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  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
    Red Alert
    Shades of V'Ger. Oh gods, don't remind me of TMP, please.

    TMP FTW! <3o:)<3
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    Any change to the past changes the present or future. To believe that there is no change is denying the ramifications of time travel.
    Except the whole reason why pre-destination, and boot-strap, paradoxes exist is due to the fact that you CAN go back in time and seemingly change something only to find out said change always actually happened, and that by "changing" things, you are actually making sure they happened as they originally did.

    We see this in Enterprise, where the message the Borg give off is the reason why they were headed to Earth in the first place, which led to the ENT-D encountering them when they did, which led to the Borg doing what they did in First contact, which led to what happened in Enterprise, which led to what happened in TNG, etc. etc.

    And you have Daniels stating that the Xindi attack and the Paraagan colony being destroyed was not supposed to happen. Enterprise is lacking in the predestination and bootstrap paradoxes. The Na'kuhl in 20th Century Germany might be a predestination paradox, but that is assuming that the Eastern Coast of USA was taken over in World War II in the initial Star Trek timeline. Personally, I believe that time travel paradoxes requires an initial time travel incident to create the paradox. My personal belief of Terminator is that some tourist from a future that never experienced a post-apocalyptic nightmare forgot to pick up his garbage or forgot his iPhone 30 and Skynet was created as a result.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,863 Community Moderator
    patrickngo wrote: »
    It's the typical problem of Prequels, unless you really stick to mentions in the original canon, you end up creating inconsistencies, Enterprise kind of demonstrates teh pitfall there, with the whole Xindi thing. had they stuck to showing the Romulan war, probably wouldn't have had the SAME issues (different issues instead) but they got around it with the whole time-travel thing.

    They WERE going to do the Earth-Romulan War in Season 5.
    starkaos wrote: »
    The difference between Enterprise and Discovery is that Enterprise happened a century before TOS while Discovery only happened 10 years before TOS. How often do people talk about events that happened a century ago compared to 10 years ago?

    Well... can handwave the tensions with the Klingon Empire in TOS as leftover tension from the war. As for the Discovery's activities... probably classified due to the fact she was an experimental equipped with an experimental FTL drive. Or Section 31 had a hand in redacting things since they may have had an interest in her, as evidenced by the black badge security seen in one episode. OR Admiral Cromwell classified anything involving the Spore Drive, which is more plausible.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,863 Community Moderator
    The entire Na'Khul thing was explicitly stated to have been undone.

    That's right. After Vosk was killed in an NX airstrike on his time portal, Daniels said time was repairing itself, undoing the damage caused by Vosk's incursion into the past.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited July 2018
    rattler2 wrote: »
    The entire Na'Khul thing was explicitly stated to have been undone.

    That's right. After Vosk was killed in an NX airstrike on his time portal, Daniels said time was repairing itself, undoing the damage caused by Vosk's incursion into the past.

    That makes no sense. Only if Vosk is erased from existence similar to the temporal weapon from the Krenim weapon ship or if Vosk is killed before he went to the past would undo all the damage caused by Vosk's incursion into the past. Changing the timeline back to what Archer is familiar with doesn't prove that Vosk and the other Na'kuhls weren't in 20th Century Germany. It is just the same victory scene from The City on the Edge of Forever.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2018
    rattler2 wrote: »
    artan42 wrote: »
    That's a very odd point to pick out of all the rest.

    They've always stuck out. Considering most uniformed organisations are moving away from sex segregated uniforms and Starfleet has done away with them in all incarnations except TOS, one instance in the TOS films, and the KT it sticks out like a sore thumb. Especially as The Cage era uniforms also didn't have them and neither did DSC S1or the Kelvin.

    *cough*Skant*cough*

    I didn't count that because it's not a sex segregated uniform. It's an idiotic one, but both males and females can look pathetic in it equally.
    Shades of V'Ger. Oh gods, don't remind me of TMP, please.

    TMP FTW! <3o:)<3

    You spelt F.M.L incorrectly. (I had to stick full stops in that because the forum censor is written by a 12 year old girl from San Francisco.)
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Again - I loved S1 of DSC, but I agree it needs to stand on it's own merits. The Enterprise and a storyline revolving around Spock - who at this point in time SHOULD be a relatively insignificant science officer with all but six years experience - suggests an attempt at pandering to the 'DSC isn't canon/isn't Prime Universe/isn't Star Trek crowd.

