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TNG s6e4 "Relics" and PRO s1e5 "Kobayashi"

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 25 points 5 days ago

Same energy:

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is kind of what Lower Decks as a whole is.



[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't watch NuTrek, is that character on the bottom panel a Dax?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Kira from when they visited DS9.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have no idea how this ended up a nested comment under another comment tbh, I meant this as a top-level comment. I recognize Kira, I meant the original top-level image with the purple cgi character

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh, odd. That's Dal, the lead in Prodigy roaming through a holo recreation of the D.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Wait now I have a fun follow-up question:

If you holodeck the D and then go into the holodeck, can you use that holodeck to simulate another Starfleet vessel with a holodeck? And if so, can you then use that holodeck to replicate the process with another ship and holodeck?

How deep do you think we can go before we start to experience collapse?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

There's even a Very Short Trek that addressed that idea.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

I don't see why not. If there were only one person there, the system could just not render the layers that you're not currently in, so it could go on forever.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

In Star Trek TNG, the holodeck character Professor Molarity attempted the reverse of that. He wanted to leave the artificial confines and exit into the real world. Upon exiting and however it (the real world) appeared to Molarity, unbeknownst it was still inside a running holodeck session. And Lt. Barclay still owns that battery-poweted flash drive with that session still running in perpetuity.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One can only imagine the depravity he's put Moriarty and his beloved through since.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Shudder. Don't bring it up, keep it locked away.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

I remember that episode!

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gotcha! Thank you for clarifying, friend ✌️

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To add to the previous comment, and spoilers for those who care:

He's not any species, but rather a test tube experiment amalgamating the genetic properties of several Alpha Quadrant species into a single individual.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

That is very cool. Admittedly I was inquiring so I could understand where the nostalgia attachment is (I didn't know it did not take place in an Enterprise-like ship so I didn't recognize the setting as specifically the D), but I appreciate the extra information regardless

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I only just now realized that Scotty's missing fingers are visible in that shot

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Only 99.5% of his pattern was recoverable from the teleporter buffer.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

Close enough.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

He lost them in the war. I don’t think they are in this shot.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They seem to have been less worried about hiding that after TOS. There are at least a few times across the 6 original movies where you can see that he’s missing a finger.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

No they aren't!

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The thing I always think about when I watch Relics is that the production team got the TOS captain's chair and helm console from a fan. I don't know why but it makes me like the scene with Scotty and Picard just that much more.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's one reason I loathe nutrek. TNG, DS9, and ENT went to painstaking levels to show that what was seen on screen in TOS was accurate, regardless of cheese or tackiness.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

The older set in "Relics" was staged out of reverence to TOS. Consider, however, that the 60's set is that way as a product of budget and available tech. The Enterprise as seen on Strange New Worlds is in all likelihood what we'd see if Star Trek first appeared in 2022. A product of its time. Not necessarily bad, just different.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t take umbrage to this. In both cases, they are standing on hallowed ground.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Awww yeah, you dad