10 Star Trek Questions That Always Confused You

[@jwessel1969]

The best theory I've heard for the Borg only sending one ship at a time is that they just want to spur the Federation to develop their technology so that they are more advanced when the Borg decide to finally assimilate them.

[@Tricky117]

Farming the federation for tech, I've heard this one too and like the concept.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Yeah, they always seemed more interested in the tech over just adding physical bodies to their numbers. If they achieve the first goal, the second would be inevitable!

[@JoeyDee86]

That’s good except First Contact messes it all up. They went back in time to assimilate earth in the past and stop first contact and this the federation. Why did they travel across the galaxy THEN go back in time and then travel to earth? Hell, why not just go back in time and give past Borg modern technology? :P Long story short, if discovery did something like this, people with bitch and moan. Great movie though.

[@JoshtheJust]

Daystrom institute?

[@mattwatkins8750]

I thought that in Voyager End Game, the Borg had built transwarp conduits to the alpha quadrant to send armada’s and Voyager used it to get home before destroying it.

[@AndersonNeo12]

Why dont the Borg just send a fleet after Earth? "Because the TransWarp Hub that basically leads directly to Earth, won´t be installed until Tuesday!"

[@sabrevanson4412]

i understood that reference

[@tineye5100]

I like the theory that they “farm” humanity for the advances they make in response to each incursion.

[@leto-nl]

Kudos on the reference :) If I had to grade it I would give it a B :)

[@davidsantor1760]

Hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy? Or Red Dwarf ?

[@BassWakil]

I never understood the “why don’t the Borg send a fleet” thing. When they beam aboard a ship, they send one drone. If it dies, they adapt and send another. If it dies they adapt and send another. That’s how they do. They’re homogenous. One drone is the collective. One cube is the collective. Eventually one cube will be enough to assimilate the federation by itself.

[@boratb258]

Original borg was interested in the technology, send one cube every 10-20 years to get new technology.

[@probochronicles3991]

Keep in mind too, even with updates to defenses and technology, the Borg had enough knowledge of Starfleet from assimilation of Picard and others to mount a formidable defense against them. The battle of Sector 001, while more damaging to the Borg, still showed advanced starships being decimated easily. Sisko mentions that the Borg attack thinned out the fleet, despite the cube being destroyed. I would say they didn't send more than one ship because realistically, they didn't have to....

[@muse4ik]

I've always figured that since earth has been united for a few hundred years at that point and travel anywhere in the world is basically instant with transporters that regional accents have gotten a bit fuzzy by the 24th century, not to mention the effect universal translators would probably have on language

[@theultimaterental]

In Picard they mention that he moved to England at a young age, problem solved

[@generalilbis]

@@theultimaterental Picard S2 explained the Picard family abandoned Chateau Picard and France for the UK when Germany invaded France during WWII and didn't return until some time after 2023 and Renee Picard going to Europa. Jean-Luc Picard spent his pre-Starfleet life in France, but apparently English accents stuck around from when his ancestors were Frech expatriates living in the UK.

[@simonpreston]

Problem with the JJ-Prise being bigger is that it hasn't been scaled correctly. They just said it was larger, and that was that. But you then end up with absurdly huge windows, and an absurdly sized bridge.

[@aaronsugar7228]

The bridge had to be that big - they needed room for the Apple Store!

[@adrianhjordan1981]

To an extent they corrected the bridge issue. The dome is no longer the bridge, but the atrium behind the bridge seen in Into Darkness

[@redelephantsdotnl]

They also needed space for en entire brewery

[@LtFoodstamp]

Why try and justify JJ's poorly thought out changes. He didn't care about there being a reason.

[@warrenwebb8172]

I always thought Picard was speaking French all the time and what we hear is what the universal translator spits out.

[@MikeEPerez]

Exactly... For example, Google Translate's Japanese voice sounds nothing like I do speaking English. Incidentally, I also have Siri set to speak with a male Irish accent. If people only heard that voice speaking for me, they wouldn't know I have a Texas twang. ;)

[@StrangeFacinations]

@@MikeEPerez I think I love you

[@brianrandall7329]

Their lips wouldn't match the words coming out. Wouldn't aliens notice this?

[@warrenwebb8172]

@@brianrandall7329 wouldn’t that be a problem with every language ?

[@spencersholden]

@@brianrandall7329technically most of not all aliens are not speaking English so their lips should not match. It is just something you have to accept. Some words don’t translate like insults and other words.

[@ryanworkman3032]

Day/night shift on a starship is no different than that aboard a present-day submarine.

