Some Questions to Spur Discussion

[e of pi]

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 think the Xindi spent the meantime is fractured divisions and only in the 24th century got back together as a coallition unified enough to apply to the Federation. They actually fought on our side in the Dominion war when you weren't looking.

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.

Well, I'd say I'd prefer Mark II, but of course they sent me back from an era when we only had Mar...am I still typing this? I am aren't I? YOU NEVER SAW THIS!

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?

Either of those work, but I prefer that they've always been able to do it and the ones we saw were just camera shy and literally froze up.

4. Regardless of the way the dictionary says it, do you prefer "few-tile" or "few-till?"

Pronunciation is irrelevant. Assimilation is useless no matter how we say it. Losers.

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?

Maybe. I like the Aeroshuttle, and that makes sense.

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?

As I recall from Ex-astris-scientia.org, they pretty had to have been. They used up their supply and still kept firing.

7. Would you have prefered Ro Laren to have starred on DS9 instead of Kira, as was in the original plans?

No. I like it as-is.

8. Are you a Wesley/Lefler shipper?

I like Lefler as a character, and think she could have done better.

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?

Unlike Scott, Bateson had his crew and company to fit in with. I like to think they got trained up, then given milk runs until they got used to the new tech, then rejoined the fleet in general. So, yeah, he's still in the center seat.

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?

*fingers in ears* lalalalalala...I can't hear you. They were really saying phasers and dilithium and Vulcans and warp drive the whole time. We just weren't hearing it right.

11. Those STTMP uniforms really did stink, didn't they?
12. You think that Commodore is still a valid rank in the 24th century?
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.
14. You think Riker's ticked off that Janeway made Admiral before he did? They are in the same class, you know.

Yes, no, no, and just a bit. He envies her rank, but isn't eagre to give up command of the Titan just yet.

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?

Yeah, a bit.

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, the Vulcan one with the pegs, and Dom-jot.