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Super Disapointed With The Burn Cause
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Also a very Star Trek interpretation of The Butterfly Effect. How one tragic being's grief can have so many repercussions.
I liked it. Weird, but original and creative. Something Modern Trek frequently is not. Credit where credit is due.
You're a par'macht.
Posting replies in all the right places....
This is not true. Several people with direct experience have pointed out to you that this is not true (and you can add myself, as my Dad was in the Army during my childhood), and even if it were true, it has zero bearing on what fictional rules a fictional intelligence agency in a fictional universe places on its fictional agent's children.
It also tied into the reoccurring theme of trauma and the linger affects of it. Something most of the crew has dealt with this season. Having it be some nefarious plan would’ve been cliched and easy.
There's no way to recover from an Omega event, though. Subspace is permanently destroyed.
We all know the real cause of The Burn.
Exactly. And a ship of damaged-but-healing people helping others who are who damaged and need healing/understanding, thus also healing themselves.
No, that's how uneducated people talk. Scientists... Especially those working on a starship would need to use precise terminology.
There's a huge difference between galaxy and universe.
That’s bs.
Maybe some nefarious plan that has been set in motion that would allow the last 930 years of Trek to be made into other shows, something like what was done with Enterprise.
What might have been a better storyline is that a large dilithium space amoeba started sucking all of the juice out of all of the dilithium in space while hiding in a black hole - TOS storyline base.
I willing to bet scientists, in reality and no matter where they're at, speak in a colloquial fashion when engaging in casual conversation, even with colleagues. Not every scientist is a Sheldon Cooper.
That's an assumption. You are correct that not every scientist is Sheldon Cooper, but they don't have to be in order to maintain precision. Their education and knowledge would prevent them from doing those kinds of mistakes even in social functions, and the nature of their work prevents them from callously using inaccurate terminologies (otherwise, they would likely make a LOT more mistakes when it comes to their own work).
Bottom line is, on Trek, everyone on a starship (at least those in Starfleet) would have a basic understanding of how the natural world works via science... and a degree of understanding of general astronomical concepts and measures of scale.
You cannot be accurate if you switch terminologies every 5 seconds... that just makes a person look like a moron and grossly unerqualified.
Clearly, they are unprofessional nincompoops. I trust I got the terminology correct.
Denying it doesn't make you right.
If you look up the measurements of the Milky Way galaxy: up to 150 000 ly's across, and measurements of the universe (93 billion Ly's diameter) you might realize that precision is essential to grasp the differences in scale... not to mention the overall context.
The drama can be preserved even with the scales and measurements done correctly by writing the story to fit with accuracy... and things also make more sense for the viewers.
Sigh, you are taking this too seriously. You seem too focused on "universe" vs "galaxy". Nerys Myk nailed it. I've worked with scientists in the past, plus other "educated" folks who make such generalized comments/phrases that would go against the point you are trying to say.
You are being a pedantic snob. Outside of publishing papers and giving speeches/lectures, lot of scientists and other educated professionals do make such comments that might be technically misleading, but that's how conversations go, especially to relieve stress, have fun and relaxing, rather than having a stuffy workplace.
Hot take: most viewers won't care if the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across or 150,000. Close enough.
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