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Originally posted by Puke:
well, i thought i was trying to spurr Raynor's discussion of continutity and warpspeed thru various series, i appologize if it was construed as inflamitory. I am 99% sure warp has meant something different in each seriese (and in different episodes within each) although it MAY have been the same in TNG as it was in TOS.
now, stop me if im wrong here, but i thought there was supposed to be no video communication during the earth / romulan war? granted i did not watch the show very intently, nor did i see the second one if there has been one yet, but it seemed like they had a big viewscreen, and i dont remember if they were talking to aliens on it or not.. but there seem to be alot of technological descrepancies. for instance, i thought it was supposed to be all lasers and nuclear warheads?
to further nitpick, i thought i remembered a TNG episode where Riker was assing up some first contact mission, and they talked about how the klingon war started when the humans met the klingons as a pre-warp civilization and screwed up the first contact procedures. is that all out the window now?
Yes, that's the essence of the beef against the management of Trek. The technology is not even consistent within a given series/generation of actors. Remember the food replicators in TOS? Yet, in ST V - set decades later - they had a 'galley' in the Enterprise where ordinary food had to be cooked. And, of course, any time they need something to be 'scarce' to further a story line it's 'difficult to replicate'. Now, if you can zap anything at all from point A to point B 25,000 miles away (isn't that the standard range limit of transporters?) there cannot logically be any problem with 'replicating' a substance once you've got the pattern from transporting it. Fans have been noticing this lame way of getting around lack of story ideas, and complaining, for a very long time. At least in the current series they can genuinely claim technical difficulties in replication...
The transporter is a new technology with uncertain effects.
As far as the Romulans, they haven't contacted them yet.
Unless this occurs in the next episode? Anyway, maybe they just refuse video contact. The statement that they never had video contact doesn't mean in that case that it was not
available, just that they didn't have it with the Romulans.
I don't recall seeing the episode where Riker spoke of the first contact with the Klingons.