>>65518

>>Riker replies "The warp coil"

Well, strictly speaking, we don't know how Cochrane's Phoenix's warp drive functioned. We know later drives featured warp coils, but maybe that was a refinement.
However my personal headcanon on this one is that Riker is just a dumbass who doesn't really remember how long ago warp travel was discovered. It's not really an important aspect of his job, which he is quite good at, after all.

>> there were no phasers in the 22nd century

This was actually consistent with lore at the time. In 'The Cage' the handheld weapons were called lasers. Thus people probably assumed that handheld phasers were developed in the ten years between The Cage and TOS (of course in that same show they say warp was only discovered in the past ~50 years, but they really tried to bury that.) Then Enterprise comes along and says 'we can't have Trek without phasers!' (or face-to-face communication, or transporters, or any of the other technology that was already established to not exist yet, mostly in 'Balance of Terror') and so they just decided to say to hell with it and retroactively made all those other shows wrong. Which means it's really Enterprise that was wrong.

But:Don't worry, all the universes are just discord channels inside Sarek's katra skype app. DISCO SEASON 2 SPOILERS

In TNG 3x13 How did the Calamarain find Q?

>>65568
Calamarian count to four
calamarain then three more
calamarain for to see
calamarain come to me

>>65568
They were energy beings of some kind, that's all we knew about them. I think the gag was 'Q, formerly the biggest lightbulb being of all, has pissed off all the merely semi-omnipotent rather than nearly-omnipotent beings in the galaxy, and once human, they naturally both know instantly and come knocking.'

I think this is supposed to mainly supposed to be an inside gag for people familiar with TOS, in which there are a litany of ever more omnipotent lightbulb lightforms, to which Q was naturally seen as the ultimate evolution.

>>65570

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>65542

>yfw this space potato is a borg cube killer

>>65555 it doesn't have enough force fields lit up on the saucer section, so it would cause structural integrity loss at warp 13...

>>64959

If they do this, just make it star trek, but completely unrelated to anything star trek. Have Patrick Stewart build a shed or something, or work on his car, and intersperse it with elaborate starship footage.

>>65560

>>Have Patrick Stewart build a shed or something

I'd watch it. He's still a very good looking dude...

Yes.. they subatomically told me and showed me a picture, it was only going to be 'basic plot'. Some peoples hearts want to speak if you have said something, listen for it.

Anyhow, so I'll write a plot. Something came up and Picard needed to get to a place in space fast, but it was out of reach in the time frame for normal warp. So he went to see data and he theoretically came up with the idea of transdimensional warp. So he contacts the Voyager team for help. So Jane Way and Seven of Nine (maybe) get together, have fun discussions, worked out you would need an extra nacelle. Then they contact the old team, Beverly, Geordi, William.

>>65565

>but just before they get there *BOOM* something goes wrong, the third nacelle explodes

>camera cuts to everyones face looking shocked and afraid

>except Riker who's grinning like a devil

>it's not Willam it's THOMAS

>>65468
ohhhhhhhhhh gotchya

>>65502

>>anytime Rom has a good idea he shares with other people, its never at the forefront of his mind

Idk. The rainman Rom schtick was kinda cute in the beginning but I feel like they drove it into the ground. So the only way a Ferengi can be good at engineering is ironically, just like the only way a Ferengi female can be good at business is ironically? This is all anti-Ferengi bias people! Just because they have been bleeding you dry of latinum doesn't mean they don't have hearts too.

>>65511
I think it makes sense with Rom though. He's spent his whole life being told by his brother that he's a retard. Even his son doesn't realise he's a genius. He has no self confidence for most of the series because he's spent his whole life being torn down and only lets his ideas slip by accident because quark would humiliate him. I think they did take too long moving away from that from a watchability point of view but from a narrative point of view it would be crazy to be any quicker. Nog's arc is better paced.

Which female are you talking about though? I don't think there's much irony to the mastermind that is Ishka but the one who's just in for Quark's dick is a different matter.

>>65527
I was thinking of Pel, but the whole thing was tongue-in-cheek.

>>Even his son doesn't realise he's a genius.

Uhm

Anyway I mean the reason they had so far to go narratively is because they created him as a one-off character to try to kill Quark. I was talking mostly about it from a watchability/cringe-factor standpoint, but I also would like to have finally seen him come into his own to complete his arc. Finally tell Quark off, 'I am smart, you lobeless slug!'

>>65527

>Quark's dick

*ears

big fat na-celles all in my face
circle jerkin starships in dis place
thicc ass bu-ssards are the new lace
work that warp drive we goin to space

>>65537
Meh. The hologram would just be doing its job, and if the experience brings Odo some sort of gratification or education then that's kind of the point of the holodeck/suite.

I go off on thought tagents like that sometimes when I watch Trek stoned, but experience has taught me that people rarely find them as funny as I do.

>>65549
The problem is that Odo has had sex already and after.

When he takes on a form he takes on more than just the outward experience that's a pretty big deal throughout the series. When he's a bird he doesn't just look like a bird he flies and he actually experiences being a bird.

