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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Some of the things listed (or even most) don't seem to lend themselves to TV episodes, though. Like, take all the various Borg stuff left lying around. Who says it doesn't constitute the most popular research project around? And so what if it did? Does that mean next week they should be out flying around in cubes? (Actually, as regards the Borg and their ubicomp design methods, plus the body-vaporization thing, I'd expect even their trash would have enough processing cycles available to make reverse engineering exciting.) ((Also, I just watched that Tosk episode, and the hunters' bracers didn't do any phaser-bending. They just happened to put them in the path of the occasional beam, Wonder Woman style. And their weapons weren't all that special, though they did, OK, blow up Odo's door.)) The real problem, I guess, is that beyond the specifics needed for the setting, lots of science fiction tends to be very conservative. Get what you need for your story and then nothing ever changes again. Which is unrealistic and often dull, but on the other hand human beings with Star Trek technology would probably rapidly cease to lead lives recognizable to us in the audience. But anyway, for a lot of this stuff, I don't see why you wouldn't assume it was being studied somewhere. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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