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When Wellhausen developed the Documentary Hypothesis, he hypothesized that Exodus 34 was the law code of the Yahwist School.

I'm surprised to see neo-documentarian Dr. Friedman attribute the laws there to the Redactor instead of "Rabbi J":

https://www.thetorah.com/article/after-the-golden-calf-is-the-covenant-renewed-with-a-ritual-decalogue

Then Dr. Rabbi Yoreh suggested that the original Elohist Decalogue had seven commandments instead of 10:

https://www.thetorah.com/article/speculating-about-the-original-text-of-the-decalogue

Since he supports the Supplementary Hypothesis, he suggested that what is known today as the Decalogue in Exodus and Deuteronomy was enumerated as ten by the Yahwist School.

Fellow supporter of the Supplementary Hypothesis, Dr. Rabbi Frankel, pointed out the possibility of a lost Mosaic Torah after Exodus 24:12.

Putting two and two together, it looks like:

1. The original beginning of the Covenant Collection, the Elohist Torah, consisted of seven negative commandments.

2. Then came the Covenant Collection.

3. Then came Exodus 24:12 and a missing law code.

Could this lost Mosaic Torah be the Torah of J?

Whose original beginning was indeed the Ethical Decalogue?

And which contained numerous commandments?

Could this law code have contained the Deuteronomy 27 curses before they were moved to Deuteronomy 27?

In all of Star Trek, the franchise has been affected by multiple different writing styles:

Gunsmoke

Mash

Babylon 5

Buffy

24

Lost

Ostensibly, TOS was pitched to NBC as Wagon Train To The Stars.

However, the writing styles of both shows are similar to that of Gunsmoke: The main characters aren't so well-developed at all. Someone else compared individual TOS episodes to a story pitch to the network.

Mash is the archetype show for the character development we see in TNG and VOY.

The Babylon 5 model forms the basis of DS9's storytelling format. Both shows built up their main antagonists slowly over multiple seasons. Both shows did their best to stay away from Big Bads to be Forgotten Next Season.

What both shows have that modern shows don't, however, are clear cut studio commitments. B5 had four seasons for the initial commitment. DS9 had six seasons for the initial commitment.

The next two writing styles affected Star Trek also. Buffy had more of an impact on the franchise than 24. It was Buffy that introduced the Big Bad to be Forgotten Next Season. Nonetheless, both contributed to ENT S3.

The Lost model introduced the mystery box format. It retained the Big Bad to be Forgotten Next Season. It contributed to Discovery and Picard.

Of all the modern shows, it could be argued that Rings of Power utilizes the writing style of B5 and DS9 in the modern era. The show has all five seasons for the initial commitment. Sauron is not the Big Bad to be Forgotten Next Season.

10 years makes a difference in TV culture.

It's the difference between 10 years and 20 years.

When was DS9 better appreciated by fans?

When was VOY better appreciated by fans?

When was ENT better appreciated by fans?

DS9 stopped being the redheaded stepchild within 10 years.

I'm pretty sure DS9 started to become loved when the DVDs came out and during the Spike TV days.

At the very latest, the JJ Abrams's second Trek film definitely did the job (because of Section 31).

No later than that.

In contrast, it took much longer for VOY and ENT to become more loved by the fans: 20 years or more.

During the time of the Destiny Trilogy novels, VOY still had the Worst Trek Ever reputation.

It was VOY that benefitted the most from streaming on Netflix. It has been said that the turnaround is "insane."

It was also ENT that benefited from streaming.

I read pearl clutching in the DIS sub. They really don't realize the difference between 10 years and 20+ years.

I have every confidence that Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks will gain more respect much sooner than Discovery.

A Galaxy Mk 2 class? (Kitbashed a New Orleans)

This kitbash came to mind for its insistence on the New Orleans neck.

Since this could go into a Yamato kitbash, could the Galaxy saucer be extended a bit?

Could the saucer be shaped like a mushroom, just like the Shangri-La and "Constitution III" in PIC?

Keep most of the Galaxy saucer as it is, but move it forward and extend the head portion of the stardrive.

Then the design can have a New Orleans neck without that neck going all the way to the captain's yacht?

The core engineering hull of the Galaxy Class starship has always been too wide to accommodate a kitbash based on the Yamato Class Battleship.

The core engineering hull of the Probert Ambassador, or the Narendra, has also always been too wide to accommodate a kitbash based on the Yamato Class Battleship.

The core engineering hull of the canon Ambassador Class starship is small enough to accommodate a kitbash based on the Yamato Class Battleship.

Likewise, the core engineering hull of the Niagara Class starship is small enough to accommodate a kitbash based on the Yamato Class Battleship.

Here, I'm referring to an additional engineering hull, with its own warp core.

That said, the fictional World Razer of Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard opened many possibilities.

The core engineering hull of either a Galaxy or a World Razer has a good enough shape to "hang" one canon Ambassador engineering hull on either side. Attach a canon Ambassador engineering hull to the bottom left. Attach a canon Ambassador engineering hull to the bottom right.

There is now an engineering hull kitbash that can have three warp cores. However, the center warp core wouldn't be needed. The Galaxy or World Razer center hull can be converted into an advanced weapons system, such as two assault phasers powerful enough to destroy a Galaxy X.

