All posts by Hurga

The question "how would historic person X react to Star Trek phenomen Y" is at least as valid and interesting as the 157th poll "what do you think about episode z".

It tells me more about the OP and the commentors than many other topics, not only as persons in general, but very much as trekkies in particular.

And even if not, if this question is what is obviousely deeply concerning M.K.M. right now, and it's at least remotely related to Trek, here is the place to ask it.

Heck, even if the topic were not related to Star Trek at all (wich is not the case here), I would argue that asking our opinion from a specific "trekkie" POV, would be a valid question and should be allowed.

Plus, you should never hold back your opinion for fearing it is "unpopular".

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Or rather, different tastes make for great debates, as long as everybody stays serious, civilized and non-personal.

I'm a fan of The Animated Series, I rank ENT high and VOY low in the tier of the Berman era shows, I think Turnabout Intruder is a great episode and LD is better than SNW. "Unpopular"? Perhaps, but why should that matter?

Every opinion is valid. Preferably, you should be able to tell us your reasons. At the end of the day, meeting different people with different opnions and having a friendly debate is the very reason for coming to an online forum.

Nice. My first question would be, is there a minifigure scale bridge inside the saucer? It would be technically possible.

I didn't read the linked site - it required me to accept tracking cookies, wich I do only as a last resort. Perhaps will do some time with VPN activated.

But well, I think the Galaxy class is a great ship design, it's perfect for continuing (exploration) missions, which was the main statement of OP, and everything Scyphi said just echoes the same reasoning.

Anne Frank as presented in the diaries (which may have been edited to some extent by Otto Frank before publishing) was a very positive, but also very open minded, thoughtful and critical character.

She would have welcomed the basic priciples of the Federation, but also would have been very open about pointing out its shortcomings,

such as adhering to the prime directive even when the pre warp people will die in the result, the ban of genetically enhanced people, even if the procedure was not consensual, abandoning federation colonies in Cardassian space in the Cardassian peace treaty, the actions of Section 31, the overall expansionist tendencies of the Federation, you name it.

All of these exist for a reason, they are necessary storytelling devices. A "perfect" federation would be just boring (which was one of the reasons Roddenberry was so difficult to work with). Characters in the series having problems with these and other features of the federation have been the central plot point in many episodes, and a person with a high social sensivity like Anne Frank (as presented in the diaries) would see these problems and would not keep silent about them.

I remember you used "artificial universe" in the first version of your post, I see no reason to change this to "AU". Why make it ambigous? And no, Google AI is not a valid source for anything. It can be a useful first step for further research, but nothing more.

But well, that's just debating words, not really the point.

The official and correct place for fan fic is Memory Gamma. This is where you should post your finished stories. You can also discuss your ideas there, but frankly, there's not much traffic over there, so it has become unofficial "common law" to put the discussion at Memory Alpha. Still, Memory Gamma is where you should put the story. You still can put a short announcement here.

As for ideas...

A - Well, most AUs in Star Trek are "timelines", i.e a history-changing pivot event has two outcomes, resulting in two different "directions" of history, each making its own universe. Well known examples are the Kelvin timeline and the timeline where Edith Keeler survived, resulting in the Nazis winning WWII. The latter has not been explored very much, you could use this as your background.

But I think about half of the TOS episodes have some interesting opportunities for "What-if" questions, every one of them can be made into an AU.

B - This is, however not true for every AU in Star Trek. The most famous AU is probably the Mirror universe, and this is never explained as a different "timeleline". The Terran empire has not just taken a different turn in history. Terrans are inherently different from the Humans of the prime universe. Even the physics seem to be different (the light is "darker").

So, you can come up with practically anything, it's still in the scope of the Star Trek concept.

To get ideas, you could just think about other sci fir franchises you like - Star Wars, Battlestar, Flash Gordon, Captain Future, Lexx, Perry Rhodan, Dune, Star Gate etc. - and think what aspects you like in particular and how you could transfer them into Star Trek to make a whole new universe.

