Which Star Trek ship would you like to serve on?

[TheFaerieQueene]

I love Star Trek and am looking forward to the new series Star Trek Picard on Amazon next week.

I’ve been thinking about which ship I would like to serve on. Tbh it is easy, Voyager!

I’m sure I’m not the only Trek fan (I’m not a Trekkie) here. Let’s see which is the most popular vessel.

Any bloody Cardassians out there can bugger off now.

Loved Picard but wish they'd release them all at once

They won't as they'll want to get their money's worth. To make people pay for prime longer.

Although with the shit Halle Berry series, Extant, they did the same but after a few weeks, and probably ratings drop, they released the rest in one go.

The Borg baby was returned to it's own people but they didn't put that into an episode.

Just seen the trailer for next week 😍😍😍

I really enjoyed it. I was thinking thought that I wonder if they can manage to attract new viewers or is it mostly the already converted who watch? Possibly it demanded a fair bit of background knowledge I thought. But Patrick Stewart was fantastic. I think it’s great how he’s game to revisit his ageing sci fi characters and really wrap things up - see also the x-men film.

Is there a chat thread that can be open and not worry about spoilers?

After that we watched a few episodes of The Mandalorian and I did not enjoy that haha.

Civilian clothing seems to have improved in Star Trek now.

Since all the geeks are gathered together in one place, can you settle an argument I had with my brother.

You know how there are always walky-talky scenes where they are discussing something while striding down a corridor with other crew members walking past them? My brother said it would be more realistic if occasionally they walked past a crew member wearing wellies and a grim expression and carrying a plunger. I think that they would just use the transporter to move the blockage into space, but he said that they always need to put some sort of device on inanimate objects that need to be transported, and without that the transporter risks taking some of the pipework along with the blockage and then there would be shit everywhere.

I disagree with the transporter idea, at least after the age of replicators, because they prove that all matter is energy and all matter is saved and converted. So I think the clogs have to be rescued to be made into tea, earl grey, hot. But I just realised tapping that out that they could of course beam it out and then recover it. So scratch that. Iirc they often beam stuff like asteroid samples and things without tagging them with a device first though. In any case it wouldn’t be plungers it’d be little robots.

Little robots! Of course. They would just motor up either side of the blockage and dig away at it (like a poo stick would) until the blockage releases.

It has also just occurred to me that they might not use water to flush the loo because it takes a lot of effort to clean and recycle the water. They use sonic showers rather than water showers, don't they? Presumably also for water management reasons. So I expect the loos have some sort of dry, mechanical recovery and a sonic wipe instead of loo paper.

Lol at converting it to “tea, earl grey, hot”.

There are numerous references to the Enterprise (holodeck, cargo bays...) self-cleaning. I think indeed bio-waste gets converted into energy using replicator technology.

Transporters can lock onto biomass (eg iron in our blood) but it’s very unreliable for living matter.

ROAR at the argument about people with wellies and plungers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

There is a book called The Science of Star Trek (IIRC) - I bet it’s explained in that

this is the one I’m thinking of

But this looks better

God I should really get one of those books!

Biowaste, that’s the word!

In other news I tried Discovery again, sat myself down this morning and watched s2 ep1-2. I find it so hard to get into, the tempo of it is so off. There is always music hammering away in the background trying to force me to accept a scene as “tremendously exciting” instead of letting me reach that conclusion myself. I am irrationally annoyed at the wankery (please appreciate my extensive knowledge of British slang) if naming Michael Burnham just that, to prove some sort of naming point. All I can think of is nuns called Sr Michael. So stupid. And her permanent worried expression annoys me too. Everyone is permanently worried! But I will concede that Pike seems a good captain.

I expect they designed good space loos early in the space program including gravity failure not landing people in the shit. The first Enterprise did have at least one failure, by chance when Archer was in the shower which I remember for some unaccountable reason.

I've read The Physics of Star Trek, and it was pretty good, from a geeky point of view.

Michael as a female name is maybe easier to ignore for those of us who grew up with The Waltons alongside TOS.

FaerieQueen are you any better? I have a sinus infection and am in bed on antibiotics. Keep having dreams about being in a Federation sickbay. Can work out the ship though.

Sorry, meant can't work out the ship. Might be a sickbay from one of the Startrek movies. Anyway in my dream one humans can catch what I have and so I'm mainly being treated by Cardassians

I was wondering if Michael Burnham’s name was some sort of cock up by the Vulcan’s who rescued her and brought her up.

Like if they accidentally mixed up her name and her father’s name because they weren’t familiar enough with human names to realise that Michael is normally a male name 🤷‍♀️

No she arrived at age maybe 8 or 9 doesn’t she and is already Michael? I just think of nuns. It would have been more “groundbreaking” with a proper African-American name surely.

Giving female characters male names seems to be creator Bryan Fullers thing. Michaela would've been nicer.

She's apparently named after her father.

Would the drain blockage be a Captain's log? (Sorry!)

Hahaaaaaaaa dying here

Meant to say I'm weeping with laughter at the Captain's log

Giving female characters male names seems to be creator Bryan Fullers thing

Does he ever give Male characters a stereotypically female name?

Anyway, there's no reason to suppose that in a few decades let alone a few centuries, Michael won't be a perfectly normal female name, as has happened with many others.

Captain's log