Isn't that the guy that when asked "how the dampening fields worked" responded "they work fine, thank you"?
Star Trek Acronyms
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captcalhoun, that's fine, but mines makes far more sense from a scientific standpoint. Okuda is an artist, not a scientist.
no, that was the Heisenberg compensators.
The P H in phaser is "Phased Harmonic". Works by hitting the target with an harmonic frequency, basically a vibration. To disintergrate it shake your molecules apart, disrupt it shakes your cells apart, heat excites or rubs things together, stun slaps your nerves with neurological 'thump'.
This is the same Okuda who thought it was a good idea to give the Enterprise Dee a single reactor, so if the warp core went offline (every third episode ?) the ship would be helpless. That Okuda right ?
This is the same Okuda who thought it was a good idea to give the Enterprise Dee a single reactor, so if the warp core went offline (every third episode ?) the ship would be helpless. That Okuda right ?
Okay, it's my fault for being wrong... I have whipped myself mercilessly and drawn blood. I've had Klingons beat me with pain sticks! Now, I hope your satisfied ... now post a initialism, or an acronym. Must you grade all to be happy with yourself?
Don't torture yourself dear, that's what I'm here for.
Please and thank you.
So I'm guessing that C** in B******* wouldn't be it, right?
I prefer "particle (hydrogen) acceleration." Would explain why disruptors have a different name, too--they use helium or neon or something.
Nah, that's fine. If the M/A reactor is the majority of the cost of the ship, it doesn't make economic sense to redundantize it, when you could just build another ship.
But there's no money in the 24th century, everything's free ... free I tell you ... free.
According to The Making of Star Trek, phasers are basically lasers, but they have the beam set on a pulsating frequency that can be specifically set to interfere and interact with the wave pattern of any molecular form. This is called "phasing" the beam frequency, hence the name.
I nabbed the above from memory alpha, but I also remember reading it in the first edition printing of the Making of Star Trek when the world was in black and white...
I nabbed the above from memory alpha, but I also remember reading it in the first edition printing of the Making of Star Trek when the world was in black and white...
I'm going to be mean...
NCC
I always thought this one was Naval Conscript Certificate
From my understanding, NC was until 1948 or so the prefix for a United States civilian aircraft, which Matt Jeffries surely knew as a pilot. His own aircraft was licensed NC17740.
NCC, by contrast, is NC with another C. In other words, it's absolutely and totally meaningless, but Matt Jeffries was familiar with it and thought it looked cool, even though he must have known it was totally out the context of American civilian aircraft, inasmuch as the Enterprise is neither American, civilian, nor an aircraft.
Heck, the real "NC" designation doesn't really stand for anything in particular. It may stand for "national," but it was simply the letter the United States chose as part of an international agreement to standardize license numbers, where five of the participants got to choose single-letter designators. Italy got I, Japan J, and Germany D, the reasons for all of which are obvious (even thought you'd think Japan's would be more naturally "N," but whatever). Britain got G--presumably for "Great Britain." And the US got N, even though you'd think it ought to be U or at least A.
Incidentally, "NX" was "American experimental aircraft"--like the Spirit of Saint Louis, N-X-211. God knows what this has to do with United Earth Starfleet's NX-01, or NX-2000 Excelsior.
Interesting article about this (well, I found it interesting, which means 99% of the population will find it dry and irrelevant), "What's in an N-Number?":
http://www.aahs-online.org/articles/N-number.htm
Still, "naval construction contract" is serviceable, I guess, even though "naval" is an adjective almost never used in conjunction with Starfleet; "national" could work, too, although "nation" as referring to the UFP is to the best of my knowledge never uttered in forty years of the show. If you wanted to get totally bizarre, you could go and assume it's really a Roman character abbreviation for an Vulcan word; or even that it's actually in Tellarite script, and it doesn't really say NCC anymore than CCCP in Cyrillic is actually three C's and a P.
NCC, by contrast, is NC with another C. In other words, it's absolutely and totally meaningless, but Matt Jeffries was familiar with it and thought it looked cool, even though he must have known it was totally out the context of American civilian aircraft, inasmuch as the Enterprise is neither American, civilian, nor an aircraft.
Heck, the real "NC" designation doesn't really stand for anything in particular. It may stand for "national," but it was simply the letter the United States chose as part of an international agreement to standardize license numbers, where five of the participants got to choose single-letter designators. Italy got I, Japan J, and Germany D, the reasons for all of which are obvious (even thought you'd think Japan's would be more naturally "N," but whatever). Britain got G--presumably for "Great Britain." And the US got N, even though you'd think it ought to be U or at least A.
Incidentally, "NX" was "American experimental aircraft"--like the Spirit of Saint Louis, N-X-211. God knows what this has to do with United Earth Starfleet's NX-01, or NX-2000 Excelsior.
Interesting article about this (well, I found it interesting, which means 99% of the population will find it dry and irrelevant), "What's in an N-Number?":
http://www.aahs-online.org/articles/N-number.htm
Still, "naval construction contract" is serviceable, I guess, even though "naval" is an adjective almost never used in conjunction with Starfleet; "national" could work, too, although "nation" as referring to the UFP is to the best of my knowledge never uttered in forty years of the show. If you wanted to get totally bizarre, you could go and assume it's really a Roman character abbreviation for an Vulcan word; or even that it's actually in Tellarite script, and it doesn't really say NCC anymore than CCCP in Cyrillic is actually three C's and a P.
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CIB actually stands for the Cardassian Intelligence Bureau, the successor the Obsidian Order.
Try this one: VISOR
Try this one: VISOR
Visual Information Sent Over Radio?
No?
Damn.
No?
Damn.
We did VISOR (Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement) and phaser (PHASed Energy Rectification).
How about some fake ones, like Vulcan (Virtually unemotional, controlled, androgynous nerd)?
How about some fake ones, like Vulcan (Virtually unemotional, controlled, androgynous nerd)?
Oops. Vulcan (Virtually unemotional, logic-consumed, androgynous nerd)
Spock (Seven-year Postponement Of Carnal Knowledge)
Spock (Seven-year Postponement Of Carnal Knowledge)
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