Moving to Trek when they need a paycheck. Moving as far away as possible when they don’t.
General Trek Questions and Observations
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Moving to Trek when they need a paycheck. Moving as far away as possible when they don’t.
Here's a Trek question...
If you had to fight a duel, using a Star Trek melee weapon (assume your opponent is identically armed), do you choose...
A. A Vulcan lirpa ("Amok Time")
B. A Klingon bat'leth (numerous episodes)
C. An Andorian ushaan-tor ("United")
D. A Jem'Hadar kar'takin ("To the Death)
If you had to fight a duel, using a Star Trek melee weapon (assume your opponent is identically armed), do you choose...
A. A Vulcan lirpa ("Amok Time")
B. A Klingon bat'leth (numerous episodes)
C. An Andorian ushaan-tor ("United")
D. A Jem'Hadar kar'takin ("To the Death)
What about the Ahn-woon?
I think I'd go for the lirpa.
It has the longest range of the 4 choices, which can be quite an advantage when used properly. (The bat'leth also has decent range of these options, but the lirpa edges out because it's event longer.)
Plus it has a club built in!
I would first attempt to startle with them with my infamous Sicilian rattleshake, then try to de-escalate the situation. TREK is more often not about antagonistic death, but ultimately flying leg kicks and life. In that way it has the cake it eats.
"Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, and her five year mission to explore strange new worlds, and seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
Not a word about character development...
Technology, yes.
Do pay attention.
As opposed to Ben Hur, first century Anno Domini. Spears check. Swords check. Shields check. People check. Horses check...
Exploration? No check.
In depth character development? Check. It is after all, a long story.
Highly dense sentence structure? Check.
No, comparison to Star Trek. Star Trek wasn't supposed to be light entertainment, but heavy. Situation comedy is light entertainment.
Drama? Some, but not at soap opera levels.
Was Star Trek supposed to be on current science of the 1960s? No. But extrapolation there of.
I refer you to the original prolog of 2,001: A Space Odyssey. Not the one in the novel.
Let's see if I can remember something of it.
'Between the first and last decades of the twentieth century, lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived...'
In other words Arthur C. Clarke, and company were expecting great changes to come. They were expecting that aliens 4,000,000 years plus ahead of us would have found out far more than what one would expect based upon 1960s science. To assume that you understand all things, because the science won't change, when in the last two hundred years, it has changed, is a problem.
Not a word about character development...
Technology, yes.
Do pay attention.
As opposed to Ben Hur, first century Anno Domini. Spears check. Swords check. Shields check. People check. Horses check...
Exploration? No check.
In depth character development? Check. It is after all, a long story.
Highly dense sentence structure? Check.
No, comparison to Star Trek. Star Trek wasn't supposed to be light entertainment, but heavy. Situation comedy is light entertainment.
Drama? Some, but not at soap opera levels.
Was Star Trek supposed to be on current science of the 1960s? No. But extrapolation there of.
I refer you to the original prolog of 2,001: A Space Odyssey. Not the one in the novel.
Let's see if I can remember something of it.
'Between the first and last decades of the twentieth century, lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived...'
In other words Arthur C. Clarke, and company were expecting great changes to come. They were expecting that aliens 4,000,000 years plus ahead of us would have found out far more than what one would expect based upon 1960s science. To assume that you understand all things, because the science won't change, when in the last two hundred years, it has changed, is a problem.
Yet those are the first statements in the writer's bible. Because many people get invested in a story for the characters, and Star Trek is no exception.
And as I pointed out, Gene spent considerable portions of the Writers' Guide emphasizing the show is about people, not technology.
I seriously have no clue what you’re on about? Maybe a language barrier?
It is an entertainment property. It’s job isn’t to be a treatise on science, culture or the military.
“A Piece of the Action”, “The Trouble with Tribbles”, “I, Mudd”, among others, would like to have a word with you…
Yeah,that bugs me.Anytime one of the characters has to fight a duel they have to use a weapon with which they are totally unfamiliar.Off the top of my head I’m remembering Kirk,Archer and yeah Quark.Always fighting on the aliens terms.
How about using an Earth broadsword or Morningstar or some such eh?
Yeah maybe Kirk never even saw a Morningstar but what the hell.
How about using an Earth broadsword or Morningstar or some such eh?
Yeah maybe Kirk never even saw a Morningstar but what the hell.
It's spelled prologue.
You forgot that thing Yar used in "Code of Honor."
There wasn't, since it's a year. The original point of having commas in four digit numbers was to differentiate them from years.I don’t remember there being a comma in the title.
This is only making the falling literacy rate comment from the previous page even funnier.
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