I think she looks too angry and sceptical, I always perceived Tendy as a throughout positive character.

I have no idea what "aged in termes of performance & action" even means.

People who don't like Beyond normally have a problem with the Kelvin timeliine in general. I actually like all three of the Kelvin films (I like St 09 the best, but the others are actually good, too).

I was impressed how they managed to find actors who actually looked like younger versions of the originals, which they didn't even bother to try in New Trek. Plus, knewing they would inevitably break canon, they went the extra mile to give a good in universe explanation by introducing an alternative timeline, again, a point that New Trek didn't even bother to give a second thought (I'm looking expecially at DIS and PIC here, not for the alternative timeline part, but for the breaking canon part).

Dark Page - practically a ghost story, and it aired the day after halloween.

If I would have too much time on my hand (i.e. probably never) I would search through the lists and look for episodes aired around holidays that at least maybe are themed towards that holiday.

Catspaw is the only episode that is confirmed to have been deliberately made as a halloween special, as much as I know.

Get well soon.

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Dif-tor heh smusma!

Though I'm not a tea person, watching some Star Trek would certainly make me better.

Nice!

I envy people who have the skills and equipment to sew.

If Khan counts, Khan episode 2 would be both the latest released and the latest "watched" (heared) by me.

If audio plays don't count, the latest released I saw would be Scouts, the episode with the meatball asteroid incident (Scouts seem not to have proper names for their episodes?). The episode I watched most recently was What are Little Girls Made Of (was looking for the real first interracial kiss in ST).

@Icecreamdif - of course, and of course I noticed that. Just thought the original question was ambigous. In a good way.

I like him a lot, but still think he's overrated, just because his rating is so unrealistically high.

I have no problem with that. Anson Mount is a true sunnyboy by all means, and he's still a talented actor. He and his fans deserve the hype.

And Christopher Pike is a good captain, no doubt. Serving under him would not only be an honor, but also fun.

I just think his fan rating exceeds his deeds.

(Well, at least this my experience in my own social "bubble", which includes some truly "fan"atic Pike fans).

The "latest" episode as in the latest episode by release date I ever watched?

If so, congrats to The Creek for being consequent and staying away fron New Trek.

Or the episode out of them all I watched most recently?

Fascinating.

Same date as my grandfather and my sister.

So, I will definitely remember his birthday.

Congrats, Doc.

Matala?

Been there 2014. The original Hippie vibe was very obviousely a tourist show by then, but that's true for Risa, too, to some degree.

By the way, Picard is the better Captain, but Janeway has the better Caffeine source.

Also, Picard is not so much "British" as just cultivated and well mannered. There are many French people, as well as other non British people all over the world, who appreciate Earl Gray and value Shaespeare. Picard also likes Mozart, this doesn't make him "Austrian".

I don't know how noticeable Sir Patrick's British accent is in the show (I'm not an English native speaker), but he is just an actor, after all. It's not a trait of Picard as written as a character.

"An obscure language" is not a dead language.

It just means it is little known - wich would be normal, on a galactic scale.

There's no hint at all anywhere in the franchise that French is considered a dead language. Or German, Spanish, Arab, Russian, Chinese or any other specific Earth language.

English has become the Federation Standard - while we are given no canon in-universe reason, it's not hard to find one - perhaps it was a tradition carried on from UNO, or just because first contact happened in Montana.

The real reason is of course Star Trek is filmed in the US by English speaking authors, actors and staff, and at least at first with an US audience in mind.

But we learn in the very first episode, that other languages are still spoken on Earth - namely Swahili. As for French, Trilaine speaks French with De Salle, so it's not just Data, Picard and Hoshi.

Federation Standard is just the language used in interplanetary communication.

Same is true for other people.

The "official" Klingon, i.e. the Klingon we know, as developed by Mark Orkrand and used in the shows and films, is the dialect of the house of the ruling head of state. This is the language the Klingon Empire uses in interplanetary communication. There are many other local variants wich differ considerably from "High Klingon" (The Klingon Dictionary, P. 11).