If they can somehow involve Greek food and face paint maybe it'll be "The Moussaka Masaka Mascara Massacre".
Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships and Technology Season Three Discussion
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That large single contiguous window makes the RunAbout look so much nicer than the old Dual Vertical Slits.
It seems like the new RunAbout is a bit longer than the DS9 RunAbout and there are minor changes all about.
I guess the RunAbout platform would then have more internal volume as well.
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- Do we know if that Akira-class ship has a name? Surely not Bozeman? Would Captain Frasier accept otherwise?
- We see those Starfleet "attack fighters" being used as police or sentry vessels. However they seem to be one-man ships here, and the cockpit isn't a re-use of the shuttlepod set redress we see on DS9.
- I gotta wonder if the Phoenix blast off sequences are hologrammed on. I'm guessing anyone in rural Bozeman wouldn't want to have mulitple smoke trails over the course of any given day, to say nothing of standing that close to an active rocket launch - but to be fair, the original Phoenix DID manage to take off in "First Contact" without frying or hurting anyone, and it took off in the MIDDLE of that ramshackle town.
- Admiral Jellico has banned the Chu-Chu dance from being performed aboard active starships?! How does he have that authority? And how is this even newsworthy?
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- We see those Starfleet "attack fighters" being used as police or sentry vessels. However they seem to be one-man ships here, and the cockpit isn't a re-use of the shuttlepod set redress we see on DS9.
- I gotta wonder if the Phoenix blast off sequences are hologrammed on. I'm guessing anyone in rural Bozeman wouldn't want to have mulitple smoke trails over the course of any given day, to say nothing of standing that close to an active rocket launch - but to be fair, the original Phoenix DID manage to take off in "First Contact" without frying or hurting anyone, and it took off in the MIDDLE of that ramshackle town.
- Admiral Jellico has banned the Chu-Chu dance from being performed aboard active starships?! How does he have that authority? And how is this even newsworthy?
Mark
Trek twitter didn’t light up with executive information about the Akira class so far, but several familiar with the novels featuring Captain Bateson were willing to name it USS Bozeman in a vacuum, and especially because it’s amusing if the Upper and Lower Deckers each independently ended up at a different Bozeman.
-It might stand to reason that non-air, non-noise polluting thrusters on the Phoenix replicas only simulate the thrills and cacophony of 21st century rocketry.
Jellico’s decree does seem in keeping with his reputation for stamping out fun in Starfleet- maybe the Zebulons are out of standard uniform? Could indicate that Fun Police Edward is now in a position of fleet-wide influence, maybe hints that Zebulon Sisters are at least as newsworthy as that obscure sport baseball which has gone within 15 years from a niche hobby to one with an Earth League.
You don't find dance bans not newsworthy?
Also, perhaps Jellico is the Chief of Starfleet Operations. That would give him the authority.
Plus the Zebulon Sisters seemed pretty popular given the S1 ep where Mariner and Boimler attended their concert, so this is the Starfleet equivalent of banning Rhianna, Bieber or Taylor Swift.
Smart Starfleet. If only Taylor Swift had been banned at my workplace it would not play in my nightmares.
I like how the Peregrine fighter seems a bit bigger than I was giving it credit for.
The inside of the Peregrine Fighter doesn't need to perfectly match the exterior, it just has to fit inside the general shape.
Having the inside be slightly curved makes sense, you need room to route wiring and other stuff behind all those displays.
It looks similar to the B-2 Bomber cockpit in roominess. And being long enough that you can walk around, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bathroom behind that door in the background. The B-2 Stealth Bomber has a cockpit large enough for a bathroom, toilet, bed, & microwave oven. I wouldn't be surprised if the Peregrine fighter had similar accomadations for a small replicator, toilet, & mini fold out bed. All using the same space as the personal transporter pad area. It's amazing what people can do when optimizing for a small space.
I like how Academy training craft have escape transporters:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Academy_trainer_craft
I see a finger four of these things with a single Peregrine being the fourth…several groupings of these…and this as a lead ship to beam to:
https://home.moltenaether.com/w/Ju'Day_Class_Starship
They would be stationed on Luna, and gas giants. Scorpio Corvettes in the ice giants.
For Earth
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/aweso...arkness-by-herald-belker--574560864935453997/
On fighters:
https://snubfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Snubfighter_Wiki
What were the jets at the close of Into Darkness?
O/T…does anyone remember an Entertainment Tonight bit about a Buck Rogers thunderfighter ride? There was a big two seat set never featured in the series that had two generic actors,, shot from behind so the footage could be illuminated ahead of seats…any memories of that?
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Academy_trainer_craft
I see a finger four of these things with a single Peregrine being the fourth…several groupings of these…and this as a lead ship to beam to:
https://home.moltenaether.com/w/Ju'Day_Class_Starship
They would be stationed on Luna, and gas giants. Scorpio Corvettes in the ice giants.
For Earth
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/aweso...arkness-by-herald-belker--574560864935453997/
On fighters:
https://snubfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Snubfighter_Wiki
What were the jets at the close of Into Darkness?
O/T…does anyone remember an Entertainment Tonight bit about a Buck Rogers thunderfighter ride? There was a big two seat set never featured in the series that had two generic actors,, shot from behind so the footage could be illuminated ahead of seats…any memories of that?
