08-17-2024, 08:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-17-2024, 08:49 PM by Peter Jensen.)
Peter nodded. He also didn't know, honestly. But they needed to know before they attempted it. Calling in an expert might be a good idea.
He tapped his badge:
"Jensen to Engineering", he said. "A question: Could we pull a DS9-stunt to get the Franklin back on the right side of the border?", he asked. "I mean reduce its mass, so the tractor beam doesn't pull it into a trillion pieces?", he asked, hoping he'd managed to explain what he meant in a way that both made sense, but also was clear enough for he himself to understand both the question and therefore also the subsequent answer.
He was by no means stupid, but something else he was not, was anything resembling a decent engineer. He could work a tricorder, no problem. He knew that a warp drive bent space-time around it and that's what allowed everyone to travel the galaxy. Sure. But beyond that, engineers might as well be speaking Klingon. And not only standard Klingon, but the most obscure dialect imaginable, spoken only by a cave hermit living in the most remote an inaccessable of the Hamar Mountains.
He tapped his badge:
"Jensen to Engineering", he said. "A question: Could we pull a DS9-stunt to get the Franklin back on the right side of the border?", he asked. "I mean reduce its mass, so the tractor beam doesn't pull it into a trillion pieces?", he asked, hoping he'd managed to explain what he meant in a way that both made sense, but also was clear enough for he himself to understand both the question and therefore also the subsequent answer.
He was by no means stupid, but something else he was not, was anything resembling a decent engineer. He could work a tricorder, no problem. He knew that a warp drive bent space-time around it and that's what allowed everyone to travel the galaxy. Sure. But beyond that, engineers might as well be speaking Klingon. And not only standard Klingon, but the most obscure dialect imaginable, spoken only by a cave hermit living in the most remote an inaccessable of the Hamar Mountains.