Originally posted by marwash22
how does transporter tech work? I'm guessing there has to be cooperation between two ships and you can't just beam aboard another ship w/o permission.i ask because Captain Lorca seems to want to use that large creature for something... would he be able to transport it onto a Klingon ship?
If they follow Star Trek science, they should be able to. As long as the shields are down, you can beam shit anywhere you want in general depending on distance.
As for how it works, basically you get taken apart down to the molecule, bundled in to what they call a "matter stream" which is some sort of energy beam, and reassembled on the other side.
Originally posted by -Pr-ahhh.
If they follow Star Trek science, they should be able to. As long as the shields are down, you can beam shit anywhere you want in general depending on distance.
that seems like a crazy engineering flaw. Unless it's a power issue, why would you ever lower shields with another ship in your vicinity? An enemy ship could just beam some biological weapon aboard and wipe out an entire crew w/o firing a shot.
has that ever come up?
Originally posted by -Pr-yeah, i knew that part just from other science fiction material and comics.
As for how it works, basically you get taken apart down to the molecule, bundled in to what they call a "matter stream" which is some sort of energy beam, and reassembled on the other side.
Originally posted by marwash22
ahhh.that seems like a crazy engineering flaw. Unless it's a power issue, why would you ever lower shields with another ship in your vicinity? An enemy ship could just beam some biological weapon aboard and wipe out an entire crew w/o firing a shot.
has that ever come up?
yeah, i knew that part just from other science fiction material and comics.
Yeah, many a story have been cursed by the "we can't beam our away team out without lowering our shields" conundrum.
There are the usual "wait for a gap in their harmonics" bollocks, but those are rare.
Ships in Star Trek, generally the Klingons, will weaken a ship until its shield fail, then beam over boarding parties. This creature in STD, I dunno what they plan to do with that.
Originally posted by marwash22
ya know what, didn't even realize this show's abbreviation was STD until you just used it. Reminds me of when i used to watch The Vampire Diaries and people would call it "VD".that's unfortunate.
😆 I'm glad I'm not paying a dime to watch this.
Just my time, which is worthless.
Originally posted by marwash22
yeah, the production values are there... but why not just put it on Netflix. I hear it's on Netflix Canada, but not here.meh. i'll keep illegally dling it.
It's on Netflix for me as well. It's Netflix for everyone except the States.
Tbh this kind of shit does worry me though, with Disney starting their own streaming service and taking all their stuff off Netflix. I doubt that's all gonna stay tied to the US only.
So for those of us who aren't millionaires, what other option will be left except illegal downloads (which I try to avoid).
Originally posted by marwash22
is the production budget for this show so expensive that they needed to put it behind a paywall?i already have Netflix and Amazon Prime, and Apple Music... i'm not paying for ANOTHER service, especially a service that only has one thing worth watching.
Around $8.5 million per episode, apparently.
Originally posted by cdtm
And he dies on ds9.Tachyon poisoning. Time duplicate takes over. No one ever knew, no one to mourn. Saddest thing I've ever seen on Trek outside of Bashire unwittingly helping Wynn assassinate her political rival.
Oh and a Pah Wraith possesses his wife at one point, because the universe itself hates Miles O'Brien.
Speaking of Bashir, if some weird mishap occurred with Bashir and Keiko and Miles wifes spirit was killed, but then the spirit of Doctor Bashir somehow ends up in her body? I feel like both Miles and Bashir would be A-Okay with that arrangement.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
It's on Netflix for me as well. It's Netflix for everyone except the States.Tbh this kind of shit does worry me though, with Disney starting their own streaming service and taking all their stuff off Netflix. I doubt that's all gonna stay tied to the US only.
So for those of us who aren't millionaires, what other option will be left except illegal downloads (which I try to avoid).
It's cable companies not learning from their old mistakes. The entire point of a streaming service is to bundle shit together, not take it apart.
Originally posted by Surtur
Oh and a Pah Wraith possesses his wife at one point, because the universe itself hates Miles O'Brien.Speaking of Bashir, if some weird mishap occurred with Bashir and Keiko and Miles wifes spirit was killed, but then the spirit of Doctor Bashir somehow ends up in her body? I feel like both Miles and Bashir would be A-Okay with that arrangement.
That is really disturbing... Though Keiko could be really ****ing annoying at times.