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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Love it when chevron7 leaks here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

It's OK. We'll just hang a lampshade on it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you think about it. Once phase shifted they would basically be gone. Due to the speed of the ship, they would just be left in space millions of miles behind before anyone realizes what just happened.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Same issue with a time machine. The Earth moves. Fast. You go back in time a day and you'll be floating in a void.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that's why your time machine has to be a vehicle, like a delorean. you just drive to where the earth was, problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

"Where we're going, we don't need a life support system. Oh wait, we really do."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Or a flying police box.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut is about this. It's the only book of his I really enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I read that when I was a teenager in the early 90s and remember absolutely nothing about it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

The Earth moves

Compared to what? Velocity is relative. From the perspective of Earth the universe is moving.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because phase shifting happens on the horizontal phase not the vertical.

At least that is my head cannon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Horizontal/Vertical to what?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where is the Lt. of the Hallway when you need her?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great link! If you want to know how the sausage is made on Star Trek or, honestly, any scripted TV series, I highly recommend David Gerrold's book about the making of the famous episode he wrote, The Trouble With Tribbles. Along with an annotated script, he goes into great detail about how TV production works and how lines of his were cut or new lines were added by Gene and others (the "no tribble at all" line that Scotty ends the episode with was not his and he hated it). It's really worth a read. I have the original paperback, but it looks like he has a new edition, both print and ebook, out.

https://www.gerrold.com/book/the-trouble-with-tribbles/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

More good link!

I’ll be honest I was more interested in the story reasoning from Moore than anything else. And while I make sausage for a living, I love production-inside baseball talk. Especially trek-production-inside baseball talk/stories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just watched that ep and wondered the same thing, especially when that Romulian flew through the wall!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Didn't Geordi hit him like a cornerback on a mission?