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Want to disable a Starship? Blow up the replicator

Posted: 2003-07-25 04:36pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
DS9 "Defiant"


RIKER: Report.
KALITA: We've lost main power... and the cloak is off-line.
TAMAL: It looks like two plasma conduits blew out.
RIKER: Where?
TAMAL: (off console) Deck three... section fifteen. (with meaning) Crew quarters.
Riker reacts to this information, he knows exactly what it means.
RIKER: It looks like Major Kira's been busy.
...
Riker is looking over what's left of the replicator and the bulkhead in Kira's Quarters. A large section of the bulkhead has been blown out, leaving a scorched and charred gaping hole. There are a few scorch marks in the rest of the room. Kira is sitting on the lower bunkbed, having her arm and
shoulder treated by Tamal, who is using a medical device to heal her own burns.
RIKER:(re: bulkhead) You crossed the replicator power converter with the plasma manifold, I take it?
KIRA:(wincing)That's right.
RIKER: Nice work. (turns to her) You realize we'll have this bypassed in thirty minutes.
KIRA: At least you'll be visible for thirty minutes.




You can disable main power of the Defiant for a fucking half an hour using just a replicator. What the fuck?

Posted: 2003-07-25 04:41pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
:shock:

That's like causing a nuclear holocaust because you hot-wired a toaster on a submarine.

Posted: 2003-07-25 04:56pm
by Xon
Holy crap, I didnt think startrek could sink an lower :shock:

Posted: 2003-07-25 04:58pm
by Ted C
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:That's like causing a nuclear holocaust because you hot-wired a toaster on a submarine.
No. It's more like shutting down the reactor and forcing the sonar to actively ping by running both a microwave and a toaster off the same outlet at once.

Posted: 2003-07-25 06:16pm
by Kitsune
If they would lose stealth for 30 minutes, why didn't they just drop into impulse, shut powerd down to minum, and hide in teh system of a local planetless star in dust clouds?

Posted: 2003-07-25 07:06pm
by Pablo Sanchez
Kitsune wrote:If they would lose stealth for 30 minutes, why didn't they just drop into impulse, shut powerd down to minum, and hide in teh system of a local planetless star in dust clouds?
...

This is the United Federation of Planets. The people who made Janeway an Admiral.

Posted: 2003-07-25 07:50pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Actually it's the Maquis, who stole the Defiant, by getting past a guard at the airlock and using Kira to unlock the controls. Anyways:


RIKER: Fortunately, I was able to move us into a nebula. No one's going to see us.
...
TAMAL:(off console)The cloak is operating within normal parameters... but the plasma conduit damage has caused a slight neutrino leak in the port nacelle. The Cardassians might be able to detect it even through the cloak.
RIKER: A chance we'll have to take.

Posted: 2003-07-25 10:12pm
by Connor MacLeod
This also makes living quarters something of a deathtrap, it would seem. :D

Posted: 2003-07-25 10:52pm
by Pablo Sanchez
Connor MacLeod wrote:This also makes living quarters something of a deathtrap, it would seem. :D
"Computer, make me a ham sandwich."

"THIS TERMINAL HAS SUFFERED A FATAL PROTECTION ERROR."

"Er... what?"

"THIS TERMINAL HAS--"

"I heard you. What does that mean."

"THIS TERMINAL WILL EXPLODE IN 13 SECONDS, RUPTURING TWO PLASMA CONDUITS AND DESTROYING THIS ENTIRE SHIP."

"That's a bit pricy for a sandwich."

Posted: 2003-07-25 10:55pm
by Connor MacLeod
And the poor redshirts have to go hungry for fear of operating the replicators :D

Posted: 2003-07-25 11:41pm
by Sea Skimmer
Connor MacLeod wrote:And the poor redshirts have to go hungry for fear of operating the replicators :D
There still doomed the moment the words "prepare an away team" are uttered, best to die will a full stomach.

Posted: 2003-07-26 12:53am
by Pablo Sanchez
Sea Skimmer wrote:There still doomed the moment the words "prepare an away team" are uttered, best to die will a full stomach.
And to take those damnable higher ups down with them.

Oh, you can take an armed klingon warrior down hand-to-hand while eight months pregnant? Well, how about you try to handle a food processor designed by Starfleet?

*BOOM*

Posted: 2003-07-26 02:28am
by Darth Fanboy
Pablo Sanchez wrote:
Connor MacLeod wrote:This also makes living quarters something of a deathtrap, it would seem. :D
"Computer, make me a ham sandwich."

"THIS TERMINAL HAS SUFFERED A FATAL PROTECTION ERROR."

"Er... what?"

"THIS TERMINAL HAS--"

"I heard you. What does that mean."

"THIS TERMINAL WILL EXPLODE IN 13 SECONDS, RUPTURING TWO PLASMA CONDUITS AND DESTROYING THIS ENTIRE SHIP."

"That's a bit pricy for a sandwich."
So the replicators are running Windows?

Posted: 2003-07-26 02:31am
by Typhonis 1
"Computer make me a ham sandwich " * tingly transporter noisy "Request completed"

"Man I told Ted to be sure to check the damn thing first before using it"

Posted: 2003-07-26 06:32am
by Xon
Darth Fanboy wrote: So the replicators are running Windows?
More like they are running Mac OS 8/9 with cooperative multitasking, or Windows 3.11 with 32bit extensions running on shoddy hardware.

The latest versions of windows(Win2k onwards) are fairly stable, they have problems but they are improving. The Win9x OS family, was generally unstable as hell.