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* The Star Trek Reboot timeline has changes from the original timeline that couldn't have been caused by Nero or Spock's time-travelling (e.g. the design of the Kelvin, which doesn't fit with the Federation's aesthetics from that time period.). But, actually, there is a good explanation for this: Because of the change in the timeline, the events of ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' and ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' happened differently, causing the changes they caused to the timeline to be different, causing things in the timeline to change even before Nero's appearance. This, and other time-travelling could cause [[ForWantOfANail minor changes to the timeline]], which could add up and explain the differences between the original timeline and the reboot timeline.
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* The Star Trek Reboot timeline has changes from the original timeline that couldn't have been caused by Nero or Spock's time-travelling (e.g. the design of the Kelvin, which doesn't fit with the Federation's aesthetics from that time period.). But, actually, there is a good explanation for this: Because of the change in the timeline, the events of ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' and ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' happened differently, causing the changes they caused to the timeline to be different, causing things in the timeline to change even before Nero's appearance. This, and other time-travelling could cause [[ForWantOfANail minor changes to the timeline]], timeline, which could add up and explain the differences between the original timeline and the reboot timeline.
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***There is an episode of TNG ('Contagion') where an alien probe infects the Enterprise's computer with a virus that gradually disrupts all its systems. The Chief Engineer seems to take most of the episode trying to figure out what's going on, and then trying various ridiculously convoluted efforts to combat it- before eventually deciding to just wipe it clean and restore the computer from backups. This solution is presented as if it's some kind of revelation, rather than being the first, most obvious thing anyone would do in that situation. i.e., cyber attacks are portrayed badly or not at all in the series because the writers had very little technical knowledge and assumed that their audience would have even less. In 1989 that was probably a reasonable assumption.
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* It's often stated that "grown food tastes better than replicated food". There are a number of theories about why this is, but the answer is really very simple and obvious: technology. While replicators CAN make anything, there is a limit to how many different things they can store. In DS9 its stated that the runabouts have a very limited menu(possibly on the order of only a few dozen dishes), and then on Voyager they have 15 different varieties of tomato soup but none is exactly what Tom Paris wanted. The replicator is affecting matter at at least a molecular level, allowing food to be customized to an insane degree. Want it a little saltier? A little sweeter? Just tweak a few lines of code. Now imagine this sort of editing goes on for decades, generations. A replicated apple now tastes nothing like a real apple. Somewhere along the way, everything that made it special was altered, optimized, or removed to save space.
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* It's often stated that "grown food tastes better than replicated food". There are a number of theories about why this is, but the answer is really very simple and obvious: technology. While replicators CAN make anything, there is a limit to how many different things they can store. In DS9 [=DS9=] its stated that the runabouts have a very limited menu(possibly on the order of only a few dozen dishes), and then on Voyager they have 15 different varieties of tomato soup but none is exactly what Tom Paris wanted. The replicator is affecting matter at at least a molecular level, allowing food to be customized to an insane degree. Want it a little saltier? A little sweeter? Just tweak a few lines of code. Now imagine this sort of editing goes on for decades, generations. A replicated apple now tastes nothing like a real apple. Somewhere along the way, everything that made it special was altered, optimized, or removed to save space.
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** In addition, replicated matter is said to have single-bit errors, which can probably affect how food tastes.
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** The average hologram isn't sentient, they're mostly 3D video game characters, and are specifically designed with perceptual filters to make sure they don't become self-aware. Some of them, like the Doctor, are both self-aware and adaptive, so they can become sentient, but only if they are left running long enough, and even then it's not guaranteed. The Doctor’s emergence into sentience almost destroyed him, and they had to sacrifice the dedicated maintenance program to keep him from completely breaking down, and that could have failed. On the whole, holograms that aren't specifically designed to be people have about as much potential to become people as a sperm sample.
* Fridge Horror: Humans are not shown practicing any religion because Gene Roddenberry envisioned a future where humans had OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions. From the point of view a minority religion whose people had been historically oppressed and persecuted, this means that Roddenberry’s utopian future is built on cultural genocide.
* Fridge Horror: Humans are not shown practicing any religion because Gene Roddenberry envisioned a future where humans had OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions. From the point of view a minority religion whose people had been historically oppressed and persecuted, this means that Roddenberry’s utopian future is built on cultural genocide.
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Would HAVE, not would of.
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*** Lets be honest as to the real world reason for a lack of fighter: The original series was A) on a ridiculously minimal budget and B) Star Trek first aired a good decade before Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica popularized the concept of a ''Space Aircraft Carrier.'' Come the latter series with bigger budgets and fighting the influence of these big franchises (which now also had Stargate and ''its'' fighters to contend with) the obvious answer was to keep the show firmly set in its roots. The amount of people that would of accused Trek of plagiarism if the Enterprise-E suddenly started launching their equivalent of X-Wings against the Borg Cube would still be going on today. It is also worth noting that the only canonical ship that I can think of that carried fighters was Shinzon's Warbird in Nemesis. Whether it was overconfidence or not is arguable but even when the battle was turning sour did he not think of launching them - proof perhaps that even a weakened Sovereign Class could swat them away like flies.