[@jamesbizs]

No different? It’s people from all over the world. People from all over all other worlds. Species from all over other worlds. Crew that deal with 10-50 hour days. At least on a sub, almost everyone would be around the same day/night schedule, give or take a few hours.

[@promontorium]

No different than anywhere on Earth, always. We sleep. Our need for sleep inherently creates a slowed down night period.

[@davepubliday6410]

I always assumed Picard was speaking French the whole time. They have universal translators. I assumed everyone, including aliens and every human, were constantly being translated.

[@chuxmix65]

Babelfish...

[@ralviar100]

Just like in the Voyager episode “The 37s” where Japanese was translated into English.

[@MustBeChase]

I've thought this ever since Quark, Rom, and Nog went back in time and weren't speaking english.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Borg: We have a cube. Federation: We have a Riker.

[@GabePuratekuta]

Borg: Locutus sends his regards.

[@JaredLS10]

The Borg could have destroyed Earth whenever they wanted. The Transwarp exit aperture that Voyager used in Endgame is stated by Barclay to be less then a light year from Earth.

[@johnbockelie3899]

The Borg just like to stab a stick into the Lions cage when dealing with Earth. "Lets see if Earth bites back ".

[@Infamous_B_C]

More people to assimilate. They just assume humans will eventually come around.

[@enzobambino]

How about “Why haven’t the Borg assimilated any cloaking technology?”

[@gothix5868]

I think it's because a cloak works using subspace tech as does their shields. I think it would be a conflict both together.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@gothix5868 As far as I know all cloaking devices used in Star Trek mean that the ship isn't shielded while cloaked. And the ships are relatively small, but still get detected every now and then (whenever the plot requires that). Borg ships are bigger, meaning they would be way easier to detect, which would turn the cloaking device into a disadvantage.

[@QBCPerdition]

They don't need it.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Ego. Only the weak hide. The strong, the nigh perfect simply arrive, take, and assimilate.

[@ADMNtek]

cloaks are irrelevant.

[@grahamturner1290]

The Dyson anecdote was fascinating, thank you. 🖖

[@paintingstarss]

I always assumed the weather was too dangerous for a shuttlecraft landing in The Enemy Within

[@gregoryt1139]

I figured either weather or terrain. Even Archer's pods required a flat surface, since those shuttles didn't have landing struts. But even if the thermal heaters duplicated and wouldn't operate, the shuttle could have dropped off more, despite not being able to land.

[@raystrong6812]

A minor correction regarding Picard's lineage... He was not the first Picard to leave Earth. He had predecessors who lived on Mars. He WAS the first Picard to leave the solar system.

[@leto-nl]

Yes the scene in generations in wich he tell this to Troy came straight into my mind

[@philiponeill6903]

My head-canon for the Breen has always been that they are the remaining Augments who fled the Federation and set up their own polity somewhere out on the edge of charted space.

[@calimann83]

Someone did an Analysis on why Voyager didn’t head towards the Bajorian wormhole. I can’t remember the details but basically while it is slightly closer it would cover a lot more unknown space. Janway would have chosen a direct flight because it was more certain.

[@JimmyOwen0992]

How about, you cant replicate dilithium or latinum but you can transport them with the transporter , but the replicators and transporters use the same technology and “scientific” principles?

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

You can't transport antimatter unless you're Wesley Crusher in Peak Performance

[@FokkeWulfe]

(This is just an in-universe explanation) Transporters and replicators are based on the same tech, but they aren't the exact same. There are definitive differences, some of which are for safety, some of which are simply due to limitations. The holodeck can simulate a warp drive, or a gambling parlour, but you can't psychically recreate the complex bonds required to make dilithium, or lantinum. It's like creating realistic humanoids on the holodeck, enough for the Pon Farr to be handled by our pointy earned friends, or for Vic Fontaine to run an entire nightclub, but you can't just *make* a humanoid from scratch. It requires a living humanoid to begin with. Behind the scenes, it just trivializes any storyline when you can just poof new stuff into existence.

[@jeremyadkins9665]

One question (well, nitpick) I have is with the original series: in the episode "A Private Little War", we are introduced to Doctor Mabenga, a physician on staff of the original Enterprise that "had experience treating Vulcans". Where was he in "Amok Time" or "Journey to Babel", two episodes where a key part of the drama deals with treating a Vulcan of a serious medical issue.

[@johnchedsey1306]

Perhaps enough was known about the Dominion that Janeway just felt that was a bad option to try to traverse their space to get to the wormhole. Works for me. I also wish in retrospect that Voyager didn't keep blowing up Borg ships and diminishing them as the scary threat in TNG. Instead, cat n mouse episodes where they have to use their wits to hide and escape Borg threats could have been more compelling. Anyhow, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.

