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I like the way a lot of the questions are actually asked by startrekuk staff, and are ones that anyone here could have told them were on things Sternbach was unlikely to know anything about. I mean, they get a chance like this and they blow it. Don't hold your breath for the next installment of this regular "Ask Rick" feature! Christ, why can't we get someone of his stature here where some sensible questions might get asked?
quote: I believe Braga said something about ENTERPRISE stories no longer needing to rely on technological solutions; I would point out that a show like CSI does that quite well each week, and manages to get much better ratings.
Notice how all of the sensible staff people gradually left the series after the end of DS9 and Voyager, and all of the yes-men seemed to stick around? There are a few good people left; and after reading Bernd's article including his discussions with Doug Drexler I certainly have a bit more respect for his design of the NX-01 within the constraints placed upon him...
But come on! Star Trek is a tech show, and the writers are ignoring the technical advisors! There's something seriously wrong with that setup...
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Maybe. If I'm going to try and give Berman some credit here (whether he deserves it or not), I think he probably meant that they were trying to get away from the week's Major Problem being solved by "reversing the tachyon stream through the polaric gate".
Of course, whether they've done that is another matter entirely.
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Regardless what you describe isn't relying on technical solutions to save the day, it's resorting to scientifically implausible gibberish to compensate for a lack of imagination.
Good use of real science is all about technological restrictions more than technological capabilities. Any old monkey can make up a devise that magically solves all the problems.
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Ok I was going to say Berman/Braga/Pocket Books are morons - but no - does anyone think this has all come about due to the take-over/merger of Paramount with Viacom a few years ago?
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Not really... there is no one to put limits and enforce Trek science anymore. Gene is dead... and I don't think Berman wants to run Star Trek like Gene did.
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Why are they asking him stuff he doesn't know about. He doesn't design Okudagrams, he didn't design ships for Nemesis... did they even know who he was?
So.. no more interesting books, no more magazines, a movie that doesn't seem to be doing so great, not to mention a series that has problems..
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Problem is, no-one wants to be the one to pull the plug. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and it's often been used to damn the 1969 Paramount/Desilu/Whoever execs who cancelled Star Trek in 1969. To this day, the surviving suits remain in hiding from a crack team of ninja dorks, who've sworn to exact vengeance.
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I took it as sarcasm. I'm guessing Sternbach is as pissed as us that the higher ups keep screwing up the simple, easy to find information and substituting in any old numbers and data that comes to mind.
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This might just be me, but I didn't see anything different externally on the ship. What are people talking about that the ship was redesigned?
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