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Vasya Nussbaum's controls aboard the USS Polaris...Related content
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interesting controls. What is White Alert though?
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White Alert is a biohazard/enemy boarding party signal
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Ah cool. never heard of that, I just hear "Intruder alert" lol
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Intruder and/or biohazard alert.
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You're wel--
Oh, *you* know!
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I really dig the old school setup with this interface. It seems rather simplified, but then again, the future should be more user-friendly and functional after all.
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This is what they call future-retro
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Intruder and/or biohazard alert.
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That makes sense. Once again, it would make a good screensaver.
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There are manual controls right from this console, on the middle of the front complex.
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Are the two red objects on the Tactical Status Screen Kzinti?
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Yupp, Kzinti battlecruisers.
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The Polaris just became lunch.
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Don't underestimate us!
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Okay, just the redshirts.
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The Polaris never loses Redshirts! We're a fighing ship, not some fancy exploratory cruiser.
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Not even one? You make Kirk look like a pessimist and an incompetent Captain. The Kzinti must not have transporters.
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Okay, when the Kzinti boarded the ship in the war... that was a massacre. A quarter of the crew was lost. But on landing party scenarios, we don't lose people.
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To bring up a subject that's a little sore with other fans (myself among them), does Section 31 have any involvement with the First Fleet or the Polaris?
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Section 31 was behind the Federation giving away the three Human colony planets to the Kzinti after the Third Man-Kzin War, with thousands of people left behind. After the Polaris crew started to save the people, Section 31 tried to persuade them not to spread the word on the Feds leaving people for food to the cats. The Polaris crew replied by sending the report to every available station and starship via subspace radio.
They also supported the Kzinti in the Kzin-Tzenkethi War. The Polaris supported the Tzenkethi. It meant a lot of Fed ship VS Fed ship skirmishes.
Section 31 helped the Polaris crew during the Romulan hostage crisis for which they wanted the help of the Polaris in locating and destroying a Gorn research and development facility.
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White Alert can mean two things:
1, intruder alert
2, shipwide biohazard alert (biological/chemical warfare, viral outbreak, etc.)
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I think that has been changed to the "blue alert" in TNG era, no? Although I think intruder alert was red there, too, just with a different sound attached.
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I saw Blue Alert in VOY only and it meant planetary landing of the ship.
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No, there was a blue alert used in the TNG episode "Brothers" from season 4. Data had reversed the environmental systems on the Bridge, but initially it looked like a malfunction. The computer announced a warning to evacuate the Bridge due to "Deck 1 Life Support failure". And a blue alert was sounded.
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Maybe blue alert is when they're listening to Jimi Hendrix
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Ah ok, I was thinking it was for when the bleach got spilled on Deck 3 or something.
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*bosun whistle* "This is your captain speaking, we've a slight viral outbreak; if you should suddenly find yourself craving your crewmates' brains, I'm going to ask that you calmly report to Mr. Nussbaum for 'treatment'."
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What was that about "mini-sunbombs"?
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Huh? I was thinking zombie virus, and having them report to the guy to get shot in the head.
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Yeah, I understand, but minu-sunbombs are Vasya's method of curing
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Captain: Are you blowin' up my ship?! STOPPIT!!!!!
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