The Question, Answer Game

[Distracted]

No way, Jose.

Q: I used to pretend for days at a time when I was a kid that someone was watching me on that spy machine from TOS, and imagine what somebody from the 23rd century would think of my day to day life. Did anyone else do that, or am I just nuts?

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Q: I used to pretend for days at a time when I was a kid that someone was watching me on that spy machine from TOS, and imagine what somebody from the 23rd century would think of my day to day life. Did anyone else do that, or am I just nuts?

You're just nuts!

Q: Did you play Star Trek as a kid, and if so, what character were you?

[Elessar]

My husband would be so bored or irritated with the endless Trip/T'Pol and landscaping/gardening ruminations in my brain that it's a damned good thing we're not bonded. Plus he would have made me completely nuts by now. Being bonded would give whole new meaning to the question, "Did you forget to take your meds today?" I think this is why I prefer to think of their bond as a very intermittent and not entirely reliable sort of connection.

Anyway, choosing from today's cars.

Archer: Ford Mustang or motorcycle
T'Pol: Subaru
Trip: Much-worked-on old Toyota
Malcolm: Passat
Hoshi: Mini Cooper
Travis: a motorcycle or something very sporty
Phlox: A van or station wagon that can hold a lot of cages

If you were on Enterprise in Year One, would YOU have been willing to use the transporter?

Trip would NOT buy foreign!!! You mean a "much-worked-on" Chevelle!

[Alelou]

Trip would NOT buy foreign!!! You mean a "much-worked-on" Chevelle!

Trip is probably the MOST likely to buy foreign, if you ask me. He'd want a Vulcan car if he could just get his hands on one...

And Chevelle? Do you mean a Chevette? He'd kick that piece of crap to the junkheap and not waste his time on it. I had a friend in grad school who put his foot through his...

[evcake]

Vintage woodie - late 1940's - surfboards on top.

There was a Star Trek game? Which series?

[Elessar]

Trip would NOT buy foreign!!! You mean a "much-worked-on" Chevelle!

Trip is probably the MOST likely to buy foreign, if you ask me. He'd want a Vulcan car if he could just get his hands on one...

And Chevelle? Do you mean a Chevette? He'd kick that piece of crap to the junkheap and not waste his time on it. I had a friend in grad school who put his foot through his...

Arright, arright, how bout a Dodge Dart?

[mjimeyg]

We had a Star Trek board game... never really played it though.

If Daniels and 31st century is the last and most advanced period of Star Trek, what do you think they would consider the next big invention, or what would you like them to consider the next big break through?

[Alelou]

Trip would NOT buy foreign!!! You mean a "much-worked-on" Chevelle!

Trip is probably the MOST likely to buy foreign, if you ask me. He'd want a Vulcan car if he could just get his hands on one...

And Chevelle? Do you mean a Chevette? He'd kick that piece of crap to the junkheap and not waste his time on it. I had a friend in grad school who put his foot through his...

Arright, arright, how bout a Dodge Dart?

Dart, huh? You're talking to a lady whose second car was a 73 Plymouth Duster named Blanche, because she so often depended on the kindness of strangers. I used to have to stick a pencil in the carbureator to get her started on wet days. I spent rain storms praying she wouldn't stall in traffic...

Trip might have messed with one of those in his callow youth, but he wouldn't waste his time with one now! The man's working on a Warp 5 engine for God's sake. If he didn't go for a Toyota he'd probably be one of those BMW freaks.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

There was a Star Trek game? Which series?

Nah, I meant playing as a kid. Not a specific game you could buy but, you know, running around pretending to be Trek characters going on missions etc. Or playing with Star Trek action figures (Mego for example). I did as a kid. Both "live action" and with the Mego figures. I was always Spock.

[Lady Rainbow]

When I was a kid, I always pretended I was Scotty. :blush: I thought he was so cool, and the accent!! (We canna change the laws of physics!")

As for what I'd wish for a 31st century breakthrough...how about a cure for the common cold? Or PMS? Or a UT to translate womenspeak to menspeak and vice versa?

And my dad had a little red Chevette. The AC didn't work, the driver's side door was stuck, the pointer was broken on the speedometer, and he STILL drove it over the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel (about 2 hours one way) every week when he worked on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Dream sci-fi crossover with ENT? TOS? TNG? Ds9? VOY?

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Dream sci-fi crossover with ENT? TOS? TNG? Ds9? VOY?

I'm generally not a big fan of crossovers. But I could get onboard with an old T'Pol watching the launch of Robert April's USS Enterprise, NCC-701, with Ambassador Sarek attending.

Q: If you were to create an entirely new Star Trek show, what time period would you set it in?

[Alelou]

If I were a TV producer right now, I'd redo the original series, not come up with an entirely new Star Trek. (Which sounds like an oxymoron to me.)

Course what I personally wish is that they'd go back to Enterprise and take us through the Romulan War.

Since I didn't really answer this one, I won't ask a question.

[Distracted]

Q: If you were to create an entirely new Star Trek show, what time period would you set it in?

I'd set it contemporary with Enterprise, but on a different ship...maybe a freighter or something...and have Boomers and aliens interacting without Starfleet to muck things up.

Hey, wait...that sounds familiar.

Q: What do you think of "The Prime Directive"? Reasonable precaution or asinine plot device?

[evcake]

I thought it was the Moral Highground.

[Elessar]

I thought it was the Moral Highground.

I actually thought it made sense. I mean everyone can debate back and forth whether each choice is a good one, when deciding whether to help or influence a people, one way or another, but the only absolute choice is no involvement at all. I liked how they went back in Enterprise and implied that it originated with the Vulcans because it is an extremely logical argument with respect to predictability of outcome. If you get involved you don't know exactly how it's going to turn out - i.e., you cannot guarantee the end result that you desire, and convincing yourself that it would would be an emotional indulgence leading to unrealistic expectations. Whereas not getting involved at all, you know exactly how a situation's going to turn out - because, as a superior species, the entire reason you are tempted to act in the first place is presumably because you see some kind of catastrophe or event that's preventable, meaning you probably know what's going to happen if you do nothing. Right or wrong, this is the "safest" course of action in terms of predictability.

Besides, you can look at why they do it in the temporal case, temporal prime directive, and I would imagine that to more people than the normal prime directive does, it seems to make perfect sense right? Because you don't want to screw up the timeline. But that's an illusory case of enhanced applicability, because we "know" the future in a certain configuration so the temporal prime directive seems obvious. The normal prime directive is the same thing, just without knowing the end result, so it's harder to justify to one's self that whatever the end state, it's the way it was supposed to be had you not come along ('you' being the warp capable more advanced race).

That being said, I still enjoyed the moral compass-spinning that Picard often went through to sift through the cases that may have warranted special consideration. That's just that age-old idea there's always an exception to a rule, no matter the rule.

Q: Hook up each member of the Enterprise crew with a member of the DS9 crew (like couples). You can ignore ships in either case... of course, if no one wants to split up Trip and T'Pol, I'd understand. The pitchfork-bearing crowd can be raucus