Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Hard science fiction is difficult to pull off. It requires a level of expertise that most writers simply do not have or care to research.
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Adhering to true science can just be detrimental to story telling at times though. If you really get down and try factoring something like relativity into the universe the whole thing just falls apart. There’s a balance between respecting science and knowing how to tell a good story, and Star Trek used to strike that balance quite nicely.
 
Gay Sex Enjoyer said:
Why did they make her tickle Worfs pickle anyway

Leave the lonely single dad alone, Old man.
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Bringing Michael back was basically contingent on, "OK but I get to hook up with Dax."

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The fate of the franchise hinged on one guy's willingness to put rubber on his head.
 
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Whiskey said:
How cloaking works is more mysterious...it must be based more on magic then science as I can't come up with a reason for why you can't cloak and have shields active.
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Iirc it's something to do with power consumption/heat generation.

Apparently the ships in Trek work on FNAF door logic, but hey at least they acknowledge the concept a little bit. Most sci-fi pretends that heat management in space just doesn't exist lmao.
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Ultraman Orb Dark said:
"Something something Treaty of Algernon" is my guess.
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Yeah, but thats a bullshit excuse. They are in a completely different quadrant. Their use does not impact the Romulans, nor do the romans need to find out. Just build it, use it, and destroy it upon reaching the alpha quadrant. Scrub all mentions of it from the logs. Viola no treaty violation.
 
khaine said:
Yeah, but thats a bullshit excuse. They are in a completely different quadrant. Their use does not impact the Romulans, nor do the romans need to find out. Just build it, use it, and destroy it upon reaching the alpha quadrant. Scrub all mentions of it from the logs. Viola no treaty violation.
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Eventually Voyager did, in the original Endgame timeline. Janeway's super shuttle was filled with the tech the Voyager crew designed over decades, including a cloak good enough to elude the Borg.
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
A lot of TV shows are written by different writers who never consult with each other. It's rare when a TV show has the same writers over a long period of time. Some shows do actually hire someone to be the "loremaster" who keeps things consistent, but it doesn't always work. Writers want to stake their claim and "be creative," which is why they will sometimes take a very straightforward book and change a bunch of random shit in the adaptation
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Yes, that was exactly my point. Such a system works when the series is set up to allow it. If the show is a bunch of stand alone episodes that's fine. But when the show is supposed to be unified, where 1 episode flows into the next, it undermines the whole effort.
 
Whiskey said:
Each ship has shields (or nearly every ship) so by default you have a invisible energy bubble around you to start with. Changing how opaque it is shouldn't really be that hard if thats your starting point. That wouldn't be true cloaking and you could be scanned but it would throw off a lot of the lower tech civilizations.
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So you're saying it's... two-dimensional thinking?
khaine said:
Yeah, but thats a bullshit excuse. They are in a completely different quadrant. Their use does not impact the Romulans, nor do the romans need to find out. Just build it, use it, and destroy it upon reaching the alpha quadrant. Scrub all mentions of it from the logs. Viola no treaty violation.
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That's absurd. A Starfleet officer needs to stay true to their beliefs and not use technology stolen from their enemies. Now get back to scrubbing Borg nanoprobes onto Voyager’s hull.
 
I'm starting to really like the Shangri-La class (or the Titan-A/Enterprise-G if it had TMP nacelles). Would've made a neat Enterprise-A instead of just using the refit again, if it had existed and there had been room in the budget for a new ship model.
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Curzon Dax-sama said:
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This Everyone-dude is clearly in the right for wanting that.
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Jadzia in the Risa episode made me feel things, like if the Excelsior-class were a person. With spots. And shimmering.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
ATTENTION KIWI FARMS POSTERS:
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This thread is an Ezri appreciation thread. Any talk of Jadzia being superior will be met with extreme force.
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Terry Farrell was more commanding hot. Nicole de Boer was a cutie pie. They were both hot, but in different ways.

De Boer was more endearing, but she also got better direction.
 
RLM's tangent about Starfleet Academy and it's description of the episode where everyone swaps races lead me to actually bother to look up stuff from the last couple seasons of Discovery and whatnot. David Cronenberg appeared in multiple episodes of Discovery's last season. Playing Crewman Daniels from Enterprise of all things. The new host of the Dax symbiont is also apparently in Starfleet Academy. How weird.
 
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