10 MORE Crazy Star Trek Fan Theories
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I appreciate your reference to tie the Ahab remark back to Trek but I think you're way off the mark with this one.
I am a ships Master, I have a crew, and the number one responsibility of a ships master is to get your crew home safe. Ahab put the lust for his revenge above all else, and got himself and his entire crew killed (save for Ishmael).
Picard is an archeologist and has a definite affinity for old things, especially literature. Pointing out that he was willing to kill his entire crew for his ambitions showed that he was a failure as a captain, something I suspect Jean-Luc would never allow.
that meshes better with my take on picard ... he was being compared to a self centered revenge seeking captain instead of a good captain who;s ship and crew are more important than he is ...
that's the main understood intent conveyed in the movie, this video is about 'crazy fan theories'
I feel like calling someone "Ahab" has been an insult as long as Moby Dick has existed. Did the writers of this piece think Melville wrote Ahab as a heroic character or something? It's not like he was compared to Achilles or some other more nuanced character (that still have villainous or anti-heroic negative traits).
@@QuintusAntonious no Ahab was written and is depicted as a revenge seeking tyrant ... which is what Picard would have objected to ... and him being an amateur archeologist he would KNOW the story of ahab ... and being compared to that captain would obviously insight anger as he didnt want to be Ahab
@@A2theC That’s a good point it is nothing but a “crazy fan theory” after all. The writers would probably laugh if they heard it
I always liked the thought that Q are just humans who evolved after an unthinkable amount of time and Q just made sure they evolve correctly
Yeah, I've always loved the idea of some sort of human Q bootstrap paradox. The Q made sure the humans became the Q, so they could make sure the humans became the Q, so they could make sure the humans became the Q, so they could...
@@rodvincent Yup Q is what humanity will become
It only really seems likely from an anthrocentric viewpoint. Remember, Q appears as human to make encounters with humans easier for us to understand. Even when we see the Q's plane of existence, we're told that everything we see is a simplified illusion since our minds apparently couldn't understand the infinite possibilities contained within each Q and their realm.
We see them as a bunch of humans standing around a house because that's the most logical way for a human mind to understand a collection of entities. we have no way of knowing what they "really" look like.
With the ability to travel to any point in time and space and insantly change things to you whims, there doesn't seem to be any reason to "guide" humanities evolution when they have the power to instantly turn us in to gods (Like they did it that one TNG episode to Riker I think)
It seems more likely, given their nature of being somewhat petulant and bored that Q just enjoys torturing humans. I imagine that each Q spends some time with each and every life form in the universe, trying to learn about them and understand them, evenrually getting bored and testing their limits and then moving on to the next unwitting species.
Ditto! I've often thought that's what the original idea or plan must have been. I would think Gene Rodenberry would have already thought through the story arc of Q, for him to have introduced and repeatedly used Q through the series. And the obvious focus of Q on humanity and none of the other races, clearly indicates a direct connection with Humanity.
Q was always mad because he came after P.
I want a theory that explains why sometimes the universal translator is translating everything Klingons say (they are presumably always speaking in Klingon) but sometimes they'll say something in Klingon and Sisko or Picard will hear it in Klingon and have to translate themselves.
Theory: The translator recognizes intent, it knows (and allows) users to willingly circumvent translation. Also I've noticed that what isn't translated are words with long definitions that aren't easily worked in (oh, that two-word phrase means someone who goes somewhere to meet someone and does something with them) and foul language (like the klingon word p'tak). I assume the translator aims to keep what it translates limited to how long the user speaks to avoid noticeable dubbing issues (think old dubbed godzilla movies).
@@jimmywoolever798 this is fair. I'm mostly irritated by the breaking of immesion for things that translate literally like "Today is a good day to die." Maybe the Klingons get to select specific phrases that they want to omit from translation? Preferrential phrases?
Yes, they say something in the alien language and the other character will say, "Oh, you honor me by speaking my native _____(insert language here)."
Even though it seems to always translate properly.
The UT translates languages it knows or can decipher. It is one of those Clarktech things that are convenient but under scrutiny makes little to no sense. When a Klingon talks and a Federation UT does not or is unable to translate, it may be a Klingon dialect or even Klingon sub-language, such as battle language, the UT can not make sense of.
@@jimmywoolever798 If that's the case, then I would hope that the UT has a "Speed Racer" option.
We've known since Enterprise that waste wasn't discarded, but repurposed. Trip went so far as to say they could even make boots using the protein resequencers(if I remember correctly). Now while the replicators of Discovery may break the waste down to their atomic level, we know the replicators of the TNG era use a complete matter/energy system. This is one of the reasons Janeway chastised Chakotay for replicating a watch as a gift to her, even if he had saved replicator rations to produce it. A side note: it was only after she found the watch and realized Chakotay disobeyed the order to return it to the replicator that she saw the gift's value, keeping it on hand as she continued through the Year of Hell.
