Topic: What do you accept or acknowledge about starships?
Trinculo
Ex-Member
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We have agreed that there are issues about starships. With the list of issues, should we prepare a list of what is accepted or acknowledged by each of us about starships? I will list one of my acceptances. Registries are not chronological.
[This message was edited by Trinculo on May 04, 1999.]
The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35
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I don't understand. What are you asking? Is this the reverse of Frank's thread, what we DO agree on? Because your first suggestion ain't one of them. Or is this a thread for things which you firmly belive to be true and won't accept anyone else's arguments to the contrary? I think it's the latter, in which case this will be a long and pointless thread with endless repetition.
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Jim Phelps
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Re: registries, isn't it by now accepted that they are at least roughly chronological, especially in the recent times?
I see them as being chronologically *contracted*, with every ship taking a different time to build. Prometheus has been explained by Sternbach as contracted decades ago and taking all this time to be finalized, probably because nobody needed that kind of a ship before Dominion came along (too costly to maintain or work out sep problems?). Same with the Thunderchild and other ships of the Dominion-war patch-together era. Nowdays, however, it's less costly to fix maintain older ships than build new ones.
Otherwise, how about this:
1) Deck heights 10-14'
2) Window *sizes* (as opposed to spacing) not a good yardstick, because the former are out of scale.
3) The Bridge is on Deck 1.
In general, pretty homogenous between each other; every ship has to have a shuttlebay, phaser arrays, and a bunch of other elements we can look for upon seeing it for the first time. Some recent structural innovations, but everything is still there as far as systems are concerned.
Boris
[This message was edited by Boris on May 04, 1999.]
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I accept that Starships kick ass! Federation starships kick the largest quantity of ass. Federation starships with the name "Enterprise" written on their hulls displace galactic-sized bodies of ass. In particular, the 1701 and 1701-E could singlehandedly implode an ass-based parallel universe.
Everything else is negotiable.
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First One: 1. What are you asking? I am asking for individual's beliefs on starships. An individual's beliefs textures the arguments that he or she has about starships. (For instance, my belief is that registries are not chronological. My reasoning is based on the canonical evidence-dedication plagues, stated ages of ships, etc. This is a belief.) 2. Or is this a thread for things for which you firmly believe to be true and won't accept anyone else's arguments to the contrary? No.
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First One: My belief is that you have a difficulty in reading the written word. The title of Frank's thread is "Stuff We Don't Agree On".
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I would like to say that I agree with all of Monty's comments, especially those that were ass-based.
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The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35
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Trinculo: are you a complete retard? Let me take you through it slowly. . . Um heap big thread bilong Frank name "Things we don't agree on." Me ask um heap big thread bilong Trinculo REVERSE of um heap big thread bilong Frank, hence called "things we DO agree on." You savvy?
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