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The Fattest PI posted:

How fast is full impulse? It's gotta be pretty fuckin fast to do anything spacey in an appreciable amount of time right? Why isn't ramming way more effective in that case? Hell if it's any decent speed you wouldn't even need a warhead on your torpedos, just put your spacegarbage in a box and fuckin impulse it at your enemies and they'll be smashed to pieces.

edit: I just googled this because I'm stupid nerdman


So Voyager went a 1/4 the speed of light. That's loving insane. Why do they even have weapons? Just grab a couple asteroids with a tractor beam, and anytime some lovely alien with a stupid forehead pops up in your way, just accelerate to full impulse for like 2 seconds, just long enough to release the asteroid in the direction of the retard alien, stop again, and watch the alien get hit with a rock at a quarter lightspeed, which by my rainman like headmath skills, is equal to like 10,000,000 nukes.

Also, if they can go that fast how do they allow any goddamn torpedo, which fire at sub-relativistic speeds, hit them? They're always like "evasion pattern delta omega 3!!!" which turns out is just sitting idly in front of the bad guys like a kilometer away. I can understand why they always show the ships facing off so close for the show, I mean fighting battles against poo poo you never see doesn't make for good TV. It would make for even better TV if these fuckin space boats would move around and dodge poo poo.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Everyone laughed and he left.

The Fattest PI posted:

What I'm saying is they could have had identical episodes with identical plots with more in-universe-realistic stuff, which would have also made for better tv/ratings. It would have been more expensive though for sure.

Zero One posted:

Real-life Star Trek encounters: When I was like 9 or 10 Scotty hit on my mom at a convention and then I remember him being at the hotel and her sitting on his lap. Now I have a little brother.

Also Spock knocked me over at the buffet because I was in between him and his coffee.

wikipedia posted:

"At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery.[9] He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[10] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[citation needed]His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal during his career as an actor."