Solution to all the Galaxy-X threads.

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 4:22 pm

Don't drag the rest of us along in your bad trip. I'd sooner call a warthog beautiful than the Enterprise J.

Speaking of which it might be interesting to add fighter jets to the Avalon carrier. You know like from WWII?

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 5:10 pm

Valient and Gal-X are the same, the only difference is that the Gal-X is actually established and has an in-story reason to be there (old crew loyalty and guilt for sending them to enemy space unguarded). Your post would include the Ent-E as it convieniently appeared just in time to save the Defiant, exactly the same as the Gal-X (aside from the improved success).

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The 'Big he[r]o' moment can be a Deus ex Machina when it's an anticimax, but killing redshirts early in (like the Gal-X was) isn't at the climax or every redshirt death in every show when someone's saved from danger would be a Deus ex Machina.

The Ent-E saving Worf was very well established since we saw the point of view of the crew of the Ent-E. Valiant was from point of view outside of the Valiant.

The Gal-X is borderline, and can be viewed as anticlimactic considering how easily the Klingons are defeated. Let's leave it at that.

Also, Star Trek loves to pull Deus ex Machina, probably due to the main characters rarely being able to die.

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 5:11 pm

Sorta like the Dr. Who episode with Winston Churchill?  Just give them a little upgrade and hope the plane explodes when the shields die...a transport attack in a one or two seat plane could be brief

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 6:57 pm

I like the galaxy-x but it seems that if we add it, the regular gal would loss some gravatos.

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 7:34 pm

Speaking of which it might be interesting to add fighter jets to the Avalon carrier. You know like from WWII?

ww2 fighter jets were new and unreliable beasts. you wouldnt wanna fly in one. ww2 was still firmly in the propellor era.

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 7:50 pm

propellors work in space right?

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 7:57 pm

propellors work in space right?

depends if space dust is dense enough for the prop to work, if it does, it would be incredibly slow.

they work in futurama space

posted on September 4th, 2011, 12:29 am

depends if space dust is dense enough for the prop to work, if it does, it would be incredibly slow.

they work in futurama space

And some oxygen for the combustion engine would be nice as well.

posted on September 4th, 2011, 12:51 am

Maybe the carrier could beam some oxygen with the plane.

posted on September 4th, 2011, 1:22 am

On the carrier? What do you want to do, plug the propeller planes into the carrier with a king sized hose?

posted on September 4th, 2011, 9:54 am

And some oxygen for the combustion engine would be nice as well.

well ww2 prop planes may have been powered by internal combustion (another reason why a ww2 fighter wouldnt work in space), but the prop could be powered by anything that can drive a motor.

posted on September 7th, 2011, 7:02 am

And finally, to make it short, no Galaxy-X in my Fleet Operations 

posted on September 7th, 2011, 8:28 am

And finally, to make it short, no Galaxy-X in my Fleet Operations 

Yay!

posted on September 7th, 2011, 1:59 pm

And finally, to make it short, no Galaxy-X in my Fleet Operations 

Woo.  This is the first time I read this thread and I don't even have to read the rest.

posted on September 7th, 2011, 2:24 pm

agreed, i like this solution as well.