@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

ValueSubtracted

@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website

Mastodon

Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

NBI. Cultural exchange is not only one of the fundamental principles upon which the United Federation of Planets was built, but also among the purest expressions of IDIC.

If said cultural exchange were to reveal the innate superiority of the Vulcan species, one could hardly be held responsible.

Indeed, it would be an invaluable contribution to existing bodies of evidence demonstrating just that.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

I remind my colleague that replication is a vital component of the scientific method.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

I assume they’re returning to their truck to retrieve some sort of accelerant.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar
ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

General Order 24 would seem to apply.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Probably “admin”.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar
ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

look, I’m not here to kink shame you

ValueSubtracted, (edited )
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

wanders into a thread to defend bigots

wonders why everyone assumes they’re a bigot

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE RACISTS

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

THE RACISTS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT RACIST

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Personally, I think the sandwich is the ideal food delivery system.

Subspace, Real Space, Warp Bubbles and a proposal as to how *Star Trek* Warp Drive might work

In this post I’ll be proposing a model to understanding how Star Trek warp drive works. In doing so, I’ll be attempting to reconcile the way the TNG Technical Manual describes warp drive with the idea that warp drive somehow takes advantages of shortcuts through real space by warping space around the craft, yet still...

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

The TNG Technical Manual has another line that I think supports this general idea:

The combination of forces produced within the warp engine core and the flow of space and subspace around the vessel created the particular engineering solution to the problem of faster-than-light travel.

This seems to support the notion that subspace itself is bleeding into real space around the ship, at least to a degree.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Unfortunately, by season four Discovery was just going with “Spaceship”.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

As far as I know, the directive mainly applies to officers who are sent back in time and/or given the opportunity to change established history. I don’t think it would prevent someone from making an arrest in their “proper” time.

At most, it might limit their ability to interrogate the prisoner, if they can verify that the intruder is from the future and possesses knowledge that the contemporary officers can’t have.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

I think you might be able to draw a parallel with long-running serials like comic books, or even Star Trek itself. They tend to revisit old themes and revolve around a certain status quo.

They tend not to involve multigenerational obedience to an authoritarian regime, though…

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar
ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Eddington was Canadian, though. We have no law to fit his crime.

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

To note in passing new life and new civilizations…

ValueSubtracted,
@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar

Tuvix vs. the Swingin’ Fontaine Brothers? I don’t get it.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #