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  3. Posted

    12 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    But that was MODIFIED transporter. That novel I speak about was about transporter which NORMALLY created copy and required the original to be killed - which was normally automated, but then confirmation about successful transfer arrived too late and non-automatic solution had to be done ...

    I remember some article that Roddenberry himself, in reaction to some debates like this, commented that he should've based the transporter technology on something less problematic than breaking objects down into stream of subatomic particles.

    Roddenberry probably should have.

    Standard-issue transporters have created clones as well.  James Kirk was once split into two bodies, each of which only had half of his personality.

    And of course a similar transporter accident created Thomas Riker (who proved to me that Jonathan Frakes could in fact act competently.  I was forced to blame his subpar-appearing portrayal of William Riker on bad direction early on in TNG which got canonized as THE way to play Riker).

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    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    I was objecting to the "young" part. ANY member of Q continuum, starting with the most known Q, could be called child ... although likely not where he can hear it.

    In Classic Trek's Squire of Gothos, Trelane, the child-cosmic-being, chased the Enterprise around with an earth-sized planet at one point.

    Edit: I have to partly back off on the above. Trelane did have some technological help and some of his tricks may have actually been illusions. Trelane's parents appeared to be higher-order beings, however. Trelane's own human appearance was a part of the game he was playing with Our Heroes.

     

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    That's true. It's also reason why I completely understand Barclay's fear of them. And few others. I remember some novel addressing that in non-startrek universe ...

    The very first Trek novel ever to exist, "Spock must Die!", has a modified transporter creating an evil clone of Spock who was a mirror image down to the handedness of his organic molecules.  In setting up the duplication, the book has Scotty and McCoy discuss whether putting someone through a transporter could be considered murder.  McCoy was the first transporterphobic in Trek.

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    1 minute ago, hkmaly said:

    You are saying it as if members of the Q Continuum were showing any signs of maturing.

    There are male and female members of the Q Continuum (at least some Q *look* male or female to humans...)  If the human experience is at all transferable to the Q, you don't need that much maturity to breed.

    And the Classic Trek episode "Squire of Gothos" did show us that some cosmic beings actually do breed...

     

    2 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    On the other hand, stuffing toys into black hole and then recreating them from pure energy pumped from the black hole wouldn't be that hard, relatively speaking. It's just wouldn't really be the same toys.

    It'd be no different than moving the toys around by transporter...

  7. Posted

    17 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Wait. I can imagine child playing with topological defects of space-time, but I can't imagine child which would be so bad at cleaning it would actually deliberately put toys somewhere where it's impossible to get them back from.

    (Also, as a child, I had a bed with drawer. Storing stuff into it would likely be considered acceptable form of cleaning the room.)

    What if the child *can* get them back?

  9. Posted

    1 hour ago, sstabeler said:

    First, Not-Tengu not being anything special is just that it wasn't particularly difficult for him to get his monstrous form. he WAS a serious threat- remember that Angel-Nanase would have been defeated had they actually fought.

    My point about special-ness turns on how powerful not-Tengue was/is in the context of Ed Verres saying the guy was nothing special.  If not-Tengue is "nothing special" and he's that powerful, imagine what someone who was special might be like.  I'm thinking Sirleck might well be "special", though it's unlikely that just being a vampire/aberrent is enough to qualify. 

    I'm romancing the idea that the longer one is an aberrent/vampire the less human (and more powerful) one becomes.  The vamp that Nanase and Susan killed in France was the most human as well as the weakest we've seen.  Spider-vamp was stronger and also less human.  Sirleck is a collaboration between Salvadore Dali and HR Geiger.  What would that say about how powerful he might be?

     

    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    I can think of a rather frightening reason why this plan would be expensive for Sirleck. If enough of his wealth is bound up in Moperville real estate, raining hell down on it will probably cause it to depreciate in value.

    Just ask the Pharaoh. What happened to the Egyptian market after the Plagues?

    I'm sure frog's legs were cheap for a while there, but you can't base an economy on that kind of niche item...

  12. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Aura Guardian said:

    I'm going to guess that he's got some powerful magic of his own. Given that magic mirrors its owner... well, this guy's probably gonna be a lot longer-lived of an enemy than Not-Tengu was.

    Now consider this: Ed Verres said not-Tengue wasn't special at all.  Just some guy who figured out how to get magic. 

    Suppose Sirleck is special...

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    What could one do with a TF Cannon or a TF Nuke?

    TF-Cannon: Think of a TF Gun as an artillery piece with a burst radius on impact of, say, 10 meters.

    TF-Nuke: Scale the cannon to a burst radius of 10 kilometers.

    Turn anything within the impact zone into...say a mollusk.  Anything with no hands or feet.  For the next 30 days.  Uryouom troops could call down fire on their own positions and simply morph back.  Harsher TFG effects would be saved for facing another shapeshifting race.

    EGS Earth should be very happy that Uryuoms are social critters, and not much for empire building.

  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Bah. Eratosthenes was a wuss. If he had been a real man like Galileo he'd have waited until Christians came into power so he could have been threatened with burning at the stake for saying the Earth was round. :demonicduck:

    Be fair.  Any entrenched power structure acts to destroy threats to its status quo.

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Or there is also Pratchett's Theory of L-Space.

    Knowledge equals power. Power equals energy. Energy equals matter. Matter equals mass.

    This means that a well stocked library will actually distort time and space around it, i.e. a good library is really a rather genteel black hole that knows how to read.

    ...or a huge source of untapped power.  That might explain why magic users always have large libraries...

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, Scotty said:

    It's also possible that Elliot still identifies as male, but can enjoy being female. To Elliot, this may actually be less of a gender identity issue and more of "I'm not going to be a stick in the mud about this and just acknowledge the fact that this is soo freaking amazing".

    I get a "recognition" vibe from Elliot.  I am likely projecting somewhat here but he feels similar to my own headspace.   Though I identify male, always have, always will, I have, for lack of a better term, a strong female voice inside of me.  If I got a cheerleadra-like superhero spell, both the male and female sides of me might enjoy the experience, albeit for very different reasons.  :)