That's because you didn't use Promise margarine when making his toast. I Promise.
Was Kirk Lying?
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That's because you didn't use Promise margarine when making his toast. I Promise.
But they actually used credits a few episodes later as a means of exchange, in "The Trouble With Tribbles"...
I'd go for flawed all the way. The idea of being able to read minds, especially those of aliens (Kirk was an alien from Korob's perspective) seems problematic from the get-go. But Kirk wasn't lying. The gems weren't too valuable to him in comparison with getting his hide out of that situation with the cat.
You are both writers.
Yes, Karob. One of the illusions he cast was that he was made of chocolate.
The central issue in Kirk's brag to Korob is that the Starship Enterprise's personnel and equipment "could manufacture a ton" of precious gems. This suggests that the Enterprise has an industrial process (like a super-advanced 3D printer) that, given the product's specifications and that they do not exceed the machine's capabilities, can "manufacture" many different articles, including clothes, food, machine parts, medical items, blankets, etc. Another possibility, quite a bit more advanced, would be that the TOS-era starships did have some early kind of replicator technology, maybe not food replicators, but maybe a room-sized industrial replicator for fabricating needed parts and other necessities while on the frontier. Either way, the technology would be very limited, possibly crude by TNG standards, but still a useful part of a starship's standard equipment.
Parkay.
Variations of this have been accepted parts of the mythology since the beginning. Need one hundred flintlocks? Use the industrial printer/fabricator. McCoy needs Nazi jackboots? Use the industrial printer/fabricator(which explains why they didn't fit, if you ask me). Need uniforms/new clothes for whoever? Use the industrial printer/fabricator. Et cetera.
Actually, speaking as someone who just bought a new pair of shoes yesterday, I'd think that it'd be easier to get shoes that fit via "print-on-demand" than by trial and error with a pre-existing selection. As long as the computer knew McCoy's measurements, it should've been able to manufacture custom-fit clothing on request. So if anything, the poor fit was probably the result of human error in the quartermaster's office.
The quartermaster's the one running the industrial printer/fabricator. He screwed up McCoy's measurements when he programmed the thing.
^Exactly what I meant. Most "computer malfunctions" are really human error.
Or then it's a matter of vanity, and McCoy steadfastly insists that his shoe size in the records be the same as when he enrolled.
(If he did make public the real reason for his swollen feet, the combination of the gout and painkillers, this might not do good for his career...)
Timo Saloniemi
(If he did make public the real reason for his swollen feet, the combination of the gout and painkillers, this might not do good for his career...)
Timo Saloniemi
Maybe the problem was that the shoes weren't "broken in"?
You do know that DeSalle was speaking about a variety of bean and not the military branch, don't you?
Well, they did fit, after all. Mr. Spock said "shut up an wear it bitch", well that might not be an exact quote but he did put them on.
Do you mean the beans weren't seamen?
Starborn Dragon
Captain
No.,
There is a most excellent video on you tube called the Quantum revolution in which Michio Kaku (sp?) examines technology that has been developed that can move atoms, but can not form them into objects yet. He postulates that that technology, which he calls more appropriately a matter rearranger, will arrive in about 50 years.
When it arrives it does mean that there will be the ability to make as much gems and precious minerals that the government or the corporations that controls it wants.
There is a most excellent video on you tube called the Quantum revolution in which Michio Kaku (sp?) examines technology that has been developed that can move atoms, but can not form them into objects yet. He postulates that that technology, which he calls more appropriately a matter rearranger, will arrive in about 50 years.
When it arrives it does mean that there will be the ability to make as much gems and precious minerals that the government or the corporations that controls it wants.
Providing it's possible to tell the natural jems mined from the Earth, from the manufactured jems, the natural ones might be more valuable.
Authentic is usually more valuable than a well executed fake.
