Why do the Klingons in ENT look different than the Klingons in TOS?  I understand the explanation for the difference after TOS, but since ENT is before TOS.
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Through the course of the Star Trek franchise, some species have undergone significant changes in their appearance.  For example, here is a Klingon as seen in The Original Series.    And, here is one from The Next Generation.    Quite interestingly, if we go further back into Star Trek universe history, we find that Klingons from before the time of TOS looked much like they did in TNG.  Here's one from Enterprise.    Klingons weren't the only ones who went through this, and it didn't just happen in the transition from TOS to the TNG/DS9/VOY era.  Here's a Trill from an episode in TNG.    And, this is one from DS9.    I'm sure these aren't the only species to have undergone changes like this.  Have there ever been in-universe explanations for these, or others?
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I repeated the avengers movie yesterday in HD and saw something weird - were the Chitauri 'ships' living creatures? They kinda looked like they had flesh underneath all that metal stuff or did I just see my own stuff?  This is what I'm talking about
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I've just watched the last 20 minutes of an episode of Deep Space 9, and towards the end Worf is very insistent that O'Brien and his wife move to Minsk. Is there any in or out of universe reason for this?
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DS9: "Sons of Mogh":     KURN: I have never understood you, Worf. But I do know this. In your own way you are an honourable man.  (Kurn passes out.)       WORF: And you will be an honourable man again, but not as my brother.   Above implies that Kurn did not know what was about to happen to him and that this was a unilateral decision by Worf.     WORF: What will he remember?       BASHIR: He'll know he's a Klingon, and how to speak the language, and   virtually everything he needs to know in order to survive, except who   he is. And that's the first question he'll ask. Who am I? Do you have   an answer?       WORF: There is a man named Noggra, a friend of our father's. He will   be arriving in a few hours. He has agreed to provide Kurn with a new   identity and a new family. He will supply Kurn with all the answers he   needs.       BASHIR: Are you absolutely certain about this, Worf? Once I've erase   his memory engrams it'll be almost impossible to restore them. He   won't remember you or anything about his real life.       WORF: It is the only way. You may begin.   Again by Worf asking Bashir about the procedure while Kurn is on the table unconscious implies that Kurn was not consulted about this procedure beforehand.  Bashir is a Federation doctor that took a hippocratic oath. Part of that oath is to do no harm. Most people wouldn't want their family doing an elective procedure on them without their consent. In fact, most people wouldn't want any procedure done on them without their consent. (especially one to wipe their memory)   Kurn was effectively stipped of his very being, his memories, everything that made him who he was. Bashir even said it, he won't remember anything about his "real life." He became an empty shell, basically how Klingons refer to their dead.   He didn't really get his honor back, his soul and/or lineage did not change. Plastic surgery, some DNA changes, and wiping someone's memory doesn't change their soul. Although this is not my question, it is something to consider.   I can't believe Sisko would allow it to happen on DS9. There has to be some Federation law against something like this. Telepathically reading someone's mind without their consent is illegal in the Federation. Remember in the same episode Sisko reams Worf for trying to kill his brother to regain his honor, which clearly is a Klingon ritual. Bashir had just saved Kurn earlier thereby stopping a Klingon ritual before it ended.  Even the way they did it was sneaky. If they had asked Kurn, there's a good chance he'd say no. There's no honor in living a lie. What a horrible violation it was.  The Federation is supposed to be an enlightened advanced society.  In light his hippocratic oath to do no harm, existing Federation law, and Kurn's civil liberties, how could Bashir possibly perform this operation without Kurn's consent?  STU, EU, and writers notes are welcome. Anyone with knowledge of Hippocratic oaths or Federation law would be helpful as well.
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I just rewatched the TNG episode "Relics", where Scotty is revealed to have kept himself alive in the transport buffers of a ship. This got me thinking - do we know what happened to other members of the TOS bridge crew after the TOS movies (Up to and including Generations)?  For example, we know that Kirk eventually meets his end in Star Trek: Generations and that Spock has a long career and eventually ends up in the reboot universe.  Do we know any information about other members of the Enterprise crew?  If that question is too broad (for example, if there's lots of canon information about the crew after TOS), then more specifically, what is the latest canon information that we know about their lives?
