quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike: at school i saw a SUV with the reg '74205' .. i wanted to leave a Defiant note or something, but seeing as the owner probably knew nothing of trek since it was a generic truck registry, not a vanity, i decided against it
Heeh eeeheh
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quote: Of course, I suspect the real reason is that Wolf 359 is the closest star with the coolest name that isn't way too common. (Alpha Centauri.) Barnard's Star sounds a bit too pedestrian. And who can pronounce Procyon? Sirius would lead to wacky mixups.
Picard to Sisko: "Have we met before?" Sisko to Picard: "At Barnard's Star" Picard: "Is that a gay bar?" Sisko: *taps communicator* "Ben Sisko to Jake Sisko! Get your stuff - we're leaving!"
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If Picard really said that, he'd have had that tea set rammed where no tea set has gone before! I really thought SIsko was gonna deck him the first time I saw Emissary.
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Admiral Hanson, where's the battle?
we're at Sirius..
Yes, i know the homeland security level.. but where's the battle!?
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Picard to Sisko: "Have we met before?" Sisko to Picard: "At Barnard's Star" Picard: "Is that a gay bar?" Sisko: *taps communicator* "Ben Sisko to Jake Sisko! Get your stuff - we're leaving!"
This is the closest conjunction I could find near Dec 2366 and Jan 2367.
I suppose the most obvious reason for such an indirect course would be gravity, even the Borg must appreciate physics, they were probably just being fuel efficient by using the gravity wells of Saturn, Sol and Mars to either slow down from their exit from warp or to help propel them in-system without taxing the impulse drives unnecessarily. Not that I think they're incapable of cutting right across the gravitational incline, just that they're not in any particular hurry and they like to be efficient with their resources.
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For some reason I remember that the E-D entered the solar system and managed to go from the outer planet to Earth (or was it Mars?) in a whopping fast time (like faster than light) and supposedly still stayed at impulse. Anyone catch how fast they were going based on time and distance?
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quote:Originally posted by blssdwlf: For some reason I remember that the E-D entered the solar system and managed to go from the outer planet to Earth (or was it Mars?) in a whopping fast time (like faster than light) and supposedly still stayed at impulse. Anyone catch how fast they were going based on time and distance?
In BoBW, one would have thought that the Enterprise could've tried to catch up faster by not dropping out of warp at Saturn, which (according to the exquisite program Celestia) ought to be about 10.442 AUs distant circa January 1, 2367 . . . or about 1,562,123,200 kilometers.
Interestingly, though, that's 1.446 light-hours, meaning it would take a ship moving at lightspeed about 90 minutes to traverse that distance. Wasn't the "fastest we could intercept" 42 minutes?
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This is the closest conjunction I could find near Dec 2366 and Jan 2367.
Helluva cool, but I don't see any need for them to go to Mars. Worf simply stated that they'd broken through the Mars Defense Perimeter . . . that need not imply a flyby.
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Well, yeah. But then again, we SAW the red planet on screen.
It was a clever shot, really. The three interceptors seem to ascend from Mars or low Martian orbit, move across the screen to the Cube that emerges from the right; the Cube wastes the ships, makes roadkills of their remnants, and flies past the camera so close that it blocks out the spot where Mars previously lay. (Some at the time claimed the shot was faulty because Mars disappeared...)
But Reverend's suggested course seems problematic. It was a Jupiter outpost that first reported the Cube (even though we know there are Starfleet assets at Saturn, too); and later on, we hear that the Cube has silenced the Jupiter outposts. Clearly, the route was even more scenic than Reverend suggests...
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I just want to know one thing: Where the fuck was Spacedock?!?
Where could it have possibly gone between STIII and TNG? It's got to be billions of cubic tons of mass!
I'd have loved to have seen anything done with Spacedock preparing a defense against the Borg....
And yes, Andrew, "Tin Man" was on the other night. I'd give a testicle to have seen Data strangle that sissy "Tam Elbrin" untill his little telepathic head popped clean off! Didint see that coming did you Mr. Telepath!?
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