OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

[Wolfman77]

Oh, OK. It's been years since I saw the show.

Speaking of this topic. Are we keeping Omega particles in Narf's ST. I think we talked about leaving the whole Voyager series out, but I don't think that was in the poll. I don't have any problems with keeping them, but a few things would probably need to come out. Anyone else?

[NullAshton]

I think Voyager needs to run away from most fights with the borg, instead of kicking their butt every time.

[El_Phil]

The problem with running away from "Teh Borg" is that they can run harder and faster than you can. And they wont stop. Ever.

Something I did forget, tachyons have their own inherent causality problems. As in very serious, casual loop type problems, if they exist in classical sci-fi terms. Of course they don't, being products of special relativity theory they are far more complex.

For this reason I'm changing my mind and going exhaust route, which bypasses any possibilty of temporal rubbish.

What am I saying? Warp drive has awful problems of it's own so it doesn't matter does it?

[NullAshton]

HEY! No erasing tachyons just because they have time travel! Temporal 'rubbish' makes for an interesting plot line, when used correctly!

[El_Phil]

When has it been used correctly? Very rarely is the answer and when it's bad it's awful.

Besides this is about a consistent Trek. Time travel cannot be consistent in any causal universe.

Tachyons can only got so quick and conform with relativity if they have negative mass. This makes interaction with them (like detecting them) somewhat tricky. What you end up doing is trying to detect the result of collisions and other such things. Hence the lack of evidence (bar one debated incidence).

[NullAshton]

So, have tachyons have negative mass? Don't have any problems with it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hmm...Could the energy shields in ST be artificial (Quantum) mass?