It's a dessert topping and a floor wax!
Mom loves the way it cleans jewelry!
Dad likes the way it strips paint off that old table in the attic!
The kids love it as a light snack in the afternoon!
And boy does it catch fish!
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Mom loves the way it cleans jewelry!
Dad likes the way it strips paint off that old table in the attic!
The kids love it as a light snack in the afternoon!
And boy does it catch fish!
number6
Vice Admiral
Because people like to panic over what they don't understand.
Briefing rooms don't have windows!!!!!!!!
I see what looks like bridge station monitors in the reflections.
What is a HUD? I never heard that before.
I like the idea of a window -slash- viewscreen combo. Tech exists today which allows an LCD coated window to be clear when off, go opaque when turned on for privacy.
That this tech could become a fully functional video screen / window in the future is highly probable.
What is a HUD? I never heard that before.
I like the idea of a window -slash- viewscreen combo. Tech exists today which allows an LCD coated window to be clear when off, go opaque when turned on for privacy.
That this tech could become a fully functional video screen / window in the future is highly probable.
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Edit: If I'm gonna be scooped, it's only fitting TGT should be the one who does it.
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It would be unwise to put a window in the Briefing Room, owing to the boredom intrinsic to most meetings.
Ah, I see. Thank you, both.
I remember hearing they fell out of grace because sunlight would wash them out at certain angles. (lame given aircraft still use them)
I don't think that is what we see in the pic, artifacts in the window in the pic are probably just reflections but, I could be wrong.
I remember hearing they fell out of grace because sunlight would wash them out at certain angles. (lame given aircraft still use them)
I don't think that is what we see in the pic, artifacts in the window in the pic are probably just reflections but, I could be wrong.
Unnecessary. Any 23rd century ship-to-ship weapon likely to strike the Enterprise once its shields are down would be likely to vaporize large sections - windows would be irrelevant, other than in the fact that they're terribly prone to letting in EM radiation of all sorts.
I'd say that we really do see a HUD at work, and that may also explain why the starfield seems to be beyond the edge of the window - the screen may be overlaying the starfield, as well; the data panel at the top right of the 'screenport' is clearly on the same surface through which we see the hull outside. The bright lights and streaks, though, appear to be reflections from the lights and consoles of the bridge (something it would be stupid to permit IRL - there are coatings that remove most of the glare and reflections from glass and glass-like surfaces - I used to sell the stuff for picture framing
).All I can say is that huge expanse must've been hell to film, if it's that reflective, and hell to CGI into, as well. And worse if they added those reflections to make it appear to be a big piece of glass!
anyone remember the line in "First Contact" about how no material could withstand the velocities that the enterprise was traveling at so all "windows" were essentially force fields?
There was no such line. The one window that Picard showed Lily had a forcefield, but it was also covered with a heavy shutter most of the time.
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Maybe... the cargo would have to be pretty small, though. The port wasn't that large and the room behind them didn't look anything like a cargo bay. Also, if I remember correctly, it had a podium-style control panel right in front of it.
ah your right I don't know where I thought of that idea
Star Trek 8: First Contact - Part 5-11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsALB2rAuk&feature=related
5:25 to 5:45
Lily- There's no glass
Picard touches the forcefield
Picard- Forcefield
seeing "First contact" again makes me want to get the dvd(my vhs version is old and full screen *gasp*)
I thought it was a good movie for people that only know the basics of "Trek" and don't know about the specs of the enterprise and the anti mater converters.
Lily was the audience in a sense
Where do you get the money to build this ship?
We don't use money anymore
trevanian
Rear Admiral
That all sounds very logical and on paper I agree with it ... but evidence from TWOK, SFS, and TFF seem to suggest otherwise. ALL of the torp and phaser hits in those films take place very specifically when the shields are down, and even though you'd figure a torp would leave a big hole where the ship was, they seem instead to only leave cigarette burns on the hull.
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