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Ah well, at least they got the Space Age Calico SMG from the prop department.

Welp.

Looks like Voyager's prop department decided to cut some corners.

Also, this is the 3rd episode (counting the double-length opener as one) and this is the second one featuring time travel and temporal distortions? Laaaame.

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Welp.

Looks like Voyager's prop department decided to cut some corners.

Also, this is the 3rd episode (counting the double-length opener as one) and this is the second one featuring time travel and temporal distortions? Laaaame.

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Oh boy, time to become even more antagonistic towards Warhammer.

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I am biting the bullet.

I am going to give Star Trek Voyager an honest watch. It will be my first re-watch since I saw the original airing on Swedish television in 2003.

I pray that the moment amphibian Janeway and amphibian Paris making amphibian babies, and Tuvix, is the biggest headaches I get to watch because I don't think I am mentally prepared for more.

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I got some WIP's for my Turnip28 - and I have realized I got as much units that are their own unique thing with their special flavour that can act as mercenaries by themselves, as I got the basis for two opposing armies with a consistent look - one of these potential playable armies-in-the-works is very much a hodgepodge of "mercenaries from across the pond" that have an American Civil War aesthetics. Ambiguous mix of North and South, disheveled with dirty and broken gear - a lot of wooden legs too.

Tentacle seaweed hair as well - and the lore is that they are maybe from northern East coast (hint hint) and a battle-standard inspired by the Bedford flag is in the works (Vince Aut Morire? More like Pisce Aut Morire), and I do have an octopus-headed preacher that could serve as Toff or a Snob commander. So far I got one gun with a crew, and one group of Fodder. I am tempted to make another Fodder - but the cauldron that is my inspiration seems to be lacking in imagination right now, and I am unsure what other unique characters I can pull out of my hat.

A Taxmaster on a cart could work, so could references to famous ACW generals and personalities - or playing up some kind of American trope. There really quite is a lot that can be done.

I just gotta reach out and grab that elusive, slippery (and squelchy) muse and squeeze that muse-juice out of her.

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REPTILICUS (1962)

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weyoun vidbes

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OKAY SO in a remarkable show of - I don't know if I can call it internal consistency or not - the episode following Bloodlines (of which I made a post about) had a moment where the Warp engines kicked in by themselves at Warp 7.3 and in one minute practically to the second the ship had moved 30 billion light years.

In the post above, I made a stink about them at Warp 9 just about being able to make 300 billion light years in 20 minutes.

Yeah I know, maybe it is too harsh to keep that strict and anal-retentive levels of consistency to something that is just a handwave measure of creating drama and going from A to B, but I think this is just fucking funny.

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Pedantic Pet-Peeve #2

If you are going to translate military jargon, then translate the military jargon. The Swedish armed forces - neither in any civilian context - uses the word "sir". We do not even use our domestic equivalent "herr" that much. Military personnel address each other by rank, or last name - sometimes both.

This is lazy, if you do not know what to translate something as then look it up, do better.

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Wait, hold up. In the TNG episode "Bloodlines", the Enterprise is trying to cover the distance of 300 billion kilometers but even at Warp 9 it would take 20 minutes.

I know this is the nerdiest shit ever, but I am trying to do the math here because that immediately sounded wrong.

If light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second, that also means it goes at 5000 kilometers per minute. So, Warp 1 is a speed of 5000 kilometers per minute. So at Warp 1 the Enterprise can cover 300 billion kilometers - or 300,000,000,000 divided by 5000 - in 60,000,000 minutes. Looking up how Warp factors actually increase from 1 to 2, to 2 to 3 is giving me mixed answers as I try to look it up - nobody seems to fucking agree. What I do see is that at least 500 times the speed of light seems rather doable and mid-cruise speeds. So!

60 million minutes divided by 500 is 120,000. And some sources state that even 1800 times the speed of light is possible. So, 60 million divided by 1800... nets 33,333 minutes. And I found one guy saying Warp 9 is 6,561 times the speed of light. So. ONE MORE TIME! 60 million divided by 6,561 is... 9,144 minutes. Or about 6 days.

The old adage really is true. Warp speed is as fast as what the writers need for it to be (or they simply do not have a sense of scale, which really is a fault in most science fiction writers).

Not to mention the entire Milky Way is about 105,000 light years. And going at 6,561 times the speed of light means it would take 16,000 years to cross the Milky Way. How far again was the Voyager from Earth when it started its 70 year journey?

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Well, goddamn.

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preview

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found a decade+ old AMV that goes hard as fuck

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Me and my bros love Buggy Barclay. Look at him! Absolutely stunning.

Picard agrees!

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I don't know if it is "lacking in nerdiness" that I only use Excel for one single thing, but it might also be really nerdy that the only thing I use Excel for is to organize my Battletech miniatures according to Faction, BV, Year of Entry, Tonnage, and C-Bill value.