KrangPrime
Master Member
odd things I notice in HD. Picards odd off screen hand gesture like he's saying 'WTF, you walk away from me without saying anything?'
The classic old question: Is Starfleet a military organisation? Gene Roddenberry, the very flawed creator stated it's not, but they still use naval ranks and training as far as depicted. Which is contradict as hell, since he saw Trek as a Horatio Hornblower in space. Nicholas Meyer even proposed the military uniform look, which Robert Fletcher executed brilliantly with the TWOK Monster Maroon.
I see Starfleet consequently as a military organisation, which executes Federation order and does military stuff like patrolling the borders and keeping the peace, with a focal point of exploration and science, not matter what Roddenberry said.
Ever wonder why when ships approach each other, they are always the right way up, not sideways or upside down ?
You semi-answer a lot of it. There are two factors -- at least on Earth, its primary colonies (independent or not) and other comparable core member worlds of similar tech level... Replicator technology, which they have, and energy sources to power same, which they also have. When you have more than enough power to make the things that can make all the other things go, you've utterly solved the basic-needs issue. The value of houses, clothes, trinkets, food, etc., plummets. People still have to do the actual work, but by the time replicators are invented, the technology of attaching things to other things is very, very heavily automated, so not as many people are needed to do it.I want to know about the non use of money. They don't use it I know, they drove that point home in every 5 the episode of DS9
( earthlings that is ) but it has never been explained how it works wold wide. Voyager had to ration everything . replicator rations where transferable so basically became currency .
Which makes sense of course.
But what about someone on earth could you just walk around permanent vacation style. Move where and when you want . not doing a damn thing but surfing like Brody ?
Was it kind of like futuramma they assign you a job?
What if you refuse to do it ?
I could see how it could work with replicators and the like there are basically unlimited supplies and most people would get bored doing nothing at all after a while.
Also is theft illegal ?
I mean replicate another one right ?
Even if you took a shuttle craft it seems like an inconvenience more than anything else .
I would think the main problem is flying without a license, tampering with federation equipment or something .
Ever wonder why when ships approach each other, they are always the right way up, not sideways or upside down ?
TNG dabbled with the idea of non-oriented ships, especially in "All Good Things" with the triple nacelled alternate future Enterprise blowing away those Klingon ships with its mighty phaser cannon of doom. You also saw it in the First Contact battle with the Borg.
Then DS9 went into it like gangbusters with the Dominion War.
If the Borg assimilate everything, why are they all basically human cyborgs? Where are all the other alien races that have been assimilated?
It always bugged me that all of the races in the galaxy all seemed to be around the same age, galactically speaking.
The Vulcans and Klingons got to space a few hundred years before Humans, but now everyone seems to have the same kinds of technology more or less. Even the Borg aren't that much older and more advanced.
Where are all of the races that are millions of years ahead? Or even a few thousand years ahead with tech more in line with what you see from the 26th and 29th century Federation?
I think the Mass Effect universe does a good job or explaining this trope and uses it as an interesting plot element, but I can't think of a good explanation for Star Trek.