Or is new and highly automated.
Okay I've just figured it out. The villain in the upcoming movie is Kirk's unseen stepfather from the 2009 movie, who wants revenge for Kirk trashing his 1965 Corvette convertible.
Okay I've just figured it out. The villain in the upcoming movie is Kirk's unseen stepfather from the 2009 movie, who wants revenge for Kirk trashing his 1965 Corvette convertible.
Okay I've just figured it out. The villain in the upcoming movie is Kirk's unseen stepfather from the 2009 movie, who wants revenge for Kirk trashing his 1965 Corvette convertible.
Tha answers all my questions and fills in most of the plot holes right there. thumbsup Step Dad 2: The Wrath of Pop.
Because highly automated systems worked wonders for the original Enterprise, didn't it? Also, you would think that a ship that's 'highly automated' would automatically disable the inertial dampers when:
- The helmsman plots a course for Vulcan.
- The helmsman sets speed to maximum warp.
- The helmsman actually engages warp drive.
But no, the ship still requires him to disable it manually.
And usually the more something is automated, the less crew it needs. Why than are there parts of the ship that are so crowded that crew members are literally walking shoulder to shoulder?
Our own sea based battleships have systems that load missiles onto launchers without the aid of crew members, yet this 'highly automated' futuristic starship still needs crew members to load photon torpedoes into the launchers by hand.
Maybe there is someone in the Federation who is like Adama from Battlestar Galactica and believes less automation is better.
However because of technological advancements only 4 people are actually required to run the ship.
Just not very well. Again, as evidenced in The Search for Spock.
You give Old Trek a pass on the most ridiculous nonsense, and won't extend the same lenience to Nu Trek...just because you don't like it. No real need to justify it more than that, IMO.
You give Old Trek a pass on the most ridiculous nonsense, and won't extend the same lenience to Nu Trek...just because you don't like it. No real need to justify it more than that, IMO.
I'm not a huge trek fan. I've watched some TNG, the movies and almost all of TOS.This exactly the point Im trying to make. Im not here to claim Nu Trek is the end-all-be-all of Trek films because all films have flaws.
Im just pointing out the bias around here with fans who complain about flaws in Nu Trek, while completely ignoring the same type of flaws in old trek.
When someone points out the flaws in old trek it seems perfectly OK for them to invent a fan-fic excuse to justify the mistake....but when it comes to new trek it must adhere to the rule of - "If its not in the film, it doesnt count".
Get Trek back on TV and get some writers that understand what the hell it's supposed to be about. It's not complicated, but sadly I think more cerebral Trek by definition will not bring the viewership numbers that networks require. They need to get outside the usual Nielsen metric of success.
Get Trek back on TV and get some writers that understand what the hell it's supposed to be about. It's not complicated, but sadly I think more cerebral Trek by definition will not bring the viewership numbers that networks require. They need to get outside the usual Nielsen metric of success.
What Trek needed, esp. after Enterprise, was a break from TV but, unfortunately, with the new JJ Trek movies I don't think that's likely now. I'm sure the movies will bring Paramount nearly as much or more money than a TV series would and for less than 7 seasons of a series would cost them. Plus there's also the fact that if you put on a show in the original timeline it would probably end up failing because it would confuse all of the people who would tune in because they only know Trek through the JJ Trek and thinking that it would be set in the JJ Trek timeline/universe. But if they did that all of the old TOS/TNG fans would probably hate it because that vast majority of them hate the JJ Trek and would never watch a TV show set in that universe/timeline.