What polarity can we reverse today?

capnq · #1 May 18th, 2001, 05:25 PM

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Also the ST foundation was laid in the 60's and they have had to find a way to update it, without throwing out the basic ideas laid down in the past. It wouldnn't make sense for exammple, if the TNG warp drive was different than the TOS warp drive because of some discovery made in the 1990's would it?

OTOH, that hasn't stopped them from changing what the warp speed numbers mean from series to series. That was a deliberate decision by someone, not a continuity error.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

geoschmo · #2 May 18th, 2001, 06:44 PM

What was it they called in the the 'cage' pilot episode..."Time wrap factor" I think.

At least we didn't have to put up with that for 30 years. lol

Trachmyr · #3 May 19th, 2001, 12:31 AM

I'm curious, has anyone seen the new show Andromeda... if so what do you think about it? Personally I like it quite a bit, it seems "up-to-date" on tech (although still sci-fi), armor not shields... missiles are kings & you better have point defense... nanotech everywhere... lots of genetic manipulation, etc. I'll admit the "slipstream" is a bit hokey, but o'well.

I watched TNG, I liked DS9 best but Voy is decent. B5 rules though!

raynor · #4 May 19th, 2001, 01:13 AM

Who is your favorite arch-villain from the four ST series? Trellane (sp?) certainly had flair. Holo Moriarty was good. But my favorite is still omnipotent Q. Do you remember the episode when Q causes the warp core breech just to test if the child of two Q has their powers? When they asked Q what would have happened if she hadn't contained the explosion that would have destroyed the entire ship, Q replied,"Well, then I would have known she wasn't a Q"

Of course, the ultimate villain was whichever writer ignored the pleas of all of us asking for the death of Wesley Crusher and instead deified him... *sigh*

dogscoff · #5 May 21st, 2001, 09:50 AM

Yeah, I likd Q as well bcause he wasn't so much evil, just Subscribed to a whole different set of priorities.

Lore was pretty good as well- nothing like an evil doppleganger to mix things up=-)

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Puke · #6 May 21st, 2001, 09:54 PM

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Originally posted by raynor:
Who is your favorite arch-villain from the four ST series?

would have to be that danm singing hologram Vic Fontaine, or perhaps that dingle Rick Borman who gave him so much air time and is ARSING UP all things trek-ish.

anybody watch space above and beyond? was that one mentioned earlier?

rdouglass · #7 May 22nd, 2001, 06:56 PM

My fav is Harry Mudd.....