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> In this game there are more than a 100 million stars, which is actually on the conservative side of estimates for the Milky Way.

You're out by three orders of magnitude - it's 100 billion. And that should be star systems, rather than stars, with the majority being doubles.

I'd suggest a more accessible demonstration - Space Engine. Bump up the star magnitude limit with ], and you can zip from one side of the galaxy to the other with a view like this at 100 light years per second (roughly warp 9.9999999999995), for 15 minutes solid. And then you can move the view a few hundred light years up or down - not even following the disc of the galaxy along, turn around, and do the same thing back again, barely seeing any of the same stars twice.

If you watched 10,000 new stars zip past every second, you'd still be going in 4 months time.

Actually, that's been a thing since at least 1991; the <em>TNG Technical Manual</em> Rick Sternbach wrote is the earliest reference to it I can recall offhand. To be fair, Discovery was the first on-screen reference to it.

The Star Trek Destiny book trilogy already gave an incredible Borg origin story. It's one of the best Star Trek novels ever, in my opinion.

Go read Homecoming and Farther Shore. Those should make you happy.

Yes because it indexed insanity. I took a class with a Orthodox Jewish law professor who also happened to be a lawyer. There’s also a good discussion of it in this book:

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3627888.html

Edit:

Also this book contains a discussion of the discourses and evolution of Jewish law on the death penalty which changed from Biblical to classical to Medieval Times.

https://www.amazon.com/Execution-Invention-Discourse-Rabbinic-Christian/dp/0195179196/ref=nodl_

Israel’s de facto ignoring of the law in practice aside, de jure the death penalty is supposed to be all but forbidden in Israel due to the Rabbinical law on it. Eichmann is an obvious exception (and there’s a few justifications for why that was allowed), as is, yknow, their policy of assassination and carpet bombing, but there are, in fact, sub segments of Orthodox Jews who won’t serve in the IDF, ON TOP of the other normal reasons, bc they view it as in violation of the laws.

Also David Daube has a good analysis of the Talmudic law on executions, etc. so, for example, if an oppressive power demand you turn over a specific person for execution one is allowed to do so for the sake of self preservation, but one is not allowed to do so for “any odd person” (Hayes, p 189, 2017). The two things of note are that people are enjoined to self preservation in light of oppression & a murderous state, and one can’t be complicit in the murder of another or oneself.

> and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities

Just wanted to point out that sieges have been much more important throughout history than is commonly known, arguably more important than pitched battles. Blockades of the naval type are sieges on a national scale and have more of an impact on the course of a war than any pitched battle.

That being said, I feel like that translation was trying a little too hard to be poetic and prefer this rendition of that particular line:

> Therefore, the best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city.

An attack and a siege are very much not the same thing, as "siege" comes from the latin for "sit". I don't know what the original text for The Art of War says but the common mental image of a siege being about assaulting a castle with battering rams and ladders is generally not how they were done.

> those plans would generally involve isolating the core worlds from necessary supplies to weaken their ability to resist, and prevent the enemy from doing that to you--hence all the action around minor planets.

Dramatically, all the action around minor planets is driven more by the sentiment of For Whom the Bell Tolls: to underscore the horrors of war by showing people suffering and dying over what seems like a meaningless speck of territory. The higher ups deem it significant enough to send people there to die but there's no guarantee that it ultimately matters. We don't know for sure whether all the actions around minor planets is warranted and that's the point.

One thing that everyone seems to forget about this episode is that the timeline had been altered when Captain Braxton crash landed in 1967 and Starling stole his time ship and technology. Starling becoming bigger than Bill Gates completely changed history, so the 1996 that Voyager arrived to was from a completely different timeline than the one in their history books where the Eugenics Wars took place. At the end of the episode after Starling and the time ship are destroyed, a different Captain Braxton, who has no memories of the events of the episode (until they turned around and screwed that up later), arrives from the future to return Voyager back to 2373 and correct the timeline. Presumably also fixing everything that was changed by Starling. At least, that's what I took away from the episode.

From the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 323), "The destruction of the timeship and the death of Starling apparently prevented the temporal explosion in the 29th century that had originally caused Braxton and the Aeon to go back into the past. It is nevertheless unclear what happened to the 20th century events in the altered timeline. One might infer that all of Starling's "innovations" disappeared in the altered timeline. However, the holographic doctor's autonomous holoemitter did not disappear, suggesting that some effects of Braxton's 1967 crash remained, even in the altered timeline."

Was this the quote you were thinking of?

