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Wait, what outfits are from that movie again? I thought it was their jumpsuits. But, are you saying that the EVA suits they were wearing were from The Core as well? I mean, I did notice that the helmets were different.
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The EVA outfits were apparently from "The Core". Never saw the film, but if the helmets are new, then I guess it's not completely ripped off. What do you need an EVA suit in a ship deisnged to plow through molten rock, anyway?
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I meant that the MACO helmets were different than the regular Starfleet helmets. I've no idea what anything from The Core looked like.
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Wow. Well, it never really got past the first page or so, and an outline. Everytime I sat down to tinker with it I thought "You know, I could tell a story about my own characters and potentially gain fame and fortune." Plus, I am very lazy. Anyway, it tied in with What SS Thinks Should Happen After DS9.
I had another, more modern idea for a fan fictionesque thing, that was, I thought, kind of neat, and in which the whole trial thing would appear. But, by writing fan fiction I almost inevitably ruin my chances of recieving a National Book Award and being invited to posh get-togethers in the Hamptons. So, it will probably never be. But, I don't know.
In the meantime, I am writing a story, available for public consumption, about some other things, in an effort to replace memories of Unnamed Early Bad Humorous Story with something "better." Uh, I guess I should plug it over in Designs and Creativity, or something.
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AS regards the MACO rifles (and, yes, it is a stupid name, Military Assault Command Operations? Hello? Did someone from the Completely Unnecessary Naming Terminology department think that one up?), has it ever been explicitly stated in these two eps to date that they're plasma rifles, or are we just assuming they are because they fire bursts rather than beams? This is probaly just sloppy post-Voyager FX, not caring whether rifles fire beams or pulses; first the Enterprise rifles did it, next the MACO rifles will suddenly start firing beams.
I'd prefer it if they were Phase Rifles, but on the whole I'm not confident they'll bother to make it consistent. I should have just done a starships website like everyone else, it'd have been less stressful!
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: The EVA outfits were apparently from "The Core". Never saw the film, but if the helmets are new, then I guess it's not completely ripped off. What do you need an EVA suit in a ship deisnged to plow through molten rock, anyway?
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i wouldnt get in such a vehicle without one, actually
but it would ony be as a security blanket.. kind of like how astronauts wear helmets on reentry.. the charred helmets become just one more thing that has to be fished out of Farmer Moore's cornfield when something goes wrong
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Contrary to some arguments here, I would think a special ops or Marine team today would use technology significantly behind "state of the art". These people need technology that assuredly works, and "state of the art" more often than not doesn't.
Of course, in a crisis like this, there is going to be a lot of improvising and experimenting and making-it-as-you-go. However, all that improvising and experimenting is likely to *lower* the odds of mission success rather than raise them. If the MACOs can eliminate at least one uncertainty factor, namely whether their guns are going to fire when the trigger is pulled, they will no doubt insist on something that has demonstrably worked for the past fifty years.
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And the NX-01 was supposed to have the newest of the newest tech. So it would figure that the less important (just how many marines do you need on 22nd century Earth?) MACO have less advanced weapons.
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On the other hand, we could look at this like the developement of automatic pistols and automatic rifles. The Luger and simular guns came out pretty early, but the bugs to make automatic efficient and reliable for mass production took longer.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: As expected, a fun episode, for all the above reasons and more! Tons of tech, which we're gonna dig into straight away.
-Porthos, the anomaly detector! What, can he SMELL them coming? Are dogs in Trek latent telepaths? This is the first time we really have a pet like this (acknowledging Spot mostly as comic relief), but has anyone stopped to consider why dogs can do this?Mark
Yes - I'm reading a book at the moment called "Why dogs know when they're owners are coming home" or something like that.
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