Trekkie Dishonesty

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-07-06 09:57pm

You never heard of Omicron Theta? He claimed that, since Han Solo said that his ship can "make .5 past lightspeed", this means that hyperspace is only 1.5 C. Since this would mean that it would take years to fly to another star system - which is clearly contradicted by the movies - he insisted that Solo's little blurb meant that the entire "galaxy" was, in fact, only a single star system, and the dozen or so planets seen or mentioned in the movies all occupied that system (nevermind that references to numerous "systems" were abundant).

OT was a classic example of a Trekkie making the dumbest conclusions and then making the worst rationalizations to make his conclusions work.

Kon_El · Post by **Kon_El** » 2002-07-07 03:01am

Omicron Theta was one of the funniest trolls ever. I have never seen his equal in coming up with (there is no word for this level of stupidty) reasons ST would defeat SW. Funny but sad to know there are people who belive this stuff

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-07-07 06:22am

Of course, OT's silly antics led to the eventual discovery of ".5 Past Lightspeed" brand coffee... the infamous Han Solo quote he kept drumming up was simply referring to the Falcon being equipped with a coffeemaker.

Furthermore, the giant spheres atop an ISD are the containers for the ships' store of said coffee.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-07 10:59am

Ah OT. He helped me created 71 yottaton ISD broadsides.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-07-07 11:14am

Saddly I never ran into this guy, Any other tradmarks?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-07-07 03:46pm

Was Omicron Theta the one that said that the second sun in Tatooines sky was a subspace anomaly, or was that Breen?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2002-07-07 04:08pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Ah OT. He helped me created 71 yottaton ISD broadsides.

Explain this to me, I only got those when I improperly scaled WEG...

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2002-07-07 06:07pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:Was Omicron Theta the one that said that the second sun in Tatooines sky was a subspace anomaly, or was that Breen?

That was Breen.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2002-07-07 06:26pm

Mr Bean wrote:Saddly I never ran into this guy, Any other tradmarks?

"The Federation has 78,000,000 warp capable warships!"

When I think about it, I just can't believe that he was for real. He must have been someone screwing around.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-07-07 06:48pm

Stark wrote:
Two words : SOUND CANNON. How does sound work?

They could send a really high powered bass signal over the communicator band, blow out all the bridge speakers. Givcen how fragile Fed technology seems to be, there'd be sparks and people falling over all over the place .

Doomriser · Post by **Doomriser** » 2002-07-07 06:50pm

Pablo Sanchez wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:Saddly I never ran into this guy, Any other tradmarks?
"The Federation has 78,000,000 warp capable warships!"

When I think about it, I just can't believe that he was for real. He must have been someone screwing around.

ROFL! Was that from when he extrapolated the size of the Federation fleet assembled in First Contact at Sector 001 to the entire Federation, stating that there were x number of Federation vessels per LY or whatever? As if the fleet concentration around Earth during a Borg attack was typical and that Fed fleet distribution is uniform?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-07 06:55pm

SirNitram wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Ah OT. He helped me created 71 yottaton ISD broadsides.
Explain this to me, I only got those when I improperly scaled WEG...

Basically he said there were only 600 Imperial ships and it took 300 for the DS firepower. So I calculated that and vola!

Here's the link http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=19222

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-07-07 06:58pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:
SirNitram wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Ah OT. He helped me created 71 yottaton ISD broadsides.
Explain this to me, I only got those when I improperly scaled WEG...

Basically he said there were only 600 Imperial ships and it took 300 for the DS firepower. So I calculated that and vola!

Here's the link http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=19222

You haven't heard the one about Endor being the ENTIRE Imperial fleet?

Now imagine what half a starfleet could do if you started with that...

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2002-07-08 06:06am

"Wesley's small tractor beam didn't follow this. Otherwise, he would have been killed by using it."

It could simply have projected a counterbalancing tractor beam. That still wouldn't take care of the massive problems of sound waves in space.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2002-07-08 11:44am

I didn't read the whole thread so i'm not sure if it was put here..

"The Enterprise-E can hold 600 quantum torpedoes."

Cyaround,
Jason

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » 2002-07-08 02:02pm

Eleas wrote:"Wesley's small tractor beam didn't follow this. Otherwise, he would have been killed by using it."

It could simply have projected a counterbalancing tractor beam. That still wouldn't take care of the massive problems of sound waves in space.

The tractor beam 8sed on the Enterprise could have used a shield to stop the vibrations. Sound waves can exist in starships in space.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2002-07-08 02:40pm

"The tractor beam 8sed on the Enterprise could have used a shield to stop the vibrations."

As far as I know, it's impossible for a tractor beam to use a shield.

"Sound waves can exist in starships in space."

Yes, but they cannot propagate in vacuum, my dear fellow, which is what we were discussing.