10 Biggest Unanswered Mysteries In Star Trek
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The biggest unanswered question is what is a self sealing stem bolt
I think the answer is in its name.
Its critical part of the construction and or use of reverse ratcheting routers.
That was handled in either season 1 or season 2 of ST:DS9. Quarks son Nog decides to try his hand at deal making behind his dad's back, with Jake Cisco helping him. He buys a huge supply of self sealing stem bolts from a scammer, eventually trading them for one thing after another and then trading for a piece of land that's worthless. And then either exotic minerals are found on the land or someone wants to buy it at a huge cost just as Nog is about to admit he screwed up to his dad, and ends up a hero. Chief O'Brien explains that self sealing stem bolts were commonly used "a long time ago" for hull work.
@@porkcracklins630 Hmm, I should try on on my tp-link router.
Are they self-aware?
The reason Q fears Guinan is because she has the answers to the other nine unanswered mysteries about Star Trek.
It's kind of a job security thing.
She gained some kind of cosmic awareness during her stay in the Nexus, this is why she could senses alterations/changes to the timeline in "Yesterday's Enterprise".
A part of Guinan remains in the Nexus, existing outside of time and space, which makes her practically immortal.
It also gives her the ability to manipulate past and future events (if she wants too).
I thought it was because she was black and Q is a massive racist.
@@PaoloTrianni
Q isnt racist.
He's equal opportunity.
@@PaoloTrianni How do you know Q's natural form isn't black? What are you, racist against the Q Continuum?
@@flatscan1978 I somewhat assumed that was along the lines of what happened.
It's implied that the El Aurian people were already sensitive to time and space, perhaps a species that had dipped a toe into the realm of the unscientific powers that occasionally crop up in the series. When exposed to the Nexus her racial traits reacted and "upgraded" her to an early stage transcendent being.
I really liked Guinan's character, so it makes me sad that her backstory and species never got fully explored, but perhaps she was just meant to be Star Trek's Tom Bombadil, a character that it more interesting and mystical specifically because their origin story was intentionally sealed away.
I think the whale ship just came to say: "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
Brilliant!
Randy Fortier don’t panic
R.I.P., Douglas Adams.
I thought it said "Meet you at Milliways!" but of course my UT(universal translator) could've been malfunctioning that day.
I've got that song stuck in my head now... thanks.
What about “Conspiracy” that ended with the signal being sent out just before Picard and Riker killed the “mother creature” hiding within Lt. Cmd. Remmick?
Apparently this was answered in comics but that still isn't satisfying. I also would have loved to see a follow-up
I was thinking exactly the same.
I read somewhere that this was supposed to be a set up for the Borg, tho at that time they were going to be an insectoid race. Then the writers strike happened and the story was lost, and when it reemerged it was the Borg collective instead of an insectoid hive mind.
@@imkluu And also they realised it'd be too costly to produce.
@@imkluu I think whatever you read is conflating two topics. The Neutral Zone - the very next episode - was the setup for the Borg. These were two separate strands. And indeed the Borg were going to be insectoid and then became robotic due to budget constraints
What about the Dyson Sphere discovered in the episode 'Relics' - who built it, what's on the inside, they just seemed to forget it, you could have done an entire new series just exploring it similar to the Ringworld books.
While not canon, in Star Trek Online these are built by the Iconians, something else that was never explored further in Canon Trek.
Another good pick... It's stated a science vessel would be sent to investigate...
It would have been interesting to have a follow up episode where a science team analyse the structure of the Sphere (it reflects sensor beams, which make for a great material for Starship hulls), as well as what technological wonders the race who built the Sphere might have left behind on the inner surface.
Yes! That captured my imagination so much as a child, but it was only used as the backdrop to the (also fantastic) Scotty story
In the novelisation of the episode, they actually send an away team down to look around
@@aj_8009 Do you want a 2nd Generation Pattern buffer copy of Scotty ? I can send him to you on a spare USB ...
What's the point in finding out about the alien probe? No one can understand them anyway. I don't think Darmok at Tanagra would even begin to Shaka when the walls fell with those ones. Not even if Timba! His eyes open.
Felicia, when she left the village!
In winter
Elvis in Blue Hawaii.
hahahhah nice one
What in the Blue Ale are you guys talking about ???!!!!
My fave appearance of Q was on DS9, when Captain Sisko punches him n Q says "You hit me, Picard never hit me"
Siskos replies completely deadpan
"I'm not Picard"
"Indeed not, you're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me."
That was great!!!
And the next time Q is seen is in TNG trying to convince Picard to punch someone
Michaela Higgins
I wonder if that was intentional 😂
A god accosted the son of another God.. he better run away the parents were in some jail for some time. When the prophets got out and hear q was messing with the sisko i bet q gets a spanking.
When Guinan and Q met they looked like they were going to start hurling spells at each other.
That was a great moment.
The technical term is "whilibliy whoos"
Na I think he was just trolling her. Not much different then him putting his fists up to Sisko.
I have had a pet theory for a while now that the Q might be very powerful in appearance because they can do all sorts of very showy things. Some very real and dangerous. But that, if you know what angle to come at them from, they're extremely vulnerable. They just know how to show only their strengths to those who don't know any better.
Guinan knows better.
We know Guinan isn't able to do things as directly supernaturally impressive as Q can; Q wouldn't have been threatened by the Borg, but the El Aurian people were all but destroyed by them, and Guinan in particular remains traumatized AND is tempted by the Nexus enough to not trust herself with it. The fact that the Borg, having assimilated El Aurians, still don't seem to pose an existential threat to the Q suggests that the knowledge of how to threaten them is not commonly-held to her culture, and may be something of hers, personally.
@@segevstormlord3713 Or maybe Q is referring to a future version of Guinan and her people that could even be Nexus related due to being able to go into any location in time via it.
A part of Guinan was in the Nexus and more than likely other members of her people also have a part of themselves in the Nexus as well.
"If the Continuum has told you once, they've told you a thousand times: Don't Explain the Borg!"
-Q, probably
I too, was fascinated by Q taking up a defensive posture when he encountered Guinan. I've always believed that her original backstory is NOT what we were shown in Star Trek Generations.
I'm guessing that "Q" has seen all her appearances on _The View_ .
@@bat2293 What-the-hell is _"The View"_ supposed to be?!?
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 It's supposed to be a talk show. I suppose if I have to explain the humor it wasn't very funny. Are you from outside the US and have never seen Whoopi acting scary, live on 20th century TV? see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_View_(talk_show)
@@bat2293 Shit, all those ladies scare the living shit outta me.
@@bat2293 no no no... it was frickin funny.
There was an episode, Starship Mine, where Picard ends up trapped on the Enterprise during routine cleaning at a dock. There are some people that get aboard the Enterprise to steal a small amount of trilithium. They were accused of being terrorists, but they refuted that, saying they were hired to do that task. They failed and were all killed. But I suspect they were hired by Soren to acquire the trilithium he required for his plan to redirect the Nexus.
Oh yeah, Die Hard Picard 😂 that was a good episode
Hmm interesting theory, then when they failed he went to the Duras sisters.
Trilithium resin
Trilithium resin.
I like this theory..
Wesley: I have SO many questions, Traveler.
Traveler: Shut up, Wesley.
Hahahaha
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wesley never "returned to Starfleet". According to a deleted scene for Nemesis, he was still traveling with the Traveler, but stopped by for Riker and Troi's wedding because these are all people he still cared about. He also apparently showed up naked because he thought it was going to be a traditional Betazoid wedding, but materialized a Starfleet uniform once he realized his mistake.
Surf Wisely.
P.S. This is apparently incorrect. See replies below.
I still like my idea for season 2 of Picard, if they're bringing back Guinan anyway. Add Q to the mix, but the Big Bad is actually Wesley.
@@edwardcote2440 Guinan and Q could save STP.
But Picard asked him if he was excited to be serving on the Titan and Wesley started speaking about the Ships Warp Core
@@thedelta4258 Well, ya got me there. Twin Intermix Chambers indeed.
Then I guess it's just a big ol' continuity error. The last time I saw this much of a continuity problem in Star Trek was back in the 1990s. But we had a lot going on in those days, what with the Eugenics Wars and everything...
@@dolst Or its not an error and he just got bored of traveling, deciding to come back to finish what he started.
"Never Ever Explain The Borg."
Well said.
One word: Midichlorians.
Just wait to see where Star Trek: Picard is going. This is the saddest part about Star Trek: Picard. Right after the lens flares.
