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Posted by Tachy on :

Are Voyager's ashtrays capable of reaching warp 6.3 ?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

*rolls eyes*

Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

*scratches head*

Uhm....

*scratches head again*

Maybe if you stick'em on a torpedo??

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

I had no idea how boring mid-September can be until I came to the forum today.

*goes to sleep*

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

*wonders what kind of question this is*

Why would Voyager have asktrays in the first place?

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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

Voyager is highly unlikely to possess such a thing as an ashtray. It's been clearly established that smoking is out in the 24th century when Paris says to that woman in season one that they'd abandoned it a long time ago. Furthermore, we have never seen smokers in Star Trek. The only evidence of smoking in Star Trek is the No Smoking sign in the simulator from Star Trek II, and that can be rationalized as a joke by a crewmember.

Now, yes, you're probably going to find ashtrays in someone's personal historical collection on Voyager, but as for smoking - very, very unlikely.

Otherwise, I assume that Voyager's ashtrays are quite capable of reaching Warp 6.3 every time Voyager reaches Warp 6.3. They could even be equipped with a miniature warp sustainer engine so that the speed can be maintained for a while. Otherwise, I shudder at the possibility of warp field generators and propulsion on the level of microchips.

Boris (just joking)

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

Boris is scaring me...

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Perhaps Tachy is referring to holographic ashtrays such as those in "Our Man Bashir", "His Way", and "The Cloud".

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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

I scare people?

Actually, we have to realize that Kate Mulgrew is a smoker, and smoking affects a person's physical constitution (and voice as well). Since the canon physical constitution of Captain Janeway is that of Kate Mulgrew, it must follow that if we were to use a special camera or voice analyzer to examine Captain Janeway, what we would determine is that she is a secret smoker in the Star Trek canon.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

*decides to let this thread live, just for the hell of it* Not like there's anything better to discuss, eh? :-)

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I think Kate Mulgrew, quit smoking a few years ago, and I say all the more to her. I think that her voice has improved even in the short time, since she has stopped smoking.

Andrew

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Heheh =)

Depends Tach, is the orb of Braga involved?

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Posted by Tachy on :

na, it's not.it would certainly not work otherwise

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Kate Mulgrew used to smoke?? Well, that explains why her voice was annoying for the first two seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. And this brings out something that I saw in an episode in Star Trek: TNG, remember the episode "Time's Arrow?" Troi and Mark Twain were talking about giving up cigars for utopia on Earth?

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