Star Trek Questions.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 16:22

So, I've just spent an hour watching Star Trek Voyager because I couldn't find anything else decent on.

But one thing that strikes me as odd, and as a series revolving around space travel, it seems a major flaw.

Say they are travelling at full impulse or whatever, and then they get hit and their engines go offline, why do they come to a stop.

There is no resistance in space, so why does the ship grind to a halt, surely it would keep going until an opposite force slowed it down?

Also, how can a hologram fall in love? That is just daft, it's made out of light.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 16:25

Jeri Ryan doesn't exist?

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iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 17:06

Also, they have sectors of space, like the neutral zone. That has a border.

and they say stuff like "it will take us months to go around because it's over 50 light years across"

Yeah well space is 3 dimensional so go under it or over it.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 17:12

Pudney@work said:
You'd reckon the border would be 3 dimensional as well then wouldn't you

But they arn't, they are shown as 2D shapes on their screens.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 17:47

EVH said:
I can't believe the thread has stooped to the mention of the EMH

Well, it's not that hard to believe when it was asked about in the opening post now is it?

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 17:51

Tom Paris is the best character in my opinion, Janeway, Kim and black Spock are crap.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 17:58

Is it just me, or does whenever Riker walk, he rests his head on one shoulder?

So basically his face is like diagonal. What's the deal with that?

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 18:19

Set phasers to stunning!

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 18:45

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 18:52

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 18:58

eXSBass said:
I think he's the loner of Enterprise. All he ever does is press buttons in that transport room. He's alone in there and no one to talk to!

I reckon he has fun though when nobody is around, transporting the crews underwear into space and stuff.

iCraig · 21 May 2006 at 22:52

burnsy2023 said:
I don't see why people think this is so unbelievable?

At the end of the day what are our brains? A complex collection of neurons to allow it to achieve a task.

Why is it inconcieveable that far, far in the future, they could create a similararly complex machine, which has a light interface? This idea has been around for ages, hence things like Terminator.
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A projection of light cannot fall in love.

It's like saying the projectors down at PC world have feelings.

I agree that the artifical intelligence it possesses can mimic the emotions and physical and social reactions of love, e.g. smile whenever it sees it's wife etc.

But it would be just lines of code ticking away, no raw emotion and conciousness that a human mind can possess.

I remember the episode where the doctor told Seven, or was it the weird eared girl? that he loved her, not in a fake way, but in a real way. Ludicrous!