Thursday, January 30, 2014
Lotsa Torpedoes!
From Kottke: "Now this is some top notch investigative journalism. In Star Trek: Voyager, a Starfleet ship is stranded on the other side of the galaxy and the estimated travel time back to Federation space is 75 years. Early on in the show, it's revealed the ship has only 38 photon torpedoes and 'no way to replace them after they're gone'. But they used many more than that throughout the run of the show"