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Every SpaceCraft that is RunAbout sized or smaller should have "Escape Transporters".
TNG version of the ejection seat but more practical for space. Even if the craft is too small for a full transporter sending unit, pattern enhancers synched with the training or support vessel main transporters would work fine.
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You know you don't have to be standing to be beamed out, the onboard Emergency Transporter could probably beam you and your seat out into space.
This way you have some gear stowed away in your seat once you're out on planet side or need to recover some gear while floating in Zero-G.
A well designed pilots seat could have lots of gear stowed in case of emergency beam out.
Now it seems TNG transporters are more resilient with a pattern cascading back into a crewman just fine.
I wonder if you could do a transporter “bounce” right as the craft destructs against a shield…opening a hole for a moonbounced pattern to go through the hole. The enemy crew think you’re dead.
I wonder if you could do a transporter “bounce” right as the craft destructs against a shield…opening a hole for a moonbounced pattern to go through the hole. The enemy crew think you’re dead.
Never considered the pilots position to be important, it's just the level of tech we have in the TNG era requires a fair amount of hardware to beam out from someplace- pattern buffer tanks, Heisenberg compensator, etc... The Tech manual shows a lot of hardware beneath the floor.
Shuttles have smaller versions, we never saw specs on screen but have seen two people beam out and the runabout had a dual pad setup.
I think logically the trainer craft would emergency transport to some training unit, it would be a shame to beam out of a ship in trouble and end up in a worse situation. That training facility could have the long range transporters synched the training craft and full medical support to help the student in event of a disaster
Shuttles have smaller versions, we never saw specs on screen but have seen two people beam out and the runabout had a dual pad setup.
I think logically the trainer craft would emergency transport to some training unit, it would be a shame to beam out of a ship in trouble and end up in a worse situation. That training facility could have the long range transporters synched the training craft and full medical support to help the student in event of a disaster
Data and Worf used a shuttle Emergency Escape Transporter to beam onto a Borg ship and un-kidnap Picard. Two way, but they may have needed additional hardware to assist in the return journey. From "Best of Both Worlds, Part II".
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From 1x02:
- Thinking about tech and IP here... The B&B game the gang is playing obviously uses the likeness of Martok, which any holodeck would be able to do easily - and having Martok DM from a 2D screen and static background would seem to suggest it being much less of a stress on memory resources, for what it's worth. We know from VOY "Author, Author" that using slightly modified likeness of people is "okay" even in the Federation, but what about in the Klingon empire? Is making a profit off of someone's likeness honorable?
- And Boimler has been trying to get the Gowron expansion for a while. What does this even mean in a world of replication and over-air updates? Or does the whole thing come in a box with the map, dice and cosplay bits, which is boxed and shipped?
- Mariner's comms interface directly with her dive suit - no badge tapping required!
- The Sequoia has apparently survived not being seen for a while and is more or less where it's always been in the gang's repair bay hangout. Would it have not been jettisoned along with everything else not bolted down at the end of the previous season? And if it were recuperated, what are the logistics or regulations of keeping a makework project around for our misfits for this long?
Mark
- Thinking about tech and IP here... The B&B game the gang is playing obviously uses the likeness of Martok, which any holodeck would be able to do easily - and having Martok DM from a 2D screen and static background would seem to suggest it being much less of a stress on memory resources, for what it's worth. We know from VOY "Author, Author" that using slightly modified likeness of people is "okay" even in the Federation, but what about in the Klingon empire? Is making a profit off of someone's likeness honorable?
- And Boimler has been trying to get the Gowron expansion for a while. What does this even mean in a world of replication and over-air updates? Or does the whole thing come in a box with the map, dice and cosplay bits, which is boxed and shipped?
- Mariner's comms interface directly with her dive suit - no badge tapping required!
- The Sequoia has apparently survived not being seen for a while and is more or less where it's always been in the gang's repair bay hangout. Would it have not been jettisoned along with everything else not bolted down at the end of the previous season? And if it were recuperated, what are the logistics or regulations of keeping a makework project around for our misfits for this long?
Mark
-Bold Boimler and Catch-and-Release K'Ranch dart past a ginger-haired fellow with a large anti-gravity cart in this tale, and crate stacking remains a common task, so I like to imagine light-up dice, warrior figurines, and black market tabletop games (as well as Quark-branded starship models) must be something crafted and shipped rather than replicated. Cargo Captains like Yates and Morn must still be plying the space-lanes with holds full of such trinkets.
-Space requirements for a shuttle going unused and maybe unnoticed for (months in dialogue, minimally, probably over a year) are not necessarily a problem on a ship that has at least three Choir Rooms? Maybe Sequoia was already written off as scrap but the Beta Shifters (sentimentally?) never disposed of it or recycled it?
-There's a CHANCE that Chancellor Martok might regard such a game as an honorable cultural outreach, helping instill Klingon values in the young minds of other societies? Or, if he ever heard of it, either putting darseks into his house's hands or d'k tahgs into Ferengi throats...
-Say, navigator Matt in Cetacean Ops got a promotion! Not as meteoric a rise as Vendome, but substantial. Last seen as a lieutenant junior grade, he's either a full lieutenant in every shot in this episode or he's got a delicious sticky piece of corn on his collar.
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