That’s not exactly what happened. The Lower Decks episode just told us that there is another universe where the Klingons look like that. That doesn’t mean they never looked like that in our universe. One of the other things the Klingons turn into is an Ancient Klingon Sailing Barge. I took it to mean technology and culture had progressed differently in those universes.
Spock is always filtered. It is the Vulcan way. That’s as restrained as he could make that comment
She’s 6’, he’s 6’3", so she’s not as tall as him, but she’s close
How many Kims do you think we can eject in a run?
This guy stinks, but I agree that Trek is better with more episodes per season. Bring in more guest writers, and do cheaper episodes. Try weird stuff! Some of the best episodes are just are just two guys, sometimes one’s an alien, talking in front of a camera
Yes.
It’s an AI food generator. All of its food is just a little bit bland, because it’s the average of everything. They aren’t storing entire patterns for a tomato for example, so they have to be recreated each time, and the replicator prints a homogenized food-shaped item, with all the same components, but none of the random environmental conditions and uncultivated genetic traits that lead to a flavorful fruit. Then that compounds further when you get into processed foods, or whole prepared meals. There’s artistry there, that a computer can’t match.
Maybe, to mitigate this, there are some recipes where they do save an exact pattern of real food a chef made, so the replicator can make a few things that are particularly good. The Lower Deckers do make a big deal of the mac and cheese with the breaded top.
You see it in the way they treat the holodeck too. When it’s new, they have some fun with the computer generated scenarios, but all the best programs are the ones that they get from outside the ship, or that are made by a member of the crew. And they’re a sought after commodity. Data is still trying to figure out art. The Doctor seems to have managed it, but the Federation is slow to acknowledge him. Maybe the answer is replacing replicated meals with food prepared by holographic chefs, using replicated ingredients with higher fidelity patterns, that you have room for, because you’re no longer storing complex dishes
Does transported beef taste like it’s been replicated?
It also follows that, under these constraints, the captain, likely the role on the ship with the least turn over, would have the most customized shit. When the ship is in drydock, some lower deckers get transferred to other stations, and new ones come aboard, but the captain is pretty much always just hanging out. Makes sense they’d use that time for hobbies, and that they’d want that stuff in their quarters, which are, for the captain moreso than any other crew member, their home
I think you mean Cordry rocks. Their non-centrosymmetry disrupts the charged leptons in the isolinear pathways of the main deflector.
As with all things, Starfleet of course has the have the unstable, bleeding edge version on their spaceships. I’m sure Vulcan holodecks are much safer lol
I do think we’re supposed to recognize that Rom is actually very skilled though. We see it through Nog’s opinion of him, and how well he does after he joins the Bajoran maintenance crew, despite his first initial awkward interactions. And restrictions often improve creativity in real life, so it makes sense to me that he’d have some unique skills, compared to engineers from Earth, who are used to being able to requisition anything they need eventually. You even see some of it aboard Starfleet ships, like when Geordie meets Leah Brahms, and has to defend all the changes he’s made to the warp engines on the fly, or in the Upper Decks episode of Lower Decks, when Billups is teaching the ensign about maintenance.
It’s part of the whole idea of the show, that these other people, even ones we might not initially get along with, have valuable perspectives. “Infinite diversity, in infinite combinations.”
Data makes the perfect +, because his brain is made from Positrons!
IIRC, they often use the same casing as for torpedoes (which Star Fleet does also use as coffins)
Maybe that is the driving force of life in the universe … to want to get it on with anybody and everybody no matter the species.
I believe the Vulcans call that, “Infinite diversity, in infinite combinations.”
Salt vampire?
IIRC, there’s a line at the end of those episodes about the Klingons doctor working on restoring appearances. Guess they were at the back of the queue
I disagree with you, but for the same reasons? I felt like season 3, when they’re first getting into the future, exploring, and meeting the people there, was the most like Star Trek. I also think the Mycelial drive is a good fit for the future setting