Tech Equivalents

montypython · Post by **montypython** » 2005-07-21 05:01pm

What technologies shown in any Trek movie or series by any faction/group would be considered comparable to Imperial hardware in terms of performance?

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-07-21 05:18pm

Data the most advanced prototype android in the federation is roughly equal to a typical droid in SW, if not on Guri's level (human replica droid constructed in only half a dozen units)

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2005-07-21 07:05pm

I beleive, a long time ago, the SW galaxy used subspace sensors, i would imagine rather alagorous to ST subspace sensors. They were, however, rendered obsolete by newer FTL sensor tech.

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2005-07-21 07:53pm

If we go beyond just the similarities of ST and SW. I would venture that Voyager's Warp 10 is the same as the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Guide.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-21 08:23pm

Warp Ten can send across the galaxy almost instantly?

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2005-07-21 08:31pm

Well, it is described as being in every place simultaneously, and is changes people into other, improbable things.

Or we could just pretend that "Threshold" never happened.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-07-21 08:35pm

skyman8081 wrote:If we go beyond just the similarities of ST and SW. I would venture that Voyager's Warp 10 is the same as the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Guide.

Excuse my ignorance but what is "Infinite Improbability Drive" and where did you hear about it?

Ford Prefect wrote:Warp Ten can send across the galaxy almost instantly?

According to members of the Voyager crew, it is infinitely fast and causes the ship to occupy all points of universe simultaneously. It's worth noting however that while it was faster than Voyager, it was caught up to in a manner of minutes after it had dropped out of warp 10. Also, it has the unfortunate side effect of turning people into frog like creatures..

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-21 08:46pm

observer_20000 wrote:Excuse my ignorance but what is "Infinite Improbability Drive" and where did you hear about it?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Brian

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2005-07-21 08:54pm

observer_20000 wrote:Excuse my ignorance but what is "Infinite Improbability Drive" and where did you hear about it?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote:The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothing of a second without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.

It was discovered by a lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government's research team on Damogran.

This, briefly, is the story of its discovery.

The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way:

If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one, is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on!

He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institutes Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.

It's from the Douglas Adams book, titled "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". When used, you are everywhere at once, and then you turn into other things.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2005-07-21 10:26pm

It would be painfully ironic if the voyager crew had just so happened to hit upon the idea of an Infinite Improbability Drive...and like most Treknology they forgot it completely.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-21 11:01pm

Well, we know where it came from then.

ds615 · Post by **ds615** » 2005-07-22 03:30am

skyman8081 wrote:If we go beyond just the similarities of ST and SW. I would venture that Voyager's Warp 10 is the same as the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Guide.

With or without the whales and petunias?

Wow, I just realized, if the Federation had the IID in Kirks time, the whole Voyage Home would never have happened.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-07-22 05:11am

skyman8081 wrote:Well, it is described as being in every place simultaneously, and is changes people into other, improbable things.

And yet, when they used it, they were not everywhere simultaneously. So much for that claim.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-07-22 05:41am

18-Till-I-Die wrote:It would be painfully ironic if the voyager crew had just so happened to hit upon the idea of an Infinite Improbability Drive...and like most Treknology they forgot it completely.

There's supposed to be a button labeled "Infinite Improbability Drive" on the bridge set of TNG.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2005-07-22 11:15am

Bounty wrote:
18-Till-I-Die wrote:It would be painfully ironic if the voyager crew had just so happened to hit upon the idea of an Infinite Improbability Drive...and like most Treknology they forgot it completely.
There's supposed to be a button labeled "Infinite Improbability Drive" on the bridge set of TNG.

Oh...fuck me runnin', you're kidding.

That's funny, it reminds me of Space Balls.

Picard: "Engage...LUDICRUS SPEED!"
Riker: "Captain NO!"
*drives fire, crew's pinned to their seats*
Riker: "Fuck! Every week we do this!"

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-07-22 01:46pm

Oh...fuck me runnin', you're kidding. Laughing That's funny, it reminds me of Space Balls.

The people who built the sets put in loads of illegible joke labels. There's an incomplete list at moviemistakes (under TNG->Trivia)

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-07-25 05:32am

On the Venator ISD at the end of ROTS, there is a "Rebel Scum Detector" built into one part of the set.