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We’ve been watching Fun Star Trek (The Orville). The crew trying to keep a straight face while in the presence of the Butt-heads would have been a major subplot of every scene that they were in.
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Well played.
From the Starfleet manual: Starship captains are hereby reminded by the Admiralty that there is indeed a fine line between stupid and clever.
Well, radiation they can scan for and the transporter’s biofilters are supposed to take care of the rest. We just only hear about the biofilters when they fail, which seems to happen anytime they need to filter something.
Actually, the term “baryon sweep” could just be Starfleet shorthand for sweeping for certain types of baryons.
“Certain types?” What kind of discriminatory bullshit is the Federation trying to pull here? What ever happened to IDIC?
I always interpreted it as using some set of baryons (not normal protons or neutrons) to sweep out something else. But, of course, I never thought about it too hard. They already don’t know what deuterium is, with Voyager having a hard time finding it.
You just reminded me of a seriously pulp pulp science fiction story I read in my teens. The heros of the story were the Galactic Medical Corps (or some such term). The Corps members went through academy training and were organized along military lines. The number one, if not only, hope for a career kudo in this story was to discover a new sentient species, and by sentient they meant same intelligence level or better as humans. The kicker in the story is that the main hero–the individual telling the story–when their ship was sent to a planet to eradicate a bacteria that was laying waste, supposedly, to some non-sentient species there, discovered a sentient bacteria was the one consuming the other, non-sentient, species on the planet.
What the heck is the name of that story?
Kind of like the TOS era transporters that always worked until you really needed them.
That episode where Picard has to lead small children up a Jefferies-tube.
WHY THE FUCK IS THERE GRAVITY PLATING IN THE JEFFRIES TUBE?!!
Because people regularly access it to make repairs. I’m pretty sure that’s why they exist at all.
Attitude control thrusters.
This parenthetical implies you think your personality and memories wouldn’t be restored if every molecule of your body was reassembled just as it was…
I’m taking about the vertical “elevator” tube.
You mean the turbolift tube? I’d presume they do sometimes access it to do repairs on the turbolift. Plus, if you don’t have gravity plating, then wouldn’t you just get pulled diagonally towards the places that do? I would expect that would create a lot of drag on the turbolift itself. Better to have it always pulled straight down.
(It’s also not clear to me if the gravity plating is in each floor, or just in one place on the ship.)
My take on the UT is that it doesn’t actually translate alien languages, it implants knowledge of the language into your brain, so you can speak and understand it natively. Sisko & co ARE speaking Klingon.
Correct. I believe that.
My take is that we aren’t supposed to think about the universal translator at all nor how it works. We aren’t seeing exactly what is “really” happening. It’s all artifice.
The bigger problem with that episode (“Disaster”), more than the question “why is there gravity plating in the turbolift tube,” was the fact that the Enterprise had been damaged to such a degree that pretty much all systems except emergency life support were non-functional. Yet somehow (because, naturally, of the difficulty of depicting weightlessness in a television studio) the ship’s artificial gravity was still working.
Nah. In DS9, there was an episode where in a group of strange aliens were transported onto the station. At first, the UT could not translate them. And the explanation given in the episode was it didn’t yet have enough context.
The UThad to listen to them speak for a while before it was able to figure it out.
I wish that was the approach they took with the suicide machine transporter.