I think they went the wrong way with that. I think the message they should have pushed was “Even if nobody believes you, it’s still true, and you should still tell people”. And then had people believe Big Bird even without seeing Snuffy.
In that scene, what appears to happen is that he goes around the earth at increasing speed until time starts running backwards (as evidenced by the earth rotating the other way and cut scenes of things on the surface running backwards), at which point he slows down and time continues to run backwards (the earth still spinning the other way), then he apparently needs to go around the earth fast in the other direction, to get time, and the earth, going the correct way again.
So there’s definitely some nonsense in that scene that tends to suggest that the passage of time is an effect of the direction of the earth’s rotation.
I think what is supposed to be happening is he is speeding forward in time to go back to the point where he left.
I won’t kill you - but I don’t have to save you. (proceeds to push villians car off a cliff)
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That’s a pretty good handwave, except that McCoy is surprised and baffled and horrified by 20th century medicine, so clearly he didn’t get the equivalent training.
Maybe it wasn’t an official Starfleet class. Maybe Scotty took an extension course at the community college.
McCoy was also baffled by the computer mouse so clearly lacking in appropriate knowledge of the time period.
That was Scotty
Sure, but there’s a point where he’s not going fast, and the world is still rotating the wrong way (implying time is running backwards inertially or something)
Yes, you’re correct, but Scotty both used feet/inches and was baffled by a computer mouse.
The universal translator is taking care of unit conversions.
My theory is that Scotty used civilized metric units but the universal translator changed it to feet, inches, rods and hogsheads and all that barbarian mumbo-jumbo.
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Though I’m sure Doctor Nichols (the one receiving the formula for transparent aluminum) wouldn’t have had a problems with a discussion using metric units.
The universal translator is mainly for the audience.
I thought dams (river dams) are bigger based on the volume of water behind them and less on the depth?
In the 1960s Star Trek series did they use metric, imperial or did it never come up? I honestly can’t remember.
I’m not sure but I would bet they used imperial, they wanted people to understand what they were hearing and their target audience was overwhelmingly in the US.
ETA: according to this thread (in another board): When did Star Trek start using Metric system | The Trek BBS they used both.
The Federation is pretty clearly a successor state to the United States. Of course our descendants still use stupid units.
A socialist utopia where money is not very important? Are we talking about the same United States?