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If I had to think of a voting system I would prefer, it would likely take the form of a nationwide popular election with the condition that all voters would use a ranked ballot and the aggregation mechanism would be one of the Condorcet methods such as Tideman's Ranked Pairs or Schulze Beatpath. As ...

When mulling over the dark side of hydro-power I tend to think of the Banqiao Dam disaster; the event led to an estimated 171,000 deaths and displaced 11 million people.

It may be the case that the Federation restricts the size of ships that can be held by private entities in order to limit the efficient production of trilithium resin, which is produced as normal by-product of warp core operation.

They beam up people (or objects) without a beacon all the damned time, and have since the TOS days. sure but I could also write a small novel listing all the things that have blocked transporters or transporter locks. It's not that they cannot beam things without beacon or equilevant, since they ca...

http://ishare.rediff.com/video/entertainment/star-trek-voyager-2x10-cold-fire-snake-eyes-/2383688 No, she's not unique. And before Species 8472, she wasn't the strongest or most powerful, either. Afterwards however, her feats surpass anything else we have observed accomplished by any Ocampa includi...

As far as weaponized FTL systems go I think the Co-axial warp drive from “VOY: Vis a Vis” has great potential. While the episode never discussed its application as a weapon of war, the general properties of its malfunctions might allow it serve in that capacity, supposedly if the drive fails catastr...

Beyond those suggestions already listed I would include: Seat belts, for when the inertial dampening inevitably fails (seat belts have been seen in some designs, their application simply needs to be more uniform). Incidentally some sort of emergency securing harnesses should be available almost anyw...

[...] And either way, due to seeing giant ships coming towards them, Picard and company swiftly retreat, but are sadly overtaken by the speed of hyperdrive and swiftly destroyed due to the higher firepower from three Star Destroyers. Even if hyper speed is faster than warp, can they engage a ship i...

What changes if Jem'Hadar who know too much about the Founders are under orders to commit suicide and/or be killed as soon as the Borg announce their presence ? Maybe those orders are specific to the Borg. Maybe they are general purpose orders for encountering any unknown species capable of extract...

I feel that Borg behavior with regards to their assimilation habits are a bit mis-understood. Let us assume that the Borg are ruthlessly utilitarian, they seek out those entities with technological or biological distinctiveness likely to contribute valuable new properties to the Collective and then ...

I always got the impression borg presence in gamma quadrent was about none existant was down to that the founders actually kept themselves a mystery till recently, if the borg had solid facts they would had gone after them. While it goes against the initial assumption as put forth in the OP, I feel...

Frankly I would argue that the Dominion has exceptionally underwhelming tactical prospects against a concerted Borg incursion into their space. As has already been stated, between the normal transwarp coils and the transwarp hub network, the Borg can appear virtually anywhere within Dominion space a...