Alan rocks.
Wow, my humble blog has only been online for a couple days, and already it has attracted the notice of blogging industry giants. Alan, friend and sometimes opponent on the field of battle, gave me a cool mention on his blog. He also has written some reflections on ST: Nemesis which are worthy of your immediate attention.
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First post! Yes, this is the first ever comment to stagingpoint.com. Seriously though, you know I'm probably the only person on the planet who knows less about blogging than you do.
Posted by: alan | December 14, 2002 10:23 PM
I agree with much of your Nemesis critique. Now, we all remember that the Federation agreed not to develop or use any cloaking technology under the Treaty of Algeron (with a special exception made for the Defiant during the Dominion War), but they certainly ought to be able to somehow counteract cloak technology by now.
The Ship vs. Ship battle was indeed amazing. I liked the reference to a "Kirk" defensive maneuver.
Posted by: Ron | December 16, 2002 4:47 PM
OK, I stand corrected on the cloaking technology thing. Thanks for the clarification. With whom did the Federation sign that treaty? I obviously need to watch more Star Trek.
Oh, and do you think the Romulans know how to detect vessels cloaked using their Romulan cloaking technology? Apparently those two Warbirds couldn't see the Scimitar, but I did wonder if they might have some more advanced strategies for detecting cloaked ships.
And yeah, that Kirk reference was great. I also liked how Zin-shon (sp?) named his attack patterns after himself. Probably standard procedure, but it seemed kinda pretentious in a humorous sort of way.
Posted by: jrau | December 16, 2002 9:29 PM
Captains always name things after themselves. Any defensive maneuver is always something like "Riker gamma two", or whatever (yes, I know Riker hasn't been a captain for most of his Star Trek lifetime). Also, any self-destruct or command override sequence is unlocked by secret phrases like "Picard alpha one" or "My voice is my passport: verify me", or something. Astounding how advanced things are in the future...
Posted by: joel | December 17, 2002 12:11 AM
OK, fair enough. Speaking of self-destruct systems, what was the deal with the self-destruct system on the Enterprise not working when Picard tried to activate it? Had it been disabled by one of the crew, or was it just broken?
Posted by: jrau | December 17, 2002 12:15 AM
I assumed the self-destruct was just broken. Interesting that it now needs only one authorization, rather than the usual two.
As for the cloaking detection by the Romulans, I'd assume they couldn't track the Scimitar because its cloak was of a special design, and thus not the standard Romulan cloak they were used to. You'd think they'd be able to develop a device that sends out an array of particles that they could then keep atch of, looking for significant disturbances (Ala the tachion web from TNG: Redeption, Part II).
And the Treaty of Algeron was between the Romulans and the Federation, in 2161.
Posted by: Ron | December 17, 2002 11:52 AM