It sounds like the issue was that the two primary female characters in TNG were the doctor and the counselor. Whenever the two of them talked professionally it was probably going to be about a patient, and there was a good chance the patient would be male. For VOY, when the captain and chief engineer communicate professionally it would usually be about a piece of machinery, which would of course not be male.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I would need to see sources for that. As far as I am aware the Roman legions primarily manufactured their own weapons and numerous weapons making factory sites have been unearthed in Italy. And the M17 is made by Sig Sauer, Inc, a US spin off company headquartered New Hampshire and manufacturing in the US
In past civilization collapses, it hasn’t been the death toll that’s done it; it’s been a breakdown of security that causes trade to collapse. For example, people didn’t forget how to make Roman concrete when the Western Roman Empire collapsed. It just became impossible to get the necessary ingredients from scattered locations all over the former empire, so people gave up the technology. Likewise, people aren’t going to forget how to make modern firearms after an apocalypse, but without access to industrial chemicals, they’ll soon be reduced to black powder, and after modern metal alloys rust away, they may decide that swords and spears are safer and more practical.
If security and infrastructure stay intact, we’ll probably bounce back from just about any level of population loss, just like Europe did after the various plagues. If security and infrastructure fail, the society crumbles, like the South American Empires did after the arrival of the Spanish.
Well obviously it didnt work and Spock was not optimistic about his odds. Also, Spock is the guy who evenually cracks the riddle of time travel, so he may have been working off some early half formed theories of temporal physics.
Ok, so here’s an alternate theory: Horonium is actually tritanium (or maybe duranium) that has been saturated with temporal radiation. As for why they mentioned the NX class being built with it, perhaps the Enterprise’s temporal adventures were classified. Starfleet told everyone that all the ships were made with honorarium to cover up the truth.
For one, the Temporal Cold War was supposed to be over by that point, and time travel would not become a common thing until Spock discovers time warp. We know there was a brief conflict with the Romulans at some point around this time. However, the interesting development in that war was supposed to be cloaking devices, not temporal weapons. Besides, Starfleet should have been upgrading to proper shields by then, not retrofitting hull plating. And I’m pretty sure the shade of grey comment was a joke. We know that even by the TNG era, they don’t pay much attention to color-matching hull plates.
I like where you are going with this, except for a few problems. The fact that nobody believed in time travel until well after the Enterprise was built was a huge plot point, so it definitely was not intentional. On top of that, the Enterprise traveled through time several times, through both anomalies and deliberate transport, so the material certainly did not protect from that sort of temporal effect. Also, at one point, they pick up a time ship with a temporal radiation leak that was readily detected through the hull, meaning it’s not even an effective shield.
It was a beloved member of the cast, just as much as any other character. That it was unceremoniously killed off in the first movie and replaced by a stuffed shirt we never got to know or care about, I always felt, was part of why the movies never really captured the magic of the television show. Seeing the Enterprise-D again was all the proof I needed to know it was true.
You could also safely hold a sample without stranding the away team in the event containment had to activate.
Its not even a high barrier. You just have to choose an instance from a list.
Oh no, its Generations all over again. They got a second almost perfect ending. Thats a rare thing. Most shows dont even get one, and nobody but Futurama gets three.
Well she was obviously making an excuse to be there and everyone in the room knew it. Id guess the security clearance was something like manually verifying his identity and registering him with the computer as part of the command staff. This would normally be the sort of boring paperwork the computer or a lower level security person does off screen, but she wanted an excuse to be there and the clearance was technically something she was responsible for.