Chekov took control of an urgent situation, I.E No medical staff (Yes, I know, Tuesday) as an experienced Commander would. There’s not much doctoring done, just helping walking wounded / shocked and dishing out first aid, which you’d think would be basic training for a starship crew.
All Starfleet officers are required to undergo at least basic training in every discipline, in fact you don't actually have to have advanced medical training to conduct advanced medical procedures, provided there's someone on deck with advanced medical training, or your still waiting for Tuesday to roll around lol
All crew are trained in basic medical triage - hyposprays, dermal regeneration, artificial heart repair, Horta cement mixing, EMH activation - these are things any cadet would know.
I had always just assumed that Chekov had basic field medic training, and more experience under pressure than anyone else in the room, so he took charge when he realized the medical team wasn't scheduled to arrive until the following week.
Forgive me if someone has already addressed this, but I wanted to offer my interpretation of the whole "women can't be captains" thing: I always interpreted Janice Lester's actual statement - "Your world of starship captains doesn't accept women" or something like that - to mean that James Kirk's devotion to his career meant he did not have room for a relationship in his life, not that Starfleet did not allow any females to command ships. I should point out that I had seen Turnabout Intruder dozens of times over the course of more than a decade before someone suggested the "women can't be captains" interpretation to me.
I always took it to mean that men prevented women from following the track to become captain. It wasn't against the rules, just impossible to attain. Like armed forces until recently not allowing women in combat, but requiring combat experience to advance. By the way, I can't think of a better actress for the first female captain than Madge Sinclair.
or, it was the 60's and the studio literally had blocked a woman from being 1st officer and this was gene's way of calling them out in an episode..... which when culture advanced a little he was able to later fix.
'we only have two shuttles, no materials for repairs' Goes on to build several customizable, superfast, supermanouvrable, hugely spacious with all mod-cons, armed to the gills 'exploration shuttles'. One of which was built in a few days.
For that first one, Scotty could have very well believed that Kirk had somehow survived the Nexus. The man has done impossible things before (and would actually survive the Nexus) so thinking that isn't too difficult to believe.
Not to mention that Scotty had already seen AT LEAST one person come back from the dead. And there's certainly was no Kirk body recovered. So it's easy for Scotty to think Kirk came back from the seeming dead, took command of the Enterprise, and rescued him. And to be fair, Kirk DID come back from the dead... just not to rescue Scotty and later than Scotty thought he would.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Actually, it's quite forgotten that SCOTTY HIMSELF HAD COME BACK FROM THE DEAD. And besides Spock, he'd also seen Lt. Leslie somehow come back from the dead too.
Actually, no. Scotty was there to see the blown out Enterprise-B deflector room so he at that point knew Kirk was dead especially considering that he had no clue what the Nexus was.
Daniel from Spacedock put it best about Voyager when he he said "It was a show about survival and limited resources that pretty much abandoned it's premise in the first 40 minutes."
Except replicators and the ability to harvest fuel from nebulas and gas giants never really made it a thing for a 24th century starship. Look at BSG and how well it was done because getting fuel was hard and they had to have manufacturing to replace stuff, Voyager shouldn't need to make it an issue imho
@@JackVermicelli One of the reasons Starfleet settled on using deuterium and anti-deuterium for "fuel" is because they're both relatively plentiful throughout the Galaxy (at least the fictional Galaxy of Star Trek) and fairly easy to harvest. Apparently, most civilizations that achieve warp drive apparently agree as it seems like the vast majority use the same stuff with the exception of a few outliers like the Romulans' artificial quantum singularity drives and whatever the hell the Borg use.
@@jono_cc2258 BSG had a fleet of ships. Specialized ships that did whatever the plot required. at least one episode focused on the possibility of generational enslavement to a job or ship. But as far as foraging. BSG would worry about tactical concerns in getting the fleet to where they could do whatever it was that they did. Every time voyager was presented with a new or additional ship, it was always a trap.
A major point of the Dominion War arc was Starfleet coming up with ways to improve their shields and a lot of those ships were being thrown into battle regardless.
I can get why they weren't able to show shield impacts a lot during season 6-7 because it would be too time consuming and costly for the vfx team pull off, but the writer of this video shouldn't blame the writers for that.
I always thought of it this way; the Battle is raging all around, the shields of the ship's had already been worn down or collapsed once we see the shots of holes being blasted in ships. You would also have an overwhelming amount of fire power being discharged in a massive engagement, so shield systems might simply be overwhelmed and collapse very quickly. They just didn't have the budget needed to show all of that!
@@outbacksptdriver but it may not be the case that every ship was capable of using those modifications, or ships had to be put into battle before they could receive them.
@@outbacksptdriver That assumes the Jem'Hadar just stopped improving their weapons systems after that, though. After the Breen weapons were shown to be super effective against Starfleet and Romulan shields, it's entirely likely the Jem"hadar used that knowledge to make their antipolaron weapons better.
It makes me sad that voyager didn't take that "there's coffee in that nebula" quote as a running joke and nod to resource gathering off-screen. Can you imagine, characters mentioning to Janeway sometimes about a probable good source of "coffee" ahead or comments about their current stock of "coffee" with her giving them a brief "ha ha so funny" look. Would have made the show twice as good all on it's own.
But that would require callbacks. That would have raised the basic level of writing quality to an u acceptable degree. Next thing you know we would have expected some form of internal consistency. Or gods forbid, even character development
That kind of continuity and inside joke tends to be shot down in favor of stand alone episodes. People that start in the middle or only catch a episode here and there seem to be put off by such things. I agree, it would be better writing.
It's cute but as a one off thing when chakotay is having a briefing with Janeway and she's spacing out distracted. Chakotay realising she's not paying attention reels a couple absurd reports to snap her back. "the eps manifolds on Decks 15 to 13 need addressing, tuvok is pregnant and the ships coffee supply is running dry. Should we look for a nebula?" it works as a callback but doesn't require prior knowledge. "I'm sorry what was that last part?" chakotay grins but is slightly annoyed in that way Robert Beltrane does "just seeing if you were still listening. You seem a little distracted" then set the scene where Janeway is worried about some big plot thread. Then as chakotay is about the leave the ready room distracted himself from whatever Janeway shares with him Janeway calls "oh and commander, congratulate tuvok for me would you." she was listening. A bit of levity gravitas in the same scene and there you go. References and callbacks make for a bit of fun and a treat for the audience, but making them recurring is just a crutch. This scene could be the preamble to the message from the alpha quadrant regarding the fate of the Marquis and the dominion war. This was glossed over because its a episodic show, but this headcanon for these moments would make good connective tissue in writing. You can see how it would unfold and the drama as the Chinese whispers (its has other names in different places but the game where you say a phrase and it passes down the line and changes) as it were passes from Janeway to chakotay, to belanna, to Paris to Kim etc etc as they all react to the news. Getting more dire and extravagant a commentary on news and the reality being sombre, but keeping hope. Neelix is where the whispers end and as morale officer sees how awful that news is. The federations at war with a superior foe, losing. The Marquis is dissolved, incarcerated or dead or on the front line without support. But he too lost a great deal and voyager is the symbol of what they are fighting for at home. It's all set up by the scene with chakotay and Janeway and communication. Finally, it puts the coffee meme to bed because Janeway realises how petty it is compared to the alpha quadrants problems how the Marquis and starfleet problems are petty. Done.
Like the one episode they got a powerful Canon installed but because Seven of Nine killed the salesman before he could complete the last calibrations on the "working weapon" it's just gone in the next episode.
How about the endless supply of red shirts?? And bodies to stuff them? I think they must have a cloning facility and a bunch of seamstresses in the basement, because they just keep getting killed off and replaced.
Both the TNG episode Relics and the movie Generations have the same writer. As you noted, Scotty was supposed to be Spock in Generations, so it was supposed to be Spock seeing the aftermath of the loss of the Kirk. As you noted, the script wasn't altered to accommodate the change. That would be why Scotty didn't remember what happened in Relics.
Even if Scotty wasn’t there, he would’ve heard about it! He would’ve gone to Kirk’s funeral. Never mind that they were friends, Kirk’s death would’ve been big news to everyone. There were reporters all over the place!
@@newsduke precisely. It can be assumed that everyone of the TOS crew would have been informed of the incident. You don't lose a major celebrity aboard the maiden voyage of your newest flagship and not have that news travel across the entire quadrant. I'm willing to bet that many old Klingons howled in rage that they weren't the ones to snuff out Kirk upon hearing the news.
and since Scotty was on his way to retirement after the Enterprise-A stood down, he likely never heard about what happened with Kirk because Scotty vanished before Kirk did, thus it's not a plot hole at all.
Wouldn’t a better explanation be for the trill that there are two trill attributes? One that have spots and one that has the forehead ridges, basically, two dominate species on a planet? It would add a rich back history. Maybe the two fought for dominance and it was the symbionts that brought peace.
It would just have been better if they hadn't called the DS9 Trills Trills. They could just have introduced Jadzia as someone of a new species and probably mentioned that with the symbiont thing it is is somewhat similar to the Trills, but not entirely.
Alternatively, the Symbionts have their own mini-Federation where any number of species can serve as host. After all, if a human can serve as host, then more than the native Trill species may be able to as well.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 They made it so you had to have a special biology to accept a symbiote. Later they decided that any trill could be a host. But that would make the symbiotes a highly prized commodity. Only the rich and powerful. the most ruthless would get one. How would a young person get one? Powerful family connections probably. One in line for the throne serving in the federation as a hobby. Leadership experience
@@cl8733 Yes. Just as we should have called the ridged Klingons something else entirely. We could have introduced Worf as an entirely new species, and mentioned that their race is somehwat similar to the Klingons, but not entirely, of course! Hell, let's pull this a bit further, let's call the V shaped ridged Romulans something else! Since they're different from the Romulans we've seen in the Original Series, we could have added some continuity!
To be fair season 5 was meant to be the season where starbases, shields, and tractor beams were going to be introduced. Wonder if they would have gone back to lasers since phaser development fell behind for a while.
My working theory on the Trill is, there are two kinds in symbiont. Note that in their TNG debut, the symbiont overwrote the host's mind completely. Since that changed as well, my thinking is, some symbionts are too much for the standard host's to handle, so they bond with a different species that can survive the blending. They're still called Trills because that's the name of the slugs.
How about the fact that in TNG, the Trill whom was injured in a shuttlecraft accident. Why, because Trill couldn't use transporters as could damage the symbiote. Yet, Jadcia Dax was beaming around without any ill effect to her symbiote- Huh...
@@paulhunter6742 because it would have been a pain for the writers if one main character always had to use a shuttle. Instead they figured they'd just ignore that detail about the Trill who first appears years ago and assume most would forget it as well or never saw that episode to begin with.
Yeah, I as about to say that. And look at the distance. Romii would be an important world in the Star Empire, but it is hardly the twin planet of Romulus. They're about as far away from each other as the Outposts
Well, Enterprise was supposed to be before Earth developed their own shield technology or traded with others for shield technology and they did have later episodes where the Andorians had equipped them with shields. I was a bit ticked off with how they showed the transporters as effective as they were, I had expected transporter pad to transporter pad operation or transporter to pad to pattern enhancer operation perhaps with a missile that would split to set up a transporter enhancer cage on the surface which they would have to return to and defend to transport back as well as destroy to avoid giving technology to a given planet. Even TOS had a lot of transporter pad to transporter pad operation especially with the starbases and federation colonies and TNG / Voyager had a lot of episodes where three portable pattern enhancer stands had to be set up. A definite missed opportunity to show an earlier progression of the technology and allowed more dramatic content.
@@killajive1 The one I remember was actually an alternate timeline where Captain Archer was infected with something that gave him amnesia, Earth had fallen to the Xindi and the survivors settled on a distant planet, the Enterprise defended the colony and had shields that the Andorians had installed. I believe there were other late episodes where shields had been installed including the final successful confrontation with the Reptilian and insect Xindi's with the help of the Simians, Sloth and acqueous Xindi's and of course the Andorans (of course the Vulcans seemed to be mostly absent), I seem to remember Andoran shields there but I could be mistaken. Now Star Trek Online claimed the Federation received deflector shield from the Remans and Breen but that would've been well after the Enterprise series as well as likely being non-canon. Also given how unfamiliar the Breen was in TNG and Voyager, I doubt there would've been trade with them pre TOS and Discovery. Note the NX-01 had phase canons while it was said that the Andorans had phasers so there is some suggestions that it may have been the adoption of phasers from the Andorans that later became the Federations weapon of choice. I believe it was season 4 that Shran helped the Enterprise with shields.
@@johnwang9914 only one I remembered was the episode with the old t’pal. Where the enterprise failed its mission but was sent back to the past. I don’t ever remember them getting shields from the Andorrans
Well, Romulan is not their real name, its just what WE call them, as the names come from Roman mythology. The actual name is supposed to be Rihannsu. Its just like how we call the Asian nation "Japan" even though to them it is called "Nippon" Or how what we call Germany is tot hem called "Deutchland"
I thought Romulus and Remus was the suggested translation of the translation-computers for the unspokable native tongue names, though I can't remember the source where I got this from....
i like to think they got over the panic about fuel and supplies because they learned to acquire what they needed and became quite good at it thus it was less of a plot point and the actual work of acquiring supplies is boring so that happened off camera
Did they forget about it, or did they just remember that they already cured old age when they used the transporter on Pulaski in "Unnatural Selection?" And not only can the transporters revert anyone back to a previous bodily state (curing old age, diseases, missing limbs, etc.) but they've had easy access to time travel since the original series.
@@HermanVonPetri Or the original series finding a substance to grant amazing telekinetic powers... the fixing age thing was also in an original series episode.
Everyone appears to forget the circumstances of the accident that occurred to Capt Picard, Keiko, Ro and Guinan. Their shuttlecraft encountered an energy anomaly (unknown type of energy) which affected their physical mass. So when O'Brien beamed them back to the Enterprise there was a total loss of 40% resulting in a physical regression of their physical bodies. No doubt Federation scientists have been trying to recreate the circumstances that resulted in the youth regression phenomenon, but without knowing the particulars of the energy anomaly it is a hit and miss form of research. Very much like the cold fusion experiment conducted by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in AD 1989. By chance these 2 electrochemists appeared to discovered the process of cold fusion. Unfortunately no one else has successfully re-created the same or similar results so at the moment cold fusion is only a theoretical concept
yes and by then ....somebody in security should have some basic medical training? .I'm sure McCoy said something to Starfleet Medical about it! He had to get tired of saying ...He's dead Jim
@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 that is my point lol so the the video guy saying Chekov having no medical training is bs , when i worked for the forestry in Peterborough Ont Canada in 2003, we had to do a 3 day cpr course then a 5 day course on how to cut down trees safely and how to look up for falling branches and how to hook trees up safely
Also, as chief of security, I have to assume he also had at least basic first aid training. Worf received training on how to lead someone giving birth, so Chekov being able to handle a hypospray makes perfect sense
Yes. I always wondered why the star chart says "Romii" I assumed it was somekind of an error because Captain Kirk clearly says "Remus" in the beginning.
