Tuesday, May 26, 2009

John and Kate Plus 8

Apparently, the news gossipers are all talking about John and Kate from the show John and Kate Plus 8. I've only watched two episodes of this boring show, and I quickly established one thought: If my wife talked to me like a harsh cunt bitch that Kate appears to be, I would dump her ass in a heartbeat! Kate, there's a reason why John was out looking to fuck around on you.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Star Trek redux...

With the recent release of the new Star Trek movie, I dug out my old collection of Trek DVD's and watched Wrath of Khan again. My little one saw it, and now he is viewing a steady of of Wrath of Khan, Yesterday's Enterprise (from The Next Generation), and Star Trek: Nemesis. While watching them, some questions came up about the designs of the Federation starships and tactics used.

Basically, the first question I have is why is the bridge usually placed in what is probably the most vulnerable spot on the ship; namely, the top center of the saucer section.

Question 2: Why is there just one big viewscreen on the bridge? What happens if the fuse blows? You would think that the bridge would either have a) viewscreens all the way around the bridge, and/or 2) actual windows so that you can just look outside. Furthermore, in the Next Generation timeframe, why not design the bridge to be one big holodeck? By being able to instantly look around in any direction from the center of a sphere would strike me as allowing the ultimate in situational awareness.

Question 3: Why are the away teams always composed of the senior staff?

Question 4: If photon torpedoes are so awesome, why do most of the starships just have a couple of launch tubes? You would think they would have multiple torpedo banks to fire full broadsides.

Question 5: Since the warp cores generate power to run the shields, why don't the starships have a power source dedicated to nothing but powering the shields and phasers.

Question 6: Is it really realistic that the Federation would not develop cloaking technology?

Question 7: Would it really be that difficult to design a whole series of vessels that could fire weapons while cloaked?

Question 8: How come handheld phasers don't have sights? I don't think people in the future would be any more adept at natural aiming than we are.