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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 12:29 PM
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What are your Trek anomalies?
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The Genesis device was created independently - it was later revised to involve Starfleet as being the creators of it. Worse, a planet was not terraformed by the device. The Genesis device used the Reliant as the impetus when it detonated. No wonder this "protomatter" caused instability to the newly made planet; the device was used in totally atypical and unintended circumstances. David's guilt was a non-sequitur due to this continuity altering. And later the technology concept was ignored entirely. Why? The Klingons had the information to make another and could sell it to anyone else anyway.

Star Trek II makes a lot more sense if the Romulans were used. (Trek II changed the enemy to the Klingons at last moment due to budget restrictions, so footage from Trek TMP had to be substituted...)

Star Trek VI (23rd century) features a Klingon ship that can fire while cloaked. Looked pretty good. What happened since?

"Descent" introduces transwarp conduit and the Federation has many an opportunity to use it. How come Janeway never took advantage of this; continuity skewed?

"Relics" has Scotty saying Kirk sent out people to have him found. "Generations" (the movie) has Scotty seeing Kirk's apparent death.

"The Enemy" features a bizarre situation: A captured Romulan needs compatible blood plasma. Vulcans are the same species that conditioned their society different over the ages. Why none of the Enterprise Vulcans could be used to donate blood is odd. Odder is how a Klingon COULD give such blood, as the plot was shoehorned to make it work. (it's otherwise a terrific story...)

"I, Borg" has Picard and Guinan turning in favor of the Borg. Guinan, for a while, knew better because - with an enemy - if you give it some sympathy it will use that moment to kill you. Even Picard knew better for a while... And in "Descent", Starfleet yells at him and tells him that the moral thing to do isn't always the right thing to do; of which Picard seems to clock the fact and tell idiot Crusher the same thing. Indeed, Picard's own actions created the psycho Borg. Why isn't he demoted?

"Descent" also proves that the Borg, one big-ass collective, can't be wholly connected at once. This is why the Borg in the Delta quadrant are still their usual selves. Of course, "Descent" still operates on the pre-Queen philosophy as well...

"First Contact" (movie) features a Borg Queen. This flies in the face of established continuity. Still, all things considered it's a good change - and superbly acted by Alice Krieg, so I'll let this one pass. :D (even though there's no sense of suspense as we all know the Feds will win in the end... time travel has that effect on Trek. We know they will win.)

And the Enterprise Borg episode flies in the face of the first encounter with the Borg, rendering numerous TNG and Voyager episodes lambasting Q for introducing the Borg to the Feds silly. (Q still did the right thing; for the Feds would have been obliterated otherwise.)

And does "Endgame" (Voyager) imply ALL Borg are wiped out? (I doubt it,somehow.)
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