Who here likes what has to be the greatest Sci-Fi genre of all time.
My favourite series in order
1.Next Generation
2.Enterprise
3.DS9
4.Voyager
5.TOS
I remember Space 1999 in the late 70s. We were supposed to have lunar colonies and be living in space by then. I guess the future or the now past turned out very disappointing.
My favourite series in order
1.Next Generation
2.Voyager
3.Enterprise
4.DS9
5.TOS
When I was young my favourite programme of all time was "Thunderbirds", by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
1.TNG
2.TOS
3.DS9
4.VOY
5.ENT
I think the Next Generation was the height of Star Trek (esp The Best of Both Worlds). It's to bad that the Gorn didn't appear though.
1. TNG
2. TOS
3. VOY
4. ENT
Each was good at it's time (except TOS-I wasn't old enough at it's time) and I didn't want any to end. What is the next one going to be like, I wonder?
I have just recently started watching Star Trek again after a few years not watching it, mostly The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.
Why I stopped watching Star Trek I don't know, It's great (well I don't know about Enterprise being good because I never have seen it)
Who here likes what has to be the greatest Sci-Fi genre of all time
I do :grin:
It's also a bit odd that there is sound in a vaccuum (eg. the constant humming noise outside the ship, phasers, torpedos).
It's also a bit odd that there is sound in a vaccuum (eg. the constant humming noise outside the ship, phasers, torpedos).
Does seem odd
Another sound problem is the universral translator. The movement of lips are the most apparent problem, but there are others. When a crew meets a new species on the other side of the galaxy (DS9 and VOY) the translator seems to instantly work (only one episode of DS9 showed the translator having difficulty).
The biggest problem is when charactors talk in Klingon. It should be instantly translated, but it isn't :lol: .
In deep space there is about 1 atom of hydrogen for every 10 feet (I belive that's correct I could be wrong) so even traveling faster than light (a problem in it's self) it couldn't make a sound, unless the Enterprise is venting a gas out into space in the process of traveling.
I've done some research on this topic. The speed of a sound is determanned by this equation (I will do the best I can; as I can't type mathematical symbols):
The velocity of a sound wave= square root of gamma*P/p
Where gamma is the ratio of heat capacity in a constant volume and heat capacity at a constant pressure, P is pressure, and p is the density of the substance. In deep space with atoms a few feet from each other there would be no pressure and therefore the answer would be 0.
There is a bit of a problem with gravity on quantum scales; it doesn't seem to have any affect. Quantum mecanics (physics of the very small) deals mostly with the three other forces (electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force). Gravity is used mostly in General Relativity (the physics of large objects).
Antimatter (as far as 21st centunary physists know) doesn't exist anywhere outside Fermilab and CERN (I live very close to Fermilab btw). One of the major questions in physics today is CP violations, which means when the universe was made there was just a very small fracion more matter than antimatter; the reason why we don't live in an antimatter universe today. So the Enterprise would have to make its own.
To collect signifigant amounts of hydrogen they would need a collecter several hundred miles long, but it's possible that the Bussard ramscoops are used when going though nebulas.
Interestingly there is a theory that it's possible to go faster than light by bending (warping) space.
1. VOY
2. TNG
3. ENT
4. TOS
5. DS9 (its like a soap opera)
I have a subscription to the collectors magazine here in the UK (gives you three episodes of TNG each month or a DVD, and by the end of the series every movie).
I'm way too addicted, this is the only show I actually roleplay (and have booked into a convention for next year
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Tom
Deep Space 9 was just a little too weird for me so I would have to say liked the original series and New Generation the best - New Generation was the one I had most exposure to. Btw, has anybody heard the skit "Capt Picard at MdDonald's"? It's a scream!
Yes, "what are those tiny slivers of potato"?