It was a disappointment for sure. But, there was one other Trek film that disappointed me before ST 5. Star Trek 3 was the first to leave me shaking my head when I left the theater.
@@kurtb8474 I can see it's flaws, but I still like it. After all in said and done, that movie introduced the Excelsior, which makes all other movie sins forgivable in my book.
The irony of course is that in 'Demon' the idea was that Voyager was running out of deuterium, aka Hydrogen-2... Which is the second most abundant thing in the entire universe behind Hydrogen-1.
@@coriolass the difference is that for LaForge it was a conscious hiddem joke by the writers. For Voyager it was just ineptitude or shortage of writers/researchers, and/or time.
The "Remus or Romii" issue actually is fully encompassed in the episode "Balance of Terror", seeing as Kirk uses the former in his captain's log early in the episode. Guess the continuity people were asleep. But this was early enough in the show's run they still hadn't settled on the name Starfleet, the name United Federation of Planets or the fact that Earth wasn't the only world calling the shots.
It's mentioned (in one of numerous books) that Chekov was originally assigned to the Engineering deck in Season one. He led some of his fellow ensigns to try and retake Engineering. Even though it failed, his attempt got Kirk's attention. In the book of ST: Generations, Chekov reflects on the basic first aid medical training he had as the Reliant's first officer, and how long it's been since he's used it.
The fact all ships had their own symbols on uniforms, only after the 5 year mission did they all use the Enterprise one in tribute... so all the bits set before that time, well... continuity problem.
I kind of expected the appearance of Klingons to be on there. Between the original series, Next Generation, and Discovery, they look very different. I understand that the makeup and effects of the original would not have been up to standards of later series, but I'm sure the way they look in Discovery is different, and it's not just the lack of hair.
Discovery is its own thing for mostly legal and licensing reasons due to CBS vs Paramount. As for TOS vs TNG and beyond, Enterprise ultimately was forced to explain that because DS9 ruined the idea that they always looked like they did with ridges and TOS just wasn’t able to visualize it for us the audience yet with a joke.
DS9 even had an episode where they used clips from the TOS tribbles episode, and when they see the Klingons someone asks Whorf, "Those are Klingons?", and he replies, "It's ... complicated" and changes the subject.
@@MichaelAarons1701 Discovery looks like it does because special effects has new toys now and you can do more on a TV budget then you use to so they got experimental. The idea they had to make the changes for 'legal reasons' is totally way past debunked. They just thought it looked cool and did it. And will probably never admit it was a huge mistake and instead justify it as 'well Klingons changed before, so why not again?' (pouty face) Unfortunately, they did a prequel show but wanted new shiny stuff in it.
CHAKOTAY: We have a complement of thirty eight photon torpedoes at our disposal, Captain. JANEWAY: And no way to replace them after they're gone. Seven seasons and 100+ torpedoes later... 😂
Just a couple lines every now and the of dialogue would fix Voyager's resource issues. Mention trading missions, retrofitting an area for antimatter production, a cargo bay getting an industrial replicator built in it. Boom! Problem solved.
The Borg just needs to start doing cyber attacks to fuel lines... then everyone would have an "Oh, dear, we're out of fuel" episode followed by an "Oh, dear, we've been assimilated" episode.
The Borg apparently are super sensitive to depression and implode if they get too sad in picard. Starfleet just needs to upload the Ash death scene from pokemon or Johnny 5 getting broken from short circuit 2 and they'll all shut down.
The thing about Voyager having having to get fuel is - that was always a stretch. The ship has bussard collectors for harvesting stray hydrogen particles from space, to say nothing of the transporter that could probably be used to very easily get hydrogen from any gas giant.
Indeed. AFAIK, we've NEVER had a Star Trek episode that so much as showed a routine fueling operation. In hundreds of episodes that start off with doing this or that routine operation, not one of them involved refueling. Plenty of episodes having routine maintenance... but no refueling. Which kinda implies that refueling isn't a thing because starfleet ships at least can make their own fuel... which is kinda implied by having bussard collectors. Voyager had refueling episodes because they're in unknown territory and don't know where the best places to get fuel are.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 the thing about bussard collectors is, they're supposed to be constantly pulling in hydrogen particles, which exist even in the void between star systems. But one could assume that this is at best a "trickle charge" that wouldn't necessarily keep up with the ship's needs. Still, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe it shouldn't be difficult to find. The real fuel pinch they could have introduced is anti-matter. Not sure if it was ever mentioned in canon, but according to the TNG technical manual, the Galaxy class had facilities on board for converting regular matter to anti matter. But it was an energy and material intensive process, meant more for emergency situations. Under normal circumstances they would refill their anti matter supply at a starbase. They could have written it so that only big ships like the Galaxy class had these facilities, or that Voyager's were damaged beyond repair in the first episode. That way they would have had to barter for more anti matter.
Anti-matter is what they need to find. Hydrogen is fine for fusion reactors (i.e. impulse drive) but warp needs significantly more energy. And no, the transporter can't magically fix that problem -- it takes power for the transporter to do anything. (and it's a far too lame plot device.)
That's kinda just Voyager being Voyager though. The early seasons fuel was a significant plot point on more than one occasion but in a later season Tom Paris comments that "you can get deuterium anywhere".
As Voyager supplemented their energy supplies, they were able to use their replicators more, and thus, manufacture more photon torpedos... At least, this is my theory.
@@blazechicken6822 The antimatter is made using the deuterium they regularly mine and from hydrogen collected by the bussard collectors which are transformed in to antideuterium and antihydrogen. I think they also collect it from some rare nebulae during the show but ultimately they usually just trade for it. Remember they're stopping, trading and making contact with many other races during the show. Not just the ones we see....and that's how they supply most of their needs. Which is difficult at first but once they can power the replicators they have a lot of bargaining power. Since many species they meet don't have that technology.
Dude how many times I gotta tell you? They explained Scotty expecting Kirk to rescue him in Relics by saying he never believed Kirk actually died. Also you forgot to mention in First Contact the Enterprise had the standard shield bubble, but in Insurrection the shields were flat against the ship hugging every curve...no more bubble. And do I EVEN got to mention Spot's sex change?
150 years before Dr. Janice Lester was mad about not being allowed to be a captain, there was captain Hernandez, a woman captain of the NX02 starship Colombia during Star Trek enterprise.
@@kentexas Guess what, it is canon and even Gene thought Turnabout Intruder was bad and dumb and sexist. Turnabout Intruder isn't canon. Also TOS didn't even HAVE canon. Honestly, your defending Turnabout Intruder? Maybe the worst episode of Star Trek to date? Really?
Don’t think the one comment about female Captains in the original series attempted to suggest that women were disqualified from Captaincy. TOS had few other Captains revealed. But I liked the Janice Lester episode because it was a study in mental illness and obsession. It doesn’t need to be politically correct for me.
Enterprise was a good series too. But prequels are generally weak. Hernandez was a season 4 addition, but I liked her. Captain Janeway was good, but in the first three seasons, the writers kept having her “discipline” the crew.
Why didn't they just use the one the Enterprise used to hold off V'Ger's plasma bolt? If it could hold that off it could certainly stop anything the Dominion had.
True but seeing those orbital weapon platforms take out a galaxy class starship with just 2 or 3 torpedoes was a bit ridiculous. Some ships got shot down so easily but as usual, the Defiant got hit countless times with minimal effect lol.
@@skippy8696 Yes. This reminds me of an episode of Voyager where they encounter a Cardassian made automated Dreadnought which is impervious to all of Voyager's weapons. Why don't they put those kind of shields to all of their ships? Then the Cardassians would be able to defeat the whole alfa quadrant single handedly.
Running out of fuel would not mean it "falls off to the side" unless they were in a gravity well, but it WOULD make the ship lag behind if they were all accelerating to outrun the First Order and eventually the First Order (also accelerating) would catch the stricken ship and annihilate it. Such a theory could work for a drifting backwards, but not to the side.
@@StinkyGringo bad writing yes, but could easily be explained by the First Order fleet, especially one the size of Snoke’s Mega Star Destroyer Supremacy, using tractor beams or generating gravity wells to slow down the Resistance fleet, or cause them to burn through fuel faster.
To be fair on Voyager's fuel levels, it's possible that they just stopped focusing on it. Rations never stopped being a thing, IIRC, and thus perhaps they did have "oh dear, fuel's low" struggles...but as you said, we'd seen them before, so unless they were a good spur into something more interesting, they happened off-screen.
I don't remember rations being a concern on Voyager. They even had Chef de partie Neelix in the galley cooking up a storm when wasn't on his guide/interpreter/babysitting duties of course.
@@Makeyourselfbig Replicator rations. They had an energy shortage. Neelix was brought aboard as a chef precisely because they could take the pressure off the replicators by actually trading/foraging for or growing food, and he knew how to take the raw foods they obtained and make them into actually tasty stuff. I actually think the fuel shortage was, in no small part, to specifically justify Neelix running a cafeteria.
@@segevstormlord3713 I would be surprised if cooking food takes up less energy than replicating it. Especially if they have to keep stopping to forage for the raw ingredients. I mean just where do you find the raw ingredients for human food at the other end of the galaxy? Personally I would have thought if they needed to save energy switching off the holodeck would have been a good idea. How much energy does that use.
@@Makeyourselfbig , cooking food is actually pretty energy-efficient, especially if the replicators have to create the food cooked anyway. Cooking can be done with waste heat, or with fuel that can't run the starship. Replicators run off of main power.
My favorite is Voyager's nearly unlimited supply of 80+ something torpedoes they started the series with, and used nearly twice that much in the show's run.
It didn't really show them replenishing their torpedo supply but they did trade with a lot of alien races so they very easily could have done so or could have at least traded for the materials that they needed to construct more.
@@amandamills4133 they always make supplies run on different planets, they always trade with different aliens, they even showed us they can make a Delta Flyer using replicator. I think they even mine their own dilithium, they shouldn't have Problems making fuel, topedos, shuttles, Voyager is self sufficient
@@sungleong People forget that Voyager was designed for long-term exploration and probably had some nice energy reserves for the replicator. That was even made a point when they came across the Excelsior which wasn't.
I would also add replicators. Sometimes these can magically duplicate anything you want in unlimited quantities, and on other occasions you have to have a dramatic encounter with some alien culture to barter for some unobtainable part (all alien spaceship parts are of course plug compatible).
Energy resource limitations, and there are some things that for some reason aren't replicable...which is why the whole gold-pressed latinum thing exists.
With Matter resequencers, NX-01 level tech, it is quite possible that Starfleet or the Federation has adopted a law to permit using Tribbles as Live stock on ships to provide a virtual unlimited food source that could be self-replicate and be resequenced into other sources such as meats, fabric for clothing, etc. Remember the Federation has times where is justifies actions that are against the majority views and as we see in later seasons of discovery, the Federation Falls.
My family watches Star Trek every night. Even my non-trekkie mom noticed the different Trill makeup. She knew Dax from watching a DS9 episode, but couldn't believe me when we saw TNG's Trill.
I think Quark told someone that the particular group of Ferengi was actually from another faction and is a bit of an embarrassment to the Ferengi as a whole.
Wasn't there also a Grand Nagus episode on DS9 that mentioned they consciously tried to pose as bad asses when first encountering humans for some reason, but that it quickly turned out that doesn't work as a negotiating tactic against the far more developed and resourcerich powerhouse of the Federation?
With regard to the shields, I always assumed that the Defiant had shields that were both more powerful and more advanced, to go along with her advanced weapons. It would make sense because the ship was supposed to fight the Borg. Starfleet would have at least tried to come up with better shields to counter the Borg. Edit: In regard to fuel for Voyager, they did mention it a few of times, but remember that the ship has bussard collectors. Also, it could have just been that they were able to deal with fuel off camera. And it is also established that they reconfigured the ship’s power usage to conserve fuel. For example, they had replicator rations throughout the show.
Agreed, that was the whole idea of the Defiant. It was a very powerful and advanced fighter. I think I recall them saying once that it almost tore itself apart early in testing. And yes, the Voyager crew was constantly revising their strategy for conserving energy. They got pretty good at it.
At least the story telling and characters weren't written so badly that it poised the franchise... I actually tapped out after season 1 of discovery. Enterprise was bad, but the acting was decent and it got really good in its final season, but discovery is just cry babies or emotionless stumps that follow insane lines of irrational events and they are forced to repcon basically everything from all other existing timeliness... Te writers also have stated they aren't star trek fans, and it shows.
@@jonvanbrunning4294 It kind of seems like you haven't watched much Star Trek? Not that it matters, of course. Even a casual Trekkie is still a Trekkie!
Star trek has always been schizophrenic at best. They seek out new life and new civilization but once they find it, they can't do anything because of the prime directive. 🙄
In the Next Generation, we were told that Trills with a symbiant could not travel via the transporter. Yet that principle was totally abandoned in Deep Space 9.
In my personal head-canon, the original Trills were a totally different species to Dax's one who also happened to carry a symbiont (which also looked very different) inside their bodies and Starfleet's Universal Translator simply messed up on that occasion and that is all. Plus, there was another major difference. In case of the original "Trills", the "symbiont" took over their given host's body and personality COMPLETELY and thus there was nothing much 'symbiotic' involved in the relationship; it was actually rather parasitic, unfortunately.
@@subraxas That makes sense. Of course, we can see contradictions in our own history. The oppression that Catholics and Protestants experienced in kingdoms dominated by the opposite faith, even as both groups fervently prayed to the same God and read the same Bible. The prominent American slaveholders who proudly signed a document in 1776 declaring that "all men are created equal." The Christmas ceasefires during World War I when English and German soldiers emerged from their foxholes to sing carols and share drinks. The high infant mortality rate in American states whose residents elect "pro-life candidates." So why should we expect consistency in fiction when so little of it exists in reality? By the way, I love your icon!
8:02 but you hear kirk say in his captains log, romulus and remus and the rest of the galaxy so it just seems to be a graphic from before they figured out the name for the second planet and they just never fixed it
Yeah, this is an instance where they didn't actually research what they were talking about well enough Plus, Romulas and Remus is what we call them, just like how we call Nippon "Japan" and Deutchland "Germany"
Maybe ROMII stands for Romulus 2 when they were unsure of the correct name and forgot to change it? HAH! I just carried on with the video and that's exactly what he said! LOL.
