• Admiral Patrick
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        72 months ago

        Ablative plot armor. Hmm. Wonder if there’s meme potential in that? 🤔

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            Fed up, or desperate to add an emotional kick to the pants. (See the Defiant getting rocked by the Borg cube in First Contact, with no noticeable damage on DS9, but getting taken out by the Breen, only to be replaced two weeks later, with only new carpet to show for it.)

        • @sbv
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          32 months ago

          Aren’t those redshirts?

    • Admiral Patrick
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      102 months ago

      I’m more like the NX-01 where the damage doesn’t get rebooted between episodes.

      • teft
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        52 months ago

        No, the NX-01 uses a B’Elanna space station like Roddenberry intended.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Hmmmmm… Maybe every enterprise has a q “secretly” working in engineering and everyone pretends they don’t know?

      • Flying SquidM
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        32 months ago

        A week in terms of when we saw the previous episode. When it first aired anyway.