[@benlevan5645]

Yeah I don't think the Dominion would have appreciated a Federation vessel coming through their back door.

[@ADMNtek]

considering she knew they would probably run into the borg at some point I doubt that.

[@thomasaquinas2600]

If you followed Voyager, you saw that Janeway had a breakthrough with Ray Walston(i.e. species 8472) who would be a gigantic ally in suppressing the Borg. Thus, the Borg were indeed the non-redemptive enemy.

[@r2Gt06]

The way they almost froze Sulu and the boys out will always break my heart, each and every time! 💔😔 The first time around, I srrrreeeamed: "SHUTTLLLLLEEEEEE!!"

[@alm2187]

Why didn't they just beam Sulu up, trap the Evil Sulu they get with Evil Kirk, and wait and see who wins? :-D

[@lokisgodhi]

Back in the 90s I worked out the TNG warp scale in the TNG technical manual, the brown book. Their scale warp speed to the 3.2 power. The TOS scale was warp speed to 3.0 power, ie cubed. We conjectured that transwarp was likely the TNG scale.

[@stevenschwartzhoff1703]

Actually, Data refered to French as "an obscure language" not a dead one.

[@CookinginRussia]

This was also a joke used in the Futurama series where Professor Farnsworth has a machine that translates his voice into French.

[@rjp1ectchannel]

How about, 'Is Jean Luc still in the nexus?' Considering it is able to take whomever ends up inside it to any place and time but can also alter their reality (Picard having a family for instance). Would returning to Veridian 4 to prevent the ribbon not also be an altered reality within it?

[@ebee-uz1oz]

the TNG trivia and goofs book mentioned that also....."why not Picard go back further to 10-forward and take Solan into custody...."

[@DMSProduktions]

@@ebee-uz1oz Who is Solan? Eddie?

[@ebee-uz1oz]

@@DMSProduktions soran...whatever his name is, haven't seen it in awhile.

[@shadowfox781]

@@ebee-uz1oz Exactly. I have been saying that for years. That is exactly what I would have done in that scenario. But then the scene with Picard and Kirk working together to stop Soran never would have happened . . . which is the only reason they made that movie in the first place.

[@Rockhound6165]

That's a fair point that I take a step further. It was said that once you're in the Nexus you can't leave so technically once Picard was in the Nexus, everything that happened afterward all the way up until now is in the Nexus.

[@CosimoIaia]

"If it could be properly harnessed" ... "encompass 250 millions M class planets" said in sync with Data. You get a like my friend.

[@getnohappy]

The big one. Why do they never use the transporters on shuttles when that system goes down on the ship (this is mentioned precisely once as an option in Power Play - TNG - and never again)?

[@NeilBlumengarten]

Or communications when the ship is damaged?

[@bleirdo_dude]

Or an escape pod when there's no more escape pods? 😁

[@ReverendMuncle]

Yes. Thank you! I was about to pose the same question, but probably not so succinctly. This is a glaring and ridiculous oversight by Riker (as no. 1 the ship and its ancillary craft fall directly under his remit) . Transporters are offline? Well we've got plenty more down in the shuttle bay, not to mention the captain's yacht just a few decks straight down from here

[@ReverendMuncle]

Also, whether or not the D's transporters are online, if there's a flipping emergency that requires an away team be deployed by shuttlecraft, why do they never think to order the computer to perform a site-to-site transport from the bridge straight into the Magellan?

[@GabePuratekuta]

Shuttlecraft didn't have transporters until the Runabout was intruduced?

[@QuixoteX]

It's been a while since I've seen ST5 but I think it's implied, though not directly stated, that Sybok was somehow receiving information that allowed them to get to the center faster and cross the barrier.

[@promontorium]

Asking why Voyager didn't go straight home means you didn't watch the show. They explicitly discuss this multiple times. The reason they don't are given 1. It would still be 70+ years which would drive them insane never contacting anyone or having a life along the way. 2. Meeting the different species is how they were able to get new technologies that shortened their trip. Just one or two of their detours cut their journey back by decades which is precisely why the series finale shows how they got back to Earth waaayy before 70 years. Why they didn't go to the worm hole forgets it's about as far with no guarantee the wormhole will still be there when they get there. To them the wormhole was new and wormholes are never stable forever. Imagine going for 50 years and then finding out it was gone 45 years prior. And then having another 40 years to go. Stupid plan. What is always forgotten by everyone but especially the show is that about 1/3rd of that 70 years would be in the Beta and Alpha Quadrants. In Voyager era canon, getting to just the center of the galaxy takes DECADES. And no the Federation wasn't 11% of the galaxy, it was probably .001%

[@ibji]

Here's a fun fact. When the final Harry Potter novel was released in France, it hadn't yet been translated into French. It became the first time the nation's best selling book was a book written in English. So sure, in the future, the French will speak with English accents...

