Comments on: DS9 Defiant

By: Phyreblade

Phyreblade — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:14:59 +0000

You know what I never understood? Really early on, in the series, they managed to come up with a Phase shift cloaking device.

The one that they had an accident with on the Pegasus, it was perhaps the ultimate cloaking device ever. But when they finally managed to get it working, and they promptly mothballed it because it was in violation of the Federation Klingon treaty.

Now when the Borg/Dominion showed up, you would think they’d pull that technology out of wraps to fight their common enemies. Neither the Borg nor the Jem Hadar, not even Species 8472, appeared to have that kind of technology.

But Nooooooo! it just gets completely forgotten… Pffft…

By: MrPsychic

MrPsychic — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:16:27 +0000

@tiki god: And you would have known at this point in the Star Trek timeline, the Federation has encountered the Jem Hadar who have the built in ability to transport through shields. However, The Federation have not shown any other incidents when they transport through shields. Maybe the Enterprise did a type of near warp transport, but with shields in battle.

By: tiki god

tiki god — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:37:31 +0000

@MrPsychic: obviously you're not that insane of a fan, or else you would know that they can do that now. Thank the borg, who proved it was possible and then the Federation engineers who made it happen.

By: nyokki

nyokki — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:32:46 +0000

I liked all the Star Treks and B5. Generally I prefer DS9 and B5 most. Most tv scifi leave much to be desired, but I’ve got an imagination; I can work w/ it.

By: MrPsychic

MrPsychic — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:18:30 +0000

@MrDooves: It was First Contact, when Worf was magically beamed to the Enterprise with the shields still up.... I'm an insane Trek fan, and I still find some episodes of ALL the series overblown and contrite.

By: MrDooves

MrDooves — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:11:06 +0000

or was it “Insurrection”?
mmmm… yes.

By: MrDooves

MrDooves — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:03:30 +0000

@MikeBabaguh: @Naked: Bravo! @Caio: They were quoting First Contact.

By: jediadept

jediadept — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:41:31 +0000

@AlecDalek
Actually Straczynskis’ original script had a shape changer in it. When he was shopping the scrpt around for a producer, Paramount held the script for a very long time, then suddenly DS9 appeared.

By: goblin0

goblin0 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:09:44 +0000

Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit!

By: NoOneInParticular

NoOneInParticular — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:18:49 +0000

@Kishi: You’re right there. I don’t think B5 was perfect, but it was head and shoulders above most TV SciFi series, particularly ST. The first season of B5 was particularly bad, but if you check, it’s because they used “guest writers”, most of whom were ST writers. The series got better once JMS took over, but it wasn’t perfect by any means.