It's a Vornholt book from under Ordover's aegis--it's to be expected.
Dumb and Bizarre Trek Novel Moments...
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I can't remember the novel, but it involved the phrase (paraphrased) "Something not heard on the bridge of a ship in centuries. "Ramming Speed".
The E-D was hiding in the big open space within a D'Deridex and was being hunted by another D'Deridex.
The E-D was hiding in the big open space within a D'Deridex and was being hunted by another D'Deridex.
isn't that Federation?
^ Indeed it is.
In Trek, as in ships now, I take in that a bulkhead is still all the vertical panel thingys except the hull? I thought they were some kind of load-bearing apparatus and I was trying to figure out how on earth Taran'atar dented one in... but now it makes sense (and tougher walls are needed).
Yep. Basically, a bulkhead is an interior wall in a ship. Originally it referred to vertical panels (heads) erected in cargo holds to keep the cargo from shifting, but these days it just means "wall." Apparently people in navies just can't use normal words for things.
Takes all kinds of people to make the world, I guess...I thought that was a great moment, in what's still probably my single favourite Star Trek book.
^ I wasn't agreeing that it was a dumb/bizarre moment; I was just confirming Captain Calhoun's suspicion that the novel in question was Federation.
TBH, i thought it was a flaky moment too. especially after seeing a ship collision in NEM. I never bought how the E-D could just slice through the D'deridex without getting a scratch on it.
The D'Deridex warbirds are, I think, about twice as large as the Galaxy class design and they've got those big open segments on the sides - presumably that helps, since it gives the ship a space to fly through. I know in Star Trek Armada, there's a bit in the opening video where a Defiant class ship flies through that segment in a warbird (shame you couldn't do something like that in the actual game).
Granted, it's still a stretch on the suspension of disbelief, but not a fatal one.
In Trek, as in ships now, I take in that a bulkhead is still all the vertical panel thingys except the hull? I thought they were some kind of load-bearing apparatus and I was trying to figure out how on earth Taran'atar dented one in... but now it makes sense (and tougher walls are needed).
Yep. Basically, a bulkhead is an interior wall in a ship. Originally it referred to vertical panels (heads) erected in cargo holds to keep the cargo from shifting, but these days it just means "wall." Apparently people in navies just can't use normal words for things.
Haha, so it would seem. At least at one point, if they were keeping cargo from moving around... maybe there was the idea that they were relatively strong. No more, evidently. I guess I should've clued in sooner after that "load bearing poster" on the Simpsons... that when removed causes a wall to crack.
Thanks!
I suddenly feel like watching Airplane! again...
Actually, that bit was from Airplane II.
Yes, shame on me for knowing that off the top of my head.
Actually, the technical details of the collision were very well thought out. The E's structural integrity field was on maximum, much stronger than usual because all ship's power was going into it, and the Warbird's shields were tuned to deflect radiation only so they presented no real defense. You can't compare it to the NEM collision, because that was a case where the E-E was thoroughly crippled, its shields and integrity field nonfunctional. And it was a very, very slow collision by starship standards, while the one in Federation was much, much faster.
Well, the "bulk" part of "bulkhead" comes from the Old Norse word for "cargo." It has nothing to do with the size, weight, or strength of the wall.
In actuality, a ship moving at the speed that the Enterprise was when it plowed into the Scimitar would likely vaporize both ships. In Federation there was some wonky pseudo science that explained how what happened happened.
"Didn't you serve under Ordover in Trek Lit?"
"No, not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Ordover and I was under Dunn."
"So Dunn was under Ordover and over Unger?"
I think it was an enjoyable moment, but fits under Bizarre Trek Moments.
IIRC the custard pie fight between Kirk and the Klingons in one of the Harry Mudd novels (How much for just the planet? or something like that). I might just be tripping wildly but for some reason that was probably one of the first times I had a wtf? moment years before the internet and wtf? was born 
IIRC the custard pie fight between Kirk and the Klingons in one of the Harry Mudd novels (How much for just the planet? or something like that). I might just be tripping wildly but for some reason that was probably one of the first times I had a wtf? moment years before the internet and wtf? was born
Harry Mudd is not involved in How Much for Just the Planet? But it did culminate in a pie fight. And the whole book qualifies as a Bizarre Trek Novel Moment (in a good way).
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