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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] Lack of technological progression has never been due to a lack of imagination on the writers part. Rather, it's because it would effectively make stories untellable. Look at TNG. The number of times the crew had to have technoamnesia in order to make the story work was staggering. "Oh no, someone has stolen something and they are somehow out of tractor beam range even though only 5 seconds have passed", "Oh no, the main computer isn't working and we can't use the transporters. And for some reason we've forgotten about those on the shuttles", "Oh no, the biofilters used to filter out evil viruses haven't worked, for UNEXPLAINED REASONS", "Oh no, we desperatly need some item which the replicator can't replicate, for UNEXPLAINED REASONS", and so on and so forth. I don't think they treated Rom's self-replicating mines as a "nobel prize" idea. It was more "yeah, that's a good idea...we'll do that." The same as every other "what if we reroute power from the primary doowicky to the main transwasits thing to create an antiblippitybloop weapon" idea that Geordie or O'Brien or Torres ever had. And the way Rom spoke, it wasn't as if he was overcoming some technological problem...it was as if no-one had ever considered getting a replicator to replicate itself before. He came up with the idea, not the execution. The self-replicating mines were, in my opinion, a huge mistake. They've essentially created a perpetual power-source, and that's a MASSIVE technological leap. Those mines are likely to be matter/antimatter, which means that they can replicate matter, which means that all starships now have unlimited energy to use forever and ever and ever. At the very least, why not spit out a load of those self-replicating mines whenever the ship gets attacked, set them on "attack Cardassians", and sit back? Lee's right when he points out a lot of written stuff has much "harder" sci-fi. But Star Trek has never been "hard" in that respect. It's about recognisable humans wandering around the galaxy being human and nice and human and all lovely and stuff. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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