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Unless of course the Cybermen manage to subvert the Borg's root commands which how they got the upper hand in Assimilation Squared. The Cybermen have one advantage over the Borg. While the Borg will reverse an agreement when they either no longer need it or have the upper hand, the Cybermen enter into their agreements…
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Actually she is. because her TARDIS frequently doesn't take the Doctor where she wants to go, but where she needs to be.
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It depends on what kind of story you wish to write. If it's a Star Wars based story, then the Borg need to win, if it's a Trek story, it's the other way around. That way you get to write a plot where the heroes have to bail out their traditional enemies.
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It was changed to a Veteran's award after a certain amount of days, I think 400 or so. I'm not a lifer but I had a subscription for a fairly long time, and I have access to it as well. Never found anyone there in the various times I've looked. It is based on one of the hokiest premises I've ever seen for an anthology…
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In Assimilation Squared, the Cybermen pull a major one over the Borg to the point where Picard has to save the Borg or risk letting the Galaxy get taken over by Borg-enhanced Cybermen. Unlike the Federation folks, the Borg however maintain an awareness of the Cybermen and the Doctor's use of Time Travel to save the…
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There isn't a single ship in the series or the movies that would "work in real life".
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But.... what happened to the cat?
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I don't know if Discovery has given a boost to STO. There was a lot of interest in getting those free uniforms during the promotion. It certainly does seem to have been a major help to Star Trek Timelines.
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Are you under the impression that Roddenberry created the original series purely for artistic or charitable reasons? From day one...it's always been about the money. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it was anything different. Your judgement was from watching half of the pilot if you didn't catch episode 2 on…
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Which for all we know, might cover 4 years or more of story time.
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1. Don't assume that in this case, the only death penalty remaining is going to the planet of the telpathic buttheads. Also, Burnham is going to PRISON, not some "rehabilitaiton" colony. The intent here is to lock her up and throw away the key. 2. Also, the T'kuwa did what he did for a very specific long range plan, to…
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You actually only saw half of the premiere. The other half in on access and you have to sign up for a trial to see it. I like this show, they're taking risks, they're breaking the formula, and there's no sign of that garbage "Roddenberry Rule". And the Klingons actually are doing what they do for reasons that make sense…
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It was most likely written by an STO player...Anyone can write an io9 article, after all.
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It gets rid of the magic tech of TNG and later and most of the space gods.
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To be perfectly fair, if the show is going to pay off, it's going to have to appeal to an audience a lot more general than 50 year old plus TOS fanatics.
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Star Trek 5 had a toilet in the brig with the bold warning label "DO NOT USE WHILE IN SPACEDOCK" Now THAT was funny.
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I've never been impressed with Frakes work as a director. I'm even less fond of Seth McFarlane's style of humor. I am not knocking it, it's just never been my cup of Earl Grey. I've given Orville two swings at bat so far, the only thing this has above the late unlamented "Buck Rogers" is set and CGI production value. I…
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Her role in "24" was considerably bigger than that in DS9 considering that she only appeared in like 6 episodes at most, maybe 4? Many of the younger Trekkies might not even remember her.
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Probably a Euro expatriate.
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Those people are making the team owners billions. So yeah, that's a fair piece of the spoils. Commercial time on an extended sports game pays a hell of a lot more than any scifi show that's going to air on Fox, so don't expect any changes to this policy.
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You CAN have both.
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Parasites are typically a form of devolution, in that they become simpler lifeforms than their antecedents as they jettison body parts which are merely redundancies. A tapeworm for instance no longer needs legs, arms, or eyes.
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Your problem seems to be that aliens are in your view not alien enough. When you get aliens that are truly alien, you're generally looking at Lovecraft, Mythos, essentially beings like Cthulu.. too alien for dialogue or even co-existence. Aliens in science fiction have always been projections of an aspect of human…
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What's normal in holograms? What's not? Vic has more programming than some because he's meant for varied interaction, but not as much as the Doctor, who is complex enough to rewrite his own code. (That's what I'd call abnormal... and potentially dangerous.)
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I despise the way holograms are presented in Trek, they simply are beyond the bounds of logic. They are presented as if the holograms themselves posssesed the processing power that runs their AI, when it's not the case. There is simply no logical way to parse out all of the various contradictory details of Trek holograms,…
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Actually, the working principles of atomic power, a controlled chain reaction, had been tested in a squash field in Chicago three years before Oppenheimer's bomb, so this was not a case of a sword being beaten into a plowshare, but rather the other way around.
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The EFFECTS of warp drive... what it does, varies according to plot. I can understand that writers will occasionally bend things to get a story through. But Star Trek will make huge bends for a reason with no more importance than to insert a bad joke. "You must read Shakespeare in the original Klingon!" Really? like the…
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I prefer being lashed down to a table forced to endure an audio duo of Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" and William Shatner singing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" to First Contact. The movie was a horrible experience on all counts from it's revisement of Cochrane it the sheer ineptitude of the Enterprise crew, in…
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It wouldn't because they can't. Photonic beings don't have DNA, or chromosomes, or reproductive genetic material of any sort. Holograms in the way they are used in Star Trek are the weakest issue to justify. Technically a Hologram is a projection of a program run on a computer. The projection is not the program itself. It…
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I remember the FASA game when they tried to identify the Monk as early incarnations of The Master. The IDW Star Trek comic book series had an excellent Borg/Cybermen teamup called "Assimilation Squared". Served as a neat prologue to "First Contact".