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According to Memory Alpha:

"Shaka, when the walls fell" - failure

So, my guess it's just generic Star Trek geek for 'epic fail'

Only if it joins with The Creator.

Maybe they didn't care about Unix experience, and were primarily testing your personal skills and your ability to hold a pleasant conversation with a non-technical person over the phone.

Always keep an eye out for the psych test.

I think that the natural progression will simply be to link to specialized wikis. There are already tons, from Blubapedia (Pokémon) to Memory-Alpha (Star Trek)
 
Why have "a page for every Pokémon" on Wikipedia when you can have one page explaining the basics, and a link to an expansive wiki of solely Pokémon. It will probably never happen, but I'd like to see a "One Page per Franchise" rule on Wikipedia. If a movie/series/band/company needs more than a single page, it should have its own wiki. If we're putting up a page per-product, or per-character, or per-episode, then there's a need for the subject to be in something more specialized than a general encyclopedia.
 
Wikipedia broke ground as a user-editable encyclopedia. What it failed to do was set clear standards for what was to be included. It's useful to have a page on every general topic. It's not useful to have a hundred pages on each general topic.
 
I doubt it will go anywhere, but "One Page per Franchise" is my new rallying cry for Wikipedia.

Navigational deflector.

Isn't it a too damn big territory to defend - explore - colonize?

Not if your civilization is a Hive Mind.

Looks like they may have discovered Hyronalin
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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Hyronalin
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Wake me up when they have discovered Warp Drive.

Aside from lions, spiders and coconuts, all of those are on the endangered species list. Lion is on a vulnerable species list.

Spiders are small enough for us not to give a damn about them, and they hatch from eggs that we don't eat, so like flies, ants or cockroaches we let them live as long as they don't step into our path.
Should they become a significant enough menace... I can very well see them going the way of the tribble.

And we grow coconuts so we could eat them. So much for them standing up to us.

Specifically, Star Trek (TOS):
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Sensor_web

In "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (1968), Dr. Jones wears a sensor web to compensate for her blindness.

Lesson well learned http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Quad.

Only SJVN is older, has less hair on his scalp and more on his face, and I assume his Asheville, North Carolina residence is not his parents' basement.

That could be a Star Trek's Starfleet uniform he is wearing though.

Anyhow, it seems we are going to mimic Star Trek and just not bother to have backups for computer systems...

The Enterprise keeps backups in a protected archive in the computer core. In Contagion, La Forge restores the corrupted memory caused by an Iconian probe by shutting down the computers, wiping the memory, and restoring systems from the protected archives.

Dang! The link didn't work.

Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode.

I remember the episode: Spock's Brain.

If they're not all careful they may find themselves _Where Bo One Has Gone Before_. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Kosinski

it brings us closer to realizing this great future:

http://images.google.com/images?q=seven%20of%20nine

but hopefully not this future:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borg_Queen

There was an actually an episode of ST:TNG which featured this choice as the central dilemma, whether to turn piloting control over to the computer or shut down everything and pilot the ship full manual to escape from a booby trap (the name of the episode in fact) which drained energy and produced lethal levels of radiation.

You'll have to excuse them, the people who are freaking out about this are all in the midst of the Five Stages of Acquisition. They've long since reached Infatuation, and are now having trouble with the Justification step. Swing a piece of gold-pressed latinum in front of their faces, and like any Ferengi they'll get over it.

...but I have a better plan..

• step 1. find crashed starship
• step 2. strip it of technology.
• step 3. profit!

And who knows what other inventions will revolutionize it farther?

I'm looking forward to Akoonahs and embark on my own iVision-Quest.

So NASA creates a probe which is sent to find life but instead destroys it...

...I think I heard this story once or twice before...

So NASA creates a probe which is sent to find life but instead destroys it...

...I think I heard this story once or twice before...

You could at least argue that the sequence with Scotty teleporting into the Enterprises water cooling system was character building (I don't see how)

I think that was a in-joke nod to all the time Scotty spent crawling up into the Jefferies tubes to fix the warp drive.

If only we could see a Sophos logo in the next Paramount endeavor, the cycle would be complete.

After having Kirk with a nokia mobile phone, and drinking Budweiser, I fully expect Uhura will be running emails from the Klingons through her Sophos package in the next film.

If only we could see a Sophos logo in the next Paramount endeavor, the cycle would be complete.

After having Kirk with a nokia mobile phone, and drinking Budweiser, I fully expect Uhura will be running emails from the Klingons through her Sophos package in the next film.

According to a reliable source, a lack of REM sleep in a group of people will cause them to go crazy and start murdering each other...

The Borg icon actually fits: Axum, aka Five of Twelve.

The scientific problem I had the most issue with was the "super-nova" that destroyed Romulus, enveloping it. Was it in the same solar system? If so, then Spock would destroy the Nova by turning the Romulan Sun into a black hole!? Or, was it in a different system? If so, then the Nova was so huge that the mass of the star could expand over distances of light years and envelop a planet in a different star system!?

It was in another system, but it grew in strength as it destroyed star systems, making a threat to the entire galaxy.

It made no sense at all.

Agreed.

See Star Trek: Countdown

Oh, but there's definitely some crossover, like when the Millenium Falcon makes an appearance in the Battle of Sector 001.

you could pretty easily alter it in significant ways that could never be fixed by an observer unless they were somehow outside of the time line but could look inward. How would you know something was actually changed? From the future point of view that is "history".

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Temporal_core
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Krenim_temporal_weapon_ship
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Year_of_Hell_(episode)

Alternatively, if you prefer a more "classic" approach to the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Eternity

you could pretty easily alter it in significant ways that could never be fixed by an observer unless they were somehow outside of the time line but could look inward. How would you know something was actually changed? From the future point of view that is "history".

