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Oh hey, the season-finale episode of The Orville is about the Prime Directive and affecting primitive cultures. And it's a really good take on it.
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mods change my name posted:I wish the Vulcans would come save us. 
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it's illogical for a woman not to have huge honkin tits
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Should I recognize the person or is it just the Wrath of Khan reference? (I'm fine with it either way I just want to know before I share it elsewhere) ...also, do inlined twimg.com images not show for anyone else? Seems like I always have to quote and then copy/paste the URL.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Should I recognize the person or is it just the Wrath of Khan reference? They don't show up because they're not https iirc.
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Dec 13, 2017 07:14
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How many torpedoes are in a full spread? Asking for a friend.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Should I recognize the person or is it just the Wrath of Khan reference? Into Darkness reference.
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Volcott posted:How many torpedoes are in a full spread? Asking for a friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIGxMENwq1k The nerd explanation is that it depends on the Dispersal Pattern. "Full Spread" means a maximum amount of torpedos for whatever pattern they are using. So "Sierra" is five in a pentagon shape. Sometimes it's 3 in a triangle, sometimes it's 4 in a Square.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIGxMENwq1k Wouldn't 5 in a pentagon, 3 in a triangle, or 4 in a square be the minimum amount of torpedos for the pattern?
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I just thought it meant "fire all the drat torpedo tubes" but of course there is some crazy nerd explanation
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The only issue that matters is if a Ferengi ship fires a maximum pattern of torpedoes do they refer to it as a full spread of torpedoes or a full consortium of torpedoes.
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Dec 13, 2017 17:37
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Iron Crowned posted:Into Darkness reference. You bastard
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I never quite understood how the Galaxy-class shits out 5 torpedoes at a time from that single launcher
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 I didn't watch this episode recently but I just read the Memory Alpha about it. After the Enterprise exchanges information with the Cytherians (for 10 whole days!), shouldn't Starfleet now have that subspace travel that Barclay used when his head was hooked up to the computer? I mean, the computers on the Enterprise should have logged everything that Barclay was doing while he was hooked up, and it seemed to work with what technology they had at the time, it was just changing the math. Did they do anything with this technology? I wonder if subspace distortion travel is faster than traveling via mushrooms. I started watching ENT, I don't remember most of the episodes so it's pretty fun. Archer and T'Pol are cool. I wonder how much T'Pol and Seven influenced the current skin-tight yoga pants fashion trend.
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Dec 13, 2017 19:34
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MA-Horus posted:I never quite understood how the Galaxy-class shits out 5 torpedoes at a time from that single launcher They got that poo poo hooked up with a five torpedo magazine. It's a space Chu-ko-nu. *Is now suffering intense PTSD flashback of Age of Empires 2 LAN*
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thylacine posted:
Same reason that one episode after Voyager no longer needed to get through Borg space, they just got rid of all the Borg enhancements.
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popewiles posted:Wouldn't 5 in a pentagon, 3 in a triangle, or 4 in a square be the minimum amount of torpedos for the pattern? This is getting way to into fictional weaponry mechanics but no. "minimum amount for the pattern" is discounting any number of shots that don't actually make the pattern the guns are set to. You can still set your weapons to "PATTERN:Triangle" and only fire one or two torpedos, which would be identical to any other pattern. "Full Spread" means a full pattern of whatever the pre-set pattern is. The shows just don't go into the minutiae of what specific weapons protocols are in effect or who knows it. I assume while Picard is jerking off in his little office most of the day he is reading poo poo like that. This is how I read nerds explaining it last night but it isn't even consistent in the show since sometimes they show a single torpedo splitting into five and the torpedos are completely harmless or unbelievably devastating depending on the plot. Nerds have explained away "Full Spread" meaning 5 different things and torpedos having wildly different effects as "Dispersal Patterns" and "Variable Yields" when those were only ever flashy technobabble to sexy up the show. It's kinda like the evasive maneuver patterns. When Riker doesn't throw in a "Pattern: Riker Delta Five" to show everyone how big his dick is do they just use factory defaults and slowly weave from side to side?
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Was this dude supposed to be the same species as the floating god-head from Star Trek 18: We Cut The Rock Monsters?
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Mods please change the thread title to exactly this image, gently caress the CSS, you're doin gods work.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:This is getting way to into fictional weaponry mechanics but no. "minimum amount for the pattern" is discounting any number of shots that don't actually make the pattern the guns are set to. I challenge anyone to fire 3 torpedoes in a pattern other than a triangle.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I challenge anyone to fire 3 torpedoes in a pattern other than a triangle. a straight line?
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counterfeitsaint posted:I challenge anyone to fire 3 torpedoes in a pattern other than a triangle. ======= ========= \\ // * * * \#####(- E: This was a bad ascii enterprise firing them in a straigt line but it didn't work good.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I challenge anyone to fire 3 torpedoes in a pattern other than a triangle.  if you got a problem with lines being classified as a dispersal pattern be sure to take it up with the federation appeals board in 400 years
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A straight line is just a very shallow triangle.
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Computer, create a line that even Data can not classify as a triangle
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Computer, create a line that even Data can not classify as a triangle computer, add straps to the line
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Computer, create a line that even Data can not classify as a triangle 
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VictorianQueerLit posted:
If you look close enough any three objects that appear to be in a straight line will actually form an obtuse triangle. 
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VictorianQueerLit posted:
"There are 4 torpedoes!"
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thylacine posted:
Presumably all the information they received would have to be studied and decrypted first. You could recite the exact manufacturing steps for creating a combustion engine to an ant, but that doesn’t mean the ant can turn around and make their own.
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Computer, create a race of hyperintelligent ants, disable safety protocols.
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popewiles posted:Wouldn't 5 in a pentagon, 3 in a triangle, or 4 in a square be the minimum amount of torpedos for the pattern?
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counterfeitsaint posted:If you look close enough any three objects that appear to be in a straight line will actually form an obtuse triangle. Well they're certainly obtuse, but I don't see a triangle. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Volcott posted:Computer, create a race of hyperintelligent ants, disable safety protocols. 
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mods change my name posted:Reed Alert Reed is the perfect embodiment of ENT. He's boring and unlikable and the one, single B-plot ever devoted to him involved interviewing all his family, friends, and colleagues and all any of them had to say was that he was boring and unlikable. e: except the mirror universe episode they did, that's the best one and also strangely one of the best episodes of trek ever
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Mondian posted:Reed is the perfect embodiment of ENT. He's boring and unlikable and the one, single B-plot ever devoted to him involved interviewing all his family, friends, and colleagues and all any of them had to say was that he was boring and unlikable. I still assume the Mirror Universe two-parter exists because the writers knew the show was on the chopping block and just didn't give two shits anymore, considering it's entirely unrelated to the rest of Enterprise.
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Computer, make me a table. No, make it a BDSM torture table. You know what I want.
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FuturePastNow posted:Computer, make me a table. You just know Riker has spent countless nights crafting one in the holodeck.
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Mondian posted:Reed is the perfect embodiment of ENT. He's boring and unlikable and the one, single B-plot ever devoted to him involved interviewing all his family, friends, and colleagues and all any of them had to say was that he was boring and unlikable. That really makes me wonder if that's  . I mean could the writers really be that un-self aware?
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