Venkatesh Rao@vgr·May 8, 2020“The system is broken” is no longer an annoying figure of speech favored by holier-than-thou types. It is literally broken in an engineering sense. I find myself even trying to draw diagrams to diagnose the failure cascade.31162
Venkatesh Rao@vgrWhy didn’t we remodulate shield harmonics and reroute all power to the deflector arrays?2:33 AM · May 8, 20201 Retweet18 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·May 8, 2020Replying to @vgrWho’s going to crawl down the Jeffries tube to engineering before the warp core meets down?1115
Carlos Bueno@Archivd·May 8, 2020Replying to @vgrBecause the bastards sold off the dilithium crystals to the Ferengi long ago and we’ve been running on fumes.
eleanorina@_eleanorina·May 8, 2020Replying to @vgrscrolling quickly, read that as "shield hegemonics"