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[stra-tek]

Excerpt from I Survived Kirk, a forthcoming trashy tell-all autobiography fanfic about a bitter redshirt on Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise

Oh yeah, the ship.  It was supposedly the USS Enterprise that had essentially been my home for five years, “refitted”.  But from what I could tell, in the past two years she had been rebuilt entirely new.  Hell, not long after we docked I saw some of the refit concept plans with the header “USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1800” – and nothing says “yeah, it’s an entirely new ship” like a new Naval Construction Contract number.  But, for whatever reason in the end they decided to keep the old number.  Remember, I’m an engineer.  I knew the Enterprise backwards and inside out, and I didn’t see a single thing of the original ship in the new.  Not even the corridors are where they were.  I’m told some of the saucer superstructure remains from the original.  I even heard a rumour the stardrive section was built entirely anew, because the original had been [REDACTED BY STARFLEET COMMAND].  Sounds completely insane, but hey, insane is what we do for a living.

It’s sterile.  The bright colours were gone.  Oh yeah, and THEY CHANGED EVERY SINGLE CONTROL ON HER.  I had to LEARN EVERYTHING AGAIN FROM SCRATCH.  They gave us all copies of the Bridge Operations Manual to study, saying if we could operate the controls on the bridge, we could operate them anywhere.

Now, I’m not one to say the enterprise has the most user-friendly interface in the galaxy.  In fact, it was really quite impractical, with buttons being largely unlabelled and context-sensitive, and a nightmare to do anything outside of the expected context in a hurry.  If that makes any sense.  But rather than evolve the existing designs, they just swapped them out for something based on Vulcan interfaces.

Now, in fairness, Vulcans had been flying through space for thousands of years (versus our hundred and fifty-odd) so their interfaces are probably among the most tried and tested in the galaxy, but they’re not what I grew up with.  They’re not what I trained on and they’re not what I could use in my sleep.  Nobody was happy.  Scotty (now sporting grey hair and a pornstache) wouldn’t say a word against the change, but he chose his words carefully when discussing the new control interfaces.  Other than that, of course, Scotty was bubbling with pride about the new Enterprise.  He was one of the lead engineers on the refit project.  Now her top speed was supposedly an insane warp factor 12 (up from 8 on the original, not that we ever adhered to that much), she had new and far more powerful weapons (when they worked, we quickly exposed a critical flaw in the phasers during the V’ger incident).

A lot of people say she’s the most beautiful starship ever created.  I’ve never been one to say a starship is beautiful.  It’s a thing, a vehicle, a machine, a means of conveyance.  I was like that with cars as a kid and I’m like that as a grumpy old man.  Anywho, all that said, yes this Enterprise is aesthetically pleasing, although I hate the the look of the new warp nacelles (the red spinners – or space energy matter sinks to those of us who lived on her) on the front were what got me interested in starships as a kid, to lose them sucked donkey balls), and the pylons looks as though they could be severed with one well-placed torpedo at their base.

Inside, as said already, she was sterile.  Brushed metal everything.  Particularly disconcerting, they’d added a shield to the transporter, protecting the transporter operator from… what?  We were always told it was safe.  The crew used it HUNDREDS of times without a shielded operator booth.  Hell, I beamed dozens of people and tons of cargo up and down from various places.  What was I unknowingly exposing myself to?  Was it whatever sent Decker Sr, Tracey, Garth and the rest batshit insane?  No straight answer from Starfleet.  No straight answer even from Scotty, the man I trusted even though a part of me still suspected he killed that stripper and her husband.

The technical manual calls it a transparent aluminium radiation shield but treats it as if it’s always been there.  So I dug back through records.  Dozens and dozens of records, loads of ship designs and variants over 150 years.  I eventually found the USS Franklin NX-326 had one on it’s cargo transporter, specified to “shield the operator from any cumulative radiations emitted by the transporter machinery during use”.  What the fuck are “any cumulative radiations”??  It’s as if they don’t know themselves.  And they probably didn’t, it was the age of terrifying stories of transporter ghosts like Cyrus Ramsey and Quinn Erickson, and 404 file not found errors.  They were fucking with shit they barely comprehended.  Hell, we wouldn’t have artificial gravity if it weren’t for a Slaver stasis box found on the moon.  Let that sink in for a moment.  We didn’t even design that shit, which we’ve just adapted and used for centuries.  Did we come up with the transporter?  We were technologically behind every other power in space when we first ventured out, but we were among the very first to beam people and things around?  Hmmm.

