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We all know this is just the first step of many to utilizing artificial quantum singularities for power.

To Romulus, and onward!

Cube cell mates? He was talking about Bab5, not Star Trek ;)

Oh, wait....

So you prefer the "noseridge-of-the-week" look over something really alien?

The only "real" aliens in Bab 5 were the First Ones. Star Trek has flirted with "real" aliens at times too -- the Sheliak from TNG and the Tholians come to mind. I could also mention 8472 but Voyager never existed in my World ;) Of course the only "real" alien (non-humanoid) that had any recurring impact on Trek would probably have been Q. It's hard to say if he counts or not -- since they always get to show them in humanoid form.

Kind of hard to blame Bab 5 or Trek for the budget/time problem with showing "real" aliens though.

So you prefer the "noseridge-of-the-week" look over something really alien?

The only "real" aliens in Bab 5 were the First Ones. Star Trek has flirted with "real" aliens at times too -- the Sheliak from TNG and the Tholians come to mind. I could also mention 8472 but Voyager never existed in my World ;) Of course the only "real" alien (non-humanoid) that had any recurring impact on Trek would probably have been Q. It's hard to say if he counts or not -- since they always get to show them in humanoid form.

Kind of hard to blame Bab 5 or Trek for the budget/time problem with showing "real" aliens though.

Are you implying that there's something wrong with short skirts?

Watch early TNG episodes and you wont say that again

*shudder*

Roddenberry still as prophetic as ever http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Eugenics_ Wars

They put it into Meridian. It's at the very end of the episode. Quark was trying to get Kira's holo-image for use in a "sexy" holodeck program. Kira figured out what was going on and sabotaged the program to replace her face with Quark's.

My car can go from 0-60mph in 5.3 seconds. That's an acceleration of 4.9m/s/s. Therefore, my car can travel from New York to Los Angeles in about 23 minutes.

I hope your car has a good inertial damping system installed.

Ensign Ro Laren was from TNG, not DS9. Apparently she was considered for DS9, but the actress turned it down so the producers modified the role and turned it into Kira Nerys, another strong female sci-fi character.

Force-field "treadmills." (source)

To give a good example of what you're talking about, first the Wikipedia entry on Star Trek. Compare that to Memory Alpha, a Star Trek Wiki. There's detailed information on every series, races, ships, technology, you name it.

> IBM or Novell will end up owning the assets of
> SCO but they probably won't hold enough of a
> grudge to pursue MySQL for anything.

Why on Earth would IBM or Novell want to "pursue" MySQL AB for anything?

Novell are a MySQL AB partner firm, and contribute to the MySQL code on a regular basis (to improve how it runs on NetWare, mostly). This is GPL stuff, I believe, that goes into the Community Editions. One of the platforms that MySQL releases are built on regularly on is SuSE Linux (owned by Novell).

MySQL AB have also collaborated with IBM, IIRC.

I personally don't care for Microsoft much more than I do SCO, but I don't have a problem with MySQL AB supporting users who happen to run MySQL on Windows, and I don't have a problem with MySQL AB supporting users who run MySQL on a SCO OS, either. Which, if I understand correctly, is all this deal amounts to.

Novell offer their OS customers MySQL Network. Likewise Dell. Now SCO will be doing so. Don't like SCO? Don't like Dell? Don't like Novell? Run MySQL on something else, then.

When enough people start running MySQL databases on LCARS, then MySQL AB may well develop an interest in supporting them, too. Which will be just fine with me.

Disclaimer: This post represents my own views only, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the company I work for.

Just a few side notes on what you said...

DeSalle, who is played by Ron Boyd, is a character whipped up to replace Sulu in the first episode when the Sulu actor split just before production. He's developing into an interesting character, and will probably have some rivalry with Sulu (now being played in this and future episodes by John Lim).

While they did put Ron Boyd in as DeSalle because the previous Sulu bailed, they didn't make DeSalle up. He was actually featured in many original series episodes. (The Squire of Gothos, This Side of Paradise, Catspaw.)

Check out his Memory Alpha entry (Memory Alpha is a Trek Wiki).

