept is used as the "hot thing" and brought back time and again, when Berman, et al., could have let the Borg remain a mysterious, threatening species that never returned. It would have made that era of ST's universe seem creepier with a sense of the Federation truly not knowing what's out there, IOW, as mentioned above, retain the mystery.

I see this as a Darth Maul situation: single purpose villain who worked well in TPM, and was properly killed off to bolster the reputation / build the legend of Obi-Wan, but nope, the $ was stronger than the need for Maul to remain dead, so he returns (rendering Kenobi's victory hollow), when he would never be that one-of-a-kind, single purpose threat ever again. Oh, some might argue Maul was fleshed out as a character in other productions, but the point was that in 1999, he was only intended to be a mysterious antagonist announcing the return of the Sith, and with his death leaving more questions than answers. He was part of that menacing phantom.

 

[fireproof78]

No one should be complaining about Abrams Kirk making captain so quickly anymore. Seven made it to the captain’s chair in about a year.

Kirk was at least a lieutenant. Seven was...

 

[Turtletrekker]

ENT is the sole Trek story since 1997 that made the Borg truly scary again, and it's a one-off prequel story wherein the drones' identity must remain unlearned or even buried so as to preserve 23rd and 24th century official contacts being so important and historic.

But damn, did that episode work. That's how you do Borg episodes, Paramount.

Well, the Borg in Picard season 1 weren't meant to be scary and I actually really liked the direction that they were going in that story. Even the drones themselves were victims of the collective, and I liked that they were exploring and delving into that. Of course, that was before most of them were literally thrown out the airlock.

And, now that I think about it, there was indeed one very scary Borg in Picard season 1 and her name was Seven of Nine for that brief time that she was connected to the cube.

 

[Snowdrop82]

Captain Seven of Nine doesn't make any sense at all to me and I really hated how they did the Enterprise G and brought back the Enterprise D.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Kirk was at least a lieutenant. Seven was...

De Facto Science Officer on the Voyager
Member of the Fenris Rangers
Captain of La Sirena
XO of the Titan

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Seemed like they were trying too hard with Shaw. Once again it was paint by numbers.

Agreed. What I found the most egregious was how they just lazily gave him Sisko's backstory.

That was what I hated about PIC S3. It just constantly regurgitated things I already saw 30 years before.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Agreed. What I found the most egregious was how they just lazily gave him Sisko's backstory.

That was what I hated about PIC S3. It just constantly regurgitated things I already saw 30 years before.

A season of cat's hairballs

 

[BillJ]

De Facto Science Officer on the Voyager
Member of the Fenris Rangers
Captain of La Sirena
XO of the Titan

Never in the chain of command, except a year on Titan. Folks would be going apeshit if Abrams did the same thing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Never in the chain of command, except a year on Titan. Folks would be going apeshit if Abrams did the same thing.

Ran the Rangers and the Sirena. So command experience.

 

[Farscape One]

Not to mention the knowledge and experience of who knows how many assimilated captains, Starfleet and otherwise.

 

[BillJ]

Ran the Rangers and the Sirena. So command experience.

The La Sirena ran itself according to Picard season one. I’m curious how running what seems to amount to a vigilante group makes one ready for a Starfleet XO position, especially with no training?

She was basically dumped on the Titan for memberberries, not any logical reason. Now, inside a year she is commanding the Enterprise.

I’ll take a hearty pass on the whole thing.

 

[Farscape One]

Seven made FAR better sense than Kelvinverse Kirk.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The La Sirena ran itself according to Picard season one. I’m curious how running what seems to amount to a vigilante group makes one ready for a Starfleet XO position, especially with no training?

She was basically dumped on the Titan for memberberries, not any logical reason. Now, inside a year she is commanding the Enterprise.

I’ll take a hearty pass on the whole thing.

She's supervising personnel, resources and logistics. Also involved with tactics and negotiation. All in space.

Now, I think placing Seven on the Titan and Enterprise was dumb. Made no sense for the character we see in Voyager and PIC 1&2. She, Raffi, Elnor and Soji should be ranging in space aboard La Sirena

 

[BillJ]

Seven made FAR better sense than Kelvinverse Kirk.

Neither one ever made a lick of sense.

 

[fireproof78]

The La Sirena ran itself according to Picard season one. I’m curious how running what seems to amount to a vigilante group makes one ready for a Starfleet XO position, especially with no training?

She was basically dumped on the Titan for memberberries, not any logical reason. Now, inside a year she is commanding the Enterprise.

I’ll take a hearty pass on the whole thing.

Indeed. She had no formal training, was basically offered the possibility of Starfleet but decided not to and went rogue. Then she gets placed as an executive officer over several other officers.

At least in Kelvin Universe they just just lost a member world, several ships worth of cadets and trained personnel and Earth survived sn attack.

But, Seven needs to be captain.

She should have had a field commission by Janeway.

 

[Snowdrop82]

If Stewart ever had to leave TNG for some reason I really think Riker would have been a great Captain with Data or Worf as First Officer.

 

[Tallguy]

Never in the chain of command, except a year on Titan. Folks would be going apeshit if Abrams did the same thing.

If Abrams gave Kirk YEARS of experience and adventures before setting foot on the Enterprise? Yes, I would. In all the very best ways.