@nazokiyoubinbou @ami_angelwings Sort of a Dalek Slim Goodbody sort of situation, is what I'm picturing

@ami_angelwings @nazokiyoubinbou Hardcore

@nazokiyoubinbou @ami_angelwings I looked there already, and no joy

@ami_angelwings @nazokiyoubinbou This is just a reminder to try to remember which box I put my TNG technical manual in

@ami_angelwings @nazokiyoubinbou And the torpedoes were so ineffective that the same bird of prey showed up decades later only to be blowed up real good again in "Generations."

@nazokiyoubinbou @ami_angelwings To be clear, I've got no problems with red alerts. We should have alerts and they should be red.

It is just funny to me that in scifi, shields just kind of...exist. We have collectively decided that if you have a spacecraft, that spacecraft will have shields. That repel particles and energy. That can be "weakened" somehow by repeated pummeling by said particles and energy.

I'm okay with Uhura falling towards the turbolift, but shields? Impossible!

@ami_angelwings For some reason it doesn't bother me that spaceships can bank turn in space, but shields (as in "shields up, red alert") are just a "c'mon now, that's not real!" situation for me.