[@Andrew-zv4fm]

This issue with the number 1 about the Borg is that Sisco said that the Borg threat became less important and that is why the Defiant was shelved. But, how do you explain the Intrepid and Sovereign class ships?

[@gali01992]

I saw an episode where Picard was introduced to an anomaly in space by Q. He was sent into the past and then into the future. In the future, he was on a Federation ship (commanded by Dr. Crusher?) that could go warp 13.

[@lynngreen7978]

Why are Abrams and Kurtzman's Enterprises so much bigger? Some inadequate men buy expensive cars.

[@lancecampbell4323]

The bigger question in “The Enemy Within” is why nothing was beamed down to the planet. Inanimate objects were not split so Kirk could have beamed blankets, heaters and shelters down to Sulu. Overall it’s actually a pretty average episode even allowing for its early production date

[@shadowfox781]

Even the inanimate objects were split in two. I remember one scene where they said, "We beamed down heaters to the planet, but their duplicates appeared moments later. They won't function."

[@colormedubious4747]

@@shadowfox781 True, but tents and blankets would function just fine -- and they'd get twice as many!

[@suddenrushsarge]

@@colormedubious4747 but what if the blankets/tents... were EVILLLLLL

[@colormedubious4747]

@@suddenrushsarge LOL. The away team would have been okay with that!

[@promontorium]

Night shifts exist because regardless if there's sun or not, people need to sleep. A 4 watch rotation doesn't mean there's no night shift either. It's not about a sun. It's about the amount of crew on board and an expectation of getting things done. Businesses close at night because people sleep. Well people sleep on a ship, so why would a number of watch stations stay manned if the people using them are asleep? So most scheduled work gets done during a "day shift". That's it. It's like that now, everywhere, always.

[@andrewkosmowski3985]

I think DS9 on "night shift" is not a problem for me because it is a Bajoran station, so it would be on "Bajoran Capital Time."

[@frostyboyken]

Makes sense. I always thought the Enterprise was on San Francisco time.

[@keiyakins]

​@@frostyboyken It probably started on that, but they most likely kept ship's time passing at one day per experienced day no matter what dilation or time travel did to the synchronization with Earth.

[@theultimaterental]

You forgot to mention in a TNG episode they are in the future and say they travel at warp 13. The question I’ve always had is when Voyager gets captured by Seska…Suder hides out on the ship. Didn’t they scan for life signs when they took over the ship? How was a crew member able to hide out and eventually take back the ship?

[@chriswheeler1283]

the gamma quadrent worm hole was about the same distance from where voyager ended up.....it would have taken about the same time as heading for the alpha quadrant

[@ADMNtek]

based on all the maps I have seen it was much closer a bit over half the distance.

[@toddnolastname4485]

Picard speaks in an English accent because he learned to speak perfect English in England. The only question is how is his French accent. Explaining why he speaks French with a heavy English accent (if he does) is another matter entirely.

[@oogboog6050]

Watching TrekCulture while watching voyager while wearing a star trek hoodie. I may need a psychologist

[@r2Gt06]

You need a badge, my friend! You're doing it right! 👌

[@adamgoss3638]

I blame the Chunnel for so many 24th century French people having British accents

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

Lol very good!

[@qdllc]

In truth, the more people travel and interact, the more dialects and accents get muddled. So, French people in the 24th century may have significantly diminished accents…especially if earth has adopted a uniform language.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

I always liked the idea that the Borg where Trans-Dimensional, much like their enemy 8472. When you are invading whole realities, the battlefields tend to be drawn less... 3 Dimensionally.

[@peterjf7723]

So essentially traveling at Warp 10 is much the same as using the Infinite Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[@nimbly1693]

I always assumed the borg calculated it would only take one ship and that was why they never sent more.

[@nottsork]

In the Episode "the Neutral Zone " Borg attacks are seen on worlds in the zone , the question is ? are the Borg actually far fewer in number than their vessels portray , are some vessels Skeletons crewed and only Head on attract vessels fully crewed , are Bog ships sent out with an assimilation crew , to pick up staff on the way to their destination

[@adrewadrew5860]

I think on wolf 359 that was logical, starfleet wasnt a treat. After discover flaws in Colective they change the way they operate. During first contact they have 8472 mostly in mind so they think 1 ship should be ok but they have back up plan just in case. After that they still have enemies close in delta qudrant but much less ships. What happend after Endgame we dont know. Propably Colectiv still exist but decimated and adapting to the new reality.

