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AlBorlantern Corps posted:What if we patched in power from the shuttles *punches palm* Like stealing cable from a neighbor!
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davidspackage posted:*punches palm* Like stealing cable from a neighbor! “What if we stole cable from our neighbor?” *punches palm* Like diverting the plasma flow from the reaction chamber to the deflector dish!
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The Bloop posted:*posts John Galt speech in binary* Hmmm, weird...  I guess computers know something we don't.
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Wouldn't it be different if they went with the idea that you can't shoot through shields? If we assume that shields are almost impenetrable to weapons, but shields need to be dropped to open fire, it would turn space battles from pew-pew DBZ-with-laser-beams fireworks displays, into high-noon gunslinger quick-draw shootouts. I love the idea of Picard and Tomalak facing-off through their viewscreens, each waiting for the other to blink - it works for TOS' Cold War allegories, and TNG's poker nights.
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Phylodox posted:Hmmm, weird... nice
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spincube posted:Wouldn't it be different if they went with the idea that you can't shoot through shields? If we assume that shields are almost impenetrable to weapons, but shields need to be dropped to open fire, it would turn space battles from pew-pew DBZ-with-laser-beams fireworks displays, into high-noon gunslinger quick-draw shootouts. Well poo poo I'm frantically scribbling this down in my story notes document
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HD DAD posted:“What if we stole cable from our neighbor?” It'll take me four hours.
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Brawnfire posted:I'll have to reroute through tertiary, there's a cascade neutrino failure in the interstitial matrix!!???? Just reverse the polarity. Works every time. It was too bright in my room the other day so I reversed the polarity and now it gets darker when I turn the light on.
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davidspackage posted:It'll take me four hours. You have negative twelve seconds!
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Clearly if you use the phase trick to beam through the shields, anybody scanning the transporter signature could instantly tell what your shield harmonic frequency is or whatever the technobabble term is I forget. So using that trick in front of an enemy (i.e., the only time you'd care) is suicide torpedoes get through by timing the firing for the tiny 0.01 second gap in the shields that gets mentioned a few times, same principle as old timey military airplanes having guns rigged to fire when the bullets will slip between the propeller blades. Phasers use the harmonics trick to get through the shields but are noisy enough that enemy sensors can't figure it out just by scanning the phaser blast
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I'd love to see the few years of ships that fired through their own shields and hoped they held longer than the enemy's
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Brawnfire posted:I'd love to see the few years of ships that fired through their own shields and hoped they held longer than the enemy's So, basically this?
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:What if we patched in power from the shuttles We'd have to repolarize the primary warp coils. I tried, but every time I override the intital security field the secondary locks me out and I have to start over!
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Brawnfire posted:I'd love to see the few years of ships that fired through their own shields and hoped they held longer than the enemy's Torpedoes bouncing around the inside of the shield like a pool trickshot, while the ship is drifting around a star
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LifeGetsWorser posted:We'd have to repolarize the primary warp coils. I tried, but every time I override the intital security field the secondary locks me out and I have to start over! *Emo goth teenage girl cracks knuckles* Looks like I'll have to hack all eps conduits simultaneously
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:*Emo goth teenage girl cracks knuckles* this will be an actual scene in a star trek production sometime within the next 5 to 10 years
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Given that the Enterprise D ran malicious code that it downloaded from another ship without even asking for permission, I'm shocked that the viewscreen isn't nothing but layer upon layer of Ferengi porno banner ads and purple gorillas dancing in the corner.
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Sash! posted:Given that the Enterprise D ran malicious code that it downloaded from another ship without even asking for permission, I'm shocked that the viewscreen isn't nothing but layer upon layer of Ferengi porno banner ads and purple gorillas dancing in the corner. "Captain this "Bon'z Buddy" is WITHOUT HONOR."
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My favorite thing about the implications of the shield frequency trick in Generations is that, if matching the shield frequency is all it takes to shoot through the shields, all you have to do is get your shields to read the frequency of the other ships phasers and boom they're hosed.
