Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x01 - "Hegemony, Part II"
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- Yeah no it wasn't. (You shouldn't believe enerything you read from Google AI. Fans were using that term LONG before JMS referenced it in Crusade.)
That distinction is actually very important and is why things like the Alcubierre drive are theoretically possible instead of completely impossible.
Next time you want to use that emote, maybe do your research instead of using ChatGPT to compose your answer for you.
The Alcubierre drive is a mathematical solution of the relativistic field equations that is nevertheless not currently believed to provide the basis of a realizable faster-than-light drive. From the article you cite:
If exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist, then the drive cannot be constructed.
This exotic matter is not known to exist, so the claim that the drive is even theoretically possible is unfounded.
I've done my research, mountains of it, long before I read a single post by you.
Post proof I am using AI to compose my posts, or retract your fucking claim.
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You probably should have read the entire article.
At the close of his original article,[5] however, Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes[6][7]) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.
And no, you haven't done actual research on the subject, and I can tell you haven't because you didn't even know why the distinction I originally made is so important.
I did read the entire article. More importantly, I've read Alcubierre's paper.
That's an undemonstrated claim.
Star Trek, in all its iterations, is…wait for it…wait…for…it…not real. That includes warp drive. And transporters. And humanoid aliens. And…well, you get the idea. Arguing about “the physics” of magic propulsion systems and their “capabilities” can certainly be entertaining but it hardly rises to the level of actual reality with demonstrable proof. It remains…speculative fiction. So far @CorporalCaptain seems to have a firmer grasp of this point.
Except that they're not. So there's that.
No, he's absolutely right and you're mistaken.
Needs are just in love with this "drive" as the latest magic wand that's going to get pesky reality out of the way so we can have our space navies. It's just another chimera.
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Season 3 is here and I've caught up with a 3 episode marathon of gaudy retro love.
Unfortunately, some of the magic has worn my fellow Trekkies, while still competent and entertaining, the episodes are lacking a little umph this season.
The premiere had all the requisite scares, and some good teamwork by the crew but the episode was shallow, and didn't give us anything new. Why not develop the Gorn more? Why does this episode exist?
Give us a reason!
I'll give this episode a 7 for being as a described at the beginning.
Unfortunately, some of the magic has worn my fellow Trekkies, while still competent and entertaining, the episodes are lacking a little umph this season.
The premiere had all the requisite scares, and some good teamwork by the crew but the episode was shallow, and didn't give us anything new. Why not develop the Gorn more? Why does this episode exist?
Give us a reason!
I'll give this episode a 7 for being as a described at the beginning.
Yeah, I'm not gonna play the 'Yes it is! No it's not!' game with you like we're little babies.
That is wise.
I liked it, and was quite surprised that they did it. It underscored his humanity and individuality.
And that the future will still contain faith. Yes, we know faith can lead to repression and bloodshed, but the past century has also demonstrated that officially atheist and godless regimes can also bury millions in mass graves, line up scores of innocents against the wall and work them to death in labor camps.
Human failings and extremism are the issue, not faith. Pike's expression was nice to see and did nothing to harm the episode.
Human failings and extremism are the issue, not faith. Pike's expression was nice to see and did nothing to harm the episode.
Your right, and I appreciate all that, I just don't want it in Star Trek.
With everything going on with Paramount and Skydance in the news, my immediate thought, rightly or wrongly was this about making someone happy rather than having anything to do with the show.
I know this in not the place for politics.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, Pike having a religion was part of his backstory going back to Disco S2. Indeed, in the original "science vs faith" storyline Harberts and Berg had planned for that season, Pike was meant to be much more religious than he has become now and we would have seen him praying on a regular basis throughout that season. Plus this episode was written and ready to film back in 2023, well before the current real world drama involving Paramount, so this was likely an attempt to incorporate the religious side of Pike's character hinted at previously rather than an attempt to appease That Crowd.
I myself have my own issues with religion which we won't be getting into here, but I have no problem with the scene with Pike praying in this episode, as it does reflect that in desperate times, people will turn to anything which could provide comfort, even if it's something they have a complicated history with, as seems to be the implication here that Pike has with religion given his comments right before he began to pray.
It's about Pike's character and background.
This is not uncommon in Trekdom.
"Star Trek should comment on the human condition...except for the important parts of it we'd rather not see."
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