MarkB
Legend
It's not canon if it was never on screen. The origins of cloaking technology have never been established in any series.You keep falling back to the Klingons. I don't pin everything on that, though it certainly rankles.
- A cloaking device long before they could have had one, based on the (postulated) Romulan-Klingon treaty from TOS.
When V'Ger was approaching Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock sensed it from Vulcan and abandoned his Kolinahr training as a result. Similarly long-range telepathic or empathic connections have been shown elsewhere, for instance in the TNG episode Tin Man.- Full, immersive telepathy over light years of distance when the best that Spock could manage was a feeling of disbelief, after 430 Vulcans died.
The Eugenics Wars resulted in the outlawing of genetic modification of humans, not cybernetic. Have you forgotten that TNG's Geordi LaForge is also a cybernetically modified bridge officer, or that Captain Picard has an artificial heart?- Cybernetic enhancements on crew members when the Eugenics War made humans, and through them the Federation, consider them to be anethema.
Which isn't dissimilar to the bridge lighting in most of the movies - which also made changes to the uniforms.- The "Mass Effect" style bridge lighting and uniforms.
Or at least, one person would, for a chance at stopping a war.- A point I raised earlier that apparently the Federation doesn't shoot first, but they will commit a war crime (booby trapping a corpse).
Well, two of your points were things that weren't ever actually canon, and another was a stylistic nitpick that could equally be applied to each of the Star Trek movies. So that leaves you with "apparently the Federation will take desperate and sometimes illegal measures in times of war" to which the response is "yes, based upon plentiful established canon, they certainly will."There's more, but that seems quite enough to make a point for me. Early claims were that they would *seem* to be breaking canon but, after a couple of episodes, would turn that around in each case. Sure didn't seem that way to me and it's far enough off course that I abandoned ship.
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