> The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

This wouldn't work because you would still have to store the problem of where to store the pattern for the reprogrammable matter, and if you could store the pattern, you could store the information directly (likely using less space). We already have technical solutions to store lots of information in very little space in the 21st century, think about 1TB micro SD cards. If you replaced 3.5" hard drives with those we would drastically reduce the physical space needed to store data. I'd expect they've improved on that technology a good deal long before they would create reprogrammable matter.

You can't "enhance" detail which isn't there, but computer algorithms CAN make informed predictions about missing detail. Here's a website that you can use right now and try for yourself.

OMG you're serious. They do: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) eBook: Bennett, Christopher L.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

In Beta Canon, the barrier outside our galaxy is indeed keeping something out. Both barriers were erected by the Q Continuum to deal with a couple of Q's asshole friends; one being the god-who-needs-a-starship, the other being a dickhead higher being who enjoys destroying things and is responsible for the death of the T'Kon Empire.

It's a 3-book series if anybody wants to read it. Here's the first book: https://smile.amazon.com/Continuum-Star-Trek-Next-Generation/dp/0743485084

Should be noted that while there are some canonical issues with what has been said the Star Charts have been used as a reference for Discovery.

So who knows but I've often wondered about this as well. I recently posted about how Unification 1&2 makes no sense when you consider the star charts. Even without them it's problematic because Vulcan is a core planet 16 light years from Earth.

The problem is writers weren't driven by stellar cartography, rather just trying to write provocative stories. DS9 being at the crossroads of all those powers worked better from a story standpoint, especially when the Dominion War started heating up.

Edit - By the way, the updated star charts are being released next month, so well see if they address some issues.

https://trekcore.com/blog/2018/08/updated-star-trek-stellar-cartography-maps-coming-to-print-in-october/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0760363811

In the picture we see two Andorian representatives in uniform, two Caitians, and a number of (apparent) Humans. We know Andorians possess a warlike culture, and although we don't know as much about Caitians, they're clearly based on some of Earth's fiercest predators: cats. It makes sense they'd have a warlike culture, too.

While at first this may seem reprehensible, let us remember that Sun Tzu's The Art of War is remarkable for its humanitarianism, while Machiavelli's The Prince is a guidebook for a despot. Could it be that Andorian and Caitian soldiers discharge their duties honorably as servants of the people instead of as pawns and perpetrators of a military/industrial complex? Could it be that after serving with distinction in Starfleet, after proving themselves to embody the bravery, integrity, and curiosity integral to that organization, that the highest ranking officers amongst their people are then elected or appointed to the Federation Council? It's noteworthy that these are some of the very first alien officers we see on screen, yet they have still risen through the ranks to the highest escelons of Starfleet. They must be exemplary individuals.

Indeed, and and what I'm wanting to grasp is what made it cheap, when the resources became worth it...

Secondly, they are not that in parallel...bare in mind, that exploration of the New World was never as expensive as it is to get in to space.

Christopher Columbus's trip 1492 trip cost $2,000,000 in today's money, that's the same as 6 hours for one person on the ISS.

Columbus needed skilled crew, but no more so then most sailing ships of its day.

Within a few years of Columbus's journey, anyone could sign up as an ordinary soldier and get to see the new world. We're 55 years years in and still it's still out of sight. Nothing yet has been found that's worth sending skilled labourers out to. How much useful stuff is needed to be found in, say, an asteroid, before there are enough specialists working up there that they start wanting people with 'only' a basic university education? What could could turn Mars into a place worth going to? when will it be worth building a hotel in Earth Orbit? In Trek, and many others, such colonial efforts were being done before Aliens were contacted. So...why?

> What are those comics called?

Simply enough, "Star Trek: Khan". Available via Comixology.

This is actually a good article on &quot;The Economics of Star Trek&quot; that might give you a better breakdown of how people today think things in the 24th century would work.

If you really want to know the answer to this, you should read the &quot;Deep Space Nine Technical Manual&quot;, written by Herman Zimmerman and Rick Sternbach. It completely lays out the work Starfleet did to upgrade DS9.

Retroactively we can see the flaws present in the system that led to the inevitable crises and wars of the noughties, but at the time these issues were largely ignored in the west, and pax Americana was presumed to last for another century at least.

The end of the cold war was seen by many to be the end of war itself: &quot;not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.&quot;

Rightly or wrongly, I think that there's a popular conception that emotions drive quick, but hasty thinking and that logic and rationality emphasizes a slower, deliberative approach. The book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel prize winning author Daniel Kahneman is what my mind jumps to first, and quoting from that wiki page,

>The central thesis is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

It seems to me that Vulcans have chosen to suppress System 1 thinking, and encourage System 2. Of course, there are cognitive biases that can occur in either system, but they seem to spring more from System 1 than 2. I also don't think it's surprising that Vulcans, and some humans, value System 2 over System 1, as it's our logical and rational thinking that we identify as what most separates us from other animals. Homo Sapiens, after all.

