7e0f73 No.15661 [View All]
A thread for Star Trek questions that don't need a thread of their own.
I'll start with: why do so many junior officers in TNG wear command-track uniforms? Worf, LaForge, even soyboy Crusher wore red when he got a full uniform.
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29cd72 No.26310
>>26308
>>26309
I looked it up, and it appears they only had food synthesizers. Replicator was a term not used till TNG as you said. So I'll rephrase my question. Why didn't the salt vampire use the food synthesizer to make salt?
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49bf92 No.26312
>>26310
Well, if I recall correctly the alien became progressively less sapient and more beastlike as it went through withdrawal, so perhaps it simply didn't have the abstract reasoning ability to try something like that. It's also went after salt by "smell," if the salt's all sealed up in a storage hold it may not know it's there.
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db0f74 No.26313
>>26310
The creature probably found salt unsatisfying compared to blood. When there was more than one human around it went on a binge.
The creature seems pathological in its need to feed on living beings. I mean fuck, even if they couldn't replicate salt, they have salt onboard the ship since Sulu had a salt shaker.
Ultimately it was a weak idea and an episode before replicators or food synthesizers were introduced.
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cd7282 No.26314
>>26310
Why did TOS era starships have galleys if they had food synthesizers rather than just the plain old ENT era protein resequencers?
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29cd72 No.26321
>>26313
>they have salt onboard the ship since Sulu had a salt shaker.
The salt vampire tried to go after Sulu's salt shaker in one of the scenes.
>>26314
It's almost like they would randomly forget in universe rules, and plot points.
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89540a No.26322
>>26314
Synthesizing food could be considered unhealthy in the 23rd century or it could be so energy intensive that food storage is practical when energy is needed for shields/warp.
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eb93e1 No.26323
>>26314
Could be that food synthesizers weren't capable of making anything better than McDonald's-tier food and they needed a chef to supplement.
>>26321
>It's almost like they would randomly forget in universe rules, and plot points.
Also this of course. Anyone have a plausible in-universe explanation why the phaser alarm was a think in Star Trek VI and only Star Trek VI?
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15a933 No.26330
>>26314
>Why did TOS era starships have galleys if they had food synthesizers rather than just the plain old ENT era protein resequencers?
>>26323
>Anyone have a plausible in-universe explanation why the phaser alarm was a [thing] in Star Trek VI and only Star Trek VI?
I'll take a shot at covering two lamps with one lampshade and say it's because in Star Trek VI they were on an official, formal, top-tier diplomatic mission and thus were operating with an attached company of diplomatic corps support staff (chefs, waiters, etc.). On such a mission, they would not synthesize the food. It would be prepared fresh and they were probably cooking for the entire mission as there would be diplomatic officials onboard that we never saw. They also had enhanced security protocols for the phaser detection bullshit. I know the dialogue makes it sounds like the phaser thing is common, standard procedure, but it's the best i can come up with.
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8c18d5 No.26702
Oil drilling really is the thinking man's fetish.
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198092 No.26704
>>26702
>Oil drilling
What's the nickname for fucking a transubstantiated energy being?
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198092 No.26705
>>24742
Because Star trek has a huge boner for secular space amish luddites
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8c18d5 No.26717
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8f7126 No.26731
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9b7c76 No.26735
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8cecde No.26736
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ff9fb0 No.26737
>>26704
Transporting
matter to energy
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299ff6 No.27332
anyone know where to find starfleet command pdfs? I wanna play it, but I can't find anywhere with the pdfs
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eb93e1 No.27675
Alright, time for the big questions.
In the True Canon™, is warp a linear or a logarithmic scale?
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16c2fd No.27678
>>27675
It's definitely not linear, and not exactly logarithmic either. The least-wrong formulas I've seen are on https://www.calormen.com/star_trek/warpcalc/
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007636 No.27679
>>27675
The warp drive also has a bit of "the speed of the plot" element to it. On ENT and VOY everything seems to be 3 or 4 light years away. Let's assume 4 light years. Going at 200c still takes a week to reach the destination.
Punch this into google:
4 light years / (200 * speed of light)
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f41141 No.27698
Will we ever get anymore swoleverse?
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89540a No.27699
>>27698
There were sequels, but they were fucking terrible and drawn by some faggot. There was no swole.
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f41141 No.27700
>>27699
That's what I mean. The sequels were swoleless, and I was wondering if the swole will ever return.
