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This is why Star Trek uses "subspace" as a plot handwavium[1] to explain how a starship can hail Earth from hundreds of lightyears away with seemingly no latenc
by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
This is why Star Trek uses "subspace" as a plot handwavium[1] to explain how a starship can hail Earth from hundreds of lightyears away with seemingly no latency.
[1] handwavium, my favourite new word: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=handwavium https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=handwavium
- macintux 3y agoFor some illogical reason I never had a problem with sending messages across such vast distances, but when the Enterprise detected another ship starting its engines from a light year away my suspension of disbelief collapsed.
- jryb 3y agoEasy fix: subspace-based sensors. If the other ship is transmitting in any way, or its engine produces visible artifacts in the subspace field, it could be detected.