Worf versus a Statue

Who is like God arbour · Post by **Who is like God arbour** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:46 pm

Can someone explain me, what's the sense of that thread.

Have I missed something?

It's a bloody statue. What can it do?

What prevents Worf to demolish it?

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:53 pm

Who is like God arbour wrote:It's a bloody statue. What can it do?

It's actually a ridiculously advanced timesensitive alien which can send people back in time to 'live to death' in the past and feeds off of all of the temporal energy it generates. It cannot move, or even doesn't actually exist when it's being visually observed, instead it is - or looks like - a big stone statue.

What prevents Worf to demolish it?

See above, it's essentially a creature that just looks like a statue and very likely isn't made of stone.

OmniBack · Post by **OmniBack** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:37 pm

Narsil wrote:Right, let's put it in perspective. That didn't work for a Time Lord, a fucking Time Lord, a being that can live forever barring accidents, and when an accident does happen, they've got thirteen chances at life anyway so it doesn't matter much. What makes you think Worf can match that sort of edge.

When did the Angel send the Doctor back in time?

Narsil wrote:And the second Worf would be a useless geriatric, the third would have died of old age and you don't even want to know how bad the fourth would be.

You misunderstand me.

The second through what ever Worfs would all be the same age.

So basically original Worf and a bunch of older Worfs, still tough by human standards.

Narsil wrote:He's unarmed, and therefore has to touch it. He also has to blink at some point, in which case he instantly loses after having blinked once.

He can destroy it before he blinks.

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:44 pm

OmniBack wrote:When did the Angel send the Doctor back in time?

Back to 1969 from 2007. It is heavily implied that if the Doctor had simply waited out his time and gone back to help himself, he'd actually die in the process due to the arrangement of events.

You misunderstand me.

The second through what ever Worfs would all be the same age.

So basically original Worf and a bunch of older Worfs, still tough by human standards.

But that's basically impossible by the laws of physics that the angels were limited to. If you were sent back in time and went to meet yourself at an earlier time during an established timestream, the ultimate result would be that you would in fact cause a paradox and as such make your situation infinitely worse than it already is.

He can destroy it before he blinks.

But he can't, that's the point; if it were so easy as to simply attack the angels the Doctor would have instructed the humans to do so, but he didn't and as such it wouldn't have worked. The Doctor generally knows what he's doing.