That all said, we know that there are toilets, even bath tubs, on starships(Diana Troi always seems to have one around. Also Neelix used one in Voyager's premier). However I don't think there's much evidence of pipes running through the bowels of the ship by the 24th century. And there bloody well better be toilets on those shuttles. Those trips can be long...
There was another moment that Phlox was experimenting with creating high protein potatoes, he asked Trip to try one (but didn't tell him what was different about it). Trip's response, with a disgusted look: "It taste like resequenced protein." Could easily be translated to "it taste like Sh**".
Also I believe it was in the episode Simitude when Sim was considering "running away from home", he made the comment that there aren't any bathrooms on shuttle pods, which brings to mind the episode of Shuttle Pod One. Malcolm and Trip were stranded for quite sometime... all of that bourbon had to go somewhere.
I noticed a whole lotta pipes onboard the Enterprise when Scotty was beamed into one
@@netgnostic1627 Indeed. It's mainly why I specified the 24th century. But I should point out that a number were likely to protect wires used for power and data transfer. But with everything a starship must do, I'm sure there were plenty of water and sewage pipes.
And for clarification, I know you're talking Kelvin Universe, but the "Prime Universe" NCC-1701 Enterprise had plenty of pipes, which I was referring to.
@@silversonic1 You mean the ones labeled "GNDN"?
@@tomkerruish2982 Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing.
It always came across to me as though humanity was the predecessor to the Q Continuum and maybe Picard becomes the first Q which is why Q was so fascinated by Picard.
Omg🎉 , you’re the first person I come across with the same theory!
The "racist against whales" one - Nope. Picard is reknowned for his resolute yet calm and objective rationality when dealing with any crisis. To be compared with Ahab is to be accused of irrational personal obsession which leads to deeply flawed and risky for all decision making. No wonder he got pissy.
The "toilet one" - The clues written on the wall. It says "Do Not Use In Space Dock" which suggest the waste is simply flushed outside. British trains used to have a sign in the toilets which said "Do Not Flush Whilst in Stations".
didn't the klingons get warp drive from defeating the hurks invasion?
Didn't they show a turd in space in Generations the movie? Oh wait....that was champagne.
Dude no. You and the video are both wrong. He got pissy because it was TRUE.
Picard was assimilated by the Borg and did heinous things under their influence and he HATED them for it.
(ofc this is played up some for the movie but that is the reasoning and it makes good sense)
Remember he shoots that one up in the holodeck and she's like "It's almost like you enjoyed it?!"
She did not understand Picard's past so she was like wow this guy is murderous wtf but once you understand Picard's past it makes sense.
Remember too Picard is confronted with this past and takes crap over it from Sisko and presumably others at times as well. He becomes a somewhat controversial figure some questioning even if he should be allowed to return as Captain. Basically he got raped and was forced to do horrible things against his world and then half the world sees him as tainted and hates him so he has a HUGE grudge with the Borg.
That all being said - it is true humans were more evolved then and whales/dolphins actually have a place on the Enterprise. That might've made it extra offensive but no.. he got upset because he WAS getting obsessed with stopping and killing the borg. That is what the writers intended and it's quite clear if you know his past.
@@benbaker6360 Kind of. Destroying the Enterprise would leave his crew stranded in the past, so fighting while there is still a chance to retake the ship is not objectively wrong. At least it is not more wrong than Janeway making the 70 year trip back home instead of finding a nice place to settle. Although you can make the argument his trauma caused Picard to take the worse of the two options, just as Janeway's judgement was clouded by guilt.
Considering what a mess the Enterprise A was, many systems where not working and even the turbolift shaft had the wrong decknumbers, it is possible the crew put the stickers on the toilets as a joke.
The holodeck would be amazing but without a doubt the matter replicater would be the most useful thing from Star Trek
Replicator isn't even a debate. It would "cure the world" over night. Almost literally. It's even 100% possible once we can create and efficiently use that amount of energy.
@@dhotnessmcawesome9747 If everybody gets one at the same time. Scarcity is already mostly artificial, due to the prevalence of sociopathy among CEOs and politicians being over 20 times higher than average
@@alakaniNull. We're so far away from that tech that thinking it'll come in a world like today is frankly... stupid. So when we get to a point even remotely close to the beginnings of that kind of power production needed... I'll hear all about your party pooping concerns. Hey... We found the poop!
@@dhotnessmcawesome9747 Which one are you, Arridor or Kol? :P
@@dhotnessmcawesome9747 We already have 3D printers, which is a small step in the direction of a replicator, without too much energy expenditure.
Re Q, a theory I'm fairly convinced of is that the reason why he did introduce the UFP to the Borg when he did was to... prepare them for the Dominion. I mean think about it. Q Who is set at the height of the "peaceful" period of the Federation, they got their ass kicked at Wolf 359, and then Ben Sisko helped develop the Defiant class. Which just so happened to be absolutely critical during the Dominion War.
