On some particular stardate the USS Voyager disappeared in the storms in the Badlands, along with the Maquis ship it was pursuing. Seven years later, it returned with a patchwork crew, and a slightly hot former Borg.
Everything that we’ve heard of that happened between those dates was actually made up by Tom Paris, due to the lengthy trip back being so mind-numbingly boring.
I actually did forget about the Section 31 plague, and upon reading a breakdown of the plot on Memory Alpha, I see that they initially planned to fight to the last being as I felt they should have, so that complaint is retracted.
I still hate the Prophets closing the wormhole on the Dominion fleet, though.
Previous to Enterprise, all that was really known about early Vulcan-Earth relationships was that they were the first alien species we encountered, and that was only made canon in First Contact, a few years prior.
Yeesh. You mean that Silver-Age Superman wasn’t answering his pager messages or something?
I have to agree: Enterprise screwed with a lot of established continuity. Making first contact with the Klingons was established in the TNG episode “First Contact” (not to be confused with the movie of the same name) as happening in the early twenty-third century. And don’t get me started with NX-01 making it from Earth to Qo’Nos in four days!
Then the Romulans in a 2nd-season ENT episode having a cloaking device?!? So much for Spock’s “it’s theoretically possible” in “Balance of Terror” about eleven decades later! :smack:
Of course, TOS has some real boners, too. “Balance of Terror” implies that the Roms don’t have warp drive. Are telling me a pre-warp civilization fought Earth to a standstill? Not hardly.
“Space Seed”: Okay, I’ll buy that an interplanetary-capable ship could have been produced with 90s technology (not in our timeline, but that’s what alternate timelines are for:cool:). But to have a ship with functional life support and artificial gravity after being derelict in space for two-and-a-half centuries? Oh, I don’t think so!
On the Star Wars side, in the Prequel Trilogy: What possible rationale is there for having Anakin build C-3PO?
Wrong company. 
X-Men are Marvel, Superman is DC.
You mean like the messages were being sent on Nextel, and Supes was contracted with Airphone for pager service?
Y’know, there is a faint chance that I already knew that and was just making a snarky analogy regarding plot hooks that were already overused forty years ago…
I don’t know why this is a problem. Yes, blaster fire travels at the speed of light, but I think the idea is that the Force allows a Jedi to anticipate ahead of time where the enemy’s shot will go. That’s no more a stretch than telekinesis or the Jedi Mind Trick or any of that stuff.
I think on this specific point, it more refers to in the Original trilogy, blaster bolts were deflected no worries. However in the Prequels suddenly blaster bolts were not just deflected but were deflected with some pretty good accuracy at specific targets.
The whole Prequel trilogy was one big clusterfuck AFAIC. George Lucas made three star wars films. And they were great. (Although my copy of the remastered version has that strange screen glitch, that makes it look like Greedo fired his gun, but we know that didn’t happen)
On a comic topic any number of things in Spiderman (fuck you Quesada, there was nothing wrong with a married Peter - if your writers are struggling to make good stories because he’s married - fire them - and get some better writers)
Iron Man? Let’s just make him the villain - AGAIN!!! why must marvel fuck up my favourite characters.
I haven’t bought a comic in about 2 years now, because the crap that happened in Spidey & Iron Man, I just lost interest.
Sounds similar to Jean Grey’s/Phoenix’s two deaths in the filmed X-Men movies. She could have been saved in both instances, but the writers thought tragic deaths would be better. [I have no iron in either fire, just making an observation]
There’s a larger chance that I’m a dumbass, though.
When Lucy’s apartment was 3-D. EVERYONE knows Lucy lived in 3-B, but it was changed for the lame joke where Lucy says she appeared in 3-D
Also the Odd Couple, they meet in so many different ways, in different places with different apartments.
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Dick Van Dyke* had trouble with this too, but not to the extent of the Odd Couple, where there was no real canon
Okay, I didn’t know that about Shadowcat, but I know that Joss LOVES Kitty and there is no way she really died (although Joss does love to kill off characters to upset fans…). I mean, it’s a comic book! No one ever dies for real! Is Quicksilver back yet? Wolverine had killed him (while possessed, or something) just before I got banished from America, and the thought of trying to catch up with two years of X-Men makes my head hurt.
Anyway, add me to the list of people annoyed by Willow being gay and not bi. Joss has said he wanted to make either Willow or Xander turn out to be gay from the start, so I don’t know why he couldn’t have planned it more realistically.
I can fanwank that for you.
As the original series paid hardly any attention to plot (as opposed to character) continuity, it’s arguable that each episode takes place in a different alternate universe, and likewise the first and fifth movies. There are three exceptions: “Space Seed,” “Mirror, Mirror,” and “The Naked Time.” “Space Seed” obviously leads directly to the events of the second movie, and thus the third, & fourth, and sixth. “The Naked Time” is explictly referred to in an early NextGen episode; “Mirror, Mirror,” led to events in the annual DS9 Kira’s-bisexual&evil crossover. NextGen and DS9 are part of that continuity.
The timelnes in which Voyager, Enterprise, and all but the first NextGen movie take place were created when the Enterprise-E went back in time after the Borg. In Kirk’s history, Zephrem Cochrane never met riker or ogled Troi’s boobs.
I would have been ok with this if it had been Sisko’s idea all along. Instead, he kept trying to get the Prophets to send him back to his doom :smack:
I always wondered why, if such a lame contrivance was necessary, the more obvious reversal wasn’t used - with mechanic Anakin using an R2 unit to help with his work and Queen Amidala using a C3 unit for protocol.
Series 7 (with The Scrappy, Kochanski) and 8 ( - in jail! For no reason whatsoever) of Red Dwarf never happened. Red Dwarf ended at the end of series 6 when Rimmer blows up StarBug to prevent them turning into their toupé wearing, fat and jar-residing future selves. The crew was never resurrected, what nonsense!
OMG Brilliant!
Further, Lorne kills Lindsey (in Angel)? Does he even know how to use a gun? And I always wanted Lindsey in his own spin-off, so that was a double blow.
And I hated every episode in the Star Trek-verse where a transporter malfunction produced two copies of a person. It’s way too much of a philosophical nightmare for an hour long episode to deal with and one person always ends up dead.
Joss Whedon loves Kitty so much, he based Buffy on her. However, I’ve come to the realization that Joss Whedon is a character destroying bastard who deserves whatever sharp-toothed, testicle-chewing parasites he encounters.
I started looking for Joss’s stuff after seeing BtVS in the theater. The man can create some poignant, adorable characters. But I’ve suffered through him killing off, maiming, and destroying those characters for no good reason other than to fuck with his fans. I read X-Men starting in sixth grade, and I have always identified with Kitty Pryde more than any other comic book character. My hope is, after his ass is finally gone from X-Men, a more sane writer will bring her back.