# "Sorry, my suspension of disbelief doesn't stretch that far." (Open Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603 "2006-06-21T18:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/81 "2006-06-22T12:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > An RAF Lancaster Bomber tail gunner- Flt. Sgt. Nicholas Alkemande- jumped from his burning plane in 1944 and fell 20,000ft without a parachute. > > He landed in a stand of snow-covered fir trees, the branches of which broke his fall, and then landed in the snow drift at the bottom of the trees. > > He twisted his ankle and broke his leg, but otherwise was able to walk (hobble) away from the incident, and was treated as a celebrity by the Germans when they captured him as a POW. So yeah, It’s not outside the realms of possibility. How many times do I gotta say this? So he falls out of his plane to the ground (at least he gets the advantage of trees to break his fall) and say he _then_ goes down that ski slope and over a waterfall. I’m not saying I don’t believe people could fall out of planes (although it _is_ pushing the envelope), but that they couldn’t go through the whole beginning of IJatToD wringer. ---
**Author:** ![ululate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/59ef9b/32.png) [@ululate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ululate)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/82 "2006-06-22T12:18:41Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] The same thing happened to me last season for 24: for some strange reason the head agent at CTU (Samwise Gamgee) fails to report his security badge as missing and uncontrolled; even though he mentions it to a colleague, NOBODY bothers to disable the badge, DESPITE the fact that his sister just got killed and the badge is apparently missing. 15 minutes later a baddie uses said badge to sneak into CTU and set off a nerve gas canister, killing about half the staff. I just refused to believe that an organization supposedly as competent as CTU is alleged to be could fail to have an automatic procedure to lock down lost badges. [/QUOTE] Not even close to the stupidity of “Minority Report”. Tom Cruise goes from respected cop to wanted fugitive? Okay, fine, he’s a man on the run, the hunter has become the hunted, he’s holed up in a safe house, and he eventually tries to get back in to police headquarters with hopes that he’ll pass the retinal scan. Which he does. _ **And I’ll even suspend disbelief on this point** _ – because, well, maybe it never dawned on anyone at Pre-Crime. That’s stupid and implausible, but it’s real-world stupid and implausible; stuff that should occur to you sometimes doesn’t. It probably should, but it doesn’t ruin the movie. But _ **after** _ they find out what he’s done, after he’s pulled off his theft and gone back on the road – after he gets tracked down and captured and sentenced and locked up, even – his retinas are _ **still** _ on file as “Open Sesame”. No. I can’t go along with that. Tell me law enforcement didn’t think of it the first time, I’d say you’re probably wrong; tell me that after they had their noses rubbed in it, and you’re no longer talking about people. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/83 "2006-06-22T12:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] How about sitcoms where some overweight schlub always has a hot wife. [/QUOTE] Hey, leave me _some_ hope, will ya? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/84 "2006-06-22T13:10:54Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] I watched an old episode of _Walker, Texas Ranger_ the other day. Walker was in his pickup truck–a Dodge Ram 1500, which was easily pacing the sports car driven by the bad guys–when one of the bad guys smashed out his rear window and unloaded at Walker’s truck with a submachine gun. From a distance of maybe 50 feet, the pickup didn’t get a single scratch, the windshield wasn’t broken, and _Walker didn’t even duck_… QUOTE] i believe you’ll find that the bullets were ducking away from Chuck Norris. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/85 "2006-06-22T13:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=kawaiitentaclebeast] …but I have never seen or read any accounts of people using rifles to any great effect from a helicopter. [/QUOTE] Never watch too many nature documentaries, did you? Darting all kinds of animals from helicopters is fairly common - and not just big elephants and rhino, but smaller things like antelope and cats, too. And dart guns are all single-shot rifles, even. For me, I take things in the spirit they were intended. Which means I’ll watch any sort of crap, really. