janeway? I don't think ships stranded so far they are unlikely to get back are going to be obeying speed edicts. the whole setup is an extreme emergency.

I like to think a party got elected that felt warp speed tearing up subspace was a fakenewz hoax.

ok but the tos example was just that they found harry muds ship adrift in space.

you ever read bad space. he has a great one where they have something like a transporter so they start remaking everything but the brain to a younger pattern.

It feels a bit pulled out of nowhere though. If it was the plan from the start, it's not very good writing.

Didn't her parent seek out the borg? I am more confused on why the borg would send a drone from the alpha quadrant to the delta quadrant.

maybe its closer to the mmo universe where everyone goes from just graduating the academy as a ensign to being made leuitenant but given a command as part of it.

Yeah, they went on their research expedition because apparently rumours about those weird transhumanist Swedes had already reached the Federation? Again, 18-20 years before "Q who"... The timeline is messed up, even before we consider time travel.

Edit: spelled "weird" weird.

yeah it sounded like at the level of mythology way at the frontier of colonies toward the delta quadrant. They went into the delta quadrant in their search for years. so like I think even the crazy hillbilly colonists thought of it as a fairy tale to scare children.

I never even thought about that.

He was alive and well running a successful restaurant back on Earth on Ben is out on some backwater post talking about him like he's dead.

Lmao it's Star Trek, of course the writing isn't good. You guys claim to love all the shit writing in other Trek shows, so why do so many of you shit on Discovery for ir in particular, I wonder?

There's a lot of shit writing in all the star treks (less so in lower decks maybe) but discovery is consistently, deeply badly written, and in ways that often have a pretty bad underlying meaning.

And also, people complain on Discovery for different reasons. Nazis find it too woke because they don't pretend that lgbt people don't exist, I find it fakely woke but actually discriminating against minorities while pretending to defend them.

In a way, Discovery is a shittily written, enlightened-centrist version of star trek, so I think it's good that people shit on it. Now people should obviously shit on a lot of other star treks like Enterprise and Picard, but I'm certainly not going to stop shitting on discovery in the meanwhile.

Voyager fired 123 of its 38 photon torpedos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIGxMENwq1k

PSA: There's a special screening of Star Trek IV in San Francisco on June 13 to honor the 40th anniversary. Nick Meyer (writer/producer on IV) will be there. I'm sure he will be pleased to explain how a wizard did it.

https://www.voguemovies.com/nicholas-meyer

Nu uh, the casing can be replicated and the anti matter can be siphoned from the ships engines.

Source: Star Trek Adventures

But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?

That was an analogy for Global Warming. The government issued a big proclamation but never actually did any real action about it.

Presumably every warp capable species would have the ability to construct a few thousand hydrogen bombs (or weapons even more powerful) so would have the capability of wiping out life on a planet if they wanted to. So the Genesis device wouldn't be a thing that would change the face of war, the problem was that a crazy person had such a weapon.

Though Star Trek is kinda hand wavy around nuclear weapons in general... maybe photon torpedoes are more powerful than an H-Bomb? But it doesn't feel that way. At any rate, Starfleet, the Klingons, Romulans, etc. all have technology to wipe out a planet because we have that technology in the present day. They just don't do that I guess? To me that's the real continuity error.

And the time on TNG that they stumbled on a weird transporter trick that could make it so no one would ever need to die of old age ever again.

Another time a transporter accident led to a copy of Riker (with all of his memories) both on the ship and on the planet. You could recreate those conditions and create endless copies of people. The Federation wouldn't do that because of morals and stuff, but the Dominion wouldn't give a shit. They could have their best squad of Jem Hader stand on a transporter pad and beam down endless copies of them down onto a planet. They're cloning people anyway, so why not take it to the next level?

The transporter is just endless continuity problems. Shields are down, oh no they're beaming over boarding parties! Why are they doing that instead of using the transporting the crew of the enemy ship into their brig (if they're good guys) or into space (if they're bad guys)?

This my head canon... In the movies they were working on transwarp drive on the Excelsior. The warp factor on transwarp drives is different from a regular TOS warp drive.

When Sulu put the hammer down on the Excelsior in ST VI, it proved that transwarp was just way better than regular warp drive. For whatever reason they couldn't make transwarp work on the Constitution class so most of them were decommissioned.

By the time of TNG, pretty much everything is transwarp, so no one bothers calling it that ,they just call it warp drive since it became the standard. The transwarp factor is used everywhere, but everyone just calls it warp factor.

So it's kinda like a change from imperial to metric units.

The Defiant is big enough for a runabout to easily fly around inside of it.

And if Honey, I didn't shrink the kids?

That's also how it works in the recent game where you replay Voyager's journey. You just have your engineers research photon torpedo building, and then doing so uses up a portion of your normal tech resources.

This would be the same continuity in which magic villain blood is found to be the cure for actual death, and they use it once and then never speak of it again.

Yeah, and they also seem believable as a rogue clandestine agency that the Federation is ok with having on "their side".

Unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, the Federation has plausible deniability regarding the use of Section 31. Few powers seem to even know the agency exists.

And unlike the Obsidian Order or the Tal Shiar, Section 31 does a good job at being a clandestine agency. The Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar's response to the Founders was to build a lot of ships to bomb a homeworld, something outside their expertise that gets them destroyed. Section 31, instead, genetically engineers a virus that attacks the Founders, a virus so effective that the cure is used as a bargaining chip in getting the Dominion to stop the war.

I can suggest an explanation - conservation of mass/ energy.

let's assume that Lt Riker's ship had to use up at least 40kg of antimatter (and 40kg of matter, but that's cheap) to generate the energy for that transporter operation that produced a whole extra 80kg Riker.

that's a bare minimum with perfectly efficient engines and transporters, so it was probably well over 70kg of antimatter.

the Dominion decides that a few years of growing and training new troops is far less expensive than spending so much antimatter.

Deep Space Nine is supposed to host up to 7000 lifeforms, but the infirmary is tiny and has three biobeds max.

The warp scale did indeed change. I Actually seem to remember that was adressed in TNG.

Also the stardate naming convention changed after TOS.

Its a logarithmic scale, it makes sense that 10 is the maximum. The difference between warp 9.1 and 9.2 is the same as the difference between warp 1 and 6, for example.

It's like decibels, there is a theoretical maximum. It just doesn't make much sense to TV audiences since bigger number = more fast, in a linear way.

The one that gets me me, and its a bit of a "its different" complaint. Apparently the interior designer for the original Enterprise was Vukcan, because its all white and huge.

Well, at least continuity wise, the Academy thing works. Because of these shows, it woukd be Disco -> TOS -> TNG -> Academy

Over the second season the Disco Klingons started growing hair and looked a bit more TNG as well, so they tried to fit it except the TOS ones.

I mean, it was like 100 years later. A lot could have changed.