Insurgent wrote:But a question. Why are people OK with the genesis device and its use of protomatter, but not OK with red matter?
thats easy to answer...........the "next generation" gap, pun intended.
starting with tng, trek fans got spoiled on decades techno-babble explaining every little aspect of a deviance,substance or phenomenon
so, back with the 3rd film, a easy made up "protomater" line was bought by fans, the same is no longer acceptable by the same fans
Stuartmaximus wrote:Like the Borg that's another point you've just raised! :that the Q obviously existed around about the time of the original series!(the only being that came close was Charlie in Charlie X)
did you forget Trelane from the TOS episode "the squire of gothos"?
RAR wrote:Star Trek is a bit fuzzy on how powerful the Prophets actually are - but I do recall Q said that he wouldn't mess with them.
do you mind telling me when you think you heard Q say that?