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I think I saw this on star trek once...

All we need now is to integrate these packs with some processor-type lifeforms and voila, Bio-Neural Gel Packs. Everyone's least favorite Star Trek Captain is closer than you think.

I believe he's referring to the PADD. My past is tinted by rose-colored glasses, unfortunately. I remember them looking far cooler than in those pictures. While it can be argued (and is presented on the linked site) that a PADD is like a PDA, the iPhone's interface seems more in-line with the way they were portrayed in the show. This could be my memory failing me though.

The original Enterprise was a CONSTITUTION class, not Constellation...the known canon Constellation class ships are:

USS Constellation (NCC-1974)
USS Hathaway (NCC-2593)
USS Stargazer (NCC-2893) (Picard's ship prior to Enterprise-D)
USS Victory (NCC-9754)
and the unnamed NCC-7100

Reference: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Constellation_clas s

Even better.

This has been covered rather thoroughly on Deep Space Nine - the upshot was something like, 'there might be a 99% chance we're gonna get our asses kicked, but we're human (ie special) so to hell with statistics; bring on the Breen!'

...and the federation ultimately won the war, so...

(if the researcher is allowed to compile averages and call it research, I can quote fictional sources and call them precedent. pbbbt.)

Triv

"The odds are stacked against us! We have no hope and our best option is to surrender immediately!"
-(Paraphrased) Jack, DS9 Statistical Improbabilities

Just as long as they don't make lighbulbs that zap Redshirts who get in the way of the power transmission like that psycho AI from Star Trek http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/M-5/.

Sorry to nit, but since we are flexing our geek muscles here (the only muscles I have), Data has actually used contractions on occasion. According to Memory Alpha, "...Data also had trouble using contractions in regular speech although this was part of his programming by Dr. Soong." So apparently, it was possible for Data to use contractions, but not without difficulty and, therefore, rarity.

Sorry to nit, but since we are flexing our geek muscles here (the only muscles I have), Data has actually used contractions on occasion. According to Memory Alpha, "...Data also had trouble using contractions in regular speech although this was part of his programming by Dr. Soong." So apparently, it was possible for Data to use contractions, but not without difficulty and, therefore, rarity.

Or maybe they don't contact us because they have a Prime Directive or something similar. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Prime_directive

From the http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ferengi_Rules_of_A cquisition:
"Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies."

You've got to be kidding. My room mates and I are watching the entire series from the beginning and it's a stinker. Admittedly, we're only on the first season, but it's the worst first season trek series I've ever seen. I just don't see why Sisko doesn't throw the annoying and constantly crying Major Kira out an airlock. Right, because he is just a piece of inanimate cardboard who is incapable of expressing any emotion.

So far, the stupidest episode has to be "Move along home". You can read more about it here: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Move_Along_Home. It was bad to the point of being comical. If not for that, I couldn't have stood watching it all the way through. The rest of the season isn't much better, either... Although, I did enjoy "Duet". Mainly because I enjoyed seeing Kira in such emotional pain. I really wish the Cardassians had annihilated the Bajoran species.

So... does DS9 actually get better? I don't understand how it could have lasted 7 seasons if it doesn't. If they managed to blow up Bajor somehow, I can see the series dramatically improving. The Shining Time Station was WAY more interesting than this space station.

I challenge you to find much more information on Dark Matter... that isn't purely speculative. Whining about the lack of information is even worse than the wildest of speculations. Get in the game!

So far, it's all in the name; we can't really see it, ergo; dark. It has some sort of mass-effect in the universe, ergo; it matters. The only thing we can't agree on is what Dark Matter is. Let the speculations begin!

1. - Maybe it's a Quantum Substance and we've already determined it's nature by giving it a name. If it ever gets in the way, just shine a light on it and it disappears!

2. - What if it follows an Uncertainty Principle instead? Find a cloud of it, then put the lens-cap on the telescope. If I don't believe it's there when I take the lens-cap off, will it be gone? (Call it “Schroedinger's Haze”?)

3. - The residue of “unnecessary emotions” cast-off by an advanced species?

4. - Star farts?

I'd like to hear any better ideas... [ducks]

But which Steve Jobs prepares you for the Atavachron?

Thanks,

Mike

Is that you?

What Are Little Girls Made Of?

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Risa

Captain Klaa is currently sought for questioning.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Klaa

V'ger.

I suppose it would actually be P'neer, but that just doesn't sound right somehow.

What would be great is a story line that bridges
the total collapse of civilization, then the rise of
the Augments, ending the show with Khan, and his crew,
being driven to escape the planet in that submarine space ship thing.

The Great Wars , genocide, economic collapse, biological warfare, dictators, fragments of society scraping by to survive, then finally meeting the Vulcans on a fluke test flight.

First Contact came late, after Khan.

This time period is untouched, (in the movies and TV show anyway) - are the decades between the fall and First Contact.

