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Aha! The One Ring was made out of solid neutronium, wasn't it?
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quote:Aha! The One Ring was made out of solid neutronium, wasn't it?
Cat couldn't scratch it.
That new pic of the maw was nice, the problem I think is if the glow shimmers and flickers too fast, like a 2D fire sprite from the Doom-era. It should be mesmerizing and terrible, like aunt Edna's ass.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: If you find a place where to download it, would mind mind telling me?
I don't know quite what the policy here is on discussing file sharing sites, but suffice to say, any search on google for torrent sites will lead to files for all the remastered episodes so far, apart from DDM, but that should be up by this time next week.
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Huh. I was just over ar EAS and judging from the updated effects, I think the updated Planetkiller would be about the size of the Voth city ship.
Biiig.
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Wich is still, of course, idiocy. At leat in as much as it would take a single Planetkiller centuries to consume a whole planetary mass....big as it is, it's damn tiny on a planetary scale. I can however see the PK's beam destabiliziing a planet's core, causing it's destruction, then "consuming" the super-dense core for conversion to antimatter (and possibly converting excess into more neutronium hull, making the whole thing larger or repairing damage).
The other odd misconception in fandom is that the PK can not move at FTL speeds- were that so, there would have been thousands of years to prepare between threatened worlds.
Smething not tried in the episode (and possible with a couple of starships) would be to make the PK chase a starship endlessly- "distracting" it untill a population could be evacuated or additional reenforcments could arrive.
Hmmm...I ownder if Starfleet developed any sort of anti-planetkiller weapon- prahaps a big antimatter tanker, remotely operated to zip down it's belly and blow up.
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Well that's the impression I get from the episode. It could have FTL drive, but if that were the case wouldn't it have warped away once it lost interest in the Enterprise and Constellation? Maybe the there was an error in the AI programming.
Also the words are spelled which and something
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Yeah, but I never type faster than I can see, besides, it's all in the reflexes. Or something.
As to the Planetkiller, it might have to slowly cycle up to FTL velocity (with whatever space-distortion drive kicking in only then) or prahaps it's programmed to only move on after it's destroyed all the inhabitable planets within a system- maybe everything within the so-called "life zone".
There could indeed have been an error in the AI's programming- it'd be neat to see Starfleet encounter another Planetkiller with substantially more inteligence (something smart enough to blast a starship before it flies down it's throat, for example).
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: DDM = 23rd century "Eye of Sauron"?
Baby Q's dropped ice-cream cone.
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Is the purpose of th Planet Killer - to just mindlessly wander around and "eat planets" to get larger and larger for its own benefit or was it a civilisations's weapon to destroy planets? Just never 'turned off'? The 'eating' of the planets was just a by-product of it's destruction of planets.
I read somewhere that the hull of the Planet Killer was all dinged and dented due to combat damage over a long time? Neutronium would essentially be 'undentable' wouldn't it?
Interesting if a Borg cube AND a planet killer turned up one day!
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