@@neilwilliams2907 either way, it cannot be Remus, as Romulus and Remus were supposed to be twin planets. RomII is clearly in a separate system, based on how far apart they are on the map and how long the position of Enterprise takes to move the same amount of distance. Also lets not forget, the Neutral Zone itself is light years across, so take that into account on the map as well
Everything about voyager. Fuel. Their fleet of shuttlecraft. The fact that at the start of every episode the ship looks like it's just rolled out of Utopia Planitia
To number 6 - the size of the galaxy: You have to think 3-dimensionally! In the TOS Episope, it was only said that the Enterprise was going to the edge of the galaxy. But nobody said that the Enterprise made all the way on the very flat disk of the galaxy to the edge, like the voyager has to to get home. The Enterprise could have simply taken the much shorter way to the edge by simply flying a bit up or down (parallel to the galaxy axis) so the very short journey to the upper or lower edge of the galaxy can be easily explained. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is indeed very flat ;)
This is what I was thinking. I'm not sure why the guy decided they had to travel across the entire galaxy to get to the edge when they could just travel north/up or south/down relative to the Earth. That's a difference between roughly 95 000 light years and something like 20 000 light years if travelling along the disc of the galaxy, or just a couple of thousand light years if they head straight up or down. It's the galactic equivalent of running in a straight line to outrun a huge thing slowly falling over to crush you when you can just sidestep the entire thing. TL;DR: The galaxyis not a flat disc. We're allowed to fly out of it in any direction we want, we're not bound to two axis.
Or yknow, they could have travelled to the edge, and the whole trip just took a year. Remember, season 1 was 2265 and 2266, the whole trip could have started in 2265 and they only arrived in 2266
I`d say that when Scotty said "I bet Jim Kirk himself hauled the old gal out of moth balls to come looking for me," he was just exaggerating out of excitement at being alive.
One change that is never mentioned in DS9 is latinum turning from a solid to a liquid. Early on they had a solid latinum tooth sharpener offered Odo a sloid latinum bucket and spoke of shaving the latinum. Later it turns out latinum is a liquid and we are supposed to forget the past..
latinum in its pure state is a liquid but is made into alloys that are solid for ease of use so anything solid is an alloy, just like how gold jewelry is almost never pure gold because gold is so soft it would damage too easily so it's mixed with things to make it harder
Great list! I agree with everything. A few small things though when the USS Odyssey is destroyed by the Dominion kamikaze attack the Capitan said "divert shield power to weapons" when they see the phased polaron beams cut right though the shields so shields were down but they didn't think they would ram the ship. Also I agree to the notion the entire voyager series should of been more like the "Year of Hell" the 2 part episode which many of the writers were actually planning to make that an entire season of Voyager but the studio wanted a more episodic formula and you couldn't do that when damage and plots had to carry for an entire season. Star Trek Enterprise did something like that when they were searching for the Xindi weapon and that's one of the better parts of the series in my opinion.
I agree at much as the temporal war was a tad...silly. I thanked the writers for carrying more about the plot and story on Enterprise, and I enjoyed it more.
@@saintofselhurst yes but chronologically this predates Kirk and TOS, so... there's every chance women could have been emancipated between the end of TOS and TVH. As female captains predated Kirk, it destroys the premise
@@ryanatorryanson9535 This discrepancy is another example of the perils of doing prequels. Needless to say, the producers and writers did not sufficiently research the Original Series.
BTS: I just learned that Ronald D. Moore was aware of the Scotty contradiction when they were making Generations happen. Said it would be drastic to leave Scotty out (and perhaps awkward to work an explanation in) because of one line from Relics. Figured viewers could reconcile. There are a couple popular head canons and at least one explanation you'll find on Memory Beta. General summary of fan theories: seeing as Scotty beamed out (all the way out) for, what, decades to await rescue, figure a side effect is his memory's not all there when the rescuers beam him all the way back in. From the novel, The Return: it may or may not figure into it that Spock (not prone to irrational denial) had reason to believe Kirk was falsely presumed dead following the Enterprise B incident. (Bear with me. It's been a long time since I read it.) Between x number of mind melds with Kirk and Spock's nigh-unique "frame of reference" for death, Spock insists he'd simply have "felt" it if the Captain died. Although he may never have told Scotty that. Troi brings up the strange Scotty line directly. (It's a little forced.) She says in so many words that Kirk is the new Elvis. Scotty would take any chance he can get to stoke Kirk's legendary status.
Yeah I just kept telling myself that it had to do with Scotty's absolute faith in Jim Kirk's Legendary status to overcome anything/everything. A little thing like, death wouldn't stop, _My_ Captain.
I'm suprised when you did the bit on warp speed you didn't mention the "rule" about using Warp speed in a solar system. (pretty sure that was the trippy scene from Star Trek The motion picture) sometimes you could do it some times not.
Ok I’ll debunk number 7 even if it’s true, some star fleet officers have some medical training, theres no reason to believe Chekov couldn’t have training in all his career
I figured the point was that the TOS officers were seasoned pros and took charge of the situation while the newbies were still trying to figure out how to walk and chew gum at the same time.
@@TRG29338 I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. Knowing how it use the technology is one this and having basic medical knowledge is another. Not every person knows how to fly a ship or repair space craft. There’s just no reason to believe the Dialogue wouldn’t work. None of the dialogue bothered me. And there’s no reason to believe in all of any of their careers they didn’t learn something outside of their primary function
Chekov is an officer with some experience of working under pressure so makes sense that he'd step in and do something proactive. Doesn't seem like he'd be the kind of person to just sit and watch the freshly beamed in refugees sit and suffer.
The reasoning I use for anytime they modify an established species appearance (like the Klingons). Some ethnic group of the species is more common away from their settled planets, or is, at the time, more dominant than the others. Throw darts at a map of Earth and each hit has a different physical description of 'human'.
I just loved how the whole episode of flashback shows how dimitri is dead but when you see the undiscovered country he’s clearly alive and well on the bridge when Captain sulu says his goodbyes to the crew of the original enterprise
Star Trek First Contact changed the way the Borg assimilated people (nanoprobes), introduced the Borg Queen, and turned the Borg Collective Consciousness into voices in people's heads.
@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 , Good point. Even the idea of a centralized essential component (cortical node) is not aligned with the concept of the original Borg presented in STTNG. Their ships were ultra-redundant and all essential functions were distributed throughout the ship. That's partly what made them so terrifying. Their ship could be 90% damaged and still function. Same problem with the Borg Queen concept (an essential individual among the collective).
@@jessstuart7495 then Voyager established that backup Queens exist, with Seven of Nine being one of them (hence why she could interface with the Queen's Cell in the cube in Picard.)
@@KnightRanger38 This was my theory as well. When you've seen him escape so many other near-death experiences, you think a little nexus is going to stop him for good? Not a chance
you have to remember scotty when he was trapped in the transporter for 75 years NO TIME had passed for scotty so it made perfect sense for him to think Kirk came looking for him
Regarding ROMII ... a real life example here in the States - a city in my state of Michigan, Novi, allegedly is named for Stage Coach Stop No 6... or NoVI. This may be urban legend, but I like the idea of ROMII kind of matching that idea ;)
When it comes to Voyagers fuel, I was under the impression that's what a lot of Voyagers trade missions were about. As for Torpedo's I've said a couple of times they should have started an episode with Kim and another crewmen building a couple in a cargo bay.
ENT actually did a fairly smart plot to explain the makeup change for Klingons and their smooth foreheads during TOS. It is really something they wouldnt speak about though.
Pretty accurate but 2 things are kinda off.. 1st Kirk di Not use His fists or even c*ck to solve Problems Most of the time. He actually TALKED His way Out of Bad situations much more than Most people seem to know. And 2nd the whole Problem with Not working shilds in DS9 can easily be dismissed due to having a war between 2 very different factions (Dominion VS Federation) and that shields are Not adequate to the different and constant Weapon Changes and Upgrades of both factions... But I agree that it is kinda silly sometimes
1:04 This is a common misinterpretation of this line. Doohan doesn't quite play off the sarcasm properly. He hears the name of his old ship and thinks he's dreaming or Riker is pulling his leg, so he reacts accordingly. There's no way he seriously thought that Kirk would be out searching for his lost Engineer.
Reminds me of something James Doohan said about William Shatner in an interview. They asked him how he felt about Shatner. He said that Scotty would risk his life to save Captain Kirk, but James Doohan wouldn't walk across the street to save William Shatner. I'm guessing he didn't like him very much.
The thing about the warp scale reminds me of J. Michael Strazinski's comments on the speed of Starfuries in Babylon 5: "they move at the speed of plot."
They captured a Dominion ship and had the ability to analyze it, that's why their shields became effective against Dominion weapons. Before that, the Dominion's polaron weapons were a new, unknown factor, and the shields weren't designed with that in mind. This is actually brought up in the show.
Yes, it was disconnected but mentioned. The real reason for the lack of shields in visuals is the computer technology of the time, computer modeling was brand new and couldn't deal with it on a tv budget/timeline. You can justify this by saying the show just gave us a summary of a large battle, we don't have 3 hours to watch weapons hit shields and nothing happens.
Got an even more crazy idea. The bio neural gel packs equipped to the voyager increased regeneration in shields akin to a cut on the skin prompts rapid as fast as a neron response to defend that exposed area. Manually you have to redirect power and use manpower to adjust shield regen. A partial organic ship reacts. Almost thinks like an organic. Voyager was lost in the badlands and such an experimental bio mechanical setup was held responsible. It was too ambitious and not tested properly and so starfleet dropped the idea falling back on isolinier tech. Voyager was proved in service and resilient and bio neural circuitry was quickly re adopted. If a ship with neural links senses an exposed area in shields, it automatically polorizes the Hull, and redirects the remaining shields to compensate before usually the ops sees it, calls the response to the captain, awaits the order to restore shields to that section and then ops orders the repair on console. In milliseconds the ship adapts and repairs. Learned from Borg tech from wolf 359. If you want to fit picard into Canon. The debate over synthetics reached to star ships when by the 2380s all starship had this organic component and when synthetics were banned bio neural circuitry came up as potential for a synthetic organism and stalled production. The attack on utopia planitia seen as a resistance of fellow synthetics in ship production. In fact geordie did use his knowledge of data as inspiration for the new fleets as well as his unique input on the sovereign class enterprise making her the most advanced ship using "adaptive matrices" but likened it to say a flower drawn to sunlight or closing damaged petals to favor the stronger ones it also explains starfleets hesitance on using her at the battle of sector 001. It's not sentient but organic in a sense. It has self awareness in preservation and fast response time, but he doubts it will write a sonnet or paint a picture in this millennia. The ship is partially synthetic and organic and so is under the the synthetic organism definition also bound by the ban. So the federation needed to reassess and stalled. By the time of the event as of Picard it was overturned and the big fleet was enabled. The real world equivalent is a classified, but still boasted about network of Drones that react and work as a team that use faster than human comms to adapt in flight as a 4 wing group by Lockheed Martin a quaduplet of stealth bombers and interceptors that fly in formation to target and scramble in insane vectors to confuse pilots and misdirect. Starfleet is not the federation but a part of it and so if quasi organic tech has to go. It has to go. Many confligrate starfleet with the federation and they sometimes or often are at loggerheads like genesis or Insurrection. Section 31 probably tried to continue the bioneural gel pack in the dark ages of Picard and thanks to that we have the enterprise f odyssey class. With all the mod cons including synaptic shields and sensor speeds as well as a surge in power to systems on an adrenal like power flow. In battle the ship atunes as the crew to a fight or flight response and is faster at redirecting power and such to where it needs it
Geordie was heartbroken by the ban, his own friend used as a weapon against him and his wife leah. Accusing him of creating some Frankenstien abomination, despite knowing data wouldn't have objected and probably have assisted, but living star ships is what he's seen as doing it tarnished his reputation and he resigned. As a modern day conspiracy theorist in the science community. He still enjoys being the greatest engineer since Scott, but this was too much. He stepped down because he was blamed for the utopia attacks. He accepts the blame, but still holds that bio neural doesn't equal a sentient lifeform but he's shouted down. He couldn't save his friend, but he channeled it into ship creation using data's poistronic synapses as a base to speed up the computers response time to say a warp core breach halted. But that was taken from him. The klingons, romulans and even dominion don't trust organic synaptic computers and would thrust the federation ahead. The binars back the idea as well as trill and even the vulcans, but others are skeptical. The drone from the voyager episode "one" created as a mistake from 26th century injects nanites into voyager and says he has upgraded her as far as she'll go. In a regular star ship that's not far. But in a biomechanical ship. Hmm he sped up the reaction times and caffinated the ship. Circling back to captured down dominion tech. If I was to smooth the Canon there, its dominion tech bypasses shields and overwhelms the ship as per dominion style, but if you can bear that Brunt you then counter attack which is the go to idea by starfleet. Tech wise. If you can minimise the damage, you use the remaining power to attack.
Normal almost every episode. 1. Everything starts off OK. 2. Antagonist disrupts peaceful way of things. 3. " Good Guys " get hurt and almost lose. 4. Last second thinking or actions save the day. 5. Back to Everything is OK. ALMOST EVERY EPISODE!!!
#10 I heard the excuse that Scotty was disoriented after being stuck in the transport buffer for so long, and that he remembered later on as he was toasting his old mates on the Holodeck. #9 That last episode of TOS was… what it was… the end of the terrible last season. #8 “Threshold” is just an embarrassment to the people behind the scenes, though the actors had fun filming it. 🤷♂️ #7 Yeah, they wanted McCoy, but I guess everyone gets at least some basic medical triage training in Starfleet? 🤷 #6 Writers never have a sense of scale. #5 Actually I prefer the later Trill, why does everyone have to be a rubber forehead alien? #4 Rom 2 sounds reasonable, Romulans were always so secretive. #3 Shields needed to be adapted to new enemy weapons, and then the Breen energy drain… thing just made it even worse. #2 The Ferengi we first met were military, Quark was a ships cook, and Rom was a engineer. #1 Voyager also magically got more and more Photon torpedos and shuttlecraft over the seasons.
#4 - Romulan is a name we made up, like Japan and Germany. We don't know the real name of their planet (which according to beta sources is Rihannsu) or we just say the name we made up, just like how we don't say Nippon or Deutchland
@@VulpisFoxfire which further emphasizes the point, Romulus is a name we made up, not them :3 Also... as much as I love Enterprise... boo on them for how they introduced the Romulans, specifically with the name T~T
1:00 I have pointed this out in other places, but the "Scotty forgetting Kirk was dead" mistake is easy to explain. Anyone who has lost a friend or loved one know how easy it is to forget that person is dead, especially if that death is unexpected. Considering that Scotty had just spent years in a transported buffer, that has to have an effect on your memory. It is totally plausible that Scotty just forgot for a moment that Kirk had died. After all, Scotty likely booked passage on the ship very shortly after the events on Enterprise B. Frankly I think mocking that explanation is just stupid, as it is quite plausible. Unless you know a reason it isn't. Sorry that wrecks your favorite ST mistake. But it's just a fact.
Honestly... Given Kirk and his tendency to cheat death in the first place... Scotty thinking Kirk had come to save him seems on brand for Kirk... A wishful thought that his friend who's been known to somehow survive insane things.... did...