    How do you know it's not. Like I said, that's the whole reason Worf was brought into DS9 and why VGR dragged the Borg into major recurring villain roles. They both needed the TNG boost. It's why ENT did a U-Turn in series 4 to tie into TOS and why TKT films were based on TOS.
    It draws people into the universe and makes it interconnected. Pike's currently contracted for a whole series, Worf was attached to DS9 for four series, O'Brien for seven.
    Star Trek is a shared universe and doesn't need to stand on its own and to date, no series or film has.
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Also amused at how angry some are at the new uniform (or at least the ones the Enterprise crew are wearing). Did anyone REALLY think they were going to use cheap 1960's turtleneck sweaters with an ironed-on fabric insignia and rank stripes that made no sense?

    As long as they switch to them in time for WNMHGB it doesn't bother me. The Cage is already mostly retconned away in TOS so the rest of it going in DSC isn't a issue. And the rank did make sense. No stripes for crewmembers, one for officers, and two for captains (except Pike who had one). It's the divisions that make no sense, the blueshirts are acting as security guards in the pilots and Spock wears gold.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.

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    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,016 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    (...)
    However, I DO have some reservations about S2. The Enterprise for one; it was great as a cameo, but not convinced that they should be building a storyline that features the Captain of another ship so heavily.

    Spock. Okay - this might not be a popular opinion..... but FFS STOP with the over-emphasis on Spock! Slightly revised, but this quote from a certain movie franchise springs to mind:
    "It could mean that that he inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if he were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum".
    (...)

    Also amused at how angry some are at the new uniform (or at least the ones the Enterprise crew are wearing). Did anyone REALLY think they were going to use cheap 1960's turtleneck sweaters with an ironed-on fabric insignia and rank stripes that made no sense?

    I agree with the first two points and share the confusion. Since DSC creates it's own visuals specifically for this show, expecting original uniforms was futile. I still stand by that it wasn't necessary, but I actually really like the DSC uniforms in TOS colouring. The shoulder "rings" are still weird, but the cut is nice.

    artan42 wrote: »
    As long as they switch to them in time for WNMHGB it doesn't bother me. The Cage is already mostly retconned away in TOS so the rest of it going in DSC isn't a issue. And the rank did make sense. No stripes for crewmembers, one for officers, and two for captains (except Pike who had one). It's the divisions that make no sense, the blueshirts are acting as security guards in the pilots and Spock wears gold.

    They won't switch uniforms, just as they won't rebuild the Connie into it's smaller TOS version and you know that. DSC explicitly doesn't follow "visual canon", they have recreated the looks for their artistic vision. DSC does not become TOS.

    On the uniform skirts though, in it's context the miniskirts of TOS were actually empowering attire, not degrading. Roddenberry was sort of a chauvinist, though if we really want to we can say the skirts were actually progressive. And I personally see nothing wrong with skirts on Star Trek starships, it's not like the crew needs utility suits to hold tools and what not, or risk floating through the ship and present everybody their boo-boos. Serving on a Starfleet ship is kinda relaxed and safe, they don't even have any railing suggesting gravity failures are such a freak rare occurrence it's of no concern. I rather embrace the choice of bottom clothing one feels comfortable with and regardless of sex or gender of course. If I feel great in a skirt I surely want to show that pig-2.gif​​
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    "wasn't necessary"? When do TV show writers ever care about that?
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    quote="valoreah;c-13399421"]
    artan42 wrote: »

    • Black Driver gets a line, I wonder if she'll get a name to go with it?
    • Ginger Navigator also gets one. I reckon she'll also need a name.

    They both have names. Lieutenant Joann Owosekun and Keyla Detmer.

    [/quote]

    And my line directly underneath those?
    artan42 wrote: »
    • (Yes I realise they both have names but I don't recall either of them being addressed on screen so not canon :p )

    Having to look them up on MA to check they even existed is not a good thing.
    angrytarg wrote: »
    They won't switch uniforms, just as they won't rebuild the Connie into it's smaller TOS version and you know that. DSC explicitly doesn't follow "visual canon", they have recreated the looks for their artistic vision. DSC does not become TOS.

    They don't need to directly do it. Just to not not do it. And as I said in another thread, there's no ships in TOS to scale the Conni to so as far as I'm concerned they haven't changed the scale. Especially now the windows mean sod all (the DSC Conni has two different scales of windows between the saucer and the neck).
    angrytarg wrote: »
    On the uniform skirts though, in it's context the miniskirts of TOS were actually empowering attire, not degrading. Roddenberry was sort of a chauvinist, though if we really want to we can say the skirts were actually progressive.

    In TOS sure. In 09 not so much. If your uniform lacks basic functionality (such as having nowhere to put rank) then it's only there for looks.
    angrytarg wrote: »
    And I personally see nothing wrong with skirts on Star Trek starships, it's not like the crew needs utility suits to hold tools and what not, or risk floating through the ship and present everybody their boo-boos.