Now, if he did it because he genuinely cared or because he didn't want the Dominion to roll all over his favourite toy is up for debate...
The holodeck thing is created by so-called "fans" desperate to be validated because they can't accept that a part of Trek they don't like *cough Enterprise cough Discovery* is part of the canon timeline.
The waste question is answered directly in Star Trek enterprise during the video message the crew sends back to the elementary school the waste is broken down into matter by replicators and used to make clothing and supplies and even food
Since its a prequel, we might wonder whether the technology chanhed or improved over time. Its stated in Enterprise that the food synthesisers are quite rudimentary compared to the replicators from TNG. I believe they require organic matter such as protein to create edible food. In TNG they make food by converting energy into matter, so they don't need to feed waste in to it, just energy.
@@SineN0mine3 ...I remember reading in a sourcebook that Starfleet vessels carry a store of generic unspecified matter to be used by the replicators for the purpose of replicating the desired items...
...waste products are broken down by the waste extractors and then reconstituted in the generic unspecified matter stores, there awaiting repurposement by the replicators...
*this stylish uniform exists thanks in part to the fecal matter reclaimed and reassembled at the molecular level of the crew and our amazing advances in technology...woohoo!!!!!*
@@miklosernoehazy8678 I remember reading that, too. The replicators work at the molecular level, but the transporters work at the quantum level.
on Enterprise those are resequencers, not replicators. they didn't have replicators until like TNG, even in TOS they were still using synthesizers and resequencers to make stuff.
Re: "Hide and Q"
I've always believed that "Hide and Q" was written as a "Your results may differ" variation of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," with Riker essentially becoming Gary Mitchell...Riker, unlike Mitchell, chooses not to allow his absolute power to corrupt him absolutely.
And this has led me to an insane fan theory of my own: what if The Great Barrier is the home of the Q? What if, instead of manifesting themselves and appearing to Kirk and his crew in person, they simply tossed a few mind-bombs at these curious primitives just to see what would happen...?
I like that theory! That's a good one!
I imagined the great barrier was a sort of prison for an exile of either the Q or Nacene (The Caretaker) for manipulating species across our galaxy, instead of helping 'maintain balance'
The thing with the Q is, you can imagine them to be behind everything
Since nothing seems to he beyond their capabilities and time doesn't matter for them at all
P.S.: There are official schematics on The Enterprise 1701D from TNG, and apparently, there is only one toilet on the schematic. That must be one heck of a line up for a ship that typically had 1023 people aboard it, not including guests.
Worf: Captain Picard, this new Klingon hairstyle I have to wear is emasculating enough as it is, but a bidet in my quarters? Really??
Wasn't the crapper on deck 1?
On a late night show James Doohan once said “We had no toilets on the Enterprise… but we did have phasers”.
Bum me out, Scotty!
Doohan explained that Starfleet Academy lost a lot of cadets until they began providing mandatory classes in aiming those phasers properly.
William Shatner had a luxury toilet designed to look like the bridge of the Enterprise built into his house. With his "captains chair" being the seat where he does his business. Talk about boldly going where no man has gone before.
And you have to wonder how many transporter clones are used for special missions
The Klingons first contact with an interstellar civilization was when they were attacked by the Hurc... I always just presumed they got their warp capable ships from that conflict... We really need a prequel Klingon based Star Trek show I think...
Possibly the Hurc were their "gods" they killed because they didn't need them anymore, after they took their technology.
That's why Klingons were always so stand-off-ish. First attacked and almost destroyed by the Hurc. Thereafter by one of the most Battle-Hardened Ferocious species ever, The Tribbles.
You still can hear the older opera singers give tribute to the lives given in that war.
Yeah that may be so but they still had to learn how to use warp technology.
@@kimbelsimpson7535 I still get the chills thinking about those Tribble Invasion Force Warriors.
it would also give a 'factual' explanation for the Klingons having killed their gods in their mythology
I always assumed that the Klingons would have had take warp technology, cloaking technology, and even disrupters from another species that they had conquered. After all to the victors go the spoils.
I'm pretty sure they stole cloaks from the Romulans.
@@GabePuratekuta agreed, their cloaks shared traits in common.
@@GabePuratekuta I think they traded for the tech. In exchange Romulans would get D7's after it was made clear their BoP weren't up to fighting Connies even with their plasma torpedoes. The real world reason was a reuse of the D7 footage, but it makes sense since both sides were enemies of the Federation.
the klingons stole disruptors and warp technology from their would be masters the Hurc when they expelled them from their world, and I believe they canonically, while allied with the Romulan Star Empire, were granted cloaking devices.
How would Klingons be able to steal such advanced technology in the first place? How would they get to where the technology is? Or, conversely, what sufficiently advanced culture would visit an obviously hostile planet like the Klingon homeworld and then somehow be robbed?
