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"Dimensional Traveler" wrote in message
news:4968f870$0$1608$742ec2ed{at}news.sonic.net...
> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>> "Don Sample" wrote in message
>> news:dsample-D0E298.22590409012009{at}news-central.giganews.com...
>>> In article ,
>>> "Ken from Chicago" wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Don Sample" wrote in message
>>>> news:dsample-755764.20150609012009{at}news-central.giganews.com...
>>>>> In article
,
>>>>> "Ken from Chicago"
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> VOY had potential but was continually half a step
off, if not
>>>>>> flat out stupid.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I had been a member of the crew of Voyager, I would have
>>>>> mutinied, or
>>>>> deserted. Janeway was clearly incompetent to command a rowboat.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ensign Paris: "Captain, there's a strange
glowing nebula over
>>>>> there." Capt Janeway: "Let's fly through it!"
>>>>
>>>> "Captain, wait, so we've spent YEARS flying home because you
>>>> couldn't ASK if
>>>> Q could snap us back?!!?!!?!"
>>>
>>> Or, hey, we got back to Earth, but it's 1995 (or whenever it was), so
>>> all we have to do now is a warp speed slingshot around the sun, and
>>> we're home, but the time agent who got us into this mess in the first
>>> place shows up again, and tells us we gotta go back where we were,
>>> and we just meekly go along with him.
>>>
>>> Or if you don't want to to the slingshot thing, just go park in some
>>> out of the way bit of empty space, hang out a "do not
disturb" sign,
>>> and put everyone into stasis for a few centuries.
>>>
>>> Or you find a few hundred light years of straight, empty, space, and
>>> use the impulse engines to accelerate up to near light speed, and let
>>> Einstein do his thing.
>>>
>>
>> After all, the Ent-D found a couple of cryopods from the 21st/22nd
>> century that survived. You'd think a couple of 24th century techies
>> could suss out how to do the same.
>>
>
> But that WWIII genetic superman, Khan, used cryogenics. So by Federation
> logic all cryogenics and suspended animation is evil.
Of course, Khan activates the Federation's Godwin rule.
-- Ken from Chicago
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