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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3194 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
It's Delicious -- Uff Da!!! Just hold your nose and it goes down like nothing at all..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4rNXJjEK08 |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I just caught the Star Trek writers in an error. I will be the first to admit it's a truly trivial error, but since Trek fans are known to be highly geeky about such details the writers (who are pretty geeky themselves) are usually more careful. 1: In DS9: Doctor Bashir, I Presume?, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (creator of and model for the EMH Mark I) comes to the station to use Bashir as the model for the EMH Mark II. Air date Feb. 24, 1997. 2: In VOY: Life Line, Voyager's EMH is transmitted back to Jupiter Station (Zimmerman's home and lab) to treat his mysterious disease. Zimmerman says he hasn't left Jupiter Station in over four years. Air date May 10, 2000. No stardate is given in the VOY episode, and probably not in the DS9 either, but one TV season is generally considered to be one year of internal time. The first season of TNG is 2363 and the last season of VOY is 2376, a continuous run of 14 seasons and 14 internal years (with DS9 overlapping both). Therefore, the three years between the air dates would approximately equal three years of internal time. Either Zimmerman lied (no reason why he should) or the writers screwed up. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29756 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
The writers never screw up. Voyager must have encountered a graviton disruption, a distortion in the space-time continuum. Chakotay ordered the shields be raised but the ship is hit, knocking out the helm and trapping Voyager. Captain Braxton of the timeship Aeon loses control forcing Voyager into an alternative time where Paris meets Rain Robinson from Griffth Observatory. She has nothing to do with anything but I think she is hot anyway. So once Henry Starling is discovered the problem is solved. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Star Trek writers never screw up. I have seen one interviewed how they solved the problem to beam a person to an other place. The problem is that you have to disassemble the person atom by atom, beam it up and later reassemble the atoms. The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle however says that you cannot reassemble the atoms in the same state as they were before because they are not known by certain from the beginning. So what to do. Make a Heisenberg Compensator of course:) |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
I agree with all above.. Steve :) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
This is the last thing that you'd expect to come across while getting your child ready for school. Mother finds eastern brown snake while packing child's lunch in Adelaide Hills. Where do these idiots come from? Turkey's Erdogan criticised for telling tearful young girl dressed as soldier she would ‘die a martyr’. Cheers. |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Yeah spot the difference!! |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie? The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20158 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie? Don't know. What about when there is just air in the plastic wrapper with no cookie. Have found a couple of those. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
No cookie? Never had that happen before! What used to get me was when a bag of chips got hung up in the vending machine. Seinfeld did an episode about that. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3194 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
What's it mean when there's no fortune in your fortune cookie? You are S.O.L. = Your luck has run out and so has your fortune (money). Don't go near any mirrors. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Star Trek writers never screw up. I have been thinking further on this. Why the need to beam atoms of a person or actually the particles that atoms consists of from one place to another. You only need to store the information of the particles and their states in a computer and then send that to an other computer and then later reassemble the person from particles already at location. But, wait a minute. Will the result be the same person now completly rebuilt of particles from a different origin? Mindgobbling... |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19014 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Star Trek writers never screw up. If you use different atoms and compounds at the distant end. What do you do with the original? Couldn't that be murder? |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20158 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
It's worse than that. The "transporter trace" is of the person at that time when the transport took place. So if it was made in the past. Then the person will be from then. But what if there is no computer where you want to sent a person? |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
"Lost in Space" |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29756 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ? |
Monday Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 |
Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ? Timbucktu. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Gives new meaning to the word backup. I typically keep 3 backups in different locations. I would want a backup in Fiji, Risa, and ?Your new ICommode? :-) |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Star Trek writers never screw up. The original? That's a backup just in case. Murder? Yes but also resurrection on your destination. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
But what if there is no computer where you want to sent a person? Hmm. But it isn't that the same problem that the Star Trek Beaming Device have to deal with? Where is the The Reassembling A Person From A Very Far Distance Device at the destination? |
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