It would depend on if the deflector shields in Star Wars work to disrupt transportation or not. (Also on phasers.)

Also the kind of effects ion weapons would have.

Also the empire was never meant to actually be a competent military. Their vehicles are designed for terror, not practicality. Their pilots and infantry are all incompetent and mass produced.

In short they were actually designed to fail.

In any case, there’s too many assumptions that have to be made to put them in the same universe and that’s going to go which ever the way the judges want it to go.

I just fantasize about Miles having several thousand torps just transport in a cloud and zip off to eagerly suicide into something - and Kira’s snark, or maybe just have her glare with a twitchy eyebrow.

Asimov only said the first part. I added the bit about stupidity.

(At least I think I did. It’s been awhile since I read his works.)

Are we certain he hasn’t already died and they shoved an animatronic chat bot up his ass?

It would explain a lot. Including the smell.

I mean. If it gets him out of politics, I’m sure we can get him an off-mainstreet theater in Branson.

(I know he’s full of shit, like always, but I can snicker, can’t I?)

Sidney looks like they’re turning into a puddle, what with the magical-looking scalp massage.

passengers are saying otherwise.

I don’t know which side is telling the truth. I mean, of course Easyjet doesn’t want to admit to having had a corpse wheeled onto their plane. But I’m kinda skeptical, too.

Loved the idea of it. The execution left something to be desired.

Would have loved to see miles, Dax, and Worf pull something like the Delta flyer, only to become the Defiant, though.

But really only as long as Miles gets to weaponize the transporter.

(I wonder how many torps a cargo transporter could drop off just outside the hull. Imagine dumping entire holds of the things only to replicated them again. Especially doing so from cloak.)

(I can hear the naysayers being like “but thebtorpedos wouldn’t have a starting velocity!”… ask how people get transported onto planets without going splat into the nearest vertical surface.)

Why do they gotta turn the plane around?

FTA:

However, moments before departure, the flight’s crew discovered that the woman had died. The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac, with the journey from Spain to Gatwick eventually postponed by 12 hours. Travellers claimed the dead woman had been taken to towards the rear of the aircraft in a wheelchair before she was hoisted into her seat with assistance from five family members.

so. first off, the plane had never taken off by the time they had found her dead.

Even then, the flight was from Spain to the UK, so jurisdiction matters. if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory. And if she died before they boarded… well… that’s probably something they want to look into.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. And for those who are both stupid and incompetent… it’s usually the first refuge, too.

They grow and are all plant-y.

“Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”

-some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.

I did not know that.

Somehow that makes it even more ridiculously love-hate for me.

Honestly, I have a love-hate relationship with the ds9 defiant

I love it because it stepped away fro Roddenberry’s rules for feddie ships. ( nacelles in even numbers, must have a saucer-section, nacelles must have LOS, etc.) I also love that it’s unapologetically a warship.

I hate that the front end was kitbashed from the most useless of vacuum cleaner attachments.

(Oh this is going to end wonderfully.)

(By wonderfully, I’m going to assume the national statistics will hold and more of them will be shot by their own rifles.)

“conspicuous gap”?

You mean the part where it’s literally part of the constitution?

Intelligence is knowing that Dr Frankenstein was the guy who created the creature. Wisdom is knowing that Dr Frankenstein was indeed the monster.

I’d listen to this band. Just saying

only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was… well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.

Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

well democrats and giant black boxes.

Mostly black boxes.