another continuity error

[Glom]

Consider 'Hollow Pursuits' [TNG]

Invidium starts screwing up Enterprise systems. The effects are unknown because invidium has not been used by the Federation in over a century, according to Duffy, and most of the systems affected were not invented when the material was in use.

"Who knows what could happen with transporter..."

The year is 2366.

We know that transporters were in widespread use in the 2250s, although they were a bit slow.

We may conclude that invidium went out of use somewhere in the early 23rd century (any earlier and Duffy would have said 200 years). Since the effects of invidium on transporters isn't known to the engineers on the flag ship of the fleet, we can conclude that transporters were first invented around a similar time.

So what the hell is a transporter doing on NX-01?

[Humphrey]

Umm...It was a secret?

[tuffel999]

Never let continuity stand in the way of a truely horrible story line........er....maybe that was truely great but who knows this is trek of late. [-X

[sideways]

You know the best way to explain away the continuity errors on Enterprise is to say that it takes place in an alternate reality. And you can't get much more alternate than a universe where the Klingon homeworld is within a light-year of Earth!
#-o

[daver]

You know the best way to explain away the continuity errors on Enterprise is to say that it takes place in an alternate reality. And you can't get much more alternate than a universe where the Klingon homeworld is within a light-year of Earth!
#-o

Wow, that's pretty good. Does it orbit a brown dwarf? Maybe a rogue planet? Or is their system cloaked?

[Tobin Dax]

Ooh, maybe Qo'noS is Planet X!!

[wedgebert]

No no no, the Klingons are really Martians.

[tracer]

Nonsense. If the Klingons were really Martians, they would've blown up the Earth. It obstructs their view of Venus.

[Nenya]

Actually, I had heard that it was Tobin Dax who invented the transporter...well, helped to, or something. (Tobin, what think you of Lives of Dax, which purports to tell your life story? ) Not sure where this fits in with the continuity, though. If Dax has been around for ~300 years by the 2370s, and Tobin is the second of the hosts, that would seem to put the Lives of Dax date rather earlier than the 2250s. Then again, I read that book more for the story than the tech, and they didn't give a timeline anyway.

And I must admit that having the NX-01 in an alternate universe is really rather how I've been thinking of it. Did they really put the Klingon homeworld within a lightyear of Earth? If that wasn't a typo, they're nuts....

--Nenya, who incidentally was always rather fond of Tobin Dax

[Glom]

When it comes down to it, only the stuff that is on screen (excluding the Animated Series) is canonical.

[Nenya]

Yes, yes, I know. I just had to get a mention of Tobin in there.

*has huge pointless crushes on way too many Trek men, and probably a few of the women*

[wedgebert]

When it comes down to it, only the stuff that is on screen (excluding the Animated Series) is canonical.

But what is more canonical that what? You can pick two random episodes from any series and something will contradict something else.

[Phreaky]

It's been explained somewhere (too lazy to research) that any canon changes on Enterprise can be explained by the Enterprise E's time travel in First Contact. Thus the existence of transporters and higher technology in the NX-01 than the NCC-1701.

In reality a lot of the stuff from TOS would look way too campy on todays television, so they updated it.