I'll never understand how people can be cool with star trek portraying sound in a vacuum and yet get all worked up about something being called a time crystal.
Magic to Make the Sanest...confirmed "bottle episode"
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It was last year actually. A simple Google search shows it on most popular news sites that even vaguely deal with science, even io9 mentions it. Vice did a whole series on their Motherboard site. I don't think you should attack the show because of your own scientific illiteracy. Especially when even googling "time crystals" leads to news articles about it instead of a Trek wik or fanfiction.
Honestly it's a fairly simple term for science and makes sense. We know what time is and we know what a crystal is, time crystal is a perfect description for what they found. Maybe it can't create time loops that people can be in, but nothing in Star Trek is realistic. I'm glad the writers took an effort to use actual science and maybe inspire some future scientist to research actual time crystals because they saw that episode.
Not as fun as time balls though, it sounds like magic, but I'm sure there was a technobabble explanation for it that people can claim makes sense.
Yeah I did a google on it. Looks like it was reported heavily, so I retract my comment on that. What can I say, parenthood and studies make for busy times, and science stories disappear of the front pages damn fast in today’s world....there’s outrage, and warfare, and politics, all flowing everywhere over the page. No on died in Time Crystals, and they did t offend anyone, so they kind of drop off the radar I guess.
Still sounds like seventies Doctor Who
By the way, what's the problem with them doing a bottle episode? Especially since it turned out to be one of the most entertaining of the season?
Whoever named them being a geek who liked the name because it was cool isn't out of the question.
No one seemed to care until Community made an episode about them.
Both are cheesy, but one adds atmosphere.
Wait until you get to the canon discussions about the different sound waepon effects in DSC and TOS.that logically shouldn't exist at all.
Would you have preffered "time shroom"?
No. One needs atmosphere, the other is accurate scientific term
I believe that was the joke mister Data.
There’s quite enough vegan fuel in Trek already.
But....does it make soup for the troops and cure the green death?
I was making a joke based on your joke then. Jokemate.
Jokergeddon. Unless we destroy this thread, the entire multiverse that sits atop the humour network will be destroyed....but...I am all out of punchlines...
Quick, draw a line on the sheet of paper, then punch that paper. Only a horrible visual pun can save us now!
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Good point. How is "time crystal" hokier than, say, "stardate" or "photon torpedo"?
Neither of which, let it be noted, were ever actually explained on the air.
The spore drive was not the main plot line in Discovery, except for perhaps episodes 3-5 where the drama of getting the drive working properly (and the ethics of using the tardigrade) was central to the show. However, it was present in some fashion in basically every episode. Indeed, aside from being "the gay character" all Stamets did was the Spore Drive. In Act 2 in particular, aside from like two scenes where he got to look sad about Culber dying, he was basically all spore technobabble all the time.
Regardless, my point was the spore drive is only inherently slightly more ridiculous than dilithium crystals. But the ridiculousness of the concept was repeatedly thrown in our face because it became one of the central arcs which carried through the whole season. It wasn't like say red matter in ST09, which was stupid, but we were meant to forget about almost immediately to focus on the personal drama.
I will be curious to see how they characterize Stamets in season 2. In season 1, the character existed as a function of the plot -- the irascible non-engineer pressed into service, then the loopy spore drive victim, then, for the briefest of moments, the bereaved partner. As with Burnham, I couldn't tell you what his personality is supposed to be like at this point.
I liked Stamets (and the actor), so I hope he gets more to do than mourn and search for Culber in season 2, even though I thought they did his character a grave disservice by not devoting more time to his loss.