Random Star Trek discussion

It’d have to be an anti-electron or it’d go *boom*.

Neutrons.
Neutrons would skate gleefully through an anti-matter stream.
And they'd gum up the works.

Could decide if I should put this here or the random meme thread in the red room. In the end, I guess it belongs here.

I've seen "Errand Of Mercy" a squillion times, and this is the first time I noticed the green goat in the background when they're talking to the Organian the first time.


They have to have green goats on Lower Decks now.

Lower Decks improves on Trek because of their use of past Trek. Stupid Ferangi whip, fixed. Bad monkey costume, fixed. There's a few other things that I can't remember.

Hey, wait....the Organians human forms were mental holograms, so they didn't need to farm, so the green goats....were other Organians!

Maybe or maybe they just wanted a farm or the goats are indigenous to that planet.

Quinn: I travelled the road many times, sat on the porch, played the games, been the dog, everything. I was even the scarecrow for a while.

Capt. Janeway: Why?

Quinn: Because I hadn’t done it.

Q: Oh, we’ve all done the scarecrow! Big deal!”

Here's a piece of Early Installment Weirdness that's jumping out at me in TNG Season 1 right now: the way the characters just keep referring to each other by last name only.

I wonder if there was a single point when somebody gave the direction to start writing "Counselor," "Mister LaForge," etc., or if it just gradually shifted without any conscious choice.

As a military person, it's not that weird to me and it wouldn't make my top 50 list of complaints about that particular season.

Well, that's probably why it took so long for me to register it. Got most of the other weird bits out of the way on past rewatches.

A Star Trek movie directed by Brannagh? That could be interesting.

Eh, it's not like the first Thor blew my nips off or anything.


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How comes Prime Spock and Nero and Nero's crew didn't start dying like Georgiou when they travelled through time and also to an alternate timeline?

I could see Nero and his crew being fine since technically they didn't travel to an alternate timeline so much as they created one themselves, but Spock definitely did. Is it not a problem if you only go back a century or so? Or within your own lifetime? Maybe it came up between movies and having Quinto Spock right there helped them fix things.

Yabut, the Mouse Rules All. They don't give a shit who you are, you work for them and do it their way. We're talking about a studio that survived a decade or so of absolute bombs that would have killed most other movie companies (Heaven's Gate killed one studio, and it was just a single picture).

Paramount is desperate to turn Trek into a powerhouse like Marvel and Star Wars (both of whom are owned by the Mouse). I imagine that they'd be a little more flexible if someone like Brannagh wanted to helm something Trek, if for no other reason than they could get better talent working for them in the future. Disney can snag all kinds of folks right now, not only because it's a guaranteed paycheck, but actors with kids know that they can do at least one movie that their kids can see. (That's the whole reason Jeremy Irons agreed to do Dungeons and Dragons, BTW.)

Because Kurtzman can't even keep up with his own writing.

DS9's "Melora" is on, and Melora and Dax discuss "subspace relationships".
Meaning zoom and e-mail.

Um....why in Trek did they never network 2 holodecks for virtual sex?

Or any of the millions of other things you could use that for?

We have online gaming NOW!

Why can't they network holodecks?
Why?!?!?
Why?!?!?!

Timelines cone out forward into the future.
Going backward you're going toward the pointy end of the cone, so should be fine.

Starfleet only adopted reliable 3D holocommunicator technology during the middle of DS9s fifth season. It was probably commonplace after that.

That's probably being saved for Lower Decks Season 3

VOY's "Favorite Son" is on.

The doors on Teresia look like vaginas.

And then the vagina door gets re-used later on for Borg Queen's throne room.

Now, the BTS reason is obviously the set designers thought all female villains needed pussy doors.

My head-canon, is the Borg assimilated some Teresian ships, and every cube the Queen happened to be on had Teresian doors.

'Are you kidding, you do that and you're gonna come out with three heads and none of them are gonna be yours.'

Maybe that's how subspace relationships work.

Easy solution: Disney buys Paramount. Star Trek then gets incorporated into the Marvel and Star Wars universes. Hell, it's been done in comics.

7 'STAR TREK' COMIC CROSSOVERS THAT MADE EVERY NERD LOSE THEIR MINDS

I'm still waiting for my Fortress Tiberius figure.

"The Changeling" is on, and almost over.

It just occurred to me, timeline wise, Chapel remembers the events of Strange New Worlds before we've even gotten to see them.

But thanks to Nomad, Uhura doesn't.
Fuck you, Nomad.

It's so insulting that Uhura was completely back to normal by the next week, like that's how simple and shallow her mind was in the first place, not to mention how easy her job must have been.

I'll watch episodes of TOS and Enterprise at night when I've gone to bed to fall asleep to. Started watching The Changeling Monday of last week, would fall asleep, then rewind to where I fell asleep. Took until Wednesday of this week to get through it.

Random TNG question:

It seems pretty common for the person at Tactical to do things that don't have anything to do with security or weapons. The most obvious example is opening hailing frequencies, but there are others ... reporting on the sensors gets tossed around from chair to chair, often landing at Tactical, and in "Descent, Part II," Lt. Barnaby keeps doing things like making navigational calculations while the person at Conn isn't even pictured. (Granted, since they're running on a skeleton crew, maybe he's just more experienced than the Conn person. Weirdly, while he's doing navigation stuff, Taitt keeps reporting on shield status from the science station.)

Anyway. Is this because the captain and tactical officer fit in a single shot more easily than the captain and anyone at one of the forward stations? Or possibly because an idle Conn or Ops officer could easily be cut out of the shot, but Tactical couldn't be, therefore Yar/Worf/whoever needed to be given extra things to do so that they weren't just awkwardly standing there while Picard and Riker did stuff?

Jesus, "Cogenitor" again already?
The Enterpises roll around really fucking fast.

Talk about episodes that haven't aged well...just a complete yikes all around and is *still* on the better end of season 2 offerings.