# Enterprise "Impulse" - SPOILERS **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218 "2003-10-08T03:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/101 "2003-10-10T18:15:35Z")
In Trellium-D the ‘D’ stands for _derma_. It’s only the stupid humans and Vulcans who think you’re supposed to put it on the _inside_. They would know this if they remembered that all aliens understand Greek and Latin roots. The more advanced races also know Shakespeare. [sub]{averts eyes and rubs toe in dirt}Uh, Monstre, I really _really_ don’t get the fairy cake reference. And I even found something about the **Total Perspective Vortex** but for the life of me can’t remember _that_ in the _Guide_. {Damn, I was just getting to play with the big kids and now I look like an idiot. :smack: }[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/102 "2003-10-10T19:18:38Z")
Doesn’t fairy cake power the Improbability Drive or whatever? I seem to remember it being some sort of energy source. And the answer to whoever asked who doesn’t like Klingons is me. I hate the stupid turtleheaded twits. The Romulans are the true badasses of the Trek universe. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/103 "2003-10-10T21:24:07Z")
In a universe made just for him, Zaphod faced the Total Perspective Vortex and came out in tip top shape. In the real universe, he would have lost his mind. The Total Perspective Vortex used the molecular composition of a piece of fairy cake to extrapolate the whole of the cosmos and your insignificance in it. The inventor came up with the idea because his wife used to tel him, “Get some perspective,” sometimes a hundred times a day. Zaphod and Marvin were taken to Frogstar B to meet the TPV just before everyone went to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Sheesh. Get some perspective, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/104 "2003-10-10T21:28:44Z")
I wasn’t even close. Oh, well… by that point, I was growing tired of the series anyway. Word to the wise: Don’t read all the books at once or the absurdity of the situations will lose their humor rather quickly. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/105 "2003-10-10T21:39:09Z")
The Infinite Improbability Drive was created out of thin air when a student, cleaning up after a rather failed party, worked out the finite improbility of the virtually impossible task of making an IID, fed the numbers into the Bambleweeny thing, gave it a fresh cup of really hot tea… Well, you know the result. Lynching. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/106 "2003-10-10T22:33:19Z")
> [@](#): > > One question: cant they put the Trellium-D on the outside of the ship, protecting it from anomolies, but also not harming T’Pol since she isn’t in contact Why don’t they just pull out all the Trellium-D and put in asbestos? 😃 > [@](#): > > from _Corner Case_ > The more advanced races also know Shakespeare. Right, but it’s much better in the original Klingon. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/107 "2003-10-10T22:35:55Z")
Forget the Trellium-D, what they need is Tenacious D!!! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/108 "2003-10-11T00:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Keweenaw \* > \*\*Were there opening credits? - Faith of the Heart song > and earlier enterprise incarnations. > > I didn’t see these on my Tivo and I was worried that I missed the beginning of the show. > > anyone else see or not see the opening credits? \*\* In the teaser, they showed a bloodied Archer bringing T’Pol into Sickbay and they had to restrain her. She was screaming and thrashing. Then they went right to the credits and theme song as always. * * * One more note on movie night: If Phlox and Trip had been yapping away like that in a theatre with me, I’d be braining them with full boxes of Red Vines. What a couple of blabbermouths! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/109 "2003-10-11T01:14:00Z")
Grabbed your attention, but then, no more present and flashback switching. It was all flash back after the teaser. Until the panda scene. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/110 "2003-10-11T01:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by N9IWP \* > One question: cant they put the Trellium-D on the **outside** of the ship, protecting it from anomolies, but also not harming T’Pol since she isn’t in contact with the T-D because there is a bunch of hull in the way. (Is it T-D vapors of T-D dust that is a toxin? either way she’s safe) Knowing _Trek_, it’s probably some sort of magical “Trellium-D radiation” that affects Vulcans, so keeping the vapor or dust separated from T’Pol wouldn’t be enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/111 "2003-10-11T02:05:05Z")
**Tars** , you’re a genius. Jack Black + Enterprise = giggly **Aesiron**. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/112 "2003-10-11T02:11:19Z")
Getting back to Bussard collectors: They’d have to be really, really big. Are they intended to operate at warp? One would cover a lot more volume and could collect more of than one atom per cc interstellar hydrogen. How much momentum does an atom of hydrogen have when you snatch it a C E7 or whatever warp seven is? “Well, go to warp seven. When we straighten the others out, we’ll go there, too.” -Captain Marx, U.S.S. Horsefeathers. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/113 "2003-10-11T02:13:28Z")
Jack Black as Chef! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/114 "2003-10-11T02:13:56Z")
The wildflower and the mineral in the game “Anacreon” are spelled trillium. Did anyone see trellium spelled somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/115 "2003-10-11T02:15:13Z")
Perhaps they use some sort of magnetic field to embiggen the area of the scoop. EVER THINK OF THAT!? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/116 "2003-10-11T02:19:04Z")
Damn, NoClue, thanks! Embiggen. And I thought it was poetic license! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/117 "2003-10-11T02:24:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Jack Black as Chef! \*\* _ **Shallow Hal** _ is the greatest movie of this millennium, you know: [http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/ShallowHal.html](http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/ShallowHal.html) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/118 "2003-10-11T02:27:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > **How much momentum does an atom of hydrogen have when you snatch it a C E7 or whatever warp seven is?** Pssst – the warp speed formula is: Warp X = X^3 times the speed of light (in TOS), or Warp X = X^3.333333… times the speed of light (in TNG); so, warp 7 would be 343c in TOS and 656c in TNG. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/119 "2003-10-11T02:40:45Z")
Thanks, Tracer. Warp n would be: C\*n^3 What reference is that from? I obviously thought warp n was C^n. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218/120 "2003-10-11T02:57:33Z")
The scale’s been printed in the Encyclopedia forever but I never knew it had an actual formula to it with my being a total idiot when it comes to math and all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-impulse-spoilers/206218.md?page=7)