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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Guardian 2000</b> <br /><small>Member # 743</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,2,1,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:01 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I performed several searches to see if these had been mentioned before, but found nothing. I have two DVD screencaps of the Enterprise engineering logs, one of which features the modifications made by La Forge off of the Galaxy Class baseline.<br /><br />The first of these (chronologically the second) is easy enough to read. It appears to be a directory listing of the log files, along with one indication of what these people are really looking at when they're just sitting around the consoles.<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.st-v-sw.net/galchildscrn01.jpg" alt=" - " /> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Guardian 2000</b> <br /><small>Member # 743</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,2,18,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:18 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The second is a bit more troublesome.<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.st-v-sw.net/galchildscrn02sm.gif" alt=" - " /> <br /><br /><br />Dr. Brahms paraphrases some of the first line or two in the episode. I read it as follows, with lower-case x's marking unknown words and ++ marking a new line:<br /><br />SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x x ++<br />INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++<br />WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++<br />TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT x x x x ABOVE WARP FACTOR x.2 ++<br />PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++<br />WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE x x PHASE COIL ++<br />ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.<br /><br />(End first paragraph. My eyes hurt. Anyone else wanna take a crack at it?)<br /><br />(Man, I'm a geek. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> )<br /><br />G2k <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Peregrinus</b> <br /><small>Member # 504</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,2,46,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:46 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The second one hurts a little too much to tackle right now. What have you made of the first one? This is what I can see on my first pass:<br /><br />USS ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING LOGS - FILE (5/S)(8/B)3874<br /><br />02-00434 PROPULSION SYSTEMS OVERVIEW<br />02-00354 ANTIMATTER CONTAINMENT AND MAINTENANCE<br />02-00453 PROTOTYPE ENGINE SCHEMATIC<br />02-00233 ANTIMATTER PURGE-VENT PROCEDURES<br />02-00266 ANTIMATTER INJECTION SYSTEMS OPERATION<br />02-00432 DEUTERIUM/TRITIUM LOADING PROCEDURES<br />02-00234 IMPULSE FUSION REACTOR TIE-IN PROCEDURES<br />02-00843 SUBSPACE WARP FIELD OVERVIEW<br />02-00322 MAGNETIC CONTAINMENT FIELD [XXX] PROTOCOL<br />02-00326 BUSSARD COLLECTION FIELD OPERATIONS<br />02-00254 MODULATED PLASMA INJECTION [XXX] SUBSYS<br />02-00348 OPTICAL NANOPROCESSOR LINKS<br />02-02348 DILITHIUM CRYSTAL ARTICULATION FRAME OPS<br />02-04523 MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION ASSEMBLY<br />02-04529 ANTIMATTER SAFETY PROCEDURES<br />02-43944 HIGH-ENERGY PLASMA CONSTRICTION<br />02-06234 TONIGHT ON HBO<br /><br />Two words I can't make out. Not bad -- and I'd love to see what's in those files...<br /><br />--Jonah <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Guardian 2000</b> <br /><small>Member # 743</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,11,34,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:34 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The words you were looking for are "DEGAUSS" and "THROTTLE". <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Guardian 2000</b> <br /><small>Member # 743</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,12,11,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:11 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Additions:<br /><br /> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Guardian 2000:<br /><strong><br />SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x BY ++<br />INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++<br />WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++<br />TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT (LOOPS?) x x (MAINTENANCE?) ABOVE WARP FACTOR (9?).2 ++<br />PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++<br />WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE WITH MODIFIED PHASE COILS ++<br />ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.<br /></strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">PLASMA INDUCERS INTERLINKED WITH EPS GENERATOR TAPS TO PROVIDE BETTER EMERGENCY ++<br />x CAPABILITY IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCY x. NEW INDUCERS x STARDATE ++<br />44xxx.x INDICATE SOMEWHAT IMPROVED PERFORMANCE x x x ABILITY TO CONTROL ++<br />FLOW WITHIN THE INDUCTION COILS x. CHIEF ENGINEER LA FORGE RECOMMENDED THAT ++<br />INDUCER SOFTWARE BE UPGRADED TO PERMIT RANDOM ADJUSTMENT OF x x IN THE EVENT ++<br />OF FIELD HARMONICS . . . <br /><br />That takes us to the third-to-last line of the second paragraph. My eyes hurt again. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,18,15,19,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 18, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:19 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Um... Degaussing a magnetic containment field sounds like a bad idea... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Timo</b> <br /><small>Member # 245</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,3,40,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:40 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well, these are the same guys who de-baryonize their hulls every now and then...<br /><br />Why are they loading tritium? I thought their fusion was of the deuterium-deuterium type, and that they don't even have multiple or compartmentalized fuel tanks. Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?<br /><br />Timo Saloniemi <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>SoundEffect</b> <br /><small>Member # 926</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,6,22,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:22 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Timo:<br /><strong>Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't know if you were being funny or if you actually looked it up, but the TNG Tech Manual does explicitly include seawater among the possible matter reactants. They also include things like planetary snows, cometary nucleii, etc. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>AndrewR</b> <br /><small>Member # 44</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,6,54,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:54 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hmmm intruiging idea that may be a reason why the Breen bought Ferenginar's poles and several icy moons with the knowledge of FTL travel!?!<br /><br />Maybe Breen doesn't have any oceans or water of any type? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Futurama Guy</b> <br /><small>Member # 968</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,10,52,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:52 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> what on earth are you babbling about? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" /> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Peregrinus</b> <br /><small>Member # 504</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,12,38,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:38 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> He's babbling about using seawater as both fusion reactant and the "matter" part of the matter-antimatter reaction that powers the warp drive.<br /><br />And Timo, I know the TNG TM gives Deuterium as the only reactant, but Rick later revised that to a Deuterium/Tritium mix.<br /><br />--Jonah <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Futurama Guy</b> <br /><small>Member # 968</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,4,20,16,6,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">May 20, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:06 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ^Thank you, I gathered as much, unfortunately that is not what I was referring to.... <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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