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Dear Fandom, This has been a long time coming, but I think you knew on some level that this was inevitable. There's been tension between us for years now. It was wonderful and special and new and exciting when we first met. We were both kids, young and idealistic and excited to see the world...

Been playing around with the Tsilkovsky Rocket Equation in Microsoft Excel, tinkering with numbers and figures. I think I might have either discovered something interesting or completely screwed up somewhere... So I have a hypothetical spacecraft with a mass of about 3 tons (including 100kg...

This has been bothering me for years, but I've never seen a thread that really answers the question. So, the whole Rebel Fleet shows up at the Forest Moon of Endor, drops out of hyperspace and closes in on the Death Star. The plan is for the fleet to create a "perimeter" while the fighters go...

I noticed years ago that every map I have ever seen attempting to chart the Star Trek universe looks something like this: Which is essentially a two dimensional projection from a "top down" perspective, assuming the Milky Way to be a relatively flat "disk", the thickness of which can safely...

They're calling it "Dragon V2" Elon Musk expects an unmanned test flight by 2015, with a manned flight by 2016. If they're as consistent with this as they have been in the past, we'll probably start seeing manned Dragon flights on a reusable Falcon 9 by 2018. It occurs to me that the first...

This is a little thing that's been on the back burner for a long time, but all the discussion with Akimoto about the history of Starfleet, plus some of the more interesting revelations from Admiral Marcus' "powerwall" graphics has given this project new life. Posting the image captures because...

Corbomite Maneuver is easily one of my top five trek episodes of all time (all series, even) for a lot of reasons, right up through a relatively satisfiying ending. I had the pleasure of watching that episode again last night right after my son went to bed, and I was on in the middle of nuking...

Couple of things I noticed on seeing STID again last night. Two main reactions for local expert analysis: - The Trick Shots - It was hard to see at first, but I spotted it the third time around and I had to hunt down some screencanps just to be sure. It seems the phaser blasts from the USS...

To begin with, I'm noticing that a curious number of things in Star Trek seem to operate in pairs. There are, for example, two warp nacelles; there are two different ways of getting to and from the ship, two different weapon systems, two propulsion systems, etc. I've thought for a long time...

Although it doesn't actually combine matter and antimatter, the basic design principle is straight out of Star Trek. Warp Core Prototype. That is all.

Canon tells us that photon torpedoes are essentially projectile weapons, fast-moving missiles that can move at warp speed or very high sublight speed and then explode when they hit a target. This has been basically the case for photon torpedoes since we first saw the torpedo room in Wrath of...

I half suspect I'm the only one who's been following this, but SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket completed its final engine test at Cape Canaveral this morning. That test is the last item on the checklist before the launch of the Dragon spacecraft, which is--it seems to me--the first and so-far ONLY...

Something's been bothering me about The Wrath of Khan for a couple of days now. Reliant's mission is apparently to search for a lifeless space body, "A moon or other dead form" to test the genesis device. The only stated criteria is that it has to be completely lifeless and incapable of...

Sort of a test thread for a fanfic I've been working on. Note that this is a NuTrek story so I'm not overly worried about staying with TOS canon.:alienblush: The idea being that there should be two basic types of torpedoes. The first is the standard photon torpedo, consisting of a drive...

It is the most extreme and certainly the most literal example of microclimate: it is, at this moment, raining in my kitchen. Short little story: I noticed my one year old son walking along the cabinets, following me around while I was making breakfast. He was wearing these long sweat pants he...

The type-2 phaser comes in those two basic varieties: the modular "strap on" unit where a type-1 is attached to a Type-1 unit, and the single-piece standalone phaser pistol. Treknology oscillates back and forth between the two designs: modular in TOS, singular in TMP/TWOK, back to modular in...

I have never posted a fanfic on this BBS before. Didn't think I ever would. But I started writing this story for fun in my free time and it's grown to the point that I'm afraid I might stop working on it unless I get some feedback on it. So a preface, and a warning: this is a NuTrek story set...

Thinking back on First Contact, suddenly I had a thought: Zephram Cochrane is the inventor of warp drive, but he's obviously not the inventor of the impulse engine also. Even the earliest Starfleet ships were equipped with impulse drives, so when did this critical piece of technology arrive? Was...

Gonna need help on this one! In trying to figure out the refuel rate of a starship, I hit a little snag when I looked up data on the interstellar medium and found a density of about 10^-18g of hydrogen per cubic kilometer. Crunching a few numbers, I figured out that a starship equipped with a...

Forgive my flagrant thread necromancy, but I saw STXI again today and I remembered this thread (now closed) that commented: I remembered that scene, then committed the venial sin of downloading a bootleg of the movie so I could get some screencaps. Confirming that, yes, the ship DOES...