• kbal
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    274 months ago

    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.

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        14 months ago

        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.