Well we got a taste of what it would be like in Resolutions

Tuvok was the Captain for around six months. He was a good one, but due to his Vulcan nature there were conflicts with the crew.

He showed that he was not inflexible as well by ceding to the wishes of the crew in regards to the cure.

steps out of the cryo-stasis chamber

Ahem, visitor from the 90s here. That "probably" forum was Usenet, which would have felt very familiar to redditors. There might even be historical records of the discussions we had.

That said, I do remember watching DS9 more regularly than, say, Farscape a little later on. Now that was a tough show to follow without binge-watching.

> The PD doesn’t apply to lost human colonies that have no warp capability.

We discussed this only last week, and opinions were divided. It's not that clear-cut.

I, personally, do not agree that the Prime Directive does not apply to Human colonies that have no warp capability. Or, at least, I think it depends on whether the colony in question remembers about interstellar travel and other species. If they've truly forgotten their origins, if they don't have faster-than-light space travel, if they've forgotten about the Federation and any other space-going civilisations, then there is no difference between them and any other pre-warp society. They should be left alone to their own devices.

> if the Mintakans are related to Vulcans

The Mintakans are described as "vulcanoid", not as being descended from Vulcans. Remember that non-Human species are often described as "humanoid" without implying that they're descended from Humans. The suffix "-oid" denotes form or resemblance, not relatedness. Therefore, the Mintakans are merely like Vulcans, rather than being descended from Vulcans. There's nothing which says, or even implies, that they're a lost Vulcan colony. They evolved independently (or as independently as a species can in a galaxy where many planets were seeded with DNA from an ancient humanoid species!) to end up similar to Vulcans.

>Has anyone ever used the Holodeck as a communication tool?

In DS9: 'Doctor Bashir, I Presume'. The Bashirs talk to a lawyer on earth using a holoprojector, that suggests that they could be used to replace view screens. It also means that the bandwith is good enough to have face-face communication at ridiculous distance.

I have the clip.

The answers you seek can be found in this comic:

Khan: Ruling in Hell

Been a few years since I've read it, but I remember them figuring out the mind control in it. It was a great story.

We can't see planets that far away. The furthest one we have found so far is about 13,000 ly away. And that was only found thanks to microlensing.

Even with the most advanced telescopes we have, we can only barely image exoplanets. The largest ones are no more than a few pixels.

Even with the most powerful telescope we could conceivably build, one that uses the sun as a gravitational lens, we could only get basic images of very nearby planets. It would be a pretty massive undertaking.

There is no way we could see a starship or starbase, at least not startrek sized ones, lightyears away. It would even be a challenge to see them in our own solar system.

This was the original concept for Insurrection, more or less, with Data as Kurtz.

http://www.metafilter.com/99091/He-might-have-read-the-document-when-he-was-tired-at-the-end-of-a-long-day-of-being-tied-to-a-whale

Human sexuality is a social construct negotiated through cultural exchange and convention (see Foucault's History of Sexuality). There is no reason to suspect that non-humans do not have relationships, social conventions or mores that escape the confines of 20th century western heteronormativity.

In addition, sexual orientation is not a binary but a spectrum or a continuum upon which people identify various roles and behaviors that are similar to their own sexual preferences.

That said, I think The House Of Quark pretty much sums up the patriarchal male domination of Klingon society, because while Grilka is a perfectly capable Klingon woman (or as Quark says, "FEEEMALE"), although she is much smarter than her contemporaries, she is unable (by law) to head her own house. It might be that homosexual male Klingon marriages are a strategic trade off, because while you effectively have two heads of the house, you don't have any legitimate progeny (unless surrogate parenthood is a thing, probably not since blood relationships are so important to Klingons). Lesbian klingon couples probably have a real shit time in traditional society.

Don't have any with me, but I think the old Franz Joseph manuals from the 70s used to have crew breakdowns. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Fleet-Technical-Manual/dp/0345340744

I actually disagree completely with your central objection here. You object that OP conflates emotions and morals, and state that you don't need one to have the other. I think that you absolutely do need emotions to have morals, and Vulcan's as a hypothetical aren't even a good imaginary test case for an example of people who have no emotions who do have morals for exactly the reason that they DO have emotions. Very strong emotions, in fact so strong that their entire planet turned to suppressing their emotions in a last ditch effort to achieve any kind of lasting culture.

I don't see how you're drawing a line between desire and emotion. What is desire if not an emotion? What is it to say you desire something if there is no emotion driving it? In my view, the nature of desire/emotion/value judgement is not nearly so clear cut.

