Granted, but it's running Windows

IanKennedy wrote:Actually it already has a title, it's called Site Admin

True, but it would be nifty to have all in-universe custom titles. Maybe Chief of Starfleet Operations, Commander in Chief, Federation President?

House is good, though as a pretty average show turned into gold by the presence of Hugh Laurie. Blackadder's hilarious, Sharpe's a bit annoying if you're a fan of the books but a good watch nonetheless. I suspect Hornblower is much the same, but I haven't read those so I can't really compare them.

A selection of avatars taken from the covers of the Seafort Saga. Place you bets now. I've basically cut out the Captain's image from each cover a sized it accordingly - that's the image that will appear.

Midshipman's Hope

Challenger's Hope

Fisherman's Hope

Children of Hope

I shows the writers are idiots. That too. :D I was trying to point out that while hard it is very effective as it gets past the armor which is shown to stop damage rather well. While I appreciate your point, we simply don't see it happen, so there must be something (suspending disbelief :wink:) tha...

But we also see people get beamed off of ships at times also. So maybe only parts of the ships can't be reached by transporters. You could still transport into some parts getting past the armor. I was merely giving a string of examples of transport blocking things to emphasise that rather than mess...

If the armor stopped transport how would you transport usually? Pad-to-pad. The source is the TNG episode where Data had that kid trailing round after him (can't remember the name). They couldn't beam out of a part of the ship because of something in the hull. EDIT: That is, the source for some hul...

What's the point of using the transporter? You can't transport with shields up, and with shields down you can target the bridge directly, without lowering your own shields. Armour is likely to be a problem, as certain dense materials seem to block transporters.

Rochey wrote:This is the first thread to reach 5 pages. Rejoice!

And it keeps changining topic from rifles to the Borg to transporters. Wonder what it's going to turn into next.

We know torpedoes can be transported because Voyager used the tactic against the Borg in Dark Frontier. The problem is that in 99% of cases transporters will be blocked by your shields/their shields/jamming/funny metal in the hull/high speed manoeuvering. The result is that it's ignored as a tactic ...

Rochey wrote:Because beaming a bomb onto the other ship would be smart?

Very much so, but the question is, can they do it? The two major examples - rescuing Chakotay from the Kazon and Picard from the Son'a, were both beam-outs, which are a lot easier to do than beam-ins.

The imperials had been building the Death Star for years. You're telling me that after years of protecting the place, they didn't know the ground well? By a bunch of stuffed animals throwing rocks, when you have guns, aircraft, and armoured vehicles? According to the Emperior, these were the best s...

We see many Stormtroopers die after being hit by rocks or tripped using vines. These are fit men with body armour and the whole shabang. They should have suffered a grand total of zero casualties. So what if they've got body armour - if you get hit on the head by a lump of rock a foot across, you'r...

Storm Troopers in Return of the Jedi. Yes, professional soldiers, well trained and battle hardened, with advanced armour and weaponry, not to mention huge numbers, are beaten by a bunch of tree dwelling gremlins hurling little rocks? A bunch of tree-dwelling gremlins that had home-turf advantage, a...

(and the claim from Riker about levelling half a building is dubious given his mental state at the time) What was his mental state? It was in Frame of Mind - he'd been captured on some planet, and was being interrogated with some pretty strong drugs, so his mind was hopping about all over the place...