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shadow puppet of a posted:Ah yes ablative armor. Just the thing for a multi-target engaement. Armor that cannot take two shots. If I recall the nerd tech explanations right, Defiant's ablative armour was designed so it was continuously reapplied via replication/transportation/space magic as it was blasted off. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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cult_hero posted:I personally find it a bit of a travesty that the only mention of federation ground forces is a single episode when they're all jumpy and depressed. The whole premise of the Dominion War screams for coverage of the poor drat redshirts on the ground finally succeeding and maybe liberating a bunch of omnisexual Batazeds. Ground forces never make much sense when you can easily bombard poo poo from orbit.
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Aug 26, 2015 02:52
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Orange Sunshine posted:robots Don't forget on TNG they're like 'the ship cleans itself' presumably the space-roombas are really shy and only come out when there's nobody around Also I always assumed 95% of Earth was basically stoners waiting for their turn on the holodeck
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Aug 26, 2015 02:54
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:please god not another several pages of chattering about eeeeeveryone's favorite nerdcandy books Oh no Nerdcandy In the star trek thread Noooooo
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Aug 26, 2015 03:11
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:it's just really tiresome to hear the same "oh the culture is like a totally awesome federation that meddles all the time, like the federation should" bullshit again and again There is a Culture thread in the book barn
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Aug 26, 2015 05:34
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TEAYCHES posted:and yea if if somehow people werent full of implants and directly interfaced w/ the ship you still wouldnt ever need more than a dozen people on the ship, everything can be automatic. star trek is not to be seriously thought about as anything other than a half-thought out backdrop to stories of ethics and character The writers said that when they were developing TNG they did say that realistically this should just be a few dudes sitting around on a couch telling the computer where to go and it does all of the stuff and runs the entire ship, but that gently caress it that's boring and doesn't work as a Star Trek TV show so whatever
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Aug 26, 2015 05:39
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Kitchner posted:There also isn't any "ground forces" they are just dudes in the yellow uniforms. Since the only half way competent security person you ever meet in a yellow uniform is Worf and everyone else gets bitch slapped Hah. I remember that time in DS9 where Worf is bitching about how much better security was on the Enterprise and Odo just pulls out a Padd and starts listing all of the times that Worf let the ship get taken over.
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Aug 26, 2015 15:31
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Entropic posted:If their magic shields can stop a huge chunk of iron going at a significant fraction of C, they must use a hell of a lot of energy. And if phasers and torpedoes can get through them, they must use an insane amount of energy too. You're assuming shields react to phasers the same as other things. I always figured phasers and other weapons aliens use were way better at battering down shields than other types of energy or matter.
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Aug 26, 2015 17:22
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TMP is the Trekkiest of the movies. It's a pity it's also boring.
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Aug 27, 2015 01:07
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Kitchner posted:Apprently that's because the warp nacells need to be able to "see" each other or some bullshit. Someone pointed out that the real reason for the ship design is probably like a bird puffing up its wings - it looks a lot bigger than it actually is. Romulan psychology. Kitchner posted:Also when a Romulan ship explodes why don't black holes open all over the place? Maybe they do leave the singularity behind, but it'd be a very small singularity. Microscopic. quote:A black hole weighing 606,000 metric tons (this is about the mass of the Seawise Giant, the longest sea-going ship ever built) would have a Schwarzschild (Event Horizon) radius of 0.9 attometers (9×10–19 m), a power output of 160 petawatts (160 × 1015 W, or 1.6 × 1017 W), and a 3.5-year lifespan. That's substantially smaller than the size of an electron. Closer to a quark. Also,  . Black Hole starships promise some pretty amazing capabilities if we were able to construct artificial black holes.
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Aug 27, 2015 10:43
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Omi-Polari posted:*pops open tricorder app on smartphone* I'm always tempted to tricorder my phone up.
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Aug 28, 2015 06:14
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My Q-Face posted:There was the time Scotty beamed all the tribbles onto the Klingon ship, that's sort of biological warfare. Hell, the Federation cloaking device kicked the Romulan and Klingon device's arse. Phase cloak. Toothing problems excepted.
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Aug 28, 2015 06:40
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EvilTaytoMan posted:It would have been cool if they broke out the phase shifting cloaking device for the Defiant during the Dominion War, even if it meant they had to share that technology with the Romulans as a result. It's one of those technologies that has ridiculous implications if you weaponised it. Cloaking's the least of it. Phase missiles! Phase spy drones sitting in the enemy HQ! Of course, it might just be that scanning for Chronitons and shooting a good Anyon beam is all you need to defeat it.
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Aug 28, 2015 09:15
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Their 23rd Century uniforms looked better. The Nemesis uniforms were pretty good. And the Enterprise ones which looked suspiciously similar.
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Aug 28, 2015 10:49
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A replicated thin pseudo-flesh layer to give texture, stretched over a forcefield. (New thread title please)
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Aug 28, 2015 16:34
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Ooo, how about for a gritty Trek, they set it away from the Federation, a lone ship, maybe struggling for supplies, having to make hard choices. Hell, maybe half the crew are non-Federation who might not necessarily go along with their ideals. Sounds perfect.
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Aug 31, 2015 02:09
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Germstore posted:No, Enterprise. They scorched central Florida. No great loss.
