Proof that TOS Enterprise could undergo saucer separation/reconnection too!
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Geez, @trekkist, are you competing with MAGolding for longest post? 
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.Lecturing with Latin just sounds pretentious.
Snort. And when did she stop being female? And what does the then-owner being female have to do with anything?
I am...unfamiliar with MAGolding. Were his arguments any good?
I was trying to indicate WHICH owner...of the several she (the shuttle) went through...was told, by Jefferies, that the stage prop had been built to 3/4 scale. As you well know, Maurice. Howzabout engaging my arguments, not my word choices?
As to the Latin, I but cut and pasted the definitions. No deliberate attempt at pretentiousness was intended.
I was trying to indicate WHICH owner...of the several she (the shuttle) went through...was told, by Jefferies, that the stage prop had been built to 3/4 scale. As you well know, Maurice. Howzabout engaging my arguments, not my word choices?
As to the Latin, I but cut and pasted the definitions. No deliberate attempt at pretentiousness was intended.
Nor, incidentally, do I know Latin. I am but a simple, monolingual trekkist...wryly amused after all these decades that Pocket Books, in 1984, rejected my manuscript (Scotty's Book) by saying a collection of abstruse technical discussions wouldn't appeal to enough of their readers to merit publication...
That explains why the Shuttlecraft is 33% bigger on the inside.
He oft writes verrrrrry lengthy posts. I can't speak to his arguments because I find such posts TL;DR.
I was having a little fun at the length of your and MA's posts. 
For my tastes wall of text posts tend to stifle rather than stimulate conversation. The question isn't a short attention span, it's if this is a dialogue or a monologue. I think many users see a wall of text and go TL;DR. YMMV
For my tastes wall of text posts tend to stifle rather than stimulate conversation. The question isn't a short attention span, it's if this is a dialogue or a monologue. I think many users see a wall of text and go TL;DR. YMMV
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Maurice said:
Geez, @trekkist, are you competing with MAGolding for longest post?.
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I'm not kidding, I had to check the identity of the poster three times before I could believe it wasn't MAGolding.
Once in a while, I may try to plow through one of those really long posts and when I do, I'm always reminded of the time when I was a teenager, we had a really bad snowstorm and I had to shovel six feet of snow off our driveway.
Hours and hours and hours of mindless shovelling.
Robert
Geez, @trekkist, are you competing with MAGolding for longest post?
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I'm not kidding, I had to check the identity of the poster three times before I could believe it wasn't MAGolding.
Once in a while, I may try to plow through one of those really long posts and when I do, I'm always reminded of the time when I was a teenager, we had a really bad snowstorm and I had to shovel six feet of snow off our driveway.
Hours and hours and hours of mindless shovelling.
Robert
Weeelllll....I broke both my posts into little bitty paragraphs to avoid the "wall of text" thing. And I too certainly vary in terms of my level of interest in reading online. But as Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Thus, my documentation of hyperlight impulse.
If I may offer a suggestion, if your post seems to be running long but you feel it cannot be shortened, then separate your points from your citations and use the spoiler tag to condense the length of your post by hiding your citations. They can then be opened as needed by your audience.
Example:
Point A. Citation:
SPOCK: Unknown. It could hardly be an Earth ship. There have been no flights into this sector for years.
UHURA: I'm picking up a signal, sir. (a series of beeps comes over the speakers) Captain, that's the old Morse code call signal.
KIRK: Thank you.
UHURA: CQ. CQ.
KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
(The ship appears on the viewscreen.)
KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY=500 class.
SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.
Point A. Citation:
SPOCK: Unknown. It could hardly be an Earth ship. There have been no flights into this sector for years.
UHURA: I'm picking up a signal, sir. (a series of beeps comes over the speakers) Captain, that's the old Morse code call signal.
KIRK: Thank you.
UHURA: CQ. CQ.
KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
(The ship appears on the viewscreen.)
KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY=500 class.
SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.
UHURA: I'm picking up a signal, sir. (a series of beeps comes over the speakers) Captain, that's the old Morse code call signal.
KIRK: Thank you.
UHURA: CQ. CQ.
KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
(The ship appears on the viewscreen.)
KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY=500 class.
SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.
Writing professionally for magazines you had to learn that because there are hard limits in terms of column inches. Heck, there are even limits online, for instance startrek.com gave me a hard 2000 word limit for my article on William Ware Theiss and that forced concision.
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