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What are all the types of colored alerts in Star Trek and what do they do?
What technically happens on a ship when a colored alert is called? For example, I recall hearing/seeing long ago (TNG Tech Manual?) that shields are automatically raised under both red and yellow ...
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Which Defiant was shown in ST: First Contact?
In Memory Alpha, the page on the U.S.S. Defiant states that two Defiant-class ships had that name: the prototype Defiant, and a successor, the U.S.S. Sao Paulo, which was assigned to DS9 and renamed ...
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Do Klingon Cranial Ridges Offer Sufficient Individualization like Fingerprints in Humans?
I was listening to the commentary on an episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9, and one of the writers mentioned that Bajorans' facial ridges are more-or-less the same on all Bajora, "unlike the Klingons." ...
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Will I be able to follow the story if I skip The Next Generation & watch Deep Space 9 directly?
Star Trek: Enterprise is the last TV series, but I've watched it first because it shows initial story (2100s). I've just finished watching season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise.
For 2200s, I've watched ...
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Has a human ever mastered the mind meld?
In any canon series of Star Trek has a human been able to master the mind meld?
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Is Worf's Hair naturally curly or straight?
looking at different pictures of Worf we see that sometimes his hair appears to be naturally curly/wavy, and at other times its straight.
Do we know if it is indeed naturally curly, or is it ...
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Why is Earth so defenseless in Star Trek?
In Star Trek, why doesn’t Earth have planetary defenses?
In both the first and second movies of the reboot, a spaceship either crashes or severely threatens Earth (not to mention Vulcan). That is ...
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Has anyone been beamed into the future or past in Star Trek?
Has anyone been beamed into the future or past on purpose or by accident? Or is this even considered possible in any Star Trek universe?
In this question it states how beaming works, Why do people ...
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Why are starships in Star Trek so slow to retaliate when fired upon in battle? [duplicate]
This question is with respect to starships battles in Star Trek TNG and DS9.
In many episodes, the Enterprise (or other Federation starship) is fired upon, but they don't retaliate quickly enough. ...
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Is Tuvok the only black Vulcan?
I spotted the following interview quoting from TV Zone magazine with Tim Russ talking about what it means to be "the black Vulcan".
Tim Russ knows the reality of his place in Star Trek: ...
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Why was Miles O'Brien never promoted?
So, I've been rewatching Star Trek:TNG, and Miles O'Brien is there occasionally. He's a Chief in TNG, and he's a Chief in DS9. Now, I was in the Navy, and I've always assumed that rankings in the ...
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Why are Trill symbionts so rare?
Is there any information that would explain why there are so few symbionts when there are so many Trills? My only guess is that they have shorter reproduction seasons and longer gestation periods ...
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Which Star Trek series main ship had the best survival rate?
Well, I'm finally ready to start my PHD project for Temporal Starfleet Academy, and my mentor has suggested "observing" as a crew member on the Enterprise! Or the Enterprise (D)...or the Enterprise (...
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Why is Worf always called by one name?
Members of the crew are either called formally by their rank and last name, ie; Captain Picard, Commander Riker, or called by their first name informally, Jean Luc, Will, etc.
Although there are ...
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Why is Miles O’Brien a Non Commissioned Officer (non-com)
In Deep Space Nine it is explained that Chief O’Brien is what they call a “non-com” (Non-Commissioned Officer). It is never explained exactly what this means, or how one goes about becoming one, but ...
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