What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[cooleddie74]

Hell, in my Trek fan films one of them references a chemical explosive used on Federation mining colonies that's powerful enough in very small, humanoid hand-sized quantities to take out a chunk of a starship. It's not just something that's canon but a concept used in Trek fanfilms.

 

[Tallguy]

It's a mining ship with 24th century tech. So it's probably got some power and capabilities that a ship 150ish years earlier does not. Ok.

And then it is not only completely unstoppable but it takes out how many present day starships (it was a bunch, right?) in a matter of minutes. Almost including the brand new Enterprise which absolutely cannot stand against it.

This isn't The Final Countdown. This is what if instead of the Nimitz going back in time to flight in Pearl Harbor it was the oil tanker from 1976's King Kong.

 

[Nyotarules]

Kovich/Daniels in Season 3 of DSC confirms this when he's explaining the time soldier Yor and says that he comes from a reality created by the temporal incursion of a Romulan mining ship.

The reality was already in existence, if Nero did not turn up Kirk would either be born on the ship with no drama or if it was a premature birth, he would be born on the ship a few weeks later or on Earth. Unless the writers mean he changed the reality he ended up in not created the reality.

 

[Nyotarules]

Just a reminder, that when posting your controversial opinion, you do not have to justify it, even when asked. This is the whole idea behind the thread.
Carry on.

 

[1001001]

Just a reminder, that when posting your controversial opinion, you do not have to justify it, even when asked. This is the whole idea behind the thread.
Carry on.

Indeed.

That last page was painful.

 

[Tallguy]

That last page was painful.

Surely there has been worse.

 

[1001001]

Surely there has been worse.

 

[DarthTimon]

I don't know if it's controversial, but I certainly believe it was wrong of Paramount/Berman to restrict the Dominion occupation of Deep Space Nine to six episodes. I think Ira Stephen Behr wanted to do a season-long arc, and the studio wanted the occupation wrapped up by the first two. The 'compromise' was six, but imagine the story-telling potential with a whole season of Dukat, Weyoun and co, and the reactions from Kira, Odo etc.

 

[korblborp]

Surely there has been worse.

so, about whether starfleet is a military or not....








:P

 

[Bad Thoughts]

so, about whether starfleet is a military or not....








:P

Starfleet is not a military.

It patrols the borders.
It defends against invasion.
It invades the space of other weapons.
It conducts blockades.
Its ships carry numerous weapon platforms.
It can lay waste to a planet's surface.
It can order wholesale destruction of cities.
It can conduct commando missions.

So it is not a military. Someone will defend this to the death (but not me).

 

[137th Gebirg]