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Thinking about 24th century malware, now I wonder what the Enterprise's max storage capacity is. Obviously it needs to hold multiple transporter patterns (which at the high end estimate is 60 zettabytes per person though that's probably uncompressed), but it also has been able to store the entirety of a civilization's data (for context, the entire Internet right now is over half a zettabyte), accept malicious code and programs, run holodeck simulations, store those simulations as their own worlds whenever a hologram achieves sentience, etc. I remember a book (The Physics of Star Trek) giving possibly a different figure for storing a human but their main complaint was "this would require a stack of hard drives a mile long" as if hard drive capacity peaked at 1.5GB and never went any further. (it was written quite a while ago).
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I wouldn't be surprised if the occurrence with the Breen where the shields are just completely ineffective against their weapons for a bit then the engineers figure out countermeasures has got to be pretty common. Sometimes you might even sit on the fact that you can bypass their shields for a while only to use it in a critical battle
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Q_res posted:My favorite thing about the implications of the shield frequency trick in Generations is that, if matching the shield frequency is all it takes to shoot through the shields, all you have to do is get your shields to read the frequency of the other ships phasers and boom they're hosed. Or something like, a rapid-fire low-damage laser that goes through the entire frequency spectrum until it gets a hit, then set your other weapons to that and fire. Of course then the other ship could randomize their frequency again or whatever. Just constantly randomizing frequencies. Yeah I guess Generations just doesn't make sense
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Sir Lemming posted:Or something like, a rapid-fire low-damage laser that goes through the entire frequency spectrum until it gets a hit, then set your other weapons to that and fire.  Some sort of...infinite modulation...
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Sash! posted:Given that the Enterprise D ran malicious code that it downloaded from another ship without even asking for permission, I'm shocked that the viewscreen isn't nothing but layer upon layer of Ferengi porno banner ads and purple gorillas dancing in the corner.
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Angry_Ed posted:
Still feels wild to me that none of the shows got around to this but Elite Force of all things totally did.
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Angry_Ed posted:60 zettabytes per person though that's probably uncompressed Jesus Christ, Darcy, I told you not to use jpeg. Look at the Captain! Look what you did!! [a blocky, jagged mass of flesh mewls on the transport pad]
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Jesus Christ, Darcy, I told you not to use jpeg. Look at the Captain! Look what you did!! We can still save him! *clicks "sharpen image" a dozen times" Oh God in Heaven, what have we done
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Quick, run him through a machine learning upscaling algorithm! *swirly pile of eyeballs and dog noses materializes*
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Computer, 500 captains.
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Baronjutter posted:Computer, 500 captains. 500 Starfleet captains parachute onto an island...
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Delsaber posted:500 Starfleet captains parachute onto an island... Darmok and 500 Starfleet Captains at the island
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Darmok and 500 Starfleet Captains at the island Bethesda, when the servers crashed
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Angry_Ed posted:Thinking about 24th century malware, now I wonder what the Enterprise's max storage capacity is. Obviously it needs to hold multiple transporter patterns (which at the high end estimate is 60 zettabytes per person though that's probably uncompressed), but it also has been able to store the entirety of a civilization's data (for context, the entire Internet right now is over half a zettabyte), accept malicious code and programs, run holodeck simulations, store those simulations as their own worlds whenever a hologram achieves sentience, etc. Isn't the first episode with the Iconians basically their probe dumping a bunch of Iconian malware on the Enterprise-D?
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Angry_Ed posted:Thinking about 24th century malware, now I wonder what the Enterprise's max storage capacity is. Obviously it needs to hold multiple transporter patterns (which at the high end estimate is 60 zettabytes per person though that's probably uncompressed), but it also has been able to store the entirety of a civilization's data (for context, the entire Internet right now is over half a zettabyte), accept malicious code and programs, run holodeck simulations, store those simulations as their own worlds whenever a hologram achieves sentience, etc.
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