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Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars?
Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that the next Star Trek movie will deal with the war between Earth and the Romulans that led to the founding of the Federation. According to Rick Berman, the film will be 'set before the time of Kirk, but will not be connected with Enterprise.' So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
Maybe the Romulans wear Vulcan disguises?
paintball
1: Facial cloaking devices that bend light around the head
2: Bandannas ("this here's a stick-up, human")
3: Big helmets!
4: The hero slingshots around the sun, goes back in time, and unveils Romulan faces, negating the old episode. Yes, it's a time paradox, but if "First Contact" could get away with telling Zeffrem Cochran about his future...
5: Ignore old Trek on the assumption that only the geekiest fans would remember that episode and the rest wouldn't care.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Star Trek XI: Why didn't I save any of my money? KAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Speak truth to power.
Berman : "How do I fix this"
Braga : "Particle of the week"
"Ah yeah well, whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it."
-"But in episode AG4..."
"WIZARD!"
omg, not INTERFEREONS! And interfereometric waves!
Voyager or DS9 movies??? Yeah. I would pay to see those characters killed off.
--Kevin
I don't particularly like the original Star Trek
Let me guess....you use emacs, right?
"To boldly ignore what's gone before"!
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated...
Urge to post... fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
How the first Romulan we saw was Spock's daddy.
-EB
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
I thought that number 10 made the modulus operator unreliable, though...
Too bad, really, because
worked so well...There's so little difference between politics and jihad lately...
Some clarification on the historical documents you refer to:
a) there has been discovered a historical error of 4 yrs in the records, WWIII in fact began on 2001
b) over the years the dialect changes of BASIC has caused some confusion. Recent discoveries have also shed light that the war did not start "after Khan" but rather in "Afghanistan"
Just as our historical documents (textbooks, films, etc) are full of errors so are the ones of the 23rd and 24th centuries...
You're on Slashdot. The Nerd Alert is unnecessary.
Did you think this was "News for Normal People, Stuff that Isn't Geeky"?
Ah, ye olde KHAAAAAN! equation.
He will suffer...he will be forced to watch his own Star Trek episodes/movies for all eternity!
Who wants to see Shatner play the evil Romulan? Huh? Raise your hands!
in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?
This is easily explained. All of the witnesses of who saw the Romulans were wearing read shirts.
an ill wind that blows no good
- Star Trek X: Leopard
- Star Trek X: Puma
- Star Trek X: Jaguar
- Star Trek X: Panther
- Star Trek X: Tiger
The trick is to not vary the modulus of the version number but to vary the fur color instead.Hey, now YOU'RE mucking with the timeline. Berman's Disease is spreading! Lock up your cats!
I'm not old, dagnabit!
With my handy Romulan Viagra McCoy hooked me up with, the green chicks still live in fear of my "Photon Torpedo"!
>Let me guess....you use emacs, right?
And there, at first unnoticed in a somewhat offtopic thread on /., it happened. The combination of two flamebaits, the Star-Trek-TOS-vs.-later-series and vi-vs.-emacs debates. Little did the original posters know about what they unleashed, a critical flame-mass triggering the worlds first thermonuclear flamewar. Centuries did it take for historians to recover the way of events from mostly degraded hard disks. Up to now it is heavily debated in the scientific community, whether "frist ps0t!" had anything to do with this, and what kind of deities the mighty "vi" and the world-shattering "emacs" represented...
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They use boilerplate story programs:
"The Crew of the _______(insert catchy ship name here) finds out that the _________(1.transporter 2.holodeck 3.matter-antimatter thingy 4.dylithim crystals) has/have gone haywire and they only have 5 seconds to respond or be destroyed.
During the crisis, they find the only way to save themselves is to _______(1. go back in time 2. somehow create a time-warp to go back in time 3. Accidentally go back in time 4. Have Q come to the rescue and send them back in time.)
