Yeah, I thought the same as typing. It’s been too long since I saw it to make a proper judgement though.
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Yeah, I thought the same as typing. It’s been too long since I saw it to make a proper judgement though.
No, I'm saying I disliked the orbs for not being technobabble because I don't exactly care for the showrunners' desired style.
Well ok then...!
So, in summary: Technobabble = OK --- Space Magic ≠ OK.
Got it.
Got it.
Space magic can get right out.
I think we all learned something today.So, in summary: Technobabble = OK --- Space Magic ≠ OK.
Got it.
Hasta la bye-bye Q!
To be fair, any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic. Which the Q appears like they are magical.
But they simply have very, very, very advanced technology, as Quinn said in "DEATH WISH".
I still think there's a good and a bad use of technobabble. It's all window dressing regardless.
Good technobabble is used to convey these are highly specialized professionals, discussing the problem in a terse jargon. Bad technobabble is used to obfuscate there is really no complicated problem at all. Voyager does some of that. I'll grant there's not always a sharp distinction.
To me, having a bit of background in science and mathematics, it also helps a bit when the technobabble sounds at least like a somewhat believable extrapolation of current fields. Just slapping a few sciency sounding terms that currently have little or nothing to do with one another together isn't going to achieve that for me. Even though I could theoretically buy 24th century science to be completely beyond us and those terms making sense in that context.
Good technobabble is used to convey these are highly specialized professionals, discussing the problem in a terse jargon. Bad technobabble is used to obfuscate there is really no complicated problem at all. Voyager does some of that. I'll grant there's not always a sharp distinction.
To me, having a bit of background in science and mathematics, it also helps a bit when the technobabble sounds at least like a somewhat believable extrapolation of current fields. Just slapping a few sciency sounding terms that currently have little or nothing to do with one another together isn't going to achieve that for me. Even though I could theoretically buy 24th century science to be completely beyond us and those terms making sense in that context.
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Speaking as a melanoma patient, hair is a good thing. Yes, we wear hats while outside during the daytime, but hair is a valuable second layer of defense.
Scotty was poorly written in that episode. He had been a chief engineer, he knew he wouldn't like a visitor poking around in his engine room beyond a short siteseeing trip, but he overlooked hints that it was time to leave.
People tend to not notice when they're doing something to someone that they wouldn't appreciate if the roles were reversed. He has a lot on his mind - the culture shock of being a century ahead, on a vastly different Enterprise, recovering from injuries, grief/misplaced guilt over the man who died, knowing most of his friends are gone/much older...poor Scotty.
It's kind of sad that three of our heroes (Kirk, Spock, and Scotty) spent a good deal of time as missing persons from the perspective of their remaining friends, family, and colleagues, some of whom may have died without learning what happened to the missing.
It's kind of sad that three of our heroes (Kirk, Spock, and Scotty) spent a good deal of time as missing persons from the perspective of their remaining friends, family, and colleagues, some of whom may have died without learning what happened to the missing.
He comes over as senile at times, which is sad considering Doohan’s own condition.
In most parts of the USA there are four levels of government. Municipal, then county, then state, then federal.
In the early centuries of the Roman Empire, most regions had four levels of administration. Pagus (subdivison of a city state), city state, province, and the entire empire. In later centuries provinces were multiplied and other levels were introduced. So in later centuries their were six levels in most parts of the empire: pagus, city state, province ruled by a governor, secular diocese ruled by a vicar, praetorian prefecture ruled by a prefect, and the entire empire.
Countries of the world differ a lot in the levels of administration. And they also differ a lot in the autonomy of various levels of administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_by_country
I doubt that many people have given much thought to the administration of large interstellar realms.
Maps of the Star Trek galaxy often show an important realm extending for 5 prcent of 10 percent of the diameter of the galactic disc.. A realm which was a disc with 5 percent of the diameter of the galactic disc would have about 0.25 percent of the volume of the galactic disc, and a disc shaped realm with 10 percent of the diameter would have 1 percent of the volume of the galactic disc.
Since there are about one hundred billion to four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, a realm with a diameter of 5 percent to 10 percent of the galactic disc would contain about 25,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 star systems and their planets.
Suppose that each system with is possible habitable planets, artificial space habitats, space mines, planentary colonies in domes, etc. was ruled by a stellarcrat (star ruler). Suppose that ten systems were ruled by a second level stellarcrat or second level stellarcrat or stellarcart to the second power, or stellarcrat of stellarcrat. And every 100 systems would be ruled by a third level stellarcrat.
Every million systems would be ruled by a 7th l;evel stellarcrat or Stellarcrat of Stellarcrats of stellarcrats of Stellarcrats of stellarcrats of Stellarcrats of stellarcrats. Or their bureaucratic pay grade might be given as S7 for short. And thus the administrator of a billion systems would be a S10.
Some space operas have star empires ruled by emperors. If their subordinates a feudal vassals, they usually go up in rank up to duke or grand duke. But if a feudal star empire ruled one percent of the Milky Way Galaxy, the immediate feudal subordinates of the emperor would probably be kings of kings of kings of kings of kings of kings of kings....of kings.
In the Lensman series space battles between the powers ruling two different galaxies involved fleets of millions of space battleships built and crewed by the millions and billions of planets they ruled.
So if the United Federation of planets occupied as large a volume as some maps of the Star Trek galaxy show, there would be many more administrative levels between the Federation government and a planetary government. And possibly many planets would have more levels of administration than you show.
And individuals in the Federation would have varying amounts of loyalty to and identification with the different levels of administration.
Most skin cancer is caused by sun exposure in childhood. When I was a child I had hair on the top of my head. My first two cases of skin cancer were on the now bald top of my head. So I guess that my hair was not opaque enough to block all the ultra violent ultraviolet rays.
And today I hate seeing children outside without hats.
The foundation was there from the start, since Shatner was the one who really developed the essence of and approach to Kirk and his personality.
Agreed.
Yes... childhood exposure can't be helped now, but preventing further exposure is still worthwhile.
Oh, I get that. But I just wanted to say "hasta la bye-bye."
I never had an issue with space magic in Star Trek. It's been in the franchise since "The Cage" with the Talosians, and ESP in "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
In the last few months, I heard this: that the CIA's Project Stargate of the 1980s determined that all humans have psychic power, but that one's eyes and ears, are far more effective than this. The irony for this is that it was classified, so nobody looked at it.
Till, someone using the 'Freedom of Information Act', started asking questions.
Till, someone using the 'Freedom of Information Act', started asking questions.
And then Picard in First Contact said the Federation had 150 planets. Prior to that I assumed at least multiple thousands.
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