Yes, but ST has been generally able to keep a consistent premise regarding it's own science.
So, a new rule now? A rule to justify TOS while condemning Nu Trek? :lol
I love the way the goelpost gets pushed further back every time a caparable flaw is found between old Trek and Nu Trek.
So what is considered the acceptable amount consistency that Trek must adhere to?
They sometimes bend it, but don't break it usually.
So whats the eacceptable "bend" ratio ? And who decides what is the acceptbale "bend" ratio?
And how do you measure the "bend" ratio?
If they say this is a rule, they don't then break it without significant circumstances
And who decides what is an acceptable and justifiable "circumstance" to break a rule?
quote The red matter thing, which I have almost entirely blotched out of my memory, was inconsistent if the previous posts are to be believed. You can't change the rules of your own 'science' regularly and expect it to remain 'science,' then it truly IS just 'magic' which has no discernable repeatable pattern.
t is magic...Just like the genesis device. A device that was established early on in the film as requiring a stable foundation (such as a planet) in order to function.
All of a sudden, the genesis device explodes in space, and somehow it now has the ability to create a gravity well that pulls in "space dust" from around the galaxy to create a planet...And a a sun as well...??:confused.
So how come a gravity well isnt created when the genesis device is detonated on an actual planet, or in a cave? Wouldnt the gravity well pull the planet in on itself, or pull space dust from around the galaxy and envelope the existing planet?
It seems the genesis device works just as it needs to when the story requires it.
It's one thing to say, 'this portal was created by an ancient race and allows instant transport to any point in time in any part of the universe' and then stick to those rules and then elsewhere have a 'one drop of this red matter will destroy a solar system' but then say 'a significantly greater amount will only destroy a small section of a planet'
Kind of like Bones jumping through the time gate and all of a sudden the Enterprise dissapears.....but yet the crew who beamed down from the enterprise are still there?
:lol
Science is based on a method of emperical analysis and repeatable experimentation. TOS, TNG, and DS9 pretty much kept to that.
No they didnt...Example -Nearly every theory of time travel in Star Trek changes from one story to another.
JJ
Like transporters. JJ used the first movie to invent a way a transporter could be used to send a person to another part of the galaxy without any special requirements that would make it extremely inefficient or costly to do, or had any particular drawback what so ever.
Now they are landing a space ship on a planet and submerging it to keep it close to the crew on the planet. WHY DO THEY EVEN NEED SPACESHIPS ANYMORE???? Seriously, JJ is bad Trek. It's lower than Voyager. And that's BAD.
Reminds me of Enemy Within - Sulu and crew are stuck on planet freezing their butts off and they cant get beamed aboard the enterprise because the transporters are malfunctioning...Apparently no one though of using a shuttle to get them. lol
I see the same exact flaws in Nu Trek, that have been around since old trek.