Persistent, Niggling Questions

[Nate the Great]

Inspired by this music video...


PNQ: Let's say that Deanna was never a romantic option for Will, which "girl of the week" could you see him marrying in the right circumstances?


Let's go with the Memory Alpha list for a larger list that we can trim to get a proper candidate roster...


Beata
I won't count Minuet, that's a special case
Brenna Odell

I won't count Yuta either, murderers don't belong on this list
Lal
Lanel doesn't count, that was coercion
Carmen Davila
Etana Jol doesn't count either
Ro Laren
I'm taking Soren out of contention as well, that's a kettle of fish that I don't care to open
Kamala wasn't really interested in him
He wasn't interested in Amanda Rogers like that, in addition the age difference was too great
Rebecca Smith was a plot device, not a real relationship



So serious candidates are Beata, Brenna, Lal, Carmen, and Laren. Opinions?

[Nate the Great]

So I'm watching a video where they try to pin a real-world value onto gold-pressed latinum, and a comment makes me think...


in the context of tng voyager etc the replicated food is stated to not taste as good because it's altered to be healthy which loses taste

PNQ: Did they ever say that?


I'm having trouble accepting this notion. In today's world we know that the technology to make healthy food taste good doesn't work because most of what makes food taste good is either sugar or fat, neither of which are healthy.

[Nate the Great]

So I'm binging through Trek filk songs and I see a shot of Picard reading a book on Risa...


PNQ: Why would Picard go to Risa in the first place?


I understand that he can't be tagging along on archeological expeditions every time he takes shore leave, but Picard doesn't seem like a lie-on-the-beach-and-get-a-tan type of person.

[NAHTMMM]

I think that would be from "Captain's Holiday" when the crew made him go on vacation.

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, but he didn't have to go to Risa. The crew wanted him to go on vacation, but they didn't care where he went.

[Nate the Great]

This one is straight from Facebook...


PNQ: Are Zorro movies Westerns?


It's an interesting question. What makes a Western a Western? Do they have to be set in the United States? Is there a distinct "era of the cowboy" (quick Googling places the cowboy era at about 1870-1880, and the Zorro stories about 1810-1820)? Or is it a cultural division (Zorro may take place in California, but it was still Spanish and not American)?


I'm not sure.

[Nate the Great]

So a random clickbait article questions whether Voyager had the best pilot of the Star Trek series...


PNQ: Which pilot is the best?


I'm going to specify pilot, not just "first episode." TOS and TAS had no pilot, that is a specific start-of-the-adventure-set-up-the-status-quo episode.


A key problem for me is whether we treat a pilot as a standalone TV movie or judge it by how much of the stuff established actually continues in the following episode.