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In the article, they are saying that a photon can not be made to travel faster than c through local spacetime. Well, duh, that's pretty much a tautology--taking that statement as an axiom is the very foundation of Special Relativity. The real question on whether traveling to the past is possible is one of whether spacetime…
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I agree with the idea that the biggest annoyance of the "JJ" reboot is that he took the established characters from the TOS cast and took them in a radically different direction. To many fans, Kirk will always be Shatner, Spock will always be Nimoy, etc. Making the rebooted stories revolve around some other characters…
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Somehow I was imagining that they would resemble the Epoch (the time machine/airplane from the classic SNES game "Chrono Trigger). http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/chrono/images/3/36/Epoch.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080814023002
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Likewise, Elizabeth Tucker was created by artificially combining the genes of T'Pol and Charles Tucker III--this implies that Human/Vulcanoid crossbreeding is not as simple as merely fusing gametes.
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Structural weakness of a windowpane os kind of irrelevant in Stat Trek since the bulk of structural integrity is provided by forcefields, and the bulk of protection above and beyond that is provided by shields. Note how vulnerable the Enterprise-D was to a couple of torpedoes in "Generations" when the Duras Sisters were…
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If you specifically want something big and heavy that still turns and accelerates faster than the Jupiter and JHDC, you may want the Paradox Temporal Dreadnought--it has a base turn rate TWICE that of the Jupiter.
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You know, they gave away a top-tier board (the Future Flyer) for free last October. At present there are no boards faster than it, so anybody who isn't a newer-than-last-October player doesn't have an excuse for not having one.
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Ok, let's take the scenario seriously for a moment. Assuming that the radiation from Sol suddenly dropped to zero, and assuming that humanity did not immediately panic and nuke/burn civilization to the ground, then temperatures would drop to Antarctic levels over most of the landmass after about a week. The huge amount of…
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Ah, but why were they messing up the Lukari sun in the first place?
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Something that they slipped in a few weeks back was the ability to convert the Rich Dilithium Mining vouchers into Fleet-only Dilithium (i.e. Dilithium that could only be used for Fleet projects), with no cap but with a 50% penalty compared to having to mine and refine it (i.e. you could only get 2.5k per voucher instead…
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Learning quickly would have to be a species-wide trait for them to have any sort of higher education at all--with a nine-year lifespan, it would have to take no more than four years to go from illiteratcy to a PhD equivalent, to give the now-educated person enough remaining lifespan to pass the knowledge to the following…
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And in a decisive battle in which an enemy is invading the Federation core territory, attacking the Andorian system is plausible--within STO we've had attacks on Sol, Qo'nos, and Dewa/New Romulus, after all. The enemy (the Sphere builders) was simply stopped before they reached Andoria itself, making it the Battle of…
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It's a symptom of poorly defined mission goals. The goals given in the mission are to free the Republic ships, NOT to destroy the Tholian ships. Thus, players are given an incentive to find ways in which to disable the tractor beams without drawing aggro from the Tholians. Another, probably more-Kosher method of disabling…
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As long as a "JJ TNG" series has a new ship and crew instead of trying to cast a JJ-verse version of Jean-Luc Picard, etc.
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It could work if we move Jane's birth back to several hours before the confrontation between the Kelvin and the Narada--enough time for Jane to be born and Georgia (female counterpart to George Kirk) to be able to return to duty in an extreme emergency situation. Then Jane can be evacuated with the rest of the crew while…
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Yes, and we know that Col. Green is evil enough that we will cheer for his destruction. Vrell is a soldier for a nation that is fighting against Humanity, but he's been written as a reasonably relatable individual, and we can all feel for his desire for revenge on his captors, especially after losing an eye to them.
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My hovercraft is full of eels.
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To use the "140 years' difference" paradigm, let's put a pre-dreadnought armored cruiser up against a 21st century cutting-edge ship such as the Zumwalt-class destroyer (which, incidentally, is as massive as HMS Dreadnought herself would be sans armor plating). Advantages to the 21st century ship:* Faster top speed *…
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I always took the red lighting as evidence of this--that Klingons have less sensitivity to blue, and can see into what we would call the near-infrared. The fact that their star is redder than Sol (K-type, see http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Qo'noS_system ) would support this as well--it would be less useful for them to…
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Yes, Daniels was killed, but perhaps our encounters with him are at an earlier point in his timeline than Archer's encounters.
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Ensign Flores? I wonder if he's supposed to be Elisa's great-great grandfather...
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IIRC, the Excalibans portrayed the "good" and "evil" characters according to how Kirk imagined them, thus Lincoln and Surak were paragons of tolerance while Ghengis Khan, Col. Greene, and Kahless were ruthless dictators. Given that Kirk at the time was a known hater of Klingons, it is unsurprising that he thought of…
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Oberths seem to be small and cheap, and are usually sent into situations where they are not expected to come under enemy fire, which is why even a circa-2280 B'rel can blow one up with a single shot. No wonder Starfleet seems to be replacing them with the Nova/Rhode Island class ships in the 25th century.
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The Enterprise-J (and the battle of Procyon V) were late 26th century. That means that it is as old to the 29th century folks as the NX-01 is to our 2410 people. By the 31st century there should probably be AT LEAST half a dozen more Enterprises--we should be up to the Enterprise-R or so.
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Yes, this is why I think it would have been better to have "new" characters (e.g. Pike's crew before Spock, Kirk, etc.) for the JJ movies instead of trying to recreate Kirk, Spock, etc. People are too attached to Shatner as Kirk, Nimoy as Spock, etc. to see them as otherwise. Yeah, a lot of non-fans are only vaguely aware…
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IMO, the biggest problem with the JJ movies is that they tried to make a new Kirk, Spock, etc. who were different from the ones with whom we were familiar. If the movies had been about, say, the crew of Captain Pike's Enterprise before Kirk, Spock, etc. joined, then there would have been a lot more leeway.
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I had been expecting them to announce it at this year's E3, truth be told.
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99% of the world could be speaking Klingon fluently, and it would still not be a classically "living" language as long as it is nobody's birth language. You need to have people who know NOTHING BUT the language in question. I say this as somebody who majored in Linguistics.
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The usual criterion for living languages is that there exist people for whom it is their native language. Not native in the sense of "use it for daily life", but rather native as in "first language learned in infancy".
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In any sort of "real world", you would be correct, but this is Star Trek, where the crew of the USS Voyager for example can steal a Borg Transwarp Coil and use it to travel at Transwarp speed with negligible modifications (akin to slapping jet engines onto a B-17 and trying to break the sound barrier with them). Also, this…