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Does that mean that the whole of Australia will explode if someone in a red shirt goes anywhere near it? 
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No. I think Australia is a lot more resilient.
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The guy with the red shirt would be the first to die anyway 
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In a massive console explosion!
I never did understand why Star Fleet insisted on packing control consoles with Hi-Ex: surely Health and Safety would say "What the Elephant are you doing?" and "Put the explosives in the damn Photon Torpedoes!"
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Why did we invent the optoisolators if not to avoid the errors that created the ST future? They didn't understand that mixing power and control electronics in a energy-based massive starship could lead to some troubles when the power supply would be perturbed by, say, a phaser straight in the hull...
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And while we are on the subject, why put the Command and Control centre (aka The Bridge) right at the top where it is easy to shoot at? It's not like it has any windows to look out of!
Stick it in the middle, behind loads of armour, and the people who give the orders are best protected...
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Actually the disc section was equipped with its own sublight engines and life support systems as it was designed to be completely detachable from the nacelles (which were better far from the personnel quarters, there is antimatter in there).
Also the ship was armed, but mainly for self-defense as it was an exploration vessel, in fact "its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and civilizations, to boldly go where noone has ever gone before".
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den2k88 wrote: mainly for self-defense
Yeah, right...
Yes the "Next Gen" Enterprise could split up - and do pretty much nothing useful afterwards with either half, given that the weapons were on the saucer, but the powers supply for them was on the other bit - but the bridge was still the most exposed bit! One tiny misjudgment by Data in driving out of spacedock and the whole command structure gets decapitated!
And every Starfleet design was the same: Enterprise (all three major versions), Voyager, even the Defiant sticks it up front and vulnerable! 
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They relied on the hull and the shields, all to avoid the cramped spaces of a warship... it makes even more sense in TNG and Voyager as the duration of the mission increased to the point that the crew was allowed to take families on board. It forces carefulness and skill in maneuvring the ship and avoiding conflict, but i hope they wouldn't send half-orcs to pilot a starship
BTW I found the design of the Enterprise as the most fascinating... until I discovered the Normandy and the Normandy SR2 of Mass Effect. Innovating a starship design after ST is a hard task but in my opinion the guys at Bioware nailed it.
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Ah yes, Voyager, the Microsoft Windows powered space vehicle. BANG...weapons are off line, attempting to restart (<cntl-alt-del> furiously).
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"This Spacecraft Has Performed an Illegal Operation and Will Be Shut Down"
The Blue Screen of Red Shirt. 
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Here[^] you go. A drawing right from the 1960s. A terran battleship is not so easy to kill. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Lol![^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"Epic" does not begin to describe the brilliance of that post.
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Forgot about that post. Still, this answer is worth the repost.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Just don't say it three times...
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 [^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Crack a Guinness, clear your throat and in your best Dublin brogue recite a couple of pages of Ulysses.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I don't understand. Why do I need to change my shoes?
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Sure, if you must die, die nasty.
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