Are there any “trekkies” out there? yeah ? I thought so!
Do any of you, trekkies or not, think that the SS Enterprise is the right shape for a space craft,bearing in mind that aerodynamics that are used by terrestial aircraft would be of no use in the vacuum of space
Dave
By: ELP - 22nd February 2003 at 21:49
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-02-03 AT 09:53 PM (GMT)]One more mistake like that DC and they might beam you into a wall or something. 😀
It is such a shame that the reputation of the Enterprise as a famed naval vessel through out history had to be destroyed by that weakling Picard }>
Bridge staff: “Captain we are under attack!”
Picard: “Lets have a group hug and try our best on how to understand the feelings of the enemy”
By: dcfly - 21st February 2003 at 15:49
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Now wouldnt that bring a whole new meaning to number crunching
“Unidentified vessel on starboard bow Captain!”
“Relax Mr. Spock they’re only spotters!”
Dave
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st February 2003 at 03:57
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“Can you teleport anti-matter ??? “
Unless the process of teleportation relies on the charge of the materials being teleported then yes I should think it can be teleported. The real difference between matter and antimatter is an opposite electical charge. The only difference would be the magnetic movement and containment of antimatter would work in the opposite direction… ie to move an electron to the left a negative repelling force is applied from the right. The anti particle of the electron is the positron which has a positive charge and to move it you either use the same negative (now attracting) force to pull it from the other side or a positive repelling force in the same direction to the same effect.
If we are talking about star trek then such minor differences can be ignored… after all I remember an episode when a Captain Kirk from an Anti matter universe came though to ours… thre was no explosion as long as the two Kirks didn’t touch… …of course in reality the instant the electrons, protons and neutrons of the air in the ship or the floor or any other material touched the antimatter the other Kirk was made of they would have annialated each other in a rather big explosion. (the explosion over Hiroshima created about 1 gram of pure energy. In an anti matter explosion every gram of anti matter annialates a gram of matter to produce two grams of pure energy… of course the initial explosion would blow the remaining normal matter away from anti matter in a spaceship, though on a planet the gravity would recombine the two types over and over till all the anti matter was annialated or accelerated to above orbital speed… till it met more matter in space…
BTW…. Back off Uhura Geedee… she was hot!!!! 🙂
By: geedee - 20th February 2003 at 17:27
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Thats me out of the academy next year….bum.
Fancy having a communications officer on the first one with a name like someone being ill….Uhura !
Cheers
Gary
Its worse than that he dead Jim !
By: Nikumba - 20th February 2003 at 17:16
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>Shame…shame….Shame….
>
>Not one of us trekkies have noticed Dave’s deliberate
>mistake …SS Enterprise indeed !!. It’s NCC1701A (for the
>original !) Enterprise !.
>
>Its not a ruddy sailing ship !
>
>Shame…shame…shame…
>
>I bet the Borg are p*ss*ng their Collective selves with
>laughter, and the Klingons cant, cos they are on the floor
>in hysterics.
>
>Cheers
>
>Gary
>
>Its life Jim, but not as we know it.
>
>Ere !!!! some theiving little Ferengi has beamed my avatar
>away !
The NCC-1701A was not the first enterprise, NCC-1701 was.
NCC-1701 – 2245—2270
NCC-1701 Refit – 2272—2285
NCC-1701-A – 2285—2295
NCC-1701-B – 2295—2337
NCC-1701-C – 2340—2344
NCC-1701-D – 2363—2371
NCC-1701-E – 2372-
By: dcfly - 20th February 2003 at 15:16
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Curses! thats my cover blown, cheers Gary.(I’m not a trekkie)
Ah well, back to collecting beer mats
Hang on ! surely the SS stands for Star Ship, Hah!! thought you’d fooled me huh?
Capt.Dave C Fly
By: geedee - 20th February 2003 at 13:18
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-02-03 AT 01:22 PM (GMT)]Shame…shame….Shame….
Not one of us trekkies have noticed Dave’s deliberate mistake …SS Enterprise indeed !!. It’s NCC1701A (for the original !) Enterprise !.
Its not a ruddy sailing ship !
Shame…shame…shame…
I bet the Borg are p*ss*ng their Collective selves with laughter, and the Klingons cant, cos they are on the floor in hysterics.
Cheers
Gary
Its life Jim, but not as we know it.
Ere !!!! some theiving little Ferengi has beamed my avatar away !
