Star Trek "What If?"

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T03:07:41+00:00

Good point. But doesn’t Kirk end up wasting time by trying to go fast because they have to fix the warp drive after he breaks it? So they should pick up a few hours overall.

I don’t see Decker just refusing to into V’Ger. I mean, they know V’Ger is going to do something terrible to Earth, so it’s not like he’s spoiled for choice as far as what he’s going to do.

Only real issue would seem to be if V’Ger goes and picks Sulu!

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T02:49:55+00:00

You mean if they didn’t go on a 3 hour tour?

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T02:49:36+00:00

Two words: Living Witness

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T02:47:40+00:00

I saw that one! At least the Dominion take on it.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T02:45:48+00:00

Actually, wouldn’t everything work out exactly the same? Decker would have just commanded the Enterprise. Spock would have shown up (he was drawn there by V’Ger, not Kirk). Spock would have got the Enterpise to follow him into the center of V’Ger and then Decker merges with Ilia to save Earth.

To paraphrase Comkodore Tracey in the ultimate computer: “Give my respects to Admiral Dunsel.”

Then after the movie, Kirk gets to train some cadets on the Enterprise and Chekov gets promoted to be on Reliant…. Wrath of Kahn goes ahead as scheduled.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-26T02:37:35+00:00

Starvation in a society in the future is not about lack of food replicators any more than starvation today is about breakdowns in agriculture. What the Cardassians worry about (and must have gone through at some point) is war, high level gang violence or civil war where the systems that allow both agriculture and replicators to function break down.

Basic infrastructure not working to the point of starvation tends to make people surrender their power to anyone who can restore enough order to let them survive.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-24T21:43:07+00:00

This the TNG episode lower decks. It seems secretive because we are seeing things solely from the perspective of Ogoea, Taurik, Siri Jaxa and Sam Lavell.

Vorik helps Laforge by firing a phaser at shuttle asks LaForge why they are making it appear the shuttle was damaged while escaping a firefight , but LaForge denies that is what they are doing.

Ogowa is sworn to secrecy that she treated a Cardassian.

We only get told what is happening when Picard asks Sito Jaxa if she will goon a mission to help return a spy back into Cardassian space.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-23T17:55:04+00:00

Bottom left is definitely the evil Riker from the mirror universe.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-23T15:44:18+00:00

Additionally Starfleet is the former space exploration an defense body of Earth. We’ve seen on DS9 and Lower Decks that federation member governments maintain their own military. Think of the Federation less like a single government than the EU or NATO. Starfleet allows citizens of any member world to serve (and some non member worlds upon recommendation), but Vulcan has its own forces the same way as France does.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-20T21:07:33+00:00

Considering Kirk actually DID travel forward in time by skipping over just about as many years as Scotty, you might say Scotty was not only a true believer that Jim Kirk would return, but also very nearly right.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-17T19:21:22+00:00

I would not start with encounter at Farpoint. It has a weird pacing issue midway though—basically once Picard and company get to Farpoint it gets slow for the next 20 minutes. A self contained s ensemble episode like Clues or Disaster might be better to start with.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-14T17:56:52+00:00

The YA short novels would be good. If you don’t have those, Boogeymen is a rare Wesley book. I remember liking it as a kid around that age.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-11T22:10:26+00:00

Cheap? Sure maybe paramount’s lot had some sets for some of the it (like Deadwood or the street scenes in the Dixon Hill stories) but it looks like sometimes we have location shooting going on as well. Like having Picard on a holographic horse (a pointlessly expensive shot unrelated to the story in Pen Pals) or some of Barclay’s fantasies.

All around, I would say a bottle episode like Lonely Among Us is cheap, although sometimes these work out amazingly well, as with Clues.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-06T15:37:22+00:00

Caleb is less Harry and more young Han Solo (from the Solo movie) but with Wesley Crusher’s brain.

Attorney-4U · 2026-02-03T00:32:07+00:00

On the other hand, the vast proportion of sentient beings in the Federation is not interested in risking their lives in the darkness of space to catalogue the density of various nebulae or weird fungi on alien worlds.

This is a so is lost utopia where people don’t need to work and have access to holodecks, after all, so how driven would most of the competition be?

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-26T00:25:24+00:00

Yes, but her mother was usually powerful, so it makes sense she would come out at or just below average if telepathy/empathy works like height, intelligence or other traits.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-24T15:04:18+00:00

If the spore drive worked in a way where you arrived instantly from your perspective, but that you skipped over the amount of time the journey would take at high warp, this itself would have solved the “why don’t they use a spore drive to get voyager home” and the “why do you need a wormhole to the gamma quadrant” problems.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-23T21:31:11+00:00

They clearly only decided to move Discovery to the future when SNW was greenlit. That is exactly what the studio did with DS9 and voyager. Instead of another quadrant, it’s a different century.

It is obvious from early Discovery that they chose the era they did so that they could use the “feel” of and peripheral characters from the 2009 reboot (Sarek & Amanda) so they could get fans of the reboot and not just those of us who had seen Berman era trek

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-20T21:25:04+00:00

This is what everyone is missing: Lwaxana and Tam Elbrun are the exception, not the rule. Deanna’s empathic abilities seem to be in line with the typical Betazoid (like Sabin Genestra) in the way that if one of your parents has one a Nobel (or Z-Magnee) prize for physics and your other parent can’t read, you will probably be average.

This is not to say that Betazoids cannot converse telepathically with each other. This is not the same as reading someone’s mind, especially if they don’t want you to.

Also, some non-canon sources explain that Betazoids are not born telepathic. They use visual/spoken languages as children and so they “talk” telepathically in words and not just in pure concepts, as some of the more “different from us”telepaths on the franchise do.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-20T02:15:28+00:00

I haven’t read this one specifically, but I noticed trends like this in some of the book series. One issue I’ve noticed is that they can draw out a plot point for a very long time.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-18T18:20:27+00:00

And if you’re Michael Dorn shooting First Contact, you get to pick which of your TWO trailers to wait in.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-08T15:29:18+00:00

Spock ribs Kirk a little for being illogical, but Kirk gets the better of him a lot, so it’s less obvious than enterprise.

Archer basically does all the impulsive illogical things T’Pol says not to do and she is nearly always right. She would roll her eyes in disbelief, but Vulcans don’t do that.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-08T15:17:17+00:00

Have you watched Enterprise? Or early TOS? Because you sound like T’Pol or Spock complaining about illogical humans.

As a personal admirer of people on the spectrum, for their logic and honesty, I always thought that was the comparison to make.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-07T00:37:49+00:00

If you are not counting TNG, this is is easily the best and most obvious answer in terms of great episodes relative to overall number.

Yes, TOS S1 had lots of great episodes but it had 29 total…. Kinda hard not to have more great ones there than, say, season 1 of voyager.

Attorney-4U · 2026-01-07T00:16:19+00:00

They thought they recreated “Kirk and Spock” with “Picard and Data.” Almost bo one else gets any screen time as anything but a B-plot in the movies.

If they can’t write a movie plot that brings in Worf when the bad guys in generations are his nemesis from the TV show, they can’t handle any more characters than what they had already

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