Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

So was the TOS couple married by Kirk forbidden to procreate while onboard?

Never mentioned. I don't know if it was ever explicitly said that there were children on board but I think it is generally accepted that there weren't.

And in Encounter at Farpoint (the first episode of TNG isn't there a scene when Picard is first getting acquainted with Riker where he says he's not confortable with the new policy of allowing children and families on board and that one of Riker's jobs is to make sure he [Picard] doesn't come off as an asshole abou it?

And do condoms in that future consist of a force-field barrier, or are they still using latex? If force-field, can it be adjusted for "her pleasure?"

I'd imagine that chemical birth control is pretty well perfected by then and we know that all but the most exotic of space diseases took exactly 4 seconds to heal so STDs probably aren't a problem.

I think the just married couple implies enough to cover the implausibility of George and Winona* conducting their entire pregnancy aboard the Kelvin.

I agree, but what was not conveyed about that was that the movie did not convey (at least on my first viewing) that she was also a member of the crew and not just a wife brought along for dramatic tension in times of crisis.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by mousepod

The "fate" thing seems close to the "magic" that CP was glad didn't make it into the movie earlier in this thread. Is there a differentiation? If not, is it good that it didn't make it into the theatrical cut?

I'm not a fan of the fate thing, it's an easy cop out, and if they were going to have Spock mention it it's even more annoying, because how in the hell does Spock know that?