"Inertial dampeners" are one of the single most impossible things in Star Trek -- the most basic foundation of general relativity is inertia is a fundamental property of matter that cannot be "dampened" -- but they get a one-line mention so the story can just move forward
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Can move forward without taking several weeks or months to accelerate and decelerate while moving at impulse to protect their crew and equipment from dangerous G-forces
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
i'm not even sure why they need to mention them at all they could just say that a special property of warp is that the people subjectively don't feel like they're moving, it's already made up!
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Because they obsessivelyexplain everything. Somewhere in the inner workings of the transporter is a Heisenberg Compensator that deals with the problem that the uncertainty principle would make the transporter impossible. No joke.
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Replying to @fightuntil @Cybren and
I've seen people propose trying to fix Star Trek's problems with plausibility by trying to pin them down to One Weird Thing instead of having all kinds of impossible tech Like, *just* give them warp drive, and have the principle of warp drive also drive the transporter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and
You have the ability to magically make wormholes, sometimes they're big ship-sized wormholes you can drive through, sometimes they're little person-sized ones you can sneak people through Everything else is mundane realistic tech
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and
The thing being, of course, this isn't actually a "realistic" setting -- any more than it'd be realistic to imagine our world as being exactly like the year 1750 with the one exception of having invented diesel engines, or radio transmitters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and
And for a show like Star Trek the nonsense universe-breaking ability of the transporter to just take things apart at the atomic level and rebuild them arbitrarily is half the fun What would Star Trek fandom even be without the Tuvix Debate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and
now i want a series that's exactly like star trek except with a fantasy palette swap they're on a big-ass schooner in space, o'brien operates the teleportation circles, instead of shields they have wards there's still a big dilithium crystal at the heart of it all though
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Replying to @perdricof @fightuntil and
One of my favorite episodes of Voyager, "Muse", is 100% about this concept The one where B'elanna Torres gets stranded on an Ancient Greece-themed planet and an alien Greek playwright turns her mission logs into a literal classical drama
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That one was one of the many Voyager Writers' Room cries for help It was veteran Star Trek writer Joe Menosky's final swan song and artistic statement before quitting Star Trek writing entirely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Which is why the episode is surprisingly good, even if the concept is obviously corny and the meta message was obvious from the very beginning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
That they'd lost their way in science-fiction gimmicks and Technobabble of the Week and tropey fandom shipping shit and forgotten the Elements of Drama
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