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You will get a flood of answers saying “Star Trek”. They are all wrong or at least right for the wrong reason, because paying more attention to your “science” isn’t the same thing as getting it right. The more specifics you get into about how things work, particularly when you draw up on real life scientific terminology, the more opportunities you will have to get things wrong and Star Trek has made the most of that.

No, a cosmic string isn’t something you can run into. You can’t make a hole in an event horizon and fly through it. The particles of the week are all phony. Spiders are not part of humanity’s ancestry. Replicators should not be able to magically conjure up stuff for free with no need for power and raw materials. Evolution doesn’t want anything and doesn’t operate in the absence of reproductive selection. Time travel violates causality and had different rules for how to deal with that every time it showed up. Human memory is not holographically stored in every single cell so you can grow a mature clone with all the memories of the original. Separately evolved species can not interbreed. Negative space wedgies are arbitrary nonsense.

So when people say “Star Wars is fantasy”…as opposed to the setting where you meet all those space elves, witches, gods and demons and can get turned into a newt…

 
 

…and therefore it is less scientifically accurate, they are wrong. The very fact that Star Wars is more action oriented and less concerned with plotlines where you take a totally impossible scientific problem and apply an equally unreal technical solution means that Star Trek will provide you a lot more scientific misinformation even if Star Wars gets one thing consistently wrong, the lack of atmospheric pressure in space. Of course that one thing may outweigh all the others.

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20 minutes ago, Clonus said:
Replicators should not be able to magically conjure up stuff for free with no need for power and raw materials.

 

I've never heard of the matter replicators from Star Trek operating without a power source. As far as raw material goes...i've heard that dishes, cutlery and leftover food are all recyclable with a replicator.

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3 hours ago, Ragitsu said:

 

I've never heard of the matter replicators from Star Trek operating without a power source. As far as raw material goes...i've heard that dishes, cutlery and leftover food are all recyclable with a replicator.

 

It's a central element of the TNG setting that everything is free, and the explanation for how Voyager could lose dozens of shuttlecraft and never run out is "replicators".  

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12 hours ago, tkdguy said:

 

One of my favorite series of all times! Thanks for sharing.

 

Yup. I remember you being fond of sticks and stones. Incidentally, the specific channel that hosts that video features all episodes of Highlander: The Series. Be sure to check out the following hyperlink if you wish to see the entirety of the Duncan's escapades.

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL551DB3E031657F74

 

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Here is a list of First Season swords. Most of them Marto or modded swords.

Season One
"The Gathering"
Dragon Head Katana -------------- Duncan MacLeod
Silver braid Tachi -------------- Connor MacLeod
Custom Broadsword --------------- Slan Quince

Swords on display in the Antique Store:
Customized El Cid Colada (the one Ritchie tried to steal)
This sword is now owned by Diana Waldier. While this
sword photographed beautifully, in person it is very
ugly.
Garcia De Paredes Mandoble

"Innocent Man"
Confederate Cavalry Saber ------- Lucas Desiree
Claymore ------------------------ Sheriff Crowley

"Road Not Taken"
Standard Tai Chi Chuan sword ---- Kiem Sun
Twin Wakizashi ------------------ Chu Lin

"Bad Day in Building A"
NO SWORDS, but a 'rubbish picker' was used by Duncan MacLeod

"Free Fall"
Black Handled Tachi ------------- Felicia Martins
Claymore ------------------------ Devereux

"Deadly Medicine"
NO SWORDS

"Mountain Men"
NO SWORDS, Custom Battle Axe ---- Caleb

"Revenge is Sweet"
Spanish Cavalry Sabre------------ Walter Reinhardt
(They call it a German sabre) \Rebecca Lord(Vanity)
Olympic Epee -------------------- Rebecca Lord(Vanity)

"The Sea Witch"
Manchu Broadsword --------------- Alexei Voshin

"Eyewitness"
Charles V, Bronze --------------- Police Chief Andrew Ballin
Sabre (custom made for breaking)- " " "

"Family Tree"
Excalibur-type broadsword, Bronze
---------------------------- Duncan's father in flashback

"See No Evil"
Charles III rapier -------------- Marcus Korolus

"Band of Brothers"
Kris Broadsword ---------------- Grayson
Spanish Cavalry Sabre ---------- Thief
Scottish Basket-hilt Claymore -- Duncan MacLeod in flashback
Charles III -------------------- Antique Store Case
Spanish Cavalry Sabre ---------- Antique Store Case
Viking Sword ------------------- Antique Store Case
Customized El Cid Colada, "Pina Colada"
--------------------------- Antique Store Case

