Pesonally, I enjoyed the episode in question.Berman says: "I'm sure whatever we do next will be different, because we want the ability to do something that challenges us, and that takes change. Whatever the next television series, we hope its dramatically different but still embodies all the visions of Gene Roddenberry's idea of the future."
From I have been reading, Voyager is sinking fast and according to one rumer cancelled by December. I believe this is why there is a fasttrack date.
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Vreenak: "The man who started the war with the Dominion... Somehow I thought you'd be taller." (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
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Vreenak: "The man who started the war with the Dominion... Somehow I thought you'd be taller." (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
When The Rod was running things, they made mistakes. Now it seems they just don't care. Like the fact that they should be in the Beta Q by now. They don't want them there yet, so they ignore all that they themselves have written, and keep them in the Delta. I'm just glad Krenim went to the trouble of doing all the math.
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[This message was edited by Trinculo on June 03, 1999.]
At any rate, they ran another article on DS9 which you can read here: Deep-Sixed 'Nine' Runs Out of Space.
And you can read the entire article that Trinculo mentions here: Keep On Trekking.
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I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.
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"Near the door! They leave reality inside!"
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I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.
Bad writing is not getting (what are essentially) unnecessary picky science details wrong. Bad writing is writing dull and monotonous stories.
One area DS9 has at least tried to improve is to cut down on tecnobabble. Behr has admitted to hating it. And ignores it when necessary. Look at 'Far Beyond the Stars'. A great episode, with almost no explanation given at the time. Does that make it bad? No.
Look at Cause and Effect (TNG). The shows premise, that getting blown up somehow brings everyone back to life and resets the ships clocks to 30 hours ago, is scientifically ludicrous. But its still a great story.
And on the distance thing. How many times in TNG did the Enterprise get out of communications range of Starfleet? To get out of communications range (enough so that replise would take a week)would require them to travel from the edge of the Federation for a good couple of months at maximum warp, which they obviously didn't do.
Likewise, has it ever, ever, EVER beed said (apart from the hints in STVI) that the Klingon Empire and Romulan Empires are actually IN the Beta Quadrant? In fact, has their ever been an official on-screen map showing where Voyager's actual position is? Their exact entry point in the Delta Quadrant? Until there is, you can't be exactly sure where they are. They haven't been travlelling in a straight line, they've gone back on themselves more that once, they've been hit by enough blue anomalies for them to start their own collection. Are you REALLY sure you know where they are?
And in the end run, none of that matters. Voyager's situation is a means to an end, telling good stories. Judge the stories for what they are, not on whether they've remembered that travelling at warp 7.1 is impossible within 1 light-yearof a subverton quardenar.
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-Joey Tribiani
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Please excuse the bad spelling.
Full impulse, whether that be a quarter or half the speed of light, would not have only utterly vaporized Voyager, but cause grave damage to the planet it crashed on as well. For a line of dialogue to indicate such is blalant lack of attention to detail and should not be tolerated for a SCI-FI show at all. Incredibility is not favored upon.
First off, FULL IMPULSE IS NOT REAL! The only thing, which says what this phrase could mean, is the Tec manual, which is fan fiction, after all. (Ok, the guy works for the show, but he wrote the book as a FAN for a FAN. Personally, I could ramble and ramble about all the bad science in that book, like the author's "scientific explanation" for "full impulse," etc.) If the first officer said, "Looks like they hit the planet at 100,000 Km/S," then I'd be angry. The reason they used "full impulse" is because they don't know that much about science. That's why the writers used an ambiguous term.
Secondly, if the first officer said, �Looks like they hit the planet hard,� then none of us would be talking about this. The writing can be bad at times, but then the only person I know to be a good writer is good old Billy Shakespeare. Pesonally, I enjoyed the episode in question.
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Please excuse the bad spelling.
The "full impulse" line is a bit nit-picky.
what's unforgivable would be boring storylines, although thankfully recent efforts have been generally good.
*lone Voyager appreciator*
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.....Well, I got better..."
- Monty Python & The Holy Grail
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Please excuse the bad spelling.
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Doctor: "Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs. Just don't misplace them." (Voyager: "The Killing Game")
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