You're right that Data has desires, and he also clearly has things he values. In my view, these behaviors constitute emotional states, although his outward expression of these emotions and his subjective experience of them are clearly very different from a human beings. That isn't to say he is flawed or broken, only that he is different. He is mistaken when he says he has no emotions, when what he really means is that he doesn't have the subjective experience of emotions that humans have. The emotion chip provides him with that subjective experience, but this is a change in how he experiences emotions, not the create of emotion ex nihilo.

For more about emotions and morals, I would refer you to The Emotional Construction of Morals by Jesse Prinz. No need to read it if you have no interest in the subject, but if it sparks your interest I found it to be a really great read on moral sentimentalism/emotionism.

Excepting all the lens flare, the new LCARS layouts in the new movies are actually pretty darn neat looking. I have a New Trek LCARS Theme for my Android phone and it looks fantastic.

Looks like I oversimplified the Apollo 13 situation. According to this article ( https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-did-the-astronauts-on-apollo-13-survive-the-cold_b_5a3b256ee4b06cd2bd03d7f3 ), they did not have a dedicated heating system. Instead, their spacecraft was kept cool enough by way of reflective surfaces, and warm enough by the waste heat coming from the ship's systems. When the accident forced a shutdown of those systems, it took three days before the cold became uncomfortable.

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Conclusion: The heat we need to pipe in for people, even in present day spaceships, is readily supplied by waste heat from the ship.

Fine.

&quot;An historical overview&quot;. I checked this one, it's at 2:10 on Netflix.

There are numerous examples, not sure why you guys are finding this so hard to believe.

I once googled this issue and found an old thread of Star Trek fans discussing it in 1991. Pretty interesting to see what people thought early on in the show.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.startrek/GGq3TEp9Ndc

Was just coming here to post this.

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There are a number of "random identity generators" (programmers use them for testing software) on Github that do this very thing - pull an image from This Person Does Not Exist (or similar site) & pull random data from the various government census data to create a "person".

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If this can be done today on a single PC, it would be negligible for a 24th century computer to come up with a "full life story" for any holodeck NPC.

Well I think your question has two layers and takes a bit of a different turn from the title compared to that in the body of the post.

To answer your basic question -- would a simulation of a location; let's say Paris, have simulations based on real people, or AI generated generic people walking around.

I think the answer is that they would be computer generated random NPCs (non-playable characters). You might not be able to even talk to them besides saying "hello!" and they might have some canned responses and maybe some AI driven responses (already coming a long way) like a chat bot. The people's appearance would be completely randomly generated like those at:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Which load's a human face that is AI generated. Just keep hitting refresh to see more people.

I think unless the program was designed as more interactive, or immersive, you wouldn't really be able to leave the immediate area. You might find "road blocks" like you would in a video game. Like a bridge being closed or a transporter or shuttlecraft being unavailable to leave the area.

Not usually. At least not on any scale that would cause a huge drift between planetary and traveling twins. https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation suggests that even traveling at .5C for a full year would only net you a month of difference and that would get us well clear of a solar system.

However, in Beta Cannon, they have been known to (ab)use this property. The NX-02 Columbia accelerated to some large portion of C after it's warp drive was knocked out. Took them like 2 months to travel to the nearest solar system, their time, but hundreds of years to the rest of the universe.

>telescopes that we have right now

I did some math:

Google tells us that the angular resolution of earth from 70k lightyears is: arcsin ( (radius of earth) / (70000 lightyears)) * 2=1.93*10^-14 rad

Plugging this into an online telescope diffraction limit calculator with a mid-visible wavelength of 600 nm tells us how wide a telescope we'd need to resolve Earth down to at least 2 pixels: 38,000 km wide. Easily achievable by dispersing a few synchronized telescopes around the ship and pointing them to Earth to do some kind of aperture synthesis. (Though they would probably need one hell of a shadow mask to block out light from the Sun!)

It falls down to colloquialisms, regional dialects, and preferences. In the US, it is acceptable to say "She went to the hospital" rather than "She went to hospital" and would actually sound awkward skipping "the." The reverse is true in many other countries.

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/preposition%20hospital

>While others have already hinted at the hilarity which ensues when the holodeck meets a table,

Everyone is underestimating the power of a binary or tree search, and has probably never come across the Akinator The Wise.

For those who don't know, you pick a person, and Akinator tries to deduce who you are thinking of by asking a series of questions.

It doesn't take that many questions before it has come to a reasonable conclusion... Give it a try.

>The wehrmacht was not the same group of villains as the Nazi Party hierarchy, although certainly complicit. Their values, while murderous, were an older version that was more commonplace in Europe.

