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Old 10-18-2006, 09:39 PM
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1. What do you think really happened to the Xindi in the hundred years before Kirk? Are they still there and we just never saw one, or were they assimilated by the Borg when no one was looking, or what?
I have heard that Baltimore has an unusual mix of ethnicities. I have not noticed this any time I have been there. That doesn't mean that the city is not ethnically diverse -- it only means that I've been presented with non-representitive samples of the community.

Also, make-up is an expensive and time consuming process. There's a reason almost everyone you see on most of the shows (perhaps excepting DS9) is human.

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2. Do you prefer Mark One Assimilation (beam you away and insert implants manually and probably surgically) or Mark Two Assimilation (inject you with nanoprobes and manufacture implants using metal from hammerspace)? As a plot device, I mean, not as the way you'd prefer to be assimilated.

3. Can you think of a reason why Andorians' antennae never moved in TOS? Was it bred out of the genepool, or is it a trick that only certain Andorians can do, akin to wiggling ears?
I don't see much point in discussing practical in-universe explanations for make-up or aesthetic alterations.

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4. Regardless of the way the dictionary says it, do you prefer "few-tile" or "few-till?"
It's not a word I use often. Probably the former.

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5. Do you think Voyager really had an aero-shuttle? Why didn't they use it? Was it in the plans but never made, or were some crucial parts going to arrive "next Tuesday" and Janeway had to leave with an incomplete ship because of the Maquis threat?
They didn't use it because nobody remembered to write it into the script. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, the ship did not exist. Anything further is speculative.

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6. Is it really reasonable that there are only X torpedoes on Voyager? Surely they can replicate casings and trade for antimatter with other spacefaring races, right?
Maybe, but you can't use technology as a crux for everything. Then you get into the deus ex machina storytelling that has plagued pretty much all the modern Trek series.

I liked the idea that they would be limited in resources, but it never really panned out. It's pretty much the same thing that happened with the original Battlestar Galactica. A dire situation... then Space Casinos! That doesn't mean it has to be taken in the absolute opposite direction that the new BSG has. But I do think, "Year of Hell" aside, Voyager's way-optimistic direction was somewhat unrealistic.

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7. Would you have prefered Ro Laren to have starred on DS9 instead of Kira, as was in the original plans?
If she had, would much have been different? Writers take characters in directions that make sense. The show had a team of excellent writers. I'm sure they would have done fantastic things with her character as well. But I don't see the show being drastically different.

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8. Are you a Wesley/Lefler shipper?
I'm a "my fist"/"shippers' throats" shipper.

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9. You think Captain Bateson was still in command of the Bozeman in First Contact, or was he swapping drinks with Scotty on Wrigley's Pleasure Planet?
Didn't Kelsey Grammar lend his voice for the movie? I think that pretty much settles it.


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10. Do you disregard all mention of lasers and lithium crystals and Vulcanians and time-warp factors in the early episodes of TOS, or do you think that they really were in a transition period in the mid-2260s?
I don't discount them. I don't try to encorporate them with the rest of the universe either. Those are minor details with little-to-no impact on how the story was told.

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11. Those STTMP uniforms really did stink, didn't they?
Begging the question much? I thought they were fine. There was more differentiation between departments than any other uniform before or since. It's too cool to hate on TMP. Flawed, sure. But no more or less so than the other Trek films.

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12. You think that Commodore is still a valid rank in the 24th century?
IRL, between the shows, the navy renamed "Commodore" to "Rear Admiral". TPTB chose to do the same. Seems reasonable to me.

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13. Should Picard have retired to serve as Commandant of Starfleet Academy and given the Enterprise to Riker a long time ago? I think so.
Patrick Stewart is 10x the actor Jonathon Frakes is.

(no)

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14. You think Riker's ticked off that Janeway made Admiral before he did? They are in the same class, you know.
I think he cries himself to sleep.

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15. You really think it would've been an "unheroic dead" if Soran had just shoot Kirk in the back, like it was originally shot?
Yes, and fans everywhere would have torched Moore and Braga's houses.

A very good thing they thought otherwise.

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16. If there was one Trek game that Paramount decided to market in real life, which game? Taking out Fizzbin as insanely complicated, would you prefer Parrises Squares, Kalto, Anbo-jytsu, Tongo, Dabo, what?
3D chess, definitely. I would love to learn that.
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