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Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock

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[–] autonomous@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

he poisoned whole planets for personal vendetta 🤷‍♂️

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

"Only" one planet (that was all it took)

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Defiant was the best ship in the series tho..... 🤣

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I think you mean the worst designed ship in the fleet.

Reasons for sheer fuckheaded stupid design

  1. Weapons are mounted fore. Ammo storage is aft. The schematics show a goddamn railcart system to move the ammo. Sure. Why not.

  2. It is an anti-borg vessel that was designed with seemingly zero anti-borg anything in it. Uses primarily energy weapons which they can adapt to (and this is after finding out that kinetic weaponry is better). Uses primarily shields for defensive despite armor being shown to be more useful by this point. Sure why not. Is also proven to be effectively worthless against the Borg in First Contact.

  3. That giant nose that is in need of a rhinoplasty is a nuclear warhead. Not even a joke. It's a giant fucking bomb. So they're sailing around with a giant bomb strapped to the front which completely obliterates the logic of "put ammo in rear" when YOU HAVE A BOMB ON YOUR FACE OZOB.

  4. Not only is it a giant fucking bomb, it is also a lifepod. Because that's what you want to be sitting inside of. A. Bomb.

  5. Not only is it a bomb, it also houses the sensor arrays. So if they ever did fire off the bomb, the ship becomes instantly blind. Can't go to warp, can't go to impulse, gotta fire manually by looking out of the fucking window, like... what FUCKING MORON DESIGNED THIS GODDAMN THING

  6. It's captained by a sociopath who hauls it out of mothballs to sneakily go to the Founder's homeworld, in Starfleets only warship, to say "Hey we are here peacefully and want to talk."

[–] Maven@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Didnt they state that the only reason they gave the defiant to DS9 is because it was so poorly designed it couldnt be in real service?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Poorly designed because "it was too powerful". With engines at full power the entire ship nearly shoot apart. It was also considered "over-gunned".

Basically it was "too good to be in service" while every single part of the thing is an engineering nightmare and doesn't make sense in any capacity. Worthless frisby.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
  1. Only rail gun system in the fleet
  2. See 3, that's a kinetic weapon
  3. This is their first warship
  4. Yeah that's where the idiot Borg are going to teleport to, it's the ultimate trap
  5. More Borg bait
  6. They're Baseball fans, so american ideals are baked in: walk softly and carry a nuke
[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. No, it straight up does not have a railgun system and I have no clue where the fuck you have pulled that from.

  2. See 1.

  3. Yes, that was mothballed because it was shit.

  4. ... yes. Borg teleport over to ship so lets detonate the bomb that will 100% destroy us too. What are you talking about?

  5. k.

  6. They're Starfleet officers.

It's a piece of shit ship and straight up does not have a rail gun so I have no clue where you're coming up with that. The Defiant class US Military ship is supposed to have a railgun but not the Star Trek ship.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
  1. It was a play on words about requiring a rail to operate the weapon system.
  2. This is lighthearted meme community, right?
  3. see 2
  4. also see 2.
  5. Thanks :)
  6. see 2

My answers were jokes, I can start adding /j to my posts here if you want.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah, you're good. My autism combined with switching over from Zoloft to Lexapro is making me dumb as fuck. My apologies lol

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

All good, looking forward to triggering the autistic urge to state the correct information again, one to another :) Hope the new meds work out.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] autonomous@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

*with Tuvix

[–] Heyla@quokk.au -2 points 5 days ago

When racism can be paused to be more mysogin 💀