This is not exactly accurate and I believe you might enjoy Hitler's Army for morehttps://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Army-Soldiers-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0195079035

>He is a "being-shaped hole," far more pure and potent in the nightmare he depicts than the oil monster from TNG.

This is what Arendt said about Eichmann--that there's just no thinking in there, just a pile of cliches.

I'd imagine that Zakdorn novels and epics would mostly focus on wars and the tactics strategies used to win them. Imagine something like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but more detailed when it comes to the details of military operations. They'd also probably have their own equivalent of The Art of War.

This poses some interesting questions about the nature of a hologram's consciousness, but even in our current times, we have efficient automatic merge algorithms, machine-assisted manual merging, CRDTs, binary diffs, etc. Basically exploring differences between revisions/branches of different kinds of data is considered an elemental operation in the relevant fields.

But that's correct English grammar:

> With personal names that end in -s: add an apostrophe plus s when you would naturally pronounce an extra s if you said the word out loud.

> With personal names that end in -s but are not spoken with an extra s: just add an apostrophe after the -s.

We wouldn't say "Lieutenant Torres's recorder", with three syllables in "Torres's".

The differentiation seems to be whether the final s is after a vowel sound, or if it's after a consonant sound. So, in "Charles", the final sound is a combined "-lz", and we add the extra syllable: "charlz-ez". But in "Torres", the final sound is a stand-alone "-ez", so we don't add the extra syllable.

Here's a link to the book on Amazon UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Star-Trek-trade-hardcover/dp/0671898043/ref=sr\_1\_10?crid=3BK2V6M1VABYB&amp;keywords=Judith+Reeves-Stevens&amp;qid=1665504193&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=judith+reev...

From the size of the Federation presented in Star Charts, (portions of which have been canonized by forming the basis of on-screen maps), very likely. That source presents known space as 1,500 light years in diameter (vs. the galaxy's diameter of over 100,000 light years, making it only a tiny portion of either quadrant.

Fanficiton has always been part of Star Trek, and TOS literally birthed slashfiction as a result of Kirk and Spock (regardless of how you feel about that).

Obviously there are going to be a lot of different feelings about that. But, if you look at the plethora of already existing Star Trek comics - covering many, many different stories - a lot of them aren't canon already. There have been comic lines for a really long time and some of the early ones very much contradict established lore (much like the different book canons).

In spirit, I feel like fan-made comics are great. One of my favorites is Chief O'Brien At Work which plays off satire a little bit more and is clearly not canon. Back in the day, there was a series of humorous comic books called Trektoons which are sadly out of print - I can't seem to find a PDF anywhere of any of the three books, but they tended to skewer Star Trek and sci-fi in general and were pretty funny.

As far as serious Star Trek comics are concerned, I always liked the IDW comics, and I think that a labor of fan love to make comics would probably be well received. Make me an alien of the week comic with great characters and artistry that isn't hot garbage and I'd read it every week (or day or whatever.)

Not necessarily. For example, there are a stable isotopes of Uranium, and you can even literally just...buy it on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=uranium&amp;qid=1663447785&amp;sr=8-2

It's a violation but I've always thought the issue was more complex than was shown. It would be cool if a 25th century show circled back to the issue because the debate inside the Federation probably would be pretty polarizing.

The Ba'ku and Son'a aren't native to that world and as we come to learn later not pre-warp. Also, the region if not the specific system was considered to be part of Federation space, though clearly not aligned as they have not made contact.

I think in-universe even at Starfleet it would be a topic of great debate. Essentially 600 immigrants live as immortals on a planet inside the sphere of influence (or protection) of the Federation. A planet that could benefit billions even through more benign study and cooperation.

Not saying you're wrong at all just it's always been an interesting wrinkle to me. This is why we need an &quot;Articles of the Federation&quot; style series to tackle these types of internal political issues. A series that shows the hard task of implementing Federation principles and balancing many factions.

Natural selection plays a role on selecting behaviors. In human society, it slowly weeds out violence. It’s covered in this book, https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0143122010 . Romulan martial society will select for behavior traits like secrecy, against crime, etc.

> Any challenges regarding the material and technology?

I belive you want this book: TNG Tech Manual

It's a good read, and it answers all your questions. Yes, that one, too.

If you liked DS9 you should definitely also check out Babylon 5.

Anyway, yeah. Great show. Since you've finished, give What We Left Behind a look. You'll want to see it.

Brain function, for starters. And there are indications that life itself is connected to quantum phenomena.

This is part of a larger question. Considering the diversity of beings in the universe and the multitude of different possible forms of communication, how does the UT deal with non spoken languages?

