{"id":972,"date":"2005-09-14T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/972"},"modified":"2005-09-14T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:47:48","slug":"geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/972","title":{"rendered":"Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation earlier this evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: So, I don&#8217;t understand.<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: What?<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: When the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/series\/DS9\/episode\/68212.html\">cloaked Romulan-Cardassian task force massed to go through the worm-hole<\/a>, the station noticed something happening, even though they didn&#8217;t realize it was cloaked ships. How come they didn&#8217;t notice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/series\/DS9\/episode\/68228.html\">a hundred or so cloaked Klingon ships<\/a> sneaking up on them?<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: Well, the Romulan ships use a singularity in their cloaking devices that allows them to be tracked&#8230; (I think there was also something about quantum distortions)<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: So their cloaking devices are different?<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: Yes.<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: Why don&#8217;t they change their cloaking devices so they can&#8217;t be caught?<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: Well, they&#8217;d have to redesign and retrofit&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: Waitasecond&#8230; If the Federation and the Klingons have a peace treaty, why does the Defiant have a Romulan cloaking device and not a Klingon one?<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: Well, the Klingons go through a lot of changes and their government isn&#8217;t very stable&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: So because the Klingon empire is so chaotic Starfleet didn&#8217;t want to deal with them?<br \/>\n<strong>Michael<\/strong>: Yes.<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: You know what? I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re having this conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation earlier this evening. Me: So, I don&#8217;t understand. Michael: What? Me: When the the cloaked Romulan-Cardassian task force massed to go through the worm-hole, the station noticed something happening, even though they didn&#8217;t realize it was cloaked ships. How come they didn&#8217;t notice a hundred or so cloaked Klingon ships sneaking up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sefxA-geek","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}