And it’s absolutely plausible that even with a clear memory he would still have such a thought. He didn’t actually witness Kirk’s death (Kirk didn’t actually die anyway), so of course he almost certainly always held out hope that he was somehow alive somewhere.
Or how about in Voyager where they spend 3 seasons NOT giving out replicator technology, to later on in the series, Janeway casually mentioning to Chakotay “How many times have we given out replicators?”
@@Lancashirian the writers might have decided it wasn't worth continuing that restriction. Maybe also they were more willing to trade them with civilizations that were more advanced and close to developing them on their own (the Kazon essentially stole their ships and didn't really know how to build anything.)
Adam, another excellent job on this video. If there is a second video about mistakes you didn't notice, may I suggest that one entry is about transporter pads? Sometimes they need to be ok the transporter light bulb and sometimes they DON'T.
Much bigger issue with the Trill that you left out! The original, Oden takes over the host completely, and the hosts are treated as animals. With Dax, they were "blending" and the host's personality remains.
Chekov was a First Officer on a starship, a security chief, and a long term member of Starfleet it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Chekov had an EMT level of training if not on the level of a full on Paramedic.
if you split an ellipse into 4 Quadrants, then the original Enterprise could have gone both to the center of the galaxy and the NEAR edge of the galaxy without ever leaving the Alpha quadrant. Voyager was then thrown to the diagonally opposed quadrant across the entire galaxy. this is the way i have always thought of that one.
You're correct. Whatculture is trying to pretend their is equivalence between traversing between the Inner and outer radii of a doughnut as The Enterprise did versus traversing it's circumference as Voyager was attempting do.
It should still take 50 years at warp 9 (Voyager time) to go from the edge of the galaxy disc to it's center (almost 20 kpc away, 60% of what Voyager had to travel).
If in the original series the original series the Enterprise could go to the edge of the galaxy in hours, what does wherever Voyager is have to do with it?
Yeah, the new warp scale in TNG was an asymptote with Warp 10 being a theoretical infinite speed. Roddenberry apparently wanted to stop the warp speed inflation in the writing. Some people saw the "you can't go above Warp 10" as some sort of cap on speed. It wasn't, and as you pointed out, writers later ignored that plan.
The whole being in everywhere in the universe at the same time thing was beyond stupid. Not even the Traveler would get that one. But hey, it wouldn’t be a true Trek Culture countdown list without one excuse or another to somehow feature a reference to “Threshold”
For the Next Gen finale 'All Good Things', I figure the warp scale was simply revised in the future, perhaps making warp 20 the new 'infinity' point. This would be a logical response to better warp drives providing higher velocities: "warp thirteen" is easier to say in a hurry than "warp nine point nine nine nine nine nine three" or whatever.
The biggest one for me was the Romulan War. On the episode that first introduced us to Romulans all the way back in TOS, it was stated that nobody knew what Romulans looked like because visual communications didn't exist at the time of the Romulan War. Furthermore, it was stated that the most powerful weapons in the Federation at the time of the war were atomics and that phase weapons didn't yet exist. Fast forward in the real world to the premiere of Enterprise, and we see that the NX-01 does indeed have visual communications, and over the course of the show's four seasons, the ship is upgraded with new phase canons . . . all BEFORE the Romulan War ever began (in fact, there was an ongoing plotline that was SETTING UP the Romulan War, which would undoubtedly have appeared on the series had it not been cancelled). I certainly noticed most of the other things you listed, but many of them could be explained in some way with enough imagination, while the details surrounding the Romulan War are a lot harder to hand wave away.
Warp Factor was supposed to be an logarithmic scale with actual speed approaching infinity as you approached 10 - hence Warp 9 is really fast, Warp 9.9 is really really fast, and Warp 9.99 is really really really fast :-)
Not to mention that the warp scale could have very well been changed to better accommodate the faster speeds that ships were becoming capable of. Allowing for warp speeds above 10 is far easier than constantly adding more numbers post decimal point.
One theory I read was that warp 12 would be 9.99 and 13 would be warp 9.999.The scales above 10 are not actually over 10 but were just to simplify things instead of counting out decimals.
@@bartonruff1752 Yeah that's what I was trying to say but didn't do a very good job. The scale has just been changed to make things easier so it's not like the current warp 12 would be faster than the old warp 10.
@@Cadwaladr yeah that is a screwup with the writers. That aside given how fast we see the warp core pulse in the Enterprise-D at high warp we can assume that like a car engine those high warp factors have to guzzle fuel like crazy so would Voyager even have had enough to fuel to do warp 7 for that long continuously? Also how often does the warp drive need to be taken offline for maintenance every X,000 light years?
In TOS, the phasers were sometimes distinct lines, but often bright light blobs not very different from photon torpedos. And sometimes they both seemed to come from the same place under the hull saucer. Then once, in A Piece if the Action, the ship's phasers not only had a stun setting but covered several city blocks. This was never seen, mentioned, or used again. Bread and Circuses, Scotty uses the phasers to draw power from the city's grid until a blackout is triggered. Using an energy beam to...absorb energy seems like its much more complicated than just adding power until the grid ovloads and trips every circuit breaker in the city.
I feel like Voyager kind of gets away with it because they have some episodes where they do trade resources. And you can imagine them trading resources between episodes. Also, the Trill spots look much better.
I always thought the Trill's were an older more advanced civilization, so would it not make sense that they had multiple species or races living on their planet or planets that were able to accept a symbiotic life form?....and YES THOSE SPOTS..GRRRR she did say once ...yes they go all the way ...hubba hubba LOL
2:54 they put a woman in the captain’s chair on the Columbia (NX-02) 100 years earlier. Not to mention the first ship you see in Star Trek discovery, which is set during Captain pike’s era I might add also had a woman in the captain’s chair.
I was at a Star Trek convention in 1994 and James Doohan was one of the guest speakers(along with Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis) and this question came up. I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of "it was just one of those things".
It actually makes sense for Chekov of be a doctor, he's done just about every other job in Starfleet. He started out as a navigator (Command), was a security chief in ST:TMP (Operations), and was Reliant's science officer (Science) in ST:TWoK. Only think left for him to do is become a sinister telepath and try to take over the world...
I did notice and question why no ships had any shields for the Dominion war scenes. But I figured it was just a shortcut taken by the VFX teams. It was also funny in DS9 how much of a beating Runabouts could take in that show when Galaxy class starships are getting completely owned by much less.
You forgot Voyagers torpedos. Remember how Janeway tells Chakotey that they have a limited amount and no way to replace them, but go through all the seasons firing how many at a time?
9:39 One explanation for the shield thing I could come up with would be that by the time of last three seasons of DS9 the weapons were so far ahead of the shielding that shields were nothing more than a tissue paper to them and new, better shields weren't ready yet. And Defiant was always an experimental ship with better tech, including maybe an experimental, one of a kind, shields.
The last one doesn’t really seem to fit. It felt to me to be more of something that was just “understood” that they had to deal with, and it had already been established *how* they deal with it, so it didn’t need to take screen time until it was relevant to the plot. It’s kinda like them eating. If they don’t show scenes in the mess hall for a period of time, you wouldn’t jump to “they expected us to forget that the crew has to eat!” Which, speaking of, fuel wasn’t always a focus because many times food and R&R opportunities were. It all came down to “resources” that they could no longer get from the federation, which I think was an ongoing theme throughout the show, only lessened slightly in some ways when they had contact with starfleet again. The one you should have mentioned was the very specific “we only have X number of photon torpedos to last us and need to conserve every one.” Which they never even gave a throwaway plot line to address how they could have restocked them. The specificity of that one is very “they just wanted us to forget they mentioned it.” Personally I would have used the greater one to lead into the specific second one that was the true offender.
Chekov took control of an urgent situation, I.E No medical staff (Yes, I know, Tuesday) as an experienced Commander would. There’s not much doctoring done, just helping walking wounded / shocked and dishing out first aid, which you’d think would be basic training for a starship crew.
I agree the chekhov one made sense to me
All Starfleet officers are required to undergo at least basic training in every discipline, in fact you don't actually have to have advanced medical training to conduct advanced medical procedures, provided there's someone on deck with advanced medical training, or your still waiting for Tuesday to roll around lol
Sensible, but I still find it funny that every Starfleet officers knows which button to push on the hypo to get stoned.
Chekov is a temporal agent.
All crew are trained in basic medical triage - hyposprays, dermal regeneration, artificial heart repair, Horta cement mixing, EMH activation - these are things any cadet would know.
I had always just assumed that Chekov had basic field medic training, and more experience under pressure than anyone else in the room, so he took charge when he realized the medical team wasn't scheduled to arrive until the following week.
Exactly! And I frankly never gave it a second thought until watching this video. But you are absolutely correct
Mmm hmm, similar line to Tom Paris having some medical training and eventually becoming Voyager's medic.
Forgive me if someone has already addressed this, but I wanted to offer my interpretation of the whole "women can't be captains" thing: I always interpreted Janice Lester's actual statement - "Your world of starship captains doesn't accept women" or something like that - to mean that James Kirk's devotion to his career meant he did not have room for a relationship in his life, not that Starfleet did not allow any females to command ships. I should point out that I had seen Turnabout Intruder dozens of times over the course of more than a decade before someone suggested the "women can't be captains" interpretation to me.
Beleive it was also their reaction to her. Essentially the "women...am I right?" Response.
I always took it to mean that men prevented women from following the track to become captain. It wasn't against the rules, just impossible to attain. Like armed forces until recently not allowing women in combat, but requiring combat experience to advance.
By the way, I can't think of a better actress for the first female captain than Madge Sinclair.
or, it was the 60's and the studio literally had blocked a woman from being 1st officer and this was gene's way of calling them out in an episode..... which when culture advanced a little he was able to later fix.
I always interpreted that as Lester claiming she could not be a captain because she was a woman, when the real reason was because she was crazy.
Said like a man
Voyager: 47 torpedos left
Also Voyager: F U L L S P R E A D
'we only have two shuttles, no materials for repairs'
Goes on to build several customizable, superfast, supermanouvrable, hugely spacious with all mod-cons, armed to the gills 'exploration shuttles'.
One of which was built in a few days.
Triva: 47 reference to the number of remaining torpedoes.
Also Voyager: Wait, what is a Tricobalt device again?
There’s a video on here somewhere that goes into the huge continuity error that is Voyager’s torpedo count
@@user-zh4vo1kw1z They built the Delta flyer twice
Voyager: We look for things. Things that make us go.
Vrenak smart.
We need you!
They were dumb, but the Voyager crew were even dumber, allowing themselves to be outsmarted.
🤣🤣🤣
Things that make our little things go too. And things that make pretty light boom things. And things that make wake up juice.
For that first one, Scotty could have very well believed that Kirk had somehow survived the Nexus. The man has done impossible things before (and would actually survive the Nexus) so thinking that isn't too difficult to believe.
And a book explained that materialized scotty was slightly disoriented from all that time in the transporter
The Nexus - Stupidest plot device in the history of movies.
Not to mention that Scotty had already seen AT LEAST one person come back from the dead. And there's certainly was no Kirk body recovered. So it's easy for Scotty to think Kirk came back from the seeming dead, took command of the Enterprise, and rescued him.
And to be fair, Kirk DID come back from the dead... just not to rescue Scotty and later than Scotty thought he would.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Actually, it's quite forgotten that SCOTTY HIMSELF HAD COME BACK FROM THE DEAD. And besides Spock, he'd also seen Lt. Leslie somehow come back from the dead too.
Actually, no. Scotty was there to see the blown out Enterprise-B deflector room so he at that point knew Kirk was dead especially considering that he had no clue what the Nexus was.
Daniel from Spacedock put it best about Voyager when he he said "It was a show about survival and limited resources that pretty much abandoned it's premise in the first 40 minutes."
Except replicators and the ability to harvest fuel from nebulas and gas giants never really made it a thing for a 24th century starship. Look at BSG and how well it was done because getting fuel was hard and they had to have manufacturing to replace stuff, Voyager shouldn't need to make it an issue imho
Matter's plausible, but acquiring new antimatter should still be an issue.
@@JackVermicelli One of the reasons Starfleet settled on using deuterium and anti-deuterium for "fuel" is because they're both relatively plentiful throughout the Galaxy (at least the fictional Galaxy of Star Trek) and fairly easy to harvest. Apparently, most civilizations that achieve warp drive apparently agree as it seems like the vast majority use the same stuff with the exception of a few outliers like the Romulans' artificial quantum singularity drives and whatever the hell the Borg use.
@@jono_cc2258 BSG had a fleet of ships. Specialized ships that did whatever the plot required. at least one episode focused on the possibility of generational enslavement to a job or ship. But as far as foraging. BSG would worry about tactical concerns in getting the fleet to where they could do whatever it was that they did. Every time voyager was presented with a new or additional ship, it was always a trap.
So they never watched it then, and just jumped on a lazy bandwagon. Got it
I love the Trill spots and thought that was an upgrade over the generic cranial ridges.
It seemed like EVERY ALIEN in TNG had cranial ridges, even the Vulcans got them.
like how they did the klingons but in reverse. original klingons just regular people. star trek 3 cranial ridges.
Trill? What about the change in the Klingons? LOL
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 There's a 2 part story in Enterprise that explains that whole deal.
@@senorpepper3405 they actually had cranial ridges in Star Trek: the motion picture first.
A major point of the Dominion War arc was Starfleet coming up with ways to improve their shields and a lot of those ships were being thrown into battle regardless.
I can get why they weren't able to show shield impacts a lot during season 6-7 because it would be too time consuming and costly for the vfx team pull off, but the writer of this video shouldn't blame the writers for that.
I always thought of it this way; the Battle is raging all around, the shields of the ship's had already been worn down or collapsed once we see the shots of holes being blasted in ships. You would also have an overwhelming amount of fire power being discharged in a massive engagement, so shield systems might simply be overwhelmed and collapse very quickly. They just didn't have the budget needed to show all of that!
It was implied that star fleet was able to develop effective shields after the episode where Sisko salvaged the jem'hadar ship?
@@outbacksptdriver but it may not be the case that every ship was capable of using those modifications, or ships had to be put into battle before they could receive them.
@@outbacksptdriver That assumes the Jem'Hadar just stopped improving their weapons systems after that, though. After the Breen weapons were shown to be super effective against Starfleet and Romulan shields, it's entirely likely the Jem"hadar used that knowledge to make their antipolaron weapons better.
Actually, this video should be titled as the top things that Star Trek doesn’t care if you noticed.
😄😄
11:23 "10 things Star Trek doesn't give a (torpedo sound) about"
10 things star Trek changed and didn't care how you felt about it 😅
It makes me sad that voyager didn't take that "there's coffee in that nebula" quote as a running joke and nod to resource gathering off-screen. Can you imagine, characters mentioning to Janeway sometimes about a probable good source of "coffee" ahead or comments about their current stock of "coffee" with her giving them a brief "ha ha so funny" look. Would have made the show twice as good all on it's own.
