General Star Trek discussion thread. The Original Series, the Motion Pictures, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, and Star Trek 09/Into Darkness all pertinent here.
I admit that the only Star Trek anything I've ever seen is the new into the darkness movie. But I really liked it, and it makes me want to watch other Star Trek things.
Plus there were a few instances of poorly applied physics.
That's pretty typical of Star Trek - e.g. inertia dampers
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I can accept the 'advanced' technology of warp drive, inertia dampers, etc for the sake of a fantasy story.
Just some of the inconsistencies bother me as well as a complete disregard for science.
Hot damn do I love Star Trek!
I want them to make more series, not more movies. More nerdy, not more cooler!
As someone who is very picky about this kind of stuff, I can usually forgive Star Trek because it comes off as more endearing than annoying.
accept things like bad science.
It's like Back to the Future. If you really could travel back in time and end up in 'the same spot' as you were before, you'd end up deep in space even if you tried a one-second jump because Earth is rotating and revolving and so is the sun and even the galaxy is blasting through the cosmos.
B-b-b-butBut it also means we get this cutie as Chekov:
This is the first time in a long time that we haven't had a Star Trek series on television and it's really messing with my brain. Heck, in the nineties we had three Star Trek series and for a while they were even concurrent! I do love the reboot and honestly they've done it exactly right... but I want a series back!Hot damn do I love Star Trek! I want them to make more series, not more movies.
Poorly displayed physics still bothers me.
Two examples that bothered me were the cold fusion bomb (the cold part doesn't mean it freezes lava, although it's possible it was a very special bomb...), and the second was were the Enterprise was falling towards Earth. It was in orbit around the Moon and somehow it was suddenly "caught in Earth's gravity" then as it rotated, in free fall, the people on the ship felt Earth's gravity constantly pulling them towards Earth, as if they were on the surface, not in free fall some distance above the surface (and atmosphere).
Those among other things.
That's all relative. As far as we know there's not absolute positions. Things are relative.
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