Talk:Where No One Has Gone Before (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 skant uniform 3 data's contraction 4 Some issues 5 Nit!!! 6 Story Arc 7 Ballet song

[edit] skant uniform

Did anyone else notice in the episode Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG) that there is a man wearing a women's star fleet uniform dress around the 51 minute mark (on tivo)?

Or am I just seeing things? -<unsigned>

"They're just so gosh darn comfortable"

Yes, there is. Here is the screencap. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 11:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

And its not really a "woman's" uniform -- the costumers decided it would be less sexist if all the uniform designs were unisex -- meaning the women could wear pants, and that men could also wear skirts -- which they called a "skant".

This a parodied in Futurama -- look at Zapp Brannigan's uniform. TNG also isn't the first sci-fi to feature men in this type of outfit. -- Captain M.K.B. 11:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] data's contraction

I just noticed watching this episode, when the test goes wrong, Picard asks Data, "what is our velocity?" to which Data replies, "it's off the scale, sir"... he used a contraction... did anyone else catch this? -- 'unsigned

"Data's inability to use contractions in ordinary speech was remarked upon in the TNG episode "Datalore," a rule which he adhered to for the remainder of the series (except for his alternate timeline version in "All Good Things...") and the four TNG films. In the episodes preceding "Datalore," however, he routinely used contractions." -- Data Article

So yeah, he used contractions before they wanted to make it a plot point. - AJ Halliwell 06:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some issues

• They're worried about The Traveler having enough energy to help them get back home, but they make him walk to engineering? Couldn't they carry him there to make sure he was at his best?
• Picard refers to the ballerina as "ensign" but she has no pips - indicating she is crewman-rank. How did he know she was a ensing?

Perhaps because he's the Captain and he knows who's working on his ship? He might not know EVERYBODY - that's the XO's responsibility - but why should it surprise us that the Captain can recognize his own people and know their ranks?– Gotham23 14:05, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• Data sends a transmission back to the Federation while they are in the distant galaxy and quotes a ridiculous amount of time before it gets there. This is wrong. Many canon publications state that sub-space radio transmissions "decay" after so long, hence the need for sub-space relay stations. Data's transmission would never have arrived at all (well, maybe after hundreds of millions of years in a decayed RF state that would be unintelligible and useless)
• When the Enterprise first accelerates to warp speed, the customary "flash" is missing, although it is seen otherwise throughout this episode and many others.
• While the starship Enterprise is (at first) flung only two million light years away, it is stated that it would take over three hundred years to return to the Federation. This is, of course, ridiculous, when compared with the time scale associated with the 70,000 light year jump in Voyager.--Reginald Barclay 10:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nit!!!

The following has been removed on account of nit-pickery! --From Andoria with Love 13:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

However, Geordi's estimate of 300 years makes no sense. If Federation ships could travel at that speed, Voyager would have made it home in a little over 8 years. In Caretaker, it's clearly stated that it would take them 75 years at maximum warp to traverse the 70,000 light years back to the Federation. Since Voyager's engines should be at least as efficient as the Enterprise-D's, then using that ratio it should have taken them close to 2,900 years to get home.

This nit has since reappeared (twice) as:

This is obviously a mistake, because simple calculations shows that even at maximum warp it will take thousands of years to travel between the galaxies (in this case, 2700 years instead of 300).

I've, again, removed it, and moved it here. It may be a mathematical error, retcon'ing, whatever. But it's still a nitpick. -- Sulfur 19:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I was going to say the same thing after watching half the epsiode. --Freiberg, Let's talk!, contribs 02:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Story Arc

Should this episode be tagged as the first of three episodes concerning Wesley Crusher and The Traveler?

If I remember correctly he appears in three episodes to help Wesley:

- Where No One Has Gone Before - Remember Me - Journey's End

[edit] Ballet song

Hello Does anyone know the Ballet song that the Ballarina Ensign was dancing to in TNG episode "Where no one has gone before" – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.58.29.144 (talk).

Hello! Does anyone know the name of the song the Ballerina ensign was dancing to in the TNG episode "where no one has gone before" Thanks in advance – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ddand (talk • contribs) . – Tom 21:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)