Well, at the 11:40 mark, Hadadah, it is mentioned that Q and Guinan have significant issues with each other. It is as though Guinan's people are as god-like as the Q are, but are equally opposed to each other. Since Guinan's people were assimilated by the Borg long ago, presumably one of the first major species and victims, it stands to reason that the seeming Magickal ability of the original Borg to heal their severely damaged Cube to full functioning status in just a few minutes' time could be the species that gave the Borg that seeming Magickal ability. Which would mean that Guinan's people are still roughly as god-like as the Q are despite being widely scattered across the Milky Way Galaxy. Just the mere idea of explaining the origin of the Borg does not have to mean that the Borg are somehow no longer an OP species.
It really has always been a very stupid notion for anyone to believe explaining the origin of any species in non-fiction and fiction alike somehow greatly diminishes them. The Borg would still be OP and terrifying as ever if it was confirmed that the Borg gained that seeming Magickal ability to heal their highly effiencent space ships via their collective will by assimilating Guinan's homeworld thousands of years ago. This would also mean that the Borg has the technological means to breach the Inner and Outer Galactic Barriers. The reason why the Borg is not busy assimilating the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy is because the Borg found vastly superior prey to assimilate in at least the Inner Galaxy portion of our galaxy. See, Habadah? My explanation destroys the mystery of the Borg while completely retaining the Borg's OP and terrifying status.
I bet Picard will show that Romulans created them. Shit that it will be, that is what will happen.
I wish that Voyager had heard this piece of advice.
The whale probe remains a mystery, but we might be able to judge something from the translation of what the whale said to it.
"No, I am not interested in my starship's extended warranty."
I never read it, but there was a novel published back in the 90s called "Probe." It is the only follow-up to the story that I am aware of.
The whales answered, "No, we didn't order 4 large seafood pizzas, but, if you can't find the ones who ordered them ... "
@@LorenHelgeson , weren't the Doomsday Machines created to destroy them? I remember the two having a connection.
Maybe that's why by TNG the Enterprise D had "Cetacian Ops"
Im beginning to suspect the whale probe was built by species "Spam Likely" 😳
Edit : ...and they sent the probe because nobody would answer their calls!! 🤯
Always struck me as weird in The Motion Picture that the super-intelligent aliens who find Voyager aren't sufficiently advanced to give its nameplate a bit of a clean.
or explain how the nameplate got dirty in the first place. it was floating around in a vacuum for a couple hundred years. Odd pitting from a micrometeoroid, sure, but just a random splort of dust? Or how did it fall into a black hole? (was that the story?) at speeds an earth probe of that era could travel in a couple hundred years... we wouldn't want a black hole that close to us, I'm sure.
Maybe this species didn't have any Windex wipes?
@@meowcula Even better point.
I always wondered that, too, since the Ilia android copy called it "V'ger" and spoke English, neither of which a 1990s tech NASA probe could do. Presumably V'ger learned English from the Federation space station it absorbed earlier in the film, and only then realized that it's dirty nameplate says "V'ger" on it. (I'm also pretty sure the Voyager probes don't have nameplates on them; needless mass penalty that will never be seen by anyone.)
@@meowcula The dirt of the nameplate is from when Voyager VI merged with the alien tech, similar to how Reese's Cups were invented: "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!" The aliens were just sloppy.
I'd like to find out who that stupid God/Alien/Jerk was at the center of the galaxy was and how he had been imprisoned there for eternity.......
Most important question ever in trek is.. "What does God need with a starship"?
There was a book that explained it including some TOS energy beings. He was a Q like being from another Universe. Our Q brings him, Zero, the gorgon cant remmber the 4th guy into our universe thru the gates of eternity. The one doctor Mccoy went back in time with. It was made by the q when they were still caporeal. Well these 4 didn't like younger races evolving into godlike entities. In their universe they killed many and were on the run from other higher powers. Once the Q continuum found out about the death of the Tkon empire they told Q and and 3 others to stop them. Since the 4 draw power from certain aspects like war and violence and fear and others. Many humanoid worlds fell durimg this battle that last millions of years. After Q defeated them 2 were captured and the other 2 escaped but were so depowered. They showed up during TOS but even kirk could beat them. The 2 that were captured was zero and the head guy. The continuum threw Zero outside the galaxy and made the great barrier to keep him out. He was maimed in the other universe and could only travel at light speed. So even if he went to other galaxies by the time he got there younger races would of became godlike already and able to defend themselves. The reason he was only a head was of Lady Q. She destroyed the rest of his body and the Continuum trapped him in the core of the galaxy.
TOS-era had a lot of plots where somebody wanted/took Kirk's starship.
TNG not so much. Some terrorists tried to steal some stuff from the ship while it was in space garage. Some Bynars borrowed the ship because they desperately needed internet while restarting their computers. But mostly hostiles didn't care about Picard's magnificent ship at all, they wanted the people onboard.
@@ZeroFallout1 That sounds an awful lot like a plot line from Babylon 5. Much like DS9... ;)
@@jedironin380 third space aliens have nothing on Zero and the other 3. They were able to go toe to toe with the Q for millions of years. Great book series you should read it. It ties in alot of stories from TOS.
The acients from Stargate. Is Q's race
Shatner co-wrote "The Return" and in it explained the origins of the Borg, while it may not be canon, it does make a compelling argument about V'Ger and Decker.
I'd like to know who built the "Doomsday Machine" and what did Starfleet do with its carcass after it was disabled?
And any competent Starfleet would send groups in later to find anything that was still discoverable (including basic materials and construction techniques), and those findings would eventually be rolled into Federation tech, certainly by the time of TNG. We never see or hear about any of this, in canon or ()AFAIK) any other sources.
According to Kirk it came from another galaxy. Perhaps buolt by Emperor Palpatine? 😂
The Novel Star Trek: Vendetta attempts (badly) to answer the first question. As per Memory Alpha, the carcass of the Doomsday Machine, after being carefully researched and confirmed to be no longer functioning, now hovers above a Starfleet Museum Planet.
I was thinking of that also. That would be #11 and ties in Guinan also (in the books). I too also don't believe Guinan has any powers like Q other than very very very long lived. There is a reference that Guinan's people were scattered about the galaxy because the Borg destroyed their home world. But also in the books there is a reference that Guinan's people could not destroy the Doomsday Machine is it consumer several of their colony planets.
Then there is Guinan 23 marriages, and hiding out on 19th century Earth, and yea....long lived.
@@davidcoleman8275 LOL!!! 😂
Here's another question for you, directly related to Star Trek: Generations. It starts out in the 23rd century, when the El-Aurians flee from the Borg attack, as you mentioned. Many years later, Federation and Romulan outposts near the Romulan neutral zone are destroyed by an unknown force. But only later, when Q transports the Enterprise far away, we learn about the Borg and that they are responsible. This is the first time we the audience, as well as Starfleet, learns of their existance. But the El-Aurians knew decades before that. So why didn't anyone ask them "oy guys, what were ye actually fleeing from?" or, why didn't any of the El-Aurians come forward, saying "yo, there's these badass cyborg dudes out that'll eventually come for you, so might wanna start to prepare for that"?
Lore's relationship with the Crystalline entity. Origin of the Crystalline Entity. Origin of the Oil Creature that killed Tasha Yar and the race that it came from.
the Ba'ul and armus ? same species
We‘ll just forget those.
The oil creature that killed Tasha Yar was the photographer who took her nude photo shoot. If you were around back then, she did some nudes, the star trek people were displeased and she was unceremoniously dumped from the show.
Amon Ra is that you Q ? 😊
@@tfharper The Playboy shoot was done in the 70s. Playboy re-released the pictures to capitalize on her newfound fame. Denise Crosby left on her own accord because she was unhappy with how little Tasha's character was being used.
The biggest Star Trek mystery: Why was Enterprise cancelled, right when it was really starting to get good?
We didn't have enough faith of the heart
Because it's ratings stank.
Because prequels suck and ruin working timelines. Writers never learn. Don't do prequels, you will inevitably ruin something you already set in stone. There are few exceptions to this rule.
overall, i liked it
@@Yxalitis The second and third seasons of TNG, DS9 and Voyager also sucked.
"Never, ever explain the Borg."
This, a thousand times "yes!" As has been demonstrated repeatedly in other fiction, when an entity, a race, or other pivotal aspect of a show, book, game or series has been built up for years upon years, any explanation the writers may try to pass off as canon will almost never live up to the expectations built up by the fan base. Leave the Borg's origins a mystery.
