Is that Janeway or Julius Caesar?
There's also the fact that the ordinary replicators are not much larger than the surface area of a typical refrigerator.
And it never hurts to have more redundant technology in case one unit fails. Especially if you need the Industrial Replicator to replicate new parts for a broken standard Replicator or a entire new standard Replicator unit in one go.
Or
A network of regular Replicators to replicate parts to fix the broken Industrial Replicator.
Redundancy is good when you're out in the middle of nowhere and need devices to help fix other devices.
It could be, but that might not be it's primary duty and having backups is good IMO.
You don't want to be the StarShip with only 1 bathroom (I'm looking at you "Legends of Tomorrow" and it's WaveRider StarShip/TimeShip with only 1 bathroom aboard).
The size of the object replicated could be limited by the amount of space on the Replicator pad and how large it's emitters / scanners are along with the volume / area it has to work with.
Oh, they're going to be LARGER, much larger. You saw how large the circle pads of a Transporter Room are. They're about 18" - 24" in diameter and you can normally seat six on the larger Transporter Pad platform.
The Industrial size replicator isn't limited to that, it'll be limited to how far the robot arms can reach and how large of a room your Bay is, which is quite a bit larger.
The 3D Mechanical Arm was used along-side Replicators to fix the NX Enterprise in the epside "Dead Stop".
It's not a big deal, and it makes alot of logical sense IMO if you want to be efficient about replicating.
That might be way more energy intensive to do all that at one time vs assembling smaller parts together.
You yourself have stated that the UFP / StarFleet are all about efficiency, and if you have to go from "Seconds" to "Minutes" while saving more power to replicate a large item like a "Shuttle".
Then so be it.
Especially when you got to save on useable real estate in a small StarShip.
They're making multiple uses of their cargo bay / shuttle area.
I concur, the efficiency upgrades could've gone UFP wide.
That's faster than most modern Car Assembly Plants in the world.
That's "Good Enough" if you manage to save a butt ton of energy and don't need your Shuttle built in seconds.
It's primarily for kids, but adults can find it enjoyable.
How's that.
You could be right, we don't have enough detailed information to make anything other than suppositions and guesses based on what we see.
Cool, maybe it's a new Reactor type that we haven't heard about before!
I'm just basing everything on what I'm seeing and hearing. If it's the new "Proto-Core", cool beans.
I just don't want anything to fall in the hands of "The Diviner" given that he's a child kidnapper and slaver.
He belongs in jail and trialled for crimes against Sentient & Sapient beings.
Let's be honest, Dukat and the Cardassians wanted the Bajorans for their women & resources.
You saw Dukat, he slept with every women he could get ahold of, even if they were Bajoran.
He's a very HORNY dude. Has no issues cheating on his wife with many kids that he has had.
I'm sure many of the Cardassian Soldiers were doing the same things with all the Bajoran women.
A couple of additional observations…
1. so anyone anywhere on the ship can disable artificial gravity? This ship has a huge security issue!
2. They are using more or less the Voy-style uniform for janeway but with the new communicator. Odd. Also I couldn’t see the pips.
3. Loving the protostar design, internal and external.
That's a possible solution for a intermediate sized object.Oh I know.
I was merely mentioning that if a ship does't have an industrial grade replicator, nothing would technically stop the crew from networking existing replicators to build an industrial one or mimick it.
Yes, but I've been thinking about that and came up with a potential solution that ordinary replicators could be linked to the transporters so they can use their pad and systems to expand on limitations.
Bypassing the Transporter Pad isn't the issue, that's pretty much a standard feature of the 24th century level Transporters.Possibly, but I don't see why a shuttlebay or cargobays in that case couldn't be used for that.
They are large enough. In fact, cargo bays and shuttlebays are in fact larger than your transporter pad (which isn't actually needed to transport people from one place to another... its just a control room at this point - so perhaps the industrial grade replicator or networked ordinary ones could be used in a similar capacity... just materialize the larger object in a sufficiently large space... the pad isn't strictly speaking necessary.
But then again, Transporters have been in existence for over 200 years by that point... and even on Disco, Burnham and Lorca beamed from his ready room to engineering.
Replicators are an outgrowth of transporters... so they might still be limited to a pad... but perhaps not if they are linked with transporters so they can exploit their ability and bypass the pad.
That could've been a holographic Force Field holding up certain structural members to be replicated into that volume of space before you replicate everything else around it.I don't see an issue in assembling/replicating smaller parts together actually. I'm just wondering why those pieces weren't 'beamed' into place, but were 'drawn' by 3d printer robotic arm (or at least that's what it seemed).
