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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 2177404" data-attributes="member: 812">What confuses me is that if you're generating your own gravity (and let's just leave that little one aside, shall we?) and something causes your ship to shake, why do people lean from side to side? Their relative acceleration due to gravity doesn't change no matter what orientation the ship is in, right? So what's with the leaning?Generating gravity. Okay.Oh, and if you can teleport, as explicitly described in Star Trek (breaking down matter and transmitting it for re-assembly), then you can synthesize matter. At arbitrary points in space.So what, exactly, does Scotty do? I mean, why don't they just have every single component of the Enterprise listed in the ship's memory, and anytime there's any damage, just &quot;transporter&quot; the broken version out and stick a new version of the component into its appropriate location?&quot;The hoobajoob's cracked! Quick, press the 'New Hoobajoob' button. Okay, phew.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 2177404, member: 812"] What confuses me is that if you're generating your own gravity (and let's just leave that little one aside, shall we?) and something causes your ship to shake, why do people lean from side to side? Their relative acceleration due to gravity doesn't change no matter what orientation the ship is in, right? So what's with the leaning? Generating gravity. Okay. Oh, and if you can teleport, as explicitly described in Star Trek (breaking down matter and transmitting it for re-assembly), then you can synthesize matter. At arbitrary points in space. So what, exactly, does Scotty do? I mean, why don't they just have every single component of the Enterprise listed in the ship's memory, and anytime there's any damage, just "transporter" the broken version out and stick a new version of the component into its appropriate location? "The hoobajoob's cracked! Quick, press the 'New Hoobajoob' button. Okay, phew." [/QUOTE]

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