A rich vein of Drama to mine, if there ever be one!

What would be great is a story line that bridges
the total collapse of civilization, then the rise of
the Augments, ending the show with Khan, and his crew,
being driven to escape the planet in that submarine space ship thing.

The Great Wars , genocide, economic collapse, biological warfare, dictators, fragments of society scraping by to survive, then finally meeting the Vulcans on a fluke test flight.

First Contact came late, after Khan.

This time period is untouched, (in the movies and TV show anyway) - are the decades between the fall and First Contact.

A rich vein of Drama to mine, if there ever be one!

What would be great is a story line that bridges
the total collapse of civilization, then the rise of
the Augments, ending the show with Khan, and his crew,
being driven to escape the planet in that submarine space ship thing.

The Great Wars , genocide, economic collapse, biological warfare, dictators, fragments of society scraping by to survive, then finally meeting the Vulcans on a fluke test flight.

First Contact came late, after Khan.

This time period is untouched, (in the movies and TV show anyway) - are the decades between the fall and First Contact.

A rich vein of Drama to mine, if there ever be one!

Looking at how well Baywatch did, and soap operas do,
just set the next whole star trek tv show on
Risa .

The only Star Fleet people you see are the ones who land.
Interesting relationships and backstory development.

A pleasure planet, full of eye candy.
Who wouldn't watch that every week!?

Even more likely, aliens were about to visit us using warp drive, but our experiments with the Omega molecule (what we call "buckyballs") screwed up subspace so badly that warp drive is completely unusable in our region of space.

On the positive side, it should keep away all those short-sighted Federation officers who think that the prudent course of action when you encounter powerful technology you don't understand is to destroy it.

.. and now I'll reply to my own post with more information.

Per this nice page:

The idea of a multi-generational ship or "interstellar ark" is an old one that was proposed in an unpublished paper by Robert Goddard in 1918. Goddard's fellow rocket pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and J. D. Bernal also considered the idea in the 1920s. Olaf Stapledon and Don Wilcox wrote stories about the idea in the 1940s, and Robert Heinlein originated the notion that inhabitants might forget they were on a ship in his book Orphans of the Sky. Nevertheless, considering the energy, ecology, and life support needs such a ship would require, the interstellar ark is a highly unlikely prospect.

Just equip every satellite with a deflector dish. Have each satellite perturb the orbit of each piece of debris it comes across to intersect with the atmosphere.

Just remember: There's no technological conundrum so complex that we can't find the answer in a Star Trek episode.

Perhaps a better Star Trek relation would be to the episode with Tasha Yar's sister, Ishara Yar, where everyone has a little identifier that alerts the other side when they are trying to invade. "Legacy" episode link. Of course, they never explained exactly why each side always placed these things in/on all their young.

If used to track or identify our soldiers, I see this backfiring.

We won't merely be discovered if aliens exist - we'll be colonized. That's the most likely scenario for running into aliens. If they never spread beyond their home planet, they'll just be one star out of trillions - but if they do start colonizing, we'd find them everywhere.

What I don't get is why people (especially Sagan's followers and B-movie 'writers') are so fixated on planets. Why, once you managed to get out of one steep gravity do you want to throw yourself down another? Is not a planet but a big lump of resources, inconveniently located?

Right now, once we get out of orbit we return to Earth because that's where all the good stuff is (hookers, paychecks, hookers to blow paychecks on.) Terraforming in the movies takes all of 5 minutes at the push of the big ol' Genesis button. In reality, you are looking at centuries of work with our (and our grandkids) level of technology. I can't find the study, but someone posted to USENET an article describing how, compared with sublight travel between the stars, building a self-sufficient colony using the pop-sci idea of glazing a dead world with a thin layer of Earth's ecosystem is ludicrously slow. Were talking a few throusand yeas of travel vs. 10 to 100's of thousands of years of terraforming, building infrastructure and human breeding rates that would make a nymphomaniac break out in sweat.

Iain Banks Culture Novels and the Orion's Arm take a much more sensible view of things. Once you build the luxury space colony ships, why live planetside? Just cruise from star system to star system and see the sights. And we are talking ships the size of Halo here, not some 160 crew member job with a pie-tin shell and day-glow tipped vibrators for engines. Like O'Neil colonies with engines where whole generations of people can grow up to only work the order counter at the McDonald's space-colony franchise locations.

Then there is the fundamental assumption behind the Drake equation and Fermi's Paradox: both only talk about life as we know it. For all we know, every star system has an exact copy of Earth, save that the people consider radio a religious Evil to be suppressed and lasers and robots to be tools of the Devil. It smacks of egocentric anthropomorphism to assume that if we encounter a phenomena that at least fits the definitions of life (increte, excrete, secrete, and reproduce) we'd be able to recognize it, and not accidentally kill it.