Rumour has it Admiral Jonathan Archer was sterile due to overuse of transporters in the 2150’s.  It’s a fact that his former weapons officer Malcolm Reed was unable to father children although no cause was officially given.

Maybe all the surviving insane starship captains should file a class-action suit against Starfleet.

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[theyfellfromthestars]

star trek question!!

Hypothetically speaking, if one were to put their hand through someone's chest while they were phasing in, could it get stuck?

Here's a professional illustration demonstrationing this thought.

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[ichayalovesyou]

You know what I don’t normally get into Trek technobabble stuff but I gotta say this. I would absolutely use a transporter and I don’t really get people who are like, scared of it?

Like, does it really kill you if it’s like for a few seconds and you come back in one piece afterward? Are people who were resuscitated after being killed/declared dead considered a new person or a clone of themselves after they died but came back? Is it death if your heart and lungs stops for 5 seconds in a way that leaves you perfectly intact moments later? It’s shorter and less dire than having a stroke!

Like YEAH transporter accidents happen! But you know what also happens that kills people more than transporters do? Shuttlecraft/small spacecraft accidents!

Car crashes and accidents happen all the time today, they kill and injure thousands of people almost every day.

The usual consequences with the transporter are usually weird and repairable as opposed to a car/shuttle crash being deadly and/or damaging!

If there’s a foreign element that wasn’t accounted for in a transporter like, a goat, maybe I’d come out of the transporter as a weird goat Tuvix situation that like in that episode, but you know what it’s established to be reversible.

If there’s an unsecured goat in my car wreaking havoc I’m gonna fucking crash and maybe die. In no circumstance is a car crash going to result in more than one of me, like, none. If I had to trade potentially getting cloned on accident in exchange for like, there being none of me, I’m picking the former!

Transporter accidents are for the most part inconvenient headaches that lead to shenanigans. Whereas a crash doesn’t have a lot of shenanigans unless you count a concussion as hijinks

Transporters are legitimately safer than most vehicles I don’t care what anybody says 😂

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[spockvarietyhour]

That's one way of saying "Four to beam up."

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[generaldumbness]

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[unidentifiedprimate]

I want to know what people think about the transporters in Star Trek. Does using them kill you and replace you with someone else who has all your memories and THINKS they're you? Or is the you that comes out the same you that went in?

So, what do you think:

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[sshbpodcast]

Shut up and take my latinum: Future tech in Star Trek

By Ames

Inspired by the future tech that we see in this week’s podcast episode covering Voyager’s “Future’s End,” your hosts here at the A Star to Steer Her By Corporation are cashing in by selling some of the everyday items you see in Star Trek as if we invented them ourselves. There are a lot of world-changing inventions that we see across the franchise, any one of which would have unfathomable impacts to society today. 

Sure, we’d probably tank the economy, no one would have jobs anymore, and we’d utterly destroy the timeline, but join our thought experiment pondering which piece of future technology we want the most for ourselves. Check out our products list below, listen to our sales pitches on this week’s podcast episode (discussion starts at 1:08:49) featuring guest star Justus, and buy now! Purchases made within the next thirty minutes come with a free exocomp!

[images © CBS/Paramount] 

Most popular product – Replicators

I mean, obviously. If your answer isn’t “Replicators, and did you know bears shit in the woods?” then you’re a filthy liar, so we’re all just checking this one off now and will each provide a pick of something else just for the sake of having more than just this one option. Even beyond thinking about how replicators could literally end scarcity worldwide, could feed the planet, and could make the economy entirely pointless, there are also the more personal applications. Don’t want to toil over a stove to make dinner or even wait for delivery to arrive? Never cook again! Never shop again! Never waste rotten produce again! Never stare into your fridge and feel like you’ve failed as a person who cannot feed yourself like an adult again!

And the STUFF! Wouldn’t it be nice if Amazon could be made obsolete because whatever we want would just appear at our request? Take that, capitalism! Really the only downside would end up being that gift giving would be nigh impossible. What do you give to the person who could replicate everything? 

