What does J.T. stand for?

[Dukhat]

Jay Tee.

 

[Tiberius]

Just a Target.

 

[Christopher]

Jehosaphat Terwilliger.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Jackass Twerp.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

This may be a dumb question, but does anyone have any idea what the J.T. in J.T. Esteban stands for? It seems a little odd that they'd give him the same first initials as James T. Kirk.

I can answer your question. Captain Jorge Tomas Esteban was named after... Nah, I'm shittin' you. No idea.

 

[BillJ]

Just Terrible?

 

[R. Star]

Just Terminated.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Justin Timberlake.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Junior Trekkie.

 

[Leto_II]

As for Esteban, following on from Christopher's suggestions... perhaps his first name is Jesus (hay-SUUS), but he goes by J.T. because he's tired of everyone calling him JEE-zus.

 

[RPJOB]

The Officer's Manual also completely screwed up the calculation of how much energy would be released by the annihilation of a given quantity of antimatter, but that's the sort of thing only a physics major would notice. I think they claimed that "Arena"-style photon grenades had an antimatter payload of something like a kilogram, or some quantity so excessive that it would be enough to raze a continent rather than just cause a localized explosion. I know, one shouldn't expect too much scientific accuracy from something like this, but still, the math is extremely simple -- E = mc^2 -- so it shouldn't have been that hard to figure out the actual proportions instead of just pulling some random number out of the air.

From Obsession:

KIRK: Antimatter seems our only possibility.
SPOCK: An ounce should be sufficient. We can drain it from the ship's engines and transport it to the planet surface in a magnetic vacuum field.

GARROVICK: Just think, Captain, less than one ounce of antimatter here is more powerful than ten thousand cobalt bombs.
KIRK; Let's hope it's as powerful as man will ever get.

SPOCK: There is still one problem, Captain.
KIRK: The blast, yes.
SPOCK: Exactly. A matter-antimatter blast will rip away half the planet's atmosphere. If our vessel is in orbit and encounters those shock wave

From the Antimatter Calculator

1 ounce of antimatter contains 1.22 megatons of destructive force. This is less of a yield than the most powerful H-bomb exploded to date.

http://www.edwardmuller.com/right17.htm

So a cobalt bomb has a yield of less than 120 tons of TNT (1.22 megatons/10,000). I don't think you can lay the blame of FASA for this one. Even the remastered version of the episode showed a large blast area on the planet. Antimatter in the Trek universe must be much, much more powerful than in ours. Just accept that the laws of physics are different in their universe and you'll save a fortune on aspirin.

The temperature of absolute zero is also less than ours.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Maybe they were just initials, like B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H.