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Soooo, the lipstick has something common with Clark Kent's glasses?

What makes them come in various pastel colors? Friendship?

Well I must agree that without the text I wouldn't recognize her either. It's just that it's not first time that happened.

Heidi doesn't look anything like Elliot, nor is she supposed to. She's a separate form, that's the whole point. So that's "no". Ok. Argument withdrawn.

I don't recall it happening in DS9, but I think it happened once or twice in TNG. And it happened in TOS as well if spontaneously turning into a god counts as mutating into a different species. (There might have been other cases, but I am not an expert on TOS so I can't say for sure.) I meant the ships, so NX-01, NCC 1701 and NCC 1701-D all counts (didn't realized it could be understood as the series - I would use "in" in such case). I'm just reading Redshirts, so question if stuff like that happens only on those few ships or if other ships in starfleet have similar sort of accidents despite not being shown in the series is pretty logical.

Yeah, I was just using an example of a time when Susan did seem happy with the blonde hair (even if it was brief). She was also happy here with two-color hair I can imagine her getting into swimsuit and sitting on a counter as sort of dare or step in her training with being more comfortable with her body. Although I can't imagine her doing that with anyone except Elliot in the store, or anytime soon.

Well we have a baseline dream+reaction to go by. Apparently he remembered that one better than dream with Tedd (reaction).

There IS sort of mind altering effect in case of Heidi. That's why I used her as example.

If Elliot had this dream, he would be so wracked with guilt that someone would literally need to drag him out of bed. Only if he remembered it clearly enough. Compare his dream with Tedd. I find quite likely she literally dreams about having less problems with touching people ... especially Elliot.

Well, if you still consider Heidi to be Elliot ...

Actually, coffee only brings performance back up to where it would have been originally. Coffee drinkers in the original trials would be told to stay off caffeine for a day or two before getting the baseline no-coffee performance level, so they were in the throes of caffeine withdrawl when they did the no-coffee tests, which dropped their scores. Their scores once they were allowed their caffeine fix were naturally better. Non-coffee-drinkers never had that drop in the first set of scores. Once someone figured out to control for whether a subject was already addicted to caffeine or not, they found that the with-coffee scores of the coffee-drinkers were no better than the baseline scores of the non-coffee-drinkers. Rather than giving themselves a boost with their morning coffee, coffee-drinkers were impairing their performance without coffee, and then crediting the coffee for an improvement that was really just taking away that impairment. 1) We have some data about how coffeine affects people, but not how it affects squirrels. 2) Coffee does help with MOVING the top performance time. The tests were likely not done too much in the morning. Non-coffee-drinkers need some time (I would guess hour or two based on my own experience) AND breakfast to get to their normal performance, coffee drinkers can get there faster.

It's not. In some cases we can speculate, but this is obviously noncanon. Also, the spells can be described confusingly but not THIS much confusingly. And I'm not sure I like the idea of Susan using spells to solve her problem with personal contact, but I definitely don't like the idea of Elliot using spells like that on her. As a dream scenario, however ...

I like Ruby. It's definitely not best yet, in fact I'm not sure if it's out of beta phase already (author's claims notwithstanding), but one day it could be great language ... if they keep it off rails. Theoretically. I didn't actually follow the demo scene and still saw several simple 3D engines fitting into unbelievably small space. But note that those are generally optimized so extremely there is no way to change anything. Real programs needs to be modifiable. And, again, interpreted languages generally allows easier modifications. (Java being exception.)

I think EGS took the turn for the weird with the phrase "Oh, and in case you can't tell, Tedd's a guy." How can you take turn for the weird if weird was the direction you headed since the start? Unless it's 360° turn. Digital pictures. Analog won't last. Did it ever occurred to you that your high priests might not always be sincere to you?

A different issue would be either loss of or damage to one's voice, potentially locking the actually authorised person out. Or what if authorised person mutates into different species? Or does this only happen on Enterprise and Voyager? Also, it's not like Data was surprise to them. He spent four years on academy ; were they not able to develop ANY countermeasure in that time? It's not about complexity. TOS-era consoles have almost no displays. Most of space is covered by buttons, switches etc. To quote from the book (took me some time to get google display it ...):

That wasn't code for lowering the shields. It was PREFIX code. Kirk basically send "Reliant, 16309, lower the shields", or possibly 1864-16309-4703 with 4703 actually meaning lowering shields but Kirk didn't needed to remember it as I suspect he just entered the prefix code and then pressed the button normally used for lowering shields. I think the limit is 7 ... oh, wait, that was short term memory. Anyway, I don't think anyone was supposed to memorize that and Kirk looked for Reliant in database or something. That might be possible, although that part of authentication was also shown to not work so well against Data ...

Your good, but that "on time" answer was also funny - AND correct I suppose. No. Yes. This guardian has seen too many mortals seeking, and forgot about immortals. I'm looking forward to his reaction when he notices his error. I know for sure that's not true. There is also that french girl with book in harbor, some skyscrapers (two less than 16 years ago) and big letters HOLLYWOOD. And the famous Mountains of Illinois (warning, tvtropes link). And some waterfall, unless that's in Canada. (I hope it's obvious I'm not seriously thinking that's all.)

