Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Yet Star Trek, like with Star Wars, wanting to be "realistic" have been intersecting real life elements, alloys and such with extremely well known qualities. While not realizing by doing so they're yet again breaking the suspension of disbelief.

Edit: Steel alloys barebacking plasma flow, tanking point blank antimatter detonations is fucking believable.

that's why you need to use bullshit materials like tricarboriumide

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

that's why you need to use bullshit materials like tricarboriumide

And leave the real life materials to decorative and other trivial uses.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

And leave the real life materials to decorative and other trivial uses.

THERE'S NOTHING HERE BUT WORTHLESS TITANIUM!

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

THERE'S NOTHING HERE BUT WORTHLESS TITANIUM!

Man, I have news for you.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

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First time I ever saw Michael McKean was in Short Circuit 2 and he stole the movie, in my opinion.

He also shows up in X-Files doing that body swap two-parter. Not the one with the guy being pervy in Mulder's body.

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The other one.

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He was also Lenny in Laverne and Shirley and the Mockolate guy in that one Friends episode.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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Man, I have news for you.

WHAT KIND OF HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE IS THAT MONSTROSITY
WHERE ARE THE NACELLES
CAN IT EVEN HIT WARP ONE

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

WHAT KIND OF HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE IS THAT MONSTROSITY
WHERE ARE THE NACELLES
CAN IT EVEN HIT WARP ONE

I just love how a version of the SR-71 is used as a space fighter in beta canon Trek, lmao. TOTAL LOCKHEED SUPREMACY YOU XENO SCUM.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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I just love how a version of the SR-71 is used as a space fighter in beta canon Trek, lmao. TOTAL LOCKHEED SUPREMACY YOU XENO SCUM.

oh yeah I guess those could work as nacelles lol

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

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I just love how a version of the SR-71 is used as a space fighter in beta canon Trek, lmao. TOTAL LOCKHEED SUPREMACY YOU XENO SCUM.

Lock*Mart owns Utopia Planitia.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Given the ludicrous amounts of dV Trek-ships have, I'm surprised they're not heavier. Like, the fuel requirements to keep changing velocities, thrust, direction and whatnot are insanely huge.

Well that's because normally to do what they do you'd need just a couple kilograms of antimatter plus like a thousand tonnes of hydrogen or whatever, which I guess they can skip by having those supposed bussard collectors which everyone forgets and/or move around all the time.
Which is fine except that's not a lot of space gas for the amount of thrust they have, so they'd have to juice the fuck out of what they get, meaning I guess the impulse engines should really act like deadly fucking particle beams. Or at least cancer rays. So it's a good thing they've cured that since everyone on ds9 would be getting a huge dose every time someone undocks.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

there's a Simpsons and Star Trek subreddit:

Treksons (old layout)

(Of course it being Reddit there may be some too Reddit stuff.)

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Well that's because normally to do what they do you'd need just a couple kilograms of antimatter plus like a thousand tonnes of hydrogen or whatever, which I guess they can skip by having those supposed bussard collectors which everyone forgets and/or move around all the time.

Ships' schematics have made it a point so show where the slush hydrogen antimatter and matter storage is. Problem comes up with most ships don't have the storage close to either the ship propulsion including the warp core. Or to the torpedo launchers, where the torpedos are filled with the slush hydrogen antimatter and matter just before firing.

Which is fine except that's not a lot of space gas for the amount of thrust they have, so they'd have to juice the fuck out of what they get, meaning I guess the impulse engines should really act like deadly fucking particle beams. Or at least cancer rays. So it's a good thing they've cured that since everyone on ds9 would be getting a huge dose every time someone undocks.

Impulse engines are by necessity very powerful due to how small they are on most (Fed) ships. The size becomes very noticeable when compared to powerplants on real life naval ships and most science fiction in roughly the same subgenres as Star Trek and Star Wars.

 

[BubbaRobot887]

So Rick Berman produced the PBS series that was canceled when J. Marks was exposed as a fraud who made everything up a decade before Voyager hit the airwaves, so he knew this guy was a scumbag con man and still gave him a job on Voyager where he was in charge of every Chakotay script.

The show that preached against racism every week put a jewish conman in charge of every script about American Indians and the producer knew what he was doing.

 

[Captain Syrup]

So Rick Berman produced the PBS series that was canceled when J. Marks was exposed as a fraud who made everything up a decade before Voyager hit the airwaves, so he knew this guy was a scumbag con man and still gave him a job on Voyager where he was in charge of every Chakotay script.

The show that preached against racism every week put a jewish conman in charge of every script about American Indians and the producer knew what he was doing.

So much of what happened on Voyager is shrouded in mystery. Not enough people have gone on the record and the creative decisions don't make any fucking sense. It always comes back to Berman somehow and if you push his buttons (ask for more money, don't put out, don't kiss his ass...), weird shit starts happening.

Apparently he's sitting at home trying to write a memoir, and it's tough sledding.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Which is fine except that's not a lot of space gas for the amount of thrust they have, so they'd have to juice the fuck out of what they get, meaning I guess the impulse engines should really act like deadly fucking particle beams. Or at least cancer rays. So it's a good thing they've cured that since everyone on ds9 would be getting a huge dose every time someone undocks.

There are multiple points in the show that imply the impulse drive is a sort of reactionless drive system, connected with the inertial dampers in some fashion, so the actual thrust required is minimal.

 

[Gimmick Account]

There are multiple points in the show that imply the impulse drive is a sort of reactionless drive system, connected with the inertial dampers in some fashion, so the actual thrust required is minimal.

I can't remember that ever happening, but I do remember multiple times when they straight-up refer to them a fusion rockets.
Doesn't really matter because the post I was replying to was thinking about it in conventional rocketry terms. Clearly there's space magic involved though, yes.

 

[Rykel22]

I vaguely recall there being some subspace fuckery involved in impulse drives.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

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I just love how a version of the SR-71 is used as a space fighter in beta canon Trek, lmao. TOTAL LOCKHEED SUPREMACY YOU XENO SCUM.

Personally, I'm a Kuat Drive Yards kind of guy.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Personally, I'm a Kuat Drive Yards kind of guy.

The best part is that the SR-71 lives on in the royal yacht of Naboo.

Apparently he's sitting at home trying to write a memoir, and it's tough sledding.

He should hurry up. Dude's like 80. I'm interested in what kind of clusterfuck and drama his autobiography inevitably will produce, because, lol, yes, it'd be hilarious.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

He should hurry up. Dude's like 80. I'm interested in what kind of clusterfuck and drama his autobiography inevitably will produce, because, lol, yes, it'd be hilarious.

I suspect there will be a collaborative effort to refute that memoir, sentence by sentence.