Nah, easy enough to say the Binars had a mishap and that created the borg. The borg were banished (or ran away) from the Alpha quadrant and now are returning. Easy enough to make something up that doesn't disrupt the story.
@dark zeratul You talking some Phantom Menace shit right here. Sometimes it’s better for a ominous threat to stay ominous.
Even more so, I hope they never explain all of Guinan’s mystery away, although I’d like her to return to Picard.
I agree. The Borg should be treated more as a force of nature than a race or collective
THIS TIMES A MILLION.
It's The Wolverine Effect. When he was a man if mystery, the fans took hints and went nuts with their own headcanon.
When everything is explained .... he's just a runty Highlander knockoff. BOO.
Same for both X-Files. And Alien.
They do reveal a little about the Borg's origin in Voyager. The episode Dragon's Teeth reveals that they originally controlled only a small portion of that part of the Delta quadrant in the 15th Century and weren't considered much of a threat at the time.
In the ST:TNG episode "Emergence" the Enterprise itself becomes alive and gives birth to a glowing lifeform that exits out the hull and into space. WTF ever happened to that thing? You'd think Starfleet and the crew of the Enterprise would be interested in tracking down a new lifeform. It's kind of their jam.
I had that question too.
That was the first thing I thought about when I saw this. Why did the Enterprise start spontaneously creating those nodes, spontaneously start developing an awareness and then start creating a mysterious energy life-form then self-destruct all those nodes all without any explanation as to why or what its creation ended up doing.
Terrible episode
Starfleet can't afford child support so they pretend it never happened.
Not following up on that life form was wildly irresponsible!
Biggest unanswered mystery is: what was the real reason Garak was exiled?!
I think it was his mission to set up shop and spy from within ds9, therefore he wasn't really exiled.
As Lonewoof79 said, he was sent on a mission, but since Obsidian Order has changed, he was conveniently left there. I presume it might be his father's way to protect him, maybe?
A Stitch In Time" a novel written by Andrew J. Robinson explores a lot more about Garak. The reason seems he was exiled for having an affair with a high ranking Gul's wife. When Tain found out about Elim and Palandines relationship, he ordered Garak to end it immediately, and never see Palandine again. Garak went to see her anyway, and was captured by Lokar. The resulting confrontation ended with Lokar's death.
Tain saw Garak's disobedience as a betrayal, and did nothing to help him with his resulting legal troubles. Garak was exiled from Cardassia, never to return on the pain of death. Garak, being the true loyal Cardassian he has always been actually believes he deserves exile. He said he was willing to give up everything and defy the military and the state for his own selfish desires.
@@burninhelltwiceable I believe exiled is to strong a word for his situation, for example he had working security codes for ds9 and when they were in Cardassian space (I forgot the context). I think ds9 was the worst possible job to assign him knowing he would be alone and untrusted, basically hindering his ability to have meaningful relationships.
The Cardassians hated Garak's taste in clothing, so he was exiled.
"Who where the aliens who created the Hotel Royale?"
"Who where the aliens in that transparent ship in the 'Justice' episode?"
"What happened with doctor Pulaski?"
The Hotel Royale question is more appropriately is 'why did this episode aire'? :D
@@sgt.tackleberry8752 I like that episode! It's strange but funny, haha
The Hotel Royale is a good question, especially as they seemed to have disappeared after the dude they made it for "Cashed in his chips."
@@sgt.tackleberry8752 They were short on ideas that season. . .
Wasn't it just that Pulaski was there because they started off with unused "Phase II" scripts and she was the Dr. McCoy proxy? And then when they started off on their own steam more, they preferred a friendlier redhead?
Having Q leary of Guinan was a great way to add mystery to Guinan's character making her even more interesting. Explaining her powers and abilities would remove that mystery, and I believe that would be a mistake.
That's what I think as well.
agreed.
There was an episode where if I remember correctly the enterprise c came through a rift and altered the time line bringing back Yar. And when Guinan saw her she new she wasn't supposed to be there. If you remember correctly Yar died because of a tar like being. That being said, that just gives just a taste of what Guinan can do. I think when it comes to it, one of the questions I like to be answered is how Picard puts so much value in what she says, and the story line between those 2
Deus ex Blackina
Leave a mystery unsolved long enough and people stop caring about it. It goes from a point that can draw in attention, to something that looks more like they couldn't come up with an interesting story to explain it.
You left out this one: if Guinan is so powerful how did the Borg assimilate/annihilate her entire race?
Guinan is a bit of a unique case. Just like the other El-Aurian we meet who encountered the Nexus Ribbon, Dr. Soron, she seems to have unusual abilities after being pulled back from the Nexus. After Picard finds out about his family burning to death, Soron grabs Picard by the arm and says, "Time is the fire in which we burn." They both seem to have an awareness of things going on in the galaxy, probably to do with their other halves in the Nexus. Could also explain why Guinan is a threat to Q if what one can do in the Nexus crosses over at all.
I don't think Guinan is actually an El-Aurian. Granted, we never see much of them apart from her, Soran and the ship that exploded in the Nexus ribbon, but just in that brief bit it doesn't seem like the El-Aurians are that advanced compared to the Federation. And yet, we see Guinan living on 19th century Earth in 'Time's Arrow'. She got there somehow, and did not seem to be in the company of other El-Aurians. Moreover, she looks like she hadn't aged a day in the half-millenium between the two time periods. I think whatever her actual race is, it's a minor godlike species. She doesn't seem to be the same as the Q, but she's got enough going on that Q will take notice. (Not to mention that, in the clip above Q says that she's 'not what she seems' - and she would seem to be an El-Aurian.)
@@mattrobson3603 My hypothesis: Guinan is a Q, posing as an El-Aurian. Since Q says she is bad, but she helped many characters, while Q only ever caused problems, then she is good, while Q is bad.
@Mobley House Video if they only manifested after the ribbon. Then Q would not now about them. Since their conflict was from hundreds of years before the ribbon and her rescue from it. Also the only powers that they showed Guinan having was the power of premonition.
El-Aurian who get in touch with the nexus mysteriously double. There are only two known survivors both have a copy of themselves in the nexus. Soran desperately wants to get back in, while we see guinans copy on earth.
you also need to be very special to not be affected by the time change in yesterday's enterprise.
Here’s a couple more. What is “The First Federation” from “Korbomite Maneuver”? Who sent Gary Seven to Earth in “Assignment: Earth.”?
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I love this opening theme trailer.
The Aegis sent Gary 7 to earth. Wesley crusher was written out because there was nothing for the character to do.
Kenneth Draper That just moves that goal post. Who are the Aegis?
@@kdrapertrucker The early ST:TNG could just as well have been titled, "What Sh*t Will Wesley Crusher Get Us Into or Out of This Week." Totally weak soup.
For what it's worth, Gary Seven was originally planned as a low budget spinoff series.
My theory about Guinan is that she doesn't have any actual powers herself, however she does have vast knowledge of the Q continuum, and perhaps many "friends in high places". We know that Q is subservient to the others in the Q continuum as they punish him several times by either casting him out or taking away his powers. Guinan shares her insight with Picard by saying "Not all the Q are alike; some of them are almost respectable". This implies that she knows other Q, and Q's reaction to her implies that he is aware of this, and considers her a threat to him because of her potential relationship to these other Q. It is possible that her defense stance was simply a way to signal her Q friends that they may have to put Q back in his place. If Guinan has the natural (or gained) ability to sense disturbances in the space-time continuum alerting Q's presence to her, and she also has the ability to signal other Qs in the continuum anytime she wishes, then she would be a legitimate threat to Q. The Q continuum doesn't normally interfere in the affairs of mortals, so they wouldn't help her solve a mortal problem. But they have no hesitation about intervening to stop a rogue Q from affecting the galaxy. They did the same thing to Amanda Rogers parents, and to Quinn. That's my take on the Guinan/Q relationship.
Interesting. What is Guinan IS a Q? I had never thought of that. Hmmmmm.
Excellent reasoning
Doesn't Guinan have most of her 'powers' because she exists in both the normal Universe and The Nexus?
If Guinan had powers, wouldn't Picard also have them, because he exists in both the normal universe and The Nexus as well.
@@ChaFairchild No, he chose to leave. Guinan was, as she says, ripped and torn from it. She didn't want to leave and so a part of her remained. The same with Kirk, he chose to leave as well.
Alien parasite in (TNG: "Conspiracy")
Data theorizes that the message Remmick was transmitting at the time he died was a homing beacon.
