Sequel to The Doomsday Machine

[Maurice]

I remember actually doing the math to figure out the bloody thing's mass based on formulas for neutron star core material density. Sca-ry.

If it were possible for neutronium to exist. (Nuclear chemistry says no.) Still, since you're talking fiction, I'll grant your neutronium. The builders of the DM stole the neutronium bricks out of the gateway to a wormhole highway.

I didn't make up that it was neutronium, that was pre-set. I just used a 1990 science text about neutron star material density to see what the results would be if someone would figure out how to make something stable out of such material.

 

[kirkfan]

Oh, yeah, and that too. D'oh. Only death penalty at that.

I think this was a hundred percent plot convenient. The death penalty thing only served to emphasize the risk Spock was taking in doing what he was doing, nothing else. It's almost impossible ot justify based on the elements.

Well, it was there to heighten the drama, yes. There's a case to be made for the death penalty, given the threat represented by the Talosians. What's more unbelievable than the death penalty itself is the idea that it is the only death penalty on the books. Surely there are other actions people could take, besides collaborating with the Talosians, that are just as dangerous to the Federation that you don't want them to do. So, if the Federation doesn't need to use the death penalty to cope with those, you have to wonder why it needs it to cope with Talos IV. So, yeah.

Plus it wasn't collaborating with the Talosians that carried the death penalty, it was just going there...

 

[spockboy]

Folks are reminded that the Star Trek New Voyages / Phase II episode "In Harm's Way" was a sequel to "The Doomsday Machine"--of sorts. It was one of our earliest efforts--and has everything in it but the kitchen sink. Nevertheless, it's fun to see (the late) William Windom reprise his Matt Decker role--and it's nice to know that the Doomsday Machine didn't just destroy the shuttlecraft with Matt Decker aboard; it simply flung them safely into Earth's past.

This one is as fan-wanky as fan-wanky can get. That is both very good and very bad.

Yes I recall the Road Runner style in which the ships backed up a bit, then took off!

Oh and the Doomsday Machine! Hilarious

 

[FormerLurker]

I didn't like the 'young' of the DM in "In Harm's Way". That whiptail effect runs counter to the idea that the hull is a single piece of neutronium, cast as a cone. And probably extruded from the neutron star that way.

 

[Marsden]

Wouldn't any material that's made from a neutron star be a sphere because of the massive force of gravity?

 

[Richard Baker]

It would be interesting to see what the Doomsday Machine looked like in the the original 'factory fresh' condition.
While it did look like a battered windsock when we saw it considering it was made from neutronium you could just imagine the immeasurable forces it had been battered with during it's long history (unless that weird form was based on some alien sense of aesthetics).

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I always thought that the Doomsday Machine had escaped from some Cosmic Engineer's toolkit. If you're going to build a Dyson Sphere, you're going to need one hell of a penknife.

 

[E-DUB]

In "Vendetta" the machine from the episode was revealed to have been a mere prototype.

And while we're on the subject of sequels, I ran across this a while back and found it amusing. (No, it's not a real book.)

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2...old_trek_book_cover_by_promus_kaa-d41k0t8.jpg

 

[CorporalCaptain]

And while we're on the subject of sequels, I ran across this a while back and found it amusing. (No, it's not a real book.)

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2...old_trek_book_cover_by_promus_kaa-d41k0t8.jpg

Yeah, that's a brilliant piece of fan art.