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WTF!!; you have got to be kidding me
Topic Started: Mar 14 2009, 06:10 PM (265 Views)
Heather	Mar 14 2009, 06:10 PM Post #1
Don't mess with me, I'll warn you!! Posts: 10,564 Group: Purple Mod Member #46 Joined: April 26, 2006	Last night I watched an episode, can't remember the name but it was the second of a two parter and the first part was called Affliction, where Enterprise makes a lame attempt to explain why TOS Klingons have no ridges. As if that wasn't bad enough Trip climbs on a rope between two starships traveling at warp 5. Damar and I just looked at each other. Could they have not made an effort to be the slightest bit believable?



Rika	Mar 15 2009, 12:07 AM Post #2
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault." Posts: 9,635 Group: Mighty Members Member #8 Joined: January 31, 2006	As warp speed isn't really speed, it actually is believable if you know the science behind it. The warp engines literally bend space and time to make the distance shorter. Technically, space is moving past the ship. As long as the two ships are "traveling" at identical warp factors and Trip keeps his grip on the line, it's possible. The Klingon Augments was a sad attempt though.
	Life is a highway I want to ride it all night long If you're going my way I want to drive it all night long


Jadzia24	Mar 15 2009, 05:01 AM Post #3
Horny Bunny Posts: 31,229 Group: Awesome Admin Member #15 Joined: February 1, 2006	I know it was a strange episode. I haven't watched it completly becuase admittedly I began losing interest during season 3 and only caught snippets of Season 4. Enterprise is the "Un-liked" series in this house LOL, my mum see's it and the only thing she likes about it is the opening song. Enterprise is full of major plot holes like that. Thou it does come across as unlikly about Trip LOL



GalaxyClassUssEnterpriseNCC1701D	Mar 15 2009, 05:55 PM Post #4
The Phoenix has Risen Posts: 36,485 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: January 24, 2006	But doesn't the way that Warp Drive work that the ship's subspace field coils in the nacelles create a subspace bubble basically around the ship? technically they'd both be in their own private space bubbles, I guess one could claim they overlapped them or something, but still, that's really pushing it and explaining the Klingon thing was stupid and totally unnecessary, anyone who's cared has been told the reason, which is that the way they look in TMP and forward is how they were always intended to look, they just simply never had the budget or makeup techniques to do it until then, no other explaination necessary
	*life is like standing next to a tree full of birds.... you think everything is ok and then suddenly it's raining down shit*


Jadzia24	Mar 16 2009, 08:23 AM Post #5
Horny Bunny Posts: 31,229 Group: Awesome Admin Member #15 Joined: February 1, 2006	I was watching DS9 last night and thought of this thread. Kang, Koloth and Kor had smooth foreheads in TOS then in DS9 they get the bumpy foreheads. How did that happen? LOL Do Klingons do plastic surgery? If they did then why not do it back then?



GalaxyClassUssEnterpriseNCC1701D	Mar 16 2009, 04:02 PM Post #6
The Phoenix has Risen Posts: 36,485 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: January 24, 2006	I think on DS9 they were following the TMP rectonning of "This is really how Klingons were always supposed to look" so basically rather than have them have smooth foreheads and have to offer up a reason, they just went with the TMP explaination and ended up making it canon to an extent by showing Klingons from the TOS period to look the same as they do later
	*life is like standing next to a tree full of birds.... you think everything is ok and then suddenly it's raining down shit*


Jadzia24	Mar 17 2009, 07:09 AM Post #7
Horny Bunny Posts: 31,229 Group: Awesome Admin Member #15 Joined: February 1, 2006	So they couldn't do that for ENT?



GalaxyClassUssEnterpriseNCC1701D	Mar 17 2009, 06:56 PM Post #8
The Phoenix has Risen Posts: 36,485 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: January 24, 2006	no because that would have been to easy, B&B decided they'd be all genius (like they were with the VOY Ep "Threshhold" ) and explain something that didn't need to be explained,.. because... well they had no ideas just look at ENT as a whole, it's direction changed from season to season they just never seemed to be able to figure out what they wanted to do with it until they handed it off to someone else
	*life is like standing next to a tree full of birds.... you think everything is ok and then suddenly it's raining down shit*


Rika	Apr 25 2009, 10:34 PM Post #9
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault." Posts: 9,635 Group: Mighty Members Member #8 Joined: January 31, 2006	You can make one warp bubble go around two objects.
	Life is a highway I want to ride it all night long If you're going my way I want to drive it all night long


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