But that would require callbacks. That would have raised the basic level of writing quality to an u acceptable degree. Next thing you know we would have expected some form of internal consistency. Or gods forbid, even character development
That kind of continuity and inside joke tends to be shot down in favor of stand alone episodes. People that start in the middle or only catch a episode here and there seem to be put off by such things. I agree, it would be better writing.
It's cute but as a one off thing when chakotay is having a briefing with Janeway and she's spacing out distracted. Chakotay realising she's not paying attention reels a couple absurd reports to snap her back. "the eps manifolds on Decks 15 to 13 need addressing, tuvok is pregnant and the ships coffee supply is running dry. Should we look for a nebula?" it works as a callback but doesn't require prior knowledge. "I'm sorry what was that last part?" chakotay grins but is slightly annoyed in that way Robert Beltrane does "just seeing if you were still listening. You seem a little distracted" then set the scene where Janeway is worried about some big plot thread. Then as chakotay is about the leave the ready room distracted himself from whatever Janeway shares with him Janeway calls "oh and commander, congratulate tuvok for me would you." she was listening. A bit of levity gravitas in the same scene and there you go. References and callbacks make for a bit of fun and a treat for the audience, but making them recurring is just a crutch. This scene could be the preamble to the message from the alpha quadrant regarding the fate of the Marquis and the dominion war. This was glossed over because its a episodic show, but this headcanon for these moments would make good connective tissue in writing. You can see how it would unfold and the drama as the Chinese whispers (its has other names in different places but the game where you say a phrase and it passes down the line and changes) as it were passes from Janeway to chakotay, to belanna, to Paris to Kim etc etc as they all react to the news. Getting more dire and extravagant a commentary on news and the reality being sombre, but keeping hope. Neelix is where the whispers end and as morale officer sees how awful that news is. The federations at war with a superior foe, losing. The Marquis is dissolved, incarcerated or dead or on the front line without support. But he too lost a great deal and voyager is the symbol of what they are fighting for at home. It's all set up by the scene with chakotay and Janeway and communication. Finally, it puts the coffee meme to bed because Janeway realises how petty it is compared to the alpha quadrants problems how the Marquis and starfleet problems are petty. Done.
Like the one episode they got a powerful Canon installed but because Seven of Nine killed the salesman before he could complete the last calibrations on the "working weapon" it's just gone in the next episode.
@@johannbezuidenhout2976 'big, likely gamechanging event X happened and was promptly ignored' describes about 85% of the episodes....
You should do an episode about a starships seemingly unlimited supply of photon torpedoes and shuttlecraft.
Replicators? Lol
They do run out of Photon Torpedos in Nemesis - seeming having forgotten the existence of the Quantum Torpedoes from First Contact.
@@cologne2792 Uh. They use both quantum and photon torpedoes in the Nemesis battle.
How about the endless supply of red shirts?? And bodies to stuff them? I think they must have a cloning facility and a bunch of seamstresses in the basement, because they just keep getting killed off and replaced.
@@StinkyGringo YES. As seen in the 2nd season, even the Jupiter 2 on LOST IN SPACE had a replicator. (It looked like a freezer chest with knobs.)
Both the TNG episode Relics and the movie Generations have the same writer. As you noted, Scotty was supposed to be Spock in Generations, so it was supposed to be Spock seeing the aftermath of the loss of the Kirk. As you noted, the script wasn't altered to accommodate the change. That would be why Scotty didn't remember what happened in Relics.
Excellent reasoning. Let's just put it down to deteriorated "historical tapes". Or as Capt Taggart confesses: "We lied".
Even if Scotty wasn’t there, he would’ve heard about it! He would’ve gone to Kirk’s funeral. Never mind that they were friends, Kirk’s death would’ve been big news to everyone. There were reporters all over the place!
@@newsduke precisely. It can be assumed that everyone of the TOS crew would have been informed of the incident. You don't lose a major celebrity aboard the maiden voyage of your newest flagship and not have that news travel across the entire quadrant. I'm willing to bet that many old Klingons howled in rage that they weren't the ones to snuff out Kirk upon hearing the news.
and since Scotty was on his way to retirement after the Enterprise-A stood down, he likely never heard about what happened with Kirk because Scotty vanished before Kirk did, thus it's not a plot hole at all.
Wouldn’t a better explanation be for the trill that there are two trill attributes? One that have spots and one that has the forehead ridges, basically, two dominate species on a planet? It would add a rich back history. Maybe the two fought for dominance and it was the symbionts that brought peace.
It would just have been better if they hadn't called the DS9 Trills Trills. They could just have introduced Jadzia as someone of a new species and probably mentioned that with the symbiont thing it is is somewhat similar to the Trills, but not entirely.
Alternatively, the Symbionts have their own mini-Federation where any number of species can serve as host. After all, if a human can serve as host, then more than the native Trill species may be able to as well.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 They made it so you had to have a special biology to accept a symbiote. Later they decided that any trill could be a host. But that would make the symbiotes a highly prized commodity. Only the rich and powerful. the most ruthless would get one. How would a young person get one? Powerful family connections probably. One in line for the throne serving in the federation as a hobby. Leadership experience
The first host was the Oonas. They later started using humans and even jaffa.
@@cl8733 Yes. Just as we should have called the ridged Klingons something else entirely. We could have introduced Worf as an entirely new species, and mentioned that their race is somehwat similar to the Klingons, but not entirely, of course! Hell, let's pull this a bit further, let's call the V shaped ridged Romulans something else! Since they're different from the Romulans we've seen in the Original Series, we could have added some continuity!
Note: the first Enterprise under command of captain Jonathan Archer has no shields either.
“Polarize the hull plating!”
@@Ektalon Then jump RIGHT into the middle of a fight between 2 DIFFERENT species at war that are centuries more advanced.
that hull plating 🤣😂👌🏿
To be fair season 5 was meant to be the season where starbases, shields, and tractor beams were going to be introduced. Wonder if they would have gone back to lasers since phaser development fell behind for a while.
My working theory on the Trill is, there are two kinds in symbiont. Note that in their TNG debut, the symbiont overwrote the host's mind completely. Since that changed as well, my thinking is, some symbionts are too much for the standard host's to handle, so they bond with a different species that can survive the blending. They're still called Trills because that's the name of the slugs.
Trill were originally two separate species that merged later. Goauld + Tokra.
That's what was said in Deep Space Nine, the mere fact Sisko keeps saying 'old man' as well, supports this.
How about the fact that in TNG, the Trill whom was injured in a shuttlecraft accident. Why, because Trill couldn't use transporters as could damage the symbiote. Yet, Jadcia Dax was beaming around without any ill effect to her symbiote- Huh...
@@paulhunter6742 because it would have been a pain for the writers if one main character always had to use a shuttle. Instead they figured they'd just ignore that detail about the Trill who first appears years ago and assume most would forget it as well or never saw that episode to begin with.
They were verbally called “Romulus and Remus” in TOS.
Yeah, I as about to say that. And look at the distance. Romii would be an important world in the Star Empire, but it is hardly the twin planet of Romulus. They're about as far away from each other as the Outposts
@@k1productions87 This it looks more like another close star than planet, like how Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light years from Earth.
@@k1productions87 Ditto. I'd just assume Romii was another planet in another system, like the first planet the Romulans terraformed (Romulaformed?).
@@jacara1981 either way, too far away to be Remus
I was going to say, I knew about Remus long before TNG even ended. It's first mention was certainly not in Nemesis.
Trek Culture: every ship has shields
Star Trek Enterprise:😢
Got to love automatic hull plating!
Whatever the fk that is.
Well, Enterprise was supposed to be before Earth developed their own shield technology or traded with others for shield technology and they did have later episodes where the Andorians had equipped them with shields.
I was a bit ticked off with how they showed the transporters as effective as they were, I had expected transporter pad to transporter pad operation or transporter to pad to pattern enhancer operation perhaps with a missile that would split to set up a transporter enhancer cage on the surface which they would have to return to and defend to transport back as well as destroy to avoid giving technology to a given planet. Even TOS had a lot of transporter pad to transporter pad operation especially with the starbases and federation colonies and TNG / Voyager had a lot of episodes where three portable pattern enhancer stands had to be set up. A definite missed opportunity to show an earlier progression of the technology and allowed more dramatic content.
@@johnwang9914 when did the they give them shields?
@@killajive1 The one I remember was actually an alternate timeline where Captain Archer was infected with something that gave him amnesia, Earth had fallen to the Xindi and the survivors settled on a distant planet, the Enterprise defended the colony and had shields that the Andorians had installed. I believe there were other late episodes where shields had been installed including the final successful confrontation with the Reptilian and insect Xindi's with the help of the Simians, Sloth and acqueous Xindi's and of course the Andorans (of course the Vulcans seemed to be mostly absent), I seem to remember Andoran shields there but I could be mistaken. Now Star Trek Online claimed the Federation received deflector shield from the Remans and Breen but that would've been well after the Enterprise series as well as likely being non-canon. Also given how unfamiliar the Breen was in TNG and Voyager, I doubt there would've been trade with them pre TOS and Discovery. Note the NX-01 had phase canons while it was said that the Andorans had phasers so there is some suggestions that it may have been the adoption of phasers from the Andorans that later became the Federations weapon of choice.
I believe it was season 4 that Shran helped the Enterprise with shields.
@@johnwang9914 only one I remembered was the episode with the old t’pal. Where the enterprise failed its mission but was sent back to the past. I don’t ever remember them getting shields from the Andorrans
I’ve always thought it was Rom2 because the federation knew very little about the romulans that that time
i came to comment exactly this :)
Well, Romulan is not their real name, its just what WE call them, as the names come from Roman mythology. The actual name is supposed to be Rihannsu.
Its just like how we call the Asian nation "Japan" even though to them it is called "Nippon"
Or how what we call Germany is tot hem called "Deutchland"
I thought Romulus and Remus was the suggested translation of the translation-computers for the unspokable native tongue names, though I can't remember the source where I got this from....
I would like to point out that in the episode balance of terror kirk calls the two planets romulus and remus at the start of the episode
i like to think they got over the panic about fuel and supplies because they learned to acquire what they needed and became quite good at it thus it was less of a plot point and the actual work of acquiring supplies is boring so that happened off camera
Didnt Nelix Die (temperarily) trying to tap into a exotic energy sesource?
Yeah that was my assumption... They eventually learnt how to sort it out. 😉
I always loved the casual dismissal of the discovery of immortality found in the TNG episode 'Rascals'.
Yeah, me too. What gives?
Or the fact that ferengis STOLE a couple of birds of prey....
Did they forget about it, or did they just remember that they already cured old age when they used the transporter on Pulaski in "Unnatural Selection?"
And not only can the transporters revert anyone back to a previous bodily state (curing old age, diseases, missing limbs, etc.) but they've had easy access to time travel since the original series.
@@HermanVonPetri Or the original series finding a substance to grant amazing telekinetic powers... the fixing age thing was also in an original series episode.
Everyone appears to forget the circumstances of the accident that occurred to Capt Picard, Keiko, Ro and Guinan. Their shuttlecraft encountered an energy anomaly (unknown type of energy) which affected their physical mass. So when O'Brien beamed them back to the Enterprise there was a total loss of 40% resulting in a physical regression of their physical bodies. No doubt Federation scientists have been trying to recreate the circumstances that resulted in the youth regression phenomenon, but without knowing the particulars of the energy anomaly it is a hit and miss form of research. Very much like the cold fusion experiment conducted by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in AD 1989. By chance these 2 electrochemists appeared to discovered the process of cold fusion. Unfortunately no one else has successfully re-created the same or similar results so at the moment cold fusion is only a theoretical concept
I figured Chekov became a temp CMO just using his Starfleet field medic training that I assume is standard.
well it makes sense that everyone on a star ship has SOME medical training , everyone SHOULD know CPR and how to set a broken bone and such
Plus almost all the medical stuff is automated...
@@011keepers true, but they SHOULD be trained in at least basic stuff
yes and by then ....somebody in security should have some basic medical training? .I'm sure McCoy said something to Starfleet Medical about it! He had to get tired of saying ...He's dead Jim
@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 that is my point lol so the the video guy saying Chekov having no medical training is bs , when i worked for the forestry in Peterborough Ont Canada in 2003, we had to do a 3 day cpr course then a 5 day course on how to cut down trees safely and how to look up for falling branches and how to hook trees up safely
@@paulforgette4910 honestly EVERYONE on a star ship should have some medical training , from the cleaners, and cooks to the captain
Chekov serves as an away team medical officer in ST: The 25th Anniversary and ST: Judgment Rites games.
I liked those games, they were good...Did not remember that fact!
Also, as chief of security, I have to assume he also had at least basic first aid training. Worf received training on how to lead someone giving birth, so Chekov being able to handle a hypospray makes perfect sense
The Captain's Log at the beginning of Balance of Terror mentions the planets of Romulus and Remus.
I was about to mention this too.
Yes. I always wondered why the star chart says "Romii" I assumed it was somekind of an error because Captain Kirk clearly says "Remus" in the beginning.
@@Czab Basically, it was changed to Remus in the script, but the graphics overlay hadn't been changed.
@@Czab Old chart.
@@goldenknight578 What does "Romii" even mean? It doesn't sound like a proper name even :)
"Brilliant film!" when referencing Star Trek V. That was just dripping with sarcasm.
Yes, there had better not be anyone who thinks that was sincere. That person must not understand inflection or Star Trek at all.
It was a disappointment for sure. But, there was one other Trek film that disappointed me before ST 5. Star Trek 3 was the first to leave me shaking my head when I left the theater.
@@kurtb8474 I can see it's flaws, but I still like it. After all in said and done, that movie introduced the Excelsior, which makes all other movie sins forgivable in my book.
The irony of course is that in 'Demon' the idea was that Voyager was running out of deuterium, aka Hydrogen-2... Which is the second most abundant thing in the entire universe behind Hydrogen-1.
Yeah that one got me laughing, almost as much as when LaForge repaired the warp core with cyanoacrylate (superglue).
It may be the most abundant element, but considering the universe is approximately 100% absolute nothingness, it never really bothered me.
@@coriolass the difference is that for LaForge it was a conscious hiddem joke by the writers.
For Voyager it was just ineptitude or shortage of writers/researchers, and/or time.
@@coriolass ha I missed that one. That's hilarious!
@@coriolass do you happen to remember which episode LaForge says that in by any chance?
The "Remus or Romii" issue actually is fully encompassed in the episode "Balance of Terror", seeing as Kirk uses the former in his captain's log early in the episode.
Guess the continuity people were asleep. But this was early enough in the show's run they still hadn't settled on the name Starfleet, the name United Federation of Planets or the fact that Earth wasn't the only world calling the shots.
Doctor Chekov? Well, to also be fair, he never met Khan in person either but Khan was able to remember him in ST2 as well. ;D Just sayin...
