Bad Vibrations 12/4

Canis_lupus · Post by **Canis_lupus** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:55 pm

The scoops did end up falling off.

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:06 pm

Ooooh!!! Aaaaaahh!!!!

Did they just 'go to warp' right through the ship? Yikes... he's definantly going to need a new paintjob, for several reasons!

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:06 pm

Let me guess, the ship got sent to the opposite side of the galaxy, and they have to find an uncharted hospitable planet to live in?

Canis_lupus · Post by **Canis_lupus** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:13 pm

I kinda got confused at what happened.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:35 pm

Have to agree with above......ummm.....just what excatly happened?

Besides looking really cool?

Canis_lupus · Post by **Canis_lupus** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:21 pm

I put my specifit questions in the form of a Picture.
behold my super 1337 MSpaint skillz

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:03 pm

If I might be of assistance in the issue:

The Ion Scoops create a magnetic field, which collects particles from space for fuel. When the kid accelerated, it started sweeping up more particles than the scoops could bring in at once; the ship collected a "tidal wave" of charged ions in front of it (an artificial ion storm) and then punched through it (final panel, the eddies) right as it passed The Battleship. Ion Storm + Battleship = Zap. Ion Storm + Rebel Cry = Pieces falling off

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:37 pm

Of course, what would otherwise be a stupid accident is going to be passed off a brilliant escape strategy...

And thus Captain James Walker and the Rebel Cry shall pass into legend...

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:30 pm

Especially if the ion storm scrambles the circuits of the Super Big-Bad-Battleship (tm). He's going to be in serious trouble if those were the ion scoops falling off, though. I doubt he has enough fuel on board already to last long.

I wonder if you can scoop ions in hyperspace...?

Earl McClaw · Post by **Earl McClaw** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:04 pm

If they weren't the ion scoops, then they were covers. (They might be just the external hatches that had been opened to allow the collected ions inside. It would have been easy for the violent forces to rip those off.)

Canis, I'd say the "lightning" was an electrical discharge due to unequal charges in the collected particle mass.

Sorry, no warp. But that battleship is going to have a hard time tracking him for a while.

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:06 am

Hey, they were in an impossible position and they got out of that position by one who did not know it was impossible so he went out and did it. Or in other words they were flat out lucky.....

Deckard Canine · Post by **Deckard Canine** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:44 am

The JAM wrote:Let me guess, the ship got sent to the opposite side of the galaxy, and they have to find an uncharted hospitable planet to live in?

They'll stop in a restaurant first. (Actually, I'm not sure what you're referencing.)

Hm, I hope that the audience trio here doesn't mean to imitate "Beavis and Butt-Head." They're rather young to have watched it back when it was still popular.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:58 pm

That was a semi-reference to Star Trek Voyager, with the exception that they really wouldn't want to go back to their home systems.

Dragon Furry · Post by **Dragon Furry** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:01 pm

Loved that show

Earl McClaw · Post by **Earl McClaw** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:14 pm

The JAM wrote:That was a semi-reference to Star Trek Voyager, with the exception that they really wouldn't want to go back to their home systems.

Or maybe Lost in Space?

Anyone giving odds on the battleship crew (or just Fleet HQ) deciding this was some "brilliant tactial maneuver" and/or they'd been led into a trap?

Calbeck · Post by **Calbeck** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:42 pm

Jaydub wrote:Hey, they were in an impossible position and they got out of that position by one who did not know it was impossible so he went out and did it. Or in other words they were flat out lucky.....

There is nothing so dangerous to the seasoned combat veteran than a complete neophyte who has no idea what he "can't" do.

Celidah the Bardess · Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:13 am

Dragon Furry wrote:Loved that show

Yes! Another non-Voyager hater! *bear hug* I've been searching so long...

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:14 pm

Celidah the Bardess wrote:
Dragon Furry wrote:Loved that show
Yes! Another non-Voyager hater! *bear hug* I've been searching so long...

That makes three of us! Thank goodness that Genevieve Bujold wimped out. I doubt that she would have handled the character very well.

Deckard Canine · Post by **Deckard Canine** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:50 pm

Celidah the Bardess wrote:Yes! Another non-Voyager hater!

Perhaps "Voyager non-hater" would be more apt. I myself somehow found the show more watchable than TOS. I must be weird.

Celidah the Bardess · Post by **Celidah the Bardess** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:30 pm

Deckard Canine wrote:
Celidah the Bardess wrote:Yes! Another non-Voyager hater!
Perhaps "Voyager non-hater" would be more apt. I myself somehow found the show more watchable than TOS. I must be weird.

Call me a heretic, but I started watching an episode of the TOS, and I had to stop, because I was afraid I would die of an OD on cheesiness.

Well, that and my Mom wanted to watch the news.

Anyway, the point is, I walked away absolutely, certainly knowing why Star Trek was cancelled the first time around, and wondering how it ever got revived at all.