Well, I guess it bothers some geeks who want to spend their life studying every Star Trek series and movie in order to point out every little inconsitency they can find. But that just doesn’t bother me that much. I realize that the episodes were all written by different people. Some are good, and some are not so good. I certainly don’t think you proved it’s gibberish because one writer, for example, made an error calculating the time it would take to travel to the center of the galaxy. I mean, who the fuck cares? Is that really germane to the plot? Trust me, a show with the strict scientific realism that you seem to demand would be boring as hell.
And stop taking examples from Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Those shows were absolute crap. They don’t hold a candle to the original series.
I think that’s pretty much what I said.
Like I said, it’s apples and oranges. You obviously think apples are better than oranges. I don’t think they can be compared.
Yeah, but you’re taking the worst excesses from DS9 and Voyager, long after the writers ran out of ideas, and trying to make it sound like that’s what Star Trek was all about. It would be like me saying: “Look how crappy Jar Jar Binks is - I guess nothing good ever happened in any Star Wars movie.”
Oh, god… you know I have to vehemently disagree with another Trekker if you’ve got me siding with a Star Wars fan.
The writers shouldn’t be held responsible for the final aired product anyway. If you want to have a series that doesn’t contradict itself constantly (which Trek sadly does) you need quality control in the form of editors or something. Hell, if nothing else, hire some fanboys for cheap. I, for one, would work minimum wage for a chance to have something to do with Star Trek. I’m sure there’re tons of others out there that’d do the same.
I care. And so do other devoted fans. I’ve always been bothered by the fact that in Star Trek V (written by William Shatner of all people… he should have known better) the Enterprise managed to make it to the center of the galaxy in such a short amount of time. Earth is pretty damn close to the edge of the galaxy, relatively speaking… even as a ten year old kid watching the movie for the first time, I knew better. There was no way they could have gotten there that fast.
He’s not saying the show should be realistic… he’s saying that the laws of science as established in the show should be consistant. And I agree. Granted, I love Trek regardless of its errors but if I could somehow make all its continuity errors disappear, I would in a heartbeat. It makes the show that much better.
Ugh. I can’t believe you can type that and mean it. TOS was garbage. DS9 was vastly superior to the Kirk, Spock, and McCoy show in most every regard that I can think of.
Sure, DS9 had some truly atrocious stories such as the shrinking runabout and Sisko being part Prophet but that pales in comparison to tripe such as Spock’s brain being stolen, Kirk convincing every computer he comes into contact with to self destruct, and the Enterprise somehow foiling god after god after god.
By the way… TOS only had 79 hours. DS9 and Voyager together had about four hundred. Why would he want to disregard over half of Trek’s library?
I’m grateful for the rabid Trekkies of yesteryear managing to keep the Original Series on the air and allowing it to blossom into the cultural force it is today but I can’t stomach a single episode of it.
TNG and DS9 are both great series and my two favorite shows ever. I rank TOS alongside Voyager.