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Ghost Leviathan posted:If we got started on Star Trek we'd be here all day One of those Rikers would still be alive today if not for the trifecta of console rocks, no seat belts, and the consoles being loaded with electrical sparklers even though they make a big deal about how it's the future and poo poo runs on isolinear optical chips light technobabble so no electricity is on any of the ships at all. But for real chairs on Federation starship bridges are some of the absolute dumbest tech in all of fiction for not having seat belts. Like, Federation Command or whatever, come on, do you SEE the poo poo these ships run into every day?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I don't think there's any official answer. I'd be curious to know what the designer had in mind. Yeah I figured if it was a science vessel most of the lower area is like storage/some automated lab thing/sensors that's installed and set up for their specific mission before they even head out. Maybe it's where they keep the dolphin navigators. 
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Jun 22, 2020 02:37
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muscles like this! posted:The second season also has the most realistic sci-fi scenario ever when a character gets addicted to holodeck porn. The holodeck will absolutely 100% be society's final invention.
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:It was originally an ore processing facility right? I always assumed they used transporters to get the ore up there from Bajor but I never thought about where it went next so I guess it'd make sense to have docking space for large cargo ships to bring the processed ore to where it needed to go, probably Cardassia. This is correct, the majority of DS9 is storage space because it was originally meant to be a stop off point for ore that would then get processed into whatever and then stored til it was shipped out. It has ~3000 people on it at a given time in the series, but as mining station at full capacity it had something crazy high by Trek standards like 50,000 people on it. But because most of this is just mechanical spaces to store/shove ore into much of the station isn't really livable. IIRC as few as like 300 people could run the station.
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Is Borg tech actually more advanced? Seems like in the show their big advantage is that they have giant ships built with unlimited redundancies and the personnel to maintain/repair them. Yeah in the show their gimmick was that they were nigh-indestructible but the reason was because they were constantly adapting to everything and repairing stuff to take into account what broke it on the fly. So like when you shoot a phaser it tends to :technobabble: have a certain range of frequency that the energy blast is in. The Borg shields pick up on that quickly and adjust to it, the Federation and folks with phasers do stuff like set their phasers to randomly modulate what frequency they fire at and this allows them to somewhat penetrate Borg shields, but eventually even that can be adapted to which is why like even one or two fully working cubes are basically a planet/species ending situation if you don't have enough poo poo to throw at them to wear them down and why even a small number of Borg can completely gently caress up some folks.
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Aug 10, 2020 21:24
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Trek forgets alot of things that they invent. Was there some point where they said this was undone or forgotten? Like if it's boosted by 300%, it's still going to say it's at 100% output on the console when you max it out. I did love that they slingshot around the sun due to other reasons in TOS Kirk does log how like, theoretically, you could technobabble that into time travelling to a specific point in time in that one episode and then they used it for Voyage Home because it was like a lightning in a bottle how do you even begin to test stuff like this kind of thing but with how Voyage Home was happening it was like what the gently caress else are we gonna do.
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Aug 24, 2020 03:57
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Polaron posted:That reminds me. Not only is Anderson a hack for that story, but it was even taken from the Marvel Star Wars comics from the 70s/80s. In between ESB and RotJ there was an earlier attempt at making use of the death star laser called The Eye of Tarkin but it was the exact same thing of instead of making a massive base we just make an extremely mobile death star laser. I remember that was a cool story arc because it was very shortly after ESB's events happened in the comics (like maybe two issues later) and there was also a story happening in it concurrently about a group of imperial officers' conspiracy to assassinate Darth Vader because of how ruthless he is in ESB about killing his own folks and on how much he only gives a poo poo about finding Skywalker personally instead of bringing order to the galaxy.
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Some Goon posted:
They really did, I loved that stuff so much and it was really cool when they overlapped with the movies because of all the little differences from the going by script/some designs being very different/etc.
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it was just called The Tarkin. And those comics owned bones. Where's my Valance and Baron Tagge miniserieses Disney? Where's my Riders in the Void / Fantasia mashup tone poem?