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Aug 31, 2015 02:27
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TEAYCHES posted:imo the only way you could have both a realistic and dramatic scifi series now would be to basically copy dune and make it so its illegal to make AI and most people are religious fanatics and shields cause nuclear explosions so everyone still uses guns and melee weapons, but there could still be weird hosed up genetic engineering Well the AI-is-illegal-and-we-have-to-avoid-too-much-computers is what BSG did.
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Aug 31, 2015 06:05
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BottledBodhisvata posted:I want a robot Asimov and a ghola Frank Herbert to fight.
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Aug 31, 2015 21:38
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I thought it was because they'd have to pay royalties to the dude who originally came up with Ro every time she appeared on DS9? That was Tom Paris/Nick Locarno in Voyager.
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Sep 2, 2015 05:28
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My ideal Trek play-around thing right now would be on Netflix and structured like AHS with 12-episode-seasons with each season being a totally new setting and cast. Hell, they could run that and an Enterprise-G series in parallel.
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Sep 2, 2015 06:56
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Honestly if the refugee camp was in Federation control I wanna know why the Federation didn't replicate them a few decent beds. drat MIGRANT CRISIS
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Angela Christine posted:The starfleet entrance exam is supposed to be really hard, right? Even boy genius Wesley Crusher had trouble with it despite all his advantages. So how did refugee camp Ro and rape gang planet Yar pass the exam? Affirmative action.
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Sep 2, 2015 08:10
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shadow puppet of a posted:You mean the Obsidian Order beat us to the Obsidian Order's idea. Don't forget that in the parallel universe the Bajorans are an evil empire that conquered the Cardassians.
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Sep 2, 2015 10:55
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Actually the Bajorans had been conquered by the Terran Empire and they joined the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance after freeing them. Wrong parallel universe brah
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Ambrose Burnside posted:reminder that the reboot has guaranteed that there will never be a thinky classic star trek ever again b/c Grim Dark Your Favorite Actors And Incoherent is a more reliable moneymaker hey don't forget Into Darkness performed unsatisfactorily apparently
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muscles like this? posted:Except if you're ordering Geordi to his death. She shoulda failed just for that. I mean, the chief engineer? What do you think redshirts are for?
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Sep 3, 2015 14:26
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counterfeitsaint posted:They should have replaced every B plot for the rest of the series with this. Just in the background, traps going off all the time. And no matter what the trap is, it always, thorough some convoluted series of events, ends up hurting his shoulder. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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Sep 3, 2015 17:44
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sinking belle posted:I always wondered what the deal was with the pilot being a mixture of B&W and colour. Like I know the colour bits were the parts they reused for the beeping chair episode but did they lose the original film for the pilot at some point after that or what? You must've seen an old version. They lost the print for a while and had to intercut what they had from The Menagerie with a black and white workprint, but they found the full-colour version in the late 80s.
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Melchior posted:The whole format of Trek just wouldn't sell as a series these days. Doctor Who.
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Sep 5, 2015 01:15
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happyhippy posted:Is for kids and Tumblrettes. But it sells.
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Sep 5, 2015 01:27
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shadow puppet of a posted:I think the Trek movie cast would do pretty well sealed in a barrel an dropped into a chasm. Anyone that starred in a movie more recently than or more successful or more forgettable than "Masters Of The Universe" should be ineligible for pulling TV Trek duty. Don't you dare say anything bad about Karl Urban.
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Sep 5, 2015 07:18
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The Bible posted:I don't get what the big deal was; Kirk went to the very edge of the Milky Way as a standard mission. Why didn't they just use the tech he had 100 years ago to just warp back in an afternoon? The galactic disk is only about a thousand light-years thick, leaving's not that hard.
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Sep 5, 2015 10:40
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Angela Christine posted:Which conveniently saved them from having to set up daycare and school for the children of their over-worked crew. Except later on they do have to and they pick basically the worst person on the ship to be the child carer.
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Sep 5, 2015 14:54
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TEAYCHES posted:yea seriously if you havent read that ron moore interview do so its utterly fascinating that hes so open about the inner workings of the production. dude doesnt get invited to rick berman's parties i can guarantee that It also shows so many seeds of Battlestar Galactica.
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Delsaber posted:Didn't Tuvix have all of Tuvok and Neelix's memories and skills? If so, there's no real practical reason to split him up again, especially since all the important stuff is in the Tuvok half and Neelix is useless, or would become useless the moment they travelled far enough away from his space. Tuvix could've continued Tuvok's job just fine probably. Neelix could've choked on a dinner roll and died the day before the accident and it would've made no difference. The quandary wasn't really about their usefulness... more about their right to exist.
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Sep 8, 2015 08:26
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I can save multiple lives by taking someone alive today and harvesting their organs. Do I?
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Sep 9, 2015 01:34
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Rutibex posted:nah man they went hardcore outside the galaxy in that episode. janeway takes 7 seasons to travel across the galaxy, Kirk get his poo poo home by the end of the episode Oh that episode. Hadn't the ship been taken over by interstellar aliens that souped up the Warp Drive?
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It's not like he'd actually feel the pain, why would he care to avoid it?
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Pththya-lyi posted::iamafag: Seems a smart enough career move to me.
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