Redfern said:
What?! No suggestion about including a Bird-of-Prey, "...'cause they're so kewl"? Mean Joe, you're slipping!
Oh, and on a totally different subject, where did you acquire your avatar? That has got to be just about the cutest kitten I've seen! I'd love to get a larger resolution of that image. It looks like the lil' thing is giggling from being tickled.
MeanJoePhaser said:
The image was a yahoo story about rare white tiger cubs being born somewhere (in captivity obviously). It was several months ago. That cute li'l thing is probably big enough to rip your face off now.![]()
Well, to be precise, the Eminiar folks talk about using disruptors, but don't specify how they work. It's Mister Why Aren't You Sulu who says the screens are being hit and the resulting sonic vibrations are a really bizarre 18 to the 12th decibels.Kegek Kringle said:
Anyway, could CGI wizardry replace the nonsense idea of sonic weapons... in space?
Details are surprisingly hard to find on a casual web search, and my impression is that a distance isn't precisely worked out. It looks like NGC 321 is approximately 65 million parsecs -- that is, about 200 million light-years -- away. Maybe Kirk is talking about another NGC.And if memory serves, isn't the 'star cluster' named in this episode actually another galaxy? I love this episode, but parts of it aren't exactly TOS's science on a good day, let's say.![]()
Nebusj said:
It looks like NGC 321 is approximately 65 million parsecs -- that is, about 200 million light-years -- away. Maybe Kirk is talking about another NGC.
ancient said:
He got killed by one of the invisible ray beams o' death.
Kegek Kringle said:
Nebusj said:
It looks like NGC 321 is approximately 65 million parsecs -- that is, about 200 million light-years -- away. Maybe Kirk is talking about another NGC.
No, he was definitely talking about that one. I remember making a note of the star cluster and someone pointing out to me that this was a highly improbable one for that reason.
Incidentaly, cooleddie74, I'm glad to see they haven't added laser-beam effects to the weaponry. Their original omission was intentional, Eminian weapons were sonic - that is, they used sound.
No more improbably than having the Murasaki nebula from The Galileo Seven a "quasar-like formation". If we had a quasar in our neck of the Milky Way, Galileo himself would have discovered it, it would be so bright. Hell, the Babylonians would have discovered it. But this is all academic. If we had a local quasar, there probably wouldn't be any life on earth because of the radiation it would put out.Kegek Kringle said:
Nebusj said:
It looks like NGC 321 is approximately 65 million parsecs -- that is, about 200 million light-years -- away. Maybe Kirk is talking about another NGC.
No, he was definitely talking about that one. I remember making a note of the star cluster and someone pointing out to me that this was a highly improbable one for that reason.
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