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18th May '13 2:14:35 PM DunDun

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18th May '13 10:28:56 AM johnnyfog

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* UnusualUserInterface: Data was regularly plugging himself into various bits of the ship. Once they even attached ''just'' his head to a console after his body was misplaced. 
** In some cases (particularly in TNG), computers were reprogrammed by rearranging "isolinear chips" (green, plastic spark plugs). Back in the 1940s and before, this was a legitimate way to program computers. Why they return to it in the [=2360s=] is anyone's guess. 
** Speaking of Star Trek: TNG, you kids today may be all jaded and stuff, but those touch screen Okudagrams on the Enterprise were freaking awesome in 1987. ** An episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' has older versions of the crew having trouble adapting to the Defiant's antiquated interface, being used to a three-dimensional projection. ("The Visitor")
** In the VOY finale, Janeway returns from decades in the future to change the present, and she is implanted with a standard issue neural computer interface from the future. 
** There's another episode where Tom Paris gets too close to an alien shuttle with a neural interface. 
** One episode of ''[=DS9=]'' featured a guest character with a data port behind her ear, which she could use to bypass security systems. The dialogue made it sound as though they were relatively freely available... which only raises questions about why we never saw one again. 
** The Hirogen ships' interface works looks like sticking metal toothpicks into a gigantic sphere. 
** The Borg can also do this with there assimilation tubes. Said tubes inject nanites into anything. Those nanites then infect and reprogram the target system to resemble that of a Borg ship.

18th May '13 10:22:32 AM johnnyfog

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17th May '13 5:33:09 AM Brick3621

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'''''Star Trek''''' is an iconic, [[LongRunners long-running]] science-fiction franchise with five live-action television series, one AnimatedAdaptation, and eleven movies spanning three generations of characters and four decades of television.

The setting in every series is about [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse an Earth-based interstellar government]] called [[TheFederation the United Federation of Planets]] and their fleet of starships, which form [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Starfleet]]. Every series dealt with a particular crew, mostly of various ships named ''[[LegacyCharacter Enterprise]].'' As originally envisioned by its creator, GeneRoddenberry, the science fiction nature of the series was just a method to address many social issues of the time that could not have been done in a normal drama. As such, it was not above being {{Anvilicious}} or engaging in thinly-veiled social satire, but considering its origin during the 60's, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped some anvils needed to be dropped]].

It was, for the most part, ''way'' on the happy end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism, at least partially because of its solid allegiance to the Enlightened side of RomanticismVersusEnlightenment. But it still found some sort of balance between a Dystopia and a CrystalSpiresAndTogas future. In general, it is a future you hope will come true, albeit after Humanity [[EarnYourHappyEnding endured terrible troubles]] like [[WorldWarThree a third world war]] and the Eugenics Wars led by the [[BewareTheSuperman genetically enhanced conqueror]], Khan Noonien Singh, and rose above them. All series have sought to show that while you may think the world is falling apart and there is no chance of global unity, all this crap will eventually work itself out.

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'''''Star Trek''''' is an iconic, [[LongRunners long-running]] science-fiction franchise with five live-action television series, one AnimatedAdaptation, and twelve movies spanning three generations of characters and four decades of television.

The setting in every series is about [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse an Earth-based interstellar government]] called [[TheFederation the United Federation of Planets]] and their fleet of starships, which form [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Starfleet]]. Every series dealt with a particular crew, mostly of various ships named ''[[LegacyCharacter Enterprise]]''. As originally envisioned by its creator, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, the science fiction nature of the series was just a method to address many social issues of the time that could not have been done in a normal drama. As such, it was not above being {{Anvilicious}} or engaging in thinly-veiled social satire, but considering its origin during the 60's, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped some anvils needed to be dropped]].

It was, for the most part, ''way'' on the happy end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism, at least partially because of its solid allegiance to the Enlightened side of RomanticismVersusEnlightenment. But it still found some sort of balance between a Dystopia and a CrystalSpiresAndTogas future. In general, it is a future you hope will come true, albeit after humanity [[EarnYourHappyEnding endured terrible troubles]] like [[WorldWarThree a third world war]] and the Eugenics Wars led by the [[BewareTheSuperman genetically enhanced conqueror]], Khan Noonien Singh, and rose above them. All series have sought to show that while you may think the world is falling apart and there is no chance of global unity, all this crap will eventually work itself out.

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17th May '13 1:01:28 AM tropeminer

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* VillainDecay: In addition to the Borg (mentioned under UniquenessDecay above), the Ferengi were originally intended to be major villains in ''Next Generation''. Although their first on-screen appearance (Picard speaking to a close-up headshot of a Ferengi on a viewscreen) was extremely intimidating, the diminutive Ferengi were not taken very seriously as bad guys by most fans. The Ferengi were subsequently rescued by being retooled into comedy relief and often sympathetic characters with the Romulans and eventually the Borg becoming the heavies after the first two seasons. And don't get us started on the ''Kazon''...
* AVillainNamedZrg: Klingons, Kazon, and Borg.
** Klingons love the letter K. ''The Original Series'' gave us the iconic triumvirate of Kang, Kor, Koloth, and Kahless; and the movies have Kruge, Klaa, Koord, and Gorkon. In the Expanded Universe, their home planet used to be called Klinzhai, but the official canon later renamed it Qonos (pronounced "Kronos", with a K sound).

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