Barclay was never bad, Apart from that one time when he regressed when meeting the legend who only built a big big ship to compensate for something. It's the same entry where Picard becomes technoTarzan and swings from coolant hose to coolant hose in an engine room with easily-puncturable series to (windowed tubes) that contain convenient flesh-meltin' plasma. I can handle the bridge being on top of the saucer-shaped ship where it's easy to imagine a big-a$$ bullseye, but I'd spend the extra 20 credits on a tube that has no points of vulnerability, as opposed to tubes with very big freakin' windows that can withstand the temperature of the plasma coolant liquid. Are all the windows there to show the coolant that changes color depending on temperature or pressure so only one hue is normal and the rest means "fix me now, dingdong, or else!"? Sheesh, and most of us PC builders get all antsy when installing the water cooler and just wishing they put gasketed windows along the tubes so we can see the water go "wheeeeeeeeeeee!" through the tubes. Um, no, one little leak and the $3000 PC becomes a $0 short circuit... but, meh, on the starship the plasma stuff is a cool shade of pretty puke green...
Was she mentioned in the movies?! Maybe the same one with the windowed plasma coolant tubes, which also didn't bother to promote her to a full Doctor from Nurse as well. I mean, if Chapel was, how can TNG have not missed the same trick? Also, where's the Federation hook-up app, since she and always-desperate Harry Kim could hook up and both have something in common. Then he, like we, wouldn't have to sit through that misguided episode about "STDs are bad, here's the convoluted allegory that doesn't match up".
Yup. My Vulcan ears always perked up when I heard the name. Alas, Suzie Plakson was not available, or had better roles to play.
Crusher was just resting up for all the caber toss and hawt ghost Khaaaaandle sex...
He's the king of making high-concept ideas engaging. Good sci-fi always starts with some high-concept creativity.
The ideal goal is to even get experts in a field to enjoy a story that posits ideas that they know aren't true. Indeed, to an extent, that applies to all of us, because...:
- Sound doesn't traverse the galaxy so all those sound effects of zaps and whooshes can't be heard.
- Well, in close orbit to Earth, it has been proven that one can hear a cool ASMR noise. But from Andromeda? Nope, nuttin'. Woohoo!
- Plus, the tagline to that Alien movie told us that reality - spoiler alert
- If the engines go down, ship doesn't go stop immediately as a result due to the pesky laws of physics in space
- If one is wearing red in the original series but isn't named Scotty or Uhura, they're gonna die so place your bets appropriately
- Voltage is a potential. Current is the application and direction - the flow - of said voltage. See, and do not try this at home or anywhere else, when you go taking out that metal fork while rubbing your foot on your pet sheep, that sharp zap sensation won't kill you (static has too little current in of itself, despite containing tens of thousands of funky fresh volts - wheeee!)... and conversely, that puny 110v outlet where you just shoved said fork into said outlet made a big zap and now you're charcoal drenched in weeee. Oops. Thankfully the sheep had previously waddled off go to graze on that lettuce you had taken out of the fridge a moment earlier. Also, what the heck are people doing shoving forks into outlets? Unless it's those safety outlets (TRRs) where both hot and neutral have those little spring-loaded plastic bits that have to be opened simultaneously by the prong. Also note, the ground roundy hole should be up top - not the bottom - as it's harder to accidentally touch the hot wire (the smaller of the two rectangular bits).
- (and this one is the most egregious one yet) if Guinan's booze isn't green, Data won't drink it. My ex, however, would order three more gallons' worth and need another refill by mid-week.
Yep, a noise is made. Just get through the science lessons and tangents of magnetic fields and mantle and core first.
It's a really cool video...Just a reminder that, despite it not being 1980 and those old signs reading "don't go back in the car" no longer exist, as the same physics things apply: Please don't go to the gas station to go to fill up your vehicle with petrol, start scratching yourself while filling, then going into the vehicle to go scratch some more, then leaving the still-insulated vehicle out of abject boredom, then forgetting to touch a grounded metal pole before reaching out at the gas nozzle to finish.
At least, if nothing else, scratching wool isn't as boring as sticking the voltmeter's leads up a potato.
Brushing up against wool deffo creates some voltage and enough to get the meter to get happy. Also, if ewe can help me think of a baaaaaaaaaad joke regarding wool, don't be sheepish and let me know...
See, movie told us so. Oh, wait, if it's all fiction and those gross fritters don't exist... if nothing else, part of the ship's set was repurposed for "Red Dwarf" and that's a good thing!
Wait, where was I going with all this again? That's right. The coffee buzz wore off seven hours ago...
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ODO: An accident involving a Cardassian ship in Bajoran space? 
