Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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ToroidalBoat said:
Also why can't they just replicate more of it?
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The same reason they can't replicate latinum. They needed some substances to still have scarcity because writing about a 100% post-scarcity society is difficult and less relatable to viewers.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
How do they keep the antimatter from reacting with the dilithium?

Also why can't they just replicate more of it?
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Under the right conditions dilithium is porous to antihydrogen. There's probably some contact, which is why the crystals degrade over time. Get Sternbach's Technical Manual, you'll know more about TNG-era Treknology than most of its writers.

You can't replicate it for the same reason you can't replicate latinum.
 
I seem to recall reading that Roddenberry changed some of the techno terminology at the last minute because it was too close to real 20th century tech and just wanted something more futuristic-sounding that he'd have more wiggle room for fictional application.
Thus, lasers were renamed phasers and lithium was renamed dilithium. I think this sort of thing went on throughout the show, like the real-life triticale became Trek's quatrotriticale.
 
White Devil said:
The point of Discovery is to tell you that you're bad, cis white male.
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No I'm not. I'm a robot!
>Discovery season 2.
Oooohhhh. :(

Miller said:
Mike says a lot of things, like "Star Wars is a small universe, it's impossible to tell new stories outside of the OT", or that Farscape is bad because it has puppets in it. It was nice to see him in a foetal position during the Picard reviews though.
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That was Rich which said that. Mike has a soft spot for scifi.
ToroidalBoat said:
Why is "dilithium" even a thing anyway? Matter-antimatter reactions IRL don't need some made-up crystalline substance to work (making antimatter in the first place is another matter).
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The crystals direct the explosive reactions to the nacelles where the warp field is generated.
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Same thing with trilithium. Sounds cool, but no one knows just what the fuck it is supposed to do and how.
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You mean it won't blow up stars?
 
So we have like 3 shows running now yet they are not going anywhere. I remember when I was sad that we don't have the 90s Star Trek spam, but this is like corrupting my wish in an ironic way. Frankly how hard it would be get somebody who actually cares to work on the show? Also ironic they hate on the fans... The sheer fucking hubris, fans were the thing that saved Star Trek back then when it was cancelled, then they kept it alive for a decade until the TOS movie era. But nah, hate on the trekkies for pointing out that this cynical garbage make Voyager look good.
 
DamageJoy said:
So we have like 3 shows running now yet they are not going anywhere. I remember when I was sad that we don't have the 90s Star Trek spam, but this is like corrupting my wish in an ironic way. Frankly how hard it would be get somebody who actually cares to work on the show? Also ironic they hate on the fans... The sheer fucking hubris, fans were the thing that saved Star Trek back then when it was cancelled, then they kept it alive for a decade until the TOS movie era. But nah, hate on the trekkies for pointing out that this cynical garbage make Voyager look good.
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There's still the Pike show which they said would be closer to an episodic format and then the Section 31 show. There could be as many as 6 shows running at a time as well as the new Movie which may or may not have been cancelled.
 
If Wesley went on to some "transcendent realm", how come he's seen in that wedding in that one later TNG movie?

:thinking:
 
Dunno if it's still on YT, but there was this entire series of videos on continuity errors - before JJ Abrams "Nu Trek".
 
It looks like StarTrek.com refused to promote Shatner's new Star Trek documentary for bullshit reasons.

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Based Shatner not kowtowing to SJW garbage, per usual.

I'm going to buy this when I get paid just to support his fat, rich ass.
 
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