Hey, good to see more discussion of the strip. Glad you all are enjoying it. Just thought I'd touch on some things.
Mudd is being hyperbolic here, like a salesman. You can make things vanish without a trace, like a stain on a shirt. Never mind that your stain is now floating in the water. Even by your explanation of disintegration, matter to energy, the energy has to go somewhere, and that energy would probably be heat. But the way we see phasers work on TOS is they literally heat things up, with various higher settings doing it with more intensity. They're used to heat rocks, for instance. Certainly things seem to light up and take a bit to flare up and "burn" before disappearing. Spock is injured by something being vaporized near him in Omega Glory, though we don't know exactly what kind of injury it is. How do the pirates escape super heated gas? Yeah, that's artistic license. Trying to find a way to put them in danger because just making a wall disappear isn't very dramatic. As for the end of that plot, I saw it as the specific knowledge of the weapon's construction was worth erasing from the scientists, but the caper itself was not something that needed strict erasure. Quetzal is on T'Chok's side, after all. She wouldn't be hiding the plans to make one herself somewhere.
Yes, certainly the magnetic storm took them a very long distance, but I'm assuming the ship wasn't just some interplanetary vessel. It must have been extra solar. The same can also be said about the Enterprise when it goes from galaxy edge with no warp to the lithium cracking station. That should have taken decades or more. It's just one of those things like the Millennium Falcon getting to Bespin with no Hyperdrive.
The engineer makes a point of saying it could just be part of them floating out there. That's what I figure it would be. This story is my least favorite because it was hard to make Calhoon's accusation serious enough without making Barrett super dense and aloof. If anyone definitively proved the blip was nothing before the mutiny the tension for the audience disappears. Nothing could have made Calhoon see reason, but his followers could have been appeased by a little more effort from the higher ups - even Das, who is clearly doing this for spite. Last Jedi is the same with the way Holdo treats Poe. It really comes down to if you think an underling deserves to have every order explained to them or if the captain has the right to full, unquestioned obedience.
I always felt Mudd's sins were too great for him to be merely roguish. It's interesting that not long after the comic was running Discovery came out with an interpretation of the character that was similarly vicious.
So, it was said in dialog that dematerialize causes things to vanish without a trace. Cool, that's what I always thought: it just transforms matter into pure energy (cf The Making of Star Trek page 193).
Mudd is being hyperbolic here, like a salesman. You can make things vanish without a trace, like a stain on a shirt. Never mind that your stain is now floating in the water. Even by your explanation of disintegration, matter to energy, the energy has to go somewhere, and that energy would probably be heat. But the way we see phasers work on TOS is they literally heat things up, with various higher settings doing it with more intensity. They're used to heat rocks, for instance. Certainly things seem to light up and take a bit to flare up and "burn" before disappearing. Spock is injured by something being vaporized near him in Omega Glory, though we don't know exactly what kind of injury it is. How do the pirates escape super heated gas? Yeah, that's artistic license. Trying to find a way to put them in danger because just making a wall disappear isn't very dramatic. As for the end of that plot, I saw it as the specific knowledge of the weapon's construction was worth erasing from the scientists, but the caper itself was not something that needed strict erasure. Quetzal is on T'Chok's side, after all. She wouldn't be hiding the plans to make one herself somewhere.
Yes, certainly the magnetic storm took them a very long distance, but I'm assuming the ship wasn't just some interplanetary vessel. It must have been extra solar. The same can also be said about the Enterprise when it goes from galaxy edge with no warp to the lithium cracking station. That should have taken decades or more. It's just one of those things like the Millennium Falcon getting to Bespin with no Hyperdrive.
The engineer makes a point of saying it could just be part of them floating out there. That's what I figure it would be. This story is my least favorite because it was hard to make Calhoon's accusation serious enough without making Barrett super dense and aloof. If anyone definitively proved the blip was nothing before the mutiny the tension for the audience disappears. Nothing could have made Calhoon see reason, but his followers could have been appeased by a little more effort from the higher ups - even Das, who is clearly doing this for spite. Last Jedi is the same with the way Holdo treats Poe. It really comes down to if you think an underling deserves to have every order explained to them or if the captain has the right to full, unquestioned obedience.
You know, it's funny how much people hate this future. To me, except for the horrendous anti-Kelvin racism, it's not a bad place. Nadifa is horrible and manipulative, yes, but she's one person. Otherwise the Federation is now a galaxy wide true utopia. Everyone is a part of it. Earth doesn't even seem to be majority human anymore, and other "home worlds" may be the same. Sexual freedom is a good thing, of course within the bounds of consent, which Nadifa attempts to violate. But also remember tha Jin is DTF all the way with both her workmates and the Kelvins until she isn't for whatever reasons. I purposefully included people of size, the elderly, and the little Klingon to say everybody is happy as they are. No one is "fixing" people. There's a lot about them that's Borg inspired, as they must have consumed them and their tech as well, but they've so far avoided losing individuality.
I always felt Mudd's sins were too great for him to be merely roguish. It's interesting that not long after the comic was running Discovery came out with an interpretation of the character that was similarly vicious.