[In real life, such a section would be large enough to generate an antimatter projectile capable of destroying Jedha in a single explosion.]

The traditional neck may or may not be needed. If if isn't, it would be because the Galaxy "eye" would function as the neck, thus resembling the shape of a Nebula Class starship.

Because of copyright reasons, Star Trek has avoided mentioning, in-universe, any fictional sci fi that's past the 1940s.

It hasn't even mentioned Forbidden Planet explicitly.

Can The Last Frontier, as introduced in Strange New Worlds, be the basis of a fictional franchise?

I think making The Last Frontier into a fictional franchise would provide an opportunity to give a nod to Trek alumni Ron Moore's state of the Star Trek franchise in his For All Mankind universe.

Over there, there are only three Star Trek shows: TOS, Phase II, and TNG.

I think The Last Frontier could similarly have only three shows:

The Last Frontier (one season only per SNW)

The Last Frontier: Phase II (five to seven seasons)

The Last Frontier: The New Generation (at least seven seasons)

Strange New Worlds retconned the Constitution Class starship to be 53% longer, 53% wider, and 53% taller. There were logical problems with the old dimensions, most notably how people can fit inside a warp nacelle pylon or inside the neck.

I do think the Galaxy Class starship and every other starship should be retconned to be bigger similarly. There is another reason.

That other reason is the other SNW consideration, the increased phaser firepower retcon.

Phasers

According to recent literature, Star Wars plasma "lasers" fire in the gigatons and perhaps even the teratons (10v12), despite live action visual evidence being just under 10 kilotons (The Empire Strikes Back).

Compare this with the Death Star destruction of Jedha (Rogue One).

According to recent shows, Star Trek phasers fire in the petatons (10v15 per SNW), not in the 30 megatons intended for NEM.

I repeat: Star Trek phasers can destroy Jedha in a single shot (DS9: The Die Is Cast). Star Wars conventional plasma "turbolasers" cannot.

Dimensions

A mere aircraft carrier weighs just over 100,000 metric tons. Let's assume a density of 1.0 and convert that to 100,000 cubic meters.

Currently, the Galaxy class starship has these stats:

641 meters length

473 meters width

133 meters height

40,324,669 cubic meters

5.8 million internal cubic meters = 14.38%

3.8 million internal saucer

2.0 million internal stardrive

A 53% retcon to length, width, and height would yield these stats:

980.73 meters length

723.69 meters width

203.49 meters height

144,425,907 cubic meters

3.58 times more cubic volume

20,773,147 million internal cubic meters

13.6 million internal saucer

7.1 million internal stardrive

The most important stat here is the increased internal cubic meters of the stardrive.

Warhead

A real-life warhead would need 895.51 million full kilograms of real antimatter and an equal amount of grams of matter to produce 38.5 petatons. That's almost 9 times the mass of an aircraft carrier... times two.

A stardrive of only 2.0 million cubic meters can't launch a real-life warhead that large.

However, a retconned stardrive of 7.1 million cubic meters can.

Even in purely fictional Trek terms, it's the difference between being able to carry a Cardassian Dreadnought Missile and not being able to carry one.

The Fifty Year Mission mentioned an anecdote on Enterprise.

> There's a story in the 50 year mission about the filming of an episode of Enterprise.

> The current series (Ent) a guest star (from Voy) and the director (from TNG).

> The ENT cast member was actually pretty impressed by the quality of the episode so far, after being disappointed in other episodes, and he said so to the VOY guest star.

> "If you like this episode you should watch the version we filmed five years ago". Said the VOY actor.

> "Oh please," cut in the TNG cast member, overhearing the conversation, "both of your episodes suck compared to when my show filmed this same damn script in 1991."

It turns out the unnamed episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation was Identity Crisis.

The ENT episode is Extinction. LeVar Burton was the director.

The Voyager episode is Favorite Son. That was the first copycat episode for this story.

And the TNG episode is Identity Crisis. La Forge was the main character.

The funny thing, though, is that I do believe Extinction is better than the original. I wasn't fond of the TNG episode.

In the ENT recycled plot, an entire team was infected. The stakes are higher.

The ENT version appears to be more action-oriented, too.

Despite franchise fatigue, older Star Trek shows have a high degree of original plots.

There is a minimal reuse of Recycled Plots - the Recycled Plot Trope.

The eras of Roddenberry Trek and Berman Trek produced 703 episodes in live action series: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT.

Of these 703 episodes, up to 630 episodes are original plot episodes. That's 89%.

Of these 703 episodes, a minimum of 73 episodes are recycled plot episodes. That's 11%.

Of the 73 recycled plot episodes, 28 are better than the original ones.

TOS has 4 recycled plot episodes out of 79, 5.1% of its episode total.

TNG has 13 recycled plot episodes out of 176, 7.4% of its episode total.

DS9 has 8 recycled plot episodes out of 176, 4.5% of its episode total.

VOY has at least 32 recycled plot episodes / copycats out of 172, at least 18.6% of its episode total.

ENT has at least 16 recycled plot episodes / copycats out of 98, at least 16.3% of its episode total.