I think somebody on the writing staff of whatever Star Trek franchise is currently developing should address this interesting question in clear and convincing detail.
Biomatter is among "everything we aren't using" when they say they recycle everything that possibly can be. Most matter breaks back down to energy and then can be used to create new matter. They covered it well enough for me.
Why don't they ever show a toilet? Well... why WOULD they? I don't need to see Riker take a squat.
Not the way he would climb over it before sitting down...
@@binky2301 Facing the wrong way.
@@peterjf7723 Exactly! :-)
That's a vision I did not need. 🚽💩🤢
@@peterjf7723 Hey, in the future, there may BE no wrong way.
You know, I just watched all seven seasons of Startrek Next Gen, and every time Picard says "Captains log", all I see in my mind is a big nicely formed poo. In fact, when I need to go to the bathroom in company, I normally say " Excuse me, I need to go write the captain's log" ! Sadly not many people know have ever watched Startrek let alone become fans, so the joke is sadly, just for me. I think it might be time to write the captains log !
Nice to see Bree again. 🖖
The theory for #5 about Q makes sense.
Love the insert of Trip’s winking at Capt. Archer during “These Are the Voyages... ” when Bree mentioned “Section 31 agents”, a nice homage to the Enterprise novel The Good That Men Do.
In regards to Theory #2, Captain Picard made a similar observation in the TNG episode “Ship In a Bottle”.
Ah yes, Section 31... whose best people are Agents Baskin and Robbins.
In the 24th century, replicators synthesize food and utensils for meals. To "clean up" one only has to place the utensils and any leftover food back into the dispenser where it all dematerializes. I'm thinking for toilets, it's a similar procedure where waste is collected in a receptacle and is dematerialized.
That would certainly simplify the need for plumbing.
would also work in reverse for sinks and the few bath tubs we see on screen. replicator in the wall just creates the water needed for them to function, extremely little plumbing needed and only has to be programmed with the structure of water and what temp is being requested. and in the drain there is another micro replicator that just converts it all back into energy.
I imagine that the poop is reconstituted into raw matter to be used in the replicators!
Think about _that_ next time Deanna Troi is craving chocolate!
Store their 'Captains Logs"..... I couldn't stop laughing... Well Done!
To continue the poop theory: In TOS and Enterprise, food replicators were not used, yet beaming technology existed. My theory is that food replicators were possible much earlier, but it took at least a generation or more for people to accept the idea that their food was made up of poop (and other waste) materials.
Enterprise had a Chef on hand with a galley, much like modern vessels. TOS had food synthesizers, which is something akin to 3d printing of what appear to be space food style rations (as envisioned in the mid 1960s). TNG used replicators which utilized a base organic compound, altered at the molecular level into whatever the crewman ordered (food, clothing, etc).
The poop deck takes on a whole new meaning for Starfleet
Star Trek as a holodeck simulation also explains away canon and redesign inconsistencies; each time it it happens it's simply because we're seeing someone else's own saved game file who chose different past dialogue options or used different texture resolution mods.
yeah with a holodeck you can make a real startrek ship to command taking star trek bridge crew to the next level
I prefer recursive time travel events. Where the intrepid crew rights a wrong in the timeline as best they can but it can never be perfectly fixed and that subtly changes every OTHER time travel event that ever occurs and suddenly random filming props show up on screen and R2D2 is floating in space and tech seems to change in aesthetic.
and the simulations are based on crew logs, which is why we regularly hear someone entering a log. Other canonical discrepancies are due to inconsistencies and misremembered facts in crew logs.
@@treyabraham515 watch star trek TNG parallels that's actually why there are inconsistency's the shows come from different quantum reality's where thing occur differently due to the making of different decisions by the crew members
"Where they store the Captains logs" lmao!! A true "save the best for last joke" there! A really big nugget!!😂😂😂
There's a literal joke about that in the PC game Space Quest 6. You should check it out.
For the consoles there is a relatively easy reason for it...it's a response to the Klingon computer virus' used at that point in time. Having the consoles being a lower tech, but less able to be messed with seems like something that might be possible there. And the TNG era ones continued it there rather than reverting to what would be viewed as more directly similar to the prior ones...it takes a while before the more open ones would be used even elsewhere
and yes men wearing skirts
The Captain’s “logs”??? 😂😂
They have replicator and transporter systems which can assemble and disassemble things at the subatomic level. Excrement is simply broken down into subatomic form and stored as raw matter in the replicator matter pool. Likely they choose an ultra-dense inert form of matter such as lead for the storage.
Lead is not inert.
So, is Lower Decks supposed to be considered canon? There seem to be a lot of references in lists like this. 🤔
Supposedly it's canon to Star Trek: The Animated Series' universe. But really, exploring 'crazy Star Trek fan theories' is kind of the point behind Lower Decks, so you'd expect that anyone making a list like this would be able to cite it.
