alpine_jim

“taking advantage of” something doesn’t necessarily have a negative connotation.

it often does when applied to people, but not things.

is that a brick roof?

i can hear a reference flying far over my head

the Enterprise-D computer? A computer core was the size of a seven-story apartment block, and there were three cores.

It is, yes. A large fraction (about a quarter?) of what looks like solar panels on the ISS are actually dedicated radiator panels. The solar panels are angled to face the sun, and the radiators are angled at 90 degrees from the sun, to face empty space.

Inertial dampers are how the crew can survive high-g maneuvers, they’d be pinned to the back wall and have their skulls crushed by their own faces if they suddenly went to full impulse or warp without them active.

it’s that 4828033rd millimeter that really gets you, huh?

The Chancellor’s ship was called Kronos One in Undiscovered Country, made while Roddenberry was alive. I remember from promotional material at the time that it was named for the homeworld.

At the time of “Who Mourns For Morn”, Armin Shimerman (Quark actor, also a keen union activist) told Mark Allen Shepherd (Morn actor) he really should be getting more money than his background actor rates, since Morn had become genuinely prominent in the show. Shepherd refused because he was afraid the producers would just stop using Morn if he asked.

(source, this week’s Delta Flyers podcast, with Shimerman talking about that episode)

a line of Soar
a bump of Elevate
a pinch of Transcend

I hadn’t heard of that method.

can you show some examples of such images?

it’s possible, as long as the referee doesn’t join in the Argentina side again.

Biggest robbery from Egypt since Howard Carter.

the order is because the fifa world cup has become a custody battle for Miku, that’s the meme.

i predict Miku is going to be Argentinian next, then French for the next four years, or at least until the Euros.

she spent her career on a D’Derrydex class warbird.