By: Nikumba - 20th February 2003 at 07:59
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>Gotta admit that the spacecraft used certainly look the
>bizz, but would we still be keeping the engines seperate
>from the living quarters when we get that far advanced in
>space travel. The warp field envelops the whole ship when
>the guy in front firewalls the loud lever so it would effect
>crew just as much as if they where sat ontop of the engines.
Having the engines seperate from the crew part makes no difference with teh Enterprise. The engine room and engine core are on the neck part and all through the ship are fusion reactors and anti matter storage pods.
In one episode of Voyager they did transport a torpedo onto a Borg ship and detonate it killing the Borg ship
Nikumba
By: Tony - 18th February 2003 at 17:52
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Aah, perfect to watch just after school in the 70’s
Wilma was hot even then!
Best regards
Tony
By: Arthur - 18th February 2003 at 11:02
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Buck Rogers was fun, especially the early episodes which were set on earth. New Chicago was the name of the place, some shiny white plastic city in some sort of deserted wasteland. Ah, a series from the days when nobody had to ask what actually happened with Old Chicago }>
The later in-space series weren’t as much fun anymore. Probably because those were filled with waaaaaaaay to much stuff they picked up from the floor in the room where Battlestar Galactica was edited. And Twiki & his talking disco-dinnerplate Theo got a bunch of friends in those series, and their annoyance level is 11.
I preferred Battlestar Galactica back then though (hey, i was six or seven years old, i had other interests as what kind of plastic foil Wilma was wearing), i really liked the Cylon fighters. A lot cooler than those silly-looking Vipers on board Galactica… no wonder the F-16s unofficial nickname is derived from that totally boring SF-fighter.
Bidibidibi… Bück dich!
By: geedee - 18th February 2003 at 10:34
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Now she was exceedingly well made !. Didnt you just want to wish you could …..this bit removed….. !
Sigh !
And as for Tweeky…his best contribution was the joke about him walking round saying “F*ck Buck” !. Irritating little twerp!
cheers
Gary
By: ELP - 18th February 2003 at 02:11
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The shape of the ship is what ever the writer / production staff say it is }>
The high point of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” or whatever that show was called in the 70s was Erin Grey each week in a different skin tight outfit.
By: Nikumba - 17th February 2003 at 20:05
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Oh i rember Buck Rodgers, a classic bit of TV, used to be on BBC 2 at 6:45 just after dinner 🙂
Those were the days, also Battlestar Galactica before they got to earth was superb
Nikumba
By: mixtec - 17th February 2003 at 18:22
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Speaking of cool space craft, there was a cheap movie in the late 70s called “Buck Rogers in the 25th century, that later became a cheap US tv show. They had the best looking fighters which I wish would be used in a PC game. Speaking of which, Ive been playing Unreal II, great game but uneffective weapons against aliens make it fustrating. I wish they would make an expantion where you could make it with first officer Aida.
By: geedee - 17th February 2003 at 16:39
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Can you teleport anti-matter ??? I thought everything worked in reverse when dealing with anti-matter so a push actually becomes a pull (EE Doc Smith…classic Lensman series) so to send it, you’d have to pull it towards you ?
Gotta admit that the spacecraft used certainly look the bizz, but would we still be keeping the engines seperate from the living quarters when we get that far advanced in space travel. The warp field envelops the whole ship when the guy in front firewalls the loud lever so it would effect crew just as much as if they where sat ontop of the engines.
Love the Romulan ships…and I quite like the Klingon Bird of Prey, but they all look a bit flimsy to me. As for the Borg Cube, must be a b*gg*r after a night out on the town to come back and try and decide which side’s got the entrance door !!
Live long and prosper
Cheers
Gary
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th February 2003 at 12:27
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Perhaps belatedly answered with the Borg cubes.
The physical seperation of the engines from what I presume are the living compartments in the body bits and the operational bit in the disc seems to be very sensible for safety reasons, though I really don’t understand why the best attack is not to beam a mixture of matter and antimatter to a spot near the weakest shield until it fails and then when its shields are down teleport a kilo of anti matter onto the bridge of the enemy vessel.
By: Nikumba - 17th February 2003 at 12:06
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While I am no trekkie, I have to say I like the design. As far as i know, the nacels, the bits that stick out a the back have to be that way so the ship can generate a stable warp field. I maybew rong but im sure i will corrected.
The Federation ships in my opinion very elegant and also very well laid out, in terms of distrubution of armaments.
But rember some of the Federation ships do operate in the atmosphere adn can land on planets, eg USS Voyager
Nikumba
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