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I never really gave a deep thought at this but recently a teacher of talked about language and there was an implicit question in it. something like  there is a difference between "rather than" and "instead of" in usage. do you know it??  please help and explain with a few examples.
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I’m Spanish but sometimes see TV shows in English.  My question is whether the words horse and whores sound exactly the same, because in many English language TV shows it seems like they are, which really surprises me.   Are they homophones?  I cannot hear any voicing at the end of the word whores to distinguish the two words.
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I recently decided to watch Doctor Who, and started viewing the 2005 version. I have the first two episodes from the first season, and I can't help but wonder what is the etymology of the name "Doctor Who"? And why does the protagonist call himself "the Doctor" (or is it "the doctor")?
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I have two simple questions:   From where do the names  come from? I don't see any intuition between those names in context of order theory. From where does the notation come? I have to admit, I always had an impression that notation we use is somewhat backwards... just take the look at the picture at the wikipedia!    I used this notation a lot of times and I have to admit that often I have to stop for a minute and convince myself that I'm indeed using it right. I'm hoping that learning a bit about origin and context of name choice and notation will make it easier.
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If you've seen the first Star Wars trilogy (meaning Episodes 4 - 6), in the original Star Wars movie, Han Solo is in the cantina talking with Greedo (and yes, darnit, Han shot first! no shame in that, Greedo posed a mortal danger to him).  But each is speaking in his own language, Han in English (Empirish?) and Greedo in his native language.  Yet the conversation proceeded normally -- for a little while, at least.  I have a personal experience with this phenomenon, having once been in the US Army in the Netherlands attending a NATO class on how to maintain a particular kind of microwave radio, and for the lab portion of the class I was paired with a German soldier. It happened that we were both bilingual in English and German, and so rather than both of us using one or the other language, I proposed that we speak our native languages, and see how that would work -- both of us understood each other's language better than we spoke it.  So we did and it worked out really well.  I imagine that it sounded darned funny to some of the other US soldiers in the room who overheard our conversation (the class was taught in English, so non-US and -Brit soldiers had to have English as an additional language to attend).  Designating one's native language as A, and a second language as B, is there a word for this kind of conversation where the two participants speak their own language A while understanding in their language B?
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Star Wars has different levels of canon and explanations for each level (movies, books, games and so on).  From what I've seen in Star Trek, there seems to be one level of canon: If it was on screen (other than the animated series), it's canon (although some people claim the 2009 movie and Star Trek: The Final Frontier don't really count).  If it's not on screen, it's not canon.  Is that it?  Or are there some games that are a second level of canon, or some books or other material considered to be a higher level than other media?  Or is there just one level of canon in Star Trek?
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Is there anything in the Star Wars universe that either directly copies, references or pays tribute to the Star Trek universe or vice-versa?  I'm looking for obvious examples not a comparison of the two different universes e.g. Ewoks showing up in Star Trek or something similar.  Has George Lucas ever stated explicitly that he based something on another thing he saw in Star Trek?
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In the 2009 Star Trek movie, why was the new timeline considered acceptable?  In episodes of TOS and the movies, the crew would always go to great lengths not to alter the timeline and to restore any changed timeline to the original.  In the movie Spock seems to have no issue with the altered timeline and simply shows interest in the differences. Is that out of character? Why did he not do everything in his power to undo the damage done by Nero?
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I am Russian myself, and I have, obviously, played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series in Russian language (the original one). However, I want to share this game with some of my friends who don't speak Russian at all, and I have found out that this game is awfully translated.    It is dubbed in English, not subtitled. IMO, this English dub is of very bad quality, I like the original much more.  At the same time, some lines are not dubbed (and hence not translated at all!), so an English-speaking player wouldn't understand what goes on. I did a quick Google search, it did not yield anything.    I liked that Source games where you could easily turn subtitles on, reading stuff in any language you want, but listening to it as it was originally done.  Any option to do the same with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, particularly "Call of Pripyat", so I can reliably advise the game for my non-Russian friends?
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At one point in Star Trek Beyond, everyone fastened their seat belts. At last! Is this the first time in Star Trek (TV, movies) that seat belts have been used?  If not, what was the first time?
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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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In Star Wars, basically everyone is a human with facial make-up; is there an attempt at an in-universe explanation of this within this franchise?  Note:formerly this question was for Star Trek and Star Wars, which was too broad. This is now for Star Wars.  Link to old question: