It's all odd to me :chin:Have you ever watched space shows or movies and wondered about some oddity? — Vera Mont
What exactly do you mean by "deities"? Could you give an example maybe? — Sir2u
Why do all the deities in the explored galaxy like to be invoked by an open flame? — Vera Mont
Not really. They never tell you who or what the aliens are praying to or invoking or whatever they're doing when they're alone in their cabin with a burning candle, chanting or deep in some kind of trance. — Vera Mont
Another question I cannot find an answer to is why space traveling beings are depicted with claws or tentacles that can never have been used to create the spaceships they ride around in. — Sir2u
You're quite right - it's the same question.I suppose a related question is, "Why do we humans find a deity coming through flames apposite?" — wonderer1
Why do curved spaceships have so many straight steel beams in the ceiling and why do the beams fall down so easily? — Vera Mont
Not quite following what would bend a convex support arch, but okay. — Vera Mont
On submarines and I would suppose star-ships the beams would be specially made in the form of the hull but they would not use curved beams for internal support. — Sir2u
The badly attached 10" I-beams are always in the ceiling. — Vera Mont
They would not be able to fall on the people if they were in the floor, — Sir2u
Especially given that any passing alien can just take over control of their ship. That's got to be the least secure computer system in the universe!Star Trek is absurd insofar as many of the scenarios seem impossible to overcome and survival appears to be a matter or pure luck. — Nils Loc
Minute 1 of day 1, get rid of those piles of klunky hardware they substituted for computers. Even STNG still has half a dozen big tablet things to contain the amount of information a 300-year-old cellphone wouldn't even notice.(A) what main aspect/s of the 60's show would you change/update? — 180 Proof
I'm quite happy with the non-monetarist economy of Earth, but would need some kind of standard trading medium with other cultures. (Voyager bartered, and that's acceptable, but they shouldn't have had to improvise.)(B) what you would keep from the original to retain its identifiably Star Trek style rather than feeling like another generic space opera cashing-in on the franchise brand with all that glittering s/fx, pointless techobabble & Mos Eisley "aliens"? — 180 Proof
rebooting Star Trek TOS (1966-69) — 180 Proof
Have you ever watched space shows or movies and wondered about some oddity? — Vera Mont
They played with that idea in TNG, Voyager and DS9. The time travel episodes were some of the most fun, so I was happy to suspend disbelief. I sure wouldn't want to have flocks of tourists from the future rubbernecking through my house!If time travel is possible, where are all the future people? — T Clark
Because the designers think a breadbox is unappealing. They probably have tremendous fun adding fins and bubbles. Besides, the vehicle has to be recognizable (by the audience) as belonging to a known or about-to-be-introduced species*. I thought the most creative space vessels were in Babylon 5. I loved the Vorlon ships in B5 and thought the Minbari ones, with their vaulted ceilings and wasted internal space were ridiculous (Especially the 'plucked chicken', which had no evident straight lines anywhere, yet managed to drop one of those I-beams I mentioned above, right in the control room.) But the Earth force battleships were as ugly and functional and dangerous-looking as one could wish.Why are space ships that will never enter the atmosphere so often depicted as aerodynamic? — T Clark
Could be personal choice. His brother didn't refuse the genetic enhancement. Oddly enough, his little French nephew, and later his weedy adolescent self (same actor) also had an English accent.Why is Jean Luc Picard bald. — T Clark
Collisions, explosions, screaming missiles, ominous rumbles... It's a very noisy space, space.How can we hear when space ships explode? — T Clark
They played with that idea in TNG, Voyager and DS9. The time travel episodes were some of the most fun, so I was happy to suspend disbelief. I sure wouldn't want to have flocks of tourists from the future rubbernecking through my house! — Vera Mont
In essence, current AI demonstrates that you can have sophisticated intelligence without consciousness.
In essence, current AI demonstrates that you can have sophisticated intelligence without consciousness
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