Anyone already read this?

Glass Pearl Player · Post by **Glass Pearl Player** » 2003-07-26 06:41pm

http://www.davekrieger.net/Waves/

( Found this link in a newsgroup thread.Try Google-Groups- rec.arts.sf.sciene, it's the thread "Full Stop, Mr LaForge".)
(OMG, I'm starting to laugh...I imagine tiny airships...)

HappyTarget · Post by **HappyTarget** » 2003-07-26 10:11pm

And they actually thought that little mini airships with captain dust mite at the helm would fly as believable?????

BWAHHHAHAHAHAHAH!

Just goes to show what happens when quality slips. Voyager must have had the same writers for it's full run and they didn't have any voices of reason.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-07-27 03:13am

I can't believe that these things happened. Just how stupid are these writers?

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-07-27 06:13am

And they actually thought that little mini airships with captain dust mite at the helm would fly as believable?????

Well, they later turned Honey, I Shrunk The Kids into a DS9 episode, so I don't think that Dust Mites and airships are that big a leap in the deluded logic of those shitty ST writers.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-27 01:04pm

Sweet! I would have loved to see that episode in its original form.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-27 04:18pm

This is golden. I'm reading the Particles page and I found this:

Brill cheese
Origin unknown. Contaminated cheese with a virus.

* Voyager: Learning Curve - A contaminated piece of cheese threatened the entire USS Voyager.

I have GOT to tell Wayne!!!

http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/particles/

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-07-27 04:33pm

Oh yeah. Neelix makes some cheese, and it has a virus that murders gel packs. Then they give Voyager a fever with plasma.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-07-27 08:30pm

Did anyone else just plain hate the gel-pack concept to begin with?

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-07-27 09:02pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Did anyone else just plain hate the gel-pack concept to begin with?

The idea of a computer catching a cold seem silly and I knew from the first episode that they would do something like this.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-07-28 03:05am

I was thinking more along the lines of "how is it going to be faster than electronic circuits?"

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-28 03:19am

Kitsune wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Did anyone else just plain hate the gel-pack concept to begin with?
The idea of a computer catching a cold seem silly and I knew from the first episode that they would do something like this.

It takes the concept of "wetware" and takes it way too far. Most "wetware" concepts are basically merging nerons with computer memory arrays. keeping these things alive is our biggest problem right now. Basically the Gelpack a fully "Wetware" computer system. It appears to serve as nodes the the comtrol bus. They appear to be able to regenerate themselves when damaged. The suseptablity to catch a cold shows that they have relied way too much on genetically engineered lifeforms. It was a simple next step to show the "highly advanced" 8472 and their totally organic ship as the next step in the technology evolution of starship. Notice how these "ships" appear invincible until Voyager technobables a way to kill them.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-28 03:52pm

tetralubisol
Origin unknown. Highly volatile lubricant used on starships.
TOS: The Concience of the King - Lenore Karidian attempted to kill Kevin Riley by poisoning his milk with tetralubisol.

I could be wrong, but isn't it a bad idea to have a "Highly volatile" lubricant? especially on a starship? (and what do they use it to lubricate?)

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-28 03:55pm

I REALLY like this one:

ritalin
Naturally occuring. A mineral.
TOS: Requiem for Methesulah - The crew needed it to combat an epidemic on another planet.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-28 04:06pm

crazy glue [well, not really, but almost] threatens the Enterprise:

cyanoacrylate
Naturally occuring. In real life, cyanoacrylate ester is a fast-bonding glue (e.g. Crazy Glue.)
TNG: The Child - According to Data, Eichner radiation, which caused genetically altered spores in stasis cage to expand uncontrollably and threaten Enterprise, is released by "certain cyanoacrylates."

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-28 04:26pm

Connor MacLeod wrote:I REALLY like this one:

ritalin
Naturally occuring. A mineral.
TOS: Requiem for Methesulah - The crew needed it to combat an epidemic on another planet.

So a drug designed to "calm" ADD/ADHD kids is a needed cure for and epidemic

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-28 04:59pm

Was Ritalin around when TOS aired?

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-28 05:05pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Was Ritalin around when TOS aired?

You betcha!