SilverWook said:
chyron8472 said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Hey, it's me. said:
generalfrevious said:
SilverWook said:
If he had, what the heck would would we have done with our free time and disposable income the past 36 years?
A world without Star Wars is not a pleasant concept.
I am of the opinion that Lucas had nothing to do with SW; he might have been nothing more than just a hired hand for the first film and later revised history to make it look like he was the mastermind of the whole franchise. It's like saying Star Trek would not have existed without Rick Berman.
What is it with Ricks?
I kinda thought Star Trek "Nuked the fridge" when they introduced speed limits into TNG.
Instead of lines like...
"Warp 9.7 now ensign!!!" "But Captain, she'll fly apart sir!" "Dammit, fly her apart then!"
We got:
"Warp 2.5 Mr Data, and no faster mind you. We don't want to break any Starfleet Health and Safety regulations now do we. Afterall I'm sure the Aliens we are pursuing will have adopted a similar code of practice"
You must not be aware that the reason why Voyager has tilting nacelles and why the Enterprise-E is narrow and long (compared to Enterprise-D) is because creating an elongated warp field keeps it from causing damage to subspace.
I presumed the designers thought it looked cool. If it's not said on screen, I don't lose sleep over it. And that doesn't get the Defiant off the hook. ;)
Sure. If it's not in the shows or movies, it's not canon.
I didn't think the TNG episode "Force of Nature" was made to give some convoluted reason for Trek having a speed limit. To me, the episode was a sort of commentary on how (our) current transportation methods are destroying the environment.
And besides, it's Trek. All they have to do is manufacture a variable-geometry warp field manipulator of some sort to fix the problem (which I assume is what the Defiant has).
But anyway, Star Trek, as a franchise, has a number of shows which are a commentary about certain aspects of our society. "Force of Nature" is one of them. Simple as that. It's not "nuking the fridge."