BY ANY OTHER NAME: Rojan and the cubes

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  1. Mr. Laser Beam

    Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Rojan knew so little of humanity that I doubt he had any idea 'who' he was killing. I'm sure all humans looked exactly the same to him. The native Kelvan form has leathery skin and 100 tentacles, after all.
     
  2. Metryq

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    Leathery? Spock said only 100 limbs resembling tentacles. Although Kelinda might develop a fetish for leather.

    The crushed polyhedron reminded me of the "dehydrated" crew in "The Omega Glory." I wonder if the Kelvins have a controlled effect something like the disease from Omega Four? The disease didn't reduce uniforms and other gear, though.
     
  3. ZapBrannigan

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    What Rojan demonstrates is more like transporter technology. It isn't simply desiccating the victim by removing all the water. It is (as Metryq points out) also reducing clothes and boots.

    I invoke transporter technology because the reduced objects seem to be data storage units-- but with no mechanism. The "cube" itself is the data, stored in the pattern of its molecules.

    There must be a nearby storage place for the missing mass that makes up each person. That mass is later recalled and reassembled according to the data in the cube.
     
  4. Metryq

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    Or maybe the "missing mass" is stored as pure energy (in the "projector" located in Engineering). I always figured the transporter as a derivative of phaser technology. The transportee is "disintegrated" in the chamber. Then a beam of energy projected at a planet is "molded" by the pattern stored in the transporter.

    Perhaps the Kelvin technology is a super "Zip file." No buffer degradation, as with the transporter... unless someone uses your foam polyhedron to arrange flowers.
     
  5. Grant

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    I always thought the same thing, just being tossed to the ground would have probably knocked a few really tiny pieces off the block. How cool would it have been to have a few tiny holes in his shirt/pants and a couple of little bleeding spots on his skin?
     
  6. Timewalker

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    So make sure that if they fall on their backsides, they're already on a mat of some kind.
     
  7. scotpens

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    Barbara Bouchet in leather . . . :drool:
     
  8. Gov Kodos

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  9. Metryq

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    Or maybe waffles. I'm sure Kelinda will want to try it all. More syrup, Rojan?

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    Imagine the Kelvin devices turning the entire crew into waffles. ("Tampopo" Trek)

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  10. Mr. Laser Beam

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    Generic "leggo my Eggo" joke goes here.