So, what TV shows or movies got it right. And I don't mean lack-of-evidence-against, but who clearly know what the hell they're talking about -- even if it's only one aspect -- and DO IT RIGHT?
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Re: THAT'S the way it works! Right on!
Thu, November 16, 2006 - 4:53 PMummmm......
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Re: THAT'S the way it works! Right on!
Thu, November 16, 2006 - 4:55 PMstargate. Thats how it would work allright.
at least the stargate part of it. Transporters and warp engines... errrrr...
also a more accurate representation of warp than star trek, but still really flawed.
stargate tho has stupid bad weapons, stupid low tech aliens, stupid plots, etc.... -
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Fri, November 17, 2006 - 7:07 AM"stargate tho has stupid bad weapons, stupid low tech aliens, stupid plots, etc..."
Well, partial credit is valid. 8) A show can score in one category and fail in another.
Based on the movie, I thought Stargate seemed okay vis-a-vis the transport mechanism as well.
Any others?
I keep looking for something that uses gravity wells to some advantage, but I'm just not sure how that would work.
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Fri, November 17, 2006 - 4:04 PMactually, the easiest way to makea gate is to use the planets own gravity well as the initial tube anachor, but then accelerate and swerve to miss the singularity in gravitic node hyperspace. So an accurate gate would be a lot like stargate, but you'd jump down through the gate
and land a moment later a little roughly.
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Re: THAT'S the way it works! Right on!
Fri, November 17, 2006 - 4:18 PMYeah, I could do that.
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Re: THAT'S the way it works! Right on!
Sat, November 18, 2006 - 2:07 PMI remember an episode of the new Galactica where the writers actually showed that they know what a light-year is and that the speed of light is extremely slow despite being the fastest thing in the universe (that we know of). In the episode in question, one of the ships in the Galactica fleet is destroyed by a smuggled nuke. Over a year later, the Cylons arrive at the new planet the fleet has colonized because they (the Cylons) detected the nuclear blast from over a light-year away. That of course means that it took over one year for the emissions from that nuclear blast (which travel at the speed of light) to reach the Cylons when they were over one light-year away from the fleet's planet. -
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Mon, July 16, 2007 - 2:46 PMThat was a good touch.
I would also have to say that the inertial way the vipers maneuver is well done. Shutting off thrusters and firing in a yaw maneuver is quite well done. For that, I'll forgive them their use of missile contrails. Even better, using a pitch maneuver which breaks the standard planar orientation in so much SF out there.
That was one of my nit-picks in Wrath of Khan. They make a big deal about Khan thinking two-dimensionally, yet the Enterprise still maintained the same orientation as the Defiant. Better to have gone to nadir (as in the movie), pitch 90 degrees, then get a belly shot as the Defiant across the Enterprise's bow.
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