Geek Test

**Dave19642006** · 03-25-2008, 02:46 PM

Does it need a new flux capaciter?

**redrocker** · 03-25-2008, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dave19642006

Does it need a new flux capaciter?

Are you talking about the upgrade that runs on Garbage?

**tejasclone** · 03-25-2008, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by redrocker

Are you talking about the upgrade that runs on Garbage?

Mr. Fusion

**dustinal** · 03-25-2008, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by superfan

I should correct myself. Technically in the original series that ship was called a "Bird of Prey" The "scout" class shows up in STTNG along with the "Warbird"

And I did get confirmation from a band member...it is a Romulan Bird of Prey

Originally Posted by CTAClone

That acronym alone would win the prize. What do you call the last Star Trek with the Quantum Leap guy in it?

Originally Posted by superfan

I stopped paying attention (read: got too busy) after Deep Space Nine. All this is information I'm pulling from the back of my brain from middle/high school

That would be Star Trek: Enterprise, originally known only as Enterprise until the third season (I think). The abbreviation is ENT.

**clones_jer** · 03-25-2008, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by cardinal&gold

There is such a thing as a Romulan Bird of Prey? I thought that name was used by the Klingons. Am I to understand that both Federation-hating civilizations used vessels called Birds of Prey?

according to my weak memory of the Star Trek game cartrage we played on our Comedore 64 back in the day, only the Romluan ships were called Bird of Prey ... and I can't remember what the Klingons ones were called ... but the Romulan ones were far more dangerous on the game.

Edit: I was wrong they were both call Bird of Prey at one point ...

Klingon starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Romulan starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**redrocker** · 03-25-2008, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by clones_jer

according to my weak memory of the Star Trek game cartrage we played on our Comedore 64 back in the day, only the Romluan ships were called Bird of Prey ... and I can't remember what the Klingons ones were called ... but the Romulan ones were far more dangerous on the game.

Edit: I was wrong they were both call Bird of Prey at one point ...

Klingon starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Romulan starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nuff Said

**CTAClone** · 03-25-2008, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by clones_jer

according to my weak memory of the Star Trek game cartrage we played on our Comedore 64 back in the day, only the Romluan ships were called Bird of Prey ... and I can't remember what the Klingons ones were called ... but the Romulan ones were far more dangerous on the game.

Edit: I was wrong they were both call Bird of Prey at one point ...

Klingon starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Romulan starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isn't that just the english translation. What did the Klingon's call it in their language, or the Romulans for that matter?

**bos** · 03-25-2008, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by CTAClone

Isn't that just the english translation. What did the Klingon's call it in their language, or the Romulans for that matter?

Sign reads: Don't Feed The Nerds

**tejasclone** · 03-25-2008, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by clones_jer

Edit: I was wrong they were both call Bird of Prey at one point ...

Klingon starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Romulan starships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I knew that at least the Klingons had Birds of Prey. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, they refer to a prototype Bird of Prey that can fire while cloaked. The only Romulan ship I knew of prior to this thread was the Warbird.

Originally Posted by CTAClone

Isn't that just the english translation. What did the Klingon's call it in their language, or the Romulans for that matter?

The only Klingon word I know is "Kaplaa!" ("Success!").

**redrocker** · 03-25-2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by CTAClone

Isn't that just the english translation. What did the Klingon's call it in their language, or the Romulans for that matter?

This might help you translate the Klingon Writing

**CycloneErik** · 03-25-2008, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by redrocker

This might help you translate the Klingon Writing

How much extra credit did you get for that?

Can your 6 pallbearers read that? This might cause some trouble in the future

**dustinal** · 03-25-2008, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by cardinal&gold

I knew that at least the Klingons had Birds of Prey. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, they refer to a prototype Bird of Prey that can fire while cloaked. The only Romulan ship I knew of prior to this thread was the Warbird.("Success!").

Sorry, but as long as people are asking, I'm going to answer...

A Romulan ship in the original Star Trek series was indeed called a Bird of Prey. The Klingon Bird of Prey didn't show up until the movie Star Trek III, which prominently featured the Klingons. Early drafts of the screenplay for that movie had Romulans as the primary enemy, hence the use of the name "Bird of Prey" for the ship. Later drafts changed the enemy from the Romulans to the Klingons, but somehow Bird of Prey remained in the screenplay and made it into the movie. Ever since, the Klingons' most common ship in the Star Trek universe has been the Bird of Prey.

I'll go give myself a swirly now so no one else has to bother.

**Sousaclone** · 03-25-2008, 05:28 PM

I thought in '06 when we had the waving cowboy and the horses head was kinda geeky, but the enterprise, the torpedo, and the other ship took the cake. If nothing else the band is trying to stay creative. Gotta give them credit for that.

**MidwestZest** · 03-25-2008, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by cyismydog

Where' sodakjoe at when you need him? Isn't he in the band or something?

yeah he is - and quite the star trek fan himself. Above many, he can be heard from the pepband when we play Kansas in basektball.... "KAAAAHHHHN!!!!!"

**cymonat** · 03-25-2008, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by superfan

On an semi-related note, does anybody know where you can find pocket protectors nowadays? We had an Apollo throwback day last spring down at JSC and nobody could find one. Would also be good information for VEISHEA, NASA's recruiting a "NASA nerd herd" to give out goodies.

Wish I could be there. I'd have a blast being security for Cosmos.

Last semester, a kid in our AerE class wanted one, so John and Dana found one for him.