Caitlin’s pick – Transporters

Once we took replicators off the table, Caitlin agreed with guest star Justus that transporters would be just aces to have. Face it: air travel is miserable in just about every way. You have to deal with the airport and all the human rights violations that happen there. Airplanes themselves are uncomfortable, claustrophobic, and full of rows and rows of absolute assholes. Bypass that entirely and beam directly to wherever you need to go! It’s probably even safer than driving, but what isn’t, these days?

And aside from traveling the world as easily as snapping your fingers, you can also transport STUFF with that same ease! Sure, it’d tank the entire shipping industry, but that’s pretty much screwed right now as it is! Beam yourself and your luggage without even having to fit anything in the overhead compartment. And you can transport more than 3 ounces of liquids to boot!

Ames’s pick – Medical equipment

Take it from me: it’s a perpetual nightmare simultaneously being a hypochondriac and a medicophobe. It would sure be a lifesaver (literally!) if figuring out what’s wrong with you and then treating said malady could be done with the wave of what’s effectively a magic wand. No one would have an excuse for not seeing the doctor anymore and complaining about whatever this weird pain is all the time. All the different medical technologies we see in the Trek future look noninvasive, painless, and modest. You don’t even have to take your pants off unless you feel like showing off to Julian!

Whether it’s medical tricorders, hyposprays, biobeds, or maybe just a whole Emergency Medical Hologram just for fun, even one item from the future would be lightyears better than the knives and sutures that we’re forced to deal with today. What is this, the Dark Ages?

Chris’s pick – Universal translators

Chris’s actual pick of the day is something that we’re already well on our way to but that Star Trek has perfected. None of your hosts here are fluent polyglots, and honestly the American culture doesn’t particularly value being able to speak another language in the same way that other cultures naturally do. “This is ‘Murica and we speak ‘Murican” is the unfortunate norm.

Which is why a universal translator would be such a boon. Imagine a world where non-English speakers are treated equally! Where we could listen to their stories, chat with them freely, learn more about people of the world who have different experiences, customs, beliefs, and tasty snacks we’d love to try. It’d be a small step to a unified Earth, but it’d be a good one. C’mon, Google Translate. You’re almost there.

Jake’s pick – Time travel

Jake has his choice for how to go about it but the end result is always the same: getting the hell out of this timestamp. You can use the Bajoran Orb of Time if Sisko is having particularly loose morals that day, or a timeship like we see in “A Matter of Time” or “Future’s End”, or whatever the hell chronitons are, or just a good old fashioned slingshot around the sun. Forward or backward, you’re on your way to somewhen else! Pack a lunch!

We postulate in our chatter about what kinds of events we’d like to observe (or participate in), but the possibilities are endless! And if something needs correcting to avoid a global catastrophe or just a mild embarrassment, you are covered. Time travel: the insurance of the future.

On sale – Honorable mentions

Check out some of the items on our clearance rack. This is all stuff that we’d love to have but not as much as the items above.

Artificial intelligence: Okay, once you get past the implications of creating sentient life, it’d be excellent having humanoid androids walking around, solving problems, being our best friends, maybe showing us how fully functional they are a little bit…

Holodeck: I’m shocked this didn’t make anyone’s top pick because the holodeck beats the entertainment of today in pretty much every way. The downside would be that we’d all almost certainly end up being holo-addicts after mere minutes.

Warp drive: This one is really pie-in-the-sky. It’ll be a great advancement to be able to travel outside of the Sol system, but remember: you’ll also need inertial dampeners and deflector dishes for this to realistically work. Without the package deal, you’re toast.

Cloaking device: Don’t tell me you’ve never thought about what you’d do if you were invisible. Just hiding from people you don’t want to see is on the positive side of this advancement. On the negative side, there’s all the peeping, stealing, and murdering, which will definitely become a problem.

The whatever-you-want device from Picard: What even was that thing? Spoilers for Picard season 1, but the tool that Saga gives the crew is basically just wizardry in a funky piece of plastic. What is it? Who knows? What does it do? EVERYTHING.

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[futurebird]

The "B" is *not* for "buses"

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[soy-sauce-and-mothra]

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

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[satanicdollx]

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[amtrak-conductor]

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