Thing overheard in STAR TREK line
No Spoilers. This was overheard at in the line to see the new 2009 Star Trek.
I was entertained by the new movie last night, premiering on IMAX. (I'm always temped to type that iMax these days)
However, I'll be honest, I was also highly entertained by the line chatter of the nerds and geeks and trekkers and trekies in the line around me. I'm a big fan of other people's conversations in a situation like this. Nobody debates and argues like a good Trek fan... except maybe Mac vs PC arguments.
Overheard (paraphrased):
But the Enterprise has a universal GPS system.
> Well, if you want to use that word... it's hardly GPS. I mean, it's not satellites.
It's big anyway... If it uses the starts, it still works like a GPS, telling them where they are.
> The Navigational Computer.
I think that calculates routes, not where they are.
> A GPS does both.
They had a whole room for navigational positioning in Voyager like it was something new.
> Whatever... The enterprise has always had a map of the universe.
They're going where no man has gone before.... I think they're making the maps.
>Right... and sometimes they trade for maps of new areas. Neelix knew a lot.
So it's all the same computer? How come it goes down with everything else? When the computer core goes down, they can't navigate. That';s dumb. Doesn't each computer have enough on it's own? A GPS fits in my hand.
>But a GPS has one city or country. The universe is big.
>Besides, it's in the Canon. One computer for everything. They use terminals like the old days.
How come when they eject the core, computers still work?
>Different core.
I think each desktop could handle it all.
Maybe they will in this movie.
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