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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Red Admiral: [qb]Seigfried and Ryan: Are you both quite insane?[/qb] [/QUOTE] Nothing like an [i]ad hominem[/i] attack to get things off on the right foot. [QUOTE] [qb]When EVER has there been such a monumentally absurd error as this one involving the distance between Earth and Qo'Nos?[/qb] [/QUOTE] Siegfried covered a few rather nicely. Most relevantly, [i]Star Trek V: The Final Frontier[/i] and the galactic core jaunt makes a four-day Kronos trip look like small potatoes. [QUOTE] [qb]I find it quite disturbing that you have an alarming and acerbic fervour to leap on, and to attrack and patronize ANYONE who says anything against Akiraprise, it seems - as if I, and others who share my concerns were a minority.[/qb] [/QUOTE] You are, according to most polls at popular [i]Star Trek[/i] websites. On TrekWeb.COM, for instance, a poll of 5444 respondents yielded 84% approval of [i]Enterprise[/i]. The fact is that most people [i]do[/i] like what is known about [i]Enterprise[/i] thus far. Even most fans who don't like the design of the ship itself like other aspects of the idea. [QUOTE] [qb]Seigfried, my supercilious friend, this is not a simple quandary of warp speed versus distance that can be comfortably overlooked, this is a serious flaw. This Earth to Qo'Nos thing cannot be ignored like other such errors in distance and warp factor that may have happened far off in deep space, we're talking about THE major Trek protagonist for 30 years residing on a world precisely in our back yard. How the hell could either the Feds or the Klingons establish large, sprawling empires across half the qudrant when their two homeworlds are virtually touching each other. I mean, Qo'Nos's star and our sun would be virtually a binary star system, being like a quarter of the distance to our real, nearest star Alpha Centauri. Your attempts to make me look dumb just because I severely question this is laughable.[/qb] [/QUOTE] I don't remember anyone making such an attempt. However, it is rather hypocritical to overlook equally significant errors in all other [i]Star Trek[/i]'s but [i]Enterprise[/i]. It makes you appear as though you're [i]searching[/i] for a reason to dislike the show, grasping at anything to hate, no matter how insignificant. When [i]Voyager[/i] began, were you in an uproar because a seventy-year trip home contradicted the well-established warp scale from "That Which Survives" (TOS) and [i]The Final Frontier[/i]? The original series was quite clear that warp drive was in the range of several thousand times the speed of light. By your logic, do you object to [i]all[/i] later [i]Star Trek[/i]'s for contrdicting it? I'm guessing the answer is no... because you don't apply the standard universally. You don't [i]want[/i] to like [i]Enterprise[/i], and to hell with anything that might sound good about it; after all, the warp scale problem is crucial to enjoyment of the show. I know [i]I[/i] watch [i]Star Trek[/i] for technobabble, and couldn't care less about entertainment. :rolleyes: In reality, [i]Star Trek[/i] always shortens travel times for dramatic neccessity. Earth is a week away from all known frontiers of a Federation spanning 8,000 light years. Did you complain when "The House of Quark" established that Kronos was roughly [i]one day[/i] away from Deep Space 9, allegedly across the Federation? [QUOTE] [qb]If in the second episodes of 'Enterprise' it was established that Romulus is only 3 days away at warp 4.5, would it be just as acceptable to you??[/qb][/QUOTE] Honestly, would you prefer the neccessity of hunkering down for a two-month trip every time the ship wants to reach a planet? It'd be great fun to watch them explore two strange new worlds a year. --SATO: "Captain, we're receiving a distress call from a civillian transport ten light years away." --ARCHER: "Set course, Lieutenant, maximum warp." --MAYWEATHER: "Aye, sir, we'll be there in two months." --ARCHER: "Thank god, we'll just make it in time." I'll gladly accept four days to Kronos, thanks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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