@stuck Terrific performance, and a great re-imagining of a character that was woefully underserved in TOS.
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@RootBeerGuy @startrek The transporter is essentially magic. If you think too long about it, you’ll wonder why, for example, *everyone* doesn’t “store their pattern”, and thus become effectively immortal. Or why a pattern can’t be materialized multiple times, to generate an army of clones.
I love Trek, but it’s much more space opera than hard sci-fi, and often the “sciencey” bits are purely for narrative convenience (see also “holodeck”).
@GaiusGornicusCaesar @startrek It really is terrific. And having Joan Collins doesn’t hurt.
In his TOS Star Trek role-playing game, the writer Ken Hite listed a number of principles that the show embodied, and one of them was “good will often require sacrifice”. This episode really embodies that.
@akhenaten0 @startrek I’m old enough to be a TOS fan *prior* to the movies, much less TNG, so a time when there are *multiple* Trek shows on at the same time is mind-blowing. I really don’t think it likely that there’d be no Trek anywhere, at least for long.
@Damage @startrek I would think one would avoid sending one’s most powerful ship to explore — it’s rather threatening diplomatically, and it also means one’s defence of home space is weakened. It makes more sense to me to send smaller, more nimble, less threatening (and less valuable) ships into the unknown.
@USSBurritoTruck Although none of the other characters in that scene disputed her description of the Federation.
@rob_t_firefly I’m not sure why a diplomatic vessel wouldn’t need to be fast. I would think the opposite — diplomacy can be needed in rapidly-developing crisis situations, and you’d want people there as soon as possible.