Most and Least Favourite Science Fiction 'Device'
- Thread starter Mr Moose
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Agree with that as a
But as a
I'll always be a fan of the AI/Mind/technocore/polisMachine intelligence ftw
They were spun around an axis. Those are stil probably my second favourite scifi series evah (behind David Wingrove's epic Chung Kuo, naturally)
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
robot maids... made of god and win
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
light saber not a serious weapon go up a against a bunch of storm troopers ok
shuttle craft that make helicopters look safe.
weapons that fail to function.
redshirts would be carrying ak's and pump action shotguns if phasers were that unreliable.
big bit of kinetic enrgy ftw
ove
It is if you hold the higher ground, Annakin
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
it's one of the main plot elements in "Aim for the top" (gunbuster)
and as an added bonus in aim for the top 2 (diebuster) the try to use the earth as a mass weapon
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wobbly
that got a bit strange in places
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
A character played by Walter Koenig!
There's some scarily good weaponry in the starship in Revelation Space (I think it's that one - the stuff that ends up haunted with the ghost of someone, anyway).
likesfish
You can't park here sir
mm "two blokes in cloaks waving laser swords cpl lets rush em"
no lets sit here and with the fire fight instead
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Warp drives - the idea of bending space makes me hawt
Transporter - the idea of being deconstructed into energy and reconstituted makes me terrified.
Transporter - the idea of being deconstructed into energy and reconstituted makes me terrified.
Cid
Proper break this time
Read Alfred Bester's Tiger Tiger/the stars my destination, awesome use of teleportation. Other than that I'd agree mind you.
e2a: I thought I'd seen this thread before... and posted the same thing.
Point remains anyway.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
You probably mean the Redemption Ark, the one with those scary Conjoiner one-off bespoke hell class weapons
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
They look like they've been beamed to Planet Shithole.
"And the current hot topic on our forums is the decision by the Human colony world of Cestus III, to rename themselves "Planet Shithole"...?
The Colony, was founded about 20 years ago, in what was believed to be unclaimed space, though the Gorn Empire claims the Cestus System as part of their domain, & have stated that "unless the illegal colonists leave Gorn space, unspecified action will be taken to remove them.. ".
(Sorry, but as the background is from the Star Trek episode Arena, which introduced the Gorn, I couldn't resist...)
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
Easy, they were under constant thrust from their fusion drives, that's why the flight times dropped.
ETA, sorry, that was in Blue Mars when the lad went and visited Earth
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Worst: Holodeck. What you're drinking something made out of hard light? Does this mean when you walk out the door, five sheets to the wind, that you instantly sober up?
Tied Worst: Replicator. This is just stupid. Apparently it can make food, drinkings, clothes etc. Complex objects like phaser it can't do. So apparently turning energy into matter is easy, complex matter is hard.
Tied Worst two. Time travel in Terminator. First it's got to be living tissue, which makes no sense. Then it's liquid metal that can make simple shapes. then it's liquid metal that makes any shape. MAKE YOUR FUCKING MIND UP.
Best. Love anything in the Culture. Knife Missiles in particular.
Tied Worst: Replicator. This is just stupid. Apparently it can make food, drinkings, clothes etc. Complex objects like phaser it can't do. So apparently turning energy into matter is easy, complex matter is hard.
Tied Worst two. Time travel in Terminator. First it's got to be living tissue, which makes no sense. Then it's liquid metal that can make simple shapes. then it's liquid metal that makes any shape. MAKE YOUR FUCKING MIND UP.
Best. Love anything in the Culture. Knife Missiles in particular.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
My favourite sf thing is the Spacer's Guild, and folding space.
Least favourite: transformers.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
most of the shit cooked up for TNG scripts is shite tbf. Inertial dampeners are the only cool thing.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Plus ship to ship combat is incredibly shit.
"The Picard manevour?" A quick jump to lightspeed and firing, fuckin 'ell beat that Rommell!
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
They can handle the inertia produced by slowing from warp speed to a dead stop in a matter of seconds, but a poxy little phaser beam hits the shields and suddenly everybody's clinging to furniture and shit. No way to get your inertial dampeners to soak up weapon strikes eh? Or are the dampeners themselves always the first thing the baddies aim at?
Sloppy, that's what I call it
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Why is Bellana the only fit Klingon woman ever? As I recall from the films, Klingon women are beasts.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Because she's half human innit. Which begs the question just how drunk was her dad or mum that night?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
"The age of the universe is about 13.7 billion years, but due to the expansion of space we are now observing objects that are now considerably farther away than a static 13.7 billion light-years distance. The edge of the observable universe is now located about 46.5 billion light-years away."
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