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]
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.
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.
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.
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…
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!
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.
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.
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.
