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Just once I'd like a post where everyone is chill and positive about stuff instead of focusing on negative

Edit: I dunno why I expect people to ever be capable of being positive anymore. Dunno why I bother.

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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The plot revolves around a wargames scenario. There is for some reason an alien race that is really good at war strategies. There is an advisor from that race on the enterprise.

Ah, that would be "Peak Performance", in which Wesley has an experiment that has something to do with high-energy plasma reactions with antimatter, and nothing whatsoever to do with growing dilithium. Swing and a miss.

The Klingons use Trilithium.

Strike two - trilithium is an unstable explosive that is used in the engines of exactly no one. The Klingons do use tritium as an intermix, but as you are aware, that simply replaced the role that deuterium plays in Starfleet designs - it has nothing to do with dilithium.

The Romulans used a contained singularity.

This is the closest you've come to having something. Of course, there's exactly zero information on how those drives operate or are manufactured, along with the pesky fact that the Romulans have enslaved an entire race to mine dilithium for them, which is...not something you typically do to obtain a substance that you don't need. We'll call it a foul ball.

In Voyager we saw a number of potential non-dilithium alternatives. One of them was a glorified slingshot.

What did we learn about how these alternatives are powered, particularly considering that several of them were plugged into Voyager's warp core without too much trouble? You get bonus points if you can identify the one that was specifically described as "not antimatter," which is most likely (but not guaranteed) to exclude dilithium.

So far we've got two strikes and two fouls. You're still at bat.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look you've clearly made up your mind. I don't think there's anything anyone could do to convince you. You're talking to me in a way that's condescending and disrespectful, so I certainly don't want to be the one to try.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have made up my mind about your factual errors, yeah. You're not going to convince me of things that aren't true.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've made up your mind about being a condescending asshole. You used a baseball analogy to "grade" my comment. Then you had the gall to imply that you're giving me one more chance to convince you, presumably so you could get one more jab in.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just very interested in people who, you know, tell the truth. It shouldn't be that challenging...

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People like you are the reason the Internet gets so toxic.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn me and my suggestion that people should fact-check themselves rather than make up a show to be mad at!

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not what you're saying, it's how you're talking to me. You've approached the entire conversation from an adversarial standpoint. You've acted as if you were the ultimate arbiter of truth despite getting your facts wrong, and expected me to keep going with the conversation despite showing complete disrespect for me. Every single comment is dripping with this condescending attitude, and written in a way that makes me feel like the overwhelming majority of your sofial interactions are through either Lemmy or Reddit.

If you tried this in real life, I would have just awkwardly agreed with you and changed the subject. If you did this on a regular basis I wouldn't hang out with you. Yet for some reason this kind of snarky antisocial behavior is not only common, but in fact rewarded.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

despite getting your facts wrong

By all means, enlighten me. I admire your dedication to tone policing, but it's starting to feel just a little bit like you're doing everything you possibly can to avoid addressing the topic at hand.

That couldn't possibly be it, though.

If you did this on a regular basis I wouldn’t hang out with you.

Truly tragic.

Believe what you want man.