Like. That one episode where the orions snuck into a diplomacy thingy disguised as an andorians. I bet a simple airport backscatter scanner would have noticed the dangly bits were odd.
But even if it’s not hard sci, a coherent universe is better than one that flops around. Like when you’re doing world building a moment needs to be taken to consider what your stereotypical DnD party would do with it.
I mean, my party would absolutely weaponize the shit out of self sealing stem bolts.
Edit- imagine dr McCoy being like “sir, the computer flagged something in your embarkation scan…. Why don’t you come on down and we’ll deal with those janky balls”
(The transporters disassemble and reassemble stuff at the molecular level, surely there’s a way to check if they’re andorian, right?!)
Right?
Like. That one episode where the orions snuck into a diplomacy thingy disguised as an andorians. I bet a simple airport backscatter scanner would have noticed the dangly bits were odd.
But even if it’s not hard sci, a coherent universe is better than one that flops around. Like when you’re doing world building a moment needs to be taken to consider what your stereotypical DnD party would do with it.
I mean, my party would absolutely weaponize the shit out of self sealing stem bolts.
You mean Orion disguised as an Andorian from “Journey to Babel.”
Yeah that one.
Edit- imagine dr McCoy being like “sir, the computer flagged something in your embarkation scan…. Why don’t you come on down and we’ll deal with those janky balls”
(The transporters disassemble and reassemble stuff at the molecular level, surely there’s a way to check if they’re andorian, right?!)