Re: General Warning Tally for staff...
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:24 pm
mojo, +30 warnings for failing to recognize a compressed image of a Shadowrun Troll... :)
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Mike DiCenso wrote:We already kind of covered this some years ago in a thread called "Top ten VS myths".
-Mike
Mike DiCenso wrote:I don't think it was a matter of accuracy there as much as the restraining Sand person not wanting any potential swag on the speeder being ruined in a burning wreck.MauriceWindows wrote:Obi-wan was talking in comparison to Sand-people, whom the Stroomtroopers had presented as the attackers on the Jawa's transport. Remember in the beginning of Ep. IV, one Sand-person wants to shoot Luke's speeder, but the other one rebuffs him; obviously their weapons aren't accurate enough to hit the speeder.
-Mike
MIKE DICENSO +50 WARNINGSMike DiCenso wrote:Roddenberry never disavowed what had happened in TOS' third season, even the events of "Turnabout Intruder". But that's a different discussion for the Evidence forum.
-Mike
Mike DiCenso wrote:You're talking about two entirely different circumstances. I was refering to the nuke missile fired at the Enterprise in the opening teaser. And yes, Gill does recall a space fleet, not just a single ship:
GILL: We were betrayed by a self-seeking adventurer who has led us all to the very
brink of disaster. I order the immediate recall of the space fleet. This attack must stop. All units are to return to base. To Zeon I promise, this was not an aggression of Ekosian people. Only one evil man. Melakon Is a traitor to his own people and all that we stand for.
The thing is, without Gill's advanced technical knowledge, Melakon and Ekos would have still been planet-bound, which is why Kirk reacted to seeing the missile the way he did in the episode's begining.
-Mike
Mike DiCenso wrote:That may all be true, but they are both canon incidents. Sylvia and Korob's people we know next to nothing about, but they are very powerful beings, whoever they are. As for their "technology", it wasn't they didn't understand what they did, but they had trouble understanding ours. The wanted to so that they could combine the two together to create something even more powerful.
Flint's reducer tech is an outlier, but still it does make you wonder about the possibilities, if the Federation ever got ahold of that. Or what would happen if Kirk and company had walked into Flint's living room, and found a perfectly detailed "model" of a star destroyer.
-Mike
Mike DiCenso wrote:Robert Bloch, who was a contemporary and friend of H.P. Lovecraft, wrote three Star Trek episodes; "What are Little Girls Made of?", "Catspaw", and "Wolf in the Fold", which all have very strong Cthulhu mythos homage references, or very Lovecraftian themes in them.
Other species in Trek would certainly qualify as very Lovecraftian, such as the vampire cloud of "Obsession" (think Star Vampires), and Apollo from "Who Mourns for Adonis?" (he fits right in with the Eldar Gods).
-Mike
MIKE DICENSO +150 WARNINGSMike DiCenso wrote:I see that StarWarsStarTrek is continuing to repeat the same fallacies, plus a few new ones in this debate. Forty meter asteroids? Where? The asteroids "vaporized" by the unidentified ISD are only about 2.3 times or so wider than the bolts hitting them, which places them in the 1-8 meter range. Maybe 12-14 meters, if you stretch things out.Sci Fi Fan wrote:So vaporizing 40 meter asteroids with single shots is weak? Blowing up a planet is weak? Making a giant, 150 kiloton fireball as the AT-AT did is weak? Your visual analysis is weak.
The Death Star destruction of Alderaan is impressive, but then a chain-reaction planet buster is no less or more impressive than a trilithium star burster.
A 150 kt fireball? Since when? No explosion seen in TESB during the Battle of Hoth was 150 KT. There would have been a huge mushroom cloud and shockwave that would have killed the Rebel troopers instantly since they had no shielding, except the little trenches, and towards the end of the battle, they were on the run. The explosion from the generator is likely just the thing releasing a huge ball of plasma into the air when ruptured by the Veer's AT-AT's blasters.
-Mike
MIKE DICENSO +25 WARNINGSMike Dicenso wrote:Another inverse EU concept: Wild Space. In the EU it was supposed to be a very recent frontier as part of an expansion effort initiated by Emperor Palpatine post-Republic to explore and expand into the Unknown Regions. However, in TCW series, it is portrayed as having being pre-Empire by a considerable time and is a generally lawless zone ruled by criminal organizations, like the Hutts. There is no connection so far to the Unknown Regions, which goes against George Lucas' movie concept that the GFFA is completely mapped, or at least nearly so that Jocasta Nu could make an arrogant brag to that effect in AoTC.
-Mike
Mike DiCenso wrote:It does indeed. Thanks for the posting, Picard. I always knew that George Lucas was a kind of socially awkward guy, but if some of the information in this article is true, he is actually borderline dysfunctional. It's a wonder that Lucas could get any movie made, never mind something that went completely against the grain like the original Star Wars did.
-Mike