General Star Trek thread

syklops wrote: »

Been watching a lot of ENT and really enjoying it. Some great episodes like the Borg episode, but there is surely one too many episode with T'Pol or Hoshi rubbing greasy decontamination gel on themselves in the decontamination room while in their underwear.

To be fair to ENT there were some good episodes alright...

- The Borg one was definitely a highlight but like the Ferengi episode, it was a bit stupid how the writers tried to get around the fact that these species were first met in TNG by just not naming them .. especially with the Borg as it's one of the first things they say!

- The temporal Cold War ones weren't all bad, but it was very much a missed opportunity. I remember all the speculation about who the mysterious hologram guy that the Suliban were taking orders from was. Thought he was a Cardassian for a while myself

- The 2-parter "In a Mirror darkly" mirror universe one was excellent!! Unfortunately part of this was because the counterpart characters were so much more interesting and "alive" than the dull cut-outs in the primary universe

But yes, there was an awful lot of shyte in there too... There's much of the first to thirds season I still haven't seen because it was just terrible anytime I watched it!

Indricotherium wrote: »

I don't think it is too much of a stretch to believe that the word borg would have been lost over the intervening centuries between this and TNG

but it hadn't happened yet for TNG

/time travelling conundrum

But it had... remember the two-parter VOY episode "Dark Frontier" where we get the backstory on Seven's parents. Set before TNG and yet little Annika had a cube to play with and they knew quite a bit about the Borg.

Blaire Loose Spaghetti wrote: »

They had been shadowing a cube if memory serves me correctly.

THat was later in the ep.. at the very start of the flashback they were preparing to leave Federation space but were remarkably well-informed.

So..

- Ent-D meets the Borg thanks to Q
- cue rest of events in TNG/VOY
- First Contact sends them back to pre-ENT days
- ENT has the frozen survivors wake up and start rampaging. They also aim a signal at the Delta Quadrant
- Pre-TNG, the Hansen's set off to learn more about the Borg and are assimilated
- Ent-D meets the Borg thanks to Q (possibly were already on the way thanks to the above 2 interactions?)

Time loop complete. I should apply for that vacant command slot on the Relativity

Kiith wrote: »

Voyager absolutely destroyed the Borg. They went from a huge threat to the Federation, to a nuisance that popped up and were pretty useless. Voyager took on a tactical Cube, and actually survived for a few minutes. And lets not mention the fake assimilation.

I'd like to think Enterprise's "Regeneration" went some way towards making up for it.

crazyderk wrote: »

Do you remember Stargate SG1 there were a couple of episodes were either SG1 were cloned by robots or another team pretended to be SG1? SG1 at least came across a planet were their clones/phoney team had been before. How in 10 months did Voyager not encounter another species that said "oh hey, what are you guys doing back here?"

Because:

Douglas Adams wrote:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Deleted User wrote: »

Except they were travelling in the same direction from the same start point

on a course with a very limited degree of variance.
that one is a bit silly IMO, but then again getting home wasn't as important as stopping off at every two bit planet or nebula remotely nearby to have a gander / piss off the locals.

Dorn chose Picard over Sisko :P

Daith wrote: »

Sisko intimidates Worf though

Picard called Worf a coward to his face and lived :eek: