Questions tagged [star-trek]
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Treatment of the Romulan "neutral zone" in the Star Trek universe
Reflecting on "official" Star Trek series episodes and movies, there have been a number of incidents in which a Federation vessel crosses into the Romulan neutral zone, leading to a ...
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Do we ever see someone toggle their lights (or close their curtains) in exterior miniature shots?
In Star Trek we typically see many exterior space shots of starships, like the Enterprise-D pictured below, where some windows are illuminated and some are dark (see yellow highlights). Up until ...
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When was the first time a human spoke an alien language in Star Trek, without the use of the Universal Translator?
The Universal Translator in Star Trek translates languages to allow species to communicate with each other.
This obviously leads to a need not to know an alien language, as the computer will translate ...
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What nation are the Orions part of?
As of the TNG era onward, and in 'this universe' (by which I mean not in any alternate/parallel universes) are the Orion species part of the Federation, any of the empires or they an independent ...
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What is the origin behind the line "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
Famously, in The Undiscovered Country has this line by Chancellor Gorkon, in response to Spock quoting Hamlet:
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
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Are there any Star Trek locations that are not orbiting any stars, planets, etc?
Most of the time in various ST series, they are traveling to planets or at least star systems to locations there. Certainly there are space stations and the like, but these all appear to be orbiting ...
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Is there a picture of the Ferengi alphabet?
Is there a picture, anywhere, of the Ferengi alphabet? Even better, a translation of what the letters represent? Like, if you had a spoken sentence in Ferengi, something that would allow representing ...
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Are there any Star Trek episodes in which the bad guys looked human and the good guys looked very alien?
My recollection is that in Star Trek, physical appearance is often a clue about the character — I heard about "Red Shirts" years before the Internet and the deep exploration of Star Trek ...
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Why is "Droxine" a name appropriate for someone beautiful and pleasant?
In Star Trek, season 3, episode 21, "The Cloud Minders", Spock is considering his surroundings at the time, and one of its residents:
Here on Stratos, everything is incomparably beautiful ...
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What is the real-world timeline of the revelation of facts around Kirk's relationship to David Marcus?
Possible spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Picard follow:
I always, perhaps wrongly, thought that David Marcus was completely a retcon invented for The Wrath of Khan. And I ...
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What is the maximum number of Star Trek TOS characters to appear in one shot in a Star Trek property?
A (correctly) deleted answer by @EatMe to this question was interesting enough in its own right for me to ask this new question.
The deleted answer contained this photo:
The photo shows a courtroom ...
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What is the timeline of the parasite invasion in ST:TNG's "Conspiracy"
In the episode Coming of Age, Picard's Enterprise is thoroughly investigated by Lt Cmdr Remmick at the direction of Admiral Quinn. Remmick gives Picard a good report, and afterwards, Quinn and Picard ...
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Nurse Chapel's tattoos
In the newest Star Trek series, I noticed that Nurse Chapel has tattoos on her hands. This is of course explained by the actor Jess Bush having them herself (as seen in the second screenshot).
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What is the afterlife for non-warrior Klingons?
The basic plot is known: at first sight, the Klingons are an aggressive, but honor centered warrior culture. There is a "heaven" (Sto-vo-kor / Sto'Vo'Kor etc.) for the warriors who died in ...
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Have the Talosians helped other hopelessly injured Federation members?
The kindness the Talosians showed to Pike and Vina would be extremely valuable for other hopelessly injured people. Was what they did for Pike and Vina done out of a sense of obligation or altruism ...
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Is the death penalty for Talos IV real or was it something the Talosians want others to believe?
It has been discussed in scifi that there is no range limitation effective on the illusions the Talosians can force upon conscious beings and it was observed how easy therefore it would be to make a ...
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Existence in transporter buffer -- what biological processes continue?
I believe people can be conscious but can exist for a very extended period in the buffer. Does this imply that the body continues to function at a very slow rate or that while a person can be ...
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Can the transporter remove alcohol from a body?
As seen in Picard S3, the transporter can alter a subject's DNA on "reconstruction". So if I get drunk, can the transporter remove all the alcohol from my body?
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How strong are Star Trek holograms?
I was just thinking about the Data-derived androids in Picard being used for physical labor on Mars, which is further in the future than when copies of the Voyager doctor were being used to scrub the ...
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Is there something about Starfleet which makes them particularly susceptible to infiltration?
Spoilers for Picard and TNG in this question.
On several occasions we've seen the Starfleet command structure be compromised at an extremely high level. A few notable instances being:
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Can a Vulcan mind-meld with a changeling?
We have seen Spock mind meld or have telepathic contact with several aliens, including at least one extremely physiologically different (Horta).
The answer to Are there any species a Vulcan can't ...
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Can a Vulcan mind-meld with, or read the mind of, a Ferengi?
We have seen Spock mind meld or have telepathic contact with several aliens, including at least one extremely physiologically different (Horta).
What humanoid species are immune to the Vulcan nerve ...
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What shuttlecraft is used in SNW Season 2, Episode 4? I think the Cervantes?
In episode 4 (season 2), they fly in a shuttle craft down to the planet. In one shot, there is a name written on the front of the shuttle- I think it is the Cervantes? I can’t quite make it out, and ...
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Who creates the recipes for the food in the replicators?
Every Federation ship has a pattern for, say, chocolate cake, and every slice is identical, down to the molecule. So theoretically, they want to make it as tasty as possible.
Has there ever been any ...
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Other than Will Riker and Deanna Troi, have we seen on-screen any commanding officers on starships who are married?
Starfleet has its own policies regarding fraternization between crew members, but I seem to recall reading that as long as the relationship was between people with the same rank, it would be fine. It ...
