I don’t know how exploding consoles didn’t make the list, but they would be a distant second to Rick Berman.
I came here to say this. I get that they use fucking plasma in their electrical systems, but you’d think some step-down transformers and circuit breakers could be installed. And why the hell do the defense systems feed back into the main power grid? Why isn’t there a capacitor bank to dump feedback into for reuse in the weapons or something?
I saw someone say a good reason for the consoles exploding all the time is that they wouldn’t have I clouded breakers, because, in a red alert situation, the console staying on and responsive is more important than it not exploding
Trick question. It’s polarity.
It’s not JJ Abrams?
We can’t have that after what he did to both franchises can we? Maybe we can find out what he drives and hide a large dead fish in his hub cap? It’s about to be warmer weather in Hollywood and all!
What if everything in the Star Trek universe was just one grand holodeck simulation and everything we’ve seen them go through in all the shows, all the movies, all the animations and all the books were just a runaway holodeck program that some junior officer made.
And it turns out the actual Star Trek universe is a lonely empty experience as their ships go wandering around nearby star systems and haven’t met any other species yet. It’s just a boring repetitive experience that leaves everyone feeling a deep sense of Galactic loneliness as it will take them many centuries of exploration before they eventually meet another species … and also a species that is not humanoid or familiar to us at all.
Existential dread? … they are my favourite scifi thought experiments
Imagine being the first to travel far away from our star system to the point where you can no longer see our home sun … hopefully you are able to navigate back to our home star system. Hopefully the science and technology is accurate enough to return you home. Otherwise if anything is off by even a small amount, you’ll either become helplessly lost, or run out of fuel to make the return journey.
Time travelling? … any time you jump in time, it is either extremely complicated or more likely impossible to navigate back to an accurate reference point in the universe. You can go back six months in time but you’ll never be able to pinpoint where in the universe you will end up because the earth is moving through space, the solar system is moving and so is the galaxy constantly through time … so time travellers may be floating around in random space everywhere because they could never figure out where they would end up.
Q is not a villain!
I always thought of him as a bored god annoying one specific creation. Like the book of job but sci-fi!
It’s not just one creation though. He wiped out Guinan’s people. He tortures other species for fun. He’s pretty hostile towards a lot of species. I guess they failed their trial. Picard must be one of the only defendants who won his case, and that’s why Q helps humanity, while dooming other races.
