Star Trek The Next Generation Technical ManualRick Sternbach, Michael Okuda
Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual
by Rick Sternbach, Michael Okuda · first published 1991
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In the Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual which I obsessed about as a child, the authors (Rick Sternbach and Micheal Okuda, graphic designers on the show) go to great pains to emphasise grow things about the replicators: first, that they have…
on “The Rise of Dismal Science Fiction” ↗No, it is actually (mostly) correct. In ST:TNG they redefined the definition such that it is infinite. It was documented in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, which was published in 1991 and was written by the technical advisors for the series, who based it if the internal series technical bibles[1]. This was a distinct change from the original TOS which they…
on “NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars” ↗…latest devices. I suppose I can trace that preference all the way back to being fascinated with the Star Trek: The Next Generation LCARS (Library Computer Access & Retrieval System), which (to quote the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual written by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach from teenage memory) was “expressly designed to suggest a highly simplified manner of managing vastly complicated processes” or some such. If you really want…
on “Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad” ↗On that wiki entry: > Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 55) states the actual speed values of a warp factor are dependent upon interstellar conditions, for example gas density, electric and magnetic fields in different regions of the galaxy, and fluctuations…
on “Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002” ↗