    There's a reason people who crawl through pipes for a reason don't wear them. About 30% of every Starfleet officers life is spent in Jeffries Tubes (even on runabouts).
    angrytarg wrote: »
    Serving on a Starfleet ship is kinda relaxed and safe, they don't even have any railing suggesting gravity failures are such a freak rare occurrence it's of no concern. I rather embrace the choice of bottom clothing one feels comfortable with and regardless of sex or gender of course. If I feel great in a skirt I surely want to show that pig-2.gif

    Some people feel great in corsets, some in long tails and a 10 gallon hat. Some like wearing nothing but furs. However none of those things are uniforms anywhere. Besides, it's clear from TOS and TKT that the sex segregated uniforms are mandatory not optional.
    angrytarg wrote: »
    I agree with the first two points and share the confusion. Since DSC creates it's own visuals specifically for this show, expecting original uniforms was futile. I still stand by that it wasn't necessary, but I actually really like the DSC uniforms in TOS colouring. The shoulder "rings" are still weird, but the cut is nice.

    It wasn't necessary to change the ENT uniforms from purple to blue for series 3. It wasn't necessary to switch out the dS9 uniforms to the FC ones. It wasn't necessary to drop the stupid pajamas from the TOS films. And, as TOS had already retconed 'The Cage' it wasn't necessary to keep any of it.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.

    #TASforSTO


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    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited July 2018
    valoreah wrote: »
    artan42 wrote: »
    Having to look them up on MA to check they even existed is not a good thing.

    Their names are mentioned in a few episodes. Not sure how you missed it if you were watching the show.

    Both are named within seconds of each other at the beginning of Choose Your Pain.
    Lieutenant Detmer, set course for the shuttle's last known coordinates, maximum warp.
    Lieutenant Owosekun, establish search parameters sector by sector.

    Detmer and Lieutenant Detmer are used numerous times on the show. The only time Detmer's first name is used in Context is for Kings when Burnham meets her on the Discovery while in prison garb.

    Owosekun and Lieutenant Owosekun are used numerous times on the show, but there is no mention of Joann. So Lieutenant Keyla Detmer and Lieutenant Owosekun are canon, but Lieutenant Joann Owosekun is not canon.

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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,863 Community Moderator
    With regards to the uniforms... I honestly see the TOS style Discovery uniforms as a modernization of the old 60s uniforms. It works very well and looks better than the cheep shirts with iron on patches. And in regards to the Kelvin Timeline skirts and ranks... that one does seem a bit odd. That issue seemed to have been resolved with the uniforms shown in Beyond, where even female officers were seen with sleeves. Also... apparently in '09 and Into Darkness, female officers could choose to wear sleeves.

    '09 sleeveless
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  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
    Red Alert
    rattler2 wrote: »
    With regards to the uniforms... I honestly see the TOS style Discovery uniforms as a modernization of the old 60s uniforms. It works very well and looks better than the cheep shirts with iron on patches. And in regards to the Kelvin Timeline skirts and ranks... that one does seem a bit odd. That issue seemed to have been resolved with the uniforms shown in Beyond, where even female officers were seen with sleeves. Also... apparently in '09 and Into Darkness, female officers could choose to wear sleeves.

    '09 sleeveless
    latest?cb=20121213194119&path-prefix=en

    '09 sleeve
    latest?cb=20121213190957&path-prefix=en

    Beyond
    latest?cb=20161208195526&path-prefix=en

    Beyond handled everything better of the three.

    My own comics offer sleeves and no sleeve uniforms, too.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    With regards to the uniforms... I honestly see the TOS style Discovery uniforms as a modernization of the old 60s uniforms. It works very well and looks better than the cheep shirts with iron on patches. And in regards to the Kelvin Timeline skirts and ranks... that one does seem a bit odd. That issue seemed to have been resolved with the uniforms shown in Beyond, where even female officers were seen with sleeves. Also... apparently in '09 and Into Darkness, female officers could choose to wear sleeves.

    '09 sleeveless
    latest?cb=20121213194119&path-prefix=en

    '09 sleeve
    latest?cb=20121213190957&path-prefix=en

    Beyond
    latest?cb=20161208195526&path-prefix=en

    Beyond handled everything better of the three.

    My own comics offer sleeves and no sleeve uniforms, too.

    Except for the fact that Beyond reduced the 5 year mission to about 5 minutes.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    valoreah wrote: »
    artan42 wrote: »
    Having to look them up on MA to check they even existed is not a good thing.
    Their names are mentioned in a few episodes. Not sure how you missed it if you were watching the show.
    Both are named within seconds of each other at the beginning of Choose Your Pain.
    Lieutenant Detmer, set course for the shuttle's last known coordinates, maximum warp.
    Lieutenant Owosekun, establish search parameters sector by sector.
    Detmer and Lieutenant Detmer are used numerous times on the show. The only time Detmer's first name is used in Context is for Kings when Burnham meets her on the Discovery while in prison garb.

