General Star Trek thread

Funny thing is Orville is kind of the reverse. It does get some laughs for playing on sci-fi tropes but its not all that laugh out loud funny and is at its best when being a bit serious.

For instance Bortus pleasure spa was funny but more importantly one of the few brilliant studies of the dangers of Holo tech

Just to segway back to Star Trek for a moment. Is it ever explained how holodecks and suites are able to be, to borrow a phrase from another show, bigger on the inside?

Trek and Wars were always space fantasy more than sci-fi. In fairness most things in the sci-fi genre wave stuff away with space magic like ships that have windows on the tops and bottoms of decks but where every window is parallel to the people on the inside.

Look at the schematics of the Ent-D and explain why we never saw a floor window

And again, that does seem plausible enough tbh. If early 21st century tech can make Robbie Coltrane believably 10foot tall, safe to assume they will have figured out to optimise perspective 300 years later.

I always assumed that the Holodeck "scrolled" with you if you were in a holographic area that was larger than the deck itself (with some kind of smart "3-D treadmill" function).

What starts to make it trickier is when you've got more than one user in the Holodeck moving to areas far apart in the program. My guess about this (because I over-think important issues like these) is that the Holodeck can devide the user sessions to various pocket holodeck areas, which are seemlessly joined together again when the users are close enough again in the holo-program. Also when you see eachother from far away, that's just a holographic copy of the user, and they're not "real" again until you are sharing the same area.

The turbolift funhouse. A different more Willy Wonka looking version appeared in season 1 and was rightly ripped to shreads

Storyline from Picard Season 3 leaked. Wesley Crusher is back and learns a shocking revelation about his parentage. He seems to take it well.

Are you implying Riker is Wesley's dad? If so Beverly must have taken Riker to one of those planets with very lax age of consent laws, Riker was 13 when Wesley was born.

Not that I ever need one but there is a class looking Quarks wine stopper.

It's a future space magic thing like holodecks and replicators

She could be a captain groupie

A claim or a takedown request? The former just mean Paramount gets the monetisation.

Can't remember if this one has been shared before...but I'm feeling festive :P

That disco scene is a total farce but the Ent-D is unbelievably huge on the inside given the known dimensions.

850,000 square meters of floor space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx5uB0pyhQ

They went for a late TNG-era style? Interesting (strokes imaginary beard). Probably means nothing, but it's interesting to see the direction the Trek licencing is taking. Did the developers recon that the good money was to avoid leaning into the "Discovery" style and instead follow the lead of Lower Decks into familiar pre-Nemsis Trek territory?

Had to watch without the sound. I should give it a listen later. Discovery-era music? Interesting mish-mash of styles there. Visually it didn't look much like the current batch of live-action Trek.

Could be down to licensing. They were possibly only given a certain block of Trek music to play with by CBS and thus went with something from the newer shows.

I was never a fan of the studios onther games. Making them episodic meant you had to funnel the players back to the roughly the same position before the next episode came out. But if this is a stand alone game there's scope for radically different branches.

Is it just me or does the ship look like a Centaur Type?

You're not the first person I've heard that says that show is worth a watch actually.

I know this isn't the point of your post (and to be fair I do intend to give the LIS reboot a try) but every time I see of something being remade it makes me think "I haven't seen the original in a while" and what usually happens is I buy it and enjoy it a million times more than the new version!

So that's prompted me to getting the complete 60s Lost in Space series on DVD I guess...