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Pwnstar posted:It would be interesting to see a starship Chief of Security who is not a Fight Man but a Computer Man. Aliens beam aboard without permission and instantly get detected by camera/sensors, the bulkheads seal them off and Newman shaking his finger gif from Jurassic Park plays on all the displays If they paid even lip service to what you could do to defeat boarding just with basic environmental and systems controls on a starship then nobody could ever board anyone again.
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Pwnstar posted:It would be interesting to see a starship Chief of Security who is not a Fight Man but a Computer Man. Aliens beam aboard without permission and instantly get detected by camera/sensors, the bulkheads seal them off and Newman shaking his finger gif from Jurassic Park plays on all the displays They activate the holographic bee protocol instead
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Nov 27, 2023 14:32
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No Dignity posted:They activate the holographic bee protocol instead With the safety protocols turned off, of course.
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Nov 27, 2023 14:38
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God I hate Neelix so much. "Bar rat" is loving right, Q.
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Nov 27, 2023 14:53
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If the transporter can filter out chemical or biological things, can it add them in too? Can you program the transporter to add a bunch of alcohol into people's stomachs when they transport in?
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Nov 27, 2023 16:29
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DavidCameronsPig posted:I think it’s less 1950s IBM getting an iPad and more 1960s IBM getting the specifications for building an ARM chip. Like, yeah, they won’t have the machinery or materials to turn around and make a smartphone, but it’s be enough to leapfrog to the Acorn 20 years ahead. That's what I was getting at. Ben Franklin is over there getting his kite struck by lightning, but hasn't heard of resistance, voltage, amps, or anything like that. He can't even start taking something apart or recognizing refined or advanced versions of what he does have. It might as well be magic. A computer scientist in 1965 is able to look at it from the perspective of "the hardware in this broken android head looks like it was mimicking the biological processes of a human brain, but using using positirons in some way to reproduce the function of neurons. We can't figure out how to replicate a system this sophisticated right now, but this proves it is possible and we know what we need to work towards duplicating if we want to make androids."
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V-Men posted:If the transporter can filter out chemical or biological things, can it add them in too? Can you program the transporter to add a bunch of alcohol into people's stomachs when they transport in? Congratulations on not having watched Picard S3
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Powered Descent posted:That's kind of a fun question. If the two universes map onto each other, which planet would correspond to which? Like maybe Moclus is that universe's Qo'noS, Krill is known as Andoria on the Trek side of the curtain, and Kaylon-1 is otherwise known as Romulus. (Or any other possible combination.) Moclans are distinct enough from Klingons I think they'd need to just be added as their own thing. Although I guess gay patriarchy could be worked into Klingons kinda feels too late for that. I guess adding it suddenly wouldn't be anymore jarring than some of the random shifts they do with Klingons. I think Kaylon might map to where Soong and the Soonglings all live. Isaac is basically Data if they thought it through from the start, and there's already precedent for AI slave revolts. Khanstant fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 27, 2023 |
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V-Men posted:If the transporter can filter out chemical or biological things, can it add them in too? Can you program the transporter to add a bunch of alcohol into people's stomachs when they transport in? Only when it would save a main character's life.
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Nov 27, 2023 18:39
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Nessus posted:I always found the idea that everything on the original series Enterprise was so low-tech and clunky because it was built to have as few possible attack surfaces as possible, because the Romulans did hella hacking. Hey, that's also a good idea! I've been rolling with the idea that all the bright colors and discrete controls are a reaction to lessons learned during the Klingon war, about why touchscreens suck rear end if you need your visual attention elsewhere, but the air gap thing synergizes well with it. Hell, car manufacturers are starting to revert to physical buttons for stereo and climate control, and that's without having a "eject engine" function available to accidentally slap while you're trying to get your podcasts to play
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Nov 27, 2023 19:13
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V-Men posted:If the transporter can filter out chemical or biological things, can it add them in too? Can you program the transporter to add a bunch of alcohol into people's stomachs when they transport in? in the first ep of snw, a character mentions that appropriate clothing has been preloaded into the transporter buffer for the away team
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Today's DS9 Episode: "The Passenger". It's always fun when one of the cast gets the chance to ham it up as the villain of the episode because of possession or what have you.
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Nov 27, 2023 23:30
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The Kaylon are just a riff on the killbots from "Prototype".
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V-Men posted:If the transporter can filter out chemical or biological things, can it add them in too? Can you program the transporter to add a bunch of alcohol into people's stomachs when they transport in? In Strange New Worlds they use a transporter to change the flavor of gum someone is chewing.
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Nov 28, 2023 00:58
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8one6 posted:In Strange New Worlds they use a transporter to change the flavor of gum someone is chewing. I think they use it to restore the flavor, not change it. They also beam a slice of pie around the ship on Prodigy to see if it stays hot through the transport process.
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Nov 28, 2023 01:42
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W.T. Fits posted:Today's DS9 Episode: "The Passenger". It's always fun when one of the cast gets the chance to ham it up as the villain of the episode because of possession or what have you. Siddig is so absolutely shite in that episode I know it's very early days but it's so bad it's hilarious That said - every time he's being evil he speaks like that, even down in series 5/6/7
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W.T. Fits posted:Today's DS9 Episode: "The Passenger". It's always fun when one of the cast gets the chance to ham it up as the villain of the episode because of possession or what have you.