@@dembones5005 Good point! 👍
I didn't realize that was even a question. I assumed it was canon to begin with.
#7 But Picard didn't feel insulted when compared to Ahab, he could even quote the book on the spot. It was just this moment he could see things clear and that he was on the wrong path. Through the power of literatur!
Wasn’t there a Voyager episode where they went back to the 1990s and it was revealed that the computer age wasn’t supposed to happen when it did but was the result of time travel? I always assumed that TOS took place before the time travel changed the timeline
That fits with my fan theory of choice. That Captain Braxton's time ship crash created the multi-verse. It's established in TOS that the Eugenics War was devastating and happened in the mid-late 1990s, but when Janeway and crew beam down to the 1990s later there is no mention of any war and Janeway wasn't even surprised about that. So TOS is how history would have played out with no time travel. Including, computer age of the 90s stunted because of the devastation of the 90s. Voyager lands in an alternate time line closer to our timeline where armed with knowledge of this war to come, mankind did something about it and prevented it from happening. Genetic engineering was banned and prevented early on. The ban on genetic manipulation wasn't a result of the war but a fear of what it could have led to. It's perfectly possible in this timeline that the war did happen sometime later into the 21st century. Enterprise and Strange New Worlds both mention the war but not the 1990s. Which may explain why their tech is more advanced than TOS but having someone called Noonien-Soong on the bridge is still a bit controversial. Now at the same time, there could be another timeline where people found out about the upcoming war and it made them more scared. More isolationist. Borders closed. Fear won out. Violence was the result. And that's where the mirror universe came from.
Serious lols at “captain’s logs”
I love that they played a clip of the TV show "Dinosaurs" when speaking about the Voth... especially since they also showed the punk on the bus from Voyage Home. The punk was played by Kirk Thatcher who also worked on "Dinosaurs"!
I like the nod to railroads in the toilet segment.
"Do not use while in spacedock" is a reference to old train cars with non-retention toilets.
Yes that meant flushing the toilet would dump the waste on the tracks cause back in the day apparently that was okay. So "Do not use while standing in station" was posted for obvious reasons.
Yes, it's referred to as Grey Water.
At an appearance by James Doohan at my college in the early 1980s, he was asked how Enterprise crew members went to the bathroom. “That’s one place where the transporter beam comes in mighty handy,” was his response.
One thing fans never consider is that some aliens in Star Trek actually have learned English and are actually speaking English. Vulcans have referred to English as a "relatively simple language", so a lot of Vulcans have presumably learned English and are actually speaking English. A lot of the Vulcans serving in Starfleet have actually learned English and are actually speaking English, e.g.: Spock, Tuvok, and T'Pol. It is not the universal translating translating Vulcanese to English, a lot of Vulcans actually do know how to speak English and will actually speak English. Some Klingons have actually learned how to speak English, e.g: Worf. Worf was adopted by a human family and raised by that family on Earth from a young age. Worf was presumably taught English and can actually speak English (as a second language). Worf may even actually speak English better than he can speak Klingonese, but refuses to admit this fact. Also, in the movie Star Trek Beyond, the alien named Jaylah is shown to actually know how to speak English. They even explain that Jaylah learned to speak English from music and the records of the starship she lived on, all in English. So not all the aliens are speaking alien languages that are translated by the UT, only most of them of them. A lot of the fans seem to forget this from time to time.
One can only imagine how much shorter your comment would have been without all the "actually"'s (eleven, if I counted correctly).
While silly, I think Occam's razer for the bathroom issue is probably the best go to. Everyone goes to the bathroom like normal, when flushed the waste is sent to processing to turn it back into raw material for the replicators. That way if there is a problem you don't accidently beam someone's colon to raw materials, you just have to flush a septic tank.
Also the comments I've seen where "oh they've been modified not to poop anymore": (because I've seen that in multiple locations ffs)
1) you mean the culture that won't genetically fix horrifically debilitating genetic diseases (even though they have the tech showing how on their computers no less that anyone can access with no clearance) will somehow super colon the entire species? : No
2) or you could have a septic system with a...crappy...transporter that feeds into the replicator.
I'm now wondering if the vidiians filter out the contents while harvesting digestive systems
I could see Ensign Tom Paris on septic duty as part of his punishment carrying the waste over to the replicator and hitting recycle, turning it back onto energy.
Harry would say something sarcastic to him and get a good reaction.
@@davidm4566 I can totally visualize the scene! Nice idea!
It makes perfect sense as well. Having bodily waste broken down into its base components on an atomic level would render everything completely sterile and just fine for use in food replication. This way you would create a closed system that makes logistical issues far less of a hassle. Also people complaining about the quality of replicated food probably all have way too high standards, because if the food is reassembled out of raw molecules into what ever dish you desire it should be indistinguishable from self prepared actual meals, since it would be identical. Maybe for people in the 24th century, preferring an actual naturally grown T-bone steak roasted over a charcoal fire over the exact same steak from a replicator is just a psychological thing.
