Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x10 - "The Last Generation"
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Subject to the requirements of the writers.
Gods, I love that movie!"At that speed they could run over my daughter's stereo and not hear it."
They were in recovery mode.
That is incorrect. The rest mass is constant, yes. But mass and energy are equivalent. So when the relativistic energy increases, it is equivalent to the relativistic mass increasing.
Here is the equation. We can see that the relativistic mass equals the rest mass when v is very small compared to the speed of light but the relativistic mass increases as the velocity v approaches the speed of light c.
Well, mass and energy are interchangeable, so...
It was pretty well-established on VOY that Borg ships can form mini-collectives amongst their drones that remain stable for a time before breaking down if they're disconnected from the larger Collective. I'm sure that's what was happening with the ship in "Let Sleeping Borg Lie" and with the Artifact.
^ And in "Survival Instinct" (one of my favorite VOY episodes).
It has none. There was no explanation of why a ship would make an arc rather than pivot around centre of mass and accelerate to shift he vector to where it’s needed for example. There’s no explanation why shuttles would leave the ship heading towards the planet they are landing on. Or why they land forwards in the shuttlebay (there appear to be o reaction thrusters at all in that direction)
your gut instinct of how a spaceship flies is likely wrong because you are used to sea ships or planes.
I just assume everyone follows a linear timeline, but not everyone is on the same track as everyone else. So the Q all have a linear timeline, but can manipulate/move through time on a whim and therefore seem non-linear to those who aren't on their level. Like The Doctor has a stated and finite lifespan (or at least, he used to), but you wouldn't know that if you just encountered him at random point through your life and he never really changed. If any of us ever became (or become) time travelers, we'd seem just as non-linear to those out-of-the know; but everything dies
Perhaps - but that gut instinct was heavily influenced by decades of watching the models behave like that, I suppose. It feels like many decaying orbit stories could have been hand-waved away with all this new-fangled pre-existing technology. In fact, a close orbit is fairly pointless given how transporters are now being portrayed in modern Trek.
For sure I would like to see more scenes like the one added in the latest version of TMP where the ship rotates or changes height, like in TWoK, while continuing its momentum before changing direction. It's the more abrupt angular changes of motion that I find visually jarring on the larger ships. Maybe it's because it destroys the illusion of size and makes them look more cartoony?
not normally functionally, as they could no longer use nanoprobes to assimilate, but functional for sure.
Exactly. Therefore thinking that this was all that remained of the collective seems preposterous to me.
I mean, sure, but those mini-collectives always break down after a while. So while there might be some Borg ships out there in hibernation that could reawaken and function for a while, eventually they won't be able to connect to the Queen and they'll break down. Unless new information gets established in a future installment, it does very much appear that the Borg are done as a major state-level threat, even if the intermittent risk remains of isolated cubes that haven't broken down yet.
It's got nothing to do with how the Enterprise moved and adjusted its course so quickly in the finale; it's that it deviates so wildly from what our eyes have grown accustomed to over the course of this decades and decades old franchise. What should or could be acceptable in terms of science doesn't really matter. This is science fiction and there was a trope concerning ships of this mass. They've always moved like ships on the water, particularly TNG's various Enterprise's
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They'll put those in the warehouse along with psychic power pill, numerous human-like androids, superspeed water and the rest.
There could be lots of broken down ‘mini collectives’ such as the one depicted in Unity around the galaxy then, all with their own very unique cultures and quirks. There could be ‘hippy’ Borg, warrior Borg and even mindless zombie Borg. They could all have their own unique colour schemes, styles and evolved/devolved designs. Some of them could be good, and some of them could be bad.
This would prove that time does not actually exist but is an artificially perceived construct witnessed through the eye of the beholder. Observation of the passage of time is a subjective experience, but we have built tools throughout our history which we can measure and observe its perceived passage with; natural cycles and patterns within nature such as observing the moon, sun and tides; technological augmentations ranging from basic sundials to analogue clocks and digital timers and even quantum computing… I think that the Q exist outside of perceived measurable time to some extent, existing in their very own pocket universe and able to traverse everything within their existential experience whether that be a conceptual interpretation of ‘past’, ‘present’ or ‘future’. The perception of time for those observing the Continuum is probably shown through our limited interpretation of it’s cyclic ‘hour glass’ state of existence, an infinite cycle of life, death and rebirth which is both infinite and finite at the same time thus making the Q immortal even though they still experience the illusion/passage of death. The Q would be able to observe anything within their own existence but not beyond, neither before or after… though such concepts as ‘before’ and ‘after’ existence may not even exist to the Q as these things can not be observed within their scope of being, again, making the Q infinite within their own pocket universe. Remember, when we perceive the Q we only do so through the filters of our limited minds. This is why the Q civil war was depicted as the American civil war to the crew of Voyager.
No, as I said the Enterprise-D was always very nimble, and ships especially so during DS9.
Hell, even the original Enterprise in the 60s was capable of absurd turns.
That's fine, but come on, that was crazy and forget about if it's possible or not..... it looked awful. Enterprise of TNG never moved like that. It was like looking at me playing pacman back in the day. So daft.
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