posted
Since the actual article is now online and mentions Nemesis plot details on the last page, I've editted the title of the thread to warn about these spoilers.
Thanks for scanning the article, BTW!
Registered: Jul 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
Hmmm... very interesting theory. I've always wondered just how a quantum singularity was supposed to provide power -- though I never ended up coming up with my own ideas.
Though some of the details regarding Romulan history seem quite annoying -- that silly myth (IMO) about "warp carriers" and old Birds of Prey that don't have warp capability despite having distinctly warp nacelle-like features, for example.
Still, I'm glad that some people still have enough interest in the show to write this kind of technobabble for us to consume.
-------------------- “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha
Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
Did this thread get killed by the spoiler alert? I would have thought this article would have sparked more discussion.
Seriously, there's only one parapgraph that contains any Nemesis spoilers int he ntire article, and it's the last one in the last column on the last page. Don't get scared. It's okay. It's not the plague.
-MMoM
-------------------- The flaws we find most objectionable in others are often those we recognize in ourselves.
Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
Just finished reading the article on Romulan Propulsion-- thanks for the scan. It brings to mind something I saw on a rerun of "Voyager," last night.
In the episode, the Voyager encounters a communications network with a relay that uses a condensed quantum singularity as a power source. The entire crew, including Janeway, seem to be amazed at this concept; as if they'd never encountered it before. I keep thinking that doesn't the Federation and Starfleet know that Romulans use a quantum singualrity as their power source? Why is this something amazing to them?
Oh, well. It is, however, only an episode of Voyager.
quote: Oh, well. It is, however, only an episode of Voyager.
I expect to see that on the DVD boxs, along with: "For continuity reasons, the entire 7 years of Voyager never happened, except on the dread planet Zeist"
-------------------- Sparky:: Think! Question Authority, Authoritatively. “Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” EMSparks
Shalamar: To save face, keep lower half shut.
Registered: Jun 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Where in the name of hell did he get 1,280 meters for the Valdore? The backstage drawings suggest it's shorter than the E-E, and only about 800-900 meters in width . . . they certainly didn't look almost twice the length of the E-E. That figure doesn't quite work for the width of the Scimitar, either . . . makes her too short.
-------------------- . . . ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
quote: I expect to see that on the DVD boxs, along with: "For continuity reasons, the entire 7 years of Voyager never happened, except on the dread planet Zeist"
Or for that matter:
"This is just one versions of the events of the USS Voyager's return home. It is not intended to be an accurate, or canonical, representation of the ship's brave journey home. It is based primarily on the research of some inaccurate Federation historians."
Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
" . . . who had recently taken part in an expedition to 20th Century Earth, returning with large quantities of a substance called 'crack' and unusual glassware . . . "
But, to return to the point at hand, thanks Captain. That explains quite a bit. Not having seen any size comparison pics between the 603m Valdore, 685m E-E, 890m Scimitar, and 1280m D'deridex . . . I made one:
posted
The 1041m size figure for the D'deridex is from the DS9TM and was derived from the Encyclopedia II. From what we know, most of the larger ships were depicted too small. I only wonder why he made the Valdore just as large as the D'deridex should be.
I don't like the suggestion of warp carriers. Not only is it a remnant of the old "they didn't have warp drive" legend. It would also be an inferiority of which there was no sign in "Minefield".
-------------------- Bernd Schneider
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Bernd: I don't like the suggestion of warp carriers. Not only is it a remnant of the old "they didn't have warp drive" legend. It would also be an inferiority of which there was no sign in "Minefield".
UNLESS the carrier dropped those two ships off to patrol that system then skadadled away before the show started...
(Duck and cover)
-------------------- Like A Bat Out Of Hell...
Registered: Aug 2001
| IP: Logged
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
