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[melayneseahawk]

So, studying for astronomy final (at noon, kill me now), and I had a thought:

All semester, I've been amusing myself by picking apart episodes of my various sci-fi shows with my new knowledge of astronomy (yes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing), and I'm debating writing up a post (or series of posts) about what they did wrong. I'd start, with black holes, and then maybe go on from there, but the issue is this: would anyone actually be interested?

I'd mostly be bashing Stargate and Atlantis, but there's definitely an episode of (new) Doctor Who that I'd take a crack at.

So, 'gaters, interested?

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[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Haughty? I have been bashing Kirk since 1991, thank you.

And I don't know about major plot points, but I can recall some stellar phenomenon being the ship-destroying factor in the second Moriarty episode of TNG. The heart of the episode was of course Moriarty and the holodeck, but the point still stands. Let's see, what else? *pulls out Trek summary magazine to provide inspiration*

Taking ships ridiculously close to suns has been a favorite pastime of starship captains. The two episodes that come to mind are Redemption Part 2 and Descent Part 2.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

The problem there is that I don't really know enough to be able to refute that. But I can, for example, go on about the misused properties of black holes in multiple Stargate episodes.