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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?
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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
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-"But in episode AG4..."
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omg, not INTERFEREONS! And interfereometric waves!
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Some clarification on the historical documents you refer to: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Just as our historical documents (textbooks, films, etc) are full of errors so are the ones of the 23rd and 24th centuries...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"?
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The trick is to not vary the modulus of the version number but to vary the fur color instead.>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.
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.
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.