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AndrewR
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BAH! What a stupid line!

1. The only widely known Riker Maneuvre that is probably know, is the one he pulls on the ladies.

2. It should be called the Odo maneuvre, since it was Odo who first performed this tactic. Go and watch the great episode "Vortex" [DS9]. Odo uses the pockets of volatile gases ?were they called Naidairs? to destroy the pursuing Miradorn ship, in the Charmra Vortex.

Riker Maneuvre... you boot-licker Geordi.

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Yes, but if Riker did it first -- I can't remember if he did or not -- then why would they call it the 'Riker Manuever'?

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David Templar
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My theory is that the Star Trek Magazine is ran by idiots.

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Just one question: WTF?

I doubt anyone will ever call that "the Riker Maneuver" other than Geordi. And he was joking. And he probably had no idea what Odo had ever done.


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Indeed. I guess such tactics are not frequently used, since starships don't usually venture into deadly environments like that. So people could reinvent the tactic over and over, and it would soon fall into obscurity since the chance to use it would not arise again.

It's very different for Picard maneuver, which seems to be a natural corollary of the existence of FTL drives and sensors and the noticeable speed difference between the two. Granted, there were *some* special circumstances involved in the "Battle of Maxia", but the general situation should have been faced by hundreds of Starfleet captains before. And of course by thousands of captains from other races that later joined Starfleet and provided input.

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The gas in "Vortex" was called Tomair (sp?)...don't remember what gas it was in Insurrection?

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toh-maire

And Insurrection's gas was metreon plasma, which is a different cup of tea from toh-maire because of its wierd *insert technobabble here* effects, as documented in 'Jetrel'

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Michael Dracon
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Riker scooped up the gas into the bussard collectors, and then 'shoved it up their throat'. Odo did not do that.

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Nor could Odo have had a female trill officer look at him lewdly if he, too, had said "shove it down their throat."

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David Templar
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Nor was Odo in the most powerful vessel ever constructed by Starfleet, which was having its butt wiped by some obsecure alien race that only days before was having its butt wiped by a lowly scout vessel.

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Doesn't the "Riker Maneuver" have something to do with the warp core as well?

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AndrewR
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I assumed that the technique that Geordie nicknamed the 'Riker Maneuvre' was using explosive gases while inside nebulous material to create an explosion that destroys any nearby ship.

How do we not know that Toh-Maire (thanks for that) is not Croden's race's name for Metreon gas. And why the fuck did they call those gases in the Briar patch Metreon gases - that was a name for a gas or a weapon from a race 75,000 light years away. The federation probably has its own name for it... Fart Gas or something.

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So the Riker Maneuver and the Fart-Gas Maneuver are actually one and the same?
That explains why his relationships never really last that long.. and that funny walk of his. Even though he is looking foolish waddling with his buttocks firmly clenched, we know there is a deadly surpise waiting for anyone who chooses to mess with him.

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Michael Dracon
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Up, down, in, out, whatever...

The warpcore was already out the ship. They ejected it to close the subspace rift (or what ever it was called).

The 'Riker Maneuver' was the one destroying one ship, and cripling the other.

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I suspect "metreon" is supposed to be an English word for something we don't know about yet, and the use of it in VOY was the usual translation we get for almost all other dialogue in the show.

"Toh-maire", though, is obviously supposed to be an actual alien word, rather than an English equivalent.


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