10 Star Trek Moments More Important Than You Realised

Moments that seemed uneventful at first, only to be revisited when we least expected them.

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[dyslexnick]

Ten forward was named because of its location on the ship. Trying to shoehorn a reference in decades later doesn't change that.

[carstenck]

The Dyson sphere Scotty found should spawn an entire series just dedicated to exploring the sphere. The ramifications to the its discovery should be incredible to the trek timeline.

[mattevans]

I always thought the Borg time travel was a closed loop, to explain why the Borg we're headed to Earth, since, if Q is to be believed, they were already headed to Earth anyway, and he just introduced the Enterprise D to them to make the crew aware of what was coming.

[RyogaHabiki]

10:23 - #2 (The Destroyed Borg Sphere from First Contact) - In my mind, this episode actually helps explain events that already exist in canon. In Star Trek - The Next Generation S1 E26 "The Neutral Zone" (26-Mar-2364), the Borg have been busy destroying outposts along both sides of the Federation/Romulan "Neutral Zone", we never see the Borg in that episode, just the aftermath. We later learn in S2 E16 "Q Who" (28-Jan-2365) that the Borg was the enemy back in "The Neutral Zone" (Which means if Q hadn't flung the Enterprise to meet the Borg, the Borg would still have tried to assimilate the Federation. Q let them know about the Borg and gave them time to come up with plans to stop the Borg (Ex. The USS Defiant)). The Borg then reappeared in S3 E26 "The Best of Both Worlds - Part 1" (31-May-2366) and S4 E1 "The Best of Both Worlds - Part 2" (05-Jun-2366). While "Q Who" answered questions raised in "The Neutral Zone" the question came up, why was the Borg there? A partial explanation comes in Star Trek - Voyager S4 E6 (11-Feb-2374) in which Tuvok scans the USS Raven (NAR-32450) and tritanium decay places it as being there for almost the last 20 years. Which means 7 of 9 was assimilated around 11-Feb-2354, or 10 years before the events of "The Neutral Zone". But more questions are raised. Her parents had heard whispers about the Borg and had gone to Starfleet to secure a ship (The USS Raven) to find them. Furthermore, they find a Borg ship and follow it from the Alpha Quadrant to the Delta Quadrant. All this means that about 11 years before "Q Who", the Borg had explored Federation space, and assimilated 7 of 9 and her parents. (So those 'fans' who still think Q introduced the Borg to the Federation are once again proven wrong). But it still raised the question, why was the Borg exploring Federation space back in 2354? They had no reason to. When you watch the episodes in order, you notice the Borg are exploring, but not outright engaging in ship to ship battle, unless provoked (By the USS Raven). It's as if they were told to come check out Federation space and they checked it out before sending a ship to assimilate the Federation. Then we take the final piece of the puzzle in Star Trek Enterprise S2 E23 "Regeneration" (01-Mar-2153) as a message is sent from the Borg survivors to the collective in the Delta Quadrant. They explain the message won't get to them for 200 years. Which would be around 01-Mar-2353. The year before 7 of 9 was assimilated. Now the loop is closed and it all starts to make sense. Including why the Borg went back in time. Picard assumed it was to stop First Contact. In reality they had 2 goals (Try and stop First Contact and Send the message to the Borg so they will get the message on 01-Mar-2353 and assimilate 7 of 9)

[ThatSoddingGamer]

3 - One minor correction. It was actually the specific radiation emitted by their new experimental warp drive that caused them to break down; they were functioning just fine before that point. It was projected to be harmless to humans and the like, but because they forgot they were made from 'the silver blood', they were unaware of its effects on their specific construction. Since the ship was also made from this mimetic substance, it was affected just as severely. It's actually pretty depressing that the ship and its crew were so completely destroyed, leaving no record of their existence beyond any contact they might have had with other races, but even that would be attributed to the original Voyager crew (though they'd have no memories or record of it, of course).

[freyahah]

The Ten Forward thing is just unforgivable hubris on the part of the "Picard" writing staff.

[PartigradeCannon]

I think the vehicle replicator is just something they came up with to retroactively justify why Voyager had an endless supply of shuttle craft.

[beyondlifted]

Damn Im a star trek nerd. For the record. That silver blood species was perfectly capable of living other places than a Demon Class planet. The fatal mistake they made was exposing themselves to radiation created by their modified warp core. They thought they would be fine because the radiation was harmless to humans. It ended up killing them all.

[rhettbaldwin]

10 Forward was called 10 Forward before Guinan was on the Enterprise.

[undercoverblk]

SO glad the presenter is speaking slower now! THANK YOU!

[laststanding]

Speaking of that revelation about all those alpha quadrant species being related because of shared genetic markers, it could have been brought up in "Distant Origins" as a counterargument before the realization that humans and voth shared way more genetic markers than the ones discussed in TNG

[pamcarmin]

the computer's releasing of Michael was a nod to the first of the three laws of robotics.

[Vader]

The middling episode ‘The Price’ TNG season 3 ends up forming the underpinnings of two spinoffs: the importance of stable wormholes, which leads into DS9, and the idea of being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, which leads to ‘Voyager.’ Plus the Barzans pop up again on ‘Discovery.’ All buried in a ‘Troi gets laid’ episode.

[leegaul]

With all the time travel, it makes me realize that Guinan - all this time - was carrying some crazy secrets while on the Enterprise in TNG. Imagine working a bar on a ship full of people that you already met multiple times in the past due to them time traveling, and in order to keep things stable, she has to pretend she doesn't even know.

[BlastedOblivion]

One alternative theory I have about the Borg episode actually addresses an issue with Q's character. In the episode of TNG, Q flings the Enterprise D at the Borg and they now know about the vast new area of assimilation targets from the computer and are headed toward the Alpha Quadrant. With just that information, Q is a pompous arrogant prick who caused the deaths of everyone who died during the conflict with the Borg because Picard wouldn't grovel. With the Enterprise episode, we see that the Borg get a signal off and that they will be alerted to the Alpha Quadrant. That means that they didn't learn about the Alpha Quadrant's population because of the Enterprise D. They were likely already on the way there and Q knew this. Q has shown time and time again that, while his methods may seem chaotic and barbaric, everything that he does is for the betterment of life overall (or at least humanity overall). This didn't mesh with the idea that he would create a conflict with the Borg out of spite but it fits perfectly with the idea that he was warning Picard of what was coming and dressed it up as a lesson in humility. The only issue with this theory that I can find is that the Borg were only on Earth in the past because of the events in First Contact which only happened because Q launched the Enterprise D at the Borg, but that issue is solved by the whole thing being one big temporal loop.

[ajaiiz]

Don't waste your mental strength on all the head canon and excuses for the 10 Forward bar in the 21st century. It was simply the writers being sloppy or not understanding Trek history.

[PauperJ]

Worf's winning of poker in, "The Emissary" was so important.
Noone realized that Worf would never again win a poker game in TNG nor DS9.

[LordBloodraven]

I like to think the Ancient Humanoids revealed in The Chase eventually evolved into the Changelings/Founders of the Dominion since the Ancient Humanoid and Female Changeling were both played by Salome Jens.

[chrisryland]

N0.3 9:50 actual fact is they stated to degrade because of the enhanced warp drive not that the silver blood could not survive off a 'demon' class planet. The enhanced warp drive was non toxic to humans but was to them. They tried to find a 'demon' class planet hoping it would stop the damage.

[heero]

If I remember correctly from an episode of Space Docks, a galaxy class ship has a lot of empty space so that it can be modified easily to fit in new labs, areas for the crew and so on. So Ten Forward could have been one of these areas modified.