Questor

V'Ger was Star Trek: The Motion Picture's bad guy. It had these blue torpedo looking things that digitied things into massive memory banks. As Spock flew through the memory banks, he saw entire star systems. In one of the Shatner novels (talk about wank) Kirk is resurrected by the romulans, using superborg technology as they have allied with the borg. Therefor, by Jason logic, the fed alliance now includes super-borg.

As I said, I'm just pulling examples of superwank out of my memory. It's been over a decade since I read a Trek novel.

The Double Helix Prion stuff is from a mini-series that was mostly in the TNG era. The illness could kill entire planets rediculously fast, and was almost impossible to cure. In SW terms - you're going to need bacta, and enough of it for entire planets.

The superborg were the ones who built VGER, the cloud that could digitize entire solar systems? Yeah, that's them. WD gets hit by digitizer torpedo and dissapears.

I'm mostly just listing examples of superwank. You also haven't countered the bioweapons, nor have you acknowledged the anti-wank in a number of SW EU sources.

And what about the UFP's ultimate superweapon?

A - Nothing there compares to the Genesis Wave - or, frankly the douple helix weapon, or some of the other wierd stuff from the ST Books. Hell, the Furies series also had a number of rather dangerous groups. Not to mention the super-borg from the shatner novels.

B - Kirk was resurrected. Ripped Shirt Kirk is unstoppable, and could probably blow up anything just by looking at it.

Yeah, not to mention how much larger and more militaristic Starfleet generally is. But it all depends on which of the 8 bajillion combinations he wants to select. I'd advise including the DC TMP era comics, simply for rule of cool, but there's also a number of great stories elsewhere. The wank out of the SCE ebooks is rather... extreme, and since those guys are hand-picked by Scotty himself, that can't be taken as an example of what a normal Saber can do though.

Star Trek online has absolutely zero to do with TNG. and beyond that, please cite a storyline in STO that matters with this?

Actually, assuming that he picks the correct personal canon for the Star Trek EU. This one is far more interesting.

The EU actually hurts the size and scope of the Empire, in a lot of ways. Zhan, while telling some enjoyable stories, never really grasped the scope of the Empire, and the less said about Karen Travis, the better.

OK, a few questions on this one, mostly to determine how honest you are being. I'm assuming the "It has to fit modern physics unless explicitly stated" rule is in effect (as it should always be).

1. What is the operating mechanism of the Death Star? Why?

2. How many Clone troopers are there available in Attack of the Clones? Why?

3. What is the maximum warp speed. Why?

4. How large is the Death Star 1? Why?

5. How large is the Death Star 2? Why?

6. How long is the Executor? Why?

I have a bunch of questions related to how you want to interperet the Trek EU. Most of these questions have to do with the fact that until recently, absolutely ZERO effort was spent trying to maintain continuity in the Star Trek EU. At best, authors would maintain their own continuities and adopt in stories they liked. For example, I can think of three or four Kirk origin stories, non of which are compatible, but all of which are referenced at different times.

Here comes the questions:

Which Star Trek EUs are being used? Some of them are mutually exclusive.

Heck, there's at least 4-5 seperate continuities in the comics alone, not to mention the various books.

Did Kirk get resurrected by the Borg?

Is New Frontier included? What about the Fury Saga? Which Pocket books numbered novels, if any?

What's Saavik's origin story? Did New Earth happen?

Which of the 2 or 3 different versions of the end of the E-A happened.

Did Star Trek 4 follow immediately after Star Trek 3, or did the comics New Frontiers saga happen? What about the Trial of James T. Kirk sequence?

What about the Day of Honor sequence? Millenium? The Lost Years sequence? Best Destiny? The 2 or 3 Sulu commanding the Excelsior sequences?

Which, if any, non-broadcast Q stories took place?

Is this a joke?

Holy unintelligable sentence Batman!

Quit applying logic to sci-fi. That's how you end up like me,

Darth Vader, not Darth Wong!

