Yo Dok

[Doktor Howl]

If you start nitpicking Classic Star Trek, you'll never fucking stop.

Pay attention to the turbo lift, sometime.

[LMNO]

Indeed. When the premise of the OP starts with "so, they're only going at the speed of light," you might as well forget it, because it's Chinatown, Jake.

[Doktor Howl]

Indeed. When the premise of the OP starts with "so, they're only going at the speed of light," you might as well forget it, because it's Chinatown, Jake.

And, in Chinatown, NOBODY can land a fucking shuttle without crashing it.

[Cramulus]

  what's the story with the classic turbo lift?

[Doktor Howl]

what's the story with the classic turbo lift?

It changes every episode.

Some days, they just get in and it goes.  Some days, there's a handle that they have to use to go up and down.  Some days, the captain's stateroom is behind the bridge, and somedays, he has to go down the lift.

Also, once in a while, they go UP from the bridge, and the bridge is the highest point on the ship.

Once they went sideways for a bit.  Not sure how that works.

[Freeky]

Don't tell me how it works.  Star Trek turbo lifts are made of miracles.  Magic ones.

[Doktor Howl]

Also, it seems the Enterprise was built by KB Homes.  Mr Scott is forever burning holes in the walls with a phaser, to get to instruments or junction boxes that have no access panels.

Also, sometimes they need to be wearing a communicator to get beamed up, and sometimes they don't.

And the Prime Directive was violated EVERY WEEK.  "Hey, primitive culture, we're from the stars.  We hope our very presence doesn't impact or alter your culture.  The Captain will now fuck your leader's daughter."

And while we're at it, we'll beam THE ENTIRE COMMAND STRUCTURE OF THE SHIP down to the surface.  We're a bit short of Marines, because they IMMEDIATELY DIE upon reaching a planet.

Speaking of which, sometimes they have phaser rifles, and sometimes they don't, but the Marines have NOTHING resembling armor.

[Freeky]

Their faith in science makes things work out all okay even when it doesn't.

[Luna]

Star Trek TOS requires a suspension of disbelief on a scale dwarfing Grimm's Fairy Tales.

[Payne]

Star Trek TOS requires a suspension of disbelief on a scale dwarfing Grimm's Fairy Tales.

And this is why it was so bad ass.

[Doktor Howl]

Star Trek TOS requires a suspension of disbelief on a scale dwarfing Grimm's Fairy Tales Gunsmoke.

Fixed for actual genre accuracy.

[Luna]

Star Trek TOS requires a suspension of disbelief on a scale dwarfing Grimm's Fairy Tales Gunsmoke.

Fixed for actual genre accuracy.

But..  but...  Gunsmoke was a documentary! 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

If you start nitpicking Classic Star Trek, you'll never fucking stop.

Pay attention to the turbo lift, sometime.

What, those things they grab onto?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also, it seems the Enterprise was built by KB Homes.  Mr Scott is forever burning holes in the walls with a phaser, to get to instruments or junction boxes that have no access panels.

Also, sometimes they need to be wearing a communicator to get beamed up, and sometimes they don't.

And the Prime Directive was violated EVERY WEEK.  "Hey, primitive culture, we're from the stars.  We hope our very presence doesn't impact or alter your culture.  The Captain will now fuck your leader's daughter."

And while we're at it, we'll beam THE ENTIRE COMMAND STRUCTURE OF THE SHIP down to the surface.  We're a bit short of Marines, because they IMMEDIATELY DIE upon reaching a planet.

Speaking of which, sometimes they have phaser rifles, and sometimes they don't, but the Marines have NOTHING resembling armor.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think its just the result of plugging velocity = c into special relativistic time dilation equation.

Where Gamma = 1/ (1-(v^2/C^2))  time dilation is given by delta t = gamma * proper time

if v= C then the denominator becomes 1-1 = 0. anything divided by zero is equal to zero/infinity (i.e with out limits).

So delta t will always be zero when travelling at speed of light.

using Speed = distance over time, rearranging gives distance equals time times speed.

so plugging in our delta t, means that distance will always equal zero/infinity which as I mentioned over means it has no limits.

therefore at the speed of light you are travelling no where and ever where at the same time.



Not sure on any links, as I just rearranged it from memory. Good start would be hyperphysics for the basics

So, it's light everywhere, because photons exist everywhere at the same time.

So why do I have to buy lightbulbs?