Vex Xiang

::smiles:: You're welcome. :P So...who made it? :o

Go to Starbucks and get a Mocha!

Who made the poster, btw? I like the reflection of the nebula on the hull of the ship.

I doubt Riker and Ms Riker (not Troi anymore hehe) will be on Enterprise. That's what malfunctions are for!

Jolt? Coke? Pshhh....be a real man and drink a hot cup of cheap coffee. :)

I dont think cadets should be able to graduate until they learn how to use the search feature on the boards and read the other 50 threads made about this topic before posting a new one :) But seriously it just depends on whether the GM notices you and whether they decide you're simming well enough to play in a regular game. I'm sure some GMs have a formula or something but its really just a subjective opinion on their part. The only thing that seems to be consistent is that asking for a graduation = more sims to graduate :)

Just wondering what advantage it is to have enemies more likely to attack you :) ...unless your ship looks like an unarmed cruiser liner, what enemy would feel overly confident as to drop shields or something? If the ship appears less powerful because its weapons are conceiled, IE not available unless seperated, the ship is thus less powerful and vulnerable when in 1 piece. If an enemy just launches a surprise attack, wouldnt it make more sense to have all the weapons available instead of having to split up the crews, go down to the various bridges, seperate the ship, and begin a full-strength counter attack? The ship would be blown to pieces by then, unless the enemy was just no match for the ship at all, in which case seperating wouldn't be necessary. And what if such an attack results in damage to the seperation sequence, or clamps? I think these are some things to consider. I'd rather compare it to a Porcupine rather than that Spider...I assume the ship isnt going to go around preying on other ships. In this defensive case, it would be better to display your power rather than hide it (so as to possibly avoid a confrontation altogether). As an afterthought, it seems that this ship is designed to conquer and attack rather than explore and defend.

::opens a bottle of champagne::

So what do you have planned for your special someone this V-Day? Or, if you're single, what do you plan on doing? I've always been fairly extravagant on V-Day, but this year its a no-work event. A dinner at a classy restaurant is about all the evening is going to be, plus the usual (and downright expected) flowers and chocolates. However during dinner I plan to surprise her with her gift, or rather a surprise....that I've secretly planned a week long honeymoon in Hawaii in June. I suppose I should get a stuffed teddy bear, too just to seal the deal. Okay your turn!

Would Starfleet engineers really make warp cores put out an increasing amount of power for higher warp velocities, or do starships have a 'transmission' of sorts that allows them to cruise with less power? What do you think?

NYC is the "Big Apple"...the city cant make up its own nickname in order to market itself better to tourists, please!

Actually deuterium IS the matter...the antimatter is specifically anti-deuterium. Any seperate power source for the warp core would have to be a fusion generator, which is incidentally the Impulse engine generator. Antimatter and matter do not actually meet...the resulting explosion would be catastrophic (see warp core breech, hehe)...they are channeled through the injectors, through the big pulsing things (I forget their name), into the dilithium crystals where they become plasma...which is then shunted into the power transfer conduits. The 'containment' is within the storage units, injectors, and warp conduits themselves. But the actual reaction does indeed occur within the warp core chamber. Warp power simply produces an effecient, effective power source for generating a "warp field" which allows a starship to slip into subspace. Other power sources COULD be possible, but Starfleet believes this to be the best. For example, the Bajorans had sail ships that could enter subspace with no power. Don't ask me the details on that one! But I'm guessing that the sails 'pressed' against existing subspace energy which allowed it to slip into subspace. This is how other species such as the Romulans have used alternate power sources (ie the quantum singularity)...it is not the source of the power, its the amount of power you generate and what you do with it. A modern fuel injector analogy is quite accurate if you consider fuel/air mixtures in combustion engines, but the similarities end there. The formation of the warp field is actually produced by the nacelle coils. This is pretty conjectural but I would agree.

Thought I'd get some opinions on a flash game I'm working on. Its mouse controlled...Trek combat game. You control your ship by the little panel. Here's some screenshots of it in action... Attacking a fighter... Returning to DS9... Thoughts?

Ah an old topic...but thought I'd mention that I'm working on the newest FlashTrek if anyone's interested :wacko:

I've read it! But no relation...I was writing a character Ervin Xiang in a Trek series of scripts I was writing back in 1992 when I was aspiring to be a movie director. I was very young, they were terrible, and no I don't still have them. I wonder if Diane Duane got ahold of my script? Naah... :wacko:

I'm a very sensitive delpin.

Well the starships fly by computer with input from the pilot... The whole fly-by-joystick thing in Insurrection was just weird...there's no way a stick could control a dozen RCS thrusters and impulse engines more efficiently than the ships computer.

That's right, you'd better address me with respect!

Yeah, pretty much...its kinda insulting to us who do romantic things randomly for no reason, not just because corporate America tells you to.

Well the M/AM chamber just combines M/AM and focuses it into a plasma stream through the dilithium crystals which flows out the Power Transfer Conduits to the warp coils which generate a warp field. I think the power output is constant when at particular speeds.

He probably got food poisoning and "bruised" his tailbone several times. If he had broken it he wouldn't have been able to sit down me thinks :D I think the whole point of the story is that his friend was miserable and in pain, which is always pretty darn funny among young guys :P

I get mistaken for a woman a lot. Sometimes my character does, too.

Well the reason I thought about it was because of Voyager's "folding nacelle" design...what if at faster warp speeds, the shape of the warp bubble could be adjusted to take advantage of different subspace conditions at those speeds...so the ship could fly up to say warp 3, adjust the warp field and drop their power output, then kick up the power to get to warp 6, then adjust and drop the power back down...something like that. Thoughts?

Well to command a bunch of marines she would have to be :P

Did he get sick from the food or did he have too many Warp Core Breaches? :P :D :P