Science Fiction

Hello fellow space alien posting on Terran communications boards.

All of your points are correct with the following exception:

• Matter replicators expend energy to convert it into matter, or do the opposite. It is a lossy process, meaning you do not get 100% as a return. The best S+ or A-5 engineered units are 88-98% efficient.

• Theoretically, fuel in space is "infinite" as stars and hydrogen are literally everywhere, so going to planets to gather resources to disassemble in replicators is both a literal waste of time and energy. Dilithium crystals in the show are a hilarious example of contrived scarcity for plot.

3. They have carpets on the TV show. Carpets. On a space ship. That is guaranteed not a warship, because carpets.

I've taken the mass hit and installed gray carpets in key locations of our own ships and instigated a no shoes policy and I'll tell you what, it's never been more comfortable :)

You should definitely try installing carpets

• Naz

At least the the ships being warships carrying civilians things has a real life analog. Many (but not all) colony ships sailing Earth oceans were usually heavily armed. This was to deter pirates or privateers from raiding the ships the day after they left port and taking all the supplies they’d need for their colony. And the ships were full of women and children. And more than a few got into battles somewhere along their voyage. Then when the colonists got where they were going, in some instances they’d just pull the guns off the ship and set them up to defend the colony.

• insist on not having a unit of exchange or currency, but then some how having massive amounts of trade and economy.

As you mentioned before, they have replicators, so why would they have currency inside the Federation?

They don't need money in the Federation, but since they have limited resources on a spaceship and also interact with other species, they kinda have to barter, mostly to curry favor with these species.

their ships waste a shit load of internal volume with the saucer, the neck and the nacelles.

It's called style.

Remember, there's crewmen stationed in the fucking Death Star main laser tunnel, right next to the firing beam.

Plus all the old and decrepit people fall to their deaths, thus removing dead weight and allowing space communism to function. It's a win-win!

Honestly dr phlox is my favorite. He’s that annoyingly cheerful kind of guy and a bit of counterpoint to “normal human things”- he could have been a great character if they just didn’t try to play up the shock value.

Also like he’s low key a sadist. Maybe more a mostly-reformed sadist? There’s definitely moments.

I can tell you more about them, but obviously you're correct that they're nowhere near as developed as the other 90s Trek shows.

-T'Pol might be the best Vulcan character in the franchise next to SNW Spock. She has a tinge of that Enterprise Vulcan arrogance, becomes less emotionally-guarded as she spends more time among humans, has an interesting moderate attitude toward humans, and probably has the best acting on the show.

-Phlox is the best doctor in the franchise, fight me.

-Reed is a British weirdo

-Mayweather is an overly peppy cornily-acted son of a freighter captain raised in space

There was an episode where a copy of him was brought online in a museum centuries after Voyager had visited the planet featured in the episode

Robert Picardo directed a lot of those episodes, so I'm sure he could have written in that recognition...but preferred the tension of having talent and ability mixed with a personality that made him unbearable. His character recognized this at times but never really grew. One of the better jokes was that all the other EMRs of him were so toxic that they were decommissioned as doctors and put to work piloting garbage transports.

he deserved the same respect data got in tng.

The scariest thing is when escalators malfunction.

At least with an elevator you'll either drop to your death or the brakes kick in making you just stuck for a few hours.

But an escalator, that's a cheese grater powered by a motor strong enough to lift dozens of people up a flight of stairs.

I damn near had my head taken off one time when I was a kid. I was leaned over the side looking down as the escalator went up. My mother grabbed me and yanked me back just moments before my head got stuck in the scissor trap caused by the bottom of the down escalator intersecting with the up escalator.

A couple years later I noticed the started putting plexiglass a foot or two in front of that part. I wonder how many kids didn't get their head pulled back in time before they started doing that.

Eugh, I still get nervous walking in/out of elevators because of that movie.

Gentlemen, to your phase pistols.

To show the audience Jolene Blalock's oiled up tummy and thighs, it's that simple

Do I remember them decontaminating the dog at one point? I haven't seen the show since its original run.

But yeah the decontamination chamber was pretty much someone at Paramount saying "Guys I've got this great plot device we can use to peel our cast of pretty people down to their undies sometimes, and even rub lotion on each other!"

I wonder what he got paid for that idea?