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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn me and my suggestion that people should fact-check themselves rather than make up a show to be mad at!

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm just very interested in people who, you know, tell the truth. It shouldn't be that challenging...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm personally of the belief that a remaster should be the best possible version of whatever was originally produced, so I suppose that means I'm not in favour of correcting mistakes like those. It's not a hill I'd be willing to die on, but I would prefer it to accurately reflect the work that was done at the time.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have made up my mind about your factual errors, yeah. You're not going to convince me of things that aren't true.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The plot revolves around a wargames scenario. There is for some reason an alien race that is really good at war strategies. There is an advisor from that race on the enterprise.

Ah, that would be "Peak Performance", in which Wesley has an experiment that has something to do with high-energy plasma reactions with antimatter, and nothing whatsoever to do with growing dilithium. Swing and a miss.

The Klingons use Trilithium.

Strike two - trilithium is an unstable explosive that is used in the engines of exactly no one. The Klingons do use tritium as an intermix, but as you are aware, that simply replaced the role that deuterium plays in Starfleet designs - it has nothing to do with dilithium.

The Romulans used a contained singularity.

This is the closest you've come to having something. Of course, there's exactly zero information on how those drives operate or are manufactured, along with the pesky fact that the Romulans have enslaved an entire race to mine dilithium for them, which is...not something you typically do to obtain a substance that you don't need. We'll call it a foul ball.

In Voyager we saw a number of potential non-dilithium alternatives. One of them was a glorified slingshot.

What did we learn about how these alternatives are powered, particularly considering that several of them were plugged into Voyager's warp core without too much trouble? You get bonus points if you can identify the one that was specifically described as "not antimatter," which is most likely (but not guaranteed) to exclude dilithium.

So far we've got two strikes and two fouls. You're still at bat.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

we saw Wesely grow dilithium as part of a high school science project.

Wow, what a significant development - which episode was that?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the rules are not particularly clear, and some are outright missing. Basically things would come up, and I would have to patch in a rule based on what I felt made the most sense in the moment.

I once bought a "Lost" board game that seemed a lot like a twist on Catan, except the rules were so unclear I never did actually play it. Must be a licensed game thing.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was still unknown whether it was Stafleet

In what way was it unknown? Sloan had the active support of Starfleet command, access to at least one starship, and full authority to do whatever he wanted. None of this is ambiguous, and is in fact directly stated.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

its existence as a starfleet element was blurry.

The very first S31 episode had Starfleet Command actively stonewalling Sisko's inquiries, and Kira openly calling it a cover-up, so no, I don't think its status as part of Starfleet was ever under serious question.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an awfully roundabout way of saying you're spouting made-up bullshit.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The bulk of "The Menagerie" was Marc Daniels, but obviously the footage from "The Cage" was Butler's.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Before even that it’s shown them in considerable anguish to come out to their boyfriend even.

Cool! Do you have any examples from scenes that actually happened?

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