Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[KAB]

She always makes me think of Simpka, on Taxi.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Was never a big fan of hers...hopefully she'll be different on SNW...

 

[MikeD-C05]

I

It isn't Scotty

It's Simka Dahblitz-gravas . Latka's old flame from TAXI tv show.

 

[MikeD-C05]

She always makes me think of Simpka, on Taxi.

Same person, Carol Kane. She played her on Taxi.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Maybe SNW will treat Chief Engineer as the Drummer in a Rock Band…

Until Scotty comes along!

But Carol Kane always reminds me of “Scrooged“

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I liked her on Scrooged. Made me laugh.

 

[KAB]

Doesn't look like Rebecca will have any future conflicts with New Love Boat since it tanked it's premiere.

 

[harshness]

Doesn't look like Rebecca will have any future conflicts with New Love Boat since it tanked it's premiere.

As it sullied the reputation of a long-time favorite, how else could it have gone?

 

[TheKrell]

They replaced Hemmer.

Strange New Worlds Season 2 Repeats A Great Discovery Idea

Comics know how to sell Star Trek's technobabble.

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[Foxbat]

They replaced Hemmer.

Strange New Worlds Season 2 Repeats A Great Discovery Idea

Comics know how to sell Star Trek's technobabble.

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Yeah, way back in post #379 …

 

[TheKrell]

Yeah, way back in post #379 …

That failed to register. Apologies to rockymnthigh.

 

[harshness]

That failed to register. Apologies to rockymnthigh.

Given that Hemmer died, it would be odd (though not entirely out of the question) to resurrect him. A ship needs an engineer.

 

[TheKrell]

Given that Hemmer died, it would be odd (though not entirely out of the question) to resurrect him. A ship needs an engineer.

I didn't forget that! I only forgot that rockymnthigh already posed about his replacement: Carol Kane.

I was very sorry to see Hemmer die, because he was an interesting character. You may recall that, at the time, I speculated that they should have just put him in the medical transporter buffer while they figured out how to remove the Gorn from his body. Others suggested that the other ship (forget it's name) didn't have a functional transporter.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Couldn't they just program the transporter to remove any DNA that wasn't Hemmer's? Seems to me that their tech would be able to do that easily enough...

 

[harshness]

Couldn't they just program the transporter to remove any DNA that wasn't Hemmer's?

The tech could filter known pathogens, not tissues with a particular DNA sequence.

 

[long_time_DNC]

The tech could filter known pathogens, not tissues with a particular DNA sequence.

I'm sure Hemmer's pattern is in the buffer and I'm sure Dr. M'Benga could supply Hemmer's DNA info. Had they wanted to keep Hemmer, they would've found a "Star Trek" solution to do so...

 

[harshness]

I'm sure Hemmer's pattern is in the buffer and I'm sure Dr. M'Benga could supply Hemmer's DNA info. Had they wanted to keep Hemmer, they would've found a "Star Trek" solution to do so...

I don't recall where cloning from the pattern buffer happened (if ever) in the Star Trek timeline. Cloning has been discussed but as I recall, only in the conventional sense of using a tissue sample and growing a clone from an egg.

The magic surrounding the doctor's daughter in the pattern buffer came at the hands of the boy king curing her ailment, not cloning.

 

[TheKrell]

I don't recall where cloning from the pattern buffer happened (if ever) in the Star Trek timeline. Cloning has been discussed but as I recall, only in the conventional sense of using a tissue sample and growing a clone from an egg.

I don't either. Wait a minute... Wasn't Riker cloned and lived on as two people for multiple episodes?

There was the Similitude episode of STE which I disliked:

Doctor Phlox suggests a radical and controversial procedure to save him: growing a mimetic symbiote as a neurological donor.

I guess we were supposed to be uncomfortable with the outcome.

Now, as far as the transporter is concerned, there were plenty of examples where bad stuff was filtered out and fatal medical conditions reversed. If they had been able to store Hemmer in a pattern buffer, they could do so for months while they upgraded their filters to include Gorn material. Problem solved.

 

[Derwin0]

I don't either. Wait a minute... Wasn't Riker cloned and lived on as two people for multiple episodes?

Yes, and the clone "Tom Riker" (though I'd make the case the main Riker was really the clone) showed up later on DS9.

Thomas Riker

William Thomas "Tom" Riker was a result of a transporter accident in 2361 that created two William Thomas Rikers, genetically indistinguishable from each other, with personality and memories identical up to the point of the duplication. One of the duplicates continued to be known as William...

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Lower Decks did an episode where one of the main characters got cloned the same way.

 

[harshness]

There was the Similitude episode of STE which I disliked:

I had forgotten about Sim but he was a grown clone that would live only a couple of weeks.

Now, as far as the transporter is concerned, there were plenty of examples where bad stuff was filtered out and fatal medical conditions reversed. If they had been able to store Hemmer in a pattern buffer, they could do so for months while they upgraded their filters to include Gorn material. Problem solved.

The "material" in question was Gorn eggs delivered in venom and surely there's a distinction between filtering out pathogens and filtering out complex lifeforms or symbiotes. Saving a pattern for future treatment involves either a significant passage of time or an advanced medical technology that appears out of the blue (but won't be shared). IIRC, Hemmer was refusing treatment.

If transporter patterns were the answer, they would have maintained patterns for all key Starfleet personnel.

Keep the timeline in mind as well:

Enterprise -> Disco seasons 1&2 -> SNW -> TOS -> NG -> DS9 -> Voyager -> Lower Decks -> Prodigy -> Picard -> Disco season 3+ (900 years into their season 2 future).

 

[TheKrell]

Enterprise -> Disco seasons 1&2 -> SNW -> TOS -> NG -> DS9 -> Voyager -> Lower Decks -> Prodigy -> Picard -> Disco season 3+ (900 years into their season 2 future).

Good review of the series timelines. And it only goes to show that the transporter pattern buffer was available early in SNW, which is what we're talking about. But apparently it degraded over time and was therefore not as advanced as Scotty had in STNG. How many years did he store himself in there?

IMHO a Gorn egg or larvae should be easy to spot being macroscopic, as opposed to viruses which are tiny. Didn't this tech supposedly go all the way down to the genetic level?