Somehow I missed this line when I replied to the post before. There is at least one Runabout named for a Canadian river - the Gander, named for the Gander river in Newfoundland. (Which was apparently named the Ganges until the writers remembered there was already a Ganges, which explains the choice of the Gander river.)
I’m kind of shocked, actually, that there isn’t a St Laurence/St Laurent…it’s a pretty big river…of course, there wasn’t an Amazon or Nile, either…
I’m just now watching a Voyager episode called “Mortal Coil”. In it, Neelix goes on one of Chakotay’s “spirit quests”, done or referenced in other episodes, and which apprantly involved sticking your thumb on some kind of flashy red LED thing, as opposed to chugging peyote. Being “spiritual” is okay, I guess, but kids, don’t do drugs!
It’s a big federation, and I’m sure there were numerous runabouts assigned to other posts we never saw.
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The thread can be closed, now.
Just as limitations of video technology caused Klingons to look like swarthy humans in the recordings of Kirk’s adventures, the fact that the recordings are more sophisticated than a “kung fu movie” have eliminated the voice/mouthflapping inconsistency.
Not really; at least the ones I read. That’s why I stopped reading the genre.
Why is Spock more emotional because he’s half-human? Vulcans are by nature far more emotional. That’s why they’re obsessed with being logical, in order to control those emotions. Spock should be better at controlling his emotions than full-blooded Vulcans.
I’m normally pretty lenient when it comes to consistency quibbles, but this one’s always bugged me, too – I mean, they have some technology that has the ability to instantly convert matter into energy, apparently always hits its target (I don’t recall an instance where accidentally the wrong thing was beamed, though there was one occasion involving some near-warp transport where someone referred to having been ‘in the wall’ for an instant), works on damn near everything, and yet, they rely on rather cumbersome, inaccurate, and comparatively ineffective devices like phasers and photon torpedoes as weapons.
Even if standard shields were able to completely block the transporter beam without taking damage (which seems unlikely, since they seem to be effectively some form of directed energy, unless there’s another explanation for how the transporters take apart what they transport), they could’ve at least used it against the Borg, whose hyperspace field gizmos didn’t block them at all.
While I always feel the transporters were under used as a weapon technology, I will give the writers this excuse. In all likelihood the Ships Phasers and Photon Torpedoes and other ship weapons probably had far great range and throughout many episodes Scotty or the others transporting did talk about trying to get a transporter lock.
This makes it appear that there were some serious limiting factors to using the transporter, at least at the time of TOS. If you cannot tell yet, I was not really a fan of the later shows.
Jim
To arrive in the Nexus you have to be in it’s path for it to sweep you up. Fine. Leaving the Nexus and arriving anytime, anywhere is done on horseback. WTF?
<falls off chair, laughing>
But this fits in with the logic of the Red Shirt always dies–the shirts know their destiny and perhaps the red ones are actually kamikaze shirts?
It was always HIS shirt–never Spock’s (which looked like it was molded to his form–Nimoy had a great figure), never Bone’s (tried to not look at his hands–he had ugly hands) or Scotty’s/Sulu’s etc.
I wonder if his shirt knew what he really put in that captain’s log…
Transporters are a useless ship-to-ship weapon technology.
Unlike phasers or photon torps, they’re nullified by shields (which can be damaged and thereby bypassed by actual weapons).
They can’t be used accurately at warp unless the transporting and target ships are moving at the same warp factor.
They are, on the other hand, fairly good anti-personelle weapons, as demonstrated by two examples - the organ-harvesting aliens from Voyager, who would transport their targets organs out of their bodies, and an assassin in DS9 who used a rifle fitted with a transporter to transport the projectile into the target’s vicinity, to keep the investigators from finding him. (Of course, they did find him by looking for the room the transporter pulse was in.)
In Voyager, why is it whenever the writers need a plot device the write about an ancient (American ) Indian rite for whatshisname? Can that be right?
They would not write about the rites of other ‘ethnic’ crew-members, right?
Actually, I just remembered that the transporter was used as a weapon at least once, destroying that crystal artefact some aliens from the future (Vorgons?) tried to get their grabbers on while Picard was on holiday on Risa.
Picard used his communicator to have the Enterprise execute a transporter code something on his coordinates, resulting in the familiar transporter effect surrounding the artefact, followed by a small explosion, so apparently their use as a weapon is standard in certain situations.
Still, I maintain that the transporters could have proven useful in fighting the Borg, but I guess it’s again the case that while any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, the same overhead/underlying technology also opens it up for ‘magical’ limitations.
Also, ship-to-ship battles using the transporter would’ve just looked silly, with the combatants just disappearing part for part.
The transporter was also used as a weapon in Voyager when they beamed a photon torpedo over to a Borg scout vessel. It would appear the Borg are pretty dumb (no wonder so many fans of the series maintained the belief that the Voyager version of the Borg were just a hallucination on the part of Rick Berman).
Nobody ever goes to the bathroom. You don’t even see bathrooms that I can recall. Have they perfected foods that absorb 100% into the body?
There’s a head just off the bridge. They never show it because… well, who would want to watch that?
Is that really so annoying? You never see anybody use the bathroom in any TV show unless it’s for a joke or a plot point.
In the 5th movie when Kirk is locked in the brig he sits on a seat. If you look closely, it has a sign saying “do not flush while in spacedock” or something similar, i.e. he’s sitting on a toilet.
Well I guess it just seems odd that a Sci-Fi show portraying the future wouldn’t address toilet technology at all. Geez, I sound like George Costanza.