Post by David James on Mar 6, 2010 2:12:05 GMT -5
This is a repost of two comments I made on my personal Facebook page - www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000033030932 - but I thought I'd share them here too.
Recently got Star Trek Voyager Season 1 on DVD. Watching it now. Decent show that was highly underrated and underappreciated by Star Trek fans. Why is it that a female captain was unable to work for such an "enlightened" bunch? It wasn't my favorite, but it was still Star Trek, and it was pretty darn good in my honest opinion.
Just spotted what appears to be a major Star Trek reality screw-up on Voyager's third episode titled "Time and Again":
From my understanding, starting with Next Generation, the translators were integrated into the comm badges for convenience. That way, no matter what culture the crew of the Enterprise (or Deep Space Nine's Defiant, or Voyager) encountered they could freely communicate with them as needed.
In this episode, Janeway and Paris were transported one day in the past of a planet that had just destroyed itself and at one point were captured. Their badges were taken away, along with all their other Starfleet equipment so that they couldn't use them. Even if for some odd reason by now the translators had been woven into the fabric of the uniforms, they had already ditched those for local clothing and those uniforms were no longer around.... See More... See More
What I want to know is why there weren't suddenly problems with understanding each other at that point? The very question of whether they were space travelers from the future was in question when the comm badges were taken away. Suddenly having a language barrier should have been a great way to bring validity to the claim Janeway had made. But of course, a simple detail like that would have been too much to disrupt where the explanation of things was going.
With two heads here doing the story (Teleplay by David Kemper and Michael Pillar with Story by David Kemper) and so many others involved, I'm really surprised someone didn't spot this before committing it to film.
I don't know if I caught this or not the first time I saw it since that was so long ago, but it was probably things like this that caused people in the early stages to write off Voyager. Yet it still lasted 7 seasons, so that's a good thing. And I'm not dissing Voyager at this point, I'm just amazed that something so basic to Star Trek was missed by so many.
Does anybody know anything about this to comment? Am I just missing something I should know about?
Recently got Star Trek Voyager Season 1 on DVD. Watching it now. Decent show that was highly underrated and underappreciated by Star Trek fans. Why is it that a female captain was unable to work for such an "enlightened" bunch? It wasn't my favorite, but it was still Star Trek, and it was pretty darn good in my honest opinion.
Just spotted what appears to be a major Star Trek reality screw-up on Voyager's third episode titled "Time and Again":
From my understanding, starting with Next Generation, the translators were integrated into the comm badges for convenience. That way, no matter what culture the crew of the Enterprise (or Deep Space Nine's Defiant, or Voyager) encountered they could freely communicate with them as needed.
In this episode, Janeway and Paris were transported one day in the past of a planet that had just destroyed itself and at one point were captured. Their badges were taken away, along with all their other Starfleet equipment so that they couldn't use them. Even if for some odd reason by now the translators had been woven into the fabric of the uniforms, they had already ditched those for local clothing and those uniforms were no longer around.... See More... See More
What I want to know is why there weren't suddenly problems with understanding each other at that point? The very question of whether they were space travelers from the future was in question when the comm badges were taken away. Suddenly having a language barrier should have been a great way to bring validity to the claim Janeway had made. But of course, a simple detail like that would have been too much to disrupt where the explanation of things was going.
With two heads here doing the story (Teleplay by David Kemper and Michael Pillar with Story by David Kemper) and so many others involved, I'm really surprised someone didn't spot this before committing it to film.
I don't know if I caught this or not the first time I saw it since that was so long ago, but it was probably things like this that caused people in the early stages to write off Voyager. Yet it still lasted 7 seasons, so that's a good thing. And I'm not dissing Voyager at this point, I'm just amazed that something so basic to Star Trek was missed by so many.
Does anybody know anything about this to comment? Am I just missing something I should know about?