He did have time to access the data port to shut down all the Death Star trash compactors without being shot at.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not that Jason is in any way right.

Why would the DS1 have info on a trap that happens something like 5 years later?

When did R2 get access to a data port and time to trawl for data? I seem to recall the only time he was plugged in he had the problem of being shot shortly.

You really don't get it do you?

Social Engineering is a whole class of non-technological attacks. The simplist form, (and one that appears to be paying huge dividends for lolsec) is the exploitation of default and common passwords.

Most people (even security concious people) use VERY weak passwords, if you can guess the password, that's a social engineering attack.

Bruce Schneier, a much smarter person on security than I

That does not answer the question of what a horse sized warm blooded animal EATS!!!!

Please don't attempt to lecture me on IT security, especially the practical applications thereof.

When I get back to my computer, I'll show you why not only are your arguments wrong, but when doing the math, you screwed up as well.

BTW, for a 4 digit numeric passcode, there are 10000 possibilities. You forgot zero. There are also 62, not 26, possible characters in a simple alphanumeric password. A truly strong, computer generated password, when intended for data usage could literally be around a trillion possibilities with 5 bytes.

Brute forcing a password is both inefficient and almost always unnecessary, social engineering is far easier.

Here's another question:

What do wampa's eat? If it's tauntauns, what do they eat?

"Hhhmm, what could his password be to unlock the DS's core system? Oh, let's try Amidala... Yup, that was it, people are soooo predictable!"

 

 

 

Exactly!

Either that or 12345 or password.

Please try to understand what I'm trying to say. I can't use smaller words.

How does that change the likelyhood that ANAKIN SKYWALKER'S PERSONAL ASTROMECH DROID has his password?

Really, does anyone think that that's unlikely?

I'd love to watch the IT security guy tell Darth "chokes the life out of you for breathing wrong" Vader that his password has expired and that he needs to choose a psuedo-random string of characters.

Really, it'd be funny.

 

Lowly tech, first day on the job: "Hey boss, it says that the account DVader needs to have it's password reset. There's a note that you have to be notified before we lock it out.

 

IT Security Boss: <clickity> "hrmmm.... OK, who wants to go tell the Dark Lord of the Sith that we're going to lock him out of the computers if he doesn't change his password?"

 

 

 

IT Department: <crickets>

 

 

 

ITSB: "Come on!"

 

 

 

IT Department: <crickets>

 

 

 

ITSB: "Simon?"

 

 

 

BOFH: "No"

 

 

 

There's no reason we still can't burn someone at the stake.

It has been a while though.

The fact that R2-D2 probably has DV's password (Or can figure it out easily) argues against any of that.

Prometheus being what the formerly ALIEN prequel(s) was going to be. Will dig up links & info. Try to avoid spoilers unless you don't care about being spoiled.

 

 

 

Riddy Scott`s Prometheus is just a

 

 

 

 

 

 

right now.

Is it still going to be in the same universe?

Under most circumstances, I'd agree with you. However, in this case it doesnt make sense. TCW is part of George's universe, part of his vision. It's not a third party creation. It's directly produced and created by GL. HE decides what goes in it and what doesn't. He decides what EU sources to ignore and/or cast aside for it to fit his story. It's the very definition of G canon. Why there is a separate level for it is really perplexing.

My guess is that it is because - while he is heavily involved in shaping TCW - he cannot oversee every single thing. On a movie, he has plenty of time to go over the script, the performances, and the effects to make sure they accuratly reflect his vision of the story he wants to tell. For every season of TCW, there are about 11 hours of material produced, Lucas would not have the time to examine it in nearly the detail that he does a 90 minute movie produced once every few years (and then remade every time there's a chance to cash in on new technology).

Another reason why might be why a lot of people held the visuals of the comics to be of slightly lower evidentiary value than the plotlines and dialog - in an animated show, artistic license is going to be taken. Many of the character designs are stylized to a certain degree, and so might the visuals and ship designs.

Just my $.02