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In the trivia section there's a nitpick stating that when Wesley came off the holodec wet, the water should have disappeared the moment he stepped off the holodec. This is untrue. This has also occured later in the episode as the same Crusher nailed Captain Picard with a snowball thrown off the holodec as the doors were opening. As stated earlier in the episode, the goods and items created on the holodec are created with a technology identical to the transporter beam, rearranging molecules to create whatever they desire. Now, for the more complex organisms, like Humans, they probably are indeed too complex to exist without the holodec constantly rearranging them. But for something as simple as water? A basic element? Well that would be no problem for the holodec to create as accruately as, say, a replicator would create food. And it should be noted a replicator works along very identical technology as well. Smokachu13 1:00, 01 May 2007
I edited out the note about Colonel North and Q's Marine Corps Uniform. The information was incorrect: Q's insignia was that of a Captain, not a Colonel.
The article lists Encounter at Farpoint with production codes 101 and 102. However, I saw the episode on DVD today listed with production code (or "production number", whichever is correct) 721. Memory Alpha also uses 721. Which is correct? Does it have something to do with the fact that it is a double episode, and the two episodes combined having it's own production number? -- Gosub 00:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
i reverted the move as this was the only episode outside of the Star Trek Naming Convention. This page should remain here at Encounter at Farpoint (TNG episode) unless the convention is overturned and someone can take the time to move all the episodes Discordance 18:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I watched this episode last night (split in two, as described), and the bowl-of-apples incident was different as recorded here.
Here's a copy of the script (of the scene that I saw, at least): http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/nextgeneration/season1/tng-101.txt (search for "apple" :))
The interaction took place in Zorn's office, not in the market, and only himself and Riker were present. The magic apples appeared during a conversation about the creation of Farpoint station.
I have no idea where the original poster got their information from. Possibly drugs. Dave420 19:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I warrant the user got the apples incident confused with later in the epsode when Riker, Beverly Crusher, and her son Wesley were at market and a bolt of red cloth materialized a gold pattern after hearing her suggestion. Smokachu13 1:00, 01 May 2007
I think that whoever put together these articles has done an outstanding job, but I would like to make this comment:
The information under the "Trivia" section of each article is not really trivia. It should be called by its proper name: "Nitpicking."
Please don't get me wrong; I like nitpicking, especially nitpicking Trek. I just don't think it's fair to call it "Trivia."
My two cents.
Roger Clendening II St. Petersburg, FL
Request Move poll and discussion is located at this talk page.
I believe that there are two versions of "Encounter at Farpoint": a single segment lasting 2 hours and 2 1-hour episodes. If so, are there differences? -- BigMac1212 ( talk) 02:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
"In a way, it was also the start of a tradition that the first episode of each new Star Trek series (set in the 24th century) include an appearance by a prominent character from a previous Star Trek series"
As far as i know star trek voyager didnt include any real notable characters aside from a deep space nine frengi, and enterprise didnt include anyway aside from the actor from star trek first contact, should this be changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.112.169 ( talk) 19:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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Initial comments: Am placing this article on hold to see if some of the references can be expanded or reviewed. While checklinks lists all web links as live, I am concerned about use and quality; several appear to be blogs, which do not pass WP:RS, notably www.avclub.com. I think the "reception" section also fails to distinguish the reviews at the time from those (again, I'm picking on the AV club in particular, but also Den of Geek) that were written over a decade after the series ended. Perhaps you could split this section into a paragraph on the initial reception of the episode as the pilot at the time it aired, and then a second paragraph discussing how it held up in retrospect once the entire series concluded. I'm also a bit concerned about the heavy reliance on a single source, Nemecek, for nearly everything else in the article but the reviews, it's 18 of the first 21 footnotes. While I do not question that Nemecek IS a good source, such intense reliance raises concerns with close paraphrasing and it would help to have a few more sources that can be directly verified online. I'll review other aspects later, but this really jumped out at me. Montanabw (talk) 22:10, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
There is a typo in this article. In the infobox, it mentions "Grappler Zorn". In the Plot paragraph, it is "Groppler Zorn". One of these isn't correct. I don't know which is correct so I didn't make the edit. Xblkx ( talk) 02:08, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
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In the trivia section there's a nitpick stating that when Wesley came off the holodec wet, the water should have disappeared the moment he stepped off the holodec. This is untrue. This has also occured later in the episode as the same Crusher nailed Captain Picard with a snowball thrown off the holodec as the doors were opening. As stated earlier in the episode, the goods and items created on the holodec are created with a technology identical to the transporter beam, rearranging molecules to create whatever they desire. Now, for the more complex organisms, like Humans, they probably are indeed too complex to exist without the holodec constantly rearranging them. But for something as simple as water? A basic element? Well that would be no problem for the holodec to create as accruately as, say, a replicator would create food. And it should be noted a replicator works along very identical technology as well. Smokachu13 1:00, 01 May 2007
I edited out the note about Colonel North and Q's Marine Corps Uniform. The information was incorrect: Q's insignia was that of a Captain, not a Colonel.
