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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 294331" data-attributes="member: 1016">Psion, for a guy who like to paint in broad strokes (i.e. sf psionics is fantasy magic), I am surprised that a little shrinkage would bother you.  If anything, I thought our roles would be reversed in this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So what you are really saying is not that you found the Reigal discussion done/not done well, but that your threshold for the “Suspension of Disbelief” was crossed with the technology used.As I had commented before when I mentioned about my brother, that is essentially a tricky spot. Depending on how mundane an audience is who watches the show, the whole “Babel Fish” nanovirus is down right unbelievable as well as the aforementioned living FTL ship.I guess for that my personal taste, if I am going to start enjoying a show that includes such non-items as nanoviruses (viruses can already be measured in nanocentimeters, so that is redundant. If they mean nanomachines, then the virus part is irrelevant because viruses are a life form- of sorts- and not machines. Now if they meant programmed viruses or cyberviruses that would make more sense.) Then I am not going to quibble about “shrinking technology” because there is no way the writers are going to know the “average” limits of Disbelief and if you start questioning what is “shattering,” the writers are going to focusing more on doubting themselves than on just writing a good story.There is a reason the new Enterprise show has a Temporal Cold War. It’s so that they can write good stories that bend the 30 years of conflicting continuity of the Star Trek universe without making a headache out of it.</blockquote>

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