I had a bunch of pictures of the Macs powering all the displays on the set of the NX-01 on a hard drive somewhere. I should go see if I can find them and post them.
They needed something that was just going to put a fake computer display on the screen and they went with Mac’s? That’s not… Exactly a cost-efficient way of handling that. Then again maybe they had some kind of weird corporate thing going on?
my guess would be it was the smallest/fastest mac they could get and the scenic design team used macs almost exclusively and probably had no interest taking a chance on a different platform. Just a hunch tho.
Here is Denise Okuda in front of her Quadra 700. She used it to make all the wonderful LCARS and other alien UI panels on DS9. This was her taking a break while working on the DS9 pilot in 1993.
I messed up and deleted the wrong comment. Sorry about that.
Original content: I think it likely that it is some kind of near deity like the christian god, or the Klingon gods that make an appearance. Not to mention the Koala.
Right. I think the real question is: How did Sulu know about it? I would love to believe that it was formless and Sulu just had a wacky belief, and upon hearing it said out loud it thought “LOL, OK then.”
I can't head canon the TNG images as there's a lot of "hidden" filler stuff that's been found that doesn't make sense and are inside jokes. But I could rationalize Sulu's statement based on some of the background created in novels with his family history, cranes and such, and maybe he's extrapolating it. The early episodes were not the best to use for canon stuff anyway, as they hadn't figured lots of things out yet. Have we ever seen sentient plants since this?
Unfortunately, they don’t give any more information than I have already given, aside from the Peter David novels, which aren’t considered part of Star Trek canon.
What the Voyager finale needed was an epilogue - a short bookend scene after the plot has been resolved so the audience can feel closure. TNG handled this wonderfully with the card game in Riker’s quarters in its series finale, which is a satisfying, memorable bookend to a long-running show. Voyager didn’t get that epilogue treatment, which boggles the mind because it’s a basic story mechanism and only needed a minute of screen time. That show deserved better.
Maybe all the salamanders want to go to a planet ASAP, and then no one would be piloting the ship to home, no captain doctor yet. They tried it a few times and it ended the same
OR: they realized the bio-neural gel packs on the flyer were also turning into salamanders/ something else? They were only used for the uh, door controls on the flyer, no major systems? They noticed right before they were going to go to warp 10, and saved the crew.
Truly, if Neelix didn’t cook those fancy mushrooms from that random off-screen world, they might have gotten home faster.
I don’t think there should have been post-home episodes. I do, however, think they should have shown Voyager landing (remember, it can do that) on Earth and watching people walk out into the Terran sunshine, followed by an empty bridge except for Janeway who says goodbye to the old girl after seven long years.
Reposting what I posted in Ten Forward since it was an attempt at a serious answer anyway:
Since only the Romulus system was destroyed, presumably there were plenty of other planets in the empire inhabited with Romulans and with plenty of ships to defend themselves with. So the next big player could be… the Romulans.
I’ve been thinking about this- despite Ni’var being re-unified, there might still be a Romulan empire of some sort made up of the remaining planets the Romulans controlled.
Also, I assume the Romulans didn’t bother evacuating the Remans, so they’re probably mostly extinct.
When the Western Roman Empire fell, what remained was the EASTERN Roman Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years. What was left in the east paid lips-service to the Roman empire (sometimes even calling themselves Roman, like the Holy Roman Empire). Rolmulans replacing the Romulan Empire is very realistic. Much the of the population/planets/etc remained. They lost none of their technology.
And I think that opens itself up to a post-Discovery timeline where there is a struggle between the unified Vulans and Romulans on Ni’Var and the Romulans that are the remains of the old empire. Especially since The Burn had probably kept them mostly separated for a long time.
That makes great sense as well. To keep beating the Roman analogy to death, the Eastern Roman Empire did clash with the remains of the Western empire, trying to take it back under the Roman umbrella (Justinian/Belisarius/etc). They sent armies all over Italy/Spain/Africa/etc trying to re-unify the old Empire. It didn’t work, since the new kingdoms that emerged didn’t want to be under the control of the far-off emperors. Once they split, there was no going back to unification.
Good to know that this is here, where oddball topics might have better focus. Coulda used a heads up a week ago via c/tenforward, but hey, I’ll take it.
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