"I did that in highschool..."

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:12 am

And the fact that Time travel is so insanely dangerous...

sunnyside · Post by **sunnyside** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:30 am

Actually I think I did a lot of the a bomb stuff on my own reading. The basic principles aren't complicated it's having the sheer number of facilities and working out the details just right.

Anyway the point is that people knew how to make crystal radios and it was no big deal. Move you back two centuries and that's incredible. True you needed some pieces of tech that we from roughly the right period. But as tech advances the ability to repourpose stuff for high tech aplications goes up. (especially once replicators hit the scene, granted one wasn't in the scene but you get the idea.)

Plus it seems like time trave in Trek is actually pretty trivial. ("slingshot effect")

At any rate I found that bit more palletable than the rest of that plot line.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:43 pm

Could some in high school (if there were a high school) in 1795 create a crystal radio and think it was no big deal? That is the analogy to use, and it falls apart.

I do agree, though, that this a trifle compared to the large doses of WTF I've come to expect from Enterprise.