Warp Speed

[cbrunny]

uh... warp speed?

 

[Fritzo]

The streaks of light would actually be accurate when travelling FTL, but the lines of light would come at you in reverse of what they show on TV.

 

[cbrunny]

The other thing I don't understand about Star Trek is why they don't use the teleporter for other stuff.

I was watching an episode over lunch today where Riker gets some microbial infection from a spiky tree. The microbe spreads through his body and then he goes into a coma. Then I had to leave lunch to go back to work so don't tell me how it ends. But they knew that the infection was going to spread and spread quickly. They could have converted his matter into energy and left him in the transporter buffer where the microbe couldn't grow or reproduce, and thus wouldn't kill him. They had a sample as well, so I don't see why they left him conscious just waiting for the 42 minutes to tick by until they ultimately find some obscure solution in the last 4 minutes (sidenote, everyone should read Redshirts by Scalzi).

He wouldn't even perceive a passage of time (presumably. Picard didn't at least when he was converted into energy earlier in the series).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

If the students can't explain plaid speed I would not trust anything else they say.

 

[Fritzo]

The other thing I don't understand about Star Trek is why they don't use the teleporter for other stuff.

I was watching an episode over lunch today where Riker gets some microbial infection from a spiky tree. The microbe spreads through his body and then he goes into a coma. Then I had to leave lunch to go back to work so don't tell me how it ends. But they knew that the infection was going to spread and spread quickly. They could have converted his matter into energy and left him in the transporter buffer where the microbe couldn't grow or reproduce, and thus wouldn't kill him. They had a sample as well, so I don't see why they left him conscious just waiting for the 42 minutes to tick by until they ultimately find some obscure solution in the last 4 minutes (sidenote, everyone should read Redshirts by Scalzi).

He wouldn't even perceive a passage of time (presumably. Picard didn't at least when he was converted into energy earlier in the series).

That episode was a result of running out of production money at the end of the season, so they used that plot as a "flashback" episode. Flashbacks are a lost art on TV these days.

 

[Fritzo]

If the students can't explain plaid speed I would not trust anything else they say.

I'd argue that's more Flannel speed, which is slower than Plaid speed.

 

[cbrunny]

That episode was a result of running out of production money at the end of the season, so they used that plot as a "flashback" episode. Flashbacks are a lost art on TV these days.

That episode was, hands down, the worst episode of Star Trek I've ever seen. They'd have been better off just showing the enterprise doing donuts around planets for 42 minutes than that drivel. haha

 

[nakedfrog]

The other thing I don't understand about Star Trek is why they don't use the teleporter for other stuff.

I was watching an episode over lunch today where Riker gets some microbial infection from a spiky tree. The microbe spreads through his body and then he goes into a coma. Then I had to leave lunch to go back to work so don't tell me how it ends. But they knew that the infection was going to spread and spread quickly. They could have converted his matter into energy and left him in the transporter buffer where the microbe couldn't grow or reproduce, and thus wouldn't kill him. They had a sample as well, so I don't see why they left him conscious just waiting for the 42 minutes to tick by until they ultimately find some obscure solution in the last 4 minutes (sidenote, everyone should read Redshirts by Scalzi).

He wouldn't even perceive a passage of time (presumably. Picard didn't at least when he was converted into energy earlier in the series).

In TNG, Scotty had put himself in the transporter buffer and was there for decades before they found him (in the episode with the Dyson sphere).