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Temporal_core
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Krenim_temporal_weapon_ship
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Year_of_Hell_(episode)

Alternatively, if you prefer a more "classic" approach to the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Eternity

you could pretty easily alter it in significant ways that could never be fixed by an observer unless they were somehow outside of the time line but could look inward. How would you know something was actually changed? From the future point of view that is "history".

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Temporal_core
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Krenim_temporal_weapon_ship
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Year_of_Hell_(episode)

Alternatively, if you prefer a more "classic" approach to the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Eternity

That alien is Balok, from the TOS episode , which, oh dear lord, this thread has gone Full circle

That alien is Balok, from the TOS episode , which, oh dear lord, this thread has gone Full circle

The movie was awesome. It had enough trekkiness to satisfy the trekkies, and it was good enough to satisfy the non-trekkies. Amazingly, I have found more in the closet trekkies than I ever imagined, including my 60 yr old mother-in-law. Unfortunately, I now have dreams involving a remake of the movie Shaun of the Dead starring James Doohan

Not Braxton. Also, not captain at all.
As for the red matter ball and zombie city...

And who was it that invented all that?

Later explanation to the midichlorians is crappy quick quasi-science. Midichlorians themselves are just a plot device Lucas pulled out of his unimaginative ass.
Lets face it already - the guy is a hack who got lucky with 3 things: Star Wars, being friends with an actual "genius director-producer" like Spielberg and stumbling onto Harrison Ford.

Naming used for the technology is a good hint that someone during the writing process actually said "Hey, hold on for a second. How exactly would this thing work?".
That is why Star Wars ships have "reactors" which is about as descriptive as "engine", and Star Trek ships has a "warp core", which... ok... let me quote this:

On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (M/ARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix which produces a maximum output of 4,000 teradynes per second. (VOY: "Drone") Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals.

Also... "Blasters" and "phasers" - can you guess just from their names which one has multiple modes of firing and which one just shoots?

Unless its one of those Terminator plots where the Federation is really the source of the Borg... So they had to sent the cube back knowing it would be destroyed in order for some borg piece to be around so that they are created sometimes in the future.

That is Exactly what happened

so you don't like Abrams and it sounds like you went in wanting it to suck

For a Trekkie, ANY Star Trek is better than no Star Trek.
Still... Any Trekkie knows that there are Final Frontiers and Nemesis' out there.

If a writer has a scene in mind, they will invent the science that makes that scene possible no matter how far fetched.

That is Star WARS, not Star TREK. Midichlorians and that shit. Trek HAS rules. Some even resemble actual science.

I'm curious where you got YOUR familiarity with the command structure of a STARSHIP. Starfleet was always a quasi-military organization from the beginning, so a strict adherence to military custom and chain of command should not be expected.

Try this new thing - it's called "The Internets".
I hear that there is a shitload of information compiled by the fans and creators alike.

"Only hardcore fans will even notice those changes, so it's like a secret little 'Up yours' to the fans. The fans that he claims he doesn't need. The same fans that kept Star Trek going for the last 40 years."
taking this a little personally here. The sad truth is that a reboot is required after 40 years because the original cast and those who came after have so mangled the entire concept. The other sad truth is if Star Trek had never come back after the cancellation of TOS (no movies, no spinoffs) and Abrams had wanted to make a big movie loosely based on some cool old TV show, the movie would be just as big a hit without the hardcore fans...

OK. This one is pure bullshit.

Reboots are a tool for lazy writers who can't be bothered with doing some actual writing and/or imagining.
So, instead of doing something new and creative they take something old and just slap a coat of brand new actors and special effects on it.

As for Star Trek never coming back and JJ remaking something else that no one watched or liked (no fans) but it was still cool - that is a nice big claim with big manly pair of balls on it.
I'd like to see you prove his magical powers - but that is kinda like claiming that an elephant could kill a man by cumming into his mouth.
Kinda not really provable, isn't it now?

That episode was by far one of the best Star Trek episodes (in my opinion, up there with "In the Pale Moonlight" from DS9). To tie your comment into the movie review, Memory Alpha says that Rick Berman hated the entire premise of Darmok. If Memory Alpha is accurate, all I can do is shake my head...

I think you underestimate the potential size of the business market.

Also, another thing to remember is that while college students are "poor", the little money they do have is typically disposable income.

But yes, obviously e-readers would take off if they were more like the PADD technology from Star Trek - cheap enough to leave lying around, give to someone else, etc.

But Surak lived in the 4th Century. Sorry, the nerd in me couldn't let that go.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Koloth2269.jpg From the Animated series, they look pretty much like the regular series Klingon.

And tenement halls.

Not the sounds of silence, more like the sound of Klingon opera.

I must confess disappointment it took this long for this thread to gain a Memory Alpha link.

Yes. A Private Little War is a direct reference to US-Soviet proxy wars. Both Klingons and Romulans fit the analogue in their own ways.

You're right, this is hardly the first instance of an actor aging out of a role.

Brent Spiner has noted that he has visibly aged out of the role and that it would be implausible for him to continue playing an android whose appearance should not change with time

T-1000, like Data, should not age.

Yes. First he has a bandage on his forehead, then it is gone. First he's near death, then he's fine. Hmmm. Almost as if there is some Alternative Factor at work here.

Since when do we mod people troll around here for dropping Star Trek references? This is a geek site after all.....

Remember that Krola guy with the narrow glasses from Star Trek TNG 4x15: First contact?

That guy is them.

They would still use oil lamps and DOS, if they weren't forced to newer versions.