Finally adding to my canon database

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » 2002-09-07 03:07am

Master of Ossus wrote: Look everyone, DarkStar has completely emasculated my argument by cutting and pasting.

No, I have not emasculated your argument, because it had no masculinity to begin with. Your misreading was the cause of your misunderstanding. You are now aware of it, so stop bitching about it.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-09-07 04:18am

Why hasn't anyone simply asked Darkstar why a holographic bullet will behave differently from a regular bullet?

All right, I'll do it. DS, consider the question addressed to you.

LMSx · Post by **LMSx** » 2002-09-07 04:47am

They're holograms.

You see, the Borg drone actually *thought* that he was going to be shot to peices, so the holographic bullets didn't do anything, but still killed him.

Just like a placebo.

Or, the "Anti-Placebo Effect From Hell".

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » 2002-09-07 07:15am

SPOOFE wrote:Why hasn't anyone simply asked Darkstar why a holographic bullet will behave differently from a regular bullet?

Poe has already made that claim, and I have provided the counter-argument.

DasBastard · Post by **DasBastard** » 2002-09-07 09:20am

DarkStar wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:Why hasn't anyone simply asked Darkstar why a holographic bullet will behave differently from a regular bullet?
Poe has already made that claim, and I have provided the counter-argument.

What a strangely worded concession.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-09-07 11:20am

LMSx wrote:They're holograms.

You see, the Borg drone actually *thought* that he was going to be shot to peices, so the holographic bullets didn't do anything, but still killed him.

Just like a placebo.

Or, the "Anti-Placebo Effect From Hell".

1) Since when to drones think?
2) You make it sound like the Matrix. Your brain thiks something has happened, and your body responds as i it did.

LMSx · Post by **LMSx** » 2002-09-07 07:34pm

But you see, Borg drones MUST have seen kinetic weapons before, to justify the Pro-KE theory.

Matrix, Collective.....They're all the same.

Post by **Coyote** » 2002-09-10 12:21am

DarkStar wrote:
. . . though when Starfleet wanted to have a weapon available in situations where phasers were useless, what's the first thing they turned to?

"They" being Jean-Luc Picard? He is only one captain in StarFleet, and an extraordinary one at that. He alone had the foresight to get the Tommygun, and that is because as a regular player in the Dixon Hill PI program, he thinks about things like this. If 'Fleet had sense, they'd start replicating Kalashnikovs and issuing them to starship security crewers because of this.

Are you saying a guy with a pistol can crack the hull of the Enterprise?

Don't be silly. A pistol cannot; but I'd put even money on a 25mm Bushmaster chain gun. Or a (heehee) Vulcan 20mm minigun. Just because a Beretta .380 can't pierce the Enterprise won't exclude any other KE projectiles. But think about a guy with a Mossberg 590 shotgun equipped with slugs-- and an accidental discharge in a shuttlecraft or even a runabout. Or an RPG round. This would spell disaster for the people riding inside, to be sure... in the technical manual, doesn't it say that hull armor is not really used-- it is regarded as inefficient mass-- and that hull integrity is maintained by shielding? Hey, that's primo for energy weapons of all sorts, but a good old-fashioned slug can be problematic.