According to TOS "Metamorphosis", the universal translater works by interpreting brainwaves and deciphering it into language.

COCHRANE: What's the theory behind this device?

KIRK: There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life. This device instantaneously compares the frequency of brainwave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognises, and then provides the necessary grammar.

SPOCK: Then it translates its findings into English.

COCHRANE: You mean it speaks?

KIRK: With a voice or the approximation of whatever the creature is on the sending end. Not one hundred percent efficient, but nothing ever is.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130115194224/http://www.chakoteya.net/startrek/31.htm

The best explanation I've come across for how stardates work was in the second book of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' Milennium trilogy. It's probably non-canonical, but they give the theory and in-universe science of it a closer look than I've seen elsewhere.

https://tinyurl.com/y76byccu (Google Books link)

If she had deactivated the safeties, you would have seen it, she did not, she went into the room and straight up the stair ladder.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51t084
Jump to 40:15 or so to just see the scene in question.

Once she got in in front of the door it opens by itself.

Clearly, she went to that room and walked up to that field knowing she was supposed to jump through it, if she had needed to deactivate a safety protocol to do so she would have on her way there, there are no cuts, clearly she did not stop.

Even just doing a Sunday drive at Full Impulse and hitting a 1 ounce clump of space dust at .25c going is about the same as the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. If a starship doesn't have almost Clarketech sendors, energy shielding and deflector fields that push right up against our understanding of real world physics, it would blow itself up doing the things we see it do on TV. It wouldn't even last long enough to show up at a battle for someone to shoot at it. And yes, space is mostly empty, and most of space doesn't have a 1 oz. clump of anything floating around. But the narrative tends to take ships near interesting phenomena that seem to have plenty of cool looking stuff going on. And at .25c, you can cover a lot of distance very quickly. I am a bit too lazy to do the math on how long it would take to hit that much material at that speed, but in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't necessarily be all that long.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/relativistic-ke?c=USD&amp;v=v:.25!c,m:1!oz

https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-energy-from-MJ-to-kT.html?val=83560725

(I couldn't find a convenient calculator for doing relativistic KE directly in kT, so the first link will do it in MJ, and the second link will convert from MJ to kT, which is a little more obvious at this scale.

Only vaguely related: I've done a lot of amateur game development with Inform 7 and it's astonishingly newbie-friendly... once you get the hang of the fact that, although its language looks like regular English, it's actually a programming language.

Markdown interprets four spaces preceding a paragraph as preformatted text, which is making your post very difficult to read. Can you remove the spaces you have in front of your paragraphs?

I've mostly left Reddit. I gradually dropped all my responsibilities and commitments, until Daystrom was the last thing holding me here. However, ultimately, I let even this subreddit go. It was a very hard decision: I was very committed to Daystrom for nearly 6 years.

But Reddit is becoming more and more toxic, and I got sick of trying to hold back the tide. Even while I was here, the quality of discourse kept decreasing, despite my and my fellow moderators' best efforts. So, if there has been a recent decline, I assure you that it's only a continuation of a trend which started even before we created Daystrom.

You can now find me on https://tildes.net.

But I do come back to Reddit occasionally. I just posted this here.

Not to mention that it forces you to summarize your findings to fit "above the fold" on a small tablet. Imagine Seven of Nine's first interdepartmental email and how many pages it must have been before someone taught her tablet etiquette!

When the rule of thumb is "if it fits on a pad, no-one gets mad" it probably creates a healthy culture similar in concept to Amazon's memo culture. [1] [2]

[1] https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115686 - discussion of the above

P.S. If you don't mind me asking, what industry are you in? I wish that tablet culture was more commonplace.

It should be noted that FTL Alcubierre Drive requires negative energy density which might not even have any meaning in reality. It's just a mathematical construct that isn't disallowed by the equations of General Relativity but by that same metric, you could get antigravity in Newtonian Gravitation simply by having negative mass.

The thing about the Einstein Field Equations is that when you have a system of ten differential equations, there are a lot of solutions to them. You could get a pretty hefty book listing just some of them, but just because there's a solution doesn't necessarily mean that that solution has any physical meaning. The Alcubierre Drive was arrived at by starting with a desired outcome and working backwards to see what conditions it would take. Whether those conditions are even possible wasn't really a consideration.

Some researchers have recently done more work studying the Alcubierre Drive and found that it is theoretically possible to achieve without entering "here there be dragons" territory. It takes the energy equivalent of a Jupiter mass to achieve (a big improvement over the previous "more energy than in the entire observable universe by orders of magnitude), but perhaps the more important thing to note is that it's not FTL unless that inconvenient negative energy density thing is brought back in.

