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Just bleed off the energy through the deflector dish, and create a subspace anomaly. Elementary, my dear alarikf.

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But if you do that you still haven't solved the problem of the vaporized dilithum crystal. Now, I'll grant you that bleeding off the energy through the deflector dish is one possiblity (even though, good god man, it's never been done outside of a controlled environment!) but I would think the only way to get the crystal replaced if you do this (in order to avoid the Klingons) is to tune the deflector dish so that the energies are in phase-line-mode with the Klingon hull stress nodes. If this happens -- and it alone is impossible without a superhuman brain at the controls -- then you might, just might, possibly be able to vaporize the klingon ship while leaving its dilithium crystal intact. But, this has only been theorized in my paper back at the academy, and there is no way to test it especially since, if the energy bleed off starts a subspace reaction it might destroy us and everything in the entire star system. But, dammit Scotty, it might be the only chance we've got.

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Whoa, technobabble madness, must run away before I get infected.

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What have you people done to my beautiful thread? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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And I was JUST thinking...give these guys ANY kind of serious thread and watch what they do with it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

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Pshaw! Spontaneous Star Trek mocking is a high art...

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...as I have taken note of here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The guy who played scotty wrote a three-book series with S.M. Stirling.

You know how in some books you can just tell both authors are just itching to get the book going the way they wanted? Reading that one was like reading a tug-of-war. Everytime SMS came up with a new way to make the aliens menacing, What's-His-Name came up with a new way to make the aliens friendly.

It was funny, in a I-Hope-Neither-Of-These-Guys-Does-A-Series-Together-Ever-Again kinda way. (At least not unless they figure out how to solve these differences of creative opinion, because it was well-written)

Anyway, I babble.

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I stay well clear of those things. Their only purpose is to cash in on a celebrity name. I do like Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledoves collaboration however (now if only I could get around to finishing it)

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To create a complex and technical-sounding phrase, randomly pick one or two words from the first and second columns and combine it with a word from the third column:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>ANOMALOUS NANO- RELAY
IONIC NEUTRINO EMISSION
AMBIENT ENERGY PHENOMENON
ASTROPHYSICAL QUANTUM INTERFERENCE
PHASED SUBSPACE DISTORTION
INVERTED GRAVIMETRIC VARIANCE
THERMAL SPACE-TIME HARMONIC
MAGNATOMIC E-M CONDUIT
ATMOSPHERIC DAMPENING FIELD
LINEAR TETRYON DISCRIMINATOR
ASSYMETRICAL WARP ARRAY
TRANS-WARP WAVEFRONT CONFIGURATION
PHOTONIC INTERFACE SINGULARITY
SONIC PARTICLE SIGNAL
QUANTUM BARYON MATRIX
MODULATED FREQUENCY NUTATION
MICROSCOPIC SPATIAL DISTURBANCE
UNKNOWN PHASE INVERSION
GIGA-WATT SUPERFICIAL PATTERN
STUPID RIDICULOUS TECHNO-THINGY
NUCLEONIC FLUX STREAM
TEMPORAL ALTERNATING DOMAIN
RAPID NADION EFFECT
OSCILLATING SYSTEM CAPACITOR
RECIPROCATING ARTIFICIAL CONTINUUM
VERTERON PULSE ACTUATOR
MAGNETIC PLASMA CONTROLLER
OPTICAL DATA NETWORK
AUXILIARY DATABANKS COUPLING </pre><hr />
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