Overused Silly Sci-Fi Science.

[WT Sharpe]

I never cared for the original Tribbles episode, although I loved what DS9 did with it. "The Trouble With Tribbles" did bring out some of TOS cast member's better acting, however, but you kind of have to put forth an extra effort when your co-stars are mohair bean-bags.

My favorite episode of TOS was "The City on the Edge of Forever." Now there was a well-crafted show.

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@ Steven Lyle Jordan: As for man-eating plants, I'm sure somewhere out there there are some vegetables who like us better than we like them.

[Penforhire]

Man-eating plants? Remember the man-carrot from Lost in Space? "Water, I need water!" Dude, you need a carrot-ectomy.

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

The tribbles are over the top cutesy, but basically what they are is an invasive species that reproduces our of control do to having no predator. Their native planet would likely have predators fthat kept the population in control. Tribbles are something like rabbits in Australia.

Or like members of every parlament.

Then again, how do the tribbles get to the food? They seem to just sit there.

hot air and tax money is sufficient, see remark above.

[teh603]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

Or like members of every parlament.

Quoth Thomas Hobbes, "The life of man in a state of nature [without some form of government] is nasty, brutish, and short."

But this is getting too close to politics, so can we keep it on sci-fi "science"?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Penforhire

Man-eating plants? Remember the man-carrot from Lost in Space? "Water, I need water!" Dude, you need a carrot-ectomy.

Cabbage is the real terrorist vegetable. It tempts us with its flavor, then attempts to blow us up from within.

[teh603]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Cabbage is the real terrorist vegetable. It tempts us with its flavor, then attempts to blow us up from within.

Beans are a close second. Thankfully they stop short of outright terrorism; they only blow us up if we don't handle them right.

[Xanthe]

I still crack up whenever I watch the Tribbles episode on TOS, at that scene with Kirk in the grain storage bins, knowing that crew members were attempting to bean him with Tribbles while he was speaking his lines.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by Xanthe

I still crack up whenever I watch the Tribbles episode on TOS, at that scene with Kirk in the grain storage bins, knowing that crew members were attempting to bean him with Tribbles while he was speaking his lines.

Even better... when he occasionally looked up in frustration into the bin, you just knew he was looking at a particular member of the crew, thinking, "Smart-@$$... just you wait until this scene is over."

[QuantumIguana]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

Or like members of every parlament.


hot air and tax money is sufficient, see remark above.

I believe you are looking for the "Overused Silly Politics" thread. Right next to that government-free paradise, Somalia.

[RDaneel54]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

I believe you are looking for the "Overused Silly Politics" thread. Right next to that government-free paradise, Somalia.

Good one.

[Xanthe]

Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

Even better... when he occasionally looked up in frustration into the bin, you just knew he was looking at a particular member of the crew, thinking, "Smart-@$$... just you wait until this scene is over."

LOL - so true!

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Say, we've barely touched on all the Time Travel tropes!

Like, how apparently hard it is to find a wormhole, but how apparently easy it is to accidentally open one up (like, with an experimental weapon explosion or a focused tachyon beam) and fall into it.

How time vortexes, when first opened, always initially go back to the past from the point of view of the people near the opening.

How time travelers can change the future catastrophically with their every move in the past, but can always set it right by a single, simple action that somehow erases all the other things they did. (A Sound Of Thunder notwithstanding)

How the Enterprise officers, on a Klingon Bird of Prey, could go into the past and change all kinds of things by their actions, then return to the future with a whale in the hold, interactions with engineers and naval security personnel and nothing had changed at all.

How Elaine Bains McFly, Biff Tannen and Spock are apparently the only ones who have ever met themselves in the past, putting to rest the theory that to do so would rupture the space-time continuum and destroy the universe.

How a Man of Steel could reverse time on a planet by the simple expedient of reversing its rotation (or did simply flying in circles real fast send him backwards in time?).

How time machines invariably have some part in their design that spins really fast.

How, when a time machine begins time travel, it is actually still there as it moves through the future, and those riding the machine can see things happening around them; but it has vanished from the perspective of outsiders and people and things can move through that spot as if nothing is there.

How time machines always keep the best time, their chronometers accurate within one minute every epoch.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I almost forgot one: How people accidentally thrust back into time never land on a day or a place where nothing at all is going on.

"Well, by my reckoning, we're in Charleston, and it's three months after D-Day. Might as well go fishin'."

[teh603]

Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

How the Enterprise officers, on a Klingon Bird of Prey, could go into the past and change all kinds of things by their actions, then return to the future with a whale in the hold, interactions with engineers and naval security personnel and nothing had changed at all.

Simple, it was part of a stable time loop. The whales were stolen by someone from the future, thus someone had to come from the future to steal them.

[VydorScope]

You want your time sensibilities to explode, go read Hitchhikers Guide The Galaxy, all 4 books.