[@DanBen07]

I think that was just a Borg scouting party. Go to the area check it out assimilate. Then go away and come back the other places in the area.

[@jmoney9494]

Something I never understood is why sometimes they travel at lower warp speeds. Like an episode they had a crewmate stuck dying on a planet they used warp 7 to get there. It was even before speed restrictions

[@MrVermeulen02]

One word: Drama. It just looks better on screen.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

If ships going above their rated warp speed is extremely damaging to the engines, then going AT their rated warp speed is probably still damaging. I'd assume it's less maintenance and less fuel to go slower. Depending on their supplies then, speed may not always be a choice.

[@Snorlax-cuddles]

The voyager travelling to the gamma quadrant wormhole never seemed that confusing. The reason its so incredible is that its the only known stable wormhole as stated in deep space nine. Even so, wormholes can close which is shown in ds9 more than once. Taking the wormhole is too big a gamble, even for someone as reckless as Janeway. Spend literal years and years travelling to gamma quadrant wormhole only to discover the wormhole has closed

[@adamwhite2364]

Or been mined by O'Brien and Rom... Plus they knew by then that the Dominion was controlling that space and wasn't exactly friendly

[@moonmagi]

And they were about as far from the Gamma Quadrant exit as they were from Earth anyway.

[@Strash1892]

Today I saw a DS9 episode that started with Chief O'Brien and his crew trying to free some people who were stuck in an airlock and I wondered why they weren't just beaming them out? Yeah, I know that wouldn't fix the locked airlock, but why should these people have to wait in the airlock for that to happen?

[@greenbeacon394]

Was it the metal surrounding the airlock? Just a thought 🤔😳

[@MrVermeulen02]

This is a fair question! But I think the reason for this is the same as why there is shuttles flying around Starfleet HQ: it makes for good on-screen presence.

[@Allegheny500]

Not everyone likes having their atoms scrambled, I for one would never step into such a device.

[@markp4767]

@@Allegheny500 yep..same reason why you will not have a Covid Vaccine😅🖖🏾

[@Allegheny500]

@@markp4767 Had mine and the booster, whole different thing.

[@henrikharbin5521]

If I remember correctly, Karla 5 from TAS had a ship which ran as high as warp 36.

[@StrangeFacinations]

We're they all swamp creatures like what Paris and Janeway left behind?

[@Rpu4]

When I see this videos I am realizing how many was cut out from the series when it was televised in my country. But still imagine to live in a world when TV say to You Babylon 5 is a Star Trek Tv Show. The 90s in Slovakia was weird.

[@brianhelgerson87]

The Borg had two queens all along, the prime one and the transtemporal gestalt merger of the prime one and the rogue scientist from Picard. I postulate that it was the gestalt creature that thwarted any Borg plans for mass invasions throughout the centuries until she could gain complete control of the Collective just prior to the beginning of Picard Season 2.

[@randystegemann9990]

Picard's British accent could be explained by having him attend British schools when he was growing up.

[@MrVermeulen02]

Could also be explained away as him speaking French but the UT making it sound like British for our ears :)

[@markbrisson2102]

Did his brother, Ro-bear (Robert) also go to British schools, plus Marie, Robert’s wife, and the nephew too. All had British accents (played by British actors).

[@nevermorenovelist]

I thought it was because he had British nannies growing up.

[@kevinwestrom4775]

One question, related to the Borg & the First Contact movie; Since the Borg have the ability to go back in time whenever they want, Why did they choose to do their going back in time during a pitched battle versus quietly going back in time elsewhere when their enemies/opponents wouldn't know about it, to do the assimilation in the past, to assimilate a world like Earth, when Earth had no defenses especially against one like the Borg, and thus prevent Starfleet from stopping them from doing so, & or also doing it to Vulcan,, Romulus & Q'uonos, & maybe Cardassia as well ?

[@privatename5788]

Well, how do you know that they didn't? Maybe they did just that to a previous species that was a threat, and the timeline we all know and love is the result. Maybe the Federation is an even more powerful opponent than that previous species, and the Borg aren't going to chance doing it again and having a third, yet more powerful force to rise against them.

[@Kakarott03512]

Technology. If they go back they won't assimilate the advanced tech they seek from the species they take. Remember if they're not advanced enough the borg usually ignore

[@MrMysteryGuest1]

There's a reason for the Enterprise not having shuttles in "The Enemy Within": They were waiting for the shuttles to be delivered next Tuesday. 😆

[@bmd5713]

This was a great subject for a video, I learned a lot and deepened my fandom! Thanks guys!

[@MasterCleife]

All the Breen look like Carrie Fisher under their helmets.