What happened to Yeoman Rand? She was only ever the Captain's eyecandy, not a Lt. or a helmsman

The first NV episode establishes that the reason she was absent for Seasons 2 and 3 of TOS was because she was receiving "additional training" at Starfleet. So now she's a more in-charge kinda gal rather than Kirk's secretary.

Sulu's absence in the first episode is also explained as additional training. The NV crew has mentioned that when he returns, it'll be for a sort of training mission (think TNG's Peak Performance), with Sulu acting as First Officer. So there may not be a lot of Sulu/DeSalle rivalry.

I like the crew reshuffling. It gives them the opportunity to further develop certain characters and explore more about their personalities. As well as helping to bridge the gap between TOS and the movies.

But nature is one of the last things man has yet to conquer and is still heavily vulnerable to.. now to invent the weather control devices they described in Star Trek...

Kyle was TOS era. O'Brien was TNG/DS9 era.

Kyle was TOS era. O'Brien was TNG/DS9 era.

[H]is knowledge and ability to save the ship in a jam would eventually lead to his reputation aboard the Enterprise of that of a 'miracle worker'. This was brought about by his reputation for being able to effect starship repairs in much shorter time periods than were generally accepted as being required. Scott later admitted that he often padded his stated times needed for repairs by a factor of four, in order to appear that much faster.

In other words, make a good-faith estimate, then double it, because that's the pad to get it done "faster" than you project. Then double it again, because your good-faith estimate is always optimistic.

RIP, Captain Scott, and clear subspace.

[H]is knowledge and ability to save the ship in a jam would eventually lead to his reputation aboard the Enterprise of that of a 'miracle worker'. This was brought about by his reputation for being able to effect starship repairs in much shorter time periods than were generally accepted as being required. Scott later admitted that he often padded his stated times needed for repairs by a factor of four, in order to appear that much faster.

In other words, make a good-faith estimate, then double it, because that's the pad to get it done "faster" than you project. Then double it again, because your good-faith estimate is always optimistic.

RIP, Captain Scott, and clear subspace.

Yeah, you're right. There are no more websites for people to talk about Star Trek for free anymore.

Be for real man. In 1995, all of 10 people had the web. Whatever the internet was like then, it was bound to change. Anyhow, servers cost money. Are you really so opposed to people making websites without going broke if their site becomes useful to others (and thus has a higher bandwidth fee). Anyhow, we have GNU and Creative Commons licenses for stuff now anyway, so matter what happens no one will be able to lock up future versions of TV tome (such as the aforementioned Memory Alpha) without running afoul of the law.

By shifting all but the human interface devices to space efficient remote racks, I would estimate that twice as many cubicles could be packed into the same floor space. Next step: Use advancements in genetic engineering to create smaller workers with greater intelligence per unit volume.

"On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (MARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix. Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals."

"[heating or cooling] some crystals causes electrons to build up on one side, creating a charge difference over the body of the crystal. These are called pyroelectric crystals... Scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal (lithium tantalite) inside a chamber filled with hydrogen. Warming the crystal by about 100 degrees (from -30 F to 45F) produced a huge electrical field of about 100,000 volts across the small crystal.
"The tip of a metal wire was inserted near the crystal, which concentrated the charge to a single, powerful point. Remember, hydrogen nuclei have a positive charge, so they feel the force of an electric field, and this one packed quite a wallop! The huge electric field sent the nuclei careening away, smacking into other hydrogen nuclei on their way out. Instead of using intense heat or pressure to get nuclei close enough together to fuse, this new experiment used a very powerful electric field to slam atoms together."

"On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (MARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix. Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals."

"[heating or cooling] some crystals causes electrons to build up on one side, creating a charge difference over the body of the crystal. These are called pyroelectric crystals... Scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal (lithium tantalite) inside a chamber filled with hydrogen. Warming the crystal by about 100 degrees (from -30 F to 45F) produced a huge electrical field of about 100,000 volts across the small crystal.
"The tip of a metal wire was inserted near the crystal, which concentrated the charge to a single, powerful point. Remember, hydrogen nuclei have a positive charge, so they feel the force of an electric field, and this one packed quite a wallop! The huge electric field sent the nuclei careening away, smacking into other hydrogen nuclei on their way out. Instead of using intense heat or pressure to get nuclei close enough together to fuse, this new experiment used a very powerful electric field to slam atoms together."

