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[Skunk Wolf]

Why?

Because in TWO Star Trek films he deploys a technology that would conquer the known universe easily.

Here are a few hints.

Hyperion Canticles, Moving Mars, Battlefield Earth, Stargate: The Movie, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: Universe, All the Star Trek episodes with "Q" in them, Farscape.

They all dealt with interplanetary (galactic?) teleportation. Which is an END GAME technology and makes all other methods of transportation and warfare totally obsolete. If you are the first one to invent this, everybody else just lost.

At least the other writers had enough sense to put some limitations on it, not this new crew.

Cripes, even L. Ron Hubbard had more sense than this guy. ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME HAD THIS IN IT.

Freaking FARSCAPE was all about siezing this technology. A WHOLE TV SERIES.

It's just a footnote to him, completly blind to the implications of what he just blindly wrote in.

He must have ghost written "Threshold" for Voyager.

I ignored the first time, because it was a fun movie. But holy hell man, read a few books and watch SOME science fiction shows, or hire an intern that may have watched a couple of re-runs.

STOP SCREWING WITH TIME! Seriously, you can affoard the uniforms and don't have to borrow the costumes from "Little House in the Third Riech's Gunsmoke^TM".

Seriously, call it STAR TIME TREK.

FOUR MOVIES.

End rant.

[Mister Blastman]

To be a Type 3 Civilization, this technology--interplanetary teleportation, would be a near-end game. However, to be a Type 4 or 5, you need more. Much more.

Remember, interplanetary teleportation is limited in that you must have visited the world first for it to be possible to "anchor" an endpoint or conduit.

I haven't seen the new Star Trek movie but reading your post makes me mad already at Abrams.

[Pilotasso]

In most Sci fi series, teleportation comes in at a very high cost, such as Farscape. I watch star trek from time to time, but what ruins it for me is not teleportation but rather the captain VS captain deal that all movies seem to focus on. The series started as an exploration space opera and that has been completely swept away and removed the franchise. Granted the original series was C.R.AP. and corny but since then things evolved and they approached the theme successfully on other franchises that were far better achieved.

[Kyone Akashi]

Heh. After the first movie, I suppose something like that could be expected.

Don't get me wrong, I felt entertained - it just wasn't what I had hoped for, I guess. And the more I thought about it after leaving the cinema, the more plotholes I discovered. Not to mention those atrocious designs . Oh well, maybe it's a generational thing.

[Hollister]

A lot of recent movies are in my opinion just using the franchise in name only and doing what ever they please with it to make money. Iron man 3 spoiler

Spoiler

Shane Black and his iron man 3 is a fine example of only using the franchise in name only. LOL the mandarin had the 10 rings, the whole get up and he's a damn fake. totally lied to and ******* in the face of actual fans of the series. The movies are made for people who no nothing about the original content which is about 90% of the people who go watch it.

[Kyone Akashi]

Hollister, on 21 May 2013 - 10:57 AM, said:

A lot of recent movies are in my opinion just using the franchise in name only and doing what ever they please with it to make money.

Heh, I noticed that too. Movies, TV series, even computer games in some cases. I think I might have enjoyed releases such as the Star Trek remake, the new BSG, or the new X-Com a whole lot more if they had simply released them under a different name, thus not triggering any expectations from my side.

It always reminds me of a quote from Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, made in a not-so-subtle connection to Master of Orion III:


If you're making a game that ends with '3,' or Something: The Sequel, it should be similar to the original game. Don't go off and say, 'I have my own artistic vision.' Okay, good -- so call it something else. Don't ride the coattails of the people who came before you to launch your own artistic vision.

[Ramien]

Interplanetary teleportation is a minor matter considering how small space seems. The Klingon Empire seems to be right around the corner from Earth anyways, considering how fast everything seemed to travel from 20 minutes sublight travel from the heart of the empire to Earth Freaking orbit.