[@benullom2301]

No, Andy Dick.

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

Every time there has been some problem with the warp core that might cause an explosion, they go to eject the warp core, and the warp core ejection system is offline. Every. freaking. time. Why don't they fix that shit?

[@briwanderz]

in next generation they had problems with the holdeck over and over and over... yet kept on using it. (you can also probably find many things in real life that cause problems over and over, yet people keep trying it)

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

@@briwanderz Yeah, but this is supposed to be the failsafe last resort thing if the ship is about to literally explode. That would be like if fire hoses or carbon monoxide detectors never worked, and people were just like, meh.

[@1leggeddog]

10:00 we know that Guinan's world was destroyed by the Borg.

[@gerag865]

Do we know if Guinan's world was in the alpha quadrant?

[@aaronsugar7228]

@@gerag865 I think it's established in Q Who that they were from the Delta Quadrant (in a conversation between Picard and Guinan).

[@DanBen07]

How far away is her planet. DATA says: At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours we would reach Starbase one eight five.

[@khandimahn9687]

A question I had about the Borg - if they have time travel, then why not travel back in time first, THEN go around assimilating? Sure would have made the trip to Earth a lot easier.

[@Infamous_B_C]

Mayve they already did 😉. And they are just keeping casualties as low as possible.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

Less technology to assimilate and whatever cultures they did assimilate that had already been assimilated would create a paradox where the borg would have prevented them from creating the tech needed to assimilate them in the first place.

[@williammitchell4417]

On the subject about shifts for the crew, very much like how some stores or manufacturing companies since a shift would be 8 hours in length x 3 = a 24 hour day

[@dragonmaster613]

Best explanation of the change in scale of Warp is like the Speed Limit on Earth. At one time, 55 MPH (Imperial) was treated like Voyager's Warp 10, but as time went on, this became small potatoes compared to Lightspeed. Or like the different betwixt Imperial measurements and Metric, TOS was Imperial and Voyager went Metric.

[@R_T_Ralph]

Very nice video. I know im a geek, but i dont read much beta (books) canon, but you guys are really on the ball. someday, i would love to join you, until then, i guess i had better get swatting up on some books.

[@waynemarvin5661]

It's "canon", not "cannon". A real geek would know that.

[@OhNoTheFace]

People who ask that first one about voyager, never payed attention at all, especially in episode 1 and 2

[@Siege181]

I think the biggest tribute I can give to Sean is that if I was a star fleet captain, I’d want him as my number one!

[@TheMsLourdes]

At the very least with the Dyson Sphere, if it couldn't be saved it should have been mined.. as in taken apart and materials reused as much as possible.

[@Brentsvideojournal]

Great video

[@alm2187]

If we're going to reconcile changed warp scales, how do we work in warp 13 from All Good Things?

[@ziiofswe]

Broken speed sensor? :P

[@aaronsugar7228]

My head-canon is that both the past and present in that episode were 100% Q constructs.

[@antney7745]

They must have re-balanced the Warp Speed scale. "Warp 9.5", "Warp 9.75", "Warp 9.9", Warp "9.975", etc. are probably common ship velocities in the future using the TNG scale - but are awkward to say, so they give them their own numbers.

[@DanBen07]

It's an alternative future made by Q So it didn't really happen.

[@WatzEtzFace]

The 4 shift rotation on the Enterprise was actually kept. That was how Beverly ended up with the shift in the first place. She has ALWAYS been a bridge officer. They just rarely featured her at command. The 4-shift rotation introduced by Jericho was kept because Jean Luc like the efficiency.

[@melvinmayo3746]

great , i have a question , why didn't Janeway just have spatial charges placed on the array with time setting to explode after it sent them back home?

[@MrVermeulen02]

Because there was no time to create those charges and she did not want to risk the Kazon disabling those charges. Plus she didn't know how the array worked and definitely would have lost against the Kazon sending their entire fleet at her.

[@HyperVectra]

also then its a 1 episode series

[@SanjayMerchant]

I don't mind that Jean-Luc and Robert Picard have British accents. What I keep wondering is how they have DIFFERENT British accents.

[@adambaker8689]

Very nice episode, merry Xmas

[@jameskiely3093]

A question I've heard a lot online is why Picard didn't use the Nexus to go back a week or so and prevent his brother and nephew's deaths and alert Starfleet to Soran's plan. My take is that Picard was still messed up over his loss and when he saw his imaginary family in the Nexus it did a number on his head. His sense of duty kicked in as a coping mechanism leading him to only see the option he chose.

