Starbuck "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
Member # 153
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Are you seriously telling me Nick Sagan (writer and son of cosmologist Carl Sagan) and Andre Bormanis (science advisor) slept through their science classes? *ROTFLMAO*
What about all those silly inconsistencies they *can't* explain - and all those little things we're forever SWDAO-ing?
So, the challenge stands - who wants to start writing the definitive Treknology reference book??
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Children of people talented in one area are not necessarily inclined in the same area. Everyone in my family but myself is musically gifted. I on the other hand, have a knack for mathematics. Just because Sagan, son of Sagan, had a scientist father doesn't mean he is equally gifted in that area. He might've gotten sick of all that science stuff he heard when growing up and decided to excell at something else. As far as Trek having a science advisor, judging by many of the scripts, they'd be just as well off buying Asimov's Guide to Science and putting it on a shelf somewhere. They don't often give evidence of having much more scientific knowledge than the typical 5th-grader.
--Baloo
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Starbuck "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
Member # 153
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I see your point... Well if nothing else, the pseudoscience is usually reasonably consistent... although I'm getting kinda sick of something-metric scans, something-genic particles, and "innoculations" against radiation poisoning... I could write more scientifically accurate scripts and I'm an undergraduate biologist!
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Jim Phelps
watches Voyager AFTER 51030
Member # 102
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iso-: prefix, abbrev. for isolated (from angry scientist fans).
Boris
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Starbuck "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
Member # 153
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Actually, it just occurred to me:
Astronomer Carl Sagan was also an author - he wrote several textbooks (including "Cosmos"), and the novel Contact. The latter was recently made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. So there! *smirks triumphantly* Like father, like son
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This has been done SOOOOO many times before. All "canon" means to me is "from the TV shows or Movies". If somethings not "canon" but official i could care less i still consiter it part of trek until or if they say otherwise on the show/movies. Who really cares anymore? Remember? its Science *Fiction*.
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