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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [qb] Are you suggesting that every intelligent species has to develop at the same rate or it breaks your suspension of disbelief? Because it seems to me that the rational point of view is just the opposite. [/qb][/QUOTE]At the risk of A)Putting my foot in my mouth B)Getting involved in a conversation not involving me and C)taking this conversation on a tangent... I personally wouldn't expect 'every intelligent species has to develop at the same rate or it breaks my suspension of disbelief.' What gets me, however, is the appearance that other species development stagnates for 200 years while Earth/Federation catches up. Vulcans and Romulans have warp drive for centuries before humanity, yet by TOS/TNG era that gap is closed. I'm sure energy weapons will all look the same but "phase pistols" sure do work like phasers and the FX shots are identical. Why not have phase pistols work like the weapons from Babylon 5? Or Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica (TOS)? Is that a limitation of the FX dept.? Holodeck tech: I think Ex Astrist Scientia's review sums it up nicely: "Continuity & nitpicking: Although the episode is overall pleasant, seemingly unimportant details give it a bad taste. First of all, we see a fully functional holodeck on the Xyrillian ship. Only the creation of interactive characters is not possible, but I see this as a rather small step until the functions will be the same we know from TNG. This holotechnology may be okay if it remains a secret of the Xyrillians, a race we won't see again (which in this case may be explained by the fact that their ships are cloaked). There is, however, absolutely no way that Klingons should get their hands on holotechnology as early as in the 22nd century, while the Federation will need no less than 213 years until the first lifelike holodeck will be installed aboard the Enterprise-D. Remember how excited Riker was about it in "Encounter at Farpoint"? Or Picard in "The Big Good-bye"? Or Lwaxana in "Manhunt"? It is even more implausible considering that we have never seen a holodeck on a Klingon ship even in the 24th century. We may make up excuses in that it was just a personal enjoyment of the Klingon captain that was never commonly accepted by the Klingons, or that his ship was destroyed and the holotechnology with it. But why should we try to excuse the carelessness that the producers couldn't wait longer than four episodes into the series to show us the most typical of all 24th century devices, woefully inappropriate within their self-imposed series premise? What bothered me too is that the Xyrillians had no problem to adapt the device to the Klingon power grid, something that was always made a big problem in Voyager. So the impression is created their technology is even more advanced than the Federation holodeck of the 24th century." The list goes on. Either it's technology that is presented as new in TNG episodes or it's the FX that look identical to their 24th century counterparts. True, Romulans may have had cloaking tech 500 years ago, but it would have been nice to see it developed a little more slowly. Why should Enterprise/Humanity be the only ones that are less advanced than Kirk and Picard's time? Why have other species stagnated? Especially since TOS "Enterprise Incident" made it seem that the cloaking device was a relatively new invention." Herb [/QB][/QUOTE]
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