Enterprise being able to terraforming planets. (startrek.website)

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Yesterday I decide watch another TOS episode, I like "Let THat Be Your Last Battlefield".

Something I notice people forget about old Star Trek is how the enterprise was capable of terraforming entire planets or even decontainment it in just a seconds in the episode.

This is also funny to me because Spore game did the playeable spaceship into capable of creating life or destroying it at player's will.

I have the feeling Star Trek writers just forget about this.

What you think about this enterprise feature?

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[-] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago

You know, when the new effects were done, I liked them. Years later, I always watch with the original effects. The new ones just feel plastic and odd. The old ones, for all the grain and noise, have charm.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

I’ve always hated the new effects. Some of the matte painting replacements work pretty well, but the ship exterior stuff sticks out like a sore thumb.

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 21 hours ago

Oh, that was just an early Genesis prototype Carol Marcus had left behind. Or something.

[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago

I have the feeling Star Trek writers just forget about this.

Occasionally we get the reverse retcon where they realize they made a mistake and then try to never speak of it again. Breaking the warp 10 barrier, turning into cuddly and horny komodo dragon fish, is another example of this (although Lower Decks made fun of it later).

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Is plausible to go faster of warp 10, but not reaching warp 11, so is nothing wrong to me.

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Warp 13, engage! 😆

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Well they have that extra Nacel, so you know its faster.

[-] ergonomic_importer@piefed.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't it Crusher on the Pasteur ordering warp 13?

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I don't remeber its probably been 20 years since I watched TNG.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Don't forget the hyper-evolved aliens that gave Geordi his groove back. They were going in excess of warp 10/11 as well.

[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

The semi-established canon in second wave Trek was that 10 could not be reached. Semi-established because there were higher numbers in TOS iirc. So Tom Paris went too far, in more than one way.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

TOS used a completely different warp scale with no upper maximum, hence the higher numbers in use.

When they made TNG they redesigned the scale to be exponential, with warp 10 being the upper limit because at that point the object has infinite velocity and exists everywhere simultaneously.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 19 hours ago

I dont know if this is ever established in canon, but my theory is this is what allows the Borg to travel nearly instantaneously. Their transwarp corridors allow them to compress the infinite possibilities down to finite paths, and they're limited only by where they have established transwarp exit nodes. Otherwise they'd go all salamander-ey everytime they used transwarp.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I thought they did some in TNG

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