What is THE Worst continuity error in Trek history..?!
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And they can probably trade with friendly alien races for replicator energy sources. If aliens give them energy, they can replicate whatever they need.
Considering the replicators generally work by refashioning bulk material into new patterns, they wouldn't really need to trade with anyone. Just fly through a nebula here or there to fill up the matter tanks or skim the atmosphere of a gas giant or two. Hell, they could probably re-stock their cargo bays from the Malon garbage dumps if radiation shielding wasn't a problem.
It's just, a little effort to SHOW this happening wouldn't be missed. They made a big deal in season one about replicator rations and Neelix turning Janeway's dining room into a kitchen because they were short on supplies... what's the point of that if your replicators seem to be working just fine anyway?
It's just, a little effort to SHOW this happening wouldn't be missed. They made a big deal in season one about replicator rations and Neelix turning Janeway's dining room into a kitchen because they were short on supplies... what's the point of that if your replicators seem to be working just fine anyway?
Well, you also knew that the lovable ex-royal Rygal was handling that issue as established in early episodes.
Depends on which episode you watch. There's roughly a 500 year margin of error.
That's my feeling. Does it have to happen? No. Does it build continuity in a meaningful and realistic way? Yes, absolutely.
We saw the characters discussing it, we saw them talking about the consequences of trade, and the actual items traded for.
Also, VOY mentioned Neelix negotiating all the time. That is the least of the continuity errors there.
Bingo. Given that it was the 60s, I'm guessing somebody was thinking Westerns and assumed that Spock was Tonto, a loyal native sidekick from a planet colonized by Earth.
Or Gunga Din, or Kato, or . . ..
The idea, on the writer's part, was probably that Earth had "conquered" space and assimilated a few friendly alien races. It was a momentary burp of old-school Western imperialism.
Obviously, that notion didn't stick, leaving that line to stand out like a sore thumb.
Certain things they did with Vulcan culture in Enterprise. Like Vulcans not touching food with their bare hands. Or mindmelds being illegal and a societal taboo during that time.
Except for "The Squire of Gothos", which takes place in the 27th Century.
Are there particular episodes that indicate Vulcans do touch their food and mind melds were legal in the 22nd Century?
No, I guess there are not any episodes that support Vulcan eating habits or customs about mind melding in the 22nd century. Sorry.
Edited to add. The thing about the not touching food is no biggie. However the plot about mindmelds still seems off to me. Like I said, there is nothing to support that Vulcans had always practiced melding. But IMO mindmelding seemed like such a part of Vulcan culture as indicated in the 4 series that came before Enterprise (which was a prequel). It just doesn't seem right to me that just a century before the original series, melders were social outcasts.
This is just my take on the subject, maybe I didn't explain it very well. It's just I can almost see the writers saying "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we took a plot point about Vulcan culture and turned it on it's ear".
Edited to add. The thing about the not touching food is no biggie. However the plot about mindmelds still seems off to me. Like I said, there is nothing to support that Vulcans had always practiced melding. But IMO mindmelding seemed like such a part of Vulcan culture as indicated in the 4 series that came before Enterprise (which was a prequel). It just doesn't seem right to me that just a century before the original series, melders were social outcasts.
This is just my take on the subject, maybe I didn't explain it very well. It's just I can almost see the writers saying "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we took a plot point about Vulcan culture and turned it on it's ear".
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Mind melds being outlawed ended up being explained in the Vulcan Civil War arc, so I'm okay with that now.
The idea was that in TOS, the Federation was really the "Earth Federation", a benign Terran Empire. Humans had been one of the first one to invent Warp Drive and had gone out there. They'd make aliens they encountered weak partners in their group instead of conquering them outright.
The Klingons were supposed to have been another species that had developed Warp Drive around the same time and been expanding as Humans did, but with conquest instead of offering membership.
By TNG, they'd changed their minds on a lot of this.
TOS seems pretty vague on this and most things. Information varied from episode to episode. Trying to establish a clear and concrete continuity from TOS is akin to herding cats.
Neelix mentions it specifically in Workforce Part 1 when he, Chakotay and Harry are returning to the ship from a trading mission. Harry is queasy from something he ate that had meat in it. He asks Neelix why Chakotay didn't have any and Neelix said because it was because he's a vegetarian.
Does resurrecting dead threads happen more around Halloween?
My pick has to be the time/speed/distance thing. Going by TOS "That Which Survives" and the movie STV: TFF, the old Enterprise could have made Voyager's journey or crossed the distance of the wormhole in a month or less. That renders the ENTIRE PREMISE of both spin-offs moot! They can't possibly coexist in the same continuity. And there are loads of other examples:
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