Star Trek: 10 Huge Discoveries That No One Cared About 

About Q... They also never really explored Guinan's reaction to seeing Q. Like she wanted to kill him, and was confident enough to do it.

Their indifference towards Q makes sense. They know that the Continuum is not going to tell them anything or do anything significant for them. As carefree and nonchalant as Q acts, it’s pretty clear that the Q are as strict about not interfering with less advanced races as starfleet is. Janeway knew that Q wouldn’t even send Voyager home even though it would be nothing for him. She asks once because she had to at least try, but she’s not surprised when he refuses and she doesn’t try to force the point.

Ellie: But, here he is, displaying *powers beyond belief* Q: absolutely wailing with his Mariachi band

I remember being a kid and having my mind blown with the common ancestor episode. And when they completely ignored it in the next one I was confused. I think I waited for months to see if it ever came back up, never did lol

Sisko's not impressed by Q because Sisko is also a god.

As far as #2, I wonder how many people looking back at that episode realize that not only is the actress the same as the lead founder changeling in DS9, but that the form is similar to the changeling "default". Add to that the fact that the first encounter on the changeling homeworld has her explain that their species was solid and limited, once upon a time... coincidence?

They ignored that accident that created two Commander Rikers. Starfleet could have reversed engineered tech to duplicate humans perfectly

10:58 People really need to stop confusing the universe with a galaxy, they are not the same thing. They only seeded our galaxy, that's a big difference compared to an entire universe.

The Star Trek universe absolutely cares about Q even if some individuals do not. I would have replaced that spot with the Dyson Sphere they discovered then never brought up again.

Voyager gets a pass on the warp thing because that's why they have nacelles that move to keep from damaging anything.

Well they did care about #6, they mention the warp speed limit a couple times after the episode and later warp engines, including the Intrepid's fancy variable-geometry pylons, were designed to be gentiler on subspace.

I thought starfleet made a fix on the warp drive thing with the re-designed nacelles?

Warp drive damaging space is literally why the Voyager was built. They didn't forget about it.

Geordi asks some guy “have you seen the dolphins?” in the episode “The perfect mate”

I've always thought it odd that the original humanoid looked a lot like Odo and the Founders, in particular the female changeling. I've often wondered if there was something deeper there, and hoped the writers would explore that more.

Technically, the first life on earth to make contact with an alien was when Q fiddled around with the primordial protein goo in All Good Things 😁

@11:47 It can easily be explained why the crew doesn't ask Q any bigger questions: You can't trust anything he says to be the truth.

This list was surprisingly good. I did get annoyed when Voyager didn't use the slipstream drive after discovering that red-lining it would make it blow up. They could have used it in short trips. Or could have used the Delta Flyer as a taxi service - didn't it also have the slipstream drive installed? The pro-genitor looks so much like the dominion founder that it was probably her, and it was a massive hoax. She tried to trick them all into...... hmmm, no, i haven't thought this through.

Really hard to watch the "dna computer" episode without thinking that the result looks excatly like The Founder leader.

Star Trek throws away advance tech all the time. In TOS Nomad enhances the warp engines and Kirk tells him to reverse the changes when he should have just told Nomad to slow the ship down but keep the changes. There are many more examples form TOS alone. Never mind next gen or DS9.

Remember in season 1 when Starfleet was infiltrated by body snatching bugs? Yeah, they forgot pretty quickly as well.

Starfleet meets a near-omnipotent being that puts them on trial, and systematically negs him until he's chasing after them for attention.

Yeah. In "Into Darkness" it turns out Khans blood literally can bring Kirk back from the dead. And no one bats an eye.

a warm welcome to the TrekCulture family, Ellie :)

Transporting to and from an entire alternate evil universe, never seemed to get much attention from Starfleet command either.

My favorite is the uninhabited Dyson Sphere in Next Generation that they just leave behind.

There’s no way in a million years I would have made myself an adult again in that episode ‘Rascals’.

They also just forgot that they can travel across the galaxy virtually instantly after Reg Barclay got zapped by the Cytherian probe. Guess no-one saved Reg's holodeck program...

12:27 Presenter Sean Ferrick? Way to go Sean, I'm very impressed by your Cross-Dressing skills, didn't notice it was you at all. All humor aside, good presentation Ellie, thank you.

Voyager's redesigned nacelles were supposed to fix the problem. With damaging space

#6 - they actually do mention the warp speed limit in ONE additional episode - Picard mentions invoking an emergency so they can go to high warp. But that is it. Never mentioned again.

the restrictions on warp speed were only meant for that particular area and the data about warp drive damaging subspace did influence ship designs moving forward. that's why later federation ships were sleeker, more "streamlined", it was more efficient and cut down on the damage they did to subspace.

