I’ll concede that the tricks of mucking about with the enemy shields don’t work (after all, we don’t know just how shields do work), but what’s wrong with beaming out antimatter?
Well yeah. That was the whole theme of the movie. He finally faced the no-win situation and the only way out was with Spock’s death. The whole reason for them to mention the KM at all.
Any guesses to how Picard would have handled the Kobayashi Maru? I’m guessing his usual “i am the arbiter of succession” schtick wouldn’t work
He would recite Shakespeare until the Klingons fell asleep from boredom and rescue the Kobiashi Maru.
You may be right. You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
I recall reading in a TNG technical manual from the 90s that it was imposable to beam out antimatter (except in very small quantities in specialized containers, to cover their ass from when Wesley beamed some of that other ship in that war games episode). #Dorkmeister
I vaguely remember from the novel that Scotty did things in the test that the computer did not realize to be physically impossible.
Nope. Old Kirk had cojones, New Kirk has angst.
Not even vaguely comparable. Spock is worse.
But Scotty and McCoy weren’t done badly at all.
He’d DEMAND they accept his surrender. This would allow the KB to escape but doom the Enterprise until his crew pulled some techno miracle.
Dude had a combat maneuver named after him. I’m sure there was a reasonable number of Klingon casualties on his watch.
I believe he was fighting Cardassians, though.
Nope, Ferengi -
Yeah, some guy’s Father tried to get even with Picard years later.
Thanks!
Alternate-timeline Picard went down fighting, or at least was about to when the Enterprise-C went back into the time rift.
I was referring to the changes in Kirk between the second pilot (“Where No Man Has Gone Before”) and the rest of the series, not the difference between the original series/movies and the reboot.
Then they wrote the Ferengi so ridiculously that it backfired. Picard bravely (and barely) defeated the terrible legions of… cowardly, useless morons.
Absolutely. The Ferengi were supposed to be the Big Bad for that season, and they ended up being WAY too silly (particularly when the guy used the hentai whip on people).
The producer just thought that greedy moneyloving mercenary creatures were so very evil to him, everyone else would think so.
Quite so. In fact, Scotty himself had actually written a rule, before he even entered the Academy, that ended up in a tech manual, that proved that his very last strategy (the one about the shield junctions) was impossible. The same wasn’t said about beaming the antimatter, though, and the transporter operator’s reaction to Scotty’s order about beaming back just the container was, “Holy cow.”
If beaming can be done with such precision (as it seems not to be, elsewhere), why send the container over in the first place?