Questions tagged [star-trek]
For all questions about the Star Trek universe. Including the television series, films, characters, events, and technology in the universe. For more specific questions, use in conjunction with the relevant tags, such as [star-trek-tos] or [star-trek-tng].
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Why did Geordi have his visor replaced with ocular implants between Generations and First Contact?
In First Contact, Geordi is not wearing his VISOR and instead has ocular implants. In the previous movie, Generations, Geordi still has his VISOR for the whole movie. Why did he change?
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Was Jeremy Aster using male pronouns in reference to his cat, Patches, a blooper?
In Star Trek: TNG S03E05, "The Bonding," Jeremy Aster expresses affection for his cat, Patches:
He knows me. It's him. It's real. It's all real.
But Patches was a calico, which is almost ...
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Why did the Federation ban DNA resequencing? [duplicate]
It makes no sense that the entire Federation and group of many planets would ban DNA reseqeuncing just because of a horrific experience the humans had with it. Other members of the Federation may ...
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What do other Star Trek races call their FTL tech?
In Star Trek, the Federation use the term 'warp speed' to describe their FTL technology, presumably because it works by distorting/warping the 'real space' around the ship so that the ship can ...
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What are the 8 blue circles on the dorsal side of the Defiant on DS9?
What are the 8 blue circles on the dorsal side of the Defiant in Star Trek: DS9?
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Dilithium Crystals: Warp space directly or just supply the energy to do so?
I am extremely behind the current series as well as the Star Trek books but surely someplace just how the crystals work. My sense is that they have something to do with antimatter and perhaps then are ...
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Which episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has a discussion about the shape of a glass?
In which episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation do Picard, Data, and La Forge discuss the strange shape of a glass with a replicated drink? I believe it happened in the meeting room and they ...
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Can a person breathe in or out while transporting?
This is a follow-up to this question, which is instead about whether air is displaced by a transporting person's body. ("What happens to the air surrounding a transport subject's origin point, ...
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Star Trek TNG: Did we ever actually see the Enterprise's computer?
Is there a HAL 9000 room somewhere on the Enterprise-D?
It's probably Majel Barrett sitting in a chair on the holodeck with the Barclay intelligence hat on.
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How can holodeck characters be cool, slick and self-aware, while Mr. Data acts like a bewildered geek?
Computer generated behavior of holodeck characters is so smooth and subtle and perfect that it fools everybody. Data, on the other hand, could barely pass Alan Turing's original test on a model 33 ...
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Are there laundry rooms on starships in Star Trek?
I've occasionally heard casual remarks about getting uniforms cleaned, but how do they clean uniforms? How about blankets and sheets, towels, casual/formal wear, and any other articles that are bound ...
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Are the junior officer quarters in Lower Decks literally in a hallway?
This question makes the assertion
"Lower Deckers" in Star Trek: Lower Decks literally sleep in the walls
of the corridors
but I've always figured that the "corridors" shown ...
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How do couples "do it" on starships?
This question is awkward to ask, but it's still legitimate and has gone unanswered, as far as I can tell.
In shows like TNG, where ships carry officers and families, we know that there are Starfleet ...
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Why was Star Trek: Prodigy removed from Paramount? [closed]
Prodigy was removed from Paramount+. The reason given was that Paramount and a film company (I don't remember the name of) were combining with each other.
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Was Star Trek the first TV series or even movie that dealt with the great distances between galaxies?
In multiple episodes the incredible distance between The Milky Way and Andromeda is dealt with fairly accurately or at least consistently: even at highest warp the 2 million light years that separate ...
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