[@wkwynn]

Voyager wouldn't use the Bajoran wormhole because the Gamma terminus was further away from the Caretaker's array than the Federation was, plus it meant crossing Dominion space who were at the time shaping up to be pretty hostile and aggressive and wouldn't take kindly to the incursion. On top of that, it would still be a pretty huge risk to assume after potentially decades of travel to get there that that wormhole would still be viable.

[@PandemonicHypercube]

I like how when the transporters on the ship go down, and there's a situation where it's very urgent to use them, no one ever thinks to use the transporters on the shuttles, which very clearly operate independently of the ones on the ship, otherwise how would they work when the ship is nowhere near the shuttle?

[@marcel_max]

about the French accent, that made me remember the best one I ever heard from a non-native... John Malkovich in the Johnny English movie, so perfect it was hilarious.

[@tigerbread78]

That last reason.....was absolute guff

[@r2Gt06]

Yaaay Seán!!! 💚💚💚🖖 Notification squad is ON, baby!!!

[@SuperChicken666]

As I recall from th stranded Sulu episode, I believe they did beam him down a blanket. Best they could manage.😮

[@jonathanschultesdulcimer]

I see the warp scale like the guitar amp in Spinal Tap. "Why not make warp 10 faster, and make THAT the top number?" "...This goes to eleven."

[@RemiDupont]

The video thumbnail was confusing... What about Data?

[@ziiofswe]

Which head came first?

[@Yasuda9000]

That is Data holding his brother B-4's head in the Star Trek Nemesis movie.

[@ziiofswe]

@@Yasuda9000 Oh. I thought it was from the time travel episodes where he replaces his head with his own but older (younger?) head, or something like that. Uhm... Time's Arrow.

[@MrJamiesilaban]

Picard's accent was kinda answered in picard season 2. the picards had lived in England for generations (since ww2?) and had only recently returned to France.

[@MrPeter924]

Awesome great video Star Trek

[@BigAL68xyz]

In the Star Trek 5 novelization, they explain that the Enterprise was able to penetrate the Great Barrier because Sybok received a formula via telepathy that allowed them to reformulate the shields. I don't know if this was in the original script and then dropped.

[@StephEWaterstram]

Are the Mintakans actually Amish Romulans?

[@DMSProduktions]

It's a DISTINCT possibility!

[@DanBen07]

"TROI: According to Doctor Barron's preliminary reports, the Mintakans are proto-Vulcan humanoids at the Bronze Age level. Quite peaceful and highly rational. PICARD: Which is not surprising, considering how closely their evolution parallels Vulcan."

[@myspin9680]

The 4-shift system worked for DS9 because Bajor days lasted for 27 hours.

[@eceozuduru5148]

Wasn’t it 26?

[@logicplague]

@@eceozuduru5148 yep

[@emsleywyatt3400]

My understanding is that AMT, who was making big bucks from the Enterprise model, absorbed a lot of the cost of build that full size shuttlecraft to get the rights for a model of it.

[@CommanderHuggins]

I think there was some fan speculation as to why Voyager didn’t take the Bajoran wormhole. It could be the case that the caretaker’s array was about the same distance away from the wormhole as it was from Federation space. And even if it was a bit closer it might still be reasonable to take the direct route. Stable wormholes are rare in Star Trek and precious little is known about them. For all they knew it could have collapsed before they arrived.

[@johnmorris7735]

They never would have made it past the Jem'Haddar...

[@DanBen07]

They mentioned the Wormhole few times and mentioned that they hope to find one in the Delta quadrant

[@joerider3769]

In Star Trek, there have been multiple changes in the timeline, usually restored, and until SNW, always back to it's original Prime Timeline. With SNW adapoting a Dr Who type theory that Time is always trying to reassert itself ( explaining the Khan Conundrum? ), why is the event that created the Kelvin Universe different than the other time changes? Under " Star Trek Rules" based on previous stories, the Prime Universe should be gone for good. Was Abrams a Q?

[@rhonwenstephens8539]

The Borg question is quite simple. But like the Cylons in BSG reboot they potentially have infinite resource, or at least close to it compared to our heroes. So sending say 10 cubes would make them almost too hard to beat (in BSG there typically only seems to be 1 or 2 Base Stars in pursuit at any given time). In universe- Borg equivalent or arrogance, i suggest. The Wormhole Aliens/Prophets - see Clarke's 3rd Law

[@adrianolehmanlmt]

the founders, the temporal aliens in enterprise and the ancient alien in tng we saw when the dna from several planets combined to make the algorithm that created the program in picards tricorder and displayed the progenitor alien race all appear to look similar! is there any connection to each other?

[@joermnyc]

Going through the galactic center in real life is a bad idea, it’s home to a supermassive black hole.

