That’s the customer answer, where they give an age in leap years, and everything goes to pot.

TOS era transporters and post TNG transporters work somewhat differently. Transporting someone in TOS freezes them, where in TNG, they can move and talk. Plus DS9 uses Cardassian tech, so who knows what they have going on.

Except that the numbers are also prone to change, like if it’s been stolen. They’re technically not supposed to be an identification code anyhow.

They are often up, but not at full power. TOS made many references to the computer raising the automatic defence screens, and by TNG, starships had navigational deflector shields that were always on.

1. I don’t know for certain, but it seems possible that shields may not be usable at warp. I don’t remember any specific episode where that happened, but it seems possible. But even then, a ship could just be programmed to bring them up as it drops out of warp.

I want to say it’s the opposite, actually. Shields, at least on some level, are required for safe warp drive operation. Voyager had an episode where they were unable to jump to warp speed because their shields were inoperative.

However, they’re probably not at full, since warp drive puts considerable strain on the power systems, enough that your average starship may not be able to power their shields at full, and maintain warp drive at the same time. You may need a high-power ship like the Protostar with its dual core system to make it work.

1. One reason brought up frequently is that raising shields could be taken as an act of aggression. But if you arrive with shields already up, then you’re not doing anything aggressive, you just arrived that way, so I don’t think this makes much sense in a world where most Starfleet ships just keep their shields up.

Only if they don’t have a baseline. Starfleet ships seem to have no problem detecting ships charging their shields and weapons, even if it is an alien ship with technologies and configuration that they have never encountered before. There is no reason to think that aliens would be any different in that regard.

1. I guess it could be possible that the power usage of the shields is too much for the day-to-day use. But again, it seems like a lot of missions clearly begin with “dropping out of warp into an unfamiliar area” and those are the times where your shields should just be up by default.

Shields interfere with a lot of systems, not just the transporter. It also messes with sensors, which is why ships like the constitution-class Enterprise and Phoenix have their shields set up so that they’re lowered on a cycle to allow the (high-power) sensors to operate in that gap.

If you’re in a new place taking sensor readings, having shields would unnecessarily hamper your readings, so you may end up spending longer there, or be unable to take some readings at all.

It’s arguable that it would stop completely, if it survived falling out of the warp field.

The times we’ve seen ships fall out of warp for one reason or another, they typically slow to a stop, rather than keeping all the inertia like we would expect them to, or stopping instantly like they would if the warp field was doing all the work.

Would it stay in high speed motion until interacted upon by something else (meteoroids/dust/gravitational fields)?

No, we’ve seen that warp field/engine failures will cause the ship to drop to sublight, if they don’t slow to stop, rather than maintaining their current speed.

Or would it disintegrate under this kind of speed?

If it crosses the boundary of the warp field, it might be disintegrated by the resulting stresses, since warp field boundaries can be pretty rough.

Yes, was poking fun at Ed’s only error message being a relatively unhelpful ?.

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It’s also self explanatory, which is great if you’re new.

Ed and Vim are basically arcane by comparison.

Does it count as user error if the user has to micromanage the compiler?

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Out of memory/overheating in 60k rows? I’ve had a few multi-million row databases that could fit into a few gigs of memory, and most modern machines have that much in RAM. A 60k query that overheats the machine might only happen if you’re doing something weird with joins.

Plus a lot of reads is nothing really, for basically all databases, unless you’re doing an unsmart thing with how you’re reading it (like scanning the whole database over and over). If you’re not processing the data, it’d be I/O bottlenecked.

“Software Engineer” was literally right next to it.

If they went into uni straight out of high school, they could. A lot of Bachelor holders would be around that age, since they start at 18.

In my experience, the only time that I’ve taxed a drive when doing a database query is either when dumping it, or with SQLite’s vacuum, which copies the whole thing.

For a pretty simple search like OP seems to be doing, the indices should have taken care of basically all the heavy lifting.

Hard Drives might do it if the enclosure is poorly designed (no ventilation), but I can’t imagine a situation where it would overheat like that that quickly, even in a sealed box. 30k is nothing in database terms, and if their query was that heavy, it would bottleneck on the CPU, and barely heat the drive at all.

Unless the database was designed by someone who only knows of data as that robot from Star Trek, most would be absolutely fine with 60k rows. I wouldn’t be surprised if the machine they’re using caches that much in RAM alone.

Unless they actually mean the hard drive, and not the computer. I’ve definitely had a cheap enclosure overheat and drop out on me before when trying to seek the drive a bunch, although it’s more likely the enclosure’s own electronics overheating. Unless their query was rubbish, a simple database scan/search like that should be fast, and not demanding in the slightest. Doubly so if it’s dedicated, and not using some embedded thing like SQLite. A few dozen thousand queries should be basically nothing.

All serving as equals with an American, during the Cold War, no less.

He wanted the whole show to be like that, seeing as he also wanted to put an LGBT character in TOS. He just got vetoed, and it ended before then.