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Nov 28, 2023 03:12
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"We've all fallen in love with a holodeck character. It happens." Ah, Voyager, saying it like it is.
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Pwnstar posted:It would be interesting to see a starship Chief of Security who is not a Fight Man but a Computer Man. Aliens beam aboard without permission and instantly get detected by camera/sensors, the bulkheads seal them off and Newman shaking his finger gif from Jurassic Park plays on all the displays I think they would have to appoint an honorary top fightman to work alongside because the Federation's diplomacy recognizes that other cultures value fightmen. Also I guess you'd still need dudes to escort people to the brig for lesser threats like rowdy people and drunks.
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Realistically you'd have a head of security systems as a subordinate to the chief of security but tv
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Picard: we have an intruder on deck 6. Mr. Worf. *Worf sighs and leaves the bridge, spends two hours walking over there, all the turbolifts are stuck*
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Nov 28, 2023 21:45
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No Dignity posted:They activate the holographic bee protocol instead Computer, bees, two liters. Hot. I vaguely remember reading a TOS novel or short story about Scotty taking the Kobayashi Maru test at the academy, and after they run out of torpedoes he just starts beaming containers of antimatter onto the Klingon ships. An "unarmed" research vessel with really strong tractor beams and transporters, if employed intelligently, would be an absolute motherfucker to fight.
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Nov 28, 2023 22:16
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Computer, bees, two liters. Hot. I don't know if it's the same one, but there's a "Cadet Scott takes the Kobayashi Maru test" story somewhere where he does some genius engineering trick that works in the simulation but only because it's a simulation, it'd never work in real life. The testers determine that he knew ahead of time that it wouldn't be a viable solution and count it as a disqualifying failure. As a result Scotty is removed from Command track and placed in Engineering track - which is what he wanted anyway.
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The simulation cheated by treating antimatter as a high explosive and not just slightly more potent than firecrackers as it is in the reality of Star Trek
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No Dignity posted:The simulation cheated by treating antimatter as a high explosive and not just slightly more potent than firecrackers as it is in the reality of Star Trek Counterpoint: the Cerritos taking out two Texas class with controlled warp core detonation.
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Counter-counterpoint: 'photon grenades'
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Computer, replicate and ExoComp with a chainsaw and taste for Klingon blood.
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Computer, create an opportunity that can defeat cmdr Riker sexual.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Computer, create an opportunity that can defeat cmdr Riker sexual. UNABLE TO COMPLY. PROGRAM SPECIFICATIONS EXCEED CALCULATION PARAMETERS.
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I would 100% be taking the Kobyashi Maru test over and over to see what kind of poo poo I could do to break it/win through absurdity. Not for grades or whatever, just for fun. All the Academy instructors are sick of my poo poo.
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Kobayashi Maru speedrun any%
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Pwnstar posted:I would 100% be taking the Kobyashi Maru test over and over to see what kind of poo poo I could do to break it/win through absurdity. Not for grades or whatever, just for fun. All the Academy instructors are sick of my poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQCMPscdjU8 That's basically what Dal does: just out bugfuck the test and beat it through sheer insanity.
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Ghost Janeway was a solid episode. Better than a timeloop or holodeck malfunction. Death alien was creepy as gently caress. What does he want her for? I hope it's never answered.
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Pwnstar posted:I would 100% be taking the Kobyashi Maru test over and over to see what kind of poo poo I could do to break it/win through absurdity. Not for grades or whatever, just for fun. All the Academy instructors are sick of my poo poo. Okay, Bradward.
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Tonight's Deep Space Nine Episode: "Move Along Home", in which Quark gets the command staff Jumanji'd. "YOU KEEP TRAPPING PEOPLE INSIDE OF GAMES! STOP TRAPPING PEOPLE INSIDE OF GAMES!"
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Fighting Trousers posted:Okay, Bradward. Hit me!
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W.T. Fits posted:Tonight's Deep Space Nine Episode: "Move Along Home", in which Quark gets the command staff Jumanji'd. Kira absolutely hating her life and the realization of Federation random bullshit as she hopscotches is great. 
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I don't know if it's the same one, but there's a "Cadet Scott takes the Kobayashi Maru test" story somewhere where he does some genius engineering trick that works in the simulation but only because it's a simulation, it'd never work in real life. The testers determine that he knew ahead of time that it wouldn't be a viable solution and count it as a disqualifying failure. As a result Scotty is removed from Command track and placed in Engineering track - which is what he wanted anyway. That's for sure the Kobayashi Maru novel, also featuring Sulu and Kirk's, plus some other test for Chekov. Fun book. Scotty could've probably held forever if he had infinite torpedoes.
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W.T. Fits posted:Tonight's Deep Space Nine Episode: "Move Along Home", in which Quark gets the command staff Jumanji'd. I still don't get why it's such a hated episode. There's a few fun episodes of mid 90s to early 2000s sci-fi shows that are kinda silly and people seem to proper hate them. Even at the time I really liked it, although I guess I was 8 so that probably factors into it a bit
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