[@randystegemann9990]

And intense radiation.

[@martinperry1843]

Threshold was a misunderstanding. The more powerful engines opened a rift to an alternate dimension that altered Tom Paris' DNA.

[@antney7745]

[citation needed]

[@TheG21145]

The Gamma Quadrant is as far away as the alpha quadrant. Take a sphere and cut it into 4 equal quaters. See, alpha, beta, gamma & delta. They are not arranged in a line.

[@E_y_a_l]

That's not true, which distance is shorter depends on where the ship is inside the Delta quadrant and where inside the Alpha/Gamma quadrant it wants to go.

[@DocWolph]

The Dominion OWNS the Gamma Quadrant, and being at least an adversarial position, if not a straight up enemy (which becomes entirely the case a bit later in the Voyager series). Trying to cross Dominion pace unbidden and certainly with weapons and defenses woefully inadequate to survive so much as "stick their head in the door", would be suicide. So, going the long way home was safer (Albeit marginally once they realized they were crossing through the Borg's backyard.

[@E_y_a_l]

@@DocWolph They didn't knew the Dominion are that hostile during that time, I think Voyager started around DS9 3rd season, however they did knew the Borg are very hostile and dangerous, so it's not a logical explanation.

[@E_y_a_l]

@@OldManYellsAtClouds Do you know that they are equal distances? anything I find in google isn't official, but even if they were the same distance, the logical decision based on the information voyager had at the time was to take their chances in the Gamma quadrant than face the Borg.

[@DocWolph]

@@E_y_a_l 1) Dominion was at least no t on good terms with the Federation. They were not at war yet (at least as far as the Federation knew at that time). The Odyssey had already been destroyed by the time Voyager, as a series, was launched. Given how hostile the Dominion had become to Federation presence in their space, the standing order was not to violate Dominion space without just cause and wandering around Dominion space trying to get to the wormhole so you can get home is NOT just cause, given the Dominion were willing kill themselves to kill any Federation violators. "Violators will be shoot." 2) It was NOT until "Scorpion" did Voyager learn how vast Borg Space was and had little choice but to brave it to get home a few years sooner. Knowing earlier that the Dominion would kill them if they were found in their space, the Dominion was the most overt threat to avoid. The Borg were assumed until later to be much more avoidable.

[@therealhawv]

The “prop department” didn’t make the Galileo, Aluminum Model Toys, the license holder for Star Trek model kits, made it in lieu of payment for the license. This is according to Marc Cushman’s “These are the Voyages”. The restored prop is, or at least was, on display at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

[@keiyakins]

Honestly, not a bad deal. The show gets a prop it desperately needs, AMT gets a new vessel to sell model kits of, everyone's happy.

[@AdvancedLiving]

Robot Chicken’s “Star Trek Night Crew” is required viewing.

[@nicholasburns7970]

Not shifts, but watches.

[@seantlewis376]

While Picard's accent is definitely not French, there is a fan theory that he was educated in England, hence the accent. His brother, Robert, definitely has a French accent. Also, there is an idea that in the 24th Century, Earth is homogenous enough that people speak their own languages or someone else's and whatever accent is just what carries over. In the episode Family, the local engineer working on the Atlantis project speaks with an American accent. I think that Scotty and Chekov were the only ones on TOS with a strong accent, and it was mostly mocked.

[@Josh-ut4wv]

I think at least the first borg invasion had more than one ship as it is referenced in Voyager that there are drones that were assimilated at the battle of Wolf 359 which would be odd and impossible if there was only one ship as that ship was destroyed

[@sidbomby]

I watched this thinking you'd address the fact that Lore seemed forgotten in Star Trek Nemesis. False advertising! Still another great video though. Thanks!

[@thejimg]

Data and B4 is on the thumbnail, but not in the video...

[@Psiros]

If you want to keep the Breen a mystery, skip 4:38-5:01.

[@colinconnolly892]

The Kelvin Enterprise's engineering room looks like an oil refinery to me. And also, how could Kelvin Starfleet adapt late 24th Century Prime technology from the Narada which is, allegedly based on Borg technology? I hope that made sense. whew

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

JJ Abrams’ “science” is bat shit stupid! Just underneath Fauci’s!

[@ki5aok]

Well, it was a brewery.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

@@ki5aok That was my EXACT thought when I saw it!!! Willie Wonka’s Beer Factory! LOL!!! All it needed was the singing Ummpalummpas!

[@ki5aok]

@@Geezer-yf8hv That one character that hung around Scotty could almost pass for an oompa loompa.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

@@andrewblanchard2398 Thank you! I apologize to the many Oompa Loompas I may have offended!