Here’s the old Joshua Bell FAQ explanation:
“So can you take things off of the Holodeck?”
Yes. Any object replicated on the Holodeck may leave. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to tell what is replicated, and what is not. Snow, such as the snowball thrown by Wesley in “The Naked Now” is easily replicated, and dampness is hard to simulate. The book thrown by Picard in “Ship In A Bottle” [TNG] would be easily simulated by force beams and thus was not replicated.
The paper in “Elementary, Dear Data” [TNG] was likely simulated until the computer realized that it was going to be carried off the Holodeck, at which point it would have been seamlessly replaced with a replicated copy.
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Fair enough, that is pretty solid logic. I’ll leave the heartfelt meme alone now.
That’s a very good point, but I feel like it would just lead to an argument about which series (DS9) is somehow objectively “best” (it’s DS9), and that’s really not the sort of argument I’m here to start (because it’s obviously DS9).
It’s spelt M’egh.
True, early TNG would be a better fit. And I get that having any other series in the leftmost spot feels wrong.
Still, I’d have to go with:
Order sorted chronologically, though, there’s a decent argument to be made fitting each member’s personality.
I just clicked in specifically to chastise you for assigning TNG to Mikey of all turtles!
Us Canucks have been boycotting U.S. products since the first round of tariffs.
If artist would have only cared what fans think, we would not have gotten TNG. That show was seen as blasphemous to star trek fans before it released. “A show without kirk and spock? NEVER!”
Yup. Hell, we wouldn’t have even gotten Star Trek. Roddenberry would have made a bog standard Western series, like the audience was asking for.
No, he’s a good boy. My pup would have pulled that boot right off and ran away with it.
Krypto was adorable in the trailer. Give me all the Krypto.
We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.
There were, but perhaps Picard cancelled them all after this exchange.
I’ve actually given this some thought myself!
If we can accept Galaxy Quest as a “names and details have been changed” tale based on real events that were experienced by the cast of Star Trek, then those events must have actually happened between the end of TOS/TAS and the release of TMP.
The franchise is essentially dead, but conventions keep it alive for the hard core fans. Nimoy, represented by Rickman’s character, is completely burnt of the franchise, having recently published I Am Not Spock. Also recently published were Franz Joseph’s blueprints, allowing the young fan in GQ the necessary information to lead the cast through the ship’s engineering decks. And the whole thing ends with an ad for a revival series - Star Trek Phase II, which would evolve into TMP. It even features the introduction of a new female crew member, secretly a Thermian (so I’m proposing that Persia Khambatta was in fact an alien).
So while a literal approach would mean you watch it before any Star Trek entry as a present day story, my preference would be to watch it between TAS and TMP, as a meta narrative of how the cast became triumphantly reunited before the production of the feature film series. Just pretend that all the characters are their closest Star Trek script analogues, and that the action takes place sometime in the late ‘70s.
AIDS thinks Reagan is killing the right people?
Except Canadian tariffs have, so far, been targeted so as to cause maximum harm to red states and minimum harm to Canadians. Unlike Trump’s sloppy across-the-board approach.
Premature birth induced by the high stress situation? Kelvin must have been planning to get back to Earth in pretty short order if so.
It’s no more limiting to TNG era stories than the TNG era itself was to TOS era stories. They can’t blow up the Earth or genocide any major races, but beyond that we’ve been given very little information about any character’s future. I didn’t find Star Trek VI any less exciting because I knew the Klingon empire would still be around 80 years later, and I’d say SNW is flourishing under far tighter restrictions.
Picard as Professor X?
I dunno, I just can’t picture it…