There is a middle part of the story that we'll just make up as we go until then end where right at the last moment, when things seem that the ship is in certain doom and with the added pressure of the entire known universe in jepardy, they simply reverse the _________(put techno speak thingy there) with the ________(place another techno speak thingy here) and in theory it should put everything right, but only after the huge time counter on the bridge counts down to 1 second left.
Last line of course is _______(put in old literary sea-faring reference here)."
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
"No no, wasn't offended. Actually I should be the one apologizing with the 'sorry I'm not a nerd' comment"
"It's okay. I'm actually not that much of a stickler for continuity..."
Sheesh, get a room, you two.
Steven's corollary to Godwin's Law: There is a positive relationship between the number of apologies give two avoid a flame war in successive threads and the amount of nausea felt in the reader's stomach.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I'm overreacting a bit. Every time there's a Slashdot story about Enterprise, somebody get's modded up to +5 for complaining about continuity. I get frustrated when I think about how somebody can have Trek's vaguely defined timeline from the original series memorized to the minutist detail, but they don't remember the events of one of Star Trek's most popular movies.
The movies are easier to remember (ok I had to check the startrek.com site to remember them all)
1. The search for v'ger (aka a plot)
2. The Search for K'han
3. The Search for Spock
4. The Search for Whales
5. The Search for God
6. The Search for Shakesphere
7. The Search for William Shatner
8. The Search for Vulcans
9. The Search for Little Picard
And the rule of thumb, even numbered trek films don't suck (as much).
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
> So how will they make this fit with the Classic
> Trek episode Balance of Terror,...
The answer is: "It won't fit."
We're talking about Berman and Braga, who appear to believe that:
a) classic episodes are best ignored,
b) continuity is an annoyance,
c) suspension of disbelief is the responsibility of the viewer, not the creative staff.
They don't even notice when they get beaten over the head with the whole temporal cold war concept that was established in episode 1
Personally I disliked Jar Jar being in the star trek timeline.
Doctor Hibbert: What are you doing? You're wasting thousands of dollars worth of Interfereons!
Homer: Well, you're interfereon with our good time!
Homer squirts some into Hibbert's mouth
Doctor Hibbert: What do you know? That cured my canker sores.
Maybe his ashes are spinning in orbit. Is his orbit getting higher? Have we found a way to extract zero-point energy from the gravitational potential of Gene Roddenberry's spinning ashes?!
Terrible Star Trek Series: They Keep Gene Spinning In His Capsule, And Your Lights On (tm)
Not until Netcraft confirms it!
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
Many people wish they could.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Sulu: Captain, the Klingons are decloaking
Kirk: (smacks forhead) Again with the Klingons? Full power Mr. Scott!
Scotty: (feebly attempts to reach the controls but his belly prevents him) I just can't do it captain, I cannot reach the buttons!
in bed.
"9. The Search for Little Picard
"And the rule of thumb, even numbered trek films don't suck (as much)."
You left out Insurrection (at number 9). That makes Nemesis number 10, and Nemesis sucked muchly.
Short answer: They won't.
Its Berman after all.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
They mean, seen in the biblical sense!
"... Any time you notice something like that it's Wizards."
"Um... but..."
"WIZARDS!"
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
Remus to do dillithium mining...
Boy, they'd sure be in a pickle then, wouldn't they.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
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vi +
Fnord!
Well, they'd never do it. Just because jms managed to pull a five-year "novel for television" out of his hat on half the budget of TNG (has anyone else managed to make a drama series---not a soap opera---with that level of continuity in any genre?)... just because he consistently wrote critically acclaimed work... you think someone would actually employ him?
Come on! He enforced a "no cute animals, no robots" rule for B5! How would the small-minded Paramount execs manage to get him to put in big-boobed women in spandex?
"And I don't go to bed until I've made some very bad decisions."
Kidding aside, since it'll never, ever get made, I'd like to see his treatment of it. It's easy to backseat-drive ("they should have wrapped up Buffy Season 6 without the dead and evil lesbian cliche!") but more difficult to actually come up with something better. ("Here's a plot outline in which not only do I avoid cliche, but I tell a better story. Ha!")
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
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