Some Things Ive Never Understood About Star Trek Deep Space Nine

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Sandman


I disagree. Take a look at the DS9 episode 'Sacrifice of Angels' - where a gigantic Dominion fleet of reinforcements is erased by the Prophets as they travel through the wormhole. The writers wrote themselves into an impossible situation and were forced to use a stupid get-out clause in order to let the Federation win.

Yeah, that was horrible, as opposed to the standard "reverse the polarity" approach generally used in TNG.

[Brent]

Y'know, TNG technobabble had me fooled...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Yeah, that was horrible, as opposed to the standard "reverse the polarity" approach generally used in TNG.

[Dis]

yeah they should always have their equipment with the polarity reversed. Who designed this stuff?

[Boris Godunov]

But the best is that catapulting around the Sun will somehow send someone back in time, and catapulting back round the other way will return them to when they came from. Who would have ever guessed?

[Kuciwalker]

That's the fourth movie, isn't it? They slingshot in the Bird of Prey back to the 20th century?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
But the best is that catapulting around the Sun will somehow send someone back in time, and catapulting back round the other way will return them to when they came from. Who would have ever guessed?

hmm, so what happens if we put a big engine on the earth. Would we be able to accelerate and catapult around the sun? It would be great if we could send the entire planet back in time.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
That's the fourth movie, isn't it? They slingshot in the Bird of Prey back to the 20th century?

it was also in an episode of the old/original series.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
That's the fourth movie, isn't it? They slingshot in the Bird of Prey back to the 20th century?

It's the one when they go to Save the Whales, whichever number that is.

[Kuciwalker]

[Brent]

Ah, but you have to swing by the sun reeeally close. And shields. You need shields. And doesn't it require warpspeed?

Put a big engine on Earth. What's least possible here? Y'got shields big enough for the whole planet? And even with shields, the planet would be fried. Forget save the whales. What about global warming? And don't even think about sending the whole planet to warp speed. She canna take much more o' this, Cap'n! Oh, and what about the disturbance in the gravitational force on the other planets?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Brent
Ah, but you have to swing by the sun reeeally close. And shields. You need shields. And doesn't it require warpspeed?

Put a big engine on Earth. What's least possible here? Y'got shields big enough for the whole planet? And even with shields, the planet would be fried. Forget save the whales. What about global warming? And don't even think about sending the whole planet to warp speed. She canna take much more o' this, Cap'n! Oh, and what about the disturbance in the gravitational force on the other planets?

It's easy. we use replicators to replicate enough dilithium cyrstals and warp engines, and shield generators.

[Brent]

Replicate dilithium. Yeeeahhh... Structural Integrity Field too?

[Zoid]

Brent, you take this waaay to seriously

[Brent]

But that's the fun part. The whole point, really.