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Well, how far is the Romulan Neutral Zone from Earth? It's not exactly around the corner, and that's where the Enterprise was when the battle started. The battle had to be going on for at least that long.

Quite a bit. Methuselah was in the books along with Ralph Offenhouse and Clare Redmond from "The Neutral Zone" (TNG) Seriously, this guy needs to write for any future Trek TV series. He's an amazing writer.

The Eugenics Wars Vol. 2: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh By Greg Cox A truly excellent pair of books. I love how he fills in the backstory of how the Eugenics Wars came about, and the role of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in trying to halt their rise to power. I'm about halfway through the second book. It's hard to put down.

He used to annoy me to no end, then his posting style kind of grew on me. He's excellent comic relief. Ask him about a certain "Chinese Laundry".

Here's a couple of pictures of my wife.

Beautiful wife you have there, Brian.

Oh? Send me a FB message. I assume it's not for public consumption.

Aren't there some little crab like things that live down there?

I would still love to know who Luci really is.

I don't spend much time there. Very little in fact. TBBS isn't bad either, but I don't spend much time there. Lately I've had such limited time to do things online, that I've not even been participating here much. Hopefully things will calm down soon.

That's disturbing on all kinds of levels. There's always been these kinds of bills floating around, but I hope this one gets quashed quick. There always seems to be someone wanting to take away people's liberties.

Maybe I'll ask her if she wants to register here.

Technically, Enterprise predates the Prime/Alternate Universe split. Plus, I don't think the Prime Universe is dead at all. In fact, unless CBS and Paramount kiss and make up, there won't be any Alternate Universe Trek series on TV. The only thing they could make would be Prime Universe. I'd say put it in the STO timeframe, or perhaps even further out. Netflix is actually becoming a force for original programming. If you recall, there was a lot of scoffing going on when HBO and Showtime started producing original programming. People were saying they couldn't possibly have the budget to produce network quality shows, and the audience would be too small for a show to become mainstream. Well, Stargate SG1, The Sopranos and Rome proved that theory wrong.

Reading a little further in that thread, I found a couple of interesting assumptions. They seem to be assuming that 1. TCW is somehow suspect in it's validity, due to the scoffing way they refer to it. 2. Imperial technology would have somehow advanced significantly in the few years between the Clone Wars and Episode IV. In fact, weapons technology seems to have plateaued for quite some time. Imperial technology doesn't seem to have had any significant advancement since the time of the Old Republic. I also found it funny that they dismissed the bombardment in TDiC as "technobabble weapons" as if 1. it diminishes what happened, and 2. as if SW doesn't also employ technobabble to make weapons and ships do things that are outside the realm of physics.

The valiant effort on your part is appreciated, John. However, many of the folks at SDN, especially those who are true Disciples of Wong, won't accept any evidence. They will demand evidence, and when it's presented to them, they will ignore it. We used to refer to this as the "Wall of Ignorance". Basically, a mental barrier set up by a person to ignore evidence which challenges their belief system. It really is sad, but I do find it amusing that you were able to knock them off guard.

Well, I would turn it around this way. There is no mechanism or substance in science which can create the amount of power an ISD is supposed to generate. Without involving magic, or technobabble using an unknown extradimensional substance, there is no possible way for an ISD to generate that sort of power. However, we accept that they MUST be generating that amount of power due to other measurable factors. Similarly, in addition to TDiC, we have numerous TOS episodes which discuss General Order 24, and other episodes where a starship is said to be able to destroy the entire surface of a planet. In VOY "The Omega Directive", a 54 Isoton gravametric charge was said to be sufficient to destroy a small planet. However, other than TDiC, we never SEE these events happen. Why? The same reason in the 60+ years of nuclear weapons, they have only been used twice in war. The political cost, and chance of a runaway arms race is too high. However, in TDiC, this was not an official government sanctioned action. It was a rogue group of military and intelligence organizations. They attacked the Founders' planet with both barrels, so to speak. How could this work, since as you mentioned, the power output isn't large enough to cause that sort of damage? Well, NDF (Or actually NDE, if you want to be precise) weapons cause orders of magnitude higher damage than their power input would allow if the method was DET. Phasers and Disruptors use a fictional particle "Nadions" to disrupt matter at the atomic level, thus liberating the energy contained in the object. Depending on the setting and material, the effect can either be explosive or it can simply disintegrate. The Breen use Phased Polaron beams, another NDE weapon. In TOS: "The Doomsday Machine", the Planet Killer used a pure Antiproton beam to destroy planets into bite sized chunks. Trek is somewhat unique in the fact that most races don't use DET weapons. DET devices are sometimes used as tools for cutting, etc, but rarely as weapons. If they're going to stand by the argument that the power output of a Warbird's reactor precludes a small fleet from inflicting the amount of damage seen in TDiC, then by the same logic, they MUST dismiss the ICS.

Well, I think this will be an excellent opportunity for a test run of the video capture device that Brian so generously sent to me. I'll capture the scene so we can review it.

I have to admit, that one is an odd duck. It was never dangerous to use Warp in a solar system or next to a planet. Zefram Cochrane's first warp ship used it's warp drive in low Earth orbit, for Pete's sake.

*shakes head* See for yourself. Blackfoot Hyperboard

One of the most glaring examples of inconsistencies in Trek happens in Star Trek 5. The Enterprise managed to get to the center of the galaxy in a very short time, yet we know that in the entirety of previous and later Trek canon, Warp speed isn't anywhere near that fast. Case in point, Voyager needing 70 years to reach the Alpha Quadrant from the Delta Quadrant. How can this be reconciled? Especially since there was no special circumstances mentioned in the film, and nobody seemed to think it was out of the ordinary. Ideas?

Connor is permabanned then?

Truly a loss.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

*Backs away from thread slowly*