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*** Lets be honest as to the real world reason for a lack of fighter: The original series was A) on a ridiculously minimal budget and B) Star Trek first aired a good decade before Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica popularized the concept of a ''Space Aircraft Carrier.'' Come the latter series with bigger budgets and fighting the influence of these big franchises (which now also had Stargate and ''its'' fighters to contend with) the obvious answer was to keep the show firmly set in its roots. The amount of people that would of have accused Trek of plagiarism if the Enterprise-E suddenly started launching their equivalent of X-Wings against the Borg Cube would still be going on today. It is also worth noting that the only canonical ship that I can think of that carried fighters was Shinzon's Warbird in Nemesis. Whether it was overconfidence or not is arguable but even when the battle was turning sour did he not think of launching them - proof perhaps that even a weakened Sovereign Class could swat them away like flies.
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** In real life people follow a religion or a faith for all sorts of reasons, (including, but not limited to logic and emotion), so to reduce it to those factors is not logical. People also reject religion and faith for various reasons, and everything in between. Why wouldn’t this be the case in Star Trek?
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* At first, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' appears to violate tactical logic by lacking any true examples of a SpaceFighter, a standard among rival SpaceOpera settings ''StarWars'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', etc. After all, small, maneuverable fighter crafts can target a larger opponent's [[AttackItsWeakPoint vulnerable points]] in ways a bigger ship can't. Then you realize DeflectorShields mean ships don't ''have'' weak points! The only way to defeat an opponent is by mustering enough force to overload their shields, making small ships all but useless in direct combat.
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* At first, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' appears to violate tactical logic by lacking any true examples of a SpaceFighter, a standard among rival SpaceOpera settings ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', etc. After all, small, maneuverable fighter crafts can target a larger opponent's [[AttackItsWeakPoint vulnerable points]] in ways a bigger ship can't. Then you realize DeflectorShields mean ships don't ''have'' weak points! The only way to defeat an opponent is by mustering enough force to overload their shields, making small ships all but useless in direct combat.
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* It's often stated that "grown food tastes better than replicated food". There are a number of theories about why this is, but the answer is really very simple and obvious: technology. While replicators CAN make anything, there is a limit to how many different things they can store. In DS9 its stated that the runabouts have a very limited menu(possibly on the order of only a few dozen dishes), and then on Voyager they have 15 different varieties of tomato soup but none is exactly what Tom Paris wanted. The replicator is affecting matter at at least a molecular level, allowing food to be customized to an insane degree. Want it a little saltier? A little sweeter? Just tweak a few lines of code. Now imagine this sort of editing goes on for decades, generations. A replicated apple now tastes nothing like a real apple. Somewhere along the way, everything that made it special was altered, optimized, or removed to save space.
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* The way Ferengi pronounces the word "Female" puts a strong emphasis on the first syllable, making it sound like two distinct words (FEE-male). Given that Ferengi women cannot earn profit, the male head of household would shoulder their living expenses, making them a 'fee' for a 'male'.
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Humans are bad parents.
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* Meta Brilliance: The Space Shuttle Enterprise, manufactured 1976, was named for the fictional USS Enterprise from the Original Series from the '60s. Then in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the recreation deck has a progression of paintings of ships to bear the name... including the Space Shuttle. We got us a causality loop, people!
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* Meta Brilliance: The Space Shuttle Enterprise, manufactured 1976, was named for the fictional USS Enterprise from the Original Series from the '60s. Then in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the recreation deck has a progression of paintings of ships to bear the name... including the Space Shuttle. We got us a causality loop, people!people!
* FridgeHorror: If you look more deeper into the PlanetofHats races in Trek, you would be truly horrified that these aliens are aspects of human psychology and social-actions. These races, like the Vulcans; are fucking Tulpas!!! And worse, humans gave birth to existence to them with no awareness.
* FridgeHorror: If you look more deeper into the PlanetofHats races in Trek, you would be truly horrified that these aliens are aspects of human psychology and social-actions. These races, like the Vulcans; are fucking Tulpas!!! And worse, humans gave birth to existence to them with no awareness.
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** Not exactly. Two livers would imply that their metabolisms can filter out intoxicants (about) twice as fast, but even that would be slow on the grand scale and not really noticable to an outside observer. However, Klingons are hilariously overbuilt, with a few more redundancies than other humanoids. It would make total sense if those redundancies included more neurotransmitters and receptors, which *would* offset higher levels of alcohol.
** It would also make them more sensitive to certain stimuli, which explains why all their structures use darker colors and poor illumination (by human standards).
* Why do the Ferengi have such big, sensitive ears? Ferenginar is in a constant state of rainfall, which means there's a lot of background noise at any given moment. Proto-Ferengi probably had to get them so they could pick up on small noises that would otherwise be drowned out ([[AccidentalPun heh]]) by the constant rain, and thus not get caught unawares by predators.
** Ferengi women are shown to have much smaller ears than Ferengi men; this might go a ways toward explaining their StayInTheKitchen mentality and how it survived up to their space age.
** It would also make them more sensitive to certain stimuli, which explains why all their structures use darker colors and poor illumination (by human standards).
* Why do the Ferengi have such big, sensitive ears? Ferenginar is in a constant state of rainfall, which means there's a lot of background noise at any given moment. Proto-Ferengi probably had to get them so they could pick up on small noises that would otherwise be drowned out ([[AccidentalPun heh]]) by the constant rain, and thus not get caught unawares by predators.
** Ferengi women are shown to have much smaller ears than Ferengi men; this might go a ways toward explaining their StayInTheKitchen mentality and how it survived up to their space age.