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Why did Kirk decide to maroon Khan and his people instead of turning them over to Starfleet?
I just watched the Star Trek: the Original Series episode Space Seed.
Kirk's decision to drop the charges against Kahn and just maroon Khan on Ceti Alpha V instead of turning him over to the ...
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Vulcan Nerve/Shoulder Pinch part of a larger system of martial arts that apparently use "psychic" abilities?
The nerve pinch has been seen multiple times. Although Spock spoke once of trying to teach Kirk the technique, I wonder if there is some aspect that means an untrained human can't do it or even a ...
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Did Worf actually return to his original universe in 'Parallels'?
At the start of the episode, we see Worf return from the competition to an unwelcome surprise party and Troi replaces a wall mounted shield near the door to his quarters with Data's painting.
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Does the EMH have perfect recall?
Does the Emergency Medical Hologram have (or could have) perfect recall of past events, as Commander Data apparently does, or are there indeed limits to his "memory"?
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Has anyone tried to make 3-D chess in real life?
In addition to seeing it played on TOS and TNG, I saw Sheldon and Leonard play three-dimensional chess on an episode of the Big Bang Theory and it got me curious.
Has anyone ever tried to make or ...
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Are there still Earth monarchies in the Star Trek universe?
Within the Star Trek universe, are there still active monarchies on Earth, as there are today? Or have these been eradicated/removed as humanity evolved? If they have been removed, how was this done?
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Are joined Trill effectively pansexual and gender fluid?
We are first introduced to the Trill in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Host" and learn that joined Trill are a combination of a humanoid host and a intelligent worm like ...
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Has transporter technology ever been used to fight Borg assimilation?
The transporter technology in Star Trek has been used in many fantastic plot fixes. People are stored in some kind of pattern and rebuilt. This process has been used to cure diseases such as the aging ...
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Monty Python first mention of Gorn -- related to STOS?
Gorn at around 40 seconds
This is the first time I noticed Python using this word. I have not watched the entire video but I suspect no monster in a clunky lizard suit.
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Star Trek: TOS episode involving aliens with mental powers and a tormented dwarf
In this episode, an away team from the Enterprise (standard team with Kirk, Spock and McCoy) encounter a small community of humanoid aliens who all have psychokinetic abilities, except for a dwarf ...
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What are the Star Trek episodes where the Captain lowers their shields as sign of trust?
I remember a few episodes where either Picard or Janeway are negotiating with a potential enemy and lower their shields as a sign of trust, but I can't remember the episode(s). I remember the captain ...
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Where did the Genesis planet's sunlight come from? [duplicate]
Towards the end of Wrath of Khan, the Genesis torpedo explodes and creates a planet from the material of the planetary nebula in which the Enterprise and the Reliant fought each other.
I went to ...
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Are the Ancient Humanoids and the Preservers the only extinct advanced aliens civilisations in Star Trek?
The Ancient Humanoids who are believed to have seeded the Milky Way and the Preservers who Spock identified as a "Super Race" and who rescued primitive cultures from extinction and then ...
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Is the warp drive used by different races the same technology?
Each advanced race in Star Trek has a faster than light travel technology which the viewer knows as Warp Drive.
This answer to a question of when specific races achieved warp shows a ranges of dates ...
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Why (out of universe) were the red and gold uniform colours in Star Trek swapped?
It is well known by most people with even a cursory knowledge of Star Trek that in the TOS era:
Gold uniforms are worn by the command division.
Red uniforms are worn by operations, engineering, and ...
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Tribble dislike of Klingons and other aspects of their biology?
In the STOS episode, there is some evidence of tribbles not being completely simple "eating machines": They react to Klingons and in fact this is how Kirk discovers a surgically-modified ...
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Where is the shuttlebay on an Excelsior-class starship?
This is a question I've had for a while but where all the information I've been able to turn up has been inconsistent, even from official sources. The question is: where on the Excelsior-class is the ...
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Is 'Vulcanian' a disparaging term?
The typical term for an inhabitant of Vulcan is "Vulcan" - but occasionally the term 'Vulcanian' is used (most notably by Harry Mudd in Mudd's Women). Is this term considered (in-universe) ...
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How does command get transferred on a Starfleet vessel as officers come onto or leave the bridge?
Say that an ensign has the conn during a night shift and the captain walks onto the bridge in passing, perhaps to go to the ready room to read a report. Does the captain briefly assume command simply ...
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Does the Ferengi Alliance contain planets that have been conquered?
Their first appearance in TNG were supposed to be menacing and, along with the Cardassians (who came later), they were one of the new powers who were to be a threat, alongside the Borg.
Everything we ...
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What actual authority did Harry Kim have when in command of the night shift?
Harry has been in command of Voyager during non crucial times (the long stretch of "the void" comes to mind but I am sure there are others. I recall him being in charge during a night shift)....
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Are there any definitive kill/death counts from Star Trek that includes all catastrophic events? [duplicate]
Star Wars has a kill count wiki, and a number of characters listed there have numbers reaching far into the trillions (although I'm not sure if there are even that many people available to kill). Does ...
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Is there a ship with the serial number "NCC-4701D"?
In the Star Trek TV shows and movies, has the Enterprise or any other ship ever had the serial number "NCC-4701D"?
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Is there an in-universe explanation for women's work clothing in Star Trek?
Women's work clothing in Star Trek is something of a mixed bag. In TOS all the women wore the "skant", an extremely short dress with regulation division coloured panties and tights. TNG ...
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Are there any canonical examples of the Prime Directive being broken that aren't shown on screen?
AFAIK all canonical examples of the prime directive being broken are only by a small number of captains and commanders, which happen to be the ones we're familiar with.
Given how revered Picard and ...
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