MrL1992 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:46 pm
Well allow me go offer tbis then:
- Parts of the Romulan government tried looking into Cybernetics again that didn't last long and were shut down?
- Shinzon could have had scientists from other worlds brought in to work on B-4?
It bit 'fan-splainy'? Maybe, but its hardly the first time we've done such things. Its an over fifty-year old franchise. You don't think bit of dialogue here and there won't square together on the surface?
Again though, that's making something up to simply plug a gap. I'm not so much having a go at anyone watching for doing that, we all as humans by our nature need things to make sense to us. Sometimes that means filling in blanks ourselves, or just outright speculating in the dark when we don't have all the facts at hand.
It's just a right pet hate of mine when that natural human habit is exploited in film/TV to compensate for bad or inadequate writing.
A straightforward example I’d give that make audiences speculate in a creative way, is the mysteries of the probe in Star Trek IV. If Paramount had their way, the probe’s call would have got subtitled, which if done would not have only changed the whole complexion of the movie, but could have outright collapsed under it. On top of “humanising” one of the rare instances when we had something truly alien in thinking and motive. The mystery and speculating of what the probe was and what it wanted with the whales, is far more interesting and better for the film than actually giving some sort of answer to that mystery.
I’m all for that kind of speculation, but not speculation to fix plotholes, or basic flaws in logic penned by folk that come across as ignorant of the Star Trek universe, and what’s been done/said before in it.
No the dialogue was very clear and absolute, no work done in the cybernetics or AI fields period. The rest you've made up yourself to try and explain more bad and ignorant writing.
