And a meter is not a metre.True. A metre, however, is a unit of measurement for length. Problem solved.
Unless you're American and confusing matters. But then they speak in cups, football pitches and Statues of Liberty.
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Unless you're American and confusing matters. But then they speak in cups, football pitches and Statues of Liberty.
Fields. Football fields.
The only Voyager technical manual was an internal guide for the writers so they could maintain basic consistency in terminology when writing their drafts. It wasnāt meant as a mass-consumption, all-accurate document.
That is not a rational explanation.
But, then, this is Hollywood.
They don't understand logic.
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In 1972, as I was being introduced to something 'called ' the seventh grade, the Science class introduced me to physics, thence to something "called ", the Metric System...
It amuses me that the Franz Joseph 'Booklet of General Plans:Con
Constitution Class ' has one inch is equal to ten meters.
This technically is considered to forbidden. Because you are mixing Apples and Goldfish.
But, personally? I go back and forth, with feet and meters...
Just to drive some people batty.
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Itās perfectly logical in terms of telling a story. Star Trek isnāt a documentary.
You spend a lot of time with the people who make Star Trek, do you?
People really underestimate how hard it is to actually make a movie or tv show, and just assume all of Hollywood is stupid or ignoring fans.
Making a movie sucks. Even a fan film is a lot more labor intensive with a lot more moving parts than people think about. It's not as easy as it seems to just have everything fit in with the continuity of previous entries when you're on a budget, a timetable, and have to deal with the human factor across every single job. I'm not sitting in that damn makeup chair for five hours again just because someone got a throwaway reference or number wrong.
Making a movie sucks. Even a fan film is a lot more labor intensive with a lot more moving parts than people think about. It's not as easy as it seems to just have everything fit in with the continuity of previous entries when you're on a budget, a timetable, and have to deal with the human factor across every single job. I'm not sitting in that damn makeup chair for five hours again just because someone got a throwaway reference or number wrong.
Seems like a lot of hardcore tech nerds have lost the objectivity to recognize this is all entertainment.
And in other news, rain is wet. 
Right. It doesn't matter. So leave it the way it was. Was someone not entertained by 947 feet / 289m?
I am simultaneously being told that this has no bearing on anything AND being told that the new number is better or makes more sense. How can it be better if it has no bearing on anything?
Personally I would be more satisfied if they had changed it to the actual scale size of the model they use. THAT would be wildly entertaining, IMHO.
I'd like them to throw a monkey wrench into trek tech fans one day by stating that all warp speed is actually nearly instantaneous as FTL travel already violates causation. It's the course corrections, relative motion of the two locations being visited, gravity, and deceleration that takes so much time. So time spent traveling has only partial bearing on the actual arrival time to a destination.
My issue is that nobody gets into the business to make bad entertainment. Not actors, not writers, no one.
Our subjective opinions about the outcome of those endeavors notwithstanding, everyone is trying to make something good.
No network dumps millions of dollars at someoneās feet without believing that as well.
It sounds like youāre saying that since it doesnāt matter, it really really matters?
we call them soccer fields.
Not if you're referring to the sport that you call football, otherwise that would get very confusing.
I've also never heard of Americans quote in soccer fields, it's always football
But surely a football field is where you grow footballs?Fields. Football fields.
No, those are football fields. Unless you use the same stadium for both, then it gets confusing, as in my home town. Our Football Club's season is ending in a few weeks but our football team's season is just starting and they share the same stadium, which can be annoying as you can see the marks of the football gridiron faintly on the soccer pitch when the football club is playing home games at the stadium. there, hope that was confusing.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the āimpossibleā come true.
Every bit of this.
I mean, look how fast the TOS ship got back to the Kalandan outpost to save Kirk, McCoy and Sulu from the Losira holograms. By THAT point the Losira modifications had been stopped and the ship was no longer traveling fast enough to cover 990.7 light years in the space of mere hours or even minutes. But sure enough Spock comes to the rescue soon after Scotty stops the engine modifications from blowing up the Enterprise.
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