Comments on: ST-INS@10: The Science of Star Trek Insurrection

By: Victor Hugo Carballo

Victor Hugo Carballo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:55:45 +0000

Exactly, that was the “VORTEX” episode.

“While leaving the planetoid, Odo leads the Miradorn ship into a pocket of volatile toh-maire gas. Just before the runabout is fired upon, Odo moves the it out of the way. The gas ignites, damaging the Miradorn ship. “

By: Victor Hugo Carballo

Victor Hugo Carballo — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:41:47 +0000

Riker maneuver is actually ODO maneuver, ´cause he did exactly that in the first season of Deep Space Nine, let a enemy ship roam around a volative region of space and let itself blow to bits.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:26:10 +0000

#84 – “Really? A joystick allows for a 2D plane of movement”

Don’t tell jet fighter pilots that. They’ll start falling from the sky once they realize they can’t fly in 3 dimensions.

By: James Heaney - Wowbagger

James Heaney - Wowbagger — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:54:18 +0000

#75: The joystick falls under the Rule of Cool.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

By: John Pemble

John Pemble — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:28:01 +0000

Well great. The space visuals were neato in this film… that was about it. Almost would rather watch Star Trek V than this one. Can we all just pretend this one didn’t happen?

By: Andros

Andros — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:58:51 +0000

@75
“what do you mean, a joystick can move an object in 3 dimensions? ”

Really? A joystick allows for a 2D plane of movement, the Enterprise uses a 3D plane of movement. Hence why the directions are always a heading followed by a mark.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Heading

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:16:06 +0000

@79:

I think the original stipulation was that the Defiant’s cloaking device could only be used in the Gamma Quadrant – however, I doubt the Romulans minded much once they had been dragged into the Dominion War. I expect the particulars of the Treaty of Algeron took a back seat when they realised that they were going to have to throw everything they had at the Dominion.

And once the war was over, there’s not really that much the Romulans could do to enforce the Treaty of Algeron again. I guess it was just a kind of passive acceptance of Federation cloaking technology from then on.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:11:53 +0000

@72:

Yeah, you’d probably be able to hear a supernova – although in order for you to be close enough to the star to hear it and actually associate it with the event, on the grounds that the sound will travel a LOT slower because there’s not as many particles to transfer the wave…

Let’s just say you wouldn’t WANT to hear it.

@81:

Interesting article – it does note that it was the Chandra X-Ray observatory that detected the sounds, though. So the sounds were actually being carried on an x-ray, like a sound wave being carried on a radio wave. You wouldn’t be able to hear it without a receiver. And assuming it was of a pitch that the human ear could detect!

By: Jorg Sacul

Jorg Sacul — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:47:16 +0000

Technical point: Black holes emit a sound in the range of 57 octaves lower than middle-C. (source: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/09sep_blackholesounds.htm ) That’s a million times lower than the human hearing range, and about 50% lower than the amplified bass of hoopties that occasionally drive through my neighborhood with stereos booming.

As for the Enterprise in BSG… here you go: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Image:Enterprise_in_fleet.jpg

By: FREAKAZOID

FREAKAZOID — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:19:12 +0000

Wow! Has it really been 10 years since this came out? damn!