"On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (MARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix. Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals."

"[heating or cooling] some crystals causes electrons to build up on one side, creating a charge difference over the body of the crystal. These are called pyroelectric crystals... Scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal (lithium tantalite) inside a chamber filled with hydrogen. Warming the crystal by about 100 degrees (from -30 F to 45F) produced a huge electrical field of about 100,000 volts across the small crystal.
"The tip of a metal wire was inserted near the crystal, which concentrated the charge to a single, powerful point. Remember, hydrogen nuclei have a positive charge, so they feel the force of an electric field, and this one packed quite a wallop! The huge electric field sent the nuclei careening away, smacking into other hydrogen nuclei on their way out. Instead of using intense heat or pressure to get nuclei close enough together to fuse, this new experiment used a very powerful electric field to slam atoms together."

If I go into a teleporter, do 'I' come out the other end?

Depends on your SciFi. In Star Trek, absolutely. It "energizes" your matter into an energy stream and sends that actual energy to another place where it coalesces. It's your very quarks being transported.

It's a very valid question, and until we actually can teleport people, or can actually download their brain to a computer, we really can't answer it. (And maybe not even after ...)

But it does make for some good (well, good examples of Sci-Fi, maybe not good movies) Sci-Fi shows, like Freejack, The Sixth Day and many others.

Those were exocomps, from "The Quality of Life".

--grendel drago

Those were exocomps, from "The Quality of Life".

--grendel drago

Let's just hope this Suck Wang guy has better practices than Dr Toby Russel...

You do of course, know, that they will claim to be right....:-|

well, at least we have this

Too many brain dead republicans with moderation points on slashdot...

I have the same thing with brain dead Microsofties. I'll get modded to Troll if I bash them. As for Bush some suspect he is actually a Pakled as seen on ST:TNG. They have poor verbal skills and thus appear challenged, but are dangerous and warlike.

Pakled: We look for things.
Riker: What kind of things?
Paklend: Things that make us go.
Riker: I see.

Well, this observation is dead. The computing power and processor's bandwidth can continue to increase for a while, especially when the quantum computer does more than 3*5, but the chip cannot get a lot smaller. There is such a thing as Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and unlike Star Trek, there is no Heisenberg Compensators for it!

Hmm, according to this wiki, Section 31 was created as part of the original Starfleet Charter, which, timeline-wise would be about right for Enterprise
Oh, and according to the wiki, it turns out, the precursor to Section 31 had a role in the last few Enterprise eps that I missed. Wow. It's time to catch up.

No, no, no... shields are a defense mechanism against energy weapons. Space debris is knocked out of the way by the navigational deflector or main deflector dish. Get your fictional technology right!

It's just like quatloos, but in Final Fantasy.

We will indeed see this kind of emergence, but it will end up being pretty fucking lame. Truly one of the worst episodes eve...er, worst episodes of human history.

you got the wrong Zimmerman!

Never fear. Kirk has stopped the Doomsday machine!

I remember him as Grand Nagus Zek, from DS9. It took me such a long time to place the voice, although there really is no mistaking it.

He really does have the ultimate whiny, evil insurance boss voice. Everyone in the theatre cheered when Mr. Incredible finally lost patience with him and... well go see the movie yourself, whydontcha?

The diagram of the engine is fairly straightforward, but they didn't show the manual ejection system for the reactor core, or the ducts to route plasma and coolent from the engine to the navigational deflectors, or the ducts from the bussard collectors

Or how about this:

A Taste of Armageddon

I'll be on the lookout for a government notice in the mail telling me to report to the nearest disentegration chamber.

Did you even watch the show? The station DS9 was not really located within sight of Bajor, let alone orbiting it. It was a deep space station, after all.

Nope. According to the show, it was originally built (by cardassians) to orbit planet Bajor, and transport between the surface and other systems was the main function.

Later on, the federation moved it from the planet to the wormhole. However, it was still inside that star-system, and thus not really "Deep Space". (The Federation apparently considered Bajor far enough from their territory that the whole system was "deep space", because they gave it that name while the station was still at the planet)

Of course, the producers were never really sensible with interplanetary distances, so everything fluctuated as needed by any particular episode.