{"id":712,"date":"2009-08-27T15:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2009-08-27T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:59:42","slug":"now-its-star-treks-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/now-its-star-treks-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Now it’s Star Trek<\/em>‘s turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Scalzi<\/a> returns to the well of nerd bile (see last week’s geek-disturbing here<\/a>), this time he’s aiming at Star Trek<\/em>:<\/p\n\n\n

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Me<\/strong>: Star Wars<\/em> design is so bad that people have to come up with elaborate and contrived rationales to explain it.<\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em> Fanboy<\/strong>: YOU ARE SO VERY WRONG AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHY WITH THESE ELABORATE AND CONTRIVED RATIONALES.<\/p>\n

It’s a little much to hope for (or fear) the same result two weeks in a row, but nevertheless I promised everyone I’d point and laugh at Star Trek<\/em> design, so here we go. I’ll confine myself to things in the movies. There are eleven of those, so it’s not like this will be a problem.<\/p>\n

V’Ger<\/strong>
\nIn Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>, a Voyager space probe gets sucked into a black hole and survives (GAAAAH), and is discovered by denizens of a machine planet who think the logical thing to do is to take a bus-size machine with the processing power of a couple of Speak and Spells<\/em> and upgrade it to a spaceship the size of small moon, wrap that in an energy field the size of a solar system, and then send it merrily on its way. This is like you assisting a brain-damaged raccoon trapped on a suburban traffic island by giving him Ecuador.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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