Also, JJ cleary understood that the phlebotenum is irrelevant. In that respect, he was probably the single best choice for reviving the franchise.
Looking back, it frequently seemed that Berman and Braga thought phelbotenum was the
only
thing that
was important.
Why use a word like "phlebotenum" when Star Trek has its own, native version: "reversing the tachyon field."
It fixes everything! Hell, it could fix Tino's existence.
It fixes everything! Hell, it could fix Tino's existence.
I think Tino is like Q. You can never really be rid of him.
Snapshots from early Trek conventions [warning: sound]. At the time, they were mostly attended by women.
Q from Bond, or Star Trek?
Why use a word like "phlebotenum" when Star Trek has its own, native version: "reversing the tachyon field."
That's exactly it though! I'd have to watch it again to double check, but I'm pretty sure that there was not a single instance of "change the channel" or "turn up the gain" in that movie. I guess there was once or twice that all power was diverted to the forward shields or something, which kind of counts as changing channels and turning up the volume, but I can ignore that since it's not overcoming a plot point - it's blocking a punch.
For that and that alone, I could marry JJ and have his children.
Seriously. If you're ever so inclined, go back to the start of Next Gen, and count just how many episodes are solved by varying the frequency, reversing the polarity, adjusting the resolution, changing the refresh rate, increasing the power or boosting the range on BLAH. All fancy, thesaurus-ownin' ways of saying "change the channel" or "turn up the gain."
It was pretty much the only trick in Berman and Braga's playbook.
Seriously. If you're ever so inclined, go back to the start of Next Gen, and count just how many episodes are solved by varying the frequency, reversing the polarity, adjusting the resolution, changing the refresh rate, increasing the power or boosting the range on BLAH.
Those were the good episodes. The bad ones the writers would hit a reset button at the end, and have everything go back to what it was before.