@Earl-of-Trumps saidUniversal translators, man.
Everybody on every planet that Star Trek personnel meet speaks English 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_translator
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@Earl-of-Trumps saidIn the first Star Trek movie, the Klingons all spoke Klingon, and there were subtitles.
Everybody on every planet that Star Trek personnel meet speaks English 🙂
There is, however, a glaring inconsistency about using sensors while traveling at warp speed. The Enterprise is traveling about warp 10, vastly faster than the speed of light, pursuing some other alien starship also traveling at warp 10. So how can they have any sensor data from the alien ship, when they’re both moving much faster than the speed of light? According to Einstein, it is impossible for information content to travel faster than the speed of light.
Phasers cannot work at warp speed either.
@moonbus saidimagine a pronghorn antelope being pursued by a very hungry lioness
In the first Star Trek movie, the Klingons all spoke Klingon, and there were subtitles.
There is, however, a glaring inconsistency about using sensors while traveling at warp speed. The Enterprise is traveling about warp 10, vastly faster than the speed of light, pursuing some other alien starship also traveling at warp 10. So how can they have any sensor data from the ali ...[text shortened]... ation content to travel faster than the speed of light.
Phasers cannot work at warp speed either.
the lioness (even at warp 10) detects the fear dribbling from the antelope (also at warp 10)
a glaring improbability, i agree
and yet i felt like arguing a point of physics that i do not, and prolly never will comprehend
@rookie54 saidBrooke Shields starred in a film she was too young to see in the cinema, though admittedly the nude scenes were filmed with an adult body double.
imagine a pronghorn antelope being pursued by a very hungry lioness
the lioness (even at warp 10) detects the fear dribbling from the antelope (also at warp 10)
a glaring improbability, i agree
and yet i felt like arguing a point of physics that i do not, and prolly never will comprehend
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not a glaring inconsistency, but a strange notion of my imagination
so many alien names in so many movies and television shows
when i voice them in my head they bring to mind the notion if they were a menu item i would prolly be tempted to sample the dish
this came to mind as i rewatch the stargate movie and spinoff television shows
to'kra even sounds like okra, a childhood treat
jaffa sounds like an overcooked cajun mudpuppy
tau'ri sounds like a sauce for vegetables
7of9 sounds like heartburn after great pleasure
@rookie54 said"Gorn" -- it does have a nice, woody sound to it, but there does seem to be a discrepancy re: their ability to cooperate enough to even have a nice meal together, let alone develop starships and other tech.
@Earl-of-Trumps
the gorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorn
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@Arkturos saidIt seems I forgot to mention that NASA allows astronauts to have tacos, but I hope they specified "soft-" rather than "hard-shelled" tacos, otherwise there would be the same problem as with bread crumbs. For that matter, why are hairy people or humans in general allowed into space? For Heaven's sake, please have some concern for the electronics!
Recently I learned that NASA does not allow bread in Earth orbit (because crumbs might get into this and that), so of course now I'm wondering how those sandwiches got onto the moon bus so many years from now.
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@moonbus saidIn the example you gave, wouldn't the two ships be almost but not quite stationary relative to one another? Plus, they would be traveling through subspace, and who knows what is allowed there. Subspace aside, I imagine some kind of bouncy tachyon emitters and receivers could be involved (considering that they already have real-time comms without any latency across vast distances).
There is, however, a glaring inconsistency about using sensors while traveling at warp speed. The Enterprise is traveling about warp 10, vastly faster than the speed of light, pursuing some other alien starship also traveling at warp 10. So how can they have any sensor data from the alien ship, when they’re both moving much faster than the speed of light? According to Einstei ...[text shortened]... ation content to travel faster than the speed of light.
Phasers cannot work at warp speed either.
Or maybe the pursuing ship could just interpret the wake and subspace disturbances of the other ship?
RE: "Phasers cannot work at warp speed either." I do agree with this and even more so about photon torpedoes -- that would be like facing windward and lighting some fireworks near your face.
@Earl-of-Trumps saidBunch of constipated colonizers.
Everybody on every planet that Star Trek personnel meet speaks English 🙂
i have this recurring fantasy that i am able to control all human minds at will
and yet
i would not require anyone to do anything that they would not already do willingly
i am disturbed by my own glaring inconsistency
wouldn't it be grand
to see the whole world mime
enclosed inside an invisible box
naked and sublime
@Arkturos saidAnd also, if NASA allows tacos but not bread: have they not considered the damage that could be caused by a bit of hamburger or a shred of lettuce or cheese getting into someone's eye or the electronics -- let alone crumbs from a hard-shell taco?
Recently I learned that NASA does not allow bread in Earth orbit (because crumbs might get into this and that), so of course now I'm wondering how those sandwiches got onto the moon bus so many years from now.
As the British might say: I think there was a lack of joined-up thinking there.
@Arkturos saidI wonder what Tabasco does to electronic circuits. I am not inclined to try this on my own Mac though.
And also, if NASA allows tacos but not bread: have they not considered the damage that could be caused by a bit of hamburger or a shred of lettuce or cheese getting into someone's eye or the electronics -- let alone crumbs from a hard-shell taco?
As the British might say: I think there was a lack of joined-up thinking there.