What I'm saying is that if he grew a dick he would BE THE DICK. So your stoned thoughts are ruined because I've watched large swathes of DS9 a few times and had it on in the background while playing shit or doing other stuff many more. Sorry.

>>65551
Check out this fucking retard. Wowee!

Between the state of Trek and Trek posters I can safely say goodbye to you, /1701/. Keep 'em in line, Guinan.

>>65551
>>65552

>>No its ok for Odo because he gets enjoyment out of being the forms he is
>>No you egregious retard, isn't it obvious that when Odo is in a form he enjoys it?
>>What a fucking idiot, suggesting Odo enjoys the forms he's in rather than gets enjoyment from being in forms. FUck u /1701/!

You were both arguing for the exact same opinion but were both too puffed up to realize it. Chill tf out.

>>65554
Hey since when was I puffed up? I did make a mistake though. Meant to link OP and not Grint seeing as he was right. I was just completing his chain of thought.

>>65530
"internalised anti-semitism"

>>65525
Would make the X-men movies super awkward.

>>65539
Yeah, especially the post-wrap sex parties at Singers' mansion.

>>65534
What kind of drugs do you think they're on?

>>65550
All of them

>>65215
once the changes between timelines become fluid it's much better. The final two episodes go from meh to great

>>65216
Looks like you're right: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Chief_petty_officer

"Requiem For Methuselah" AKA The One Where Kirk Breaks Some Old Dude's Real Doll.

Drunk at 11am on a Monday watching The Galileo Seven. Spock is so cool.

>>65546
Yeah, for a few more months.

I just want a proper Star Trek RPG. You know, like KotOR or the first Mass Effect. But I know I'll never get it, because with all those new properties like JJTrek and Discovery, anyone who's sitting on the rights will want that RPG to take place in those timelines, and appeal to its audiences. Which means it wouldn't be an RPG. After all, we already got that horrible, buggy JJTrek shooter that people only ever stopped to notice for its complete lack of quality.

Of course, we have Star Trek Online, but I kind of resent it. I've played it, and it does a few things right, but it's still an MMO. And MMO isn't the genre for Trek. MMO's are basically bad Action RPG's that you play at the same time as a lot of other people, and if you're not in it for the community, you might as well play something else. And it being there means we technically have our Trek RPG. But we don't. But I do admire Star Trek Online for actually giving it a shot.

But Trek lends itself so well to party based RPG's that it's almost criminal it hasn't been done yet.

>>65515
May I suggest getting a gaming group together and running one of the many fantastic pen-and-paper Trek RPGs?

I ran one for a group where we went to the 25th century. They were Section 31 agents hunting a couple of temporal renegades (who, they never got to point of uncovering, were actually themselves from the future.) They had a refit-Prometheus class and a Sec 31 command structure so there could be arguments and they could take different parts of the ship to different places. I even worked in very obscure elements of the lore and fleshed them out, like the Ornithoids from TOS and the chaotic space aliens from VOY.

There are versions of Trek RPG based around the d20 system, the FATE system, exotic unique systems, pretty much whatever you can imagine. And with skype/google hangouts/roll20 or whatever, you're no longer beholden to having to play with whatever grognards you happen to personally know and be physically near.

I know it's not what you asked for, but it's really the best option there is until we can have AI holodecks and just ask them nicely to make the Trek RPG we desire.

>>65517
I'd love to, but my regular group only has two guys who are into Trek, and I'm the guy who turned them on it. I've heard some weird stories about Roll20. Plus, I kind of prefer face to face contact. Roll20 has definite advantages, specifically making battles a lot easier and generally providing good documentation options, but you don't really have the same connection.

And if I run it myself, I run the risk of creating a shitty fan fiction setting. And if I play in someone else's game, it might be worse.

>>65522

>> I run the risk of creating a shitty fan fiction setting.

I mean all Trek is is various layers of official, semi-official and unofficial fan fiction. If you actually like what you make, just pull a Orville and rebrand. But I know what you mean about preferring face to face, it's definitely far superior. Hey, maybe someone should mod Bridge Crew so it can be used for roleplaying.

>>65523
Making a Trek Lite setting might get the other players in on it, since they're not expected to know about the setting beforehand. Of course, we're still in a relatively fresh Pathfinder game right now, which I expect to last for quite a while longer. I've been meaning to give Traveller another try, too. Though, it's mostly the character creation that I love.

>>65272
You got it!

Also...this thread is just shy of two years old and the original made it to 4 years.. therefore, some form of this thread has existed for about 6 years.

Damn 2012 didn't seem that long ago

>>65276
The years start to blend together in the nexus.

>>65276
2012 was 30 years ago.

>>65296
Man how the stardates fly...

>>55667
I've been gone a long long time and god damnit there is still a rascals thread on the front page.

>>65489

what if you actually can?

>>65493

>>what if you actually can?

Then who was phone?

Vulcan logic dictates they would have taken biological studies, that basic animal mechanism for signal relays between evolving animals, some could eat one another. But when you have full control of yourself, you don't need it, or you could be introducing another variable into the equation.

>>65495
shitty phone but it's got an unlimited data plan

>>65499 just hook it up to the router