Palladium and Star Trek

[mobrien_12]

I was thinking about this a few years ago but never posted it.

You know how they almost lost the holographic doctor many times.  When transferring him to the mobile emitter, they didn't just copy him.. no, they actually had to delete the original program from the ships main computer, and vice versa when they "transferred" him back into sickbay.  They never made a backup, even though he was essentially just a computer program.  

This is where the palladium and DRM movement is headed....

[ November 05, 2002: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[hm_murdock]

I think that's more to do with the poor techincal writing in Voyager and Star Trek as a whole. I like old school Trek where all the gadgets just kinda worked. Nobody gave a damn about the phase inducer or the tachyon field emitter. If something broke, Scotty crawled up in that little tube and attatched kitchen magnets to little blue boxes and fixed stuff. Star Wars is the same way. Stuff just works. Star Wars and old school Trek is the world if Apple technology won. Next Generation Trek is what it would be like if MS made everything. Your computer spontaneously blows up and burns you alive.

Hasn't Captain Picard and Geordi ever heard of CIRCUIT BREAKERS?!?!

[Mr Smith]

I remember an episode of StarTrek TNG where the enterprise got zapped by a probe or some damn thing. Anyhow, the computer started going down the tubes. Systems were going down all over the place. Now, no one figured it out till the end that the computer was infected with a virus. They had to turn the ship "off" and back on to restore the programming from the
"protected archives." You would think that by the 24th century they would have an Anti-Virus or something... (I watch to much Star Trek.)

[hm_murdock]

if Scotty'd been there, he'd have gone over to his big panel of blinkenlights, turned some knobs and voila! TNG tech sucks, along with the technobabble. That's why Star Wars and Captain Kirk kick its ass!

And don't get me started on Enterprise. the fake Trek that isn't Trek at all. Rick Berman rapes Star Trek more and more with every series he creates. DS9 ruled because the characters were as good as TOS, and they were in a unique situation with good writing and good acting. Voyager had so much potential but they had the worlds suckiest writers. The most God awful stories and terrible character development. The actors never got to bring them to life, because they were just superficial soap opera people. Enterprise is better, but it's not Trek. It doesn't fit the storyline, doesn't fit the technological development (why is the ship more advanced than Kirk's Enterprise?!?!), but at least they've got Reed to throw bombs at people.

He's just too much of a Star Warsey character. He needs to be in SW!

[Pissed_Macman]

Think about it though. TOS and the first few seasons of TNG were incredibly hokie! after roddenberry died is when star trek first started getting really good. And there was a backup for the doctor on voyager. remember the episode where the doctor wakes up seven hundred years later on an alien planet and learns that he was the real doctor's replacement? that was the backup. i dont know what happened the last two seasons of VGR after that though. maybe they made a new one or installed some failsafes.

[Fett101]

Hey Jimmy. Midichlorians. :\

(darn Lucas)