Ragitsu

prof that buffalo wings aren't really chicken

Better to fall than to fail.

The Rolling Stones would approve.
 
 

All of this is an inevitable consequence of a training regimen that emphasizes domination over diplomacy. A history of economic disenfranchisement and financial contributions from the prison-industrial complex are also to blame, but much can be improved simply by requiring mandatory yearS of education.

All of this is an inevitable consequence of a training regimen that emphasizes domination over diplomacy. A history of economic disenfranchisement and financial contributions from the prison-industrial complex are also to blame, but much can be improved simply by requiring mandatory yearS of education.

I have a toy canister - from the 80s - of a similar size and likely the same material composition. The actual toy parts are entirely different, however. Hm...perhaps I will take a picture of it one of these days and share it here.

Well, there is full-frontal nudity in the first episode. Also, the show's sexual humor skyrocketed once Claudia Black joined the cast.
 
 

All of this is an inevitable consequence of a training regimen that emphasizes domination over diplomacy. A history of economic disenfranchisement and financial contributions from the prison-industrial complex are also to blame, but much can be improved simply by requiring mandatory yearS of education.

Well, there is full-frontal nudity in the first episode. Also, the show's sexual humor skyrocketed once Claudia Black joined the cast.
 
 

That must come in very handy on the holodeck.

You're correct, thank you!

Thirty-eight minutes, actually .
 
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Thirty-Eight_Minutes
 
  
 
Agreed. I always thought of the Stargate as a space-folder as opposed to a matter assembler.

I don't think we ever saw any evidence that there is *any* mass limit to the gates.  One of Carter's more infamous tricks was blowing up a Star by reducing it's mass and causing it to go SuperNova.  She did this by connecting a Gate that was falling into a star to another gate that was next too a Black hole.  The Black hole pulled enough mass through the wormhole to affect the interaction between a Star's mass and it's internal atomic reactions.  This was with Milky Way gates
 
They didn't go into the math, but I'm betting its more than x128 the mass of a human.  Mass limits are a Hero System thing and don't appear to have any correlation in the Stargate franchise.  As far as I can tell, if it can physically fit through a gate it will travel through the wormhole.

The moral of the story: When Daniel brings up questions like these, he's pretty much never wrong.

Ah...The Other Side. I believe this was the (late night) episode that got me into Stargate SG-1. I find that the script/story still holds up even to this day.
 
 
 
 
 

Eh, that's an artifact of trying to produce a weekly tv show. Spending half of every episode engaged in pantomime or struggling with pigeon English (or Egyptian or whatever) would get old real fast, and take up valuable story time. Note that in the original movie they did, in fact, need Daniel Jackson to translate for them. It's really a question of how you want to spend your limited show/game time. A PC who knows a lot of ancient languages could be fun to play and an important part of the game. Or you could handwave the issue and go with the universal translator effect.
 
As for the kawoosh--I wouldn't stat it out. I'd make GM Fiat. Anything engulfed by the kawoosh is vaporized. End of story. We never saw anything that could withstand it (the iris prevented it from forming in the first place, according to canon.)

If conservative voices don't want to be silenced, perhaps they should not voice threats, level unsubstantiated accusations, sympathize with declared enemies of the United States, or advocate sedition.  But that's just my voice.

Honestly, no one has linked to the news story, that I've seen, and I have no idea what details of the story have been made public or not.
 
But from what others have said in this thread, the police pepper sprayed a kid who was already in the back of a police cruiser.
 
If that's what happened, I don't care if the kid slit the throat of the pope: that was completely inappropriate behavior from the police.
 
I have every confidence that a nine year old kid could flat out kill me if she tried because I'm not exactly in robust health. But even I could control a nine year old kid who's already in the back of a police cruiser without resorting to using a weapon.
 
If the police actually used a weapon on a kid after she was safely in custody, the police were solidly in the wrong.
 
Period.
 
Period.

Since starfleet is only military in the most vague, least significant sense of the term, I don't know as civilian is all that different than enlisted on a starship.

I was discussing the Enterprise-D, as the topic creator has a slightly post-TNG frame of reference in mind. Also, that's Constitution class and not Constellation class (good googly moogly, i'm a geek).

We all know the esteem that lawyers are held in by the public. And police wonder why the public distrusts them?
 
But lawyers don't primarily defend other lawyers. They don't bargain or threaten for what they want, they submit arguments to a third party who decides the outcome. And lawyers aren't given the authority to enforce the law, to employ force against other citizens. It's not that it would be nice if police did the right thing; it's imperative for the long term benefit of both the public and themselves to do the right thing, at least in the face of overwhelming evidence as with this case. Police want to govern themselves, but if they can't demonstrate they're willing to take responsibility then they don't deserve to govern themselves.