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Oh, and ferrying down the entire crew on just the two pods would probably have taken far more time than flying out of the way of the storm on the ship herself. It's unlikely that transporters or any putative escape pods would have been used for the evacuation...
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I wonder how different this storm is, from the standard Ion storm? In the TOS era, they where fairly deadly too. Could it just be different terminology? By the time of TNG, an Ion storm is just an inconvenience.
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quote:Originally posted by Timo: Perhaps kahs-won is the girls' version of tal-oth?
Or tal-oth is what they call it in the ghettos of Vulcan. Word up.
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How many crew? 84? Let's say 6 people per pod, so figure on 14 trips. 2 pods, so that's 7 trips per pod. 4 hours (240mins) of notice divided by 7 trips equals a 34.286 minute window for a round-trip. Sounds reasonable, eh? I'd bet they could even cram 10 people per pod if they had to.
At any rate, given the shape of the storm as seen out the window, one wonders why Enterprise could not travel straight up from the galactic plane and get away from the storm. It wasn't very tall from the looks of things. Oh well, there go the writers thinking in such 2-dimensional terms again...
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And underestimating the vastness of space.
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quote:Originally posted by E. Cartman: And underestimating the vastness of space.
Careful there though...it's just the vastness that we sometimes forget...despite what it looked like on screen, Enterprise could've travelled 'up' at warp 5 for 8 hours and not outrun the brunt of the wave...you can't judge what we saw with any sense of scale.
quote:Originally posted by Timo: Perhaps kahs-won is the girls' version of tal-oth?
Oh, so now Spock is a girl, huh?
Re: Spock's name--- Was it really said in "This Side of Paradise" (that's the right episode, right?) that Spock had a first name that was unpronounceable? As I recall, Leila Kalomi (or whatever her name was) asked "Do you have another name?" Unless I'm mistaken about the line, I'd say its pretty clear that the name by which Vulcans are commonly called is their given name, whereas there is also a family name that is not generally used.
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P.S. I spelled it wrong, I think. I believe it's actually kahs-wan.
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quote:-CHEF APPEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Well, sorta. YOu don't see his head, and he doesn't say anything, but he's there in his white overalled glory handing out food. I wonder if it's anyone on the production crew, or if it's a regular extra we'll be seeing again.
I don't think we will ever see his face. He's like Wilson Wilson from "Home Improvement", Peggy's mother from "Married... with Children" or the woman from "Tom & Jerry".
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The Takrit & the Takrit Militia.
Unless you mean the characters' names, in which case I saw Danny "I've been a Hirogen, a Jem'Hadar, & a Starfleet Marine even though Marines don't exist" Goldring & Zach "Ed Norton Scared The Fuck Out Of Me In 'Fight Club'" Grenier.
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And closed-captioning says it's just T'Plana. After listening to Archer again, I'm not hearing any trailing "-Hath" either. I guess it's a new ship then. (As mentioned, it could simply be a Vulcan name thing, but that gets a little too far into interpretation of/speculation on the Vulcan language, which is just too sketchy for my taste.)
I was a little surprised that shutting down the main power grid still left every single display screen up on the bridge.
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Well, I'd think it was even more surprising if the most advanced hunk of metal thus far developed by humanity didn't have a basic auxilliary system to keep essential electronic equipment (plus their uber-energy-efficient magictech displays) functioning when the main power grid was off.
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quote:Originally posted by TheWoozle: I wonder how different this storm is, from the standard Ion storm? In the TOS era, they where fairly deadly too. Could it just be different terminology? By the time of TNG, an Ion storm is just an inconvenience.
Well, it wasn't an ion storm. It was a NEUTRONIC storm. Though what difference that would make, I'll leave to those of us more well-versed in the behavior of uncharged as opposed to charged particles to explain.
The_Tom: Okay, I'll buy that.
Oh, and I just realized that the reference to osmium as the metal used in the construction of the catwalk is a TOS reference as well. The artificial Kalandan out post planet from "That Which Survives" (TOS) was made up of a diburnium-osmium alloy. More nifty-ness!
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