Actually there was a book published after ST IV titled "Probe". It's all about the alien probe that contacted the whales.

missing dyson sphere

Star Trek is like each episode is its own parallel universe in the multiverse. What happens in one episode has no effect in any other episode…

12:30 "Presenter: Sean Ferrick" MY GAWD has Sean undergone a rapid change!

"Guys, I think we might have found actual gods. They are pricks though, so try to ignore them."

4. The creature is akin to a Q, who was trapped there by the Q and other similar entities. They need help leaving the barrier because it vastly reduces it's abilities.

Re the warp limit, pretty sure at least once after Picard briefed the crew before a mission and said we have permission from starfleet to exceed warp 6. Or was that me just dreaming I'm Picard again 😊

The Voth don't really count here because they are actively against any further contact. Janeway didn't get much choice in it.

There are others, like Trelane possibly being a Q or what humans supposedly evolve into in that infamous Voyager episode about Warp 10, but I'd say these 10 are probably the biggest.

Great new content from TrekCulture with only one small flaw. Here's hoping you can soon afford to improve the audio so you don't sound like you are recording in the bathroom. Thank you though for the time and effort you put in to researching these topics.

I thought the Dyson Shell (Sphere) would be on here from TNG: "Relics" .

About number 6, the damage to sub space in the Hekaran sector was explained in the Voyager episode ‘The Omega Directive’. It was not warp travel that damaged sub space, but it was actually the Omega molecule. Starfleet found about it, suppressed it and limited knowelege to Captains and admirals. That’s why it was never brought up till Voyager.

I feel like the Romulan / Human connection, at least for Picard, could have been his relationship / motivation in ST: Picard.

Cetacean Ops and the dolphins within were mentioned by Geordi to a Ferengi in the TNG episode "The Perfect Mate." (The one with Famke Janssen.) They weren't shown, but that was the first canon reference to Cetacean Ops.

The Voth play a major role in Star Trek Online and have their lore and technology further expanded upon. So while not followed up on the TV shows they did do a fair bit with them in beta canon material. Same with the quantum slipstream drives which are standard technology on ships in STO as well.

There is also The Traveller - wasn't he the first visitor from another Galaxy to enter the Milkey Way? Didn't he transport the Enterprize to another Galaxy for a few minutes? Also, I think they address the "all humanoids share a common ancestor" thing in the TOS episode when Kirk becomes an American Indian.

I dont think they "forget" about these things... but ultimately they are explorers and have to keep exploring. Once they discover something, they make their report and collect data and send it back to scientists and academies in the federation.

EDITORS NOTE: I credited Sean where in fact it was Ellie. I will make sure to plug my brain in next time.

They also found a dyson sphere, then sorta shrugged and moved on.

Now I LOVE this channel, but THIS vid is FANTASTIC!!! Definitely things to think about!

Voyager did try to explain away the warp thing as the reasoning why it has moving nacelles.

Yeah I always hated the “warp damages space” story arc. They do reference being approved for exceeding warp 5 restrictions in at least one episode after, but then it’s completely abandoned. It was clearly a clunky analogy for climate change that they realized would unnecessarily hamper the series if it was adhered to.

The Voth discovery was mentioned as a in a later Voyager episode.

Great job, Ellie! Welcome to the channel. Hope to see many more videos presented by you 🙂🖖

I watched this, and then later when I was watching ST:TNG, I was delighted to hear Geordi ask some Ferengi if they wanted to go see the dolphins LOL (S5E21)!

Warp speed on its own doesn't damage sub-space it is higher warp frequency's coupled with certain ship designs. Basically if the ship design has a sleek profile the warp bubble won't affect subspace.

Pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere that Saurians were also from Earth originally but got moved by another race (I guess Preservers?) before the asteroid hit.

3:30 As data said to isac Newton. "that is a myth" Q was just trolling her

I don’t think starfleet would embrace immortality. There could be a Prime Directive argument in there.

When was it established that the Q can read minds? They are highly intelligent and very intuitive, but I don't remember them as having telepathic abilities.

Dyson Sphere - the most amazing discovery but then ignored

The entity in ST V was believed to be a Cytherian that was imprisoned on a planet.

... While we are at it, what ever happened to The Traveler?!

Voyager was DESIGNED to minimize damage to subspace. Every ship built after her had warp tech that minimized subspace damage. And other older ships were retrofitted with the safer warp technologies as they were designed.

