Terry
SOH-CM-2013

Here is some honesty by a sci-fi writer-producer. Joe Straczynskiwho produced and wrote many episodes for Babylon 5 was asked how fast the fighters which they called star furys could go. Joe was ready for that one, he said "they move at the speed of plot".

What I found curious in the rules is they spent all the time and effort running 4, 20 lap segements and then averaged everyone out. That's good, now you have the teams in order of performance. Now they throw that all in the trash can with the mandatory caution and the order is now based on that pit stop performance. The order should have been frozen after the averaging and started the 5th segment in that order. It seems if your going to base the starting order of the 5th segment on one pit stop, why have segments. Just run 90 laps and see what happens.

Love it! You must have been a techy talk writer on the Next Generation series. :salute:

I remember that episode and your right it was low. I suppose they did this so they could allow a fighter to reach it. But if it were sitting on the ground how the heck would you get it in orbit? The engine is at the back of the saucer section pointing aft, start it and you slide across the ground, there is no lift. It's just dumb. Want another example look near the beginning of Star Trek 5. Kirk falls off the side of a mountain, Spock wearing rocket powered boots dives down to catch him. When he grabs Kirk he is horizontal and stationary. The thrust from the boots is clearly shown pointing horizontal. The people that made this scene were idiots. Sorry, it just torques my jaw when they have a total disregard for physics when it is not necessary.

Well, there never was a pass in the grass. He just ran off the track and pulled back on without spinning, part skill part luck. That race last night was boring. I had a hard time keeping my eyes open.

I started watching Star Trek from the first run episode in 1966. I read "the making of books" etc. One of the facts I read in several places was that star ships are constructed in orbit, they are not designed to enter the atmosphere or land on a planet. The lone exception to this was the spin off "Voyager". So when I went to see the first movie with the young crew and saw the Enterprise sitting on the ground that was it for me. No more Trek movies.

It was perfectly safe. The crew was not allowed over the wall till the car stopped. Makes me yearn for the old days with no speed limit. You would think people would have been bowled over like pins but they were not because they were used to it and knew how to get out of the way.

General Yeager recently discovered that he had a Facebook page so he started useing it to tell war stories. When someone asked him how he liked flying the F-16 he said "It goes good with music so it's good for airshows, that's about it."

Their lucky they didn't run into this guy.