I was going to save all of the "undead Pat returns to Montreal from the west coast of Canada and visits Woolie at Woolie's streaming set up for a while" arc and post the clips all at once, but this is good enough to have its own post.
*puts on Trekker/Trekkie hat (because I don't give a shit about the
supposed distinction between "Trekker" and "Trekkie")*
Well
ackchyually, Pat, we
didn't watch "
like 200 episodes where people go faster than warp 10." Because warp 10 was the hardline "you cannot go this fast" limit for all of
The Next Generation,
Deep Space Nine, and
Voyager up to that point, and also after that point (outside of the occasional wonky shit
such as this, which almost always involved godlike entities like
Q or
The Traveler or
the Caretaker doing godlike entity shit). There were a rare few cases in
The Original Series where something went faster than, like, warp 8 or so, and even those cases were seen as extraordinary. The only times I recall them explicitly going above warp 10 like it was a normal, everyday thing were in a couple episodes of
The Animated Series, and some of the non-canon novels (and, I guess, the non-canon future of
"All Good Things...", though that, again, involved Q). The showrunners for TNG and beyond decided to retcon the fact that you could exceed warp 10 in those earlier shows and explained it as a "recalibration of the warp scale" to account for the fact that "faster than warp 10" was seen in TOS and TAS, making it so they didn't
really go faster in the earlier stuff than the speed that was recalibrated to be "warp 10." Hell, in Peter David's novel
Vendetta (written years before
"Threshold", before even
Voyager itself [or
Deep Space Nine, for that matter] existed) which was basically a (completely awesome) "what if
the Doomsday Machine fought
the Borg" work of official fanfiction on David's part (did I mention it was completely awesome?), he explores what happens if one were to reach warp 10, and it's pretty interesting. (Hint: it's
not "you 'evolve' into salamanders.")
The above, specifically, is a textbook example of Pat's
Stand,
Crazy Talk, activating.
Beyond that, though, Pat's completely right in that
Star Trek: Voyager mostly
sucked asshole (though
"Phage" is still my least favorite episode, more so than even
"Threshold"). Even
Enterprise was better, for the most part. And yeah, all that shit about
Chakotay and the fake Native American consultant was absolutely
true, unfortunately.
Oh, and that thing Pat talks about where the original
Harry Kim died and was replaced by another version of himself... yeah,
that happened. But then, Kim is not even the first to whom such a thing happened. Just a year before, on
Deep Space Nine, the original
Miles O'Brien was
similarly killed and replaced by a temporal clone.
The planet of angry black people was, sadly,
a thing in Next Gen, true enough. That was the super racist first season episode of Next Gen. There was a
super sexist first season episode of Next Gen as well. And the
Irish sex ghost thing was real, too. And the
Worf spits acid thing was real, too.
And yeah... when they mentioned
Quantum Leap and immediately went nuts laughing, I knew
exactly what they were talking about. That wasn't too great, either.
And I remember at least the first season or so of
Sliders. Or, at least, I remember that
Sliders was a thing that existed. The only thing I
actually remember from
Sliders is that they jumped to a world that was almost like their original world, except that (among other things that were revealed later) green lights meant stop and red lights meant go.
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