"For Evil's Sake"
Charles V bronze shortsword ------- Kuyler

"For Tomorrow We Die"
World War I army issue Katana -- Xavier St. Cloud

"The Beast Below"
Custom Scythe ------------------ Ursa
Broadsword (country unknown) --- Duncan MacLeod

"Saving Grace"
courtier Rapier ---------------- Duncan MacLeod
Custom Machete ------ Carlos Sendaro

"Lady and the Tiger"
Italian Rapier ----------------- Zachary Blaine
English Broadsword with wheel pommel
--------------------------- Amanda

"Avenging Angel"
Broadsword with wheel pommel, and mace
--------------------------- Alfred Cahill

"Eye of the Beholder"
Transistional Rapiers with small sword handles
--------------------------- Gabriel Piton
Black Braid Katana ------------- " "

"Nowhere to Run"
Military Saber ----------------- Colonel Everett Bellian

"The Hunters"
courtier sword ----------------- Hugh Fitzcairn
Scottish Basket Hilt ----------- Duncan in war flashback


SEASON TWO

"The Watchers"
El Cid Tizona ------------------- Hanging in Dawson's bookstore

"Studies in Light"
El Cid Tizona, Silver (etched blade)
--------------------------- Gregor Powers
'YO SOY LA TIZONA...' is engraved on the sword's blade

"Turnabout"
Charles III --------------------- Michael Moore\
Quenten Barnes

"The Darkness"
Custom Kris --------------------- Pallin Wolf
Charles V bronze shortsword------ James

"Eye for an Eye"
Short Duke of Alba shortsword which pommel removed
--------------------------- Annie Devlin
Gold Braid Tachi ---------------- Richie Ryan's practice sword
Black Braid Katana -------------- Ritchie, fighting Annie
Columbus 500th Anniversary Rapier
--------------------------- given to Richie by Duncan
This sword is exactly like the Don Quixote Clamshell
Rapier except the Columbus has a wire wrapped handle and
a ship on the clamshell while the Quixote has a velvet
insert handle and Don Quixote on horseback on the
clamshell.


"The Zone"
NO SWORDS

"The Return of Amanda"
Olympic Sabre ------------------- Duncan\Richie\Amanda

"Revenge of the Sword"
Twin Wakazashi ------------------ Duncan MacLeod
Double Rooster Tai Chi Chuan sword
--------------------------- Jimmy Sang

"Run For Your Life"
Custom broadsword made by Bob Anderson to resemble an
oversized Machete --------- Carl Robinson

"Epitaph for Tommy"
Garcia De Paredes Mandoble broadsword
--------------------------- Anthony Gallen

"Bless the Child"
NO SWORDS

"The Fighter"
Spanish Cavalry Sabre ----------- Thomas 'Sully' Sullivan

"Under the Cover of Athority"
Charles V bronze shortsword ----- Mako

"Unholy Alliance - Part I & II"
Charles V bronze shortsword ----- Xavier St. Cloud
Charles III shortsword ---------- Anton Degre\James Talbet
Confederate Cavalry Sabre ------- Michell De Bogon

"The Vampire"
Sword Cane ---------------------- Nicholas Ward
Charles V nickel shortsword ----- " "

"The Warmonger"
modified Kris broadsword -------- Drake
Military Sabre ------------------ "


"Pharaoh's Daughter"
Alexander the Great ------------- Nefertiri
Roman Short Sword --------------- Marcus Constantine

"Legacy"
Single Ring Rapier -------------- Rebecca & Amanda
Manchu Broadsword --------------- Luther

"Prodigal Son"
Rapier -------------------------- Hyde
Garcia De Pardes Mandoble ------- Hyde, flashback
Scottish Basket Hilt ------------ Duncan, flashback

"Counterfeit, Part I & II"
NO SWORDS

"The Samurai"
Boarding Sabre ------------------ Duncan, on beach
Katana -------------------------- Duncan, in Japan
Katana -------------------------- Kent

"Line of Fire"
Confederate Cavalry Sabre ------- Kern
with Matching Bowie Knife

"Revolutionary"
Alexander the Great ------------- Paul Karras

"The Cross of St. Antoine"
Roland -------------------------- John Durgan


"Rite of Passage"
Garcia De Pardes Mandoble ------- Axel

"Courage"
Briquet Sabre ------------------- Brian

"The Lamb"
Agincourt (with shortened blade)
--------------------------- Kenny

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