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007636 No.27724
>>26330
Good answer about the diplomatic mission. I want to add that an aircraft carrier needs to be resupplied every 90 days or so with food IIRC. A ship like the Enterprise, crew about 400, would probably only last a similar amount of time in space.
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6029bb No.27725
Where did everyone go around here?
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b98909 No.27734
>>26314
If your primary mission is to seek out new life are you really going to let your first impression be to offer a dignitary the equivalent of an MRE? Think anon.
>>27698
Only if we make it.
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f41141 No.27748
>>27725
There's not much to talk about.
>>27734
>only if we make it.
So never?
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dd2cdf No.27753
Did we ever get an explanation for why that one admiral in DS9 wore operations colors (gold) despite being a flag officer? Can't find a pic unfortunately.
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e4d0b7 No.27754
>>27748
Orville comes out next month so gives us something to watch.
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f41141 No.27760
>>27753
Maybe he was one of those undercover bosses.
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976e60 No.27768
>>27753
The only uniform in the extra's size that was available the day that the scene was shot was a gold one.
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18bc45 No.27769
>>27768
Makes him sound almost fat.
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007636 No.27790
>>27725
Just wait until every catches an STD in January and then this place will become lively again.
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a057c1 No.27795
>>27790
I would rather this place be dead than talling about STD. I plan to call everyone who watches it a faggot.
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08d11d No.27798
>>27790
The Orville is out in January anon.
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eb93e1 No.27804
Not so much a question as an observation: The permanent crew of every non-TOS series has:
>two women
>one nigger
>one regular ayy
>one special snowflake ayy/machine
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113f53 No.27831
>>27804
Actually, so did TOS.
Two wammen, one of (Uhura) which was a nigga (the second, Janice Rand, got cut from the show). Spock was both the ayy (Vulcan) and the snowflake (half-blood).
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eb93e1 No.27832
>>27831
Hadn't considered Rand, good catch.
Side note, Klingons develop really fucking fast.
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c95920 No.27833
>>27832
You should see him when he joined the KDF.
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89540a No.27834
>>27832
And they live longer. Star Trek accidentally keeps making aliens superior to Humans.
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eb93e1 No.27837
>>27834
ENT, with its comments on how quickly humans got to Warp 5, implies that trek humans are like Tolkien humans: their short-lived nature drives them to be more ambitious and restless in their limited lifespan, and they end up accomplishing bigger and greater things than the other races.
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f4c243 No.27844
>>27834
>>27837
The Tolkien influence can't be overstated. Vulcans are straight-up Tolkien Space Elves. Put Legolas in a starfleet uniform and you'd never know he wasn't green-blooded.
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cb39fa No.27847
>>26314
Why do current military ships have them when all they need is a cargohold of MRE rations?
Because eating real food makes you feel human again. Even Miles who loved emergency rations spoke fondly of his grandmother who cooked real meat cut from real animals on a real fire and nothing could compare with that.
Also, you can see the distaste on kirks face when he ate those playdough cubes. No one wants that. In TOS there was a chef who would make meatloaf for thanksgiving dinner on the Enterprise(Charlie x) and they had synthesizers as well. Thing is they are SHIT. While replicators are better presentation and flavor wise the fact remains there is no substitute for real food made by a real person.
THIS IS THE only thing I can think of that I agree with Neelix on.
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cb39fa No.27848
>>26737
Matter Energy Perversion!
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17af2c No.27923
>>27832
Alexander was one of the laziest characters they ever invented. The writers clearly gave less shits about him than Worf.
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f85e76 No.27934
>>27847
replicated food supposedly tastes synthetic to a lot of species. It's too "perfect" that everyone begins to notice imperfections.
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5168c6 No.27955
Does anyone know of a place to stream TOS without the CG stuff they added in later? I'm a purist when it comes to stuff like this, and the new special effects take away a lot of the charm of the old stuff for me.
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37573a No.28195
How does Samantha Wildman squeeze out Naomi without tearing herself open? Her species mixing would get her killed without a doctor.
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d967f6 No.28443
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639e00 No.29143
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Skin_(episode)
>The brief scene of 2 cardassians watching the outdoor monitor playing the "look to the children" message is taken from "Tribunal", though with some changes. In Tribunal the shot starts showing a wider angle of the city and pans over to the screen as 2 cardassians walk into view and ends just after one turns toward the other. In this episode the shot starts as the one cardassians turns toward the other and continues several seconds past where it ended in Tribunal. The message on the screen is also playing from a different timestamp.
>In this episode the shot starts as the one cardassians
>one cardassians
Does this need fixing?
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