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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 5 months ago:
They faked the ship's destruction, letting the Primarch think he could pursue the objective at his leisure. He could take his time being petty and destroying the Archive. Discovery visibly escaping would put him under time pressure. If he delays to indulge his pettiness, Discovery could get the technology. They'd be using themselves as bait to lure the Breen away from the civilians.
Also, the Primarch only made his threat against the Archive later. If they'd jumped immediately after the away team was aboard, it would have been before the threat was made. It also would have been before the Breen's weapon demonstration, so the Archive would have been 100% intact when they left. At that moment, they had every reason to believe that the Archive was only in danger due to their presence. The logical, civilian-saving response would be to remove their presence.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 6 months ago:
Sometimes, it seems like they forget about the spore drive. They could have leapt to the other side of the galaxy the instant the away team beamed back from the Archive. The Breen might have the ability to destroy the Archive, but with Discovery gone, it wouldn't gain them anything and how ever long it took them would be time lost for chasing Discovery. When the Breen catch up, Discovery could just jump to the other other side of the galaxy.
Also, why didn't Discovery prepare a fake clue? With 31st century replication, it couldn't have taken more than seconds to prepare a reasonable facsimile of the original. Moll did no more than a visual inspection of the artifact to affirm its authenticity and she had never seen the completed object, only some of the pieces. The real artifact is a small obelisk with a button on top. So, make a small obelisk with a button on top that projects coordinates to a random star system. There would be no way for the Breen to discover the deception except to go there and find nothing.
- Comment on Rewatching TNG: classic Riker boning his way out of the problem 7 months ago:
Lilith!
- Comment on What would a magnitude 15 earthquake be like? 9 months ago:
It's weird to say there's no upper limit. Somewhere around magnitude 46, the entire universe would collapse into a black hole. I think once you've destroyed the universe, you can stop counting.
- Comment on [Speculation] Will Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 explain the Romulan Supernova? – Trek Central 9 months ago:
Yeah, with Star Trek-level technology, you should be able to tell to the week when a star will nova about 10,000 years in advance.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 11 months ago:
I got a copy of Star Trek: Rebel Universe many years ago at a thrift shop. It came on both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
I think Sisko's threat is to start collecting rent Quark technically always owed but that Sisko had chosen to overlook because of the benefits the bar brings to the promenade, especially in the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal.
- Comment on Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge 11 months ago:
You should really only need inertial dampeners when changing velocity. You only go splat when the ship's velocity is significantly different from yours. If it slows down before you do, you splat on the forward bulkhead. If it speeds up faster than you, you splat on the aft bulkhead.
- Comment on Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge 11 months ago:
And they even work even when a dampening field has shut down all power systems on the ship.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
Is this the first time we've seen Starfleet deploy a kinetic missile?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
If I had a nickel for every time a Genesis device was used to reconstruct a nebula into a planet (instead of its intended purpose of terraforming an existing planet), I'd have two nickels-- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
I thought it seemed like V'Ger's data storage attack, though V'Ger stored entire ships (even planets), leaving no debris.
- Comment on a healthy society is our starship 1 year ago:
Lookup GoodSpaceGuy, a perennial candidate on Washington state ballots. His platform is not Star Trek-based, but it is... out there.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony" 1 year ago:
Apropos of this episode:
I'm all alone, more or less
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony" 1 year ago:
I thought they looked like high-budget Scarrans
- Comment on WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! 1 year ago:
Did Paramount realize how badly they screwed up with the cancellation?
- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Extended Clip | SDCC 2023 1 year ago:
Direct media URL if the web player isn't working for you: https://media.startrek.com/2023/07/22/2247825475932/2147770_hls/master.m3u8