It's mentioned (in one of numerous books) that Chekov was originally assigned to the Engineering deck in Season one. He led some of his fellow ensigns to try and retake Engineering. Even though it failed, his attempt got Kirk's attention.
In the book of ST: Generations, Chekov reflects on the basic first aid medical training he had as the Reliant's first officer, and how long it's been since he's used it.
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Good point, I forgot that one.
He knew him from Star Trek's Guide Book.
I’ve always explained the Khan/Chekov thing as they met in the restroom.
The fact all ships had their own symbols on uniforms, only after the 5 year mission did they all use the Enterprise one in tribute... so all the bits set before that time, well... continuity problem.
That was a production error that was quickly rectified.
I kind of expected the appearance of Klingons to be on there. Between the original series, Next Generation, and Discovery, they look very different. I understand that the makeup and effects of the original would not have been up to standards of later series, but I'm sure the way they look in Discovery is different, and it's not just the lack of hair.
Discovery is its own thing for mostly legal and licensing reasons due to CBS vs Paramount. As for TOS vs TNG and beyond, Enterprise ultimately was forced to explain that because DS9 ruined the idea that they always looked like they did with ridges and TOS just wasn’t able to visualize it for us the audience yet with a joke.
Discovery isn't Star Trek, that's why ;)
DS9 even had an episode where they used clips from the TOS tribbles episode, and when they see the Klingons someone asks Whorf, "Those are Klingons?", and he replies, "It's ... complicated" and changes the subject.
@@MichaelAarons1701 Discovery looks like it does because special effects has new toys now and you can do more on a TV budget then you use to so they got experimental.
The idea they had to make the changes for 'legal reasons' is totally way past debunked. They just thought it looked cool and did it. And will probably never admit it was a huge mistake and instead justify it as 'well Klingons changed before, so why not again?' (pouty face)
Unfortunately, they did a prequel show but wanted new shiny stuff in it.
A new series will explain it away with a genetic bioweapon the federation used on the klingons...again. 🤫
CHAKOTAY: We have a complement of thirty eight photon torpedoes at our disposal, Captain.
JANEWAY: And no way to replace them after they're gone.
Seven seasons and 100+ torpedoes later... 😂
They find ways. Necessity is the mother of invention after all
without mention the Voyager's shuttles. They would lost a shuttle in 2/3 of the episodes and magically they never run out of shuttles
All the ones that missed they just popped a u-turn and picked em up.
Just a couple lines every now and the of dialogue would fix Voyager's resource issues. Mention trading missions, retrofitting an area for antimatter production, a cargo bay getting an industrial replicator built in it. Boom! Problem solved.
which was always bullshit. they can replicate the parts and eventually antimatter became less of a problem.
The Borg just needs to start doing cyber attacks to fuel lines... then everyone would have an "Oh, dear, we're out of fuel" episode followed by an "Oh, dear, we've been assimilated" episode.
They'd just have to pay the Borg's ransomware payoff in StarCoin
@@acmenipponair ROFLMAO!!
The Borg apparently are super sensitive to depression and implode if they get too sad in picard. Starfleet just needs to upload the Ash death scene from pokemon or Johnny 5 getting broken from short circuit 2 and they'll all shut down.
The thing about Voyager having having to get fuel is - that was always a stretch. The ship has bussard collectors for harvesting stray hydrogen particles from space, to say nothing of the transporter that could probably be used to very easily get hydrogen from any gas giant.
Indeed. AFAIK, we've NEVER had a Star Trek episode that so much as showed a routine fueling operation. In hundreds of episodes that start off with doing this or that routine operation, not one of them involved refueling. Plenty of episodes having routine maintenance... but no refueling. Which kinda implies that refueling isn't a thing because starfleet ships at least can make their own fuel... which is kinda implied by having bussard collectors.
Voyager had refueling episodes because they're in unknown territory and don't know where the best places to get fuel are.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 the thing about bussard collectors is, they're supposed to be constantly pulling in hydrogen particles, which exist even in the void between star systems. But one could assume that this is at best a "trickle charge" that wouldn't necessarily keep up with the ship's needs. Still, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe it shouldn't be difficult to find. The real fuel pinch they could have introduced is anti-matter. Not sure if it was ever mentioned in canon, but according to the TNG technical manual, the Galaxy class had facilities on board for converting regular matter to anti matter. But it was an energy and material intensive process, meant more for emergency situations. Under normal circumstances they would refill their anti matter supply at a starbase. They could have written it so that only big ships like the Galaxy class had these facilities, or that Voyager's were damaged beyond repair in the first episode. That way they would have had to barter for more anti matter.
Anti-matter is what they need to find. Hydrogen is fine for fusion reactors (i.e. impulse drive) but warp needs significantly more energy. And no, the transporter can't magically fix that problem -- it takes power for the transporter to do anything. (and it's a far too lame plot device.)
@@jfbeam Yeah, I mentioned that in my reply.
That's kinda just Voyager being Voyager though. The early seasons fuel was a significant plot point on more than one occasion but in a later season Tom Paris comments that "you can get deuterium anywhere".
You can add "Number of photon torpedo's Voyager has" to that list, cause it fluctuates a lot throughout the series :)
As Voyager supplemented their energy supplies, they were able to use their replicators more, and thus, manufacture more photon torpedos... At least, this is my theory.
and shuttles
@@mitchywilson9892 They could replicate components but not the antimatter for them
@@blazechicken6822 The antimatter is made using the deuterium they regularly mine and from hydrogen collected by the bussard collectors which are transformed in to antideuterium and antihydrogen. I think they also collect it from some rare nebulae during the show but ultimately they usually just trade for it. Remember they're stopping, trading and making contact with many other races during the show. Not just the ones we see....and that's how they supply most of their needs. Which is difficult at first but once they can power the replicators they have a lot of bargaining power. Since many species they meet don't have that technology.
@@MrBottlecapBill I would just figure they siphoned off antimatter from their non existent spare warp core
Dude how many times I gotta tell you? They explained Scotty expecting Kirk to rescue him in Relics by saying he never believed Kirk actually died. Also you forgot to mention in First Contact the Enterprise had the standard shield bubble, but in Insurrection the shields were flat against the ship hugging every curve...no more bubble. And do I EVEN got to mention Spot's sex change?
150 years before Dr. Janice Lester was mad about not being allowed to be a captain, there was captain Hernandez, a woman captain of the NX02 starship Colombia during Star Trek enterprise.
Star Trek: Enterprise is a step child series. Not thought of as “canon.” Prequels are ridiculous.
@@kentexas Guess what, it is canon and even Gene thought Turnabout Intruder was bad and dumb and sexist. Turnabout Intruder isn't canon. Also TOS didn't even HAVE canon. Honestly, your defending Turnabout Intruder? Maybe the worst episode of Star Trek to date? Really?
Don’t think the one comment about female Captains in the original series attempted to suggest that women were disqualified from Captaincy. TOS had few other Captains revealed. But I liked the Janice Lester episode because it was a study in mental illness and obsession. It doesn’t need to be politically correct for me.
Enterprise was a good series too. But prequels are generally weak. Hernandez was a season 4 addition, but I liked her. Captain Janeway was good, but in the first three seasons, the writers kept having her “discipline” the crew.
So.... maybe it was not about women can't be captains... only that one particular officer was too bad for the big chair ;-)
It was established in DS9 that the federation did something later on to modify their shields to better withstand dominion weapons fire.
Why didn't they just use the one the Enterprise used to hold off V'Ger's plasma bolt? If it could hold that off it could certainly stop anything the Dominion had.
True but seeing those orbital weapon platforms take out a galaxy class starship with just 2 or 3 torpedoes was a bit ridiculous. Some ships got shot down so easily but as usual, the Defiant got hit countless times with minimal effect lol.
@@skippy8696 Yes. This reminds me of an episode of Voyager where they encounter a Cardassian made automated Dreadnought which is impervious to all of Voyager's weapons. Why don't they put those kind of shields to all of their ships? Then the Cardassians would be able to defeat the whole alfa quadrant single handedly.
@@Makeyourselfbig because they use the klingon one from that ship doing maintenance.
And then Star Wars stepped in, took that no-fuel idea, and said, "We could make a movie with that plot!"
As if running out of fuel in space would make your ship stop and "fall" off to the side lol. Horrible writing
I mean, running out of fuel would definitely be a big concern in space, y’all.
Running out of fuel would not mean it "falls off to the side" unless they were in a gravity well, but it WOULD make the ship lag behind if they were all accelerating to outrun the First Order and eventually the First Order (also accelerating) would catch the stricken ship and annihilate it.
Such a theory could work for a drifting backwards, but not to the side.
@@StinkyGringo bad writing yes, but could easily be explained by the First Order fleet, especially one the size of Snoke’s Mega Star Destroyer Supremacy, using tractor beams or generating gravity wells to slow down the Resistance fleet, or cause them to burn through fuel faster.
@@efulmer8675 Unless there was a thrust imbalance as various thrusters located on different parts of the ship lost power at different times.
To be fair on Voyager's fuel levels, it's possible that they just stopped focusing on it. Rations never stopped being a thing, IIRC, and thus perhaps they did have "oh dear, fuel's low" struggles...but as you said, we'd seen them before, so unless they were a good spur into something more interesting, they happened off-screen.
I don't remember rations being a concern on Voyager. They even had Chef de partie Neelix in the galley cooking up a storm when wasn't on his guide/interpreter/babysitting duties of course.
@@Makeyourselfbig Replicator rations. They had an energy shortage. Neelix was brought aboard as a chef precisely because they could take the pressure off the replicators by actually trading/foraging for or growing food, and he knew how to take the raw foods they obtained and make them into actually tasty stuff.
I actually think the fuel shortage was, in no small part, to specifically justify Neelix running a cafeteria.
@@segevstormlord3713 I would be surprised if cooking food takes up less energy than replicating it. Especially if they have to keep stopping to forage for the raw ingredients. I mean just where do you find the raw ingredients for human food at the other end of the galaxy?
Personally I would have thought if they needed to save energy switching off the holodeck would have been a good idea. How much energy does that use.
@@Makeyourselfbig , cooking food is actually pretty energy-efficient, especially if the replicators have to create the food cooked anyway.
Cooking can be done with waste heat, or with fuel that can't run the starship. Replicators run off of main power.
@@Makeyourselfbig nelix used his own resepies unless a crew member made a request and used what they could gather and the hydroponics bay.
My favorite is Voyager's nearly unlimited supply of 80+ something torpedoes they started the series with, and used nearly twice that much in the show's run.
Like an wild west movie where they shoot 37 shots out of a 6 shooter WITHOUT RELOADING!!!!
It didn't really show them replenishing their torpedo supply but they did trade with a lot of alien races so they very easily could have done so or could have at least traded for the materials that they needed to construct more.
@@amandamills4133 they always make supplies run on different planets, they always trade with different aliens, they even showed us they can make a Delta Flyer using replicator. I think they even mine their own dilithium, they shouldn't have Problems making fuel, topedos, shuttles, Voyager is self sufficient
@@sungleong People forget that Voyager was designed for long-term exploration and probably had some nice energy reserves for the replicator. That was even made a point when they came across the Excelsior which wasn't.
They made a ton of trades. They didn't specify mention ammo but you damn well know they got it.
Star trek is a bad joke. It's childish utopian dreams.
I would also add replicators. Sometimes these can magically duplicate anything you want in unlimited quantities, and on other occasions you have to have a dramatic encounter with some alien culture to barter for some unobtainable part (all alien spaceship parts are of course plug compatible).
Energy resource limitations, and there are some things that for some reason aren't replicable...which is why the whole gold-pressed latinum thing exists.
With Matter resequencers, NX-01 level tech, it is quite possible that Starfleet or the Federation has adopted a law to permit using Tribbles as Live stock on ships to provide a virtual unlimited food source that could be self-replicate and be resequenced into other sources such as meats, fabric for clothing, etc.
Remember the Federation has times where is justifies actions that are against the majority views and as we see in later seasons of discovery, the Federation Falls.
Number 1 should be "Voyager's torpedoes amount" ;)
My family watches Star Trek every night. Even my non-trekkie mom noticed the different Trill makeup. She knew Dax from watching a DS9 episode, but couldn't believe me when we saw TNG's Trill.
I think Quark told someone that the particular group of Ferengi was actually from another faction and is a bit of an embarrassment to the Ferengi as a whole.
I thought the Ferengi behaved like cartoon chimps when they first appeared.
Wasn't there also a Grand Nagus episode on DS9 that mentioned they consciously tried to pose as bad asses when first encountering humans for some reason, but that it quickly turned out that doesn't work as a negotiating tactic against the far more developed and resourcerich powerhouse of the Federation?
@@peterjf7723 They did. I'm surprised the video maker didn't know that REAL change.
@@user-zh4vo1kw1z That I must have missed. Thanks
@@boydmerriman tbh, it might be apocrypha or expanded universe factoids that got tacked onto ds9 through osmosis
With regard to the shields, I always assumed that the Defiant had shields that were both more powerful and more advanced, to go along with her advanced weapons.
It would make sense because the ship was supposed to fight the Borg. Starfleet would have at least tried to come up with better shields to counter the Borg.
Edit: In regard to fuel for Voyager, they did mention it a few of times, but remember that the ship has bussard collectors.
Also, it could have just been that they were able to deal with fuel off camera. And it is also established that they reconfigured the ship’s power usage to conserve fuel. For example, they had replicator rations throughout the show.
Agreed, that was the whole idea of the Defiant. It was a very powerful and advanced fighter. I think I recall them saying once that it almost tore itself apart early in testing. And yes, the Voyager crew was constantly revising their strategy for conserving energy. They got pretty good at it.
Star Trek only has a passing familiarity with canonical consistency.
Not that it bothers me at all.
In the words of Q (Voyager) Truer words were never spoken
TOS would contradict itself from one episode to the next.
TNG was just as bad and even my beloved DS9 shat the bed more than once continuity wise.
At least the story telling and characters weren't written so badly that it poised the franchise... I actually tapped out after season 1 of discovery. Enterprise was bad, but the acting was decent and it got really good in its final season, but discovery is just cry babies or emotionless stumps that follow insane lines of irrational events and they are forced to repcon basically everything from all other existing timeliness... Te writers also have stated they aren't star trek fans, and it shows.
@@jonvanbrunning4294 It kind of seems like you haven't watched much Star Trek?
Not that it matters, of course. Even a casual Trekkie is still a Trekkie!
Star trek has always been schizophrenic at best. They seek out new life and new civilization but once they find it, they can't do anything because of the prime directive. 🙄
In the Next Generation, we were told that Trills with a symbiant could not travel via the transporter. Yet that principle was totally abandoned in Deep Space 9.
In my personal head-canon, the original Trills were a totally different species to Dax's one who also happened to carry a symbiont (which also looked very different) inside their bodies and Starfleet's Universal Translator simply messed up on that occasion and that is all.