The episode ends with… the sound of electronic beeping, focused on an unexplored patch of the galaxy, leaving the ominous possibility that some or all of Remmick's message might still reach its intended recipients, letting the parasites know where to find Earth.
Those parasites were supposed to lead to the introduction of the Borg but that idea was dropped so it became an unresolved plotline.
That happened pretty often in Trek. They would introduce something with the intention of developing it but then it would get dropped due to various reasons or they would use the idea for something else.
That would have been nice if they have used this story arc in Picard instead of the Borg ..but the producers of Star Trek Picard never watched Star Trek anyway😁🖖
@@scifiguy26 "...never watched Star Trek anyway"? They were too busy starring in Star Trek: the only reason Star Trek: Picard exists is Patrick Stewart getting to tell the story HE wanted to tell the way HE wanted to tell it, something he's assured because he'd be one of the primary executive producers - and if CBS didn't agree, they could sod off
Gawd... I'm so fucking tired of the "I hate NuTrek" crap (same bullshit that raged when TNG first came out)
@@Stormcastle awwww 😢we are a little sensitive Nu Trekkie aren't we 🖖
Harris Caldwelly he’s right
I always wanted to see a story wherein Traveller-trained Wesley met back up with his Q girlfriend and they tried to see if they could make it work now that they're...more on equal footing.
A few things here that i have theories of, there's a lot of them and it's a bit of reading. If you're going to skip any part please just read the Q and Guinan part, that's my favourite theory:
1: Ro Laren: She was killed when the Dominion came and wiped out the Maquis. Ro Laren left the Enterprise some time in 2370 (second season of DS9). The Dominion entered the Alpha quadrant in mid 2373 at the request of Gul Dukat and they started by wiping out all the Maquis settlements in the DMZ. Since there is no further mention of Ro Laren it's safe to say she was killed in this engagement. However, there are non canon references to her in novels and STO that state she survived the dominion assault and either returned to Starfleet, or joined the Bajoran militia.
2: Wesley Crusher: Because Wesley went with the traveler, a being who exists outside normal space and time, it is possible that Wesley could have, from his standpoint, been gone for hundreds if not thousands of years, without aging. He could have popped back in to see his old crew every now and then, and because time isn't an issue for him, from the crews standpoint he was only gone for a little while. He may also have decided to come back into his own reality, possibly because the Traveler could have died, he wanted to pick up (seriously, he was alone with a weird looking dude, he was probably missing some hot Starfleet ensign tail.) Or this was a quick visit for him and he planned to go back.
3: Pegasus: Section 31 found out about this and dealt with it quickly and quietly. "WARNING THIS INFORMATION IS CLASSIFIED NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE".
4: The warp 5 speed limit: This one never really bothered me because it's an easy fix. It's highly likely that The Federation would have very quickly come up with a solution to what is essentially a scientific crisis. This is what The Federation is good at, sciencey stuff! We see pretty much all new starships after TNG with different styled warp nacelles, this was most likely a more "green" technology that was designed after 2370. The solution also may have been a very simple one, in the same way fitting a catalytic converter to a cars exhaust system reduces exhaust emissions, some team of Starfleet engineers coated the warp coils with some amazing alloy or something. It's not like this was a long term thing the Federation new about and couldn't find a solution to. It was a new problem, and one that was countered very quickly in new starships from 2370 which was when the Intrepid entered service. It's also noted that the Sovereign class also had subspace safe warp engines.
5: V'ger: I got nothin'
6: The Whale Probe: I got nothin'
7: The Nexus: Due to it's potentially destructive timeline changing power, Starfleet had it classified in the same category as Omega. Since Dr Soren was dead, as was Lursa and B'Etor, not many people alive knew about it's existence, and even fewer people knew exactly what it was. Imagine the repercussions if the Dominion, Cardassians, or Ferengi found out about it.
8: The Aliens from Schisms: They were discovered by accident when the Enterprise used a modified sensor array to chart an "unusually dense" globular cluster, Geordi said the sensor signals went "pretty deep into subspace, maybe they caught somebodies attention", he also said subspace had an infinite number of domains so it may have been impossible to find them again.
9: The Borg: Don't try and explain them. Voyager showed too much of the Borg and made them too much like any other race of aliens. Unimatirix Zero and stuff like that took the "unstoppable juggernaut" that was the Borg and humanized them too much. Guinan stated the Borg have been developing for thousands of centuries. The only thing i can come up with is perhaps they were originally a brilliant, science minded race who attempted to enhance themselves and they went too far. A possible Skynet scenario, but instead of destroying it's creators it linked them all together, then the control system manifested itself as a Queen. But that's just my theory. Don't tamper with perfection!
10: Guinan and Q: This one bugged me ever since i saw Q Who! And i really found it interesting so i've done a lot of digging on it and here is what i've found: It seems unlikely that Guinans people possessed powers capable of killing Q, because if they had such power they could have easily resisted the Borg. Guinan has a perception that enables her to sense the correct order of things in the universe as a result of her contact with the Nexus as mentioned in a early draft from the Generations script: "It took a long time, but eventually I learned to live with it. And I began to realize that my experience in the Nexus had changed me...I knew things about people...about events...about time..." This could possibly enable her to see through all of Q's powers and to be able to see him and the Q for how they really are, weaknesses and all. Also it be a reason Q hated her. She saw the Q's failings and immorality, Q wasn't able to deceive her or pull the wool over her eyes.
Regarding the stance she took when confronting Q, i remember reading a couple of ideas that i really liked, and could also explain why Q despised her so. She had contact with other members of the Q, possibly she may have been a Q herself, maybe banished for 'causing trouble in the continuum', she could have had the same fate as Q in Deja Q and been allowed to live as a mortal, so she chose to live as an El Aurian. She may have still had friends in the continuum who may have "buffed her stats" so to speak to enable her to defend herself against more vengeful members of the Q, or perhaps even summon her Q allies to protect her. As we see the Q using specific hand gestures to enact their power, that might have been hers to call for help.
Another theory is She possibly even helped members of the Q leave the continuum. As a reward these, let's call them "Q'ish refugees", knowing that remaining members of the Q continuum may try to exact revenge on her, gave Guinan Q weaponry or defenses, or taught her some way damage only a Q using her keen mental abilities. We did see the Voyager crew with civil war era muskets to depict Q weapons, as they were displayed that way for us mere mortals to comprehend, and maybe Guinans representation of an anti Q weapon was some type of telekinesis power projected from her hands.
This would also explain why she never used such a power in other ways when the Enterprise was in danger, such as with the Borg. Either her abilities were only effective against a Q, or she was given powers under the condition that they were not to be used for any other reason than to protect only herself from the Q. I like this explanation the most because we have seen previous examples where Riker was gifted with Q powers and he resisted using them because he gave his word. Also other situations where members of the continuum could leave only if they refrained from using their powers. And knowing Guinan is a very principled person, she would honour her word and never use her powers for anything other than what she agreed on.
Anyway, they're just some of my own theories. I think in reality not everything needs an explanation, and sometimes the explanation can be counterproductive (eg explaining the force with Midichlorians) Sometimes leaving the questions unanswered leaves the wonder there for the fanbase, it keeps discussion going and stimulates the imagination. It gives writers more freedom to expand a character in non canon work. And it also keeps the fans wanting more, if you tell them everything then there will be nothing left to tell....
I've always thought Q was a grown-up Trelane from "The Squire of Gothos"
LMAO Agree Wholeheartedly
What a brat - big and small😄
Peace
ive always thought that myself it seems very logical as spock would say
In one of the novels, Trelane is something of a protegee to Q. They're not the same being, it turns out, but a good theory.
@@matohibiki Yup. "Q-Squared." Fantastic novel, and extremely funny!
@@lisagulick4144 loved that novel...written by Peter David I believe
Travelling through time and space with a mysterious stranger seems like fun and games, but it usually ends in tears. At least Wesley didn't get trapped in a parallel universe...
Literally the plot to Doctor Who. :P
Or, the original Wesley Crusher dissapeared and the Wesley Crusher from a Parallel universe decided to live in that universe.
Kinda like Rick and Morty.
Vash and Q didn't travel together for long either. But I do like the Doctor Who reference.
Much like with Will Smith, who openly admits that Wild Wild West was one of the biggest mistakes of his film career, I wonder if the actress who played Ensign Ro and looks back at Deep Space Nine and says to herself "Damn. I really should have taken that reprisal roll.". Because quite honestly, outside of Captain Sisko, Kira Nerys was probably the second most interesting and complex character in DS9. Not to mention that DS9 in of itself, depending on who you ask, was arguably pinnacle Trek. It quite literally didn't get better then that.