    Owosekun and Lieutenant Owosekun are used numerous times on the show, but there is no mention of Joann. So Lieutenant Keyla Detmer and Lieutenant Owosekun are canon, but Lieutenant Joann Owosekun is not canon.
    If the name is listed in the credits, then that's good enough for me to count it as canon.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,016 Arc User
    If the name is listed in the credits, then that's good enough for me to count it as canon.

    That's still on-screen. Come to think of it, the same holds true for bonus material on DVDs and such.

    I personally think that some statements and bhind-the-scenes info are to be used supplemental to canon and fill gaps reasonably unless contradicted. I would count on-screen text as such.​​
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    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    valoreah wrote: »
    artan42 wrote: »
    Having to look them up on MA to check they even existed is not a good thing.

    Their names are mentioned in a few episodes. Not sure how you missed it if you were watching the show.

    For the same reason it took me a series to learn Sulu's name. And three to learn Mayweather's. If you only focus on three characters then the rest become window dressing.
    rattler2 wrote: »
    And in regards to the Kelvin Timeline skirts and ranks... that one does seem a bit odd. That issue seemed to have been resolved with the uniforms shown in Beyond, where even female officers were seen with sleeves. Also... apparently in '09 and Into Darkness, female officers could choose to wear sleeves.
    '09 sleeveless

    '09 sleeve

    Beyond

    That just makes it even more stupid. It'd be like giving Riker, Kirks plunging neckline so he'd have nowhere to hang his pips.

    But BEY did also give female officers the trouser option back so there's that.
    angrytarg wrote: »
    If the name is listed in the credits, then that's good enough for me to count it as canon.

    That's still on-screen. Come to think of it, the same holds true for bonus material on DVDs and such.

    I personally think that some statements and bhind-the-scenes info are to be used supplemental to canon and fill gaps reasonably unless contradicted. I would count on-screen text as such.

    That would include deleted scenes. Though that would make Admiral Marcus' model of the tOS Conni hanging from his ceiling canon which adds another amazing layer of 'screwyou' to the Conni debate pig-2.gif.

    Though I can personally see credits being canon I can't see background material and deleted scenes as canon as the statement was films and TV series, not DVDs or whatever. Which does make we wonder about the directors vs. cinematic cuts of TMP and TUC.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.

    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
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    angrytarg wrote: »
    reyan01 wrote: »
    (...)
    However, I DO have some reservations about S2. The Enterprise for one; it was great as a cameo, but not convinced that they should be building a storyline that features the Captain of another ship so heavily.

    Spock. Okay - this might not be a popular opinion..... but FFS STOP with the over-emphasis on Spock! Slightly revised, but this quote from a certain movie franchise springs to mind:
    "It could mean that that he inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if he were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum".
    (...)

    Also amused at how angry some are at the new uniform (or at least the ones the Enterprise crew are wearing). Did anyone REALLY think they were going to use cheap 1960's turtleneck sweaters with an ironed-on fabric insignia and rank stripes that made no sense?

    I agree with the first two points and share the confusion. Since DSC creates it's own visuals specifically for this show, expecting original uniforms was futile. I still stand by that it wasn't necessary, but I actually really like the DSC uniforms in TOS colouring. The shoulder "rings" are still weird, but the cut is nice.

    artan42 wrote: »
    As long as they switch to them in time for WNMHGB it doesn't bother me. The Cage is already mostly retconned away in TOS so the rest of it going in DSC isn't a issue. And the rank did make sense. No stripes for crewmembers, one for officers, and two for captains (except Pike who had one). It's the divisions that make no sense, the blueshirts are acting as security guards in the pilots and Spock wears gold.

    They won't switch uniforms, just as they won't rebuild the Connie into it's smaller TOS version and you know that. DSC explicitly doesn't follow "visual canon", they have recreated the looks for their artistic vision. DSC does not become TOS.

    On the uniform skirts though, in it's context the miniskirts of TOS were actually empowering attire, not degrading. Roddenberry was sort of a chauvinist, though if we really want to we can say the skirts were actually progressive. And I personally see nothing wrong with skirts on Star Trek starships, it's not like the crew needs utility suits to hold tools and what not, or risk floating through the ship and present everybody their boo-boos. Serving on a Starfleet ship is kinda relaxed and safe, they don't even have any railing suggesting gravity failures are such a freak rare occurrence it's of no concern. I rather embrace the choice of bottom clothing one feels comfortable with and regardless of sex or gender of course. If I feel great in a skirt I surely want to show that pig-2.gif​​

    Yea, I'd be having the skirt option as well, probably sleeveless as well.
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