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/86 "2006-06-22T13:17:03Z")
[QUOTE=kawaiitentaclebeast] I don’t find the lack of accuracy in movie firearms to be unbelievable, given that movie villans are usually spraying from the hip. It’s rather hard to hit anything that way. Similarly, firing a rifle, even an automatic one, from a helicopter seems to me a very questionable proposition. To begin with, it isn’t particularly easy to hit a target with single shots that is moving laterally across your frontage, even when the shooter himself is stationary and in a supported position. To do so when the shooter himself is on a rattling, vibrating helicotper moving across 3 dimension at hundreds of miles/hour, well, my suspension of disbelief sort of stops there. Now, I stand ready to be corrected on this if anyone has actually done it in real life, but AFAIK hitting a moving target while moving generally requires either a) Computerized fire control and mechanically stabilized guns, such as on ships and tanks, or b) a weapon that puts a bullet in every square inch of a football field every second, such as the gatling guns that helicopters generall use. Now, I can accept the use of mounted machine guns firing tracers, even slow firing ones like the .50 cal, although I gather that .50s are not really used much in this capacity because of its slow rate of fire, but I have never seen or read any accounts of people using rifles to any great effect from a helicopter. To accurately fire from even a moving car would require a lot of practice and experience. [/QUOTE] Back in the Eighties, when the worst of the fighting was going on in Beirut, P.J. O’Rourke says he saw people water skiing on the Mediterranean, while various guerilla groups were firing at them. O’Rourek was astonished by their courage/stupidity (he wasn’t sure which), and he asked them how they could go water skiing amidst such heavy gunfire. O’Rourke says the skier just shrugged non-chalantly, and said, “They’re automatic weapons. They’re not too accurate.” So… when I see a movie where the hero escapes machine gun fire without a scratch, it’s not TOTALLY unrealistic, even though it’s not very believable. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/87 "2006-06-22T13:17:36Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] **Robot Arm** , you do realize that within 90 minutes flight time from Dulles (I think the airport in the movie.) there’s Reagan, BWI, Wilmington, Richmond, Norfolk and several smaller commercial airports. I _think_ Newark’s in that range, too. … [/QUOTE] More [airports](http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/nemap.jsp) than you can shake a stick at. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/88 "2006-06-22T13:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] How many times do I gotta say this? So he falls out of his plane to the ground (at least he gets the advantage of trees to break his fall) and say he _then_ goes down that ski slope and over a waterfall. I’m not saying I don’t believe people could fall out of planes (although it _is_ pushing the envelope), but that they couldn’t go through the whole beginning of IJatToD wringer. [/QUOTE] No, your exact quote was _"I’ve heard of people surviving falls out of planes, but not of their walking away from it._" I provided an example of someone who **did** fall out of a plane and walk (admittedly, hobble) away from it. Your point about the rest of the events in _Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom_ are perfectly valid, though- but then, is it really more “unbelieveable” than Blofeld having a hollowed-out Volcano for a lair, or people always being able to get carparks right outside the front of major buildings, no matter the time of day? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/89 "2006-06-22T14:03:29Z")
I said that “I’d heard about people falling from planes and not walking away from it”, but what I found stretched my suspension of willing disbelief was the entire sequence, as I said in my first post. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/90 "2006-06-22T14:31:09Z")
> [@](#): > > How about the movie “Hitch”? You can believe Will Smith could get Eva Mendes–they’re both very attractive–and you could believe an overweight schlub could date someone who’s attractive The esteemed Mr. Smith deserves his own thread on suspension of disbelief: The Aforementioned ID4 (coldcocking an alien with a single punch THROUGH the chitinous exo-armor) MIB II Wild Wild West: a BLACK James West? A walking hydro/steam/mechanical spider? Selma Hayek married to a 70 year old scientist? What’s most interesting is: he still gets the gigs! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/91 "2006-06-22T15:08:29Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] How am I supposed to know it’s movies that are being discussed? And do you know how many movies there are? A lot. So if I can magically figure out that it is movies that are being discussed, if there’s any movie that I don’t want spoiled, then I better not read the thread. OK, not 100% useless, more like 99%. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Don’t you roll your eyes at _me_. Most undeserved. Feel free to exit the thread if you are so petrified of being spoiled. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/92 "2006-06-22T15:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] I know you’ve already corrected yourself, but I have to note that I would so totally worship a puppy god… [/QUOTE] My puppy always thought _I_ was god. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/93 "2006-06-22T15:12:05Z")