Now, for the Borg Nanoprobes argument and the Quantum Slipstream Drive argument 1. The Nanoprobes could possibly try to re-assimilate Seven back into the collective, so it would be too risky to try. 2. We saw Voyager using the Quantum Slip Drive once and it ended BADLY for them.

The actress who played the Creater from the chase is same as the founder female from deep space nine.

The aliens that the singing whales were in contact with might have been the Xindi Aquatics.

You forgot finding out that humans will evolve into 2 legged amphibians that are no longer sapient and can reproduce amazingly fast.

6.) The Federation established a Warp Speed Limit, but then they also developed more 'environmentally-friendly' warp drives. That's why the M/ARAs of the Defiant, Ent-E, and Voyager are different than the Ent-D's, and it's the explanation for Voyager's variable geometry nacelles.

What Star Trek would have benefited from most would have been a hybrid between episodic and serialized styles, using an "evolving" writers' bible.

While I like Sean, I'm hoping we see Elly a lot more often.

I just want to know more about the Dyson Sphere! TNG introduces a long lost Dyson sphere which has such large implications. A race that could make that would probably be the most advanced species ever, and as far as I know, we learn nothing more about the sphere and its creators ever again. It's the coolest concept ever. give me more spheres :(

Thought you would have mentioned the Cytherians and that amazingly cool hologram tech that lets you create whatever you want based on your thoughts from that wonderful episode with the line "I said shut up! As in close your mouth and stop talking".

Great job Ellie!! Glad to have you aboard! Love the jokey jokes and well placed snark 😂 🖖

What about some fallout from tng season 1s conspiracy ???? Or more on those aliens

I agree that nano probes should have been used more but wondering if it deemed to dangerous to try

You were a wonderful host and this was a great episode!

What about travelling to a distant galaxy and meeting the advanced Cytherians (the floating head people!). Did they not bother to keep in touch? Surely they would have been a handy ally to at least contact for some advice with how to deal with the Borg for example!

I've always found it curious that even though Janeway helped Q out on several occasions she never thought to ask him to get them home.

Star Trek writers saying that all humanoid life came from one species, that we are all kindred-spirits - that's great writing, that humans really should look deeply into. If they did, racism and bigotry would be called out as being pointless. We are all family.

The warps tech not changing is not true The excelsior class had transwarp that could go beyond TOS warp 10, and in TNG warp 10 was the absolute speed

Thank you for this itemized list. Excellent! :)

I notice the progenitors, or whatever they were called, look an awful lot like the founders. I mean a LOT like them. Just an observation. And, yes. The Founders can look like anything they want. BUT. They seem to always default to this look. I don't think the writers were thinking about some deep trickery here, likely by the founders. But, wow. They could sure do something with this if they wanted to drive the fans nuts today.

To be fair about Slipstream, it requires a rare material to function. I think Book mentioned in Discovery Season 3 that practically nobody has that.

The problem with the damage of space tims fabric due to high warp speeds was supposedly fixed by modifying the warp nacelles.

I like to think the Cetacean ops are for the Xindi aquatic, who are now involved with the Federation and maybe even camping out in Earth's oceans.

My personal favorite not on this list is the _Graviton Catapult,_ from ST:V/S6E9, _The Voyager Conspiracy_ -- THAT's some serious tech that no one apparently bothered with.....

What about the countless ways they've figured out how to detect cloaked ships, and never use those methods again.

It was not T'Pol's ancestor, it was T'Pol herself who gave the Velcro to humans. It was a time travel episode.

I'm surprised the Dyson sphere isn't on this list.

Why they never looked into Hyperdrive engines is beyond me. Stargate ships are so much faster than anything Star Trek has

Life extension technology in Star Trek is cursory at best compared to the most advanced research today. You would think Humans living to a healthy and spry 150+ would be the new middle aged by the 23rd century, forget 24th. Bones was pushing 140 in "Encounter at Farpoint". ...Deforst Kelly, at rest. His labors done.

In Starfleet’s defense. The one Q they had the most contact with was often so obnoxious most crews didn’t want him around. Making him more relatable really saved the character imo.

yeah....if the voyage home wale probe dosnt pop up in lower decks or prodigy i am goingg to be hugly disappointed

That bubble that surrounds the galaxy.

The being in ST V fought against several Q, lost, and was imprisoned.

Nice thumbnail... Litearlly hahaha.

There's the Voyager episode "Threshold," where we find out evolution is predetermined, and humanity's ultimate fate is a nonsapient salamander.