Design of exploding control panels

Even Kirk was split in two by a transporter malfunction in one episode allowing them to play with "good" Kirk and "bad" Kirk characters.

And never wear the red security uniform of the expendable extra. They as cannon fodder were lucky to survive first ten minutes on a planet (which strangely almost all seemed to have breathable atmospheres).

Still on the plus side new scifi is back on mainstream TV with a new series of Dr Who with high production standards and doesn't feature monsters that look like a man in bubblewrap with green spray paint.

Regards, Martin Brown

Some sea life such as squid, octopus and cuttlefish have blue-green blood because they use copper rather than iron as the oxygen carrier (Hemocyanin rather than Hemoglobin)

Or slow down when you back off the engines. Note that the Enterprise engines are all pushers.

John

The electromagnetic pulse associated with an explosion in space would, however, resonate in any nearby metal objects. You might hear the explosions regardless of the vacuum.

On Old Trek, at one point Shatner is underneath the comm console making mods with a weird glowy solder-iron thingy. As a kid in 1969 I realized THAT WAS THE JOB I WANTED. No, not electronics ...instead, taking apart the guts of bizarre devices from the year 2200AD!

And if the consoles are supposed to be all fiber optics, why do huge flaming sparks shoot out during battles (re. Checkov's Scream, V'ger

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When I was in the USAF, during the "Vietnam Advisory Campaign" (don't ya just love those military euphemisms?), I once worked on some piece of "electronic warfare systems" equipment that had self-destruct units, but we weren't allowed to go near them or mess with them at all, because the lowly techs only had a "secret" clearance.

Cheers! Rich

Bullshit.

What's responsible for high US road deaths is letting idiots drive cars without proper (or any (!!!)) training.

When I was in High School in the mid- to late 1960's, we were required to have 30 - count 'em - THIRTY hours of classroom training and six hours behind the wheel training before we were even allowed to try out for a license.

These days, people jump in their SUVs and think they're in some kind of mobile spa or some s*it.

Here's how to reduce traffic deaths:

Thanks, Rich

Driver's side shoulder belts and air bags protect exactly the wrong person.

It's fairly well-documented, albeit buried by the biased media, that mandatory seat belt laws, while they reduce driver deaths, increase the deaths of innocent bystanders.

Thanks, Rich

Was he wearing a wrist strap? Eye protection?

John

I think you probably already know the answer to this one, Mr. Smartyboots. ;-D

Cheers! Rich

I thought the warp engines were pullers.

Well, they're certainly not rockets. We don't know yet how the warp drive works; maybe the process of warping space requires pushing just to keep going, kinda like hyperspace friction, and even to keep the warp warped! ("We're dropping out of warp! =:-O")

Does anybody know the conversion from warp factor to, say, parsecs per hour?

Also, faster warp factors must be less economical in Cochranes per parsec or whatever (presumably, you can only carry so much antimatter with you on a trip), otherwise why not go warp 9.9 wherever you go?

If that Borg cube let that landing party beam aboard and nobody noticed them, then why didn't they beam a photon torpedo aboard it too?

Nerve mind, I know - then they wouldn't have had that whole Borg story arc. ;-)

Thanks, Rich

The phasers are routed through those panels.

Transporters don't do a good job on red.

v = w^3c - you do the arithmetic. ;-)

Because she cannot take it, capt'n!

See South Park:Big Scary Monster ;-)

Oh, the atmosphere is no big deal - I've seen them beam down in enviro- suits.

And my favorite time-saver: even the most remote, newly discovered species all speak perfect California SAG English. (except that one time on DS-9 when they showed up at Roswell and had to reset their UTs.)

;-) Rich

The "advisory campaign" was late 50s, early 60s. You ain't that old. What you were around for was the "The Vietnam War", which is what it became long before you lined up and signed up.

I know a Navy guy that got caught with dope back before zero tolerance was adopted. They would let him work on the nuke missiles, but he was no longer cleared for the nuke power stuff. Pretty wild.

"Lost In Space" was far worse in the costume respect.

Star Trek was serious morality play stuff and they were all doing their best to deliver good performances. So was Lost In Space, but there were budget differences, and writer differences.

Lost In Space had more 'cool' monsters, and a lot of circus like camp.