(October 31, 2014 at 2:43 pm)Cato Wrote:(October 31, 2014 at 2:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: We already had one. It didn't play out very well. (Gen 11)
Well played.
Must mean that Star Trek The Motion Picture had it wrong. It's really prophecy and God will send V'Ger back to kick our ass for being uppity again.
Si fi woo does not get a pass from me either. Gene did not invent the cell phone. Microwave technology existed in WW2. The idea of hand held communication was something inventors were working on. It is common in all business models to do things with the least material because that decreases costs. All Gene did was popularize an idea that inventors were working on.
Think about all the other things that serious depicts that will never be a reality like Tribbles and Klingons. And the "Transporter" was nothing more than the economics of having to film a "shuttle" built physical prop vs using video mix of "static" with a green screen.
Unfortunately even today si fi fans fall for that crap. NASA put out an article about the "warp drive". Si fi fans jumped all over it as proof it was a possibility missing the part of the article that reduced the concept as merely being on paper. The article also said to accomplish the "warp drive" it would take all the energy in the universe to accomplish.
