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Post by eguy71 on Jun 19, 2008 12:52:18 GMT -6
I'm posting this in the Voyager forum because it's probably the series that deals with the greatest variety of spatial phenomena; however, it's a bit of a mystery for all the ST shows.
Now, I could be wrong here because although I have seen nearly all the Original, ST: NGEN, VOY and DS9 episodes, I haven't seen them all.
But why is it that of all the phenomena, they don't ever encounter black holes? I mean, they cover worm holes, quantum sigularities, temporal rifts, nebulas, subspace, fluidic space, alternate timelines, parallel universes...everything...but never a black hole??
Why do you think this is, considering that modern cosmology points to black holes as being very commonplace and not rare at all???
I find this very strange...maybe only Rick Berman can answer this...
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jun 20, 2008 7:45:01 GMT -6
Well, what kind of story could you tell about finding a black hole, for instance?
Actually, in the Original Series episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday", the Enterprise collided with a black hole, and that was was projected the ship back in time to the sixties.
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Post by andrewlee on Jul 4, 2008 16:26:34 GMT -6
Atoz. Black holes in star trek are usually referred to as ........... "quantum singularities" according to my star trek encyclopedia.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 7, 2008 8:07:00 GMT -6
That would be the more scientifically accurate term, true.
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Post by THE CAKE IS A LIE! on Jul 7, 2008 11:34:18 GMT -6
A guess they never had a use for them, however black holes did appear in Star Trek Armada and Armada 2
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Post by pegasus on Jul 13, 2009 7:42:23 GMT -6
Star trek Armada?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 13, 2009 7:47:21 GMT -6
I don't think you're going to get an answe from THE CAKE, Pegasus, since he hasn't been seen here in a while. I'm guessing it's some type of game he's talking about, since I've never heard of it either.
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Post by buffyscrubs on Oct 15, 2009 0:00:33 GMT -6
I was very unsure if this would resemble the Star Trek I grew up with, .... This is what happens when a black hole orbits a star; we can detect those
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Post by Arkroyal on Oct 15, 2009 13:11:15 GMT -6
Using the wonders of the internet it is a computer game from the early 2000s.
I looked on Memory Alpha and there are five ST episodes and two films featuring black holes specifically (3 TNG, 1 VOY, 1 ENT, Star Trek The Motion Picture and Star Trek reboot).
"Tomorrow is Yesterday" actually featured a phenomenom known as a black star.
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Post by gammaquadrant on Oct 23, 2009 12:45:31 GMT -6
Star Trek Armada is a cool strategy game that came out...years ago.
And the new movie featured black holes very prominently...
But looks like Arkroyal beat me to all of this a while ago haha.
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Post by kynan101 on Dec 29, 2009 12:24:02 GMT -6
but in the first scene they were space time tunnels because the Narada and the jellyfish came through from 129 years in the future
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Post by Arkroyal on Dec 30, 2009 16:12:19 GMT -6
True but I think the last scene of the Narada was definitely a black hole!
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Post by andrewlee on Dec 30, 2009 17:05:38 GMT -6
True but I think the last scene of the Narada was definitely a black hole! It was a black hole ...an artificial one created by the red matter! It was a different situation than the one that brought the Narada and Jellyfish back in time.
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