But for the reader who hasn’t watched Stargate: SG 1, the joke is that every random failure mode considered happened in the show’s 9 seasons. A search-and-replace could almost turn this into a story about the transporters in Star Trek.
after they’d gotten a theoretically and generally competent security officer, they accumulated way too many plots that hinged on him being stupid in a way that should have gotten him sacked.
I’ve seen very little ST:TNG, but wasn’t Worf one of the (possibly the?) first Klingons in Starfleet? Maybe it would have been politically difficult to fire him?
after they’d gotten a theoretically and generally competent security officer, they accumulated way too many plots that hinged on him being stupid in a way that should have gotten him sacked.
As for those ST transporters in general, who in the [expletive deleted] would have used them unless the alternative was sure death???
This was a long-running plot point in Enterprise; they have transporters but are too terrified to use them in anything but the most dire circumstances.
“In large contiguous civilisations with strong contract law it is common that rather than selling software you sell licenses, which grant the buyer the rights to use the software in a particular way.”
“I don’t understand. Why would you ever buy that instead of the software?”
“Most consumers did not wish to pay a year’s salary for a small program.”
From the same author, a bit of Stargate fan fiction about software testing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3673335
From another, Instruments of Destruction about project-managing the second Death Star.
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But for the reader who hasn’t watched Stargate: SG 1, the joke is that every random failure mode considered happened in the show’s 9 seasons. A search-and-replace could almost turn this into a story about the transporters in Star Trek.
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https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-united-federation-of-hold-my-beer-i-got-this.444873/
“The United Federation of Hold My Beer, I Got This” is accurate enough ;)
I’ve seen very little ST:TNG, but wasn’t Worf one of the (possibly the?) first Klingons in Starfleet? Maybe it would have been politically difficult to fire him?
To be fair, time and time again he cautions the captain to be more careful, and is repeatedly ignored: http://comicsalliance.com/nobody-listens-worf-star-trek-next-generation-comics-andrea-tsurumi/
This was a long-running plot point in Enterprise; they have transporters but are too terrified to use them in anything but the most dire circumstances.
Something of an appendix with some more world-building for this story: https://github.com/DRMacIver/programmer-at-large-notes/blob/master/names.md
“Most consumers did not wish to pay a year’s salary for a small program.”
Another detail: if I sell you the software, I can no longer sell it, since it is now yours. You can sell it