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I really haven't posted here in a long time, but I saw this thread and wanted to say something, so anyway... Parsimony excludes terms which are unnecessary or unobservable, but parallel universes ARE observed in Trek, and they ARE necessary in this case to avoid the logical paradox. It is hardly a s...

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Enforcer Talen wrote:practically zero. a stock light frieghter is worth 10,000, and is millions of times faster then star trek ships. given its tendency to explode and non existent weapons, its only a museum peice.

Yeah, and most things in muesems are worthless.</sarcasm>

SirNitram wrote:Faster than instant is even more ridiculous.

What are you talking about? "Instant Transmission" is teleportation, not light speed. The only way you could think it was light speed would be from watching the poorly done dub.

The verses are definitely true. Shrimp and catfish aren't kosher, which is why (kosher) Jews don't eat either. Christians ignore these rules.

But was Kirk's shirt ripped? 8) It was, in fact. I don't remember the episode well, but I can't recall Gary Mitchell doing anything spectacular. The episode referred to him as a "god," but his abilities were quite limited. The startrek.com episode guide lists that he was distracted while ...

R would would have no trouble defeating Q.

Drooling Iguana wrote:Gary Mitchell would kick his ass.

Kirk killed him by dropping a rock on him, IIRC. His inability to stop Kirk reflects poorly on him. Q would make short work of him.

2-3km cube

The cube is approx. 3036 meters per side.

Yeah, you are right that I dislike the conculusion. I just think that the poster should not have been mad at the writers because they intended it to be this way. I don't think it was intentional. I was trying to say that the show doesn't cater specifically to them.

No, that's not what Einy was saying. He said it was that the visuals make it difficult to calc, not that the creators were intentionally making it difficult. And they may have not intended to make it a chain-reaction, but that's irrelevant because that's what they've given us. He was saying that it...

Mr. Wong totally missed the point of my post. Notice that I never said that I believe it was not a chain reaction. I said the creators of the effect may not have intended the effect to be a chain reaction. This is quite a difference. My post was made to dispute Snowman's belief that the creators of ...

BAH!!! Why the hell do Trek weapons ALWAYS rely on a Funky-Chain-Reaction-of-the-Week as their damage mechanism?!!? It's unreliable and it phucks up all attempts at proper analysis. Can You Say "Brain Bug"? I prefer good old DET as a Damage Mechanism. :D Generate X amount of energy, fire ...

I agree that characters can mistakes onscreen. Worf stated the weapon striking the Enterprise was rated at 400 GW. I don't see any visual proof to back it up. It must be wrong! :roll: I don't think the Enterprise is going to be doing much damage to these population centers, since it's weapons are ap...

A "small" Federation phaser bank draws 4.2 GW of power (per "Who Watches the Watchers"), and I don't think it's reasonable to expect a "large" phaser bank to draw thousands of times more than that. Furthermore, a 400 GW particle beam is powerful enough to quickly deple...

the Federation controls 150. No, it has 150 members, not a total of 150 systems. This can easily be disproven by the TOS episode "Metamorphosis". In this episode, Kirk states that "we are on a thousand worlds." He was presumably referring to the Federation as a whole, and 1000 w...

This story is for enjoyment purposes only - I was trying to write a dramatic and tense bit of fiction, not to depict what I think would actually happen if the USS Enterprise met the Star Wars Empire. In “reality” (strange word to use in this context!), I think that the events here would go MUCH mor...

Well, lets assume it was a GCS. Since we have 1328 members, they would all just barely fit. So we would need another ship. The Enterprise E (after Nemesis refit, but before Nemesis) is floating in space. Data: Captain, a GCS just came out of warp, and is hailing us. The ship identifies itself as......

You are Agent Smith, from "The Matrix." No one would ever want to run into you in a dark alley. Cold as steel, tough as a rock, things are your way or the highway.

Did they ever actually demonstrate this claimed ability to blow up a planet, so that we have something to go on besides a character's excitement? No weapon power is demonstrated in most Isaac Asimov stories. I can only recall on mention of actual figures in one of them. In a short story called Vict...

Foundation , Page 117 "It's a ship ! They could build in those days. Its cubic capacity is half again that of the entire Anacreonian navy. It's got nuclear blasts capable of blowing up a planet, and a shield that could take a Q-beam without working up radiation. Too much of a good thing, Hardi...

Drooling Iguana wrote:I think that this is about the closest ST ship vs. SW ship match-up we can hope for.

How is this an even match? The headhunter would not be able to win this.

RedImperator wrote:Farenheit 451 might be a better choice, actually, except for the fact almost everyone dies at the end.

That was only one city that was blown up at the end. We never saw any others. You would just have to be lucky that you were in the right city.

Because your family wouldn't care if you died and you would never learn anything in school.

In 1984 you might be killed for a thought crime, and then your family would be forced to believe that you never existed.

Why didn't anyone pick Fahrenheit 451? It is definately better than 1984.