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How big was the Enterprise?

  • Thread starter Admiral Jean-Luc Picard
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To be clear I am using :mad: ironically.



Fair. Some Tolkien fans don't care about the Silmarillion either. Some don't even care about the books!

But now I'm curious: What would be the "thing" that would make you say "The ship can't do that?"

"Captain's Log, Stardate 48999.87. After the horrified looks I have gotten from my crew, excepting the stalwart Lieutenant Worf, I am rethinking my enthusiasm for genocide in the name of the Prime Directive (all hail the Prime Directive). As such we will not allow the inhabitants of planet Abowttyme VII to perish in fire and plague because they are backward and stupid. Not that I'm judging.

Instead we will evacuating half of the the population of 926 million onto the starboard cargo hold and the remaining opposing cultures onto decks 23 and 24.

I will be rehearsing for my performance of Some Shakespeare Analogy until this all blows over."

Clearly argumentum ad absurdum, but everyone's suspension of disbelief has a breaking point. What's yours? (I'm hoping it's before the above, but maybe not?)

The ship itself only does what the people crewing it make it do. It's not alive. Your situation is a whole different discussion having nothing to do with size of the ship.

I would make a terrible Captain for many reasons, among those being I couldn't stand by and let/watch people die for a law. I'm more of a "the law was made for man, not man for the law."
 
The ship itself only does what the people crewing it make it do. It's not alive. Your situation is a whole different discussion having nothing to do with size of the ship.

I would make a terrible Captain for many reasons, among those being I couldn't stand by and let/watch people die for a law. I'm more of a "the law was made for man, not man for the law."
All laws need a loop hole.
 
The ship itself only does what the people crewing it make it do. It's not alive. Your situation is a whole different discussion having nothing to do with size of the ship.

I would make a terrible Captain for many reasons, among those being I couldn't stand by and let/watch people die for a law. I'm more of a "the law was made for man, not man for the law."
Well, I did mention that a planet's population of almost a billion would fit in the various cargo holds.

But, no, I don't miss an opportunity to make fun of Jean-Luc's occasional genocidal bent.
 
I'm sure that's true. Perhaps it's a male thing after all. I've never served aboard any type of vessel, so I don't know how I would feel. I hope to never find out how they found out, either.
 
I'm sure that's true. Perhaps it's a male thing after all. I've never served aboard any type of vessel, so I don't know how I would feel. I hope to never find out how they found out, either.
I am a male and lack this trait. My old high school burned down recently and while saddened by it, I was more sad for those currently in the school and the stress on them changing schools.

I don't know. It's something that is so confusing to me
 
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