She was set up to be that, but the writing didn't make it so. They did better with Dax, Odo, and Garak. What I loved about DS9 is that by the end, they could spin stories in any direction featuring any character or race - it was awesome.
You hit me. Captain Picard never hit me.
@@jayhom5385 "I'm not Picard."
Got to disagree with you on Kira being the second most interesting character. I'm giving that nod to Garak.
@@Vitaee13 ............... I will concede to that. Needless to say, DS9 is a fascinating show that was full of complex and very well written characters. In point of fact, there were very few characters in Deep Space Nine that I hated. (All of the ones that I couldn't stand being neatly confined to the Ferengi-centric episodes.) Everytime I re-watch the series, The Ferengi episodes are the only ones that I actively skip and to this day still have not entirely seen. My personal taste does not really lend itself to the comedic nature of those episodes and of the Ferengi in general. The only reason that I halfway paid attention to what happens with that particular arc of the show is because I think Moogie was a great character that deserved to have more screen time than she received.
Since Voyager states that the entire Maquis movement was killed off wouldn’t that mean Ro would have died too?
The Dominion-Cardassian alliance wiped out most of the Maquis. A few probably survived, but likely Ro died.... unless Michelle wants to come back to Star Trek.
I can't remember where I heard or read that Ro Laren ended up in the same prison with Thomas Riker. I just read about Ro on Wikipedia and in every story line of the books she appeared in mentioned she is alive and well. Of course, the books are not canon.
Tom Buresh i WANT Ro alive so can we embrace the non-canon as canon? ;)
Paulafan5 I LOVE how you ended that comment!!! 🤣🤣🤣 because it’s so true!
Killing a movement isn't the same as killing everyone involved in that movement.
The brain parasites that infililtrated Star Fleet, episode ends ominiously with with Data saying that they sent a homing beacon.....
Never heard of again...
I love how STO handles this with a complete arc.
The episode was called "Conspiracy," second to last episode of the first season. I've been "what the fuck" ing about that since 1988
I read that the plot too closely resembled something else at the time and the other party agrees not to sue if Star Trek never mentioned it again.
It was the Borg, or at least when they were originally envisioned as an insectoid race. As the parasites were a bit of a flop they changed the aliens into the cyborgs that we know and just forgot all about that signal.
@@coaxtl1413 yet it was somewhat attempted again in DS9 with the Dominion's effort to infiltrate Star Fleet Command.
Theory: Guinan and Q were married, so to speak. You can’t have that kind of animosity without first having affection.
Hmm. Never thought of that.🤔
@@darthspeaks6451 Wow, that's harsh.
I believe it could be.
@@darthspeaks6451 Q seemed to like Janeway but Guian
Nah She'd have flattened him flatter than a Denebian Slime Devil 😄
Actually, I think Q did for Guinan’s people what he’s currently doing for Humans. Each species seems to have a unique ability that helps to bring them forward towards building a utopian universe devoted to exploration. The El Aurians have the ability to view or sense time from a 4th dimensional perspective as well as being incredibly long lived. Humans, in the far future, may have some unique ability to bring to the table. The Q, born out of the stagnation of their own culture, may take it upon themselves to be guideposts along the way to the next steps in species development. They obviously know what’s going to happen and what would happen if they resorted to spoilers. So they are they forced that “nudge” species forward. The El Aurians may have gotten there but they came away with a highly antagonistic view of Q himself, but not the continuum itself.
1-Answered in Picard
2-Retconed(ish) in Picard
3-Still unanswered
4-Answered in Voyager
5-Still unanswered
6-Still unanswered
7-Still unanswered
8-Answered in STO
9-Still unanswered
10-Answered in Picard
Half isn't bad.
You know those moments in life where something makes you want to jump into some PJs, a nice blanket and a hot cup of whatever, and watch something. This channel have given me that again. Good feels. MajQa'!
"Schisms" were explained in Star Trek Online. I don't want to spoil anything but they were a part of a larger plot of the game.
Q, being omnipotent, caught a glimpse of the 21st century tv-show "The View", aaand there's your answer.
😄😄😄😄
I was thinking the exact same thing!
To avoid a nasty non PC "Fix me a drink girl" and "make me a sandwich" clash in 10 Forward.
We have a winner!
When I was recovering from a serious brain injury, I got addicted to Voyager. I didn’t know it existed. I was hallucinating a lot and the Borg really freaked me, especially the Queen. 👍😁👍
kinda funny, because to me it was in Voyager when Borg started becoming, well not as scary anymore almost comical at some points. though I have had an idea how they can be again, but I doubt Star Trek has the balls to do it. Make a survival horror Star Trek video game dealing with the borg.
@@danielfranz6560 Cool, but the Yanks will never do it. In the game, you could beam to the cube and see if you can carry out the mission before you get assimilated. Cool. 👍😁👍
I did a similar thing with Lexx! Nowhere near the quality of VOY, but damn is that show fun to watch in an altered state!
I was in the hospital on lots of pain medicine and seeing one episode of Baywatch at 1 am freaked me out. I don't even know why it did but I will never watch another episode again!
I've always loved the interaction between Q and Guinan and have always felt it was the most disappointing of unresolved story lines. Even after Whoopie left the show, they could at least have had two members of the crew discussing it in order to close the gap.
She would be on Picard S2 so maybe finally they say something?
That Schisms episode terrified me when it first came out! That clicking sound still makes my teeth stand on edge!
Creepy as heck isn’t it, reminded me of one of the better 50s sci-fi shows or movies.
Isn't the Schisms explained somewhere in Star Trek Online? I'm not sure but I think so..
Me too. That's another great example of less is more. What we make up in our minds with limited stimuli is often way more scary than what people could come up with. I found that episode to be sort of horror like, but then as soon as they actually revealed what the aliens actually looked like I lost all my fear, lol. But seriously, they amputated Riker's arm and put it back on. That was so creepy too.
@@Twisthiphop Yeah, it is. Or at least used to be. It was somewhere in the Romulan mission chain. Though, trying to remember the details now, all I can remember are the Devonian missions (one in the original mission chain, and the featured episode chain with them.)
@@StarkeRealm I don't get why they took out so many episodes
Ro Lahren was promoted to admiral and moved to Caprica. She survived the Cylon attack and went on to lead the Colonial fleet before being murdered by her Cylon former lover.
Wrong universe, but hilarious comment.
How did I never notice that Admiral Cain was played by Michelle Forbes?! Wtf
@@dmdragonfly She must be a decent actor, You saw the character and not the actor.
@@dmdragonfly as Ro she has her alien look as well. It took me awhile to recognize her in True Blood. But she does have a great voice that helps
Haha great!
Schisms is one of my favourite TNG episodes.
That episode gave me the creeps, still does.
In Voyager episode dragons' teeth its mentioned that the Vaadwaur encountered the Borg nine hundred years ago &
the Collective's memory from nine hundred years ago is fragmentary.
"GEDRIN: You're Borg.
SEVEN: How do you know that?
GEDRIN: Don't you recognise my people? The Vaadwaur?
SEVEN: The Collective's memory from nine hundred years ago is fragmentary.
GEDRIN: I've had many encounters with your kind.
EMH: And lived to tell about them? Impressive.
Yeah really! This could of been one heck of a dialogue too. This could of "fragmentary" time frame for the Borg could of been due to a massive war the Borg were engaged with. The Borg won it, but lost over eighty percent of it's population and over ninety percent of their infrastructure was just plain obliterated. It took the Borg well over a century to even become a space faring species again let alone become the Plague they are by the Star Trek franchise timeline begins.
I'm guessing the bulk of the Collective's processing and data storage is done in their drone brains. And there's probably not enough 900 year old drones left with intact memories of this one species from this one region of space (especially if this species, as a whole, avoided being assimilated).
How long does a Borg drone live for ? In Voyager survival Instinct:" SEVEN: What are the other options?
DOCTOR: They could be returned to the Borg. If they were reassimilated into the Collective, they would regain consciousness, and then live out a normal life span.
SEVEN: As drones."
Apparently, fans of Discovery who thought the beginning of the Borg was when that guy from Section 31 got impaled in the back of the head. Clearly they've never seen Voyager.
Well there is unproduced script for Enterprise season 5 where a female Medical Technician at Starfleet medical would be examining Borg tech & she gets assimilated and becomes the Borg queen.
