Random Star Trek discussion

Does anyone else laugh their ass off when Janeway tells Chakotay to recycle the watch?? He looks genuinely cut up about it like he wants to start crying or something.

I always imagine her trolling him about it later, like:

Hey Chakotay, got the time??

We best sort out the ship or we're going to lose face.

This situation has really gotten out of hand.

We need to figure what makes these people tick.

etc............

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So I'm picking up a prescription at Walgreens tonight, and the pharmacy tech says "Oh, man, I love that shirt."
It's one of my Star Trek shirts. Ma little surprised, since the tech looks like he's about 23 at most, but thank him. He tells me he's been meaning to start watching it, and I ask if he's taking about SFA or just Trek in general. He tells me he's never watched it, and was going to start with "the old one, in like the 70's I think."
I tell him my daughter, who's about his age, also recently started watching Trek, and I suggested he start where she did, with Strange New Worlds, which teaches place in the TOS time, and has Spock, but is also modern and will be easier for him to get into.
I told him that while the new series are pretty hit and miss, SNW is their strongest series and it will lead nicely into TOS.
He thanked me, gave me a fist bump, and told me he'd let me know what he thinks the next time he sees me.
I tell this story because, for those who are ringing the death knell for Trek, those concerns might be premature. New fans are still being made, and that makes me pretty happy.

Today I had a physical therapy appointment. I was wearing this shirt.



I've worn it about half a dozen times. Never got a comment on it. Today the therapist that was working with me said "Oh my God, I love your shirt! That's awesome!" She totally knew what it was from. Another time I wore this one.



She told me she loves Quark. She's maybe 30. I've worn that shirt about the same number of times. She's the only person to complement either one.

I did the Star Trek experience in the late 90's. It was great. The transporter effect was actually very well done, and I imagine it was probably close to what actually being transported would feel like.

What did it feel like?

Hard to describe. You stepped on to the transporter pad, and when they engaged the transport there was a flash of light and a rush of air, and then you were in the Enterprise-D's transporter room. The rush of air was a really nice touch, because I had never thought about going from one place to another instantaneously could have a different temperature, humidity, etc.

A key plot point in "A Flag Full of Stars," my favorite book in the Lost Years series, involved a 20th-century space shuttle being flown from Earth to the moon to mark the anniversary of Apollo 11. It'd be cool if Starfleet made a 20th-century aircraft spaceworthy...

The opening of "Enterprise" made the shuttle Enterprise canon.
They could slap nacelles on her.

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DS9 gets the double rep there.

Mariner and Tendi better be on the fucking stamps or I'm coming over there.

I can kind of thank @Steal Your Face for this one. The 47 discussion made me think of the Voyager episode The 37's. In the episode Janeway tells Earhart that at warp 9.9, Voyager is traveling at 4 billion miles per second, which comes out to 21,505 times the speed of light.

Voyager has a sustainable cruise velocity of warp 9.975. At that speed it would take less than 4 years to get back to Earth.

Well, there's sustainable and sustainable.

Humans can maintain around a 10 minute mile over a marathon.

They can't run at that pace 24 hours a day for several years.

Warp factors are fucked anyway. If we use the old Warp Factor Cubed scale or even the revised TNG one, travelling between Earth and a nearby star takes a week or at best a couple of days at high warp. Fine for the "age of sail but in space"/"only ship nearby" plotting. But then we get the ship responding to distress calls several light-years away in time to catch the enemy in the act, when they should be long gone.

It was stated as sustainable though, and 9.9 being below the sustainable velocity would mean that it could be maintained for long periods of time.

That wasn't my point, I should have stated it though. That in one of the earliest episodes I remember it being said that at 9.975 it would take 75 years to get back to the Alpha quadrant.

Yeah. Technically my 300 can sustain 110 MPH, but I wouldn't want to "sustain" it for five straight hours
I imagine energy requirements and structural integrity can both be a problem at sustained warp speeds.

I'd use that as the more accurate measure.
70,000 light years in 75 years.
That's about 2.5 light years in a day.
Now, I'm not going to do any more math, but I think that's a much more reasonable metric to work with.
I think that works out to warp 9 being about 900 times the speed of light.
Hey, funny how that works out, heh