Captain Holland

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  1. I have a funny story. It's not mine though.

     

     

     

    OK,

     

    A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet dachshund along for company.

     

    One day the dachshund starts chasing butterflies, and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund thinks "OK, I'm in deep trouble now!"

     

    Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by. He immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dachshund exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?"

     

    Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid stride, as a look of terror comes over him. He sinks away into the trees. "Whew," says the leopard, " That was close. That dachshund nearly had me."

     

    Meanwhile, a monkey who wad been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes. The dachshund saw the monkey heading after the leopard at great speed, and figured that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard. The leopard is furious at beeing made to appear a fool. He said, "Here monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine."

     

    Now the dachshund sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back, and wonders, "What am I going to do now?" Instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasen't seen them yet. Just when they get close enough to hear, the dachshund says, "Where's that stupid monkey? I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard."

     

     

     

    :) :) B)


  2. I don't feel that nuclear torpedoes would be any more dangerous to the crew of the NX-01 than they are for today's submariners.Accidents aboard nuclear submarines are very,very rare and more often than not are never related to the nuclear payloads.Also the distances between the ships in space are significant,usually hundreds of kilometers if not more,so damage to the torpedo launching vessel would likely not be significant.

    Nuclear torpedoes make sense to me,and they would tie in to TOS,like has already been mentioned in this thread.War and killing are barbaric regardless of the sophistication of the weapons being used.

    Agreed.

    Go for it Captain Archer!Nuke them Rommie $#@!'s! ;)

    Right On!!! a-bomb.gif


  3. They often say in episodes that photon topedos can take out large cities in Star Trek. Don't they?

    Well, it would depend on the strength of the torpedo, in First Contact when the Borg are attacking the missle complex they are firing something similar to Quantum torpedos, and they weren't destroying more than 10 or 20 feet from the blast area.


  4. I agree with others against the use of nuclear weapons on Enterprise.  I'm not even sure how much the radiation would affect the enemy if fired in space.  Wouldn't the radiation disappate in space?

    I'm pretty sure the radiation wouldn't disapate in space, in fact I think we have fired nukes into space to test them, but I'm not sure.


  5. its is true. Now its there no matter what. kind of freaked me out one day when i went into someone's post just to update it so the smileys would show up right. I saw that it listed me as editing the post and i decided i would leave the posts as is so people did not think i was adding or taking stuff out. lol

    Ya, I was just wondering why.


  6. I was just thinking that a Nuclear weapon has more power than a Photon or Quantum torpedo, why don't they have nuclear torpedos along with Photon, and Quantum torpedos. As a last resort or something. I mean, if the blast doesn't destroy the enemy that surly the radiation will be lethal. What are your thoughts?


  7. I am watching Encounter at Farpoint, and saw Riker talking to Data on the Battle Bridge, and distinctly remember Riker saying in Nemisis that the first time he saw Data was in the holodeck, after the scene on the battle bridge. I just thought that was interesting, that the producers could overlook that.