When you go back and watch all the older star treks then you realise how good this show used to be
I always thought what Guinan could do is to reflect the power of Q against him. She has no powers of her own, but could use harness his power against himself.
As far as I know, we don't really know what Guinan could do. She was long lived...perhaps immortal. And put a Q into a defensive position without ever giving away that she was more then she claimed. Probably just the mirror universe counterpart of the Q Continuum. One that would never get the Red Alert called out for while visiting. She is all powerful. Yet sticks to a strict code of minimal interference that she barely goes beyond feelings that something just isn't right with the flow of time.
imo Guinan "Created" the episodes.
She was the driving force behind what happened to the TNG crew behind the scenes.
Where she goes trouble follows no? But trouble is also opportunity.
If she weren't there it would've been just another boring starship finding mostly nothing.
Also those worm/bug creatures that took over like half of the Federation's minds & sent out a homing beacon in the end ...🥃🥃🥃
I read a theory or something somewhere that suggest they were offsuits of the trill and if that's true we gan guess where the offsuits were sending the becon to had been found by the main trill that are members of the federation.
@@GrimmShadowsII interesting never heard that one before . But would love to see them return in some newer trek Series with some back story
Here's a couple from Star Trek The Wrath of Kahn:
1) How could the crew of the Reliant mistake Ceti Alpha 5 for 6? Wouldn't they have seen the debris/remains of Six's explosion?
2) And one of the most puzzling questions about this movie (and Star Trek in general)How could Kahn recognize Chekhov when Pavel wasn't a member of the Enterprise at the time?
In the directors commentary he said " I could have picked anyone (lists names), it was just a plot device."
Chekov and Kahn met in the head, and Kahn swore vengeance on Chekov because he used the last of the toilet paper.
Maybe Chekov was assigned to the lower deck for season 1 and assigned to the bridge until season 2. His name would have been on the crew roster then when Khan was on board. He had an amazing memory.
I wondered about Ceti Alpha 5. Assuming that "5" means it was the fifth planet in the solar system. If Ceti Alpha 6 exploded, wouldn't Ceti Alpha 5 still be the fifth planet in the system.
@@ericsmith8373 I just watched Star Trek 2 the other night and thought the same thing! Definitely a minor plot hole. :-)
"Never Explain The Borg!" Thank you!! The queen and the emotions from Hugh were things that ruined the Borg. They should remain a mysterious deadly force of nature. They don't need to "evolve" just their methods do.
Agreed. By voyager, the borg were no big deal. They lost all their mystery and we lost our fear of them.
Guinan and Q genuinely fascinate me. I've always assumed it has something to do with him telling her things she shouldn't have known because he's kind of lonely and her whole deal is listening well, but it doesn't explain the fact that 'some of them are almost respectable' and the whole power stance thing...
So up for this being discussed if one or both of them comes back for STP
I thought it kinda answered that mystery of Guinan with us later finding out her species lived for centuries, she had been on Earth hanging around with Mark Twain, her peoples connection to the Nexus in Generations and their assimilation by the Borg. Novels and TV producers have said the reason that she was aware of the timeline changes in Yesterdays Enterprise and her counselling skills is as Data speculated in the episode because the El-Aurian species are aware of multiple realities and she is still linked to the copy of her that remained in the Nexus which was outside time and space.
She is his step mother.
Guinan has been directly asked to come back for Picard season 2. So we might finally get some answers.
Watcher Zero that makes a lot of sense, the Q would not be happy about someone who has knowledge beyond time and space
@@zarnicolas CAN YOU IMAGINE. Just wow...
According to the novelization of "Nemesis" and discussions of unused footage, Wesley shows up for Deanna and Will's wedding nude. He expected a traditional Betazoid wedding. He was given the uniform to wear during the wedding and reception. Had Star Trek: Titan Quest not fallen through, they had intended to have Wesley be the ship's Assistant Chief Engineer.
Sounds like a very bad excuse in my opinion even if it’s true. With all the technology and replicators they have the only cloths they could get him was a Starfleet uniform that just happens to fit him perfectly??
@@adamcroft80 That's what replicators excel at, creating matter to exact specifications. The fact that the uniform fit Wesley is moot.
@@jasonarthurs3885 But the fact that it was a Starfleet uniform isn't.
@@christopherheckman7957 OP had issue with perfect fit of uniform for Wesley, no mention of it being a Starfleet uniform; your comment furthest supports my claim.
"who just likes winding up Picard" lol! Thanks for that
Check out the books for some of these.
-_-_*_SPOILERS_*_-_-
After the Dominion War, Ro Laren took over security on DS9 with the absence of Odo.
Spock was all set to be asymilated into the Collective when it was deemed an unnecessary expenditure of resources. Turned out, Spock's mind meld with V'ger planted the idea to asymilate organic beings into itself and, when V'ger got back to the machine world, promptly began the Borg.
I read that book when i was like 10. Haven't thought about it in years
Well Guinan said the Borg are thousand's of century's old! So if that's the case that leave's out V'ger having anything to do with Borg!
What about the automatic repair station from Star Trek: Enterprise?
It abducted crew members of repaired ships to increase it processing power, and the Enterprise tried to, and thought they had, destroyed it. But we see it starting to repair itself after the enterprise left.
Who built it? is it still repairing peoples ships? Is it still abducting people?
I highly doubt its the borg, it seems far too innocuous to be borg, and personally I hope it isn't. But I would still like to know who it was and the why.
There are a lot of really disturbing things floating around in Enterprise that make the Trek universe feel a lot less friendly than TOS shows. Remember the episode with the cloaked ship that just freelanced on random vessels, crippled them, and then massacred their crews?
ST Enterprise is an entirely different universe.
As far as i am concerned.
Kirk will always be my Captain
@@kevingamache1512 Don't forget the series finale that showed it was just a holo-novel with Commander Riker playing the part of the never before seen ship's chef... if I remember correctly, the scenes with Troy implied taking place during TNG S7 The Pegasus! Even before the temporal cold war plot began, I thought Enterprise made the most sense as an alternate timeline created by the movie ST8: First Contact.
@@christopherschmeltz3333
I remember that episode.
I remember reading that is was an attempt to get us to accept Enterprise as canon.
Such as the first episode where they used the same actor ro play cochrane from the movie..
For instance when a lot of us complained that Spock was the first Vulcan to work on a Federation ship
They countered that she was not starfleet and only attached to the Enterprise.
There are other points.
Many of us would make ourselves a bit of a pest at the cons.
The holo-novel idea is a good excuse i agree.
Like J J Abrams and his alternate time line. Cheating for sure but entertaining.
Im still of a mind that Abrams isn't entirely a fan, i mean look he was put in charge of both Star Trek and Star Wars, lol.
I gave up on what i felt was continuity in ST. My opinion of course so baseless.
When the movie generations kirk and picard and the show Voyager etc came about.
I was a kid when TOS came and i was one of the letter writers Bjo Trimble called for.
We were all pretty serious Trekkies, haha.
I didn't start watching TNG until it's 5th season.
I have long since binged it's entire run and movies.
It's okay and i totally dig Data.
However as i said before Kirk is my captain.
Your reply to me was on the money though you made good points.
Have a good one.
Oh and of course it was April, Pike then Kirk.
No Archer.
That is likely the reason for the holo novel twist because much too serious fans like me complained too much, haha.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was basically a reboot of the TOS episode involving the Nomad probe. Earth had sent out a probe, called Nomad, which encountered someone/something that reprogrammed it and sent it back to Earth. Kirk and his crew ran into it and it caused them no end of trouble until, using his superpower, Kirk talked it into self-destructing. V'ger was a probe named Voyager sent out by Earth which ran into something/someone which reprogrammed it and sent it back to Earth. Kirk and his crew met it and defeated it by talking to it.
As for Q, that character was inspired by the Squire of Gothos episode of the original series. Kirk meets an omnipotent being who seems to be just a little behind the times regarding Earth's history. At the end of the episode we learn he is a child called home by his parents. The squire was obviously what later became known asThe Q.
What about those parasite bug things that took over Starfleet in Conspiracy? They were destroyed (and that guy got his head blown off in the unedited version) but not before they activated a homing beacon
Yeah! This was by far the creepiest and downright scariest Star Trek episode I ever saw. Especially knowing that these parasites could take over Star Fleet without anyone being none the wiser until it was too late to do anything about it. It would be mighty grand if this was the New Star Trek BS basis. If this were true then I would be saying, "Picard and Riker! Here are your phasers. You know what to do!".
