and where exactly are Deep Space 1-8?
In deep space.
Too deep.
DS1-7 were destroyed while under construction. DS8 disappeared shortly after coming online.
Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one… stayed up! And that’s what you’re gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.
We don’t talk about Deep Space 1-8.
I’ll have you know that Mariner saw the Zebulon Sisters do the Chu Chu Dance on Deep Space 3.
Also, Space Station Regula 1 implies there were other Regulas. What were they up to?
It was the first of a proposed 15, but budget cuts led to them all being canceled except the first.
The interim generations were, sadly, found not to be Trek worthy.
“You are Star Trek, but we do not grant you the rank of Generation.”
How can you be Star Trek and not be a Generation?!
After Khan and his augments, I can see how the rest of humanity deemed hum drum.
It’s all the same generation as far as Tuvok is concerned.
Lifespans are certainly longer considering McCoy is still up and walking around near the start of TNG. 😒 Keiko being Keiko once again…
Keiko being Keiko once again…
A sharp edged but reasonable person? A flat out “good takes” machine that doesn’t know the main characters are Mary sues immune from real consequences?
The actual answer is that thr next generation being referred to is the generation watching the show. Their parents grew up watching the original, and now they are watching Star Trek for their generation.
I’m pretty sure it was just the next generation/iteration of the show. They played around with Kirk and Spock at the academy and Captain Sulu and probably some other ideas. I think Greenfield like they did was the correct path.
The Next Generation [to Get Their Own TV Show]
A “generation” is colloquially ~14-20 years, and “several” means 7+. Keiko’s high as balls again. 🤦🏽♂️
edit: if “several” generations “by any reckoning” were able to fit into ~85 years’ time, it would require 10yr olds becoming parents in each generation, consecutively. What the actual, Keiko. Words matter. Ew.
Personally I think “several” could be as few as like, 3
3 is a few, several has got to be 4+
I agree with the poster below, in that they’re ambiguous terms used interchangably, descriptive linguistics and whatnot. But in my brain, they’re hard coded as couple=2, few=3, several=4+, a bunch= 10 or more, but not 12. Can me 10, 11, 13+, but can’t specifically be 12. That’s a dozen.
I agree with these, except I would use a bunch to mean as low as say, 5 or 6. Like a bunch of bananas at a grocer.
I could get behind this. The low end of a bunch isn’t as clearly defined in my head as the others. So long as it isn’t precisely 12, it’s okay. Lol. Also, 6 is often “half dozen” but not always.
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Haha, sorry! I know people like to give very specific meanings to words like a few, several, or some, but colloquially to me they are intentionally ambiguous and all basically mean “a small amount, more than 2”
TBF, even three “generations” in that span assumes parenthood by 28 (2021: 30, FYI), and 4+ generations by 7 years apiece — putting it well beyond reality “by any reckoning”.
https://xkcd.com/1070/ disagrees
Heroes of might and magic III taught me when I was a kid that Few means 1-4 and several means 5-9 and I refuse to receive any other explanations
fair, HoMM3 > xkcd ngl
Now I wonder how Lower Decks call the TNG people.
Fookin’ legends
In German it is called “Das nächste Jahrhundert” meaning “The next century”, which avoids that issue.
Maybe I missed something, but how can it be 85 years apart since Scotty was on TNG.
In that episode, they find Scotty trapped in a transporter buffer.
But they also had a super old Dr. McCoy in one of the first episodes, so maybe lifespans are longer too.
He was like 130 in that episode. He was also the last remaining crewman of the original Enterprise, as far as we know.
But he didn’t feel a day over 100.
It would make sense that future medical enhancements would prolong lifespans significantly, especially given that (depending on the episode) they’ve cured things like the common cold and headaches.
Generations and the boundaries for how they are defined is a social construct, regular intervals by years? Distinct by some major event or phenomenon? Perhaps it had been one generation by TNG norms
There were 3 generations of starships named Enterprise between TOS and TNG. Surely that’s the most relevant measure of a generation for Star Trek.
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O’Brian’s generation is like 300 years.