Also, they had less memory. Some optimization might've been skipped on C code because it would effectively trade speed for memory and they needed to be careful for both. The division of work between GPU and CPU might've also needed to be different. (I'm saying might, as I never looked at Quake code.) Their own bragging page claims they are getting closer but didn't match C yet. Getting better performance is getting harder and harder the closer you get to optimum. Current JVMs are likely better at running bad code, but may have similar performance on hand-pre-optimized code Jake 2 is using. Also, even ten years ago it was JiT compilation. Without JiT, your only chance to get reasonable performance from ANY interpreted language is if most work is done by a) GPU b.) library code which was written in C or assembler and hand-optimized c) completely different program (for example, database server) Compiled languages are and must be always faster than interpreted ones. The JiT was an attempt to compromise which ended surprisingly well ... in some cases, JiT can get better performance than compiled code because it has access to performance data normal compiler doesn't. It can never be as good as hand-optimized code of course, but hand-optimized code is extremely hard to make and even in "state-of-the-art" programs, only the parts which consumes most CPU are really hand-optimized. (Was different when the whole program fit into 64KB with data of course, but that wasn't case of Quake. Also today, you can't optimize so much as in past, simply because the CPUs got more complicated and less deterministic.)

It's because of the differences in budget that we get such glaring differences in stuff like set design and make up, ST: The Motion Picture gets around it by giving us the Enterprise 1701 Refit. It was pretty strange when the Enterprise series came out and we saw the NX-01 looking more advanced that the TOS 1701 despite being 100 years before TOS and we're likely going to see a similar difference when the new Trek series comes out that's set about 10 years before TOS. IN-UNIVERSE EXPLANATION. The out-of-universe explanation is obvious. BTW, I've read books about Romulan war which tried to explain THIS one. Basically, the consoles on NCC-1701 are looking more primitive because Romulans were using some sort of remote control weapon and when they developed countermeasures they ended with this more primitive look which was much more resistant to it. While the difference seem too much, it has at least SOME logic. Similarly to why computers used by NASA in space are generally more primitive (although not that much) than the ones we have on tables because older technology is more resistant to cosmic radiation and stuff like that. Maybe they had the right idea and just overdid it. (Note that the possibility to remote control ship was mentioned in The Wrath of Khan when Kirk entered prefix code 16309 and lowered Reliant's shields. I suppose people developing those systems learnt from the people who though four digits is enough for PIN and 16 enough for credit card number. Well ... autodestruct codes seems to be similarly short. Only one with decent password was Data.)

Well, this is Elliot. And Elliot does not do things by halves. No. He always overcompensates at least thrice.

Actually 1/2 mass x velocity2 wouldn't be so bad and would be definitely less than antimatter. The correct equation is Yes. The way Klingon looked in TOS and in movies would still allow alternative explanations, although it's debatable if they would be better. TNG didn't changed that. But Trials and Trible-ations made most of them unworkable, so it forced solution like this. ... yes, it would be sort of unrealistic to expect our instinct will be able to adapt in mere few centuries. This sort of change takes thousands of years ... if beneficial from evolution standpoint. For lot of people launching a nuke is EASIER than killing someone with knife, even if that someone is tied or something. In fact, ESPECIALLY if tied - tying someone makes easier to kill him physically but harder psychologically.

It may also explain why Susan is doing it. She has been told she will get bonuses but not what bonuses. Especially not the blonde hair one. (Although the "it's just someone's daydream" explanation is still more likely ...)

Probably meant to apply to humans only due to the Eugenics Wars. I doubt the Federation feels nearly as threatened by genetically manipulated superintelligent sheep. Actually, related article specifies that DNA resequencing of sentient beings for any reason other than repairing serious birth defects was illegal in the Federation ... but I suppose the genetic manipulation Phlox done on Klingons wouldn't be problem ... ... (Because he wasn't in Federation while doing it.) Yes, definitely. ... but that would be hard. Earthers are notoriously hard to demoralize and even harder to make unable to fight. Lot of us tend to fallback to suicide attacks when morale is down. Yeah, they don't know what they are against. Yes. In fact, at velocity high enough, any payload you could put in the missile, including antimatter, is insignificant to the kinetic energy released by impact. ... although the relative velocity in that Uplift Universe case wasn't nearly as big.

So, is this confirmation Catalina can transform someone else than herself? Also, why panicking?

And probably "backed up" on Grace. We know the male needs to be female for about a month. I don't think it was specified how long female needs to be male ; it would be logical to assume there is some time needed but it may not be whole month. Of course, even just week would be impractical. Also, we don't know what effect would enchanted cells have on embryo. Yes, that definitely doesn't seem like method they would use. That, and the video evidence might still exist. Sure. I'm certain Tedd was planing to keep it. Not only yes, but also the stem cell templates needs to be Uryuom for the reproduction to work.