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Toggle switches are high tech! Just ask the Son'A- their bridge was intentionally designed by Eaves to be retro, and yet they slapped around the Enterprise easily enough.
..until Riker got serious and took out the Radio Shack joystick: dont mess with the Radio Shack joystick.
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Yes, I just rewatched 'Insurrection' recently. If you notice on the Enterprise E Bridge, the counselor and first officer stations are just chairs.
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Well, the XO should be up and monitoring the other stations (or wresteling with nosforatu in the Jeffries Tubes) and I cant imagine any other captain but Picard has his ship's councilor on the bridge....ever.
That third seat is probably intended as the "visiting dignatary/admiral" seat- as it was in The Pegasus.
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Troi was more eye-candy than anything else. Eye-candy with feelings.
I'm convinced that she just faked half of her "empathy" nonsense- how could she "sense" anything from an image on aviewscreen depicting a person billions of kilometers away?
Bad writing, not withstanding.
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Maybe there's a psychic realm that Betazoids can tap into to sense the emotional and mental state of anyone in the universe. Think of it like a massive network that everyone plugs into, but the Betazoids are 1337 #4XX0rs that can zoom to anyone on that network instantly. All they need is to see what the person looks like. We can call this realm the Midichloriverse.
As to the bridge topic, I've always labeled the third chair as a "mission specialist's seat". If a mission is large and important enough to warrant a mission commander or something, then that person sits in the seat to also advise the captain on mission-related matters. For example, Admiral Pressman sitting there in "The Pegasus" or Lt. Cmdr. Shelby before Picard was kidnapped in "The Best of Both Worlds". I also want to say that we saw a few (very few) others also sit there (and I want to say that K'Ehleyr sat there on first appearance, as well). We only saw Troi there most of the time because the Federation's flagship tended to get dinky missions like shuttling Lwaxanna Troi around or dealing with the crews' family issues.
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Yeah...those "family issues" made for some real (yawn) intresting eisodes.
If Betazoids had such incredible powers, they'd be superior to guys like the Metrons. ...and that whole "Dominion suprise invasion" proably would not have worked real well. Instead of "Midichloriverse" we'll call it Plot-devicive-space". It's like subspace, but "sub-inteligent" space".
The same realm most of Voyager's aliens sprang from.
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All right, Abbadon, you're making me think too much about an idea I put out there on a lark. Of course, the Dominion surprise invasion remained a surprise. You didn't see any Betazoids on the Defiant, did you? Also, I said the Betazoids had to see the person's face to locate them. We've never seen the real face of a Founder; I imagine it looks a lot like slime. Thus, the Betazoids couldn't probe 'em.
Or the Dominion has a kick-ass firewall.
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Or Betazoids dont like "slimy thoughts", which rules most of mine right out.
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I am sure many people's thoughts would be considered slimey. I like the idea of a mission specialist chair rather than a counselor chair, either way it works.
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By the way, where's the joystick on all the other starships?
Unless that ships wheel in TFF wasn't just for show.
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As far as the joystick on other bridges of starships, I think the captain has an opt-in for the bridge.
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All movie events after First Contact are just a side effect from Data's time with the Borg Queen - we are witnessing events that data pondered in the "eternity" that he was contemplating joining the Borg Queen.
Just as all of ST5 was a collective dream of Spock/McCoy/Kirk's brought on by McCoy's Bourbon Beans.
Oh and how the finale of Enterprise didn't exist and how the Entire run of Voyager was Harry Kim stuck in one of Quark's holosuites.
At the end of the series/when Harry was freed - he promptly left Starfleet.
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LOL, nice take on the events of the various ST shows/movies.
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Well, everything after "ST:VII-Generations" is juste Picard's experience (dream) in Nexus
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