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    #1082
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    You're correct re impulse speeds actually:
    Since a ship traveling at impulse velocities (slower than, but approaching, the speed of light) is still traveling in the normal space-time continuum, concerns of time dilation apply,and it is written in the ST:TNG Technical Manual that high relativistic speeds are avoided unless absolutely necessary; impulse power is therefore customarily limited to a maximum of ¼ lightspeed. (Warp travel, on the other hand, is stated in the Manual to cause no kinds of time dilation effects.)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_drive


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    #1083
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    'Our Man Bashir'

    *shakes head*

    Holodeck episodes are woeful.


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    #1084
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    'Our Man Bashir'

    *shakes head*

    Holodeck episodes are woeful.

    Agreed, but that's a season 4 ep right? Just endure it, & enjoy the brilliance that is S4 of DS9 :)


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    #1085
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Barclay's holo fantasy episode was quite entertaining and Prof Moriarity's self awareness was slightly interesting.


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    #1086
    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Both Moriarty episodes were great.


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    #1087
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Shaka, when the walls fell


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    #1088
    somuj
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭somuj


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Shaka, when the walls fell

    Temba, his arms wide.


    I hate that episode. It always come near the end on when doing a complete rerun.


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    #1089
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    somuj wrote: »
    Temba, his arms wide.


    I hate that episode. It always come near the end on when doing a complete rerun.

    It's an amazing episode :mad:


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    #1090
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    "Zinda, his face black, his eyes red"


    It's brilliant!!


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    #1091
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Picard at his absolute finest. It's also pure Trek


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    #1092
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I always loved that episode as well. Definitely one of Picard's finest moments (even if it sounds like nonsense to anyone that hasn't seen it before :P)


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    #1093
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Al Capwned wrote: »
    "Zinda, his face black, his eyes red"


    It's brilliant!!

    My brother blew me away last year.

    When this episode aired, it was bizarre that any species could possibly communuicate using metaphors to communicate, and yet they did.

    Today, here on boards, if I were to post something ridiculous like..."There is no way evolution is a thing. I think we are all aliens and we used actually have two hearts", one of the fastest ways to communicate our feeling towards the comment is...

    picard-facepalm.jpg

    And If I post something to upstage another poster deliberately, another poster might add the following...

    Screen_shot_2009-09-15_at_8.57.03_AM.png

    Without the context, these pictures (especially the second one) make absolutely no sense whatsoever. The fact that we all know the context means that these pictures make perfect sense.

    Darmok may have used one of the most unusual ways of communicating that we had ever seen on Star Trek, but 22 years on, visual metaphors are everywhere :) Not so alien now!


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    #1094
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Agreed, but that's a season 4 ep right? Just endure it, & enjoy the brilliance that is S4 of DS9 :)

    And now they ruin Kurn :/


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    #1095
    somuj
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭somuj


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    And now they ruin Kurn :/



    Awesome episode. Very Klingon. Ending was nonsense tho.

    Itchy uniform. Never liked the look of them myself.

    Going to live with a friend of our house. Where was this friend all these years. Didnt see any of them come to aid in the council chambers.

    I hate this episode . . .


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    #1096
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    somuj wrote: »
    Temba, his arms wide.

    I hate that episode.
    somuj wrote: »
    Very Klingon. Ending was nonsense tho.
    I hate this episode . . .

    Kirby, His head in his hands......


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    #1097
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Quark: Did you hear? Keikos gonna have another baby!!

    Worf: NOW?!


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    #1098
    Goldstein
    Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    Quark (Very drunk): "I just shared a bottle of kanar...with Damar"

    0S8bemO.png

    "that rhymes!"


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    #1099
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Dr Crusher was born on the moon, did not know that!


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    #1100
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Dr Crusher was born on the moon, did not know that!

    A lunar schooner!


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    #1101
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    http://scrolldowntoriker.com/


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    #1102
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Was watching the TNG ep with PAris in it last night, he acts the exact same way as the cadet as he does in VOY, but its still a good ep


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    #1103
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 6,063 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Was watching the TNG ep with PAris in it last night, he acts the exact same way as the cadet as he does in VOY, but its still a good ep

    Thought I heard somewhere that he was actually supposed to be the same actual character. But the producers realised that they'd have to pay royalties to the episode writer every time they used Paris.


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    #1104
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Pretty much.


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    #1105
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 6,063 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Actually, wasn't that the same reason for T'pol in Enterprise not being T'pau as initially intended?


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    #1106
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    So Odo goes to his homeworld to face judgement, if the founders were smart, they would of replaced Odo and spied on DS9 :P


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    #1107
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Odo was more important than ten ds9's. More important than the entire alpha quadrant. The female said as much.

    Besides.....can you imagine pretending to be as surly as Odo 26 hours a day? It would drive anyone mental, changling or not. The one who impersonated Bashir had a lot more fun. Darts with Colm Meaney! :P


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    #1108
    Goldstein
    Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    Just rewatched the brilliant The First Duty, hadn't seen it for a few years. Picard's anger is so palpable when he calls Wesley to his ready room having discovered what he and the rest of Nova Squadron have tried to cover up. Edge of the seat stuff even now. These are among the countless episodes that demonstrate why we're still talking about the show 20+ years later.


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    #1109
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Goldstein wrote: »
    Just rewatched the brilliant The First Duty, hadn't seen it for a few years. Picard's anger is so palpable when he calls Wesley to his ready room having discovered what he and the rest of Nova Squadron have tried to cover up. Edge of the seat stuff even now. These are among the countless episodes that demonstrate why we're still talking about the show 20+ years later.

    That music comes into my head when he starts ranting at Wesley :D

    The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth


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    #1110
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    So Odo goes to his homeworld to face judgement, if the founders were smart, they would of replaced Odo and spied on DS9 :P

    That would have been a good idea, even could have done something like capture him and replace him.


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    #1111
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    After looking at the First Duty speech by Picard...i had to wonder. How would he react if he found out how Sisko's acted when bringing the Romulans into the war with the Dominion? And what kind of decisions, if any, would he have made in his place.

    I know he's broken the rules plenty of time before, but only for the right decision. This was definitely a greater good type thing, but still quite shady and deceitful.


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