...when you can have oo-mox?

Chris Mattern

There is one in the detention cell in Star Trek V.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Waste_extraction

I seem to remember that being mentioned on one of the TNG-era "behind the scenes" specials. They showed a big diagram of the ole' 1701-D and pointed out that there was only one bathroom, and it was just off the bridge, near Capt. Picard's ready room.

The Memory Alpha site back this up with an unsourced quote: "Presumably the adjacent corridor led to a bathroom, however it was never shown on camera and a set was never constructed."

Looking at Memory Alpha a bit further, it appears that every crew quarters had a bathroom as well. But, we never got to see it. It was always "behind that door over there".

I seem to remember that being mentioned on one of the TNG-era "behind the scenes" specials. They showed a big diagram of the ole' 1701-D and pointed out that there was only one bathroom, and it was just off the bridge, near Capt. Picard's ready room.

The Memory Alpha site back this up with an unsourced quote: "Presumably the adjacent corridor led to a bathroom, however it was never shown on camera and a set was never constructed."

Looking at Memory Alpha a bit further, it appears that every crew quarters had a bathroom as well. But, we never got to see it. It was always "behind that door over there".

In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh and The Fight.

The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.

Oh, and here's a pic of him.

In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh and The Fight.

The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.

Oh, and here's a pic of him.

In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh and The Fight.

The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.

Oh, and here's a pic of him.

In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh and The Fight.

The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.

Oh, and here's a pic of him.

Whenever people mention good Trek games, no one seems to mention DS9: The Fallen Anyone that has actually played it, however, tends to acclaim it! Startrek-gamers gives it extensive praise in their history of Star Trek gaming.

Honestly, I was taken with the game from the moment I played the demo. Granted, I played the demo far after it had come out (as far as I can tell it wasn't nearly as well publicized as it could have been). But when I did! Even just the level of detail in the weather they had added (realistic snow falling, Sisko leaving footprints on the ground) was pretty impressive, especially for the time, and in general it had a solid and true-to-Trek feel to it in contrast to the glitchy, floaty and "mod tacked on to a game engine" nature of most licensed games. And there was a level editor! Yes, that's right, even the demo includes the brilliant UnreadEd package for creating one's own levels. Naturally this has led to some rather impressive fan-made expansions to the game, Convergence being perhaps the most notable. Alas, the oldskool UnrealEd 1 is a bit tricky to get working with newer versions of Windows, but I have it working just fine on my XP SP1 comp (the trick is compatibility mode combined with a working 98 install somewhere that you can copy missing .ocx files it warns you about when you try to start it in XP).

And hey, with everyone buying Macs nowadays it's worth noting that it was officially ported to the Mac long ago (from the official website, "OS 8 or higher (NOTE Runs in OS 9.1 emulation mode in OS X)"). And of course the game is old enough that running it under one form of emulation or another isn't too taxing on a system...in other words, yeah, I'd bet it'll run on Linux ;) (I haven't tried myself since I'm running AMD64 on my main Linux install, which, umm, doesn't make cross-platform emulation that easy, heh).

I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed DS9, or just feels like playing a well-made Star Trek game, to at least give the demo a chance. It's free-as-in-beer, after all, and to a large degree the openness of UnrealEd and it's access to the scripting underneath the game makes it closer to free-as-in-speech than most games. And keep your eyes out in bargain bins, it shouldn't be too expensive if you find a copy! (I found my copy really cheap years ago already in an EB games store while I was visiting Monroe, Michigan.)

But everything related to Dominion IMO sucked.

Including quite possibly the biggest anti-climatic letdown of a story in television history.

"The Prophets made them disappear"

*sigh*

Interesting, will it look like this one? http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Horta

We could just make it perform a Paradoxical process-consuming puzzle.

Do they even have to be humanoid?

I, for one, would welcome a Horta captain.

Prime example: Sherlock Holmes.

I think you meant Prime Directive.

I don't know, that just seemed to be a knock off of the old SNL sketch where the NBC staff/crew catch up to the Enterprise in an old station wagon and come in and start taking apart the set while Belushi, Chase and Ackroyd all continue to act like Kirk, Spock and McCoy.

Not to mention the Simpsons with a Sneak Preview of "Star Trek XII: So Very Tired" before the Itchy and Scratchy Movie.

Okay, maybe we should rethink this whole battery thing and go back to luggables.

--
Evan

Who needs those things when you can play a nice game of 3D chess with your new Vulcan moon-friend.

There was a DS9 episode where Odo was a solid and had back problems from sitting too stiffly. Maybe the Doctors Bashir should consult with each other more often.

Dr. Robert W. Bussard

Is this the same dude of Bussard Collector fame? Sweet.

I can now officially have fantasies of being on a space faring hotel, with women wearing skin tight costumes...

Soko

Free fall?

Why not? It worked in Star Trek!