Treknology

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-10 06:12pm

According to the ICS, a T-65 (X-Wing) has similar controls to a T-16.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 06:22pm

SCVN 2812 wrote:You try writing for and working on a series set hundreds of years into the future and see if you don't resort to impressive sounding but fictional terms and concepts and futuristic looking props to fit the time period and try to allow for a greater understanding of science while yourself being forced to just speculate what life will be like in several centuries.

Star Wars is a series of movies, you just have to make the audience believe they are being shown a futuristic society for 2 hours. The teams behind Star Trek have to do 45 minutes 20 times over.

So the next time you see fit to mock plot and setting enhancing inventions perhaps you should try doing their jobs for a while, say over the course of an entire series.....

*looks at babylon 5*

I think I have good reason to trash Star Trek.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 06:25pm

John Clark wrote:Okay, granted. But still, shouldn't there be at least a GRAIN of accuracy in the terminology they use, as if to suggest that at some point in the past, the colloquialism had at least SOMETHING to do with what it refers to?

Looking at modern society we don't follow that rule either.
Anyway look at the technical description of a turbolaser, a two stage laser cannon that uses energized blaster gas to create an intense blast, wich is a sort of particle/laser beam, sounds like a souped up laser to me.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-10 06:25pm

Ooh, John Clark the troll is back.

John Clark · Post by **John Clark** » 2002-07-10 08:09pm

Actually, it is sorta of a laser. Turbo is added because it's stronger then a normal laser cannon. And the fork is called that. A fork.

Actually, I always took "turbo" to denote that something was modified to be faster. I'll have to check on that.

And Thrawn... I am not a "troll". I am someone who contradicts you, and does it convincingly, obviously a cardinal sin for which you would have me drawn and quartered. Get over yourself. Better yet, grow up.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 08:11pm

John Clark wrote:And Thrawn... I am not a "troll". I am someone who contradicts you, and does it convincingly, obviously a cardinal sin for which you would have me drawn and quartered. Get over yourself. Better yet, grow up.

You're most definitly a troll, and if you don't get your head out of your ass soon your gonna find yourself up shitcreek in a leaky canoe.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-07-10 08:11pm

He's no longer just a guess posting under the name

And I despire the good name of Clark(Of Tom Clancy fame) to be assosate with one such as he

But then agian he's not as bad as some

John Clark · Post by **John Clark** » 2002-07-10 08:25pm

Oh, I beg your pardon, HDS! How would you suggest I "get my head out of my ass"? Is this a Palpatine-style "Join me or die!" ultimatum you're issuing? Either I throw myself on the ground, grovel and howl that the Space Nazis are the best, or you ban me? Is that it?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-10 10:03pm

Actually, the 2 John Clarks are alike. They're both "Cold-Blooded and Efficient At What They Do". One is effective at killing and military operations, the other is effective at being a troll.

Anyway, Let's get back to the subject!

A trash can would be a "Quantum Subatomic Waste Pulverizer", and would have a portable replicator to create the anti-waste matter needed to annihlate each other. It would also have a touchscreen for little reason.

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » 2002-07-10 10:11pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:A trash can would be a "Quantum Subatomic Waste Pulverizer", and would have a portable replicator to create the anti-waste matter needed to annihlate each other. It would also have a touchscreen for little reason.

Since there are no trash cans, they probably put waste into the replicator.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2002-07-10 10:47pm

Shadow wrote:
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:A trash can would be a "Quantum Subatomic Waste Pulverizer", and would have a portable replicator to create the anti-waste matter needed to annihlate each other. It would also have a touchscreen for little reason.
Since there are no trash cans, they probably put waste into the replicator.

Shaddap, we need not sanity in an insane world. NYAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-07-10 11:34pm

Howedar wrote:Actually Gil, I believe Luke says: "...I'm not such a bad pilot myself..."

OK, well, the spirit of the comment remains. The attitude was the same.

John Clark · Post by **John Clark** » 2002-07-11 12:21am

Still on your Troll high here, are we?

I'll tell you what, kids -- you all know damn well I'm not a troll. Wong might call me a "rhetorical debater"... but I'm not a troll.

