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Yeah, these things don't last as long as we would like. I have a decent collection of optical media and I've been scared to look at it in the past few years after spotting disc rot on a DVD. It was barely 20 years old too. Still works for now but it's probably not long for this world. I don't even w...

In the future, kids are just much more well behaved, hence the lack of security. They learn not to touch anything shiny as soon as they can walk, followed by lessons in not mourning your dead parents. Then a little pre-school level Calculus.

Probably the most famous of the ancient sneak attacks was the battle at Teutoburg Forest. The Germanic-Roman general Arminius defected and ambushed the Roman Legions there, killing pretty much all of them. The loss was so severe that the Romans basically gave up entirely on trying to incorporate Ger...

The versus has been weird since the beginning. One of the earliest episodes, Balance of Terror, had that nuke which seriously damaged the Enterprise, but standard torpedoes didn't seem to do much but scratch the shields and shake everybody. Realistically they would be as powerful as a strategic nuke...

To be fair to Troi, her dumb getup was probably more comfortable than the actual Starfleet uniforms from TNG seasons 1 and 2. Those actually caused the actors a bunch of back problems due to how tight they were. Seven's catsuit had the same issue except it was even more extreme. When your actor is p...

Considering it's the only thing on the subject, Mandel's star maps book is probably the closest thing we have to canon for galactic geography. In there the Galaxy is show to be split into the four quadrants with the Terran system forming one of the axes running towards the galactic center. The Feder...

What's weird is that the research engaged in by the Hansens shows that knowledge of the Borg was possessed by Federation scientists decades before Q Who. Entire planets in travel distance of Earth like the El Aurian's had been wiped out already as well. Their existence couldn't have been a huge secr...

Yeah, I've tried my hardest over the years to come up with a decent theory for how the thing actually works, but I always reach a point where I realize each person on the holodeck would need to be encased in a self-contained tread-milled sub-unit, with its own gravity that is networked to every othe...

Just think of some of the actual numbers involved. The Federation sounds absudly large (thousands of light years, although my quick Googling seems to be a bit confused about whether that's across or cubic light years). That'll contain many tens of thousands of stars, maybe even millions. How's a bo...

It's hard for me to really picture a real Neutral Zone due how much time I spent looking at the big map in Geoffrey Mandel's Star Charts book back in the day. The 2D format gave the impression that the Neutral Zone was there primarily to affect containment over Romulan expansion. It was shown to alm...