@@Draeandor I think the issue people have with (early?) replicator food is exactly that it will always taste the same. Everytime you cook something for yourself there will be little differences both in your ingredients and the way you cook them. The dishes will mostly taste rather similar but not always exactly the same unlike replicator dishes which will always taste the same given the same request.
An easy way to fix this would be to take a few dozen cooks and let them make their own slight variations of the same dish then scan all those dishes and when someone requests a dish from a replicator randomly pick one of the dozens of saved variations.
Really enjoyed this video! Great work! Vote for a part 2
The "more" in the title already indicates this is part 2 (or 3 or 4) of the series.
Captain's logs ... OMG I died!
4:25-All right, I’m gonna share my theory about the push-button age evolving into the tablet-age:
In much the same way our culture still can’t seem to get enough of 9-11 inspired stories-even if I think they’re finally beginning to fade away-the people of Earth, remembering all World War 3 and all the tragic events thereafter, wanted a more solid tactile environment. Push buttons, then makes a lot of sense, as does the basic, solid, unadorned build of Starfleet vessels…
They make more sense in general. Touchscreen controls are ideal for multi purpose devices. Most of the consoles on the bridge and elsewhere have dedicated purposes and everybody has access to tricorders and datapads. It makes sense to use the portable handheld devices for multipurpose and reserve sturdier more tactile controls for the most important functions.
It would be rather inconvient, for example, if somebody had adjusted Worf's control scheme without notifying him causing him to launch torpedoes instead of powering up shields.
There are also an abundance of engineers onboard who can reconfigure controls if they are ever needed, but since it would take a bit of work to do they're unlikely to change without good reason.
I can only hope that by the 25th century, they've managed to make a touchscreen that actually works and doesn't break under the smallest amount of stress. I'm sure touchscreens have a pretty limited application in actual militaries today for good reasons.
Captain Picard be like
"Pee, earl grey, hot"
Any theory on why no one seems to wear body armor when going into a combat situation? Or a personal force field?
They watched Star Wars and concluded that armor is useless against energy weapons. 😅
@@dermotcraddock4802 apparently, nothing at all is somehow better...
@@ranwolf7650 Jokes aside though, the TOS movies occasionally show security people wearing futuristic body armor. It seems to have been forgotten later on. Though I admit it looked kinda silly anyway, and the question really is, how much can armor help against weapons which *vaporize* bodies?
@@dermotcraddock4802 Personal forcefields would be the next best thing. Minimal tech required and they could block energy beams.
@@notsyzagts7967 That's true. Might be a question of energy consumption though. They had personal forcefields in TAS, but IIRC those were in order to survive in space. Didn't Worf jury-rig a single use shield for himself once? Anyway, at least in the 32st century, where, as we have seen, people carry around personal transporters, there's really no excuse not to put a personal shield emitter onto one's clothes as well.
I enjoy these videos almost more than the shows themselves. It's interesting how each show cross-references with other shows, and this channel gathers data in a respectful manner.
This is a very clever edit with humour (data's fingers stuck, etc) and voiceovers. Captains logs, lol! xD
Not sure about 7. Didn't Lily say that his obsession had blinded him to the Enterprise being lost?
Yeah, I think that Picard was offended truly because her analogy was so spot on. He identified with it strongly, and he hated that she pointed it out.
Q once told Riker he knows that humanity will evolve even beyond Q‘s understanding, so I guess that’s a good motive to observe a species
My theory is that TOS was in the middle of a retro resurgence. Much like how vinyl made a comeback.
The more videos I watch here the more I feel like I need to dive into Star Trek online
Worth a thumbs up for the thumbnail alone.
Very funny and instructive!! Thank you.
Oh, no. She said “captains logs”. 13:15 I wasn’t prepared. 🤣
Actually the starship waste is densely compacted and is part of the warheads of Photon Torpedoes. The designers named them 'photon' as Poopton Torpedoes was not socially acceptable.
Maybe they could be renamed as pharton torpedoes. You know, silent but deadly.
Literally giving the enemy sh*t :)
The "Captain's Logs" line had me laughing.
BA-HAHAHAHA Store their captain’s logs! Love it!
Amazing video as always. Thank you Brie
I really wish the universal translators had been better explained. They've always seemed like a magically flawless plot device that never failed to work perfectly. Are they proximity based? If so, how are the crew still able to communicate with people when their commbadges are taken away? How are they still able to work just as well in the Delta Quadrant when it hadn't been charted or explored by the Federation? There are thousands of languages on earth alone, not to mention the rest of the galaxy; how does a device the size of a commbadge have the storage space for half the galaxy's linguistic database when ship's computers are so big?
