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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 5, 2018 4:33:32 GMT
Minor spoiler for episode 14 (The War Within, The War Without)
So Discovery needs to get to Starbase 1, which Lieutenant Stamets informs us is 90 AUs from Earth and over one light-year from their current location. Is it so difficult to find writers (or consultants maybe) who understand the scale of the galaxy? 90 AUs is approximately 90 x 8 light-minutes, or 720 light-minutes, or 12 light-hours. It is nothing. It is practically within the solar system. One light-year is nothing either, if you have interstellar travel. The closest star to our sun is 4.5 light-years away. The admiral talked as if traveling that distance in warp would involve some great difficulty, which is nonsense - but then, what to expect from writers who come up with a "spore drive" for interstellar travel?
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 5, 2018 5:35:11 GMT
The original version of 'The Twilight Zone' used to get interplanetary and interstellar distances wrong too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2018 0:46:28 GMT
I remember one thing Enterprise got pretty good for the first two years was that the speeds and distances generally matched up. Not perfectly, not always, but usually.
Then the Xindi thing happened, and after two YEARS of heading out away from Earth, they were back home in the space of a commercial break. Ziiiiip!
I've seen worse, though. The original Battlestar Galactica used to mix up solar systems and galaxies on a regular basis.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 16, 2018 2:06:06 GMT
I've seen worse, though. The original Battlestar Galactica used to mix up solar systems and galaxies on a regular basis. An episode of 'The Outer Limits' (1963-5) also got a galaxy mixed-up with a solar system. But usually, they were MORE scientifically-accurate than 'The Twilight Zone' (1959-64).
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 16, 2018 15:57:30 GMT
I've seen worse, though. The original Battlestar Galactica used to mix up solar systems and galaxies on a regular basis. Or the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie, where it is stated that Krypton is seven galaxies away from Earth. Imagine that! Little Kal-El had to travel tens of millions of light-years to get to Kansas!
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Post by lordquesterjones on Feb 16, 2018 16:19:27 GMT
Minor spoiler for episode 14 (The War Within, The War Without) So Discovery needs to get to Starbase 1, which Lieutenant Stamets informs us is 90 AUs from Earth and over one light-year from their current location. Is it so difficult to find writers (or consultants maybe) who understand the scale of the galaxy? 90 AUs is approximately 90 x 8 light-minutes, or 720 light-minutes, or 12 light-hours. It is nothing. It is practically within the solar system. One light-year is nothing either, if you have interstellar travel. The closest star to our sun is 4.5 light-years away. The admiral talked as if traveling that distance in warp would involve some great difficulty, which is nonsense - but then, what to expect from writers who come up with a "spore drive" for interstellar travel? I thought exactly the same thing when I saw that episode too.
It's not exactly rocket science.
On the plus side though; at least Jar Jar Abrams wasn't involved in it.
I get the distinct impression that they didn't do science at his school.
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