What Scene Drives You Crazy
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I can't believe that the Federation with it's highly ethical culture, would routinely kill and replace people.
When Worf had his back broken, why not just casually kill him off and create a copy with a uninjured back? Because live is meaningless to the Federation.
Bread and Circuses doesn't work unless the words son and sun sound the same, which they don't in most languages.
Nor me. Which is why the act of disintegrating a person down to the molecular level and annihilating those molecules into energy as a means of transport makes little to no sense, IMO.
How about this. The salt vampires were once a technological star-fairing species. One of their starship encountered Trelanes planet many centuries before, the stuffed salt vampire was the ship's captain who fought Trelane with swords and lost, Trelane murdered the crew and destroyed the ship.
Trelane keep the captain's body as a trophy, like a small child might keep a captured butterfly.
Somehow I can't see a Salt Vampire engaging in a sword fight. It would just try to kill Trelane like the Enterprise crew were killed.
Not sure what the big deal is about aliens all appearing to speak English in TOS (or any other incarnation of Trek). There are numerous examples in film (including ST: The Undiscovered Country even) where characters are initially shown speaking a foreign language in a particular scene, and then suddenly appear to "switch" to English, when clearly the intention is that the switch is strictly for the benefit of the audience. It is meant to be understood that the characters are still speaking their native tongue, but for the benefit of the audience, English is heard.
The way they had Kalara speak in ST: Beyond (i.e. a translated voice overlaid over a subdued original) is another solution, but I found that annoying and unnecessary
The way they had Kalara speak in ST: Beyond (i.e. a translated voice overlaid over a subdued original) is another solution, but I found that annoying and unnecessary
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Well of course it's a more agreeable arrangement, but apart from the instances mentioned (the inconsistency was the mistake), they stayed fixed in the beam. "They can't do a thing till they're done sparklin'!" (Piece of the Action)
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These details are good for science fiction, helping to avoid the impression of magic, of "anything goes". The process has limitations. That's interesting.
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Whether you want to see it as conversion from matter to energy and back to matter again, or as their being disassembled and reassembled molecule by molecule (both are talked about), it's a bit hard to move your head and talk while your very existence is being messed with.
As in take off running down the street? No, they'd have to stop sparkling for that.
Has any Star Trek ever done otherwise?It's truly remarkable how the customs and attitudes of the 2260s reflect that of an earlier century...
Artificial gravity going wonky.
Perhaps a philosophy of "let children be children?"
Look at the music chosen in the 24th century. Nothing seemingly unique to that century, chamber music, jazz, some opera ... and what else?It's truly remarkable how the customs and attitudes of the 2260s reflect that of an earlier century...
It's a culture that looks backwards, the selections of what to do in the holodeck shows this.
That reminds me of a great essay by Lukas Kendall, the Film Score Monthly soundtrack producer, in which he referenced the music ST characters listen to:
http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/11/editorial-the-future-of-star-trek-its-the-story-stupid/
Emphasis added. The whole article is worth reading, btw.
Lukas wrote "interplanetary space travel," so you'd be right, but he meant FTL interstellar travel, and how that looks to remain impossible.
People in physics would LOVE to find a way to break the light barrier. Breaking the laws of physics takes more than a little "gumption", though.