It's a bit of a stretch, but I once heard the theory that because the translator gives everyone a generic "American" accent, characters who speak with an accent are actually speaking Federation Standard itself instead of filtering it through a translator. It goes a little bit of the way to explaining why Deanna speaks with a slight accent and her mother doesn't, or why Chekov and Worf's parents maintain Russian accents when many other earth languages, like French, are believed to be dead. I've also noticed that Worf's speech pattern is somewhat stiff and formal compared to other Klingons and he never uses any contractions. Maybe that's some weird effect of the translator too?
Oh my Gorn the clip of Geordi running when Brie said how do you poop on the Enterprise! 🤣🤣
Arena TOS. Unimaginable what Gorn bathroom habits were like
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"Captains' logs"
I do love this channel!
Loved the wink from Trip :)
The Captain Ahab reference was also a call to Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Captain Ahab in the 1998 mini series version of Moby Dick.
Enterprise is my favorite Quantum Leap multi-part episode.
Once -- just ONCE -- I wanted Archer to look into a mirror and say "Oh, boy!"
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax."
See the bit about it being fan theories. These are all found ideas from the community.
That really only applies in cases of anger. Stuff like this? Going into really deep brainstorming of a setting is a great way for other writers to work things out and create their own works. Plus with all the stories of science fiction inspiring real-world inventions, you've gotta think those inventors would've been doing deep thinking on such settings themselves.
LaForge: "Leak? I'm not detecting any leak."
Cochrane: "Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?"
Apparently our terms for bodily functions did not carry on into the future.
I suspect that's more because "leak" is modern-era slang. Star Trek IV showed the crew really wasn't very familiar with some of the esoteric "colorful metaphors" of American English... and it's pretty obvious from the way they talk in TOS and TNG/DS9/VOY episodes that future English has almost entirely lost slang, as well as a reason to be crude. Out of universe, it's obviously to get rated as family-friendly TV, but it makes just as much sense in-universe too. Languages evolve over time, and we're talking as big a gap between George Washington & us today as between us & Captain Picard. They're far better educated too: highly educated people tend to only use swear & slang words when absolutely justified for precision emphasis, rather than spewing them around indiscriminately. Over a few centuries of advanced education for everyone & the elimination of poverty and crime... yeah, it's totally plausible that a lot of slang would go the way of ye olde tyme hystory books.
Holodecks are cool but I'd prefer the Food Synthesizer any day. And "The Orville" did a great job on their Holodeck.
you want to eat shit?
My favorite crazy theory is that Star Trek is a story written by Benny Russell in the 50s...and beyond!
It's hilarious how much head canon and mental gymnastics it takes to force new Trek into the continuity.
"Well, maybe this happened...." 😂
There was an episode in VOY, where Neelix mentioned that only a few lavatories were working.
So we do know that lavatories exist.
(lavatories are what restrooms are called in airplanes)
"Where does the poop go?" It's like the sci fi version of what does the fox say
1:55 - HOW HAVE I SPENT THE PAST 52 YEARS WATCHING TREK AND NEVER NOTICE SPOCK'S FACE IN THIS SCENE?!?!?!? 🤣
I edited this video and I didn't even notice, I was far too interested in the other side of the screen 🤦😂
We sent the poop to the klingons, where they'll be no tribble at all.
lol on the thumbnail. kirk is making captain's log
The Zhat Vash might actually make androids make sense in TNG. Soong was on a backwater planet with people assuming he was a crackpot, and managed to create five androids totally under the radar. Whether that was intentional or purely accidental, it's why the leading cyberneticists of the Federation weren't able to do the same except after 30 years of research and two working models in the possession of Starfleet.
In fact, Picard season 1 leads to two fascinating theories. First, was Admiral Haftel a Romulan agent that killed Lal? And second, were cyberneticists considered really unlucky in the Federation, with all sorts of shuttle and transporter accidents going on around them?
The thing I find a little weird about them is if the Romulans are so anti AI, surely have a cybernetics division is flirting a bit to much with danger. I know cybernetics =/= AI but typically in sci fi they tend to be sniffing around each other.
Geordi was kidnapped by Romulans while heading to a cybernetics conference, iirc.
Edit: They did say an agent was attending the conference "as" Geordi, perfect opportunity for Zhat Vash to spy on/disrupt progress.
By my count, though, Dr. Soong only created four androids. Where'd you get five?
@@GabePuratekuta Ooops! There are actually six, although one is probably a highly confidential secret. It's Data, Lore, three prototypes (including B-4), and Juliana Tainer (which I missed).
The waste recycling is pretty simple actually, they function as chemical toilets but replace the chemical thing by a biomater resequencer to decompose the shit into atoms or small molecules to be reused in replicators.
I would never eat Chocolate Pudding or Anything Chocolate on the Enterprise D.. Sorry Troi! 🤣😆😳
I would like to know how starfleet was so successful when all its admirals were idiots who only made bad decisions especially in TNG.
