Rigel: Abort construction

posted on April 29th, 2011, 9:30 pm

Well, if you tech the tech and babble babble the treknobabble, then you can artificially create the omega particle times twelve and kill all fifth dimensional space anchovies and THEN what will you have to show for yourself?

Also, you then become qualified to write Voyager episodes.

posted on April 29th, 2011, 9:32 pm

why you always hating on voyager mal?

posted on April 29th, 2011, 9:32 pm

Also, you then become qualified to write Voyager episodes.

Nah, not for just a few nadion-particles since even the Lt. Commander serving on the Sutherland was complaining about it like a woman just because an android was in command.

why you always hating on voyager mal?

Because Janeway got promoted when she should have been court-martialed and sent to Rura Penthe (by friendly support through the fed-klingon alliance).^^

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posted on April 29th, 2011, 9:58 pm

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Rura Penthe? That place is escapable by captains with deus ex machina. 
Have to kill her, with a copy of that time-erasure device so she can't come back with technobabble.

And to further explain Mal's voyager hating: some people aren't too appreciative of writing styles that use plot devices that don't make logical sense (compared to alternatives, e.g.: Janeway using timers instead of tricobalting the caretaker array.)

posted on April 29th, 2011, 10:12 pm

Humm..

crap floating in space + Myles' reference to Nadion-particles = "We're under attack, so just stop building, open the doors and blast all of it out the cargobay!"

Which also equals Nadion particles floating around and letting dangerous radiation behind which could have a similar effect to the officer-Akira's antimatter-dust.

It would be an interesting twist if cancellation of the construction would release a small (dissipating) damaging debris/radiation cloud in addition to the loss of special energy/resources.

posted on April 29th, 2011, 10:55 pm

And to further explain Mal's voyager hating: some people aren't too appreciative of writing styles that use plot devices that don't make logical sense (compared to alternatives, e.g.: Janeway using timers instead of tricobalting the caretaker array.)

That's quite a bit of it.  What's even better is that Voyager seems like Shakespeare when you compare it to Enterprise.

Oh, and something about a Rigel abort construction button.  We should probably have one.  Or something.  Yes.....

posted on April 30th, 2011, 12:27 am

I'd like it, but I think you should lose resources to do it, and a long cooldown after cancelling.

posted on April 30th, 2011, 6:09 am

Mals just sore because he tried out for voyager captain and they decided that ST had enough men. So now hes sore

[Tyler]

posted on April 30th, 2011, 6:11 am

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I doubt any sore feelings would last very long past the Kazons introduction...

posted on April 30th, 2011, 8:16 am

"Captain's log, Stardate 479.532.234 and a half:  After being demoted from "Ambassador to Risa" to Captain of the S.S. Minnow U.S.S. Voyager, my crew and I are taking a three hour tour of the badlands to recover my black vulcan security officer, in order to fulfill the crew's "diversity quota".  Tuvok is important, because not only is he black, but he's also a vulcan, which is like a double bonus, quota-wise!  This is why he is affectionately named Twofer.

Our mission is to stop a Native American from defending his homeland and bring him into custody out of some perverted sense of what passes for "white guilt" in the 24th Century.  He may also be the only person who will hate this show as much as I will, and the galaxy can only contain so much loathing."

[align=center]-The Caretaker scoops the Minnow Voyager to the Delta Quadrant-[/align]

Captain, we're on the other side of the galaxy!  What should we do??!!

Well, if this were B5, we'd open up a jump point, ride the beacon to Epsilon Eridani, and get front row seats for some dancer named "Lola" at the DarkStar.  But since we're in the wonderful land of Trek, it's going to take....

75 years?

Yes, something like that.

Captain, the Caretaker has sent Harry Kim and B'Ellana Torres to the Occompa homeworld!  We HAVE to get them back!

Ah.  Well.  It's our loss and they'll be missed.  Actually, I kind of feel like we've gained.....

But Captain!  We never leave a man behind!!!

Well it's a good thing neither of them are men!  BA-ZING!!!
So Twofer, have you figured which treknobabble plot device is going to get us home yet?  Don't we usually just use an inverse tachyon pulse from the main deflector while we reverse the polarity?  That usually works.

No, not even the inverse tachyon pulse can solve this dilemma.

Woah.  So, we're doomed to eat Neelix's cooki....

....Actually, I think I may have found a solution.  How did you know what would motivate me to find the answer?

A Captain has to play his hunches.  That's how we get to be Captains.

Very good sir.  If I examine this alien tech that's way beyond anything we've ever encountered before, I may be able to trigger the array to send us back to our quadrant of space.

So how long do you think it will take you to figure out this alien tech that is centuries ahead of us?

Fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes?!

Well, ten, if you stop bugging me.

[align=center]-Tuvok fixes the array so that it will send the ship back to the Alpha Quadrant-[/align]

Captain!  What if the Kaazon find the array with all its secrets?!

You mean the guys bones on their heads who think transporter technology is magic?

Well, considering it took Tuvok 15 minutes....

The Captain was bugging me!!!!

Ok, fine.  Prepare to fire Tri-cobalt torpedoes on the array!!!
Just kidding.  Beam some timed charges somewhere inside and have them set to blow minutes after we're gone.

But what if the Kaazon disarm it?

You mean the guys with bones on their heads that think transporter tech...

Captain, I've already got it covered.

Ah, thank you, Mr. Tuvok.  What did you do?  Hide it in a cloaking field?  Or a holographic projection?

Well, like I said, I've got it covered.  You'll see.

Um, Ok then.  Get us out of here.

[align=center]-This fine ship, and this fine crew are transported back to the Alpha Quadrant, because it really is about the destination-[/align]

***Meanwhile, back at the array***

Torg:  My lord, the array appears to be deserted.

Maje Culluh:  How can that be? They're hiding!

Torg:  Yes, sir. But the bridge is run by computer. It is the only thing speaking.

Maje Culluh:  Speaking? Let me hear.

The Bomb:  9...8...7...6... 5...

Maje Culluh:  Get out! GET OUT OF THERE!

The Bomb:  2... 1...


***Meanwhile, back on Risa***

Great news, Twofer!  Not only have I gotten my old job back, but I've gotten my old job back!

Congratulations, Sir.  I'm off to go meditate on logic, or something.

[align=center]- As Tuvok leaves, Scarlett Johanson VIII, native of Risa, approaches-[/align]

So Mal, I hear you're sore because you tried to be the voyager captain and they decided that ST had enough men.  Are you sore, Mal?

I am sore.  Actually, let me point to all the places I'm sore and let's see if you can help me with that.  I'm sore here.....here........and most definitely here......

[align=center]FIN[/align]

posted on April 30th, 2011, 8:23 am

If you want to keep the Kazon away from the Array, just draw a line on the floor and write Keep Away next to it, use their own penal system against them.

Aside from that hopefully unintentional overestimating what's needed to keep the Array away from the Kazon, you'd probably be better than Janeway... probably slightly less homicidal, too.