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Luckily, Voyager was a brand new starship, and the warp core's components hadn't had time to become radioactive yet, so she could work in the access tunnel without a radiation suit. My understanding was that matter-antimatter annihilation mostly produces gamma rays and subatomic particles; if that'...

Section 31 is an unaccountable renegade organization. Saying they're a "necessary evil" is tantamount to believing that we should just let the CIA off the leash completely to perform whatever assassinations, torture, and sabotage they see as necessary without the advice or consent of any l...

I believe Roddenberry always claimed that a starship required an even number of nacelles. That didn't keep the designers of Star Fleet Battles from coming up with a variety of odd-nacelle designs, including single-nacelle designs. The only canon odd-nacelle design I can think of prior to the 2009 m...

If losing a city (or at least, a good chunk of it) on Vulcan is so untenable as to utterly forbid orbital bombardment, the Romulans don't even need a crack infantry regiment to hold off the Federation; all they need is to bring along a few nuclear bombs and hold the city hostage by threatening to de...

At the time of Unification, the Klingons had just fought a substantial civil war, leaving them in a weakened position. Simultaneously, when faced with the possibility that the Romulans might be interfering in that civil war, Starfleet could only scrape together ~20 starships near the Romulan-Klingon...

Enigma wrote:Even the women?

For me, I'd choose Betazed.

Betazed was seen in Menage a Troi, and is therefore ineligible.


Did they ever show Pacifica? I think they made that planet out as sounding very nice.

That's where he's asked if he has a girlfriend. A bunch of girls join them after and one of them tries to strike up a conversation with him, mentioning how nice the place is, and he just turns up and looks at the roof and walls and agrees, admiring the decorating instead of paying attention to her....

I think I read somewhere in a Trek trivia book when I was young that the dude responsible for leaking the movie scripts was Roddenberry. Yeah, it was Roddenberry. They proved it on Star Trek 3 when they implemented a hidden identifier in the scripts that were distributed, and the pirated scripts th...

(I believe there's a story out there that goes along the lines of he was prepared to sink Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, when Roddenberry chose then and there to die) Not to mention Roddenberry was, in general, beginning to decline in his health. Other stuff happened too, like David Gerrol...

I'm pretty sure I picked it up off of Memory Alpha, which in turn seems to have since rescinded that tidbit as it was supposedly uncited. One of the talk/discuss pages mentions a webpage which is no longer online; searching for that webpage returned this result which quotes the dead link as follows:...

Also players can choose to eliminate the competition via war and perform a complete eradication. This might come off as a bit snobbish, but you should consider carefully whether you want to incorporate player elimination in your game. A lot of board games developed in recent years eschew player eli...

I don't think Bajor ever actually achieved Federation membership during the TV show so I don't see why they wouldn't use money.

I guess Steve Jackson decided he wanted to do a new edition of OGRE and put up a modest Kickstarter to make sure there would be enough interest to justify a print run...

Japan doesn't have any eminent domain law? Most of the coal will probably come from coal mining in the developed countries, particularly Australia and the US. Exports have been increasingly important to the coal mining business here in particular, and I've read that they're building up some new coas...

But what good is shooting the thing down with a Starstreak when it's already overflying the most densely populated urban area in the entire country? If it's got that far then you might just as well evacuate whatever venue it's aiming for and let it kamikaze into it, because it's not as if we have a...

I've never seen it myself, but the most monstrous wargame I've ever heard of is Campaign for North Africa . It includes rules for tracking logistics all the way down to water consumption, and assumes that each side's commander essentially has a staff of four working under him; with ten players worki...

More and more companies here are buying fucktons of cheap not-so-crappy nettops like this (scroll down a little for intelleggible specs) for at most 300 euros to replace aging tower desktops without blowing 500-600 euros in hardware that is not much better anyway. To make these things even cheaper ...

It doesn't really matter anyway. Absent evidence that they are implementing read-only booting for the Enterprise version, it's a moot argument since this thread is whining about mean ol' Microsoft making USB booting an Enterprise-exclusive feature, not about mean ol' Microsoft refusing to rewrite th...

Typically, either troubleshooting, or a guaranteed clean start. I had one client who was so virus prone that that was the only reliable solution for them. Troubleshooting can be accomplished with any number of bootable CDs, including livecd Linux distros, and is a hell of a lot cheaper than blowing...

Why would I want to bring my own OS to another computer?

AniThyng wrote:What exactly does the author want the US Navy to build though? Presumably not more carriers?

The impression I usually get from essays like these is of an author furiously masturbating over swarms of small "cheap" boats.

Is that supposed to be a serious rebuttal? King has done far more for civil rights than Johnson, so if the Navy wants to honor those who advanced the civil rights movement, they might as well honor him. Also, warships are usually named for war heroes; as Johnson's fumbling with Vietnam shows, he ca...

Sidewinder, where the hell are you getting your inflation figures from? I really doubt that $150M in 1992USD is equivalent to $600M today. Would it not be possible to excavate a large pit and have the secondary hull "below" ground level, with the saucer section and the nacelles resting on ...

The article noted that they eventually determined there would have had to be some additional struts built to support the saucer: (Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports on the outer edge of the “disc” section due to the extremely high wind conditions in Vegas. For this we created ...

Formless wrote:All that said, I understand why Chuck would choose to review the reboot instead of the original show. Because its in the form of hour long OVAs, it fits his format better.

This is a nitpick, but I'm pretty sure the reboot movies were in fact theatrically released feature films.