Chekov is useless.
Oh come on. You need someone around to be tortured, beat up and otherwise abused. He's the Wesley Windham Price of the Trek-verse.
oh, that is awesome.
I think someone mis-spelled "adorable".
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Frankenbuddha - Feb 27, 2008 3:45:59 am PST #4086 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Dana - Feb 27, 2008 3:50:42 am PST #4087 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Chekov is useless.
That's why you need the books. To redeem characters.
t goes back to rereading Diane Duane
Miracleman - Feb 27, 2008 4:14:34 am PST #4088 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
When I told Pete, who is a big ol' Star Trek geek, about this discussion, he rolled his eyes and said "There's no canonical evidence that parts of the Enterprise weren't assembled planet-side, and then the final construction took place in orbit".
Has Pete seen the trailer? They're working on the saucer section! There's shots of the nacelles and pylons! They're building the structure on a planet!
No no no no no! Maybe you can build the warp core and lift it into orbit, or other internal parts, but not the structure! It won't bear it's own weight! And it would be prohibitively expensive, not to mention way inefficient, to build the whole ship on the ground and then tow that monster into orbit!
Parts of Enterprise were assembled at the Utopia Planitia shipyards on Mars, but the hull had to be assembled in orbit.
t ULTRA DORK!!
So you tell your adorable husband to take his "non-canonical" argument and...do something with it. Nyah.
Nutty - Feb 27, 2008 4:18:19 am PST #4089 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Although of course Spork is also a fabulous portmanteau.)
People. They never learn. Word-squishes must die!
Frankenbuddha - Feb 27, 2008 4:26:31 am PST #4090 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Word-squishes
You mean worshes?
tommyrot - Feb 27, 2008 4:33:01 am PST #4091 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has Pete seen the trailer? They're working on the saucer section! There's shots of the nacelles and pylons! They're building the structure on a planet!
Yeah, I gotta go with MM here.
IOSlightlyRelatedN, I was at the US Navy Historical Center FAQ the other day, and this entry under "deck logs" amused me:
Deck logs are not "Captain's Logs"
A deck log is not a daily diary written by the ship's captain. The "captain's log" was a dramatic device used by the creators of the televison series Star Trek to introduce each episode, and does not exist in the U.S. Navy.
So apparently the US Navy Historical Center got a bunch of requests for "Captain's Logs".... [link]
Also, are people still familiar with the WWII Navy carrier USS Enterprise? Possibly the most significant ship in US Navy history, at least ranking up with the USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides"). Too bad it was scrapped after the war.
Nutty - Feb 27, 2008 4:50:06 am PST #4092 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You mean worshes?
You are On The List, mister.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2008 5:23:04 am PST #4093 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm familiar with the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise, but didn't realize it had had a predecessor in the carrier class.
SuziQ - Feb 27, 2008 5:27:38 am PST #4094 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have been on the aircraft carrier Enterprise.
Hayden - Feb 27, 2008 6:11:51 am PST #4095 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've been in an Enterprise rent-a-car.