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On the topic of stellar cartography and the location of the Romulan minefield -- isn't it possible that the Romulans are a bit more widespread in the pre-Neutral Zone era? That would actually make sense if the Federation were trying to put a damper on Romulan expansion.
You guys forgot to mention the fancy doodad chip that could translate neural impulses into binary code! The Borg, anyone?
The biggest problem I had is the fact that this repair station is almost certainly within the future Federation's sphere of influence. Meaning that if they managed to get a good look at the thing, they could probably put Utopia Planitia out of business! The fact that the station starts to repair itself at the end just compounds the problem rather than solve it -- if it was left as a pile of rubble, I could understand the Federation not getting the technology...
Still, I did appreciate most of the Treknological details.
I'm going to use the opposite argument of the warp scale formula -- what if the "130 LY" comment was an error (or a figure that wasn't recalculated)? We know that the NX-01 is around 90 to 100 LY from Earth at this point according to "Two Days and Two Nights" -- assuming the TOS warp scale, it would take 10 years to travel 92.61 LY at Warp 2.1.
Alternatively, to go the additional 40 LY to reach the 130 LY mark would take 160 days at the established speed of Warp 4.5.
I think that that the writers are still using the TOS scale with only a few errors interspersed in the dialogue. But then, I'm an optimist.
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I'm hoping that repair station was destroyed by the time of the Romulan War or at least during it. I don't think it would be good if it fell into enemy hands or anyone else's hands.
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Regarding ENT's warp scale... In one episode last year, they gave some pretty exact times of how long it would take a Vulcan ship to reach them at warp 5 and at warp 7. The times were expressed in minutes, IIRC, so there's still a margin of error. However, in the end, I figured out that warp 7 is between 3.65 and 3.2 times as fast as warp 5. That's a little bit higher than what the figure would be on the TNG warp scale, but not a lot.
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The TOS warp scale (and really, the exact details of the TNG scale) isn't canon. It is entirely possible that TOS always used the TNG scale, minus the Warp 10 asymptote. The fact that speeds are chosen out of dramatic neccessity makes it pretty moot, anyway.
quote:The biggest problem I had is the fact that this repair station is almost certainly within the future Federation's sphere of influence
Well, TOS (and perhaps TNG) had some pretty funky stuff too inside the Federation sphere of influense.. The Guardian of Forever, countless highly advanced androids, the Amusement Park Planet. And we saw very little evidence of these technologies in use by the Federation afterwards.
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Oh, Stephen King's been writing for Trek ever since "Alice"...
Wasn't that episode also based on "Christine," too?
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Yeah, I suppose so....though I cant say I have seen "Alice" in its entirity. I suppose Toms "obsession" with 'Alice' is the same as the dude who obsessed over "Christine"
...but the whole ending with the station rebuilding itself after being pretty much obliterated was just like the end of Christine with the (i forget) headlight flicker or metal retaking its shape or whatever after being compacted into a 19"-TV-sized-chunk of metal.
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