OT: Enterprise...What did you think?

Deathstalker · #1 September 30th, 2001, 11:06 PM

Ohhhhhhh!

Simmer down people!! There is no need for profanity...(or personal attacks!)

I personally LOVE the new show, but yes I will pick it apart...Its HUMAN NATURE!!

Go to ANY board and you will fine people talking about what they love....and PICKING IT APART!! They do it about Trek, Buffy, Angel, Comics (see some of the flame wars that go on there, they had to install a damn auto-censor for pete's sake!), SEIV!!!(we do nothing but love and pick apart this game!!)

Look at most world RELIGIONS, they pick each other apart, and not nicely!

I looked forward to the season premiere of the Practice all summer....I liked it mostly, but I did pick it apart at the end...And I'll watch Buffy (yeah I know, don't start!!

) and they will bring her back to life, and I will pick it apart as I believe they should have kept here gone and then bring her back 1/2 way thru the year..(during Feb sweeps probally), but that is just my opinion...

anyway....I know nobody asked me, and I will probally get slammed, but heck it IS human nature to look at something and think they can do better......

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"Human existance is all imagination...Reality is no more than a simple agreement among its participants that this is where we shall meet, and these are the rules that we shall abide by."- Kevin McCarthy/David Silva "The Family:Special Effects"..

Suicide Junkie · #2 September 30th, 2001, 11:29 PM

We don't need flames on this forum, lets try to keep the tone civil, k?

I would just like to say that the trekkie nitpicking, and "whining" (tone is subjective and hard to put in text form), does not nessesarily imply that the person does not like the show.
ISTM, that the people with the largets collections of picked nits are the most dedicated fans.
Like, geoschmo said: "Those of us that have been fans for years really enjoy this kind of thing. It gives us a sense of being a part of a community."
To be a trekkie, you've gotta know all of the picky details and mistakes, and still love the show.
Most people who do not like a show will stop watching it, and move on, not knowing or caring about all the little details.

We should probably express more appreciation for the hard work going into the show, but customs are hard to change.

geoschmo · #3 October 1st, 2001, 12:46 AM

Baal, that is so out of chacter coming from you I am almost tempted to say someone got a hold of your password. I suggest you tone it down immediately. I expect Richard to come down on you quite harshly if you don't. He might even if you do. Your post was that out of line.

Feel free to disagree, but keep it mature, or keep it to yourself.

Geoschmo

Baron Munchausen · #4 October 1st, 2001, 01:22 AM

Baal:

Sorry, but people in this culture do nasty things like remember details, and compare and contrast shows with one another. It's pop culture, not religion. Although, FYI, I feel I have the right to discuss, compare, and criticize religions, too. (I would keep that to approriate forums, of course.) If you don't like disagreement and criticism then maybe you should move to Iran or Afghanistan. You will find everyone properly respectful of every sort of authority there, because they get murdered if they aren't. I hope you are ready to convert to the appropriate fundamentalist sect of Islam.

I don't know why you've got such a burr up your arse over a tv show, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop the discussion. Everyone has a right to have an opinon, unless their opinion involves depriving others of their right to an opinion. It's call pluralism. If you can't live with that in regard to this tv show, you'd best not click on this thread anymore. So if you won't take a humorous suggestion then take a direct warning: GO AWAY. If you continue abusing everyone who dares to touch your holy tv show then you will soon be joining our friend LCC in the outer darkness.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 01 October 2001).]

Suicide Junkie · #5 October 1st, 2001, 05:55 AM

Baron & Baal: Please take a second look through this thread, find where it went wrong and then read your post before that one.
I think that you, Baron were taking the situation too lightly, and you, Baal took it much too seriously, and exploded.

You've got to give people the chance to apologise for something that offends you, and not post while you're still furious.
For what its worth, I have been in that situation myself, and it was only a network error stopped me from flaming. Typing a message over again can give you time to think about what you're doing.

You two should seroiusly consider editing down your Posts, and translating them into civil english.

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Geoschmo: You've got the first post, and have the power to remove this thread if/when you feel it is appropriate. Choose wisely.

raynor · #6 October 1st, 2001, 06:33 AM

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... warp 5 is 214 times the speed of light.

How about warp 9.9999 equals 199,516 times the speed of light.

If I remember correctly, you cube the Warp Factor to arrive at the speed. So, warp 5 is 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 times the speed of light. If you recall from the Voyager episodes, they were 70,000 light years from home or at least 70 years from home if they were able to achieve warp 10 which would be 10 * 10 * 10 = 1000 times the speed of light.

geoschmo · #7 October 2nd, 2001, 01:18 AM

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Originally posted by raynor:
If I remember correctly, you cube the Warp Factor to arrive at the speed. So, warp 5 is 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 times the speed of light. If you recall from the Voyager episodes, they were 70,000 light years from home or at least 70 years from home if they were able to achieve warp 10 which would be 10 * 10 * 10 = 1000 times the speed of light.

You are correct, and incorrect.

As stated before there is no single warp scale. Your cubing formula acheives a correct distance for Voyager, but if applied to "Enterprise" it would mean the Klingon home world was a little over 1 light year from earth. The closest star system to Sol is Alpha Centauri and it's over 4 light years away.

You pretty much just have to accept that the warp scale varies from series to series, and sometimes between episodes in the same series.

You could try to calculate some non-linear, non-logarithmic scale, for warp. It would require a table instead of a formula. But even then I am sure a thourough survey would find examples where the same warp number translated into different speeds.

Geoschmo