Now they want to install these “transporters” on the latest flagship. Can you believe it! Transporters. That don’t work in an ion storm. Space is full of ion storms! They’re useless. I talked to a guy named Reg down in engineering. Good fellow, really smart, knows what he’s doing. I asked him, Reg, which would be better? Transporters or shuttlecraft? “Shuttlecraft” is better according to Reg, the man who knows all about how these things work. Transporters! Ha! Pour a cup of water on them and they stop working, and you have to be a Zephram Cochrane if you want to know how to fix them. Shuttles are what you want, solid tritanium alloy, that’s what you can trust.
I would be a luddite about transporters too. They’re just the Prestige duplicator except people treat it like it’s totally fine. There’s even a plotline about them fucking up the kill and leaving an earlier iteration of Riker stranded in a planet. No thanks, I’ll be staying physical.
Now they want to install these “transporters” on the latest flagship. Can you believe it! Transporters. That don’t work in an ion storm. Space is full of ion storms! They’re useless. I talked to a guy named Reg down in engineering. Good fellow, really smart, knows what he’s doing. I asked him, Reg, which would be better? Transporters or shuttlecraft? “Shuttlecraft” is better according to Reg, the man who knows all about how these things work. Transporters! Ha! Pour a cup of water on them and they stop working, and you have to be a Zephram Cochrane if you want to know how to fix them. Shuttles are what you want, solid tritanium alloy, that’s what you can trust.
The sad irony here being that the actor who portrayed Broccoli is, himself, a card carrying nutbar.
Who would have thought that Murdoch from the A Team might not be stability incarnate?
I would be a luddite about transporters too. They’re just the Prestige duplicator except people treat it like it’s totally fine. There’s even a plotline about them fucking up the kill and leaving an earlier iteration of Riker stranded in a planet. No thanks, I’ll be staying physical.
meanwhile i’ll be duplicating myself and populating an entire research ship on my own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2FS7pZAnc
Who are we pretending to be here
I don’t know where that came from, but it was probably just some cranky old admiral who’s going a bit senile while everyone waits for him to retire.