Maybe because I never saw it.
Wasnn’t their also a blonde helms(wo)man in a couple episodes towards the end of TOS? Or was she Communications?
Elizabeth Rogers was the blonde comm officer (Lt. Palmer) in “The Doomsday Machine.”
My nitpick:
Picard’s insistence that mankind has moved beyond the acquisition of “things”, and that humans work “to better themselves”. (Said while sneering at thawed 20th Century human popsicles.)
This runs contrary to Human nature, indeed, all of human history!
Now, I understand that First Contact with an alien race (Vulcans, according to cannon) would cause many people to reexamine or question our place in the Universe, and maybe cause some to drop their bigotry towards other humans, but I doubt it will quite be the total sea change that Picard implies.
Edit: Don’t get me wrong. I like the optimistic vision of the future given in Star Trek. But my cynical nature makes me think that Babylon 5 will be closer to reality.
Vic Fontaine is ‘representation of a 1960s-era Las Vegas Rat Pack-style singer and entertainer’ [Wikipedia], and so would be in the Space Age. But for those of us who were not burn until the Space Age, early-to-mid-'60s Las Vegas seems pretty much like the '50s Las Vegas. So I’d still call it the Atomic Age.
Agreed. I mean, heck, McCoy was able to scan Arne Darvin in “Trouble With Tribbles” and determine he was a surgically altered Klingon instead of human. But in DS9 they couldn’t scan a changeling in human form and determine they weren’t human?
:eek:
And there was a “Lt Lisa” at Communications in the final episode of TOS, “Turnabout Intruder.” Played by Barbara Baldavin, who was also in “Balance of Terror” and “Shore Leave.”
According to Memory Alpha, she filmed a scene for “Space Seed” too, but it was cut.
First contact, or even the foundation of One Big Happy Federation, didn’t alter human nature. Exhibit A: Merchants and mercantile activity of dubious ethicality. Trust me, there were plenty of humans happy jobbing their lying asses off to acquire “things”. Credits, and all that credits can buy.
It was only in Roddenberry’s dotage that the insistence on post-scarcity post-economy ubermensch became dogmatic.
I always thought that name was an homage to D.C. Fontana, of TOS fame.
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And after the Bird was laid to rest it was eventually called out onscreen (“If humans don’t need money why do you want to borrow mine?”).
DS9 used to be a refining facility.
So the mine the ore on the planet, then transport that ore to the space station, where Bajoran slaves process it with wheelbarrows and all? :dubious:
Yeah, that doesn’t sound the least bit practical at all.
Going back to the ‘Atomic Age’ thing, does anyone remember Atomic Cafe in Los Angeles?
Been there. It was gone before I was.
Surprise. We don’t all watch the same things. Hawaii Five-O never held my interest. Cool theme, though.
I have been given to understand that there is a drinking game involving anticipating “the wave”.
I always took “Counselor” to be along the lines of “Consigliere.” except, you know, without all of the mob shit.
I’ve only seen/heard “hatred” of her because of roles where she replaced an established character (TNG, L.A. Law.)
I had two problems with the transporter.
One, how do we know some black ops department didn’t exist that would intercept/duplicate transporter signals and send the copy to a prison somewhere for “extreme interrogation”?
Two, if they beamed up ship stores and kept the wave, so as to endlessly produce things, how would the coffee taste? I wonder if it might be less mass to simply keep a ton of coffee around instead of data banks storing the molecular image of a pound of coffee in sufficient resolution to taste decent.
And you chug a full can for every “Book him, Danno. Murder One.” 
Oh, no!
We are all one, big, happy fleet!
As I understand it, the changelings don’t just assume the form and color of an object- they’re actually changing into that object, molecularly indistinguishable from the real thing- except that it’s a changeling. In one DS9 episode a changeling turned himself into a fire, complete with flame and smoke. In another, the Jem’Hadar used a special scanning device that could detect a hidden changeling- something nobody in the Alpha Quadrant had.
Schlock Mercenary devoted an entire arc to this very premise, which they called “Gate Cloning”: F'sherl-Ganni | Schlock Mercenary Wiki | Fandom