I had nightmares they were crawling around in my food when I was a young Starfleet
cadet (young kid ) .
They TERRIFIED me , especially when my friend told me they were PROCTRAL in nature !!!
iconians \
Living out in the Delta quadrant. Star Trek Online has them as bad guys you get to fight and learn more about.
Ah, @@compmanio36. Is Star Trek Online canon though? Such games typically are not canon as far as I know.
I've actually wondered about the First Federation from TOS for many years.Their shuttles equaled a Constitution class ship in terms of power.
Interesting. I think the Guinan Q relationship is probably the most fascinating, and now Picard is set to feature Guinan in series 2 will possibly be touched upon. Great list. It’s interesting how most of these are Next Generation focussed, also potentially meaning they will be revisited on Picard
Zet and Peli Gaming well we know Guinean is practically immortal since she hasn’t aged much in at very least 500 years but Generations gives us information that her people may very well live in the nexus or at very least inhabit it from periods of time
and Guinan will be back in season 2 of Picard!! so maybe a chance to find out more
@@willjenkins4195 If Guinan is to be written as immortal since she hasn't aged, then her reappearance in Picard will be interesting to see how the aging of actress Whoopi Goldberg will be explained. The only way I can see it is if she's somehow stressed by power being siphoned off similar to how Star Trek Continues featured an aged Michael Forrest as Apollo returned.
bcs2em I’ve thought about that just like I’ve thought about how Q would be older too if they brought him back, my guess is they will likely say she’s not the same Guinean that Picard knew but a different one
@@willjenkins4195 That would definitely work well. Good catch!
the answer to most of these questions is "the writers just came up with the idea and didn't think it through."
The "Schisms" aliens, according to Star Trek Online are called Solanae. They serve the Iconians as a science caste
sto isnt "alpha canon" though so while the ideas of races being explained like the solanae (and undine) are nice, theres still possibility for them to be reexplained another way. (doubtful but possible)
Still more canon than discos recons
Yup! They were forced into subspace when their technological experiments on “omega particles” went awry.
Whatever happened to the Iotians in TOS episode "A Piece of the Action"? McCoy forgets his communicator on the planet when they leave, Spock notes that the Iotians will probably reverse engineer it, and Kirk wonders if someday the Iotians will be in a position to demand a piece of the Federation's action.
Star Trek year 5 comic book covers that..
One of the comic book series as part of the trial fo James kirk covers this. (second DC run I think)
TOS-era stuff had a habit of introducing a lot of incredibly powerful aliens, entities and technologies that just never come up again.
They never followed up on the two officers who became god-like beings by reaching the energy field ringing the galaxy.
Save 2-4 the movies were all quite self contained with a ton of plot holes (I mean Spock came back from the dead and there wasn’t even so much as a debriefing on that? Oh the fact that Star Trek 5 takes place under a year after the launch of the enterprise A but the ship is in shambles...
@@willjenkins4195 Kirk came back from the dead and it made no sense. In his fight to the death over Spock's wife Bones fakes Kirk's death. Then what?
@@marccolten9801 what are you talking about? Those are events that are explained in universe and in the moment. Kirk didnt come back months or years later after being declared dead by Starfleet having a funeral held and having his stuff dispersed to loved ones or to the state.
It's on the level of flatlining in surgery for a few minutes and being resuscitated, not being dead and buried before literally rising from the grave. Theres no loose thread.
@@willjenkins4195 well, we can assume a debriefing happened at some point. Particularly since this seems to be something Vulcans know can be done to some extent.
Between that and the fact that Starfleet and the federation likely deal with what are weird to us circumstances somewhat regularly they will have procedures in place to accommodate them.
Theres probably a stack of forms to sign.
I would've been mad if you hadn't mentioned Guinan in this, because I've always wanted a miniseries to answer our questions about her.
What happened to Thomas Riker?
He appeared in that 1 episode of ds9, handed himself over to the cardassians, Kira promised she would come back for him.... then was never mentioned again.
Obviously the implication is that he was executed when the dominion came along.... but I still hold out hope that he fought hard for freedom.
It was some quite obvious hint's that it was William Riker that pretended to be Thomas in the DS9 episodes.
If he was still alive after the fall of the Dominion the new Cardassian Government may have handed him over to the Federation and maybe in a Federation Prison somewhere.
@@lubricustheslippery5028 No, not at all. You've just made that up and may have convinced yourself of that but there was never anything to suggest it was actually Will. When Riker encountered Miles and acted angry and said they had nothing to discuss many people wondered why exactly that was. It was because unlike Will Thomas had no way to actually interact with Miles and speak on that which Miles and Will had mutually experienced. Will had a chance to get to know Miles, Thomas didn't and didn't want Miles to blow his cover. If you could cite the supposed hints you speak of I would be very interested seeing as how you are the only one who, as far as I know, has ever proposed such a theory.
@@theallmighty8601 9At 9:30 Riker says to O’Brien I. Have nothing to say to you I think you know why! And then O’Brien visually thinks about the encounter and is grumpy. I take it as O’Brien is understand what is going on and is grumpy because he have to keep it a secret to he’s trusted coworkers.
Then there is talk about the they are doing things more the Starfleet way than the Maque way. If it was the maque the defiant should have used the opportunity to kill Kardasians they never did that.
At 44:10 Riker says: Riker to krakston. One to beam up. I interpret that as a sign to us viewers that it’s William not Thomas because Thomas Is careful to use the name Thomas to not get confused with he’s more famous double
And it fits with the narrative in DS9 where the federation have to do more undercover and smart maneuvers. So my interpretation is that it was a double bluff to fool the kardasians and uncover the fleet-yards and blame the incident on the maque. At least I think the story is much better if interpreted this way.
@@lubricustheslippery5028 interpret what you want but you're on your own with that. I'd personally say you're looking into things that aren't there but if you enjoy the story as if it progressed like that then go ahead.
Considering Guinan has interesting relationship with reality itself (she knew reality had changed in "Yesterday's Enterprise") she might have been able to fashion a defense against Q's reality bending powers, perhaps to the point of negating or reversing the effects. Someone like that would definitely make Q edgy.
Intelligent aquatics are members of starfleet and have specially designed quarters on the larger starships.
Yeah I've seen a cutout of the Ent-D it had a deck and a half for quarters for aquatics various type of Wales and dolphins
"Cetaceous Ops."
The biggest Star Trek unanswered mystery is this: What the hell is in tranya that makes it so damn delicious?
Ambrosia!!! Hahahaha!
Grapefruit juice...IN SPAAAAAAACE!!
Spiced and liquefied Klingon testicles?
Mango
Nobody knows, but it always comes first. Spock's wasting time!
Non-canon of course, but the book “Probe” by Margaret Wander Bonanno has a good Probe backstory.
Came here to say this. Good book, decent back story. Explains a lot. TL;Dr - Probe was built by a race of highly intelligent whale-like life forms. They were devastated by the.... you guessed it, Borg. I think. The probe was sent out looking for other similar species, of which our humpbacks happened to be just close enough.
I read that book. It does answers all of the questions. Good catch Christiana.
Wesley changed his name and moved to Eureka
Lol
Man no one ever talks about that show
It was pretty great
Last time, I saw him wandering the street with a sign
I always wondered what happened to the Enterprise's "baby" from TNG's season 7 episode "Emergence".
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Yes bloody Enterprise's baby wtf?
The warp speed limit was quietly resolved in TNG as the reason the enterprise was getting a new warp core.
Completely agree about the borg origin. Its like the name of the doctor in doctor who. Once you come up with a definitive story for a while people will be like 'oh wow so thats where they came from' but after a while theyll move on from the revelation and they wont be so fascinating any more. Sometimes the question is more satisfying than the answer.
It's like with magic, it's just not worth knowing how the trick is done.
Not sure if this has been asked before, but did the Dowd and Q ever meet up since they were both immortal?
@5:15 …. the Warp 5 limit was only for that Sector, not the entire Alpha Quadrant
5:33 The Federation established a Warp Speed Limit, but then they also developed more 'environmentally-friendly' warp drives. That's why the M/ARAs of the Defiant, Ent-E, and Voyager are different than the Ent-D's, and it's the explanation for Voyager's variable geometry nacelles.
