It can be hard to tell in plain text.Mikey wrote: But you guys do know that MM&I were being facetious, right?
Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
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Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
Thanks MikeyMikey wrote: But you guys do know that MM&I were being facetious, right?
I'll edit it presently:
"Why do you ask such silly questions? "
"All this has happened before --"
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Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
I'm curious about something. If torp casings were "unable" to be replicated, why does everyone in the Star Trek franchise take use these valuable items as "coffins" for the dead? Wouldn't it be easier to come up with something else, that would be "replicateable"?
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Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
Its not the casing that is supposed to be non-replicable it is some of the equipment inside, potential candidates include things likek the Warp Sustainers...Mark wrote:I'm curious about something. If torp casings were "unable" to be replicated, why does everyone in the Star Trek franchise take use these valuable items as "coffins" for the dead? Wouldn't it be easier to come up with something else, that would be "replicateable"?
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It makes sense that it'd be the complicated gubbins inside that would pose the problem, but all we know canonically is that Voyager had "no way to replace [the torps] when they're gone". That could refer to the sustainer, the electronics, the casing, anything.KuvahMagh wrote:Its not the casing that is supposed to be non-replicable it is some of the equipment inside, potential candidates include things likek the Warp Sustainers...
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Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
With what the show gave us its almost possible to disregard this line as an error, I mean I don't like to just toss it away but it was never a problem again...It makes sense that it'd be the complicated gubbins inside that would pose the problem, but all we know canonically is that Voyager had "no way to replace [the torps] when they're gone". That could refer to the sustainer, the electronics, the casing, anything.
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It was Janeway who made the claim, and she's a scientist with a track record of ignoring tactical regulations - assuming she didn't have a clue what she was talking about isn't a great stretch.
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Wrap them up in their bed and fire them out the airlock?Mark wrote:I'm curious about something. If torp casings were "unable" to be replicated, why does everyone in the Star Trek franchise take use these valuable items as "coffins" for the dead? Wouldn't it be easier to come up with something else, that would be "replicateable"?
Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
Or just beam the body into space with a wide angle dispersion. Reduce it to its molecular level. Better than creamation.Cpl Kendall wrote:Wrap them up in their bed and fire them out the airlock?Mark wrote:I'm curious about something. If torp casings were "unable" to be replicated, why does everyone in the Star Trek franchise take use these valuable items as "coffins" for the dead? Wouldn't it be easier to come up with something else, that would be "replicateable"?
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Yeah but the bed deal carries on the HORNBLOWER IN SPACE! thing that Roddenberry was working on.Mark wrote:
Or just beam the body into space with a wide angle dispersion. Reduce it to its molecular level. Better than creamation.
Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
Ahh.....good point. And can always replicate more matressess as well, alot easier, I supposeCpl Kendall wrote:Yeah but the bed deal carries on the HORNBLOWER IN SPACE! thing that Roddenberry was working on.Mark wrote:
Or just beam the body into space with a wide angle dispersion. Reduce it to its molecular level. Better than creamation.
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They look like Phyllis Diller,
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Surely you mean hunt them or harvest them?Mark wrote:can always replicate more matressess
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Do you have any idea what kind of rounds you need to take down a king-sized mattress?Mikey wrote:Surely you mean hunt them or harvest them?Mark wrote:can always replicate more matressess
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Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
The mattresses usually don't put up much of a fight.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
Re: Just how did Voyager come up with the extra torps?
Not true. Have you never seen "Attack of the Matresses"? You'll never sleep in bed again.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.