The article lists Encounter at Farpoint with production codes 101 and 102. However, I saw the episode on DVD today listed with production code (or "production number", whichever is correct) 721. Memory Alpha also uses 721. Which is correct? Does it have something to do with the fact that it is a double episode, and the two episodes combined having it's own production number? -- Gosub 00:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
i reverted the move as this was the only episode outside of the Star Trek Naming Convention. This page should remain here at Encounter at Farpoint (TNG episode) unless the convention is overturned and someone can take the time to move all the episodes Discordance 18:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I watched this episode last night (split in two, as described), and the bowl-of-apples incident was different as recorded here.
Here's a copy of the script (of the scene that I saw, at least): http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/nextgeneration/season1/tng-101.txt (search for "apple" :))
The interaction took place in Zorn's office, not in the market, and only himself and Riker were present. The magic apples appeared during a conversation about the creation of Farpoint station.
I have no idea where the original poster got their information from. Possibly drugs. Dave420 19:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I warrant the user got the apples incident confused with later in the epsode when Riker, Beverly Crusher, and her son Wesley were at market and a bolt of red cloth materialized a gold pattern after hearing her suggestion. Smokachu13 1:00, 01 May 2007
I think that whoever put together these articles has done an outstanding job, but I would like to make this comment:
The information under the "Trivia" section of each article is not really trivia. It should be called by its proper name: "Nitpicking."
Please don't get me wrong; I like nitpicking, especially nitpicking Trek. I just don't think it's fair to call it "Trivia."
My two cents.
Roger Clendening II St. Petersburg, FL
Request Move poll and discussion is located at this talk page.
I believe that there are two versions of "Encounter at Farpoint": a single segment lasting 2 hours and 2 1-hour episodes. If so, are there differences? -- BigMac1212 ( talk) 02:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
"In a way, it was also the start of a tradition that the first episode of each new Star Trek series (set in the 24th century) include an appearance by a prominent character from a previous Star Trek series"
As far as i know star trek voyager didnt include any real notable characters aside from a deep space nine frengi, and enterprise didnt include anyway aside from the actor from star trek first contact, should this be changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.112.169 ( talk) 19:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Montanabw ( talk · contribs) 21:32, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Initial comments: Am placing this article on hold to see if some of the references can be expanded or reviewed. While checklinks lists all web links as live, I am concerned about use and quality; several appear to be blogs, which do not pass WP:RS, notably www.avclub.com. I think the "reception" section also fails to distinguish the reviews at the time from those (again, I'm picking on the AV club in particular, but also Den of Geek) that were written over a decade after the series ended. Perhaps you could split this section into a paragraph on the initial reception of the episode as the pilot at the time it aired, and then a second paragraph discussing how it held up in retrospect once the entire series concluded. I'm also a bit concerned about the heavy reliance on a single source, Nemecek, for nearly everything else in the article but the reviews, it's 18 of the first 21 footnotes. While I do not question that Nemecek IS a good source, such intense reliance raises concerns with close paraphrasing and it would help to have a few more sources that can be directly verified online. I'll review other aspects later, but this really jumped out at me. Montanabw (talk) 22:10, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
There is a typo in this article. In the infobox, it mentions "Grappler Zorn". In the Plot paragraph, it is "Groppler Zorn". One of these isn't correct. I don't know which is correct so I didn't make the edit. Xblkx ( talk) 02:08, 22 March 2013 (UTC)