They would also have the technology to monitor the star beforehand, and realize that its instability made it unsuitable for a power source.
The best thing about Relics
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They would also have the technology to monitor the star beforehand, and realize that its instability made it unsuitable for a power source.
Yeah, but I always figured that was a throw away line to awkwardly hide the fact they used a standard household globe for a planet model that week.
At least they acknowledge that most people would recognize it instantly.
"Relics" was a great episode, from start to finish. One of my favorite parts is actually the conversation Picard had with LaForge in his Ready Room.
"One of the most important things in a person's life is to feel useful."
I've used that dialogue myself when the need called for it, particularly when talking to my wife about my mom and my wife's folks. It's possibly the best lesson of the episode... slightly edges out "Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away." (Which is a VERY close second, and something I live by. My truck will be 20 years old in March, and has 305,000 miles on it.)
"One of the most important things in a person's life is to feel useful."
I've used that dialogue myself when the need called for it, particularly when talking to my wife about my mom and my wife's folks. It's possibly the best lesson of the episode... slightly edges out "Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away." (Which is a VERY close second, and something I live by. My truck will be 20 years old in March, and has 305,000 miles on it.)
Relics.
I'm here to pay homage to one of the finest episodes for television ever aired.
It's just great sci-fi for one thing. Using a Dyson Sphere plot device.
And aside from the obvious:
#Scotty
And of course tilting the D through doors as they close.....
That makes it the hat-trick then don't it?
"To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never see again." - MS "Scotty"
I'm here to pay homage to one of the finest episodes for television ever aired.
It's just great sci-fi for one thing. Using a Dyson Sphere plot device.
And aside from the obvious:
#Scotty
And of course tilting the D through doors as they close.....
That makes it the hat-trick then don't it?
"To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never see again." - MS "Scotty"
Relics.
I'm here to pay homage to one of the finest episodes for television ever aired.
It's just great sci-fi for one thing. Using a Dyson Sphere plot device.
And aside from the obvious:
#Scotty
And of course tilting the D through doors as they close.....
That makes it the hat-trick then don't it?
"To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never see again." - MS "Scotty"
It still irks me a little that the Enterprise "corrected" itself after passing those hatch doors....why?
I wish Picard had told Scotty, "You broke the rule of engineers. You don't mess around with another man's ship."
I wish Picard had told Scotty, "You broke the rule of engineers. You don't mess around with another man's ship."
After Dr Brahms getting upset over Geordi fouling up her precious engines and acting as if she didn't give a damn if the Borg ate them all for dinner, on top of everything else...
Scotty was more realistic in that there can be unforeseen delays and other issues. Yeah, they camped it up "by a factor of four!" and the rest of it, but despite STV onward making Scotty the butt of too many jokes, "Relics" is also the story that gave Doohan so much more to do than most TOS combined and, damn, he's a fantastic and underrated actor...
That's for their planets. A Dyson sphere, built in the habitable zone and with tidal locking irrelevant (because it's perpetual day), could work. All you need is a stable star.
maybe starfleet likes ships to be oriented to something like the galactic plane when not in a system and the system's elliptic plane when in a system
...And was wrong. 
Doubly wrong in Trek: given the usual treknology, it makes no sense to surround a star with solar collectors. Those are just a damn nuisance when you can generate free power far more efficiently directly at the point of application.
Perhaps triply wrong, too: there's little point in choosing to live in space, as opposed to living on planets. Planets in Trek are free and bountiful and Earthlike, and getting up from their gravity wells is trivial. If need be, some automated industries can exist in space, but cluttering your beautiful sunlight with them just isn't worth the hassle.
Timo Saloniemi
Doubly wrong in Trek: given the usual treknology, it makes no sense to surround a star with solar collectors. Those are just a damn nuisance when you can generate free power far more efficiently directly at the point of application.
Perhaps triply wrong, too: there's little point in choosing to live in space, as opposed to living on planets. Planets in Trek are free and bountiful and Earthlike, and getting up from their gravity wells is trivial. If need be, some automated industries can exist in space, but cluttering your beautiful sunlight with them just isn't worth the hassle.
Timo Saloniemi
I think the vast majority of people do live on planets. They're just not the ones we're following in the show.
The episode had it's moments, but I hated how they treated Scotty in this one.
Yeah, especially at the end, 'do one'....
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