In Cause and Effect (S5:E18), Picard's Captain's Log states they are charting the Typhon Expanse and the Enterprise-D is "the first Starfleet vessel to chart this unexplored region". This implies it's in one of the more remote regions of Federation space or even outside of the Federation in "International Space" or extremely difficult to navigate to.  Yet the Bozeman was there in the Typhon Expanse but 80-90 years prior to the 24th century. Further, they were only 3 weeks away from their starbase. This is right next door to the Expanse in galactic terms. It seems unlikely in the span of 100 years or however long that starbase has been operational that Starfleet hadn't gone as far as 3 weeks away. (This assumes it took the Bozeman the full 3 weeks to get to the TE and they just got there.)  How can the USS Bozeman be in the Thyphon Expanse when Picard says the Enterprise-D is "the first Starfleet vessel to chart this unexplored region"?
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In the TNG episode "", we are treated to the following line of dialogue...three times.       "Captain's Log, Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise has entered an area of space known as the Typhon Expanse. We are the first Starfleet vessel to chart this unexplored region."    This strongly suggests that no Starfleet ship has ever actually been into this part of space.    Yet the very end of the episode shows that a Starfleet ship WAS in this section of space, Specifically the USS Bozeman, years ago. Proven when it emerged from a temporal loop just in front of the Enterprise.    How do we account for this inconsistency - saying that the Typhon Expanse has never been charted, and yet there clearly being a federation ship already in the Typhon Expanse?
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I'm watching the season two episode of TOS "Patterns of Force" where a nuclear missile is on an intercept course with the Enterprise, but is destroyed by the ship's weapons. This got me thinking as to whether or not the Enterprise-D would be able to take a nuclear missile. In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons and humans basically throw nuclear missiles at each other constantly and the ships remain relatively unscathed. Would this be the case with the Enterprise-D?
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In the series finale "", a future Admiral Janeway travels 26 years into her past to take the ship and crew through a Borg transwarp hub to the Alpha quadrant.  However, in "", Captain Braxton and his timeship tried to prevent and correct any timeline interferences (so-called "temporal disruptions").  Why didn't they travel back in time to fix the paradoxes that Janeway created?
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I thought it was from TNG, but it might be something else.    The crew somehow get trapped in some kind of altered time state (either time slows down or they get put in another dimension) The only way to fix it is to wait until a future point in time.  So they end up living most of their lives into old age on the ship.  Several characters get married and develop close relationships.  Finally the one character who ages the least (I think Worf, but it may have been a Klingon like character) has to warn the crew from the different dimension not to do something that will cause the time-disturbance.  I know its a fuzzy description, but I remember it being a good episode  does this sound familiar to anyone?  Thanks
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It's implied that the Enterprise bridge crew, in any of the TV series, spend long durations at their duty stations, either sitting or standing.  What exactly are they doing for hours on end while the Enterprise is en route between destinations? Is it me or does this seem like an incredibly tedious if not fatiguing job, sitting in a chair staring at the same view screen? Couldn't these tasks be automated?
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Based on , someone posted a link to pic of the larger collage of ships the question was based on.    What is the ID of all these ships? Some are quite easy of course, like the Millennium Falcon, USS Enterprise and the TARDIS. But I'm not sure of all of them.   Can someone put numbers on the ships to make the identification easier?
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In the begining of "" episode (Star Trek Next Generation 6x16) an Yridian tells Worf, that he has a certain information,      that Worf's father is still alive (apparently not killed in ) and is held in a prison camp on Carraya IV.   Yridian is an information broker and agrees to reveal details (i.e. location) only for a price.      Worf agrees.   How or with what Worf would pay for this? There is no economic factor inside the Federation (no money is being used) and I don't recall anything, Worf would have on board Enterprise, that would have enough value for an information this kind.
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The Original Series is set from 2265 to 2269, but as far as I can remember, the year was never given until much later, in The Next Generation, which arbitrarily started 100 years later.  Somehow, someone, most likely Mike Okuda or Gene Roddenberry himself, decided to make 2265 the start year, but how was that decided? What specific clue or line tied it down to that year? Perhaps in the last season of TOS someone said onscreen that it was 300 years since Apollo 11?
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Hypothetically, if you were to travel say, 6 months into the past with no spatial displacement, you would end up floating in space because the Earth would be on the opposite side of the sun.  I know when it comes to sci-fi, they can't account for everything and I don't expect them to. So I'm not nit-picking or anything, I'm just wondering if this is something that has been addressed to any detail, as it seems like it would have to be a major component of any time travel.