You can add me to the list of curious inquirers.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Highly competent captains who can work around the pointy haired admirals
The ability to play politics and schmooze your way to the top is responsible for virtually all failures of leadership.
Section kept them in line.
I believe it's called 'The Peter Principle'...
I will forever giggle everytime I hear captains log now 😆 🤣
“Sandwiches are made from old recycled sandwiches”
- Leela
Definitely gives a new meaning to "Star Date 12345, captain's log..." =)))
I always presumed they poop behind the rocks and bushes on the class M planets.
Gives new meaning to, "To boldly _go_ where no man has _gone_ before!"
You have touched on two of my favorite theories. Although you have not taken them to their final conclusions.
When it comes to Q... Most fans have already speculated that squire trelane and q are from the same universe however I personally suspect they are the same individual and that this is the reason he is so fascinated with Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise.
Squire Tulane went out in his backyard to play with his humans and Captain Kirk broke his sword. "I'll fix you for that". And was promptly called in and apparently "grounded", for 80 or 90 years?
Well... As soon as his parents allow him to run out back and play again trulane grabs his magnifying glass to burn some ants with. Except Captain Kirk is not there to play with now. (Humans have much shorter lifespan than the Q.) Instead he finds Picard in command of his favorite starship. And Picard's no fun to play with. But then he finds riker and riker is fun to play with.
Given this back story, Q's fascination with the Enterprise and humanity in general becomes perfectly understandable he's a little kid with a magnifying glass playing with an anthill in the backyard.
Q is not obsessed with humanity: it is obsessed with Picard.
Just going off of the thumbnail, going to go paraphrase Trip Tucker: Basically, you end up wearing it 😂
Also, good to hear you again, Brie... traitor 😜💙
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
By the 24th century, humans have evolved beyond the need to poop.
When they say that #10 is ridiculous, I think it makes MUCH more sense that they use the transporters and replicators to break down waste into their component atoms for use later than say that they store waste.
Well, they use phasers to vaporize their waste! Their motto, 'We aim to please, so please aim!'
I thought they just used the three sea shells for the bathroom
8:20 I suggest the book series 'The Queendom of Sol' by Wil McCarthy. It's good science fiction centered around the idea of fax-gates (basically teleporters) copies of people, mortality, when death just means to lose the few moments until you last used a gate and all of the good stuff if you really overthink teleporter technology :D
I always assumed that waste was recycled by a replicator like device converting it to energy. We've seen leftover food recycled in the food replicator so that just makes the most sense to me.
it was confirmed in discovery.
As someone who suffers from chronic constipation the transporter toilet is the Trek Tech that I want the most.
I KNEW my Enterprise (D) manual would come in handy one day. According to it (re sewage):
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WATER AND SEWAGE RECYCLING
Each crew member aboard the Enterprise typically generates approximately 52 liters of wastewater and sewage per day. This wastewater is pumped to treatment and recycling units located in the environmental support complexes on Decks 6, 13, and 24. Preliminary treatment is accomplished by a series of mechanical filtration processes that remove solids and particulates. (The residue is conveyed to the organic waste processing system for further treatment and recycling.) Osmotic and electrolytic fractioning is then employed to remove dissolved and microscopic contaminants for treatment and recycling. The resulting water is superheated to 150°C for biological sterilization before being subjected to a final mechanical filtration stage, then it is returned to one of several freshwater storage tanks for reuse.
The various waste sludges recovered from the water recycling processes are a valuable resource. The organic waste processing system subjects the sludge to a series of sterilizing heat and radiation treatments. The waste is then electrolytically reprocessed into an organic particulate suspension that serves as the raw material for the food synthesizer systems. Remaining byproducts are conveyed to the solid waste processing system for matter replication recycling.
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Justified!
Since matter can be converted into energy and vice versa, i mostly assume when someone goes to the toilet they just converte the .."dark matter" into energy. This is the same mystery question like in demolition man with the 3 shells. ps.: in Star Trek Elite Force the game, u even see those shells in the bathroom.
I was just watching the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Projections", and among the systems that were mentioned offline was "sewage and waste disposal systems".
One of the behind-the-scenes shows talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation pointed out there is one toilet officially on the map of the Enterprise D.
Well they do say.. To boldly GO... lol
That last one now just makes me think that every “Captains log.. stardate…” narration was done while the captain was sat on the throne
Captain's log....about 5 inches.
Funnily enough with the revelations that Whales are much more intelligent than we knew at the time... Ahab was actually on the money that Mobey was genuinely as invested in the duel as he was.
Kinda interesting that as mad as Ahab was getting himself and his crew killed... maybe if the crew believed as he did they may have stood a chance.
Lois, it is called the "poop deck." That is why I pooped there.
- Peter Griffin
That's an episode. "the poo transporter has broken down sir". mass constipation ensues.
Hey Brie!! Hope you’re feeling well and had a terrific birthday a couple weeks ago!! Keep up the great videos!!