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Um let's see, Hoshi's imagination had Archer telling Tucker to have a new protocol that compresses the matter stream and signal so it doesn't degrade (or at least it doesn't as much or at a slower rate)
And what else? Oh, people are afraid because they know the transporter dematerializes matter and if anything is put back in the wrong place, it could mean trouble... especially for living things. And that most have never been through it and certainly don't want to for fear of the aforementioned possibility. And even in Hoshi's imagination, her father had never heard of such a device and so the general public would be afraid to go through it when they don't understand what goes on with the device. And remember, McCoy, Pulaski, and Barclay were afraid of it, so the fear still exists up the 24th century. Just like today some people are still afraid to fly.
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I'm not gonna do the writeup for this episode. It's been three days since I saw it, and the ONLY thing that I can think of to really mention is the use of flash photography - and of taking pictures in general. We know that in TNG they rarely ever use cameras for some reason, Holodoc's shutterbug fetish aside.
quote:Originally posted by Cadet Sorak: Also, does anyone know of a good website I can go to that talks in detail about how the transporter system "works"? I love theoretical physics and junk like that.
The chapter on the transporter from the TNG Technical Manual is very detailed as to the internal workings and even has a complete 5 second typical transport broken down to hundredths of a second increments. Very good reading!
"this is the STARSHIPS AND TECHNOLOGY forum, not the "Horny Teen Trekkie" forum."
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're trying to draw here. You do realize that the very fact that we go to an Internet message board to discuss fictional technology (from Trek, no less) places us among the geekiest people in all of history, right?
Perpetual horniness just comes w/ the territory.
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Actually, the really serious geeks I know, and by geek here I mean someone who has devoted so much energy to some specific enterprise that their entire selves have been absorbed by it, are often nearly asexual. Which is kind of where I had a hard time with Cryptonomicon, actually. If incredibly smart but strange people found it hard to concentrate without sex, we would never have gotten out of the stone age.
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On the topic of flash photography, it occurred to me almost immediately that we have QuickTime VR technology available even today -- they set up a camera in the middle of the room and take 360� pictures.
Heck, one of the first implementations of this idea was the computer version of the TNG Technical Manual back in 1993! And the same principle was used for the Captain's Chair CD several years later... not to mention the fact that "virtual tours" of the NX-01 Bridge are available on the official website.
I was also wondering just how thorough a scan of the planet these guys performed before sending an away team down. In the teaser Archer called with a "five-minute warning." At the rate that storm was approaching, they wouldn't have had a chance to make it off the planet even if they had left right away!
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: You do realize that the very fact that we go to an Internet message board to discuss fictional technology (from Trek, no less) places us among the geekiest people in all of history, right?
You know I wouldn't have listened to you if I hadn't gone to a convention yesterday and noticed from the corner of my eye a kid rolling his eyes at a guy - as I was talking to a person next to me about the actual class of the Federation fighter... I was explaining that it was the Peregrine class - but it hadn't been confirmed as such etc. LOL! I made a mental note (maybe spending too much time here!?! Yes?)
Andrew
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By the way, was I the only one who noticed severe plot similarities to TNG's "The Next Phase"??? I was thinking throughout the entire episode how much they drew on that plot. Hoshi, rendered invisible by a transporter accident, can go through walls, but not doors...objects but not floors...and is the only one who knows about a horrible plot against the Enterprise...it goes on and on.
But then they threw you for a loop! Instead of her alerting Commander Data...erm, Tucker of her presence and making him flood Ten Forward with baryon particles to make her visible, they used the "No Place Like Home" ending. Specifically, It Was All a Dream. How extremely depressing. I had hoped for a little more plot originality than all that.
Someone mentioned a while back that there could only be so many plots left after 5 series and hundreds of episodes...could they be right?
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Everyone (except you) knew of the plot similarities to "The Next Phase". We were already commenting on that when we first got the spoilers some weeks ahead of the airing.
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