But if you insist on having a troll, well... I can arrange it.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » 2002-07-11 02:07am

Actually, I always took "turbo" to denote that something was modified to be faster. I'll have to check on that.

Turbo can also be used in the sense of more powerful, stronger, etc.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2002-07-11 12:16pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:
*looks at babylon 5*

I think I have good reason to trash Star Trek.

Actually HDS, once you have your own TV series then and only then will you really have the right to trash ST.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2002-07-11 12:30pm

Kamakazie Sith wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:
*looks at babylon 5*

I think I have good reason to trash Star Trek.
Actually HDS, once you have your own TV series then and only then will you really have the right to trash ST.

I'll trash ST because I damn well feel like it, and no boy who calls himself a self-annihilating Dark Jedi can stop me!

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-11 12:37pm

John Clark wrote:Actually, it is sorta of a laser. Turbo is added because it's stronger then a normal laser cannon. And the fork is called that. A fork.

Actually, I always took "turbo" to denote that something was modified to be faster. I'll have to check on that.

I can mean more powerful.

And Thrawn... I am not a "troll". I am someone who contradicts you, and does it convincingly, obviously a cardinal sin for which you would have me drawn and quartered. Get over yourself. Better yet, grow up.

If you are John ClarkE, then yes, you are.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-07-12 10:50am

it seem that Star Trek's approace to techology is

How can we make technology the bad guy

Warp cores are more volitile than Chernoble, sheez a power surge causes problems with it. It's alway some stupid tech problem that bring the ship close to demise (that stupid computer virus thing)

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-07-12 01:49pm

John Clark wrote:Oh, I beg your pardon, HDS! How would you suggest I "get my head out of my ass"? Is this a Palpatine-style "Join me or die!" ultimatum you're issuing? Either I throw myself on the ground, grovel and howl that the Space Nazis are the best, or you ban me? Is that it?

If you keep on calling the Imps space nazis, then I will from now on call the feds commie pussies.

John Clark · Post by **John Clark** » 2002-07-12 02:06pm

And if I'm so wrong about the Imperials, how did you know they were the ones I was calling Space Nazis?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-07-12 03:49pm

Why do we know you call SW Space Nazi
1. You compare them obvisously
~Well at least they are not space Nazis
2. You take any slight aginst ST seriously and at once respond with a barrage of illogical statments, Red Herrings and an Army of Strawmen
3. You have a hatred for some bob unknow reason of SW, Prehaps you where beat up by a bunch of kids dressed as Stormys one Hallowean. Whatever it is you seem to despise everything Star Wars
4.You are an obvious Troll, your statments are in the hopes of drawing up contraversy and thus getting attention that you can't in real life because if you did the same there. Somone would kick your ass

Grasped it Yet JC?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-12 03:57pm

Oh, and my "Quantum Subatomic Wase Incinerator" would almost blow up the Enterprise in one episode when a crewman ally leaves the lid open on one.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-07-13 11:05am

Oh, and my "Quantum Subatomic Wase Incinerator" would almost blow up the Enterprise in one episode when a crewman ally leaves the lid open on one.

or the trash will end up in the Warp core somehow and they will spend 25 mins trying to figure out why it is going critical.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-14 10:46pm

Here's another one: A playing card would be a CPU chip with a touchscreen, and when you lose at a card game, the face on the card laughs at you. in one episode, an Enterprise crewman makes such a boneheaded move in poker that the face on the card dies laughing, and the card splits in half, and the unstable plasma conduits inside one of the cards explode, and for some reason, it almost blows the Enterprise up. And it owuldn't be called a "deck of cards". It would be called a "organized collection of 52 computer chips used for gabling and/or entertainment purposes".

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-07-14 11:15pm

Isolder74 wrote:or the trash will end up in the Warp core somehow and they will spend 25 mins trying to figure out why it is going critical.

Or they do know what's wrong with the core but can't do a damn thing about it until 2-4 of the ten highest-ranking officers on the ship come all the way from the bridge down to Main Engineering, only to save the day in the 45 seconds.