• @mercano
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    1122 days ago

    “It’s not working.”

    “…We’re both all reversing the polarity.”

    “Yes, I know that.”

    “There’s two four of us. I’m reversing it, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!”

    • Repple (she/her)
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      22 days ago

      Series pitch: t’lyn (in her absolute unhinged way) figures out how to make the shield polarity orthogonal to previous states, rendering them completely impervious to known powers, who, threatened by this, hatch a plot to infiltrate the federation and steal the technology by becoming member states. The federation’s rootbeer-like insidiousness eventually makes them give up their plot, but they still get the tech anyway because cooperation

      Mostly I want to hear starfleet engineers start saying that they’re orthogonalizing the polarity, because I find that I hilariously ridiculous concept.