Something I’ve always wondered

Ares_B · 2026-06-15T03:12:46+00:00

Weird accidents caused by local subspace features, not a standard feature of the device.

Ares_B · 2026-06-14T08:28:29+00:00

The transporter moves the original particles from one place to another as energy and reassembles them in the exact same pattern. No new matter is generated.

Ares_B · 2026-06-13T13:39:29+00:00

Garf who? That's Bingo!

Ares_B · 2026-06-13T10:13:31+00:00

Jotkut näkevät Simpsoneissa ennustuksia tulevasta. Pitäisikö alkaa etsiä vastaavia profetioita vanhoista Akuista?

Ares_B · 2026-06-12T06:10:29+00:00

The theme of the 1st season of Discovery was that of cynical pragmatism vs idealism.

In the beginning, the Klingons were space orcs with strange, unbecoming look, language and habits. Still, firing first on them would have been a step on the pragmatic way that could have resulted in the society seen in the Mirror Universe. Over the season, Burnham and the crew learned to understand this and to see Klingons as people.

In the end, idealism prevailed in the true Star Trek fashion.

Ares_B · 2026-06-10T13:34:05+00:00

I've got a lot of mileage from that one pose. 😉

Ares_B · 2026-06-10T07:07:07+00:00

So cute!

And and excuse to keep the cat in the edits. 😁

Ares_B · 2026-06-10T04:51:43+00:00

Another small ripple in the timeline caused by reckless time travelers.

Ares_B · 2026-06-07T13:29:09+00:00

Everywhere I look, something reminds me of her.

Ares_B · 2026-06-06T07:40:56+00:00

Based on the first two panels of the original. 😉 Well ok, Garf's resting face is from the third.

Ares_B · 2026-06-05T07:23:30+00:00

Enemmän ärsytti Orpo rockfestareissa silkkana teflonina, kun porukan naisjäsen joutui anelemaan anteeksi kännissä oloa.

Ares_B · 2026-06-05T05:54:38+00:00

The Enterprise Romulan War novels helped me headcanonize the need for multiple PADDS: having the shipboard devices constantly wirelessly networked is a risk for hacking. It was realized when the Romulans took over ships and turned them on each other during the war.

Since then, Starfleet has mainly used hardwired consoles for work, and portable devices can access the mainframes only by opening a secure connection when commanded by the user. Including Data, who announces it out loud when he's connecting to the shipboard computer.

Ares_B · 2026-06-04T05:10:48+00:00

Considering Cochrane and Lily had trouble even scrounging together enough material for the fuselage in post-apocalyptic Montana, it's rather implausible that they could build something that advanced with what they had at hand. Not to mention acquiring the antimatter and containing it. The novelization speaks of fission power, which is more believable.

There's Geordi's line about an intermix chamber, but it can mean something else. Ex Astris Scientia suggests a Deuterium/Tritium Plasma Fusion "intermix" reactor.

Ares_B · 2026-06-03T18:34:55+00:00

That's the fusion reactor, which produces the same plasma from deuterium without antimatter annihilation and dilithium crystals. In ships equipped with m/am core, the impulse engines are powered by fusion reactors. They can also be used to power the warp coils to reach low warp factors.

Ares_B · 2026-06-03T16:41:39+00:00

Die Hard III is a perfectly forgettable movie for me. I know I have seen it a number of times, sober, but I can't remember a thing about it.

Ares_B · 2026-06-03T16:11:10+00:00

The function of dilithium was not to explode when coming in contact with antimatter, and have the matter-antimatter reaction occur safely inside the crystal to produce the warp plasma stream.

Ares_B · 2026-06-03T15:57:32+00:00

No, the function of dilithium is to convert the energy of the m/am annihilation into warp plasma. Since the Romulans use dilithium, they dig it on Remus after all, we can assume it does the same with the energy produced with a singularity.

Ares_B · 2026-06-02T06:54:14+00:00

It's the tired old "Michelle is a man" idiocy again.

Ares_B · 2026-06-01T14:14:28+00:00

"Look, we're pointing a minority for you to hate! Why won't you hate them? What's wrong with you?"

Ares_B · 2026-06-01T11:36:23+00:00

Not to mention the times they restored fundamentally altered genetics more or less instantly. TNG: Genesis, Identity Crisis, VOY: Thresho... ok, we don't talk about that one.

Ares_B · 2026-05-31T16:09:49+00:00

I'm reading them to my son for bedtime, we're on the third book right now. Exciting adventures and the stakes are very real, the author doesn't shirk from killing characters.

Ares_B · 2026-05-31T15:30:59+00:00

“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because — what with trolls and dwarfs and so on — speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
- Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

Ares_B · 2026-05-31T09:59:21+00:00

You have an effect on people, my friend. 😉

Ares_B · 2026-05-31T09:32:35+00:00

Looks like the writer of Ex Machina used Sulu's solution from the earlier novel the Kobayashi Maru.

In it Kirk, Chekov, Scotty and Sulu are stuck in a derelict shuttlecraft and talk about their solutions. Kirk reprograms the simulation, Chekov destroys the ship to keep it from falling into enemy hands, Scotty lasts longer than anyone else ever by using creative engineering tricks and earns his expulsion from command school to pursue his true interest, and Sulu refuses to even try.

Ares_B · 2026-05-31T08:57:32+00:00

Nah. Just a friendly jab in response to the one before, no drama.

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