I'm sure plenty of new tech was brought back and incorporated into regular use.If the Protostar is any indication, then yes.
I was wondering if SF/UFP would make use of all the info VOY brought back and what was shown in TNG and DS9 too (not that Ds9 showed much in terms of advanced technology - except on 2 occasions - one was artificial wormhole generation via torpedoes and that shrinking anomaly which was said could aid in development of TransWarp - huh, perhaps this is what helped in creation of TW on the Protostar).
I doubt the fundamentals of Transporting has changed.You get no argument from me that 2 and a half to 3 minutes is still very fast to build a shuttle.
I'm definitely not one to nitpick on that if it helps lower energy requirements that way - so long as they maintain that replicators still convert energy into matter. :-)
Animation allows many freedoms that live action doesn't have.Still works for me.
I didn't find it particularly for kids. Plus as a person who works in a 3d Software (3ds Max atm, and soon hopefully Blender), I enjoy it.
Its storyline and technology showcase a sense of progression and minute canon detailing continuation that seemed to have been lacking in Picard and Disco S3.
For some reason, animated Trek does this better than live action.
NeatThat's what Twitter says... that its a Proto Core.
Here's a screenshot:
https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1453515128008323076/photo/1
I'm hoping Captain Chakotay gets his "Big Damn Heroes" moment and resuces the ship & crew and sends them to UFP foster care / school to bring them up to snuff so we can eventually get a "Star Trek: StarFleet Academy" animated series.Neither do I want the Diviner getting his hands on the Protostar or any of its technology.
But the writers will probably keep him at large for the kids to worry about for the duration of THIS season. Not sure about second season and beyond (if the show gets renewed, and I am actually hoping it does as it could actually expand on the technical side of Trek and showcase UFP progressing).
And its also possible he WILL get his hands on the Protostar (at least temporarily) only for the kids to take it away from him again (and possibly with Chakotay coming to the rescue - or even Admiral Janeway).
Pillaging Bajor of it's resources was a primary focus.Dukat's inability to keep his private parts in his pants is a personality trait of sorts.
And while I will agree that some Cardassian males have indeed used Bajoran women for sex, not everyone did - it didn't seem like the primary focus.
Who knows why Cardassians didn't use more automation, maybe they have some ass backwards fear of AI like the Zhat Vash and can't distinguish advanced automation from true AI.My comment was mainly about how stupidly the Cardassians insisted on use of slave labor for construction of Terrok Nor and ore processing when they enjoyed a higly advanced technology at their disposal - but I suppose that emphasis on automation was much smaller back in TNG days perhaps because the writers weren't that much aware of it (even though in real life, it basically keeps civilization as we know it going, and has been for quite a long time now).
Or perhaps AI is unvaluable as a tool to the state and is viewed as not additive to the state as a whole.Who knows why Cardassians didn't use more automation, maybe they have some ass backwards fear of AI like the Zhat Vash and can't distinguish advanced automation from true AI.
I'm probably alone in this but can I say "Good." I hate food style animation, going back to Beauty and the Beast's porridge scene. Some things from real life are best left to real life.Another observation: there seems to be no animation considerations as to people eating food. No splatter on the face or in the bowl. I noticed it with Dal's face-first fruit bowl, and then with Pog's slop here.
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I'm probably alone in this but can I say "Good." I hate food style animation, going back to Beauty and the Beast's porridge scene. Some things from real life are best left to real life.
Or perhaps AI is unvaluable as a tool to the state and is viewed as not additive to the state as a whole.
I'm probably alone in this but can I say "Good." I hate food style animation, going back to Beauty and the Beast's porridge scene. Some things from real life are best left to real life.
Indeed.I am not fond of scenes showing people eating, especially when they're eating like pigs.
Still no.What about food in anime!? Some of that looks more delicious than the real thing!
Excessive realism is boring and unnecessary.Another observation: there seems to be no animation considerations as to people eating food. No splatter on the face or in the bowl.
It could be, since the Cardassian Military ran everything, they might not have valued AI.Or perhaps AI is unvaluable as a tool to the state and is viewed as not additive to the state as a whole.
I megaloathe that scene.Am I the only one who loved watching Denethor eat in The Return of the King?
If he was too distracted by the broken ear thing, I can't blame him.They've said his name enough and you haven't learned it?
"Hail Apollo!"
Chilled monkey brains in Temple of Doom FTW!Am I the only one who loved watching Denethor eat in The Return of the King?
Well, much more so than the initial two-parter.On a kid's show? Well, don't that beat all?![]()
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