[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

your embedded images are too big and make your post look bad

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah star trek right now really can't seem to decide whether "space is cold" or not.

Of course, that's because the truth has just alittle bit of nuance to it, and nuance is hard for writers.
Space can be cold, depending on where you are, but its also barely even there. No atmosphere means no convection, and that means you're gonna be losing heat much too slowly for it to be your number one problem if you've just been spaced without a suit.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw a lot of opinions back in the day about it, and it almost seems like people were offended that they even tried to break the mold at all.

I don't actually mind Faith Of The Heart for the intro. My biggest problem with it is that its not an original song - it was written specifically for a movie that was completely unrelated to Star Trek.
I would probably appreciate it more if they wrote their own song for ENT - it could even be a country/pop song like FOTH, but it would still be a Star Trek song.
They definitely cherry picked the best bits of the song for the intro though. I like their cover more than the original.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, if you've watched TNG's early seasons, you've already heard this unused theme, in bits and pieces.
The very first piece of music heard in TNG ever (that isn't the intro itself) is a slower, less energetic (more introspective I guess?) version of that unused theme.
The main leitmotif itself appears all over early TNG.
I figure that, when Maccarthy was writing the early filler music, he assumed that his theme would become the main theme, and so heavily leaned into it when writing the filler music. Obviously, the main theme was tossed - but not his other music.

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Kinetic impulse weapons (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kargarocP4@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website

"Full Impulse" is generally considered to be 0.25c.
The force of an impact of a Voyager-sized (700 kilotons) mass at that speed would be many times greater than that of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
And I think its reasonable to assume that 0.25c isn't a hard limit, but rather an agreed-upon speed limit for starships.
If you could make an object go even faster, that energy goes up by a few orders of magnitude.
0.9c sounds doable. I don't know about any faster, but maybe?

At that speed, the force of Voyager hitting a planet would be at least hundreds of times greater than the aforementioned asteroid. This sounds like it would completely sterilize the planet.

Which begs the question, why don't we see weapons like this in star trek? I'd figure the Federation wouldn't use them, but the Federation isn't alone.

One argument I tend to see when this comes up is, that the shields would block it. Which then makes you think, if they could block that, then what couldn't they block? It makes them pretty much invincible. So I don't think that's it.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

code for "Prodigy is about to become super hot on pirate sites"

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[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, it's kinda more like SW hyperdrive than warp. Point-shoot-pray, can't see outside, can't change direction, lots of calculations needed to find an unobstructed path

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

She's got that Enterprise captain plot armor

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

They do that, and r/startrek dies. It'll be a hellscape and nobody will want to go there anymore.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Bonus points when they try to bring fate into it

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

For the record, if you want to stay on top of discussion on the front page, make sure you sort by new. I'd argue that should probably be the default for now.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Having not seen the episode, do some people get spaced?
If so, and assuming there isn't any other shenanigans, you don't need to worry about the cold. Space tends to be cold, but its also just barely even there. No air means no convection, and that means you'll only get cold very slowly. Much too slowly for it to matter in this situation.
Your biggest concerns are going to be preparation (don't hold your breath!) and getting back to an atmosphere as soon as possible.

The problem here is its kinda a meme. PIC S3 also did this, with Vadic, though she was a changeling.

[-] kargarocP4@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wanna see a r/shittydaystrom here as well
its such a fun sub

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