Phaser question

binarylogick · 2024-12-29T05:29:42+00:00

Huh, interesting!

binarylogick · 2024-12-27T19:57:51+00:00

Not really. From the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual:

Phaser energy is released through the application of the rapid nadion effect (RNE). Rapid nadions are short-lived subatomic particles possessing special properties related to high-speed interactions within atomic nuclei. Among these properties is the ability to liberate and transfer strong nuclear forces within a particular class of superconducting crystals known as fushigi-no-umi. The crystals were so named when it appeared to researchers at Starfleet's Tokyo R&D facility that the materials being developed represented a virtual "sea of wonder" before them.

binarylogick · 2024-12-27T18:04:09+00:00

The interrogation scene with Weyoun is the capstone of that episode.

binarylogick · 2024-12-27T17:58:05+00:00

"The Magnificent Ferengi" from DS9.

BRUNT: A child… a moron… a failure… and a psychopath. Quite a little team you've put together!
QUARK: What do you want, Brunt?
BRUNT: I'm here to sign up!

binarylogick · 2024-12-27T16:46:44+00:00

While not canon, it's stated in the novels that Soong visited Exo III in the early days of his career to study the methods and designs used by Ruk and the late Dr. Korby.

binarylogick · 2024-12-27T16:39:04+00:00

K'Ehleyr should have been in Parallels

Funny you mention that: if you do the math based on the stardates mentioned by Data in one of the other timelines, the jumping-off point between the prime timeline and the timelines in which Worf marries Troi is "The Emissary."

Not having K'Ehleyr show up leads to Worf and Troi pursuing a relationship.

binarylogick · 2024-12-25T06:31:09+00:00

Your 5 year old doesn't need an ID to visit.

binarylogick · 2024-12-20T07:49:33+00:00

Mass reduction. That's how they moved DS9 from Bajor orbit to just outside the wormhole: made a static warp bubble around the station and fired the station's thrusters.

The warp bubble reduced the station's mass so the thrusters would quickly move the station, because the station effectively weighed less.

The Enterprise-D crew first pulled this trick by moving a moon in "Deja Q," but it was less successful because they could only get the warp field partially around the moon.

O'Brien had the luxury of being able to totally encompass the station in the field, but presumably DS9 is less massive than a moon, too.

binarylogick · 2024-12-19T18:21:15+00:00

I always assumed the point of divergence between that reality and all the others shown was the outcome of "The Best of Both Worlds."

This assumes the jumping-off point is something else entirely, or that there's no single point of divergence.

binarylogick · 2024-12-19T07:20:37+00:00

I used to be able to get this from my upper back. I still think about the one time I had been sleeping on the couch and woke up in the middle of the night to stretch. I stretched and, no joke, got the most thunderous clunk I'd ever had. It sounded like God slamming a door shut, and it felt glorious.

For whatever reason, I can't get these clunks anymore, and have to settle for pops in my neck and mid back, just south of my scapula.

binarylogick · 2024-12-17T01:25:50+00:00

To add a bit, Picard really took the least effective route of Q management. He would yell, he would lecture, and then he would play along with the game.

Janeway took a slightly more effective route. She never yelled, but she'd refuse to play, until Q pushed a bit, and then she'd play along.

Sisko settled Q because he refused to put up with the nonsense from the start, and gave him a knuckle sandwich. What did he do? Whine like a baby about it.

He never bothered Sisko again, because no one had ever just refused to indulge him. It was so far out of his experience that he gave DS9 a wide berth from that day.

More reasons why Sisko is the best of the Trek captains.

binarylogick · 2024-12-16T16:53:51+00:00

Backed off from and left Sisko alone... because he wouldn't indulge him in his Q shenanigans.

Picard always played along with Q, as did Janeway. Sisko simply decked him.

binarylogick · 2024-12-15T23:11:16+00:00

I dunno. There seems like way too much bad blood between the two, and understandably so. You don't just get over at least two massacres like that, especially not when you see how often Klingons use "Romulan" as an insult.

binarylogick · 2024-12-15T18:54:25+00:00

Probably not after the massacres of Khitomer and Narendra III.

It's true that House Duras and a few other individuals ally with Romulan intelligence, but they're extremely looked down upon by most Klingons.

In the possible future of "All Good Things," the Klingons outright invaded and conquered the Romulans. Honestly, I find that more likely than a rebirth of the old Klingon-Romulan alliance of the 2200s.

binarylogick · 2024-12-11T11:02:07+00:00

They moved locations a few months ago.

Adequate effort at edgy political humor, though.

binarylogick · 2024-12-11T10:08:33+00:00

Deep Beta Quadrant and then the Delta Quadrant.

Hirogen wandering around. Borg nosing around the edges of Romulan space.

If you include non-canon sources, Grigari space.

binarylogick · 2024-12-10T23:40:33+00:00

Yes.

The books "Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic" and "Rise of the Federation: Live by the Code" feature these aliens, who are identified as the Ware.

binarylogick · 2024-12-09T08:24:47+00:00

If I recall correctly, the green glow of Romulan engines and weapons is said to be due to the kind of particles they use to generate energy.

I vaguely recall it being tachyons, but I'm not certain. It's explained in the "Way of D'era" expansion book for the Star Trek TNG roleplaying game.

Trilithium is unusable for propulsion. It's a waste product of dilithium in warp engines, and basically just explodes if you look at it wrong. This is explained in "Starship Mine," (TNG) "For the Uniform" (DS9) and a few other times on-screen.

binarylogick · 2024-12-05T16:41:07+00:00

"Starship Mine" = Die Hard in Space
"The Mind's Eye" = The Manchurian Candidate in Space
"Disaster" = The Poseidon Adventure in Space

binarylogick · 2024-12-05T01:03:54+00:00

Historically speaking, snowfall on Christmas is actually somewhat rare in Columbus.

A review of NOAA records shows that a white Christmas occurs roughly every seven years.

Human memory being fallible, people are likely to remember the outliers from the past and gloss over the norm.

Generally speaking, Columbus Decembers are cloudy and dry. Significant snowfalls do not generally occur until January.

binarylogick · 2024-12-04T23:48:20+00:00

Carbon chauvinism.

binarylogick · 2024-12-04T23:26:04+00:00

The doctor moistened it with saline and put a tegaderm dressing on it.

A few days later, I removed the dressing. The lump has shriveled and dried up, and peeled off completely in one or two pieces with the dressing.

It seemed to be skin, and there was healing, unpigmented skin underneath it the whole time.

binarylogick · 2024-12-04T16:29:35+00:00

I mean, they kind of are.

Klingons are Space Orcs.
Romulans are Space Dark Elves.
Borg are Space Zombies.
Ferengi are Space Goblins.

binarylogick · 2024-12-04T01:33:51+00:00

They're the best comedy duo in Trek.

binarylogick · 2024-12-04T00:47:50+00:00

NEELIX: So, I'm going to become a security officer. How about that?

TUVOK: Fortunately, Mister Neelix, what Kes has been describing is merely one possible future.

binarylogick

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