IIRC when they set a phaser to explosive overload, they dive for cover behind an object that should also be intangible to the explosion.
That part’s probably quite accurate, people are often sloppy with this type of thing, even people who know better.
‘Not “degrees kelvin”’ was hammered into us in Chemistry.
It was acceptable a couple of decades ago.
Who knows whether it might be acceptable a couple decades hence?
A cool article, thanks. Now all we need are experiments that start backing up the mathematical models. What did Einstein call the models? Thought experiments, right? Gedankenexperiment!
You mean human beings aren’t descended from spiders?
I’ve mentioned it before but…if your ship can go warp 9.975…and warp 10 is everywhere in the galaxy at once (and why not the universe??)…you need a new fucking warp scale.
I always thought they were sweeping with baryons, not for baryons. But I doubt it makes much more sense my way than yours.
How do you know that parsec is not a unit of time long ago and in a galaxy far away?
I wonder why they bother to aim phasers instead of sweeping the energy beam back and forth.
The universal translator has always bothered me. A translator would translate what was being said. It wouldn’t make the other person appear to be speaking your language. I don’t mind it as a way to make the show comprehensible. It’s when they use it as a plot device like blending in with the local population that bothers me.
The episode that always bothered me was the classic Trek episode “Wink of an Eye”, where people are moving at superspeed, but they have no problem with air resistance. And if a day is passing on the normal ship, then wouldn’t years be passing for the accelerating people?
I also thought they should have kept a supply of superspeed potion on board in case of emergency.
Sound does not travel in space.
There is no fixed orientation in space (space ships facing off against each other are always on the same plane, not askew to each other).
Just because a planet has a breathable atmosphere doesn’t mean ‘no spacesuit needed when beaming down’-- there may be dangerous space bacteria or viruses or high solar radiation or poisonous pollen or any one of a million possibly dangerous things.
I wonder what happens to all the photon torpedos that miss - at some point they are going to hit something.
Probably just like submarine torpedoes, which detonate at “end of run” if they don’t find a target.
Agreed. There is a DS9 episode where Quark, Rom and Nog accidentally time warp back to 1950s Roswell NM. Somehow their universal translator implants get damaged, so they are unable to understand the hoo-mans until Rom gets them fixed. But once they are repaired, not only can they understand the hoo-mans, the hoo-mans can understand them as well, which makes no sense.
And somehow, the sound of Finney’s breathing and moving and farting and digestive noises don’t also get amplified to the fourth power, not to mention I hope Spock turned the gain down once Kirk and Finney started talking, and fighting. Otherwise they’d blow out the eardrums of everyone on the bridge.
And yet, in Solo they made an (totally unasked-for and unheeded) explanation that the 12 parsec quote was exactly correct.
Any of you folks who spent your homework hours dealing with temperature in kelvin ever encounter the Rankine scale?
The thing that always bugged me about TOS “Court Martial” episode is, what was Finney’s plan after Kirk got court martialed and lost command? He couldn’t hide on the ship forever.
It was mentioned, but no one serious uses it, as far as I know. Choosing between Fahrenheit and Celsius for everyday temperatures is a matter of preference. But once you’re switching to an absolute scale anyway, why not use the standard unit?
There are quite a few instances where they do this but this one of the more blatant uses. My favorite is when Sisko, O’Brien, and Odo (this is during the period when he wasn’t a shapeshifter.) get surgically altered to look like Klingons but nobody seems to notice that they’re not actually speaking Klingon. In spite of that I like the episode.