Plus, there was another major difference. In case of the original "Trills", the "symbiont" took over their given host's body and personality COMPLETELY and thus there was nothing much 'symbiotic' involved in the relationship; it was actually rather parasitic, unfortunately.
@@subraxas That makes sense. Of course, we can see contradictions in our own history. The oppression that Catholics and Protestants experienced in kingdoms dominated by the opposite faith, even as both groups fervently prayed to the same God and read the same Bible. The prominent American slaveholders who proudly signed a document in 1776 declaring that "all men are created equal." The Christmas ceasefires during World War I when English and German soldiers emerged from their foxholes to sing carols and share drinks. The high infant mortality rate in American states whose residents elect "pro-life candidates."
So why should we expect consistency in fiction when so little of it exists in reality?
By the way, I love your icon!
@@subraxas like the Goa'uld and the Tok'ra (sp?) from Stargate?
@@TJ52359 I haven't watched Stargate for nearly 15 years now, so I do not remember precisely, but the answer is probably yes.
@@ers586
Yes and thanks. :-)
8:02 but you hear kirk say in his captains log, romulus and remus and the rest of the galaxy so it just seems to be a graphic from before they figured out the name for the second planet and they just never fixed it
Yeah, this is an instance where they didn't actually research what they were talking about well enough
Plus, Romulas and Remus is what we call them, just like how we call Nippon "Japan" and Deutchland "Germany"
Also Romulus and Remus, romulan senate....we're talking about stuff stolen from Rome. Romulus and Remus are part of Roman mythology.
@@icecold9511 yeah I took some of that also, Its pretty interesting
Maybe ROMII stands for Romulus 2 when they were unsure of the correct name and forgot to change it? HAH! I just carried on with the video and that's exactly what he said! LOL.
@@neilwilliams2907 either way, it cannot be Remus, as Romulus and Remus were supposed to be twin planets. RomII is clearly in a separate system, based on how far apart they are on the map and how long the position of Enterprise takes to move the same amount of distance. Also lets not forget, the Neutral Zone itself is light years across, so take that into account on the map as well
Everything about voyager. Fuel. Their fleet of shuttlecraft. The fact that at the start of every episode the ship looks like it's just rolled out of Utopia Planitia
To number 6 - the size of the galaxy:
You have to think 3-dimensionally! In the TOS Episope, it was only said that the Enterprise was going to the edge of the galaxy. But nobody said that the Enterprise made all the way on the very flat disk of the galaxy to the edge, like the voyager has to to get home. The Enterprise could have simply taken the much shorter way to the edge by simply flying a bit up or down (parallel to the galaxy axis) so the very short journey to the upper or lower edge of the galaxy can be easily explained. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is indeed very flat ;)
That was always my assumption for the TOS episode. Doesn't work for STV flying to the centre of the galaxy of course.
This is what I was thinking. I'm not sure why the guy decided they had to travel across the entire galaxy to get to the edge when they could just travel north/up or south/down relative to the Earth. That's a difference between roughly 95 000 light years and something like 20 000 light years if travelling along the disc of the galaxy, or just a couple of thousand light years if they head straight up or down. It's the galactic equivalent of running in a straight line to outrun a huge thing slowly falling over to crush you when you can just sidestep the entire thing. TL;DR: The galaxyis not a flat disc. We're allowed to fly out of it in any direction we want, we're not bound to two axis.
Or yknow, they could have travelled to the edge, and the whole trip just took a year. Remember, season 1 was 2265 and 2266, the whole trip could have started in 2265 and they only arrived in 2266
also, the could just have gone to the end of the Alpha Quadrant. In Voyager, they explicitly travel to the delta quadrant.
I`d say that when Scotty said "I bet Jim Kirk himself hauled the old gal out of moth balls to come looking for me," he was just exaggerating out of excitement at being alive.
Scotty was not shy about using hyperbole under normal circumstances, so in a situation like that, yea, he was definitely talking out his rear.
No, it was definitely covered in moth balls.
Nah.
Jim Kirk was the Chuck Norris of Star Trek. Death was only a minor inconvenience.
Not if Scotty vanished before Kirk then he would have assumed he was still alive and looking for him.
One change that is never mentioned in DS9 is latinum turning from a solid to a liquid. Early on they had a solid latinum tooth sharpener offered Odo a sloid latinum bucket and spoke of shaving the latinum. Later it turns out latinum is a liquid and we are supposed to forget the past..
Well maybe it can be both. They have technology we wouldn't necessarily understand.
latinum in its pure state is a liquid but is made into alloys that are solid for ease of use so anything solid is an alloy, just like how gold jewelry is almost never pure gold because gold is so soft it would damage too easily so it's mixed with things to make it harder
@@muse4ik so I was correct
Gold-pressed latinum. Remember Quark (I think) finding a stash and declaring it worthless because all the latinum had been extracted?
Great list! I agree with everything. A few small things though when the USS Odyssey is destroyed by the Dominion kamikaze attack the Capitan said "divert shield power to weapons" when they see the phased polaron beams cut right though the shields so shields were down but they didn't think they would ram the ship. Also I agree to the notion the entire voyager series should of been more like the "Year of Hell" the 2 part episode which many of the writers were actually planning to make that an entire season of Voyager but the studio wanted a more episodic formula and you couldn't do that when damage and plots had to carry for an entire season. Star Trek Enterprise did something like that when they were searching for the Xindi weapon and that's one of the better parts of the series in my opinion.
I agree at much as the temporal war was a tad...silly. I thanked the writers for carrying more about the plot and story on Enterprise, and I enjoyed it more.
In Enterprise, the second starship captain, Archer's old flame, is female
But TVH is the first Star Trek release with a female Captain
@@saintofselhurst yes but chronologically this predates Kirk and TOS, so... there's every chance women could have been emancipated between the end of TOS and TVH. As female captains predated Kirk, it destroys the premise
It was a quiet retcon.
@@ryanatorryanson9535 This discrepancy is another example of the perils of doing prequels. Needless to say, the producers and writers did not sufficiently research the Original Series.
@@bonghunezhou5051 True. That or they just said eff it, we’re doing what we want.
You channel is amazing. I haven't binged on youtube videos like this in forever. Thanks for all you do!
BTS: I just learned that Ronald D. Moore was aware of the Scotty contradiction when they were making Generations happen. Said it would be drastic to leave Scotty out (and perhaps awkward to work an explanation in) because of one line from Relics. Figured viewers could reconcile.
There are a couple popular head canons and at least one explanation you'll find on Memory Beta.
General summary of fan theories: seeing as Scotty beamed out (all the way out) for, what, decades to await rescue, figure a side effect is his memory's not all there when the rescuers beam him all the way back in.
From the novel, The Return: it may or may not figure into it that Spock (not prone to irrational denial) had reason to believe Kirk was falsely presumed dead following the Enterprise B incident. (Bear with me. It's been a long time since I read it.) Between x number of mind melds with Kirk and Spock's nigh-unique "frame of reference" for death, Spock insists he'd simply have "felt" it if the Captain died.
Although he may never have told Scotty that. Troi brings up the strange Scotty line directly. (It's a little forced.) She says in so many words that Kirk is the new Elvis. Scotty would take any chance he can get to stoke Kirk's legendary status.
Nice post, thank you
Yeah I just kept telling myself that it had to do with Scotty's absolute faith in Jim Kirk's Legendary status to overcome anything/everything. A little thing like, death wouldn't stop, _My_ Captain.
I'm suprised when you did the bit on warp speed you didn't mention the "rule" about using Warp speed in a solar system. (pretty sure that was the trippy scene from Star Trek The motion picture) sometimes you could do it some times not.
>>you didn't mention the "rule" about using Warp speed in a solar system
Ok I’ll debunk number 7 even if it’s true, some star fleet officers have some medical training, theres no reason to believe Chekov couldn’t have training in all his career
With the Federation's level of medical tech a monkey could be taught to be a decent medic.
@@TRG29338 Is that a crack at Tom Paris? ;-)
I figured the point was that the TOS officers were seasoned pros and took charge of the situation while the newbies were still trying to figure out how to walk and chew gum at the same time.
@@TRG29338 I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. Knowing how it use the technology is one this and having basic medical knowledge is another. Not every person knows how to fly a ship or repair space craft. There’s just no reason to believe the Dialogue wouldn’t work. None of the dialogue bothered me. And there’s no reason to believe in all of any of their careers they didn’t learn something outside of their primary function
Chekov is an officer with some experience of working under pressure so makes sense that he'd step in and do something proactive. Doesn't seem like he'd be the kind of person to just sit and watch the freshly beamed in refugees sit and suffer.
The Ferengi are the most human of all the alien races. I love em.
BRUNT! FCA!!!!!
@@Marcus51090 three strips I presume, is the bribe.
The trill could be like the romulans just different based on region Ex: forehead ridges and no forehead ridges
The reasoning I use for anytime they modify an established species appearance (like the Klingons). Some ethnic group of the species is more common away from their settled planets, or is, at the time, more dominant than the others. Throw darts at a map of Earth and each hit has a different physical description of 'human'.
I just loved how the whole episode of flashback shows how dimitri is dead but when you see the undiscovered country he’s clearly alive and well on the bridge when Captain sulu says his goodbyes to the crew of the original enterprise
I love how in some of these he's complaining about bad writing and in other's he's complaining about good writing.
depends on his mood I say
Adam Clery is the best presenter, he always makes me laugh
Star Trek First Contact changed the way the Borg assimilated people (nanoprobes), introduced the Borg Queen, and turned the Borg Collective Consciousness into voices in people's heads.
@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 ,
Good point. Even the idea of a centralized essential component (cortical node) is not aligned with the concept of the original Borg presented in STTNG. Their ships were ultra-redundant and all essential functions were distributed throughout the ship. That's partly what made them so terrifying. Their ship could be 90% damaged and still function. Same problem with the Borg Queen concept (an essential individual among the collective).
@@jessstuart7495 then Voyager established that backup Queens exist, with Seven of Nine being one of them (hence why she could interface with the Queen's Cell in the cube in Picard.)
Wasn't it stated that some of Scotty's pattern had deteriorated a tiny amount... that could account for the memory hiccup.
Another theory I saw had Scotty thinking Kirk had escaped the Nexus before taking out the old Enterprise A to rescue him.
Why not? A bit convenient though.
@@KnightRanger38 This was my theory as well. When you've seen him escape so many other near-death experiences, you think a little nexus is going to stop him for good? Not a chance
you have to remember scotty when he was trapped in the transporter for 75 years
NO TIME had passed for scotty so it made perfect sense for him to think Kirk came looking for him
Regarding ROMII ... a real life example here in the States - a city in my state of Michigan, Novi, allegedly is named for Stage Coach Stop No 6... or NoVI. This may be urban legend, but I like the idea of ROMII kind of matching that idea ;)
Coalinga, CA.... was originally "Coaling Station 'A'" for a railroad.
When it comes to Voyagers fuel, I was under the impression that's what a lot of Voyagers trade missions were about. As for Torpedo's I've said a couple of times they should have started an episode with Kim and another crewmen building a couple in a cargo bay.
Yeah they could have replicated the parts if they had the energy. Good point.
They designed and built a new type of shuttle ( the Delta Flyer). I'm sure they could figure out how to make more torpedoes.
@@chadbizeau5997 that's kinda what I was thinking
02:46 Let's don't forget Captain Rachel Garrett, the captain of the Enterprise-C.
True, but I think the video didn't mention her because the captain in ST4 was the first appearance.
I kept waiting, just knowing that the three (or more) renditions of the Klingons would be number 1.
I guess we really don't speak of it.
They had to change Klingons when the Mexican Americans comlained about their stereotypical mustaches.
@@michaelmappin4425 Mexican Americans???
@@montylc2001faux pas?
ENT actually did a fairly smart plot to explain the makeup change for Klingons and their smooth foreheads during TOS. It is really something they wouldnt speak about though.
@@michaelmappin4425 Well....just a silly label...Mexico is part of the American north continent...as is the USA and Canada.
The shiled-thing bothered me heavily back in the 90s and does still today.
I did headcanon fix it but its long winded
Pretty accurate but 2 things are kinda off..
1st Kirk di Not use His fists or even c*ck to solve Problems Most of the time. He actually TALKED His way Out of Bad situations much more than Most people seem to know.
And 2nd the whole Problem with Not working shilds in DS9 can easily be dismissed due to having a war between 2 very different factions (Dominion VS Federation) and that shields are Not adequate to the different and constant Weapon Changes and Upgrades of both factions...
But I agree that it is kinda silly sometimes
1:04 This is a common misinterpretation of this line. Doohan doesn't quite play off the sarcasm properly. He hears the name of his old ship and thinks he's dreaming or Riker is pulling his leg, so he reacts accordingly. There's no way he seriously thought that Kirk would be out searching for his lost Engineer.
I agree exactly
Reminds me of something James Doohan said about William Shatner in an interview. They asked him how he felt about Shatner. He said that Scotty would risk his life to save Captain Kirk, but James Doohan wouldn't walk across the street to save William Shatner. I'm guessing he didn't like him very much.
The thing about the warp scale reminds me of J. Michael Strazinski's comments on the speed of Starfuries in Babylon 5: "they move at the speed of plot."
Not the Starfurries. Any ship in Hyperspace.
They captured a Dominion ship and had the ability to analyze it, that's why their shields became effective against Dominion weapons. Before that, the Dominion's polaron weapons were a new, unknown factor, and the shields weren't designed with that in mind. This is actually brought up in the show.
Yes, it was disconnected but mentioned. The real reason for the lack of shields in visuals is the computer technology of the time, computer modeling was brand new and couldn't deal with it on a tv budget/timeline. You can justify this by saying the show just gave us a summary of a large battle, we don't have 3 hours to watch weapons hit shields and nothing happens.
It was also a large reason they were able to goosestep the Alpha quadrant empires soneadily
@@nickp.4995 Yeah, shields drop and fail in Star Trek ALL THE TIME. The show just skipped passed those initial phases of the battles.
Got an even more crazy idea. The bio neural gel packs equipped to the voyager increased regeneration in shields akin to a cut on the skin prompts rapid as fast as a neron response to defend that exposed area. Manually you have to redirect power and use manpower to adjust shield regen. A partial organic ship reacts. Almost thinks like an organic. Voyager was lost in the badlands and such an experimental bio mechanical setup was held responsible. It was too ambitious and not tested properly and so starfleet dropped the idea falling back on isolinier tech. Voyager was proved in service and resilient and bio neural circuitry was quickly re adopted. If a ship with neural links senses an exposed area in shields, it automatically polorizes the Hull, and redirects the remaining shields to compensate before usually the ops sees it, calls the response to the captain, awaits the order to restore shields to that section and then ops orders the repair on console. In milliseconds the ship adapts and repairs. Learned from Borg tech from wolf 359. If you want to fit picard into Canon. The debate over synthetics reached to star ships when by the 2380s all starship had this organic component and when synthetics were banned bio neural circuitry came up as potential for a synthetic organism and stalled production. The attack on utopia planitia seen as a resistance of fellow synthetics in ship production. In fact geordie did use his knowledge of data as inspiration for the new fleets as well as his unique input on the sovereign class enterprise making her the most advanced ship using "adaptive matrices" but likened it to say a flower drawn to sunlight or closing damaged petals to favor the stronger ones it also explains starfleets hesitance on using her at the battle of sector 001. It's not sentient but organic in a sense. It has self awareness in preservation and fast response time, but he doubts it will write a sonnet or paint a picture in this millennia.
