Comments on: The Particles of Star Trek

The Particles of Star Trek

brownpau — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:16:55 -0800

The Particles of Star Trek. Confused about dilithium, trilithium, and neodilithium? Can't tell a tachyon from a temporal wake? Here's an obsessive and growing list of just about every particle used across the generations: "So tiny, you can't tell it's a deus ex machina!" (Also includes minerals, chemical compounds, energy waves, and other miscellanea.)

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:29:57 -0800

This is good. Tachyons and tetryons are my favourites. And Omega particles, of course. Cool!

By: MrLint

MrLint — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 04:48:32 -0800

Berman will pay for his crimes!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:43:33 -0800

"So tiny, you can't tell it's a deus ex machina!" Deuses make their machinas as small as they want. Infidel! Dog! Ye of little faith.......

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:20:43 -0800

Berman Radiation: Any post-Trek "Star Trek" series or episodes thereof. Radiated by television stations, satellite uplinks and any television set receiving same. Has been flooding the universe for a couple of decades; harmful to cognitive function. See also Berman Particle: any frequently-repeated technobabble phrase or remarkably uninteresting recurring alien race.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:23:33 -0800

(Suggested use: Instead of saying "I'm going to watch Enterprise", just say "I'm going to subject myself to a dose of Berrman Radiation".)

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:32:36 -0800

Star Trek Particles? Pshaw! That's so last century. You wanna speculate with the pseudoscience of speculative fiction? Try the infamous question, Where did Firefly take place? Was it supposed to be this solar system five hundred years from now, or a completely different solar system? Or a whole bunch of solar systems? Was the good ship Serenity travelling faster than the speed of light? How'd they get between all those different moons and planets from one episode to another without everybody succumbing to Einstein's theory of Relativity, and little to none of Roddenberry's infamous technobabble? And how come in five hundred years the best terraforming scientists could do would be to make everything look like the desert between southern California and Las Vegas? Or the smart aleck's answer: "space. firefly takes place in space." ;)

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:12:23 -0800

The various "particles" in Trek are alternating states of balonium, absurdium, and unobtanium. And ZachsMind: Firefly takes place on TV...like, Duh. =)