[QUOTE=ululate] Not even close to the stupidity of “Minority Report”. Tom Cruise goes from respected cop to wanted fugitive? Okay, fine, he’s a man on the run, the hunter has become the hunted, he’s holed up in a safe house, and he eventually tries to get back in to police headquarters with hopes that he’ll pass the retinal scan. Which he does. _ **And I’ll even suspend disbelief on this point** _ – because, well, maybe it never dawned on anyone at Pre-Crime. That’s stupid and implausible, but it’s real-world stupid and implausible; stuff that should occur to you sometimes doesn’t. It probably should, but it doesn’t ruin the movie. But _ **after** _ they find out what he’s done, after he’s pulled off his theft and gone back on the road – after he gets tracked down and captured and sentenced and locked up, even – his retinas are _ **still** _ on file as “Open Sesame”. No. I can’t go along with that. Tell me law enforcement didn’t think of it the first time, I’d say you’re probably wrong; tell me that after they had their noses rubbed in it, and you’re no longer talking about people. [/QUOTE] I hated this movie. But the part that most annoyed me was the part he is dragging one of the Clones (the female one) along the street. It really irked me that after all those years in a puddle of water she could a) walk, even if it was a limping sort of walk, and her muscles had atrophied, and b) She had time to put on some fucking makeup. GAH! Actually, add that to my list. Every movie where the actress has just been through some harrowing ordeal and then has time to put on makeup and look all pretty before they’re done. Enemy at the Gates really annoyed me about this. Every other solider is filthy dirty, and yet the one female character almost always has a fresh, clean face, with no filth, even though she’s doing the same thing. i wanted to bitch-slap her. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/94 "2006-06-22T15:26:35Z")
**II Gyan II** , I’ll address your points one at a time. 1. All-humanoid aliens: Lately they’ve been doing a lot more non-humanoid stuff as the CGI gets better. 2. All aliens speak English: Starfleet officers have a device called a Universal Translator embedded in their communicators, and for ship-to-ship. The aliens are speaking their own language, but we get a free translation. See the TNG episode “Darmok” for more on this point. 3. Circadian days: You do need to have some standard time system, so that everyone knows when to show up for work. They use it because it works. Also, I recall a brief mention early in _Deep Space 9_ that they’re on a 36 hour day. 4)The supernatural: I’ll grant you this one, the writers are a product of their time. The only thing I could say is that when they characters disavow the supernatural, it may be just another way of insisting that whatever weird phenomenon does in fact have a natural explanation, even if it is a fantastic one. 5)Universal morality: Don’t forget that we only see a small and non-representative portion of the Federation population, namely those who fit into the Starfleet subculture. The rest may be radically different. 6)Lack of new music: I’ll grant you the absence (or at least severe lack of) 21st to 24th century music. However, the holodecks are used for just about anything you can think of. Many episodes in TNG feature Picard going for a horseback ride or participating in a Dixon Hill holonovel. DS9 had Quark’s Bar with his holosuites, and that show made it clear that outside of Starfleet there was quite a market for high quality holosuite programs. Voyager even got into the act when the Doc wrote his own holonovel. 1. Warp travel: Yeah, they ad hoc this thing called the navigational deflector that brushes away the minor stuff, and to avoid things like planets and stars they chart their course carefully. 2. The Prime Directive: Really, I think it’s not so much about presumptuously preserving an alien culture as it is not being responsible for any changes. They figure, whatever happens to them is their problem, unless it was caused by us. [QUOTE=KJ] Now that somebody mentioned Star Trek… I can believe in a giant starship with dozens of decks full of people zipping through space at the speed of light. I can believe in aliens that all happen to look like people wearing lots of makeup. But one thing I can never suspend my disbelief enough to accept is the idea that there’s no money in the future. Humankind has evolved past the point where we need material possessions? Uh huh. Right. No, I guarantee you that even if money were completely phased out officially, something else that serves the exact same purpose would be created, replicators or not. And there’s no television in the future? Give me a break. [/QUOTE] I’ve spoken with my father, a CPA, about this issue. He tells me that a moneyless economy based on a general reciprocity principle would be quite stable. Only thing is, it’s a bitch to get there from here. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/95 "2006-06-22T15:32:06Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] **II Gyan II** , I’ll address your points one at a time. 3) Circadian days: You do need to have some standard time system, so that everyone knows when to show up for work. They use it because it works. Also, I recall a brief mention early in _Deep Space 9_ that they’re on a 36 hour day. [/QUOTE] Nitpick–it was a 26-hour day, because that was what Bajor had, and they were on a Bajoran schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/96 "2006-06-22T15:39:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Never watch too many nature documentaries, did you? Darting all kinds of animals from helicopters is fairly common - and not just big elephants and rhino, but smaller things like antelope and cats, too. And dart guns are all single-shot rifles, even. Perhaps, but I imagine you can get a lot closer to an antelope on the Serengeti than you can a human opponent. Antelopes don’t try to find cover and shoot back. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/97 "2006-06-22T16:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] (Though actually, I hear that one of the deleted scenes from the movie has Jeff Goldblum’s geek character recording alien transmissions with his Mac early in the movie, and subsequently decoding their protocol or somesuch.) [/QUOTE] Protocols, shmotocols. Recall that, when Our Heroes arrive at Area 51, the head scientist says that they haven’t been able to get the spacecraft working, because they couldn’t replicate the power it uses. So: how do you interface with a computer that not only speaks an alien language, but _doesn’t use electricity?_ And the dog in the tunnel ticked me off too. I mean, there are _people_ running by, about to die, but does she tell any of _them_ that she found a safe hiding place? Nope, she calls her rackin’-frackin’ dog. Way to prioritize. I mean, following a huge city-destroying disaster, I’d rather have companions who can reason and use tools, not one I’d have to scrounge food for every day, but I guess that’s just me. Let the people die, they’re not “cute”. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/98 "2006-06-22T16:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] Now there you go. See? People often ask me why the SDMB is the bestest, hottest Board in the known universe by a country mile, and there’s your answer. This is where you can get sound advice about _how to use a clarinet to hit a hippo_. In a thread that isn’t even _about_ clarinets. Or hippos. Truly, the hive mind here has awesome power and knows no limits. Major respect to **InvisibleWombat** for (a) having such information to offer and (b) thinking to offer it. [/QUOTE] It comes from my extensive experience battling a bloat of psychotic hippos in the Ngoro-Ngoro crater in Tanzania, using only a collection of musical instruments and my mad improvisational weapon-making skills. Buy me a drink and I’ll tell you about how to fight off a 7,000-pound bull hippo using only a $19.95 Shure microphone, four triangular guitar picks, the sustain pedal from a grand piano, and a set of used ukulele strings. [QUOTE=BMalion] I believe you’ll find that the bullets were ducking away from Chuck Norris. [/QUOTE] :smack: I should have thought of that. The bullets knew they’d get the snot kicked out of them (did you know bullets have snot?) if they had the temerity to scratch Chuck’s car. [QUOTE=MrDibble] Never watch too many nature documentaries, did you? Darting all kinds of animals from helicopters is fairly common - and not just big elephants and rhino, but smaller things like antelope and cats, too. [/QUOTE] In the Yellowstone area, they even dart animals from small airplanes. [QUOTE=Anaamika] b) She had time to put on some fucking makeup. GAH! [/QUOTE] That applies to a _lot_ of movies. Okay, she’s been trekking through the jungle for a week without a shower. Her clothes are torn in strategic places. There’s a tidy little smudge of mud on her cheek. But her hair billows beautifully in the wind. Not a tangle, not a leaf or stick. Not a matted, oily mess. And she has lipstick on. After a week in the jungle? For that matter, women in movies always seem to be able to sleep (and have sex) without tangling their long hair. What’s with that? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/99 "2006-06-22T16:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] Never watch too many nature documentaries, did you? Darting all kinds of animals from helicopters is fairly common - and not just big elephants and rhino, but smaller things like antelope and cats, too. And dart guns are all single-shot rifles, even. For me, I take things in the spirit they were intended. Which means I’ll watch any sort of crap, really. [/QUOTE] Hell, I used to bullseye womp-rats from my T-65 back home and they’re not much bigger than 2 meters. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603/100 "2006-06-22T16:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Nitpick–it was a 26-hour day, because that was what Bajor had, and they were on a Bajoran schedule. [/QUOTE] :smack: I need to go rewatch some episodes, apparently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-my-suspension-of-disbelief-doesnt-stretch-that-far-open-spoilers/361603.md?page=6)