The ship is partially synthetic and organic and so is under the the synthetic organism definition also bound by the ban. So the federation needed to reassess and stalled. By the time of the event as of Picard it was overturned and the big fleet was enabled. The real world equivalent is a classified, but still boasted about network of Drones that react and work as a team that use faster than human comms to adapt in flight as a 4 wing group by Lockheed Martin a quaduplet of stealth bombers and interceptors that fly in formation to target and scramble in insane vectors to confuse pilots and misdirect. Starfleet is not the federation but a part of it and so if quasi organic tech has to go. It has to go. Many confligrate starfleet with the federation and they sometimes or often are at loggerheads like genesis or Insurrection. Section 31 probably tried to continue the bioneural gel pack in the dark ages of Picard and thanks to that we have the enterprise f odyssey class. With all the mod cons including synaptic shields and sensor speeds as well as a surge in power to systems on an adrenal like power flow. In battle the ship atunes as the crew to a fight or flight response and is faster at redirecting power and such to where it needs it
Geordie was heartbroken by the ban, his own friend used as a weapon against him and his wife leah. Accusing him of creating some Frankenstien abomination, despite knowing data wouldn't have objected and probably have assisted, but living star ships is what he's seen as doing it tarnished his reputation and he resigned. As a modern day conspiracy theorist in the science community. He still enjoys being the greatest engineer since Scott, but this was too much. He stepped down because he was blamed for the utopia attacks. He accepts the blame, but still holds that bio neural doesn't equal a sentient lifeform but he's shouted down. He couldn't save his friend, but he channeled it into ship creation using data's poistronic synapses as a base to speed up the computers response time to say a warp core breach halted. But that was taken from him. The klingons, romulans and even dominion don't trust organic synaptic computers and would thrust the federation ahead. The binars back the idea as well as trill and even the vulcans, but others are skeptical. The drone from the voyager episode "one" created as a mistake from 26th century injects nanites into voyager and says he has upgraded her as far as she'll go. In a regular star ship that's not far. But in a biomechanical ship. Hmm he sped up the reaction times and caffinated the ship. Circling back to captured down dominion tech. If I was to smooth the Canon there, its dominion tech bypasses shields and overwhelms the ship as per dominion style, but if you can bear that Brunt you then counter attack which is the go to idea by starfleet. Tech wise. If you can minimise the damage, you use the remaining power to attack.
Normal almost every episode. 1. Everything starts off OK. 2. Antagonist disrupts peaceful way of things. 3. " Good Guys " get hurt and almost lose. 4. Last second thinking or actions save the day. 5. Back to Everything is OK. ALMOST EVERY EPISODE!!!
#10 I heard the excuse that Scotty was disoriented after being stuck in the transport buffer for so long, and that he remembered later on as he was toasting his old mates on the Holodeck.
#9 That last episode of TOS was… what it was… the end of the terrible last season.
#8 “Threshold” is just an embarrassment to the people behind the scenes, though the actors had fun filming it. 🤷♂️
#7 Yeah, they wanted McCoy, but I guess everyone gets at least some basic medical triage training in Starfleet? 🤷
#6 Writers never have a sense of scale.
#5 Actually I prefer the later Trill, why does everyone have to be a rubber forehead alien?
#4 Rom 2 sounds reasonable, Romulans were always so secretive.
#3 Shields needed to be adapted to new enemy weapons, and then the Breen energy drain… thing just made it even worse.
#2 The Ferengi we first met were military, Quark was a ships cook, and Rom was a engineer.
#1 Voyager also magically got more and more Photon torpedos and shuttlecraft over the seasons.
#4 - Romulan is a name we made up, like Japan and Germany. We don't know the real name of their planet (which according to beta sources is Rihannsu) or we just say the name we made up, just like how we don't say Nippon or Deutchland
#7 just look at Tom Paris after Kes left Voyager
@@k1productions87 Rihannsu are the people..ChRihan and ChHavaran are the planets. :-)
@@VulpisFoxfire which further emphasizes the point, Romulus is a name we made up, not them :3
Also... as much as I love Enterprise... boo on them for how they introduced the Romulans, specifically with the name T~T
Called back to duty, Commander Barclay says, "Computer, End Threshold Program, and DELETE..."
1:00 I have pointed this out in other places, but the "Scotty forgetting Kirk was dead" mistake is easy to explain. Anyone who has lost a friend or loved one know how easy it is to forget that person is dead, especially if that death is unexpected.
Considering that Scotty had just spent years in a transported buffer, that has to have an effect on your memory.
It is totally plausible that Scotty just forgot for a moment that Kirk had died. After all, Scotty likely booked passage on the ship very shortly after the events on Enterprise B.
Frankly I think mocking that explanation is just stupid, as it is quite plausible. Unless you know a reason it isn't.
Sorry that wrecks your favorite ST mistake. But it's just a fact.
Honestly... Given Kirk and his tendency to cheat death in the first place... Scotty thinking Kirk had come to save him seems on brand for Kirk... A wishful thought that his friend who's been known to somehow survive insane things.... did...
And it’s absolutely plausible that even with a clear memory he would still have such a thought. He didn’t actually witness Kirk’s death (Kirk didn’t actually die anyway), so of course he almost certainly always held out hope that he was somehow alive somewhere.
Or how about in Voyager where they spend 3 seasons NOT giving out replicator technology, to later on in the series, Janeway casually mentioning to Chakotay “How many times have we given out replicators?”
And Thinktank, she gives them a list of things they have to trade and says "The replicators are big this time of year" or something like that
@@NeoTechni That sounds familiar. I guess they just stopped caring...?
@@Lancashirian "Fuck the Delta Quadrant!"
@@Lancashirian the writers might have decided it wasn't worth continuing that restriction. Maybe also they were more willing to trade them with civilizations that were more advanced and close to developing them on their own (the Kazon essentially stole their ships and didn't really know how to build anything.)
Adam, another excellent job on this video. If there is a second video about mistakes you didn't notice, may I suggest that one entry is about transporter pads? Sometimes they need to be ok the transporter light bulb and sometimes they DON'T.
Much bigger issue with the Trill that you left out!
The original, Oden takes over the host completely, and the hosts are treated as animals. With Dax, they were "blending" and the host's personality remains.
And it was unsafe to the symbiont to be transported.
@@FlyingTigress I completely forgot about that very true
Maybe that has something to do with the change from forehead ridges to spots? lol Good a theory as any.
@@FlyingTigress That was probably only an issue for that particular host species.
@@chbu7081 They were the same host species and the same symbionts. Changed to make them from a one-off story character to a recurring actor.
Chekov was a First Officer on a starship, a security chief, and a long term member of Starfleet it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Chekov had an EMT level of training if not on the level of a full on Paramedic.
if you split an ellipse into 4 Quadrants, then the original Enterprise could have gone both to the center of the galaxy and the NEAR edge of the galaxy without ever leaving the Alpha quadrant. Voyager was then thrown to the diagonally opposed quadrant across the entire galaxy. this is the way i have always thought of that one.
You're correct. Whatculture is trying to pretend their is equivalence between traversing between the Inner and outer radii of a doughnut as The Enterprise did versus traversing it's circumference as Voyager was attempting do.
It should still take 50 years at warp 9 (Voyager time) to go from the edge of the galaxy disc to it's center (almost 20 kpc away, 60% of what Voyager had to travel).
If in the original series the original series the Enterprise could go to the edge of the galaxy in hours, what does wherever Voyager is have to do with it?
Yeah, the new warp scale in TNG was an asymptote with Warp 10 being a theoretical infinite speed. Roddenberry apparently wanted to stop the warp speed inflation in the writing. Some people saw the "you can't go above Warp 10" as some sort of cap on speed. It wasn't, and as you pointed out, writers later ignored that plan.
"That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208." --Professor Farnsworth.
The whole being in everywhere in the universe at the same time thing was beyond stupid. Not even the Traveler would get that one. But hey, it wouldn’t be a true Trek Culture countdown list without one excuse or another to somehow feature a reference to “Threshold”
For the Next Gen finale 'All Good Things', I figure the warp scale was simply revised in the future, perhaps making warp 20 the new 'infinity' point. This would be a logical response to better warp drives providing higher velocities: "warp thirteen" is easier to say in a hurry than "warp nine point nine nine nine nine nine three" or whatever.
Easy. Old star trek used imperial/federation standard. By the time of later(?), they switched to metric used by most species.
How about basically switching the Romulans and Klingons around in the TNG era?
The biggest one for me was the Romulan War. On the episode that first introduced us to Romulans all the way back in TOS, it was stated that nobody knew what Romulans looked like because visual communications didn't exist at the time of the Romulan War. Furthermore, it was stated that the most powerful weapons in the Federation at the time of the war were atomics and that phase weapons didn't yet exist. Fast forward in the real world to the premiere of Enterprise, and we see that the NX-01 does indeed have visual communications, and over the course of the show's four seasons, the ship is upgraded with new phase canons . . . all BEFORE the Romulan War ever began (in fact, there was an ongoing plotline that was SETTING UP the Romulan War, which would undoubtedly have appeared on the series had it not been cancelled). I certainly noticed most of the other things you listed, but many of them could be explained in some way with enough imagination, while the details surrounding the Romulan War are a lot harder to hand wave away.
Warp Factor was supposed to be an logarithmic scale with actual speed approaching infinity as you approached 10 - hence Warp 9 is really fast, Warp 9.9 is really really fast, and Warp 9.99 is really really really fast :-)
Yeah, by my calculation, Voyager should have been able to get back to earth in about 25 days at warp 7.
Not to mention that the warp scale could have very well been changed to better accommodate the faster speeds that ships were becoming capable of. Allowing for warp speeds above 10 is far easier than constantly adding more numbers post decimal point.
One theory I read was that warp 12 would be 9.99 and 13 would be warp 9.999.The scales above 10 are not actually over 10 but were just to simplify things instead of counting out decimals.
@@bartonruff1752 Yeah that's what I was trying to say but didn't do a very good job. The scale has just been changed to make things easier so it's not like the current warp 12 would be faster than the old warp 10.
@@Cadwaladr yeah that is a screwup with the writers. That aside given how fast we see the warp core pulse in the Enterprise-D at high warp we can assume that like a car engine those high warp factors have to guzzle fuel like crazy so would Voyager even have had enough to fuel to do warp 7 for that long continuously? Also how often does the warp drive need to be taken offline for maintenance every X,000 light years?
In TOS, the phasers were sometimes distinct lines, but often bright light blobs not very different from photon torpedos. And sometimes they both seemed to come from the same place under the hull saucer. Then once, in A Piece if the Action, the ship's phasers not only had a stun setting but covered several city blocks. This was never seen, mentioned, or used again. Bread and Circuses, Scotty uses the phasers to draw power from the city's grid until a blackout is triggered. Using an energy beam to...absorb energy seems like its much more complicated than just adding power until the grid ovloads and trips every circuit breaker in the city.
Also that time they stunned an entire city block somehow nobody inside the building was affected as they watched through the window.
I feel like Voyager kind of gets away with it because they have some episodes where they do trade resources. And you can imagine them trading resources between episodes.
Also, the Trill spots look much better.
I always thought the Trill's were an older more advanced civilization, so would it not make sense that they had multiple species or races living on their planet or planets that were able to accept a symbiotic life form?....and YES THOSE SPOTS..GRRRR she did say once ...yes they go all the way ...hubba hubba LOL
2:54 they put a woman in the captain’s chair on the Columbia (NX-02) 100 years earlier. Not to mention the first ship you see in Star Trek discovery, which is set during Captain pike’s era I might add also had a woman in the captain’s chair.
You forgot about Voyager's complement of "32" photon torpedoes, which were probably expended several times over during the series.
Iirc, -47 torpedoes is the end count.
Just think of it as an old American Western where a cowboy would fire his 6 shooter 27 times without reloading.
I was at a Star Trek convention in 1994 and James Doohan was one of the guest speakers(along with Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis) and this question came up. I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of "it was just one of those things".
It actually makes sense for Chekov of be a doctor, he's done just about every other job in Starfleet. He started out as a navigator (Command), was a security chief in ST:TMP (Operations), and was Reliant's science officer (Science) in ST:TWoK. Only think left for him to do is become a sinister telepath and try to take over the world...
I always thought he was just performing the future's version of basic CPR.
The last one he found with JMS instead of Gene Roddenberry :)
I did notice and question why no ships had any shields for the Dominion war scenes. But I figured it was just a shortcut taken by the VFX teams. It was also funny in DS9 how much of a beating Runabouts could take in that show when Galaxy class starships are getting completely owned by much less.
One would hope medical training is part of star fleet command
You forgot Voyagers torpedos. Remember how Janeway tells Chakotey that they have a limited amount and no way to replace them, but go through all the seasons firing how many at a time?
9:39 One explanation for the shield thing I could come up with would be that by the time of last three seasons of DS9 the weapons were so far ahead of the shielding that shields were nothing more than a tissue paper to them and new, better shields weren't ready yet. And Defiant was always an experimental ship with better tech, including maybe an experimental, one of a kind, shields.
Believe the actually eplanation is simply down to $ and adding shield effect to every ship in combat would be very costly and time consuming.
"...regularly traveling over warp 10 from time to time."
I know. You hoped we wouldn't notice ;)
The last one doesn’t really seem to fit. It felt to me to be more of something that was just “understood” that they had to deal with, and it had already been established *how* they deal with it, so it didn’t need to take screen time until it was relevant to the plot. It’s kinda like them eating. If they don’t show scenes in the mess hall for a period of time, you wouldn’t jump to “they expected us to forget that the crew has to eat!” Which, speaking of, fuel wasn’t always a focus because many times food and R&R opportunities were. It all came down to “resources” that they could no longer get from the federation, which I think was an ongoing theme throughout the show, only lessened slightly in some ways when they had contact with starfleet again.
The one you should have mentioned was the very specific “we only have X number of photon torpedos to last us and need to conserve every one.” Which they never even gave a throwaway plot line to address how they could have restocked them. The specificity of that one is very “they just wanted us to forget they mentioned it.” Personally I would have used the greater one to lead into the specific second one that was the true offender.
I like how lower decks brought back the embarrassing version of the Ferengi
Lower Decks is unfortunately the best new Star Trek in decades.
@@Keithustus Its the only new one I'm interested in.