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Yeah, there's also the point of "if you're going to do something big you should run with it" whereas NEM just used it as a minor point of getting Shinzon powerful enough to summon Picard to Romulus. The Genesis device, while being in the background for 2/3 of the movie, proved to be a majo...

It's not? The main problem with the TNG movies and their lack of big stories came from being at the same time as DS9. If they had done some big stuff like how WOK introduced the Genesis device, or have a diplomatic incident with the Klingons like in TSFS and TVH it would've all messed with DS9's sto...

Kurn was officially adopted by Lorgh, wasn't he? He said that since he was so young when Mogh died at Khitomer he had been sent to live with Lorgh and was adopted by him, which is why everyone thought of him as Kurn son of Lorgh. Supposedly Lorgh told him the truth about his family at some point. It...

Wait, that guy said that ENT Duras' father was named "Toral". Wasn't Toral the name of Duras' bastard son in TNG/DS9?

Maybe it was an in-joke or something.

Are the observation windows only forcefields, or do they not have some damage feature wherein a metal sheet (or transparent aluminum sheet) will qutomatically close over where the inactive field was during a power failure?

I figured the ENT Duras was TNG Duras' ancestor due to the same name, meaning he must have already had a child (since Archer killed him in the end of S2) or he wasn't the direct ancestor of TNG's Duras, maybe his great Uncle or something? Of course, there's the possibility there is no connection, bu...

The logic part I remember, :roll:, but what continuity did it shit on? I don't have it on DVD so I can't get a refresh. Mostly it's portrayal of Zeferam Cochrane as a drunken buffoon versus how he was portrayed in TOS. He did have like 200 years to experience a new age for mankind and give up drink...

I think the only confirmed one was Duras' ancestor, who got killed a few episodes later anyways. The lawyer being Martok's ancestor is just fan speculation because Maltzer was the actor (doesn't mean he's Martok's ancestor). Same with the Klingon scientist we see in S4, he's played by John Schuck bu...

I think that was "Judgement", it was a story where Archer is finally captured by the Klingons (who had put a bounty on him earlier in the series) and put on trial for his "crimes" against the Klingon people and the prosecutor is the ancestor of Duras. His lawyer is a Klingon lawy...

They probably just took the "Ocean creatures are important too!" theme from TVH a bit too far...

Why would the Enterprise-D have even been designed in the Yesterday's Enterprise universe? It's not a dedicated warship, and has serious design flaws, so why would this (more aggressive) Federation build a ship so flawed, for which it has no need (city in space not being relevant when you need wars...

I thought that most of the uniforms in TMP were too pajama-ish, but I did like Kirk's Admiral uniform. I don't think that the one-piece suits we saw in TNG+ were bad really. I kind of wish they had stuck with that conceptual design for what the uniforms would look like in GEN and after though: http:...

Weren't there Klingon lawyers and chefs and stuff in DS9? I always figured that it was the warriors themselves (and even then, not all of them) who thought it was dishonorable to not be a warrior, not Klingon society as a whole.

That actually raises a question I've had about Trek. I can understand that in the Federation most manufacturing, resource collection, R&D, etc are all controlled and managed directly by the Federation Government itself, but where are the corporations within the Klingon Empire, Romulan Empire, Ca...

Yep, there really was no demand for TNG movies like there was for TOS (since they were the first new Trek in 10 years when they started) since there was already enough Trek on TV at the time. They should've waited a few years to make us miss the TNG crew enough before bringing them back for some new...

Yeah, I know it's non-canon but I was just using it as an example since there's nothing in canon to use (is there?).

I know that territory in Trek (and all space sci-fi) is in 3-D, I'm just saying "across" because the book represented stuff in 2-D even though the distances there can be translated to 3-D map terms ("Across" becomes "in diameter" and stuff).

10,000 LY for the Federation? I thought it was 8,000 LY. Anyways, the book went with 8,000 LY for the Federation and about 14-15,000 LY for the Dominion. So if the Federation is 10,000 LY in canon than the Dominion would be about 18-19,000 LY to maintain the "nearly twice the size" estimate.

I dunno if it can be considered canon or not, but that Star Charts book they put out last year had the Dominion at about 15,000 LY across, more than twice the Federation's size.

B5 got 5 seasons, SG-1 got 10 (I still don't get why), X0files got a few more seasons than it should have, Sliders was like 4 seasons I think and BSG had 3 before being told they were only getting one more due to low ratings. So far the only modern Trek to last less than it's contracted run is ENT. ...

Well, I wouldn't say that DS9 and VOY flopped commercially. Yes they didn't get anywhere near the ratings TNG did in it's prime but they made it the full 7 year run, which is more than most other sci-fi shows can say other than Stargate SG-1, and it still mystifies me how that show lasted so long si...

Well, hardly anyone complained that it was contrived for the ENT-C to appear out of the rift right where the ENT-D could find them because the story was so good. So if they did it for the ENT-A I doubt anyone would complain.

I'd agree with that. I was looking at that "Ships of the Line" book that came out a while ago and compared the Sovereign and Excelsior images on the cover. The Sovereign actually looks like the linear descendant of the Excelsior. Wesley, just make him a 22 (or 21 if you want him to be very...

I saw it, mainly just for Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm still finding it a little creepy that they cast a woman who looks an awful lot like Katie Holems to be Cruise's characters wife...

Wasn't Chekov supposed to be young? Maybe in this retelling he'll be a cadet or something.