User:Scimitar
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[edit] Basic User Profile
| Scimitar's User Profile | |
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| Name: | Darren |
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Favourite series: | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Favourite starships: | The Enterprise-E, the Defiant, the Scimitar and the Delta Flyer |
| Favourite characters: | Jean-Luc Picard and Data |
| Star Trek majors: | Star Trek: The Next Generation, TNG Star Trek films |
| Star Trek minors: | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, TOS Star Trek films |
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| Location: | The United Kingdom |
[edit] A bit about me and Star Trek
As you may have already seen in the table, my real name's Darren and I'm from just outside of London, England. It's not much surprise that I'm a Star Trek fan, most of all of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
[edit] ENT
Originally I was completely opposed to Star Trek: Enterprise due to its setting. I felt that the 2150s (or any time prior to TOS for that matter) was the wrong time to set a Star Trek series as technology today has moved on so much since the 1960s - even though the Enterprise (NX-01) is technically less advanced than the USS Enterprise it looks more advanced to me. It wasn't until the fourth season of Enteprise that I really enjoyed it. I like how the episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence" explain why Klingons in TOS look more like humans but from the Star Trek: TMP onwards, they have the cranial ridges. I also like how the foundations for the Federation were established between Earth, Vulcan, Andor and Tellar in the three-parter with the Romulans. It's a shame that Enterprise was cancelled when I was beginning to really like it.
[edit] TOS
I'm far too young to have seen TOS when it was first aired but I've still seen most of them but so many things from it look so cheesy to me although I enjoyed many episodes from TOS.
[edit] TNG
To be honest I started watching TNG only because there was nothing better to watch on TV when I was nine years old and from then on I was hooked. I won't consider myself a TNG expert but I know a fair bit about the series having watched every single episode in order. I'd say that my favourite all time TNG episode is "Darmok" simply for the outstanding performances of Patrick Stewart and the late Paul Winfield. Other TNG episodes that I'm really fond of are "Timescape", "Schisms" and "Cause and Effect". To me there was only ever one bad episode of TNG ("Shades of Gray").
[edit] DS9
I liked the novelty of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being set on a space station as opposed to a starship unlike the previous Star Trek series. However my feelings changed and I started to get bored with the space station idea but it seemed like the producers could read my mind as they started the third season off with the introduction of one of my favourite starships, the Defiant. My interest in DS9 was restored after that and I thought that the remaining seasons were brilliant.
[edit] VOY
I still have mixed feelings about Star Trek: Voyager. I never liked Janeway because she was a goody-two-shoes who somehow knew how to do everything. I liked the other cast members, especially Neelix, Tom Paris and the Doctor. Some of the episodes were terrible e.g. "Threshold" while some others were really enjoyable to watch e.g. "The Omega Directive" partly because Janeway became a different person in that episode.
[edit] Star Trek films
I'm partial as well to the Star Trek films although I thought thatStar Trek: The Motion Picture was far too long and that Star Trek Nemesis was deeply flawed. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: First Contact are my favourite of the films with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country coming closely behind.
[edit] My Star Trek Gripes
Like many Star Trek fans, I've noticed plenty of faults and inconsistencies in Star Trek that haven't been explained:
[edit] Threshold
I'm not surprised that this was considered to be the worst episode of Voyager. Pretty much everything was wrong with this episode:
- I'm no expert in physics (my grasp only goes as far as early college) but surely it's impossible to reach infinite velocity as it would require infinite energy, therefore requiring infinite matter (and antimatter?), therefore requiring the whole universe as a power source to achieve such a speed but on that basis, having the whole universe would mean being everywhere in the universe so you wouldn't need to be travelling at Warp 10 in the first place.
- Isn't in awfully convenient that a stranded starship is able to find a really highly refined form of dilithium that allowed Tom Paris to reach Warp 10, especially when the Federation's top Warp specialists have failed in ninety years of research and testing even to achieve transwarp velocities?
- Doesn't evolution occur relative to a lifeform's environment? If so, why did Tom and Janeway turn into those frog/lizard things?
[edit] Endgame
I think this was the only series finale that left me feeling cold. It was desperately rushed and that line by Harry Kim on "the journey" was cheesier than stilton.
- Why did Janeway use the technology given by future Janeway? Wouldn't that have violated the Temporal Prime Directive? I always that Janeway would have taken her principles to the grave.
- Wasn't it convenient that with all of the knowledge that Seven had amassed as a Borg drone, she never new the locations of just six transwarp hubs?
[edit] Star Trek Nemesis
I quite enjoyed this movie but I felt that it was so deeply flawed for so many reasons:
- If Kolarus III was inhabited by a pre-warp civilisation, wouldn't all Starfleet officers have been forbidden from going to the planet under the Prime Directive with advanced technology like the Argo?
- How did the Enterprise-E manage to deplete its complement of photon and quantum torpedoes so quickly? I'd guess that on and off screen about 80-100 torpedoes were fired and even though the Enterprise-D was equipped with 250 torpedoes and is much bigger, I'm sure that the 'E would have had a fair few more than just 100 torpedoes due to its more militaristic nature following the Dominion War.
- Doesn't it seem completely irresponsible of Picard allowing Data to transfer his memories over to B4, especially as they include Starfleet security codes, strategic plans and other sensitive military information that would be so valuable to a rival power of the Federation, especially considering the malevolent nature of Data's predecessor/brother Lore and how easily Data took over the Enterprise-D in "Brothers"? Don't you also think that this scene was shamelessly resemblant of Spock transferring his katra to Bones in The Wrath of Khan as one of those "get-out" clauses in case that Brent Spiner should want to somehow comeback as Data in another TNG movie?
- Why did Shinzon and his crew keep the Enterprise waiting in orbit of Romulus for nearly a day when he was going to snuff it in a matter of days. Wouldn't it have made sense for him to have abducted Picard sooner rather than later? I can understand wanting to have some kind of suspense then a dramatic entrance of the Scimitar but it wasn't a well thought out idea.
- Was Shinzon incredibly forgetful or just stupid to let (who he thought was) B4 roam freely around the Scimitar, especially as Data and Geordi knew the Soong-type android almost as well as Dr Soong?
- How big could the Bassen Rift have been for the Enterprise not to have circumnavigated around it to meet up with the task force, especially bearing in mind that it would have taken well under an hour to go through it?
- Wouldn't it have made more sense for Shinzon to have transported Picard from the Enterprise rather than send a boarding party to one of the lowest sections of the ship when the Enterprise's ventral shields failed?
- When Picard was beamed over to the Scimitar, the transporters went off-line. Don't the shuttles have their own independent transporters?
- Why was the prototype emergency transporter only able to transport one person? A single beam could transport more than one person as seen with Alice and Jim Kirk in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
[edit] Miscellaneous gripes
- Don't you think that it was convenient that Seven of Nine's nanoprobes could do just about everything from bring people back from the dead to improve a ship's weaponry?
- I think that it was awfully convenient that "Bones" had pills to cure renal failure on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- More gripes coming soon...