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Were holodeck emitters on USS Enterprise-D able to create/maintain holographic matter (e.g. holograms of beings as opposed to replicated inorganic stuff) outside of the physical boundaries of holodeck room, such as outside the door?  I'm ideally looking for answer based on technical manual etc..., barring that on canon material, excluding Cyrus Redblock in "The Big Goodbye".  The question is inspired by a  from @anyaMairead on   - thus Cyrus is excluded since I seek to understand whether there's support in canon for explaining Cirus via emitters working slightly outside the door.
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The series "Enterprise" takes place a century before the events of TOS.  Are the things that happened in Enterprise considered canon or would they be a spin-off series of sorts? The specific events I'm speaking of are the temporal cold war, and the storyline of the Xindi wanting to destroy Humanity on behalf of the Sphere Builders.  Is anything that happened during Enterprise considered part of the Star Trek canon or have the creators of Star Trek chosen to pretend it never happened?
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All throughout Star Trek one hears of exploration of various quadrants. I assume these are of the Milky Way galaxy. Does anyone know how the travels of the Enterprise relate to our universe in physical space? Was the entire series limited to our galaxy, or did the crew ever visit other galaxies?  In short, what area of the universe was Star Trek exploring?
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The Red Dwarf episode Tikka to Ride has confused me more than any previous episode:   How was it possible for the crew to use the Time Drive to travel back to 1960's Earth, when in the previous episode, Out of Time, made it clear that they couldn't use it to travel through space (they'd need a Space Drive for that)? In the latter, use of the Time Drive merely left them in "pre-Renaissance deep space"! How was it possible for JFK to kill his past self - would time not have simply reset to just before the Dwarfers met him, in the same way that it reset to just before the Dwarfers were killed by their own future selves? (As Lister tried to explain at the beginning of the episode.)
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Checking out  on Memory Alpha, I see that she had her first assignment sometime in the 2350's.       She was promoted to Admiral shortly after Voyager's return home, which was in 2378.   Now,  on the other hand, had his first assignment in 2327. He was then ordered by Admiral Janeway to Romulus in 2379. Is there any canonical reason why Picard never became an Admiral?
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Star Trek: Discovery, the first new Star Trek television series in 12 years, debuted last week.  As with a number of recent Star Trek efforts, this is a prequel to the Original Series, occurring roughly one decade prior chronologically.    The Original Series, the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager occur in a chronological sequence that, generally speaking, moves forward (although TNG, DS9, and Voyager overlap to various degrees).  The linear trajectory of Star Trek productions took a sudden shift with the television series Enterprise, which was set just over 100 years before TOS. This was followed by J.J. Abrams' 2009 film Star Trek, which created a new timeline and which followed the characters from TOS, but at a time that is also chronologically one decade before TOS.  Given that the last few interpretations of Star Trek were prequels in one sense or another, I was disappointed that Discovery was yet another prequel.  I'd like to know why the showrunners decided to take this direction.  I haven't been able to find any statements about the rationale.    That being said, I find it interesting that Star Trek (2009) was set in 2255-2258 and Discovery is currently set in 2256, even though they are ostensibly in different timelines &mdash; the former in the reboot timeline and the latter supposedly in the original timeline.  Also, one of the showrunners for Discovery, Alex Kurtzman, was one of the principal members of the creative team behind the Abrams films.  Why did the creative staff behind Discovery decide to make another prequel?  Does it have anything to do with the fact that Star Trek (2009) and Discovery are set in roughly the same years?
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Space is just open 3D space, right? In Star Trek, ships are always coming from somewhere else: different solar systems, galaxies, etc. However, when they meet, they always seem to be on parallel planes (facing each other).  In some episodes I recall seeing ships that were adrift (and they appeared facing a different trajectory). How can there possibly be some standardized reference plane in space? Do ships just choose to align with each other to be polite? Or perhaps when entering a solar system, the pilot, or navigation system aligns orthogonally with the local orbital axis?
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As XKCD recently educated some of us in a "What If" blog post, playing (near) light-speed baseball on a planet with an atmosphere .  The TL;DR version translates to:  A baseball moving at 0.9c is traveling too fast for particles in the atmosphere to get out of the way.  The resulting atomic collisions set off a chain reaction that feeds off of the rest of the surrounding atmosphere, turning into a massive nuclear explosion.  This does not bode well for the batter, the pitcher, the catcher, or anyone else within a few miles of the reaction's epicenter.  Bringing this issue into context with the Star Trek universe, there was a point in the 2009 movie where the Enterprise came out of warp amidst the clouds of Saturn's sixth moon, Titan.  Presumably, this means that the Enterprise at some point was traveling through Titan's atmosphere near or above the speed of light.  Is there some principle of warp drive technology that allows the Enterprise to avoid the fate of the baseball in this situation, or should that interaction have actually destroyed (at least) a good part of the Enterprise and Titan?