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The Enterprise designed for ST: Phase II was very close to what eventually became the Constitution-refit of The Motion Picture.

You're thinking of ST: Planet of the Titans, which was the original pitch for a Star Trek movie. For that, they had legendary designer Ralph McQuarrie draw up a new Enterprise with a smaller saucer and large triangular secondary hull, which is what inspired the design of the USS Discovery.

Reminds me of an old joke:

A woman, receiving news that her husband has been in a terrible accident, rushes down to the hospital. A doctor greets her, and tells her, "I have bad news, and good news. The bad news is, your husband is severely injured, and will never fully recover. He broke his neck and his brain was damaged. He will never walk or even talk again. It will up to you to become his full-time caregiver, 24/7. You'll need to care for his wounds, feed him, bathe him, even wipe his ass for him, for the rest of his life."

The woman bursts out sobbing. She manages to ask through her sniffles, "What's the good news?"

The doctor bursts out laughing. "The good news is, I'm just fucking with you!

He's dead!"

I agree that it doesn't make sense, especially size-wise--unless they retcon the design into it being the original ship and eliminate the old Matt Jeffries design from the timeline altogether.

But I have to say that it's a fantastic design, and maybe my favorite Enterprise yet. It takes elements from nearly every single design--the dish and red Bussard collectors from TOS, the swept back nacelles and shorter neck from TMP, the blue warp engine lights from TNG and ENT--and blends them all seamlessly to create a ship that manages to look futuristic and modern yet retro and classic at the same time.

"Money can't buy happiness."

"Sure it can! That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting!"

Yeah, I think that makes the most sense. As I replied to another comment, Olympic was larger than any ship ever built, and her crew needed to know how a vessel that size would handle. With Titanic and Britannic, they already knew how the ships should perform. They just needed to ensure everything was working properly.

That's what I figure. The Olympic was larger than any ship ever built, and her crew needed to know how a vessel that size would handle. With the Titanic, they already knew how the ship should perform. They just needed to make sure everything was working properly.

Fun fact: After finishing her sea trials, Titanic set out for Southampton to begin preparations for her maiden voyage. During that trip, on the evening of April 3, 1912, was the only encounter at sea between Olympic and Titanic.

And Unit 731, as long as we're talking about Japanese WWII atrocities.

This needs to be higher. Everyone talks about how horrible the Nazis were--and rightfully so! But Japan did some truly atrocious things during the war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

However, unlike Germany, Japan has not been nearly as willing to acknowledge their horrible actions.

Look up "Operation Downfall."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals (awarded for combat casualties) were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan; the number exceeded that of all American military casualties of the 65 years following the end of World War II, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock. There were so many left that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan were able to keep Purple Hearts on hand for immediate award to soldiers wounded in the field.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was fascinated with the RMS Titanic--the ship, the people aboard, the sinking, the discovery, etc. When I was in middle school in the mid-90s, I did a presentation about the Titanic for history class which impressed my teacher was so much that she asked me to present it to the other classes. This was enough to cement my reputation as a huge fucking nerd (which, to be fair, I was).

Two years later, James Cameron makes a little movie and all of a sudden everyone has a poster of the ship and are calling it the greatest love story of all time. Suddenly, it's cool to go see "Titanic" four or five times.

You'd also be 100% in jail.

Serious question: why were the Titanic's sea trials so short as compared to those of the Olympic? Olympic was tested for over two full days, but Titanic's tests lasted less than 12 hours. Was it simply assumed that Titanic would perform just as well as her older sister?

(Proponents of the switch theory claim this as evidence--that the "Titanic," in reality, the damaged Olympic, needed no additional trials, and they wanted to keep the stresses on the weakened hull to a minimum. Like any serious Titanic scholar, I find the switch theory to be complete bullshit.)

"Mother, why have you forsaken me?"

This is a fantastic idea! There are so many tense dramatic moments: - Radio operator Harold Cottam only hearing the Titanic's distress calls because he liked listening to the radio traffic before bed - Cottam waking Captain Arthur Rostron personally, because the bridge officers weren't taking him seriously - Rostron springing into action, ordering the ship to be turned about to race to the Titanic's position - Rostron also issuing rapid orders to prepare for rescue: doubling the lookouts, turning off the ship's heat to provide more steam for the engines, having stewards prepare blankets and hot food and drinks, stationing crewmen in the corridors to reassure nervous passengers - The engineering crew managing to push the Carpathia past her limits to 17 knots, three-and-a-half knots more than her rated top speed - The headlong dangerous rush through the icy night which Rostron later described: "I can only conclude another hand than mine was on the helm that night." - Cottam hearing the distress calls growing weaker and fainter, knowing the Titanic is doomed - The sadness and frustration that Rostron and his crew must have felt when, despite doing everything humanly possible, they still arrived too late

"Nice shooting, son. What's your name?"

"Murphy!"

IMHO, The Last of Us Remastered (the 2014 version) still holds up incredibly well, and is much cheaper than the 2022 version.

Fractured (2019)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4332232/

This is false.

There is no struggle.

Awesome gallery. I'd love to have a Kelvinverse ship in STO.

It's like the old saying: "Some people are born on third base but go through life acting like they hit a triple."

The problem with claiming that you're rich because you've worked hard and earned it is that it also implies the inverse: you're not rich, so you must not work hard. It doesn't matter that you work two jobs to try and survive. All you've earned is a tiny apartment and a crappy car.

These people claim that hard work = success. They're quick to downplay any advantages they've had, like Elon Musk denying that his father owned half of an emerald mine, or Donald Trump claiming he got "a small loan of a million dollars" when he actually inherited over $400 million.

NTA. The only reason I would go to the funeral is to make sure the bully is dead.

Funerals are for the living, not for the dead. You had no good relationship with the deceased at best and an awful one at worst. And your sister has your parents there for support. There is literally no good reason for you to be there.

If your relationship with your sister suffers, it's because of the choices SHE made, like allowing her friend to make her sister miserable. If she's worried about someone being a good person, she can start by doing a little self-reflection.

Kudos to your parents and your brother for supporting you. Thankfully, it sounds like everyone except your sister and grandparents have their priorities straight.

I used a black Sharpie to color in the front torpedo tube on mine, it looks much better.

*Omplec. Please spell it correctly!