And the problem with that is… 
“Does your Klingon bite?”
“No.”
“He bit me!”
“That’s not my Klingon.”
I sure like those tall, snow-covered mountains near Vancouver while the city is supposed to depict New York.
You’re thinking Voyager, dude.
^:)^
I still cringe when I recall a time, years ago on Chicago Hope, when they actually named a recurring character “Lisa Catera” because Chevy (?) was trying to get people to…lease a Catera.
:rolleyes:
It drives me crazy that I hate Angel sooooooo much on BtVS that I can barely get through an early season episode, but I’ll turn on AtS and drool over the hot things that Angel does.
I don’t understand why Angel suddenly gets stupid when he’s in Sunnydale and Buffy turns into a raving bitch (moreso I guess) when she’s in Los Angeles. It’s the same writers on both shows for the most part, the same show runner, the same Head Honcho, so what the hell happens?
Worse, it’s probably Pasadena. Cheaper to shoot in Pasadena.
Easy…Angel and Buffy have an insanely disfunctional relationship.
You do realize that Angel and *BTVS[/] were produced by different networks? There exists the possibility of a certain amount of non-professional spite and distancing between the two series concepts, post-split…
I posted this in another thread somewhere, but . . .
In Star Trek - why don’t they have cameras inside the ship? Using the screens on the bridge they can see into other ships and into space, but not even their own hallways? Whenever the computer announces “intruder alert”, the reaction is to send security out into the hallways to get picked off one by one like in some bad horror flick. I can’t imagine why some security chief hasn’t put them in. The Enterprise(s), DS9 or Voyager doesn’t have a security feature used by 20 & 21st Century Wal-marts?
Privacy issues?
In the hallways and public section? I wouldn’t suggest putting it in their quarters, or even them being on all the time.
Even so, a camera system would be ripe for abuse. The near-utopia which is Star Trek and “Big Brother” do not mix.
Heh.
“Five Starfleet Captains … picked to live on an isolated colony world. Can they set aside their different command styles? Set Phasers to Fun!”
KIRK : “I … just feel… that the others… don’t respect my… position. It’s as if… they find my methods… antiquated.”
ARCHER : “Archer does need this. Archer doesn’t need anybody.”
JANEWAY : “It seems there are ants in the kitchen… but are we morally correct in exterminating them? Could this be a violation of the prime directive?”
SISKO : “I will! not! tolerate! ants on MY station!”
PICARD : “I wonder if the Borg would take me back…”
There apparently is a security camera system in engineering, as seen during the TNG episode “The Drum-Head” when it recorded an explosion in the dilithium chamber. (And it was actually a realistic, stationary camera shot—not repurposed, edited footage from a previous episode.)
Likewise, in “The First Duty” Wesley’s shuttle has a flight recorder that captures the activity inside the cockpit. I seem to remember other instances on TNG where surveillance footage came into play.
Now these are prime examples of having certain things only when the script calls for 'em, then forgotten about until the next time the script calls for 'em. Entirely different situtation. 
And you do realize that for two seasons they were on the same network and the same night with much the same writing staff, right? And Angel was just as boneheaded in S4 and S5 of BtVS when he came to Sunnydale, and Buffy was a big a bitch in S1 of Angel.
Just about any show… Characters in a noisy nightclub/concert/party/etc. can carry on a conversation in normal tones and can hear someone call to them from across the room. In reality they would have to be yelling into each other’s ears and still may not be able to understand.
Chiming in here… neither were ever produced by any network. The shows were produced by 20th century fox studios and the first broadcast rights, (possibly among other rights,) were sold to the WB network except for the last two seasons of Buffy, which were sold to UPN.
Decisions about how characters are portrayed would not likely (AFAIK) be made at the network level and passed down to the studio. There’s been some speculation that a ‘crossover barrier’ was agreed on by the networks to keep the plotlines of the two shows from becoming too intertwined while they were on different networks… until Willow showed up in angel season 4, ‘Orpheus.’ I’m not sure if this has ever been confirmed, or if the sudden absence of crossovers might have originated at the studio level.
Yeah. It’s not like you can just say “Computer, where is <Insert Name here>” and get the answer “<Insert Name Here> is on the can”.
Uhmm, what about that episode in which Barclay created holodeck images of the Starfleet crew, complete with Troi as "the Goddess of Emotion (among other things i’ll bet!) ? That smacks me as some kind of voyeuristic abuse.
And speaking of the holodeck, it boggled my mind that they ever let anyone ever use it. Considering the amount of times the mere use of it led to some disaster that threatened the entire ship! Yet again, and again, entire episodes were centered around something going horribly awry inside it. It should have been disabled, and converted into extra storage space after season one. (As an added bonus, we might have been spared the very existence of the obnoxious doctor from Voyager.)
Because there are no cans.
IIRC, the computer keeps track of everyone by their communicator badges. <Insert Name Here> wouldn’t necessarily be in the same place as the badge.
Right. Think of what superintelligent Barclay could have done had there been security cameras everywhere! again.
The holodeck serves a useful function, one of entertainment. Six years without it would have resulted in the crew going stir crazy.