Lord_Nightblade

The warhammer is not the "warhammer"

(the "warhammer" is his *****)

And *braces for tarring and feathering* Star Trek Online is still going strong.

Next Gen, yes. Voyager, no. Voyager had it's good episodes, but there's nothing that could compensate for the annoying characters on the crew. Not to mention the way the show kept jerking the audience around with the "OMG we found a way home Awwww false alarm " episodes. I understand that they wanted a way to keep the show going indefinitely, but they chose a gimmick that quickly got old.

Or that he found a gig that paid a lot better than ghostbusting and left.

This was my thought as well. It wouldn't surprise me if this whole thing was one big, elaborate set up for a Doctor Who? joke.

I propose the construction of a supercomputer to determine both.

Yeah, those were both just stupid arcs. There was enough untapped potential for that era that they didn't have to go screwing it up with new species that would mysteriously disappear in one hundred years.

They introduced the idea that Starfleet would have a department that specializes in investigating time travel incidents (Temporal Investigations) in that episode, yes. It wasn't ever made clear what sort of power they actually had, but I suspect they couldn't do much to correct anything that might have changed given the technological limitations of the period. Plus, you never know how your correction efforts might snowball if something goes wrong.

The idea of a Temporal Investigations department does make some sense, even if they're more or less impotent. I mean, Kirk and Picard both had a lot of time travel incidents under their commands, and it's possible other captains have as well. So Starfleet would benefit by having some specialists to look into the incidents. Then you have the time-related stuff that doesn't necessarily involve time travel, but still warrants investigation.

What I don't like is the idea that they become something that is actively policing time. It begs the question of why they weren't around during any of Kirk's time travel escapades or why they would let someone like the Devidians run amok in Earth's past for who knows how long until Picard came along. And then you have Voyager's series finale. Presumably, in the original timeline, Voyager took the original long way home. So if these guys are supposed to maintain the integrity of the timeline, they why did they let Future Janeway's plan succeed? It just doesn't make sense.

God if anything needed to be retconned from Trek, this would be it. The whole USS Relativity/proactive temporal police thing was a stupid idea. It can't be reconciled with previous time travel stories, and all future time travel has to account for it in some ham-handed way. It was easily one of the worst things Voyager did (the worst being Neelix).

Me too. That series is apparently more complex than I remember, and I need to watch it again.

I know, right? I mean, if I went around saying I was emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

They've always played fast and loose with travel time on WH13. Remember when they went to Vegas to track down the gambling artifact? Seemed like they drove there in a matter of hours when it would've taken about a day, assuming they switched drivers and didn't spend the night anywhere.

No no no. There are no laws in this place. What we have there is merely a ground rule established for the common safety and benefit of all of the floating city's residents. It's quite simple really.

It's been obvious since the first episode that WH13's FX budget isn't particularly large. Almost every special effect is conspicuously CG.

I'd chalk it up to Eureka and the difficulty that show has had turning a profit. WH13's smaller main cast and lower quality FX are probably there to make sure the show stays in the black.