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- 2024-05-18 01:14pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 26
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Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
It's also a through-deck carrier, so presumably there's a lot of hanger space as well as the main flight deck.
- 2024-04-20 02:45pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25284
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
[Content Removed] Following a report I've reviewed this post. While I consider these kind of arguments immensely spurious in terms of obvious bad-faith debating (one imagines Aerius does not believe that 1624 is some sort of privileged reference year and the whole map of the world should return to ...
- 2024-04-15 02:33pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3003
Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
On the other hand the clues were planted by people with 23rd century warp drive. DASH drive might be instant but it might take Moll and L'ak only hours to cross what took months in C23rd.
- 2024-04-15 02:31pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: (RAR!) A new streaming series that Dominates the AH fandom's attention
- Replies: 7
- Views: 828
Re: (RAR!) A new streaming series that Dominates the AH fandom's attention
I watch it? I have no special hate for SM Stirling. He was quite courteous when he came here, and while the timeline he presents is implausible in places, he has also explicitly had it be "one of the worst of a functional infinity of timeslines" and posted that inevitably the Draka are goi...
- 2024-04-09 07:38am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3003
Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
One assumes it can't precisely make that type of wire, it may be that the conductivity is too low, or too high, or that it channels power through some other means other than electrons - perhaps it transmits weak nuclear force or something - to operate its systems.
- 2024-04-08 01:51pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3003
Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
Beyond the slightly silly moment of the ships being belly down - for once I wish they'd used the deflectors, or hovered closer to the city and just bubbled it. In the spirit of the site, you could get some calcs on kinetic energy and momentum for that landslide. Very happy to see an orbital phaser s...
- 2024-02-25 05:14pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
To my knowledge no there's nothing beyond trying to extrapolate NCC numbers in alpha canon.
- 2024-02-25 12:37pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
If you want a Watsonian reason then there's a simple enough one, the Sovereign appears to be a prestige ship, not suited for serialized production compared to the others, while the likes of the Akira and Steamrunner are. We know that the Galaxy Class initial run was between six and twelve ships afte...
- 2024-02-24 07:31pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
We traditionally take a documentary approach when discussing the technological capabilities, but when we are discussing why we see certain things in the fiction, the doylist answer is fine. Certainly if we're taking the Star Trek Beta Canon for its answers the Enterprise-E was involved in a mission ...
- 2024-02-24 07:06pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
The simple answer for why we didn't see the Enterprise in the Dominion War is that the audience would immediately want to see how all their TNG favourites were doing.
- 2023-04-09 01:00pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
In a context in which it was so easy to strike at undefended worlds, why did the Empire need the Death Star? The only way the Death Star makes any sense as a concept is if it is used to threaten shielded worlds so that the Empire doesn't need a costly siege, as clearly happened at the end of the Cl...
- 2023-04-05 03:35pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Star Wars planets seem to rely heavily on being able to get help from out of system quickly enough to matter. That seems to be sufficient for the threats they are expecting, unless the forces they call for help refuse to respond. But would that response be quick enough to fight off a borg cube ? So...
- 2023-04-05 02:53am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Going through case by case nitpicks from Disney canon shows made for spectacle and trying to extrapolate that to an entire faction frankly doesn't look very well. There's quite a bit of difference from a book outright stating that ""33% of these worlds will lack ANY kind of planetary defe...
- 2023-04-04 04:56pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
For Star Wars I dislike the claim that this is tropey. Let's look at the planets visited in the latest seasons of Bad Batch, Andor and Mandalorian. Warning, spoilers: Serenno, no planetary defences shown when it would be rational for them to be used; in fairness these might have been suppressed in t...
- 2023-04-04 10:48am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
...damn. W40K might even be more deficient than I thought. On the last point-- not really going to continue to argue this point other than note that without context that scene alone honestly tells very little. I'd note that planets with no anti-orbit defences is pretty de-rigeur in space operatic s...
- 2023-04-04 09:51am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Again, could we please get some quantification for "huge portions are isolated and without defense"? Not that I disagree, but this is rather vague. Certainly. Refer to p. 140 of Battlefleet Gothic shich gave a 33% chance of any given Agri or Mining world having no planetary defences at al...
- 2023-04-04 07:08am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Oh the troops with boltguns would kill them, but the troops with boltguns are a vanishingly small minority. There's also a chance that lasguns could work and even if they don't stubbers, shotguns, and frag grenades will and exist in large quantities. As far as we can see the SOP is to just beam peo...
- 2023-04-04 06:30am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
""Splendidly ill equipped to defend"" not that I actually think this is wrong but could you quantify this? Huge portions of the Imperium are isolated and without access to either starships or high end defence tech. Some do have system ships and planetary defences, but a great ma...
- 2023-04-03 04:54pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
It does take some blithe unselfawareness to throw shade at Star Trek for having space mysticism in a discussion vs. 40k, to be fair. The Imperium's chief problems with regard to the borg is that the Imperium is splendidly ill equipped to actually defend its territory or stop people being assimilated...
- 2023-04-03 03:02pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Picard - general discussion [spoilers]
- Replies: 407
- Views: 190644
Re: Picard - general discussion [spoilers]
I don't think it's canon but I'm fond of the Naval Construction Contract explanation.
That would still imply there were 76 of a new flight of connies built in series 19 though.
That would still imply there were 76 of a new flight of connies built in series 19 though.
- 2023-04-03 02:49pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Oh sure. Though fwiw I'm sure there are many more accounts of scarcity and poor logistics. Not to mention how the IoM has quite a few worlds that are really underdeveloped. Not a downplay or anything that's going to be overly relevant in this particular scenario, just a note. Yeah that scene is jus...
- 2023-04-03 02:20pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
I'm not quite sure what you are implying with the RPG line. That quite often people see what's in the RPGs and take it as the norm for the Imperium - e.g. people think the Imperium's currency is thrones, when that's actually only part of the calixis sector in Dark Heresy. Serephis Secundus is a not...
- 2023-04-03 10:16am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Oh, while we're at it.
- 2023-04-03 09:52am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
Well one could argue that size arguably does play a role in "measuring industry". But this can be inconsistent and/or hindered by other things-- I can drag out a book where a major IoM mining planet is using medieval tools to fulfill its""tithes"". I should hope you ca...
- 2023-04-03 08:53am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11623
Re: W40K Imperium of Man vs. Star Trek United Federation of Planets
To be a bit pedantic when I specified TNG it was more meant to refer to that ""era"" so to speak since it seems to me most people assume it refers to that entire time period anyways (and because specifying a different show that covers such a relatively short period of time might...