The other thing is that Star Trek doesn't use Alcubierre Drives, but hyperspace like most other space opera works. Okay, it may be called subspace, but it's fundamentally hyperspace in every way but name. Thus, it does break the known laws of physics, therefore there is no way to accurately depict Warp Drive.

While beta canon at best, the travel guide to the Klingon Empire (https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Universe-Travel-Guides-Klingon/dp/1608875199) mentions museums filled with loot and prizes from defeated enemies - damaged Jem'Hadar fighters, Cardassian rifles and even Federation torpedo casings.

It is considered a great honor to be housed in their museums because the Klingons consider only worthy foes to be worth displaying.

First Contact was the first time it was defined in canon but before then there were conflicting stories in licensed works. In the earliest depiction I know of, it was not the Vulcans, it was the Alpha Centaurians, and Zefram Cochrane himself was from Alpha Centauri.

Cochrane is still the inventor of warp drive in this version of the story, which is from the <em>Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology</em>, a book I wore out as a kid and remains one of my favorite Trek reference books despite the fact that it's basically been completely contradicted by both canon and later licensed works. This book forms the backbone of the "FASA timeline" which was the generally accepted Star Trek timeline until TNG got going, and is called such because it formed the setting of the 80's Star Trek tabletop RPG published by FASA.

I don't think it was First Contact that changed Cochrane to human and changed the First Contact race to Vulcans while erasing the notion of "Alpha Centaurians" from canon. I think those details fell into place at some point during TNGs run, and First Contact reflects the details the TNG staff had decided on after the FASA timeline fell down the memory hole.

There was the the interactive technical manual from back in the day. As a kid, I remember it being amazing (although I thought the same about Season 1 of TNG)! Might be worth a punt for $5

Amazon- Interactive Technical Manual

Here is a video of it in action. YouTube - Interactive Technical Manual

https://www.amazon.com/U-S-S-Enterprise-Haynes-Manual-Star/dp/1451621299/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=uss+enterprise+owners+manual&amp;qid=1595083276&amp;sprefix=uss+enterprise+owner&amp;sr=8-1

Amazon has an ebook version for nine dollars USD, or a paperback for $105. I'll let you decide which of those you want:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0UXU/

If neither option appeals to you, hopefully that'll get you started on your search.

For those curious it’s Season 3 episode 17 and available on Amazon Prime

They have these in real life, https://www.amazon.com/Bowflex-SelectTech-Adjustable-Dumbbells-Pair/dp/B074PLPV4K

They're ok.

Free weights should be able to be used in any direction, so I guess it variates their density somehow, you can do this in real life with batteries, a fully charged battery is heavier than a drained one.

Great theory, i'm not an expert, but it certainly seems to explain a lot. Meaning you've described a sensible reason for why the audience sees what we do.

Have you ever seen / read "The Mind's I" - https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self-Soul/dp/0465030912

It's a collection of essays or stories about consciousness, followed by discussions of the essays. Many of them involve questions of where consciousness is, or machine intelligence. Just the kind of story you were discussing.

The short story "The Chimes at Midnight" in the anthology Myriad Universes 2 deals with Genesis in an interesting way. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015DYLU6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hj3sBbG0635DD

It imagines a world were Spock died as a child and Kirk had an Andoran science officer instead. We see a very different outcome for Wrath of Kahn and an alternate reality where the Federation uses Genesis as a weapon against Praxis to try to end a war with the Klingons, who had previously invaded and occupied a Probe-ravaged Earth. Fun read.

As someone who just got a Code-a-piller for my kid (a Fisher Price toy - think of it as a train locomotive shaped like a Caterpillar's head, with detachable body segments that make the train do specific things in the order you attach them - straight, turn, make noise, etc.), this seems like a horrible idea. I mean, it's obviously more complex than a Code-a-piller, but it's sort of going back to a punch-card system, or alternatively, like playing with resistors and capcitors and switches and electronic parts from radio shack.

One chip out of place and who the hell knows what would happen and how to fix it? We're hundreds of years prior to Trek right now, and even today, there is absolutely no good reason I can think of (Comp. Sci. professionals, correct me) why we would need chips to represent software code such that we couldn't deal with swapping programming (akin to changing the order of executing functions) via a software interface. Similarly, while some modular hardware components is not necessarily a bad idea, wouldn't it be more likely for a computer system to have multiple "paths" and "loops" through all of these different hardware components with software that selects what hardware components are needed and in what order.

Again, sometimes on old electronics, you could swap out one kind of vaccuum tube with a different kind (produces different kinds of sound on a classic guitar amp, for example), but that many parts? And a ten-deck computer core full of them? I just can't see how that could be efficient or useful.

