It's not the length of the episode title but how exciting the climax is.
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It's not the length of the episode title but how exciting the climax is.
Not if you've been up partying all night. 
Girth units.
Brian Regan is a funny guy. I've listened to a lot of his clips on Sirius.
Still one of my favorite comedians. Jose Sarduay is a close second, but Regan is incredibly quotable.
Not if it's a red delicious.
The ships in the current productions look great but lack gravitas. I'd prefer seeing starships rumble majestically from left to right in empty space, or with subdued warp particle effects. than zooming, swerving and spinning in ridiculously dense asteroid fields, yet another nebula or overtly flashy warp tunnel. Less would be more.
Also, going to warp and coming out of it feels a bit too abrupt.
Also, going to warp and coming out of it feels a bit too abrupt.
Yeah, it's fine if it's a shuttle or La Sirena swooping around, but something as big as the Enterprise looks ridiculous when it does it. I think out of the current series, Lower Decks is the one that's doing the best job with how its starships move. Plus it has the prettiest space shots!
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Red delicious, two lies for the price of one.
My favorite.
Why do they insist on sending the USS Enterprise into Ultra Dense Asteroid fields when Shuttles should easily do the job and is more suited for the task?
I think a better question would be why do VFX people keep portraying asteroid fields like they do?
Even 'ultra dense asteroid fields' would look nothing like they do in Star Trek. The distances between asteroids would be ridiculously huge to the point where it would literally be impossible to hit them by accident (even by moving at very high sublight velocities as available on Trek).
The average distance between asteroids would be about 3.2 million km. At a minimum speed of 74 000 km/s, a starship would have 43 seconds to evade the asteroid.
Starships in Trek project a low level subspace field around their hull which lowers their inertial mass to virtually nothing. This is how large ships like the Enterprise-D are capable of maneuvering around like shuttles at sublight. Mind you, in Trek combat, even with those capabilities, its extremely difficult to impossible to evade phasers (unless auto targeting is disabled and your security officer is limited to manual targeting... in which case, evasion becomes a bit easier - but given the speeds at which both phasers and torpedoes are supposed to be moving at, even at high sublight speeds, it would be next to impossible to evade them unless you are jamming auto targeting or implementing counter measures that throws the computers off).
Because of Star Wars doing it like that first
There's a reason why I call them "Ultra Dense" Asteroid Fields instead of standard Asteroid Fields.
That's not what is being portrayed.
It lowers their mass sure, but not to the point where they can fly around like shuttles. At least that's not how they've been depicted in 99% of the stories I've seen. And in the episodes where a ship does make an unnaturally quick turn (like TNG's Booby Trap), it looks very... unnatural.
To be fair, in "Booby Trap", the Enterprise was slingshotted out of the field.
Because it looks cool.
To rotate around the Galaxy Class around that Asteriod without the usage of Impulse Drive and minimum power.
Those were some VERY POWERFUL RCS units + Precision Flying.
It doesn't look 'unnatural' to me.
Its scifi. Trek Humans have figured out how to use subspace fields to increase sublight speeds to 1/4 of lightspeed (at least) without major (or any relativistic effects)... as such, we've also seen that lowering the inertial mass of DS9 for example radically increased the station's mobility and maneuverability as well (even though it was very risky due to DS9's structural limitations and the fact it wasn't a starship - all of which O'Brien mentioned).
In Trek, earlier seasons had a tendency to semi accurately portray this technological utilisation... but modern Trek does it infrequently (it has moments when it does this, but to me, I find it 'unnatural' to see large Trek ships maneuvering slowly - they have advanced technology for a reason).
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