"In 2332 the Enterprise-B was nearly crippled"
According to Memory Alpha, the first part of Star Trek Generations is set in 2293. (Shortly after the decommissioning of the Enterprise-A at the end of Star Trek VI). Where did you get 2332 from? Soran tried multiple times to get back to the ribbon. ("this is the only way" per dialogue)
The Parasite Invasion from TNG episode “Conspiracy” as well as Negilum the Disembodied figure from the void in TNG episode “Where Silence Has Lease”. The Cytherians from TNG episode “The Nth Degree”. The First Federation from The original series episode “The Corbomite Maneuver”. Essentially anything to do with the Gamma or Delta Quadrant from DS9 and Voyager or the history of the Dominion. The Tzenkethi Coalition from DS9 episode “The Adversary”. Those are a few things I remember wanting answers to 😁
7:58 Star Trek Online takes place in 2410
8:29 The Aliens from "Scisms" are also explained in Star Trek Online. Apparently they are called "Elachi" and worked together with the Tal Shiar after the destruction of Romulus to abduct romulan refugees and conduct experiments. They apparently also settled either the Jenolan or the Solanae Dyson Sphere and have access to one or a few Iconian Portals, which explains how they can abduct people. The game also tells us they originate from the spore-universe as seen in Star Trek Discovery.
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wrong aliens. the elachi are those from silent enemy that abduct people. the ones conducting experiments are the solanae a different servitor species
@@InvaderNaj oh yes thanks for clarifying. They are also in STO though
You must be excited to see the Q/guinan story is coming to Picard series. Hopefully it makes it as exciting as their bar encounter
9. Wesley traveled over for the wedding, still has right to wear dress uniform because of previous service
8. Very revealing about deep government within Federation
7. Allegory for human propelled climate change, warp 5 restriction equivalent to your niece only using paper straws
5. Rama
3. ripe to revisit
2. Agreed
1. the little tidbits we get here and there make it mysterious and cool and should stay that way, same as Borg
Wheaton said at a convention I visited there was actually a small scene shot with him and Patrick Stewart confirming Crusher was back in uniform, but it was ultimately cut for time, much to his disappointment.
Pretty heavy on the TNG content. There's a lot of unanswered questions from Voyager and DS9 too, maybe you could make specific videos on the unanswered questions from each series.
I've always been curious about the aliens in "Night Terrors," which I think is a really underrated episode.
There's an explanation of the Star Trek IV probe in the novel titled Probe.
The Pegasus has always stood out to me for it's "what happened next?" quality. IIRC there was a story that started as fanfic and ended up being published in a novel that had the phasing cloak ending up in Romulan hands as part of negotiations of the whole Pegasus incident between Starfleet and the Romulans. Former Admiral Eric Pressman, now a member of Section 31, heads up a mission to get the phasing cloak back from the Romulans and recruits Dr. Bashir (the story apparently happens during his on again off again period with Section 31) and the character Roga Danar from the TNG episode "The Hunted." I think you'd find some or maybe even most of these mysteries being answered by stories in Star Trek novels.
What about the aliens from Conspiracy Theory? That's a pretty big one ...
I was going to say this! They were sending a homing beacon for reinforcements at the end, kind of like the schisms aliens and a lot of other entries on this list, just another existential threat completely ignored by the Fed.
They thought it took trek in too dark a direction. Commence hollow laughter now.
Kind of hard to follow up on that storyline in a "family friendly" show when the last time you literally blew the head off of a Starfleet admiral.
Maybe the Federation was taken over and that's why in the Picard series they are acting so out of character for Starfleet.
Original the Borg were supposed to be insect like and the aliens from conspiracy supposed to come back but the writers had to change ideas in season 2.
Trekkie: Explain the borg! Me: The borg are cybermen xD
As a kid I always imagined the probe was built by space whales and maybe they floated around in their ships like the pilots from Dune...I still think that actually🤔
Amazing.
The Star Trek novel “Probe” does a pretty good job of solving the whale probe mystery.
@@leeshwan903 really? Please tell me it's space whales 🤞
@@maybethisway2125 Pretty much. It was built by a species that resembled Earth Whales and got damaged by what it called '"mites" in cube shaped vessels'.
@@johnwhitehouse4546 sounds pretty good. Although the only cube shaped ships in trek are the Borg aren't they? Wonder if there's a link
"Picard" might explore the history between Guinan and Q in season 2.
On the note of Guinan vs. Q... also consider this. Q hasn't lied to Picard. He's always spoken the truth even if from a skewed point of view.
I think the writers backed off of this description of Guinan, about her being some mega powerful alien entity or race or something near equal to the Q, after that episode. She has above human senses, even seeing thru time and alternate dimensions, and is long lived, but not Q level in any way.
@@imkluu What if El Aurians are some kind of descendant of Qs who were
excluded from Q continuum? That explains some power of Guinan and knowledge of Q
My theory is Wesley went off exploring time and space, and mucked it all up and that's where we get Discovery, shut up wesley!
During his time on the Enterprise Wesley was given a field commission to Full Ensign.
He only went to Starfleet Academy to be able to rise up the ranks.
So I'm sure he would be entitled to wear the dress uniform to the marriage of two of his former shipmates.
Plus remember the "reserve activation clause" from ST:TMP.
Picard could have temporarily drafted him back into Starfleet for the wedding.
@@Penfolduk001 Also he learned how to manipulate matter and energy similar to Q, so who's going to stop him from just materializing a uniform for himself?
The fact that he was at Riker and Troi's wedding in a Star Fleet uniform suggests that he returned at some point and rejoined Star Fleet. Perhaps an agreement with the Traveler meant that his time with him was wiped from his memory.
Not sure how cannon they are but in the Titan books Westley did go to the titan and served as chief engineer
@@willjenkins4195 I have the 1st Titan book but haven't read it yet.
Great video! If we’re talking mysteries or questions that have never had an onscreen canon answer (books, comics, and video games don’t count) then I’d say one pretty big mystery you left off was: Does Sisko ever come back?
And speaking of coming home, another unanswered question I’ve always wondered about and always thought would make a very interesting story if not the launching point for a whole other series is: Do the Voth ever embrace the truth of Distant Origin and come home to Earth?
Actually, the online game is considered soft-canon to the point that only new material of the TV shows can contradict it. Ergo, if its mentioned in the game, its canon.
Indeed, how could Trek Culture miss the 'what ever became of Sisko' question? And the Voth one is a good one too.
You forgot the mind-control bugs from the episode "Conspiracy" from 1st season TNG. That was one of the best episodes ever and we never get to know where those alien mind controlling bugs came from.
Yes! This!!!!!
Star Trek Online. Again, Iconians
"Never ever explain the Borg"
Seemingly, Star Trek Picard: "Hold my beer"
Picard is good but not the best sorry........Borg had many before him and I am sure many after
Maybe V'Ger was altered by the Artificial Life featured in Star Trek Picard...the ones that exist outside time and space
I had the same thought.
V'Ger, the Picard AI and the Discovery AI are connected.
I had the same thought. Sounds like a nice cradle-to-grave plot point to create a new Romulan war or cold war.
"I gave Guinan a plate of corn muffins to paint my chicken coop, and she never did it!" "Those corn muffins were terrible." "Paint my chicken coop!' "Make me!"
I watched that episode the other day!
I also always had this theory about “Odo”, well, also mostly about changelings. It appears that the changelings could exactly mimic whoever they replaced so that they were practically indistinguishable from the original person even down on a genetic and microscopic level. But it also appears that these creatures had to develop the ability to do this over a long period of time. And Odo was never very good at doing human faces. Until after he was turned into a “solid” by the female changeling (Salome Jens from the film “Seconds”). - we also saw that after a period of time he could see when there were other shapeshifters about pretending to be other people. It would appear to me that an advanced changeling would have the ability to learn things in order to better mimic its target life form. And part of this was shown in the deep space nine episode “His Way”, where Odo is playing a “player piano“ set up by Vic. I don’t think it is too far of a stretch that eventually, Odo would have actually learned how to play the piano well, and we actually see during that episode he enjoys singing and he enjoys playing with Vic’s band. I had the opportunity to share this crazy idea with René once on Twitter, occasionally I would get a few grumbling responses from him to these ideas. But whether or not changelings could actually do this, Odo (and Salome) played characters as if they could actually do this. Because when the female changeling was pretending to be Kira, she was doing it so well she had Odo totally fooled, until she made one stupid mistake by assuming something about Odo that was not true, regarding some thing that he had not witnessed himself re: Kiras feelings, and Odo, being a student of human nature never saw reciprocal feelings from her. I would have liked to see more episodes that had more to do with changeling behavior and abilities. And although we had seen other shape shifters, including “Alasamorphs”, Odo’s race of changelings was a different race altogether.