Klingon Neutral zone was specifically mentioned in TWOK and ST VI. (I don’t recall if it is mentioned in ST-V).
While they are not TOS television episodes, they still occur in the (later) TOS timeframe, and are considered canon.
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Based on virtually no real information, I am of the opinion that only “Wrath of Khan” and “The Naked Time” are necessarily in continuity with TNG & DS9.
The first season of the original Star Trek was full of superpowered godlike beings. Of the 29 first season episodes, 4 episodes had a godlike being and 1 a godlike supercomputer.
No, he’s the last representative of another advanced but mostly corporeal alien species - he and the rest can become incorporeal but it seems to be a one-way trip and they become essentially powerless when they do it. And Apollo’s powers didn’t extend very far beyond his planet, whereas even Trelane could move his whole planet around and, say, the Metrons and the Organians were orders of magnitude more powerful; and, rather clearly, Apollo was wholly dependent on a technological power source even if he did have some apparently advanced innate ability to control it.
Which rather makes me feel that a better diplomat than Kirk could have explained humbly and patiently to Apollo that in the last subjective year alone the Enterprise had met numerous beings with a better claim to worship based on might than Apollo had, and that instead Apollo might have done better to make peaceful contact with the Federation and have historians, poets, dramatists, dancers and who knew who else fighting for the privilege to beat a path to his door both to listen to every word he might see fit to drop and to offer of their best performances to someone who’d known one of the founding races of Earth civilisation at first hand. I guess it was Apollo’s ill luck to be discovered by Kirk, not Picard.
Indeed. Every Q episode (except the first) contradicts some earlier aspect of Q-ness. I figure it’s because it’s a lazy shortcut of a character the writers could throw in whenever they needed to get a story started (or resolved) and couldn’t think of anything other than magic to do so. And since it’s magic, why not just make it up as we go?
It’s repeated inclusion in Voyager, where it could instantly resolve the series’ major problem but for some reason chose not to (or the offer was simply declined by Janeway) was especially unforgivable.
I thought that would be a way out, and may have been better than the finale, but it would have been as popular as the ending to Battlestar Galactica, if I may open another container of annelids.
All the woman had to do was [del]spread her legs[/del] touch fingers with Q once and Voyager would’ve gotten home within seconds. [cought]Selfish bitch[/cought].
I thought it would have been a great finale for her to decide to make the Ultimate Sacrifice, only to have it happen like the Q baby did, just “poof” there it is.
But as I said, it would not have Gone Over Well with trekkers.
Eh, that’s a problem with Voyager, not with the Q. They also could have solved the series’ major problem by not violating the Prime Directive in the first episode.
Phil Farrand’s Nitpicker’s Guide covers this quite extensively, including bits about how no human has ever had Q powers, until we find out one did, the Q would never stand for it, until they do, and the Q are omnipotent, until they’re not…
It’s like trying to analyze the dramatic implications of the Great Gazoo.
Includes things like, “Machine guns don’t keep on running after they shoot all the bullets” in reference to the cartridge casing rolling about on the floor in a Next Generation movie. :rolleyes:
So you’re dismissing the entire work because it also contains something not relevant to the issue at hand, which you find to be… silly, or something.
I sure hope you never cite wikipedia. There’s lots of stuff there that might lead someone to dismiss it out of hand. So there’s a page explaining the mathematics of Lagrange points? FUCK THAT SHIT! They have a whole page on Skeletor! How can you POSSIBLY take them SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?! eyeroll-eyeroll-eyeroll
Researchers wouldn’t have been the half of it - though I should have thought it would please Apollo’s vanity to have a constant stream of visitors eager to queue for a chance to listen to his least word. What artist or performer could turn down the opportunity to present their best work to him? He was renowned as the patron god of music and the arts, and if it’s not worship to compete with the best singers, actors, poets and dancers on fifty planets to be allowed to perform before him, it’s pretty darn close. Besides, it’s a big Federation; Kirk and crew may be too hard-assed to worship a powerful alien, but even if only one Federation citizen in ten million feels inclined to turn into a religious pilgrim, that’s a pretty sizeable congregation. Apollo should have been a little less hasty to experience worship again and Kirk should have been more diplomatic. (On t’other hand, the Greek gods weren’t exactly renowned for being willing to listen to reason.)