Further, Voyager replaces walls of chips with a handful of gel-packs. I don't think we ever learn if each pack is specialized or anything.

Perhaps "Vulcan logic" refers to a concept described by Daniel Kahneman in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". I've also seen it called "Cognitive Reflection." It's the difference in our minds between the "circuits" that help us catch a pop-up fly ball versus those we use to mathematically analyze a parabola. Vulcans may be consciously doing analytical geometry when they play baseball, while humans do it by instinct.

From everything I saw, Troi normally seemed to employ her curves to put people at ease, a lot more than she used any academically derived abilities. I seem to remember one particular alien commenting about how he didn't often see handsome women, that far out in space.

Occasionally her empathic abilities supplied some intel, but from memory it didn't happen terribly often. She also never seemed to use much deductive reasoning, either; she might sense things, but didn't usually comment on the possible logical implications of what she was sensing.

Marina Sirtis was definitely an attractive woman, but in hindsight, Troi as a character was another reason why aside from Picard, Data, and occasionally Geordi and Worf, TNG's crew were mostly very bland and forgettable for me. Riker also sporadically had interesting moments, but they didn't come anywhere near often enough.

The other thing about Riker is that I can remember a claim from one episode where he'd supposedly read The Art of War and was a martial artist, and yet we never actually see him in a fight scene until Nemesis; which (despite the fact that that film was awful in general terms) was truthfully one of the most painfully embarassing spectacles I've ever seen on a cinema screen. He looked like a civilian who had got up in the middle of the night to go and (try to) take care of a burglar in the living room of his house. I've never seen a character anywhere who was supposedly the member of a military organisation, who managed to be less intimidating. I mean, I know it was TNG, and they generally made Gandhi look like Mohammad Ali, but come on.

From the official blueprints of the Enterprise-D, I present to you this scan of just the main shuttlebay.

There are distinct hangars for 24 standard shuttlecraft, a minimum of a dozen Workbee-class construction/repair craft, and plenty of open space for larger craft like Runabouts and Peregrine-class fighters, if necessary. In addition there is more shuttlecraft storage and parking on the deck below via two shuttlecraft elevators.

When you include the smaller shuttlebays 2 and 3 and their hangar bays, you're looking at a maximum capacity of roughly 50 standard personnel shuttlecraft, or 20+ Runabouts/Peregrines. It's doubtful the ship is ever at maximum capacity unless being specially equipped, as it may need to take on shuttles from ships in distress, or use the open space in the second and third bays for cargo, triage, or other storage as is often done.

I'm new around here, so this may be widely known. But just in case: if you like "City on the Edge of Forever," you should really know about this. Essentially, Harlan Ellison's original screenplay for that episode was heavily modified for the final cut, in part because the screenplay contained some elements that were a bit dark for Trek. Last year the original screenplay was released as a comic. The art is great, and really honors the aired TOS episode, which really makes it feel like watching the episode that might have been.

To me, the original reads like something a little bit less Star Trek than what aired, but maybe a little bit better story. If you like the episode, it's definitely worth the $2 for the digital version.

side-note: /u/TLAMstrike, if you haven't read the TNG novel "Vendetta" yet (Amazon link), do so now.

I included two brief quotes from the TNG Technical Manual in my post on a similar topic to this here, which I think suggest the show's technical advisors had exactly what you describe in mind when they were thinking about how to depict the behaviour and abilities of replicators.

Fun fact: the scripts for the Gary 7 series were written. When the show didn't get the green light they were turned into comic books. They're pretty interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Assignment-Earth-IDW/dp/1600102913

I got them as part of the star trek comic book humble bundle and I was pleasantly surprised.

It's a series of 3 books about Khan. The first two are about the Eugenics War, the third is about his time on Ceti Alpha V.

Not sure what the etiquette for linking books is, so here's the Amazon Page for the first one, and the Memory Beta page for the series.

I've been a lifelong Star Trek fan, but never read any books until recently. I read A Stitch in Time, then this series and I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised with the books I've read so far.

I'm sure somebody has!

Hey, BTW, have you read Sun of Suns? Non-Trek, but it takes place in a (very) big envelope of gas around a star (sort of--I'd get more technical but I can't remember which details are spoilers). It's not technically a Dyson shell--too small--but it plays with some of the same ideas.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Defiant essentially an extensively armored Nova Class ship with the nacelles brought inside the armor? At least behind the scenes that is. I seem to recall reading it in this book, but it's not near me now so I cannot check. The thing that really makes it clear is the deflector sections on the ships. Take the Defiant's away and looks remarkably like the nova. The front curve of the Defiant's hull is almost identical to the Nova's saucer as well.