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I will also note that the Varon-T disruptor isn't clearly more effective than a standard phaser (which also disintegrates man-sized targets). It may well be some kind of obscure variant on the basic principles of disruptor and phaser weapons, something created in a laboratory and found ineffective....

Due to Act of Q, or some other random deity, you awaken half a kilometer from Fiddler's Green, from the movie Land of the Dead. This is a week prior to the events of the film. You have on you papers, a duffel bag full of tools, medicines, and supplies, a map of Pittsburgh, and most importantly, the...

The original problem, of course, was that Highlander was not written to accomodate any sequels. Connor and Kurgan killed off all of their rivals, and then Connor killed the Kurgan. He was the last, and he had the prize. Highlander 2 tried to work with that premise, but ended up failing horribly. So ...

A decomissioned ship will never see service again. Reusable equipment will be removed, weapons permanently disabled, consumables removed, etc. After decomissioning, what's left is either a museum or scrap. A "moth-balled" ship is maintained in good enough condition to be reactivated quickl...

Long ago, I took every time vs distance quote from TNG-era trek and made a graph. They lined up pretty decently with a graph of y = x ^ 4.1, where y is the ship's multiple of lightspeed and x is the warp factor. Assuming that formula is reasonably accurate, warp 1.8 would be 11c, and warp 5 would be...

There is an issue with some thumbnail images not being shown on the wiki. I have found what appears to be a solution, but I do not have permissions to fix it.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Qmkwqlxoor706ddt

It appears that the Wiki software upgrade has been implemented, and articles are now readable again on the Imperial Wiki. Images seem to be a bit buggy, but it would be nice to see Episode VII updates on the site.

That trailer substantially lowered my expectations.

If you are flying by a target at light-speed, and you have weapons with a range of one light-second, you have all of two seconds to acquire the target and discharge your weapons, assuming that they can track the target for the entire pass. It's less if you can only fire while approaching, for examp...

biostem wrote:If the exhaust port had gas constantly coming out of it, then a shield that blocked it couldn't be present. As others have noted in other threads, however, there really isn't any reason that they couldn't have put a grate over the opening...

Or put a bend in the pipe somewhere.

Take some cell phone pictures and maybe even video. Call 911. Try to convince someone to send down the helicopter gunships from Fort Campbell before the damn things kill somebody.

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Ted C wrote:I'm wondering if anyone sees what I was doing there.

What, the blaming Vader part?

More the "play along as if it was a real conspiracy theory" part.

I'm wondering if anyone sees what I was doing there.

A new conspiracy theory has emerged on Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvv-Yib1Xg Like conspiracy theories typically are, this one is full of holes: Darth Vader was not in command of the Death Star; Grand Moff Tarkin was. Darth Vader didn't build R2-D2; that droid is older than he was. The...

Are they smart enough to avoid confronting military forces and concentrate on infrastructure? Would they know to target things like refineries, pipelines, power grids, agricultural lands, and other resources to starve the military of resources? It would probably still take more than 10,000 dragons, ...

So to avoid spoilers... To no one's surprise, Simmons found another person on the alien world, and to no one's surprise she eventually ended up in a relationship with the only other human being she had contact with. To his credit, Fitz took the news astonishingly well. Whether that's a surprise depe...

Isn't ST warp of the 'bubble of warped spacetime' type? And not some extra dimension like it is in Babylon 4? This means that you can't fire from inside or from the outside. Shooting at someone at warp is easy to explain - there is no way for the attack to transistion the distance between you an th...

The Romulan Republic wrote:Misquoted Ted C. I never said that.

Might have been a nesting error.

Panashe wrote:In Arena, the Metrons were able to "target" the Enterprise moving at warp and somehow force her down to sublight, apparently from a (non-FTL) star system.

The Metrons are super-aliens, so... whatever.

The Tesseract has a Space/TIME thingy about it, so let's say from his perspective, he's 'just' been on the alien world a few months before Jemma showed up. Either Skull hid his appearance, or Jemma's blocking it out from the trauma. The Tesseract is the "space stone". Per the comics, ther...

The Federation (would be in-character for them) is probably even more risk-averse to the potential health hazard and puts them well away from the populated ship sections in most of their designs, accepting the structural drawback. Which might not be an issue - after all, the usual encounters are 1-...

I don't understand why they made such a big deal about the Picard Maneuver because any warp capable species should have FTL sensors which would render the tactic useless. If I remember correctly, it only worked because the Ferengi's computers for some reason did not detect the fact that the Stargaz...

And if you want to be anal about it, the exact opposite of the Picard maneuvre would be to come in sublight, go to Warp fur the actual attack run, then slow down to impulse for the getaway :P There is no indication that the Stargazer was not moving at sublight speed relative to its attacker before ...

Yes, but tactically a Picard maneuver has a lot of the same effects as warp-in-fire-warp-out. The main difference is that the classic Picard maneuver was done by a ship unable to 'warp out.' Why was the Stargazer unable to "warp out". The ship was at a disadvantage, to be sure, but there ...

Batman wrote:Last I checked Warp strafing was firing at a sublight target 'while' at Warp, not 'touch-and-go Downwarping'.

Depends on how you define it. If warp-strafing is "tactically using warp drive to fire on opponents without taking return fire", then it's not as narrowly defined as you say.