Things that don't add up the TNG edition

[Timo]

The Worf "issue" never rang true to me. Worf isn't an Ambassador in Nemesis, either. Odds are that he never was an Ambassador - he sobered up in time. Or if we must, we can insert his bout of serious Ambassadoritis right after INS, which in turn comes right after the war: there's enough internal space within "What We Leave Behind" for this.

Although why would he resign his commission even if he did very briefly become Ambassador? Klingons would not see the point. The opposite, in fact, probably.

FWIW, the "interstellar law" of TUC is explicitly the Federation's and explicitly not the Klingons'. While the Klingons accuse the Feds on the basis of the Fed law, it's unclear whether this is just a disingenuous insult or a maneuver of some factual legal power; on other occasions, the Klingons have invoked Klingon law even with folks like Picard.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Prax]

Or he could have acted as ambassador to Martok and just never gave up his commission period. We know why he's with The Enterprise in Nemesis; because he went to the wedding.

 

[TngFan01]

In "I borg" they block the borg collective consciousness from Hugh but don't they claim it to be impossible to block the borg consciousness from Locutus in best of both worlds?

 

[penguin44]

In "I borg" they block the borg collective consciousness from Hugh but don't they claim it to be impossible to block the borg consciousness from Locutus in best of both worlds?

I believe with Hugh they set up a sub-space dampening field around the cell until they could deactivate it? Maybe they were able to because he was injured as opposed to Locutus.

 

[Timo]

Or perhaps they had learned a trick or two after the first incident. Say, from the first incident. Perhaps from Locutus himself?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Or perhaps they had learned a trick or two after the first incident. Say, from the first incident. Perhaps from Locutus himself?

Timo Saloniemi

The Borg would have absorbed all the Federation knowledge in his brain so they do have some advantages now.

 

[Tribble Threat]

I'm watching The Masterpiece Society. It doesn't add up that Troi felt like making out with a guy she just met, just two weeks after she was mind-raped in Violations.

 

[TngFan01]

Why can people freely talk klingon or swear in romulan and the universal translator doesn't change it to english

 

[Tribble Threat]

I guess we're just to assume everyone's speaking English, except in episodes where someone mentions a translator.

 

[Mojochi]

Why can people freely talk klingon or swear in romulan and the universal translator doesn't change it to english

Some words, especially vulgarities, might not have a direct translation. I like to imagine when they show someone knowing/using those, like Riker & Jarok for example, they went out of their way to learn them, because they had never gotten a suitable translation

 

[Tenacity]

And Worf's in Starfleet during the war, which I would assume makes it easier for him to take a couple of weeks of leave

Actually if Nemesis is during the war, wouldn't that make it harder to take leave, because there's a war?

the Council necessarily calls for a "halt" and a "top-level review"

I think it will be like the review spoken of in Journey's End, after a few days the council will re-affirm the original decision.

. But since the ring-harvesting scheme is now outdated anyway

Why do you think it's outdated? The substance of the ring still has health providing abilities. Distributing it among hundreds of planets makes more sense than people having to travel to the planet for weeks or months or years. Depending on their condition.

 

[Farscape One]

STAR TREK: NEMESIS was definitely set after the Dominion War. It had Admiral Janeway, and Voyager didn't arrive home until 2 years after the war ended.

 

[Tenacity]

Sorry I meant insurrection and the war,.

 

[Finn]

^i believe they had a line explaining that...

 

[Timo]

Why do you think it's outdated? The substance of the ring still has health providing abilities. Distributing it among hundreds of planets makes more sense than people having to travel to the planet for weeks or months or years. Depending on their condition.

The Feds most probably have lost their provider for the tech, though: the Ba'ku just plain won't do it, and the Son'a are likely to be less cooperative now than then, too. So relocating the Ba'ku and torching the planet is an otherwise valid plan but sadly misses out on the torch part.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tenacity]

The Sona likely weren't the ones who built the collector, more likely their "servants" doing the actual construction. Just have them build another.

 

[Timo]

I sort of doubt it would work. "Actual construction" might never amount to understanding the technology, or even any particular element of it. Remove the couple of Son'a middle managers and their PADDs, and what you have is a bunch of people who know how to push modules in sockets.

I mean, if the Ellora could do it, the brightest minds of the UFP wouldn't have given up on it and agreed to bargain with these Operation Paperclip folks from the past war.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tenacity]

. "Actual construction" might never amount to understanding the technology, or even any particular element of it.

you do realize that production workers typically know more about what they build than managers.

plus my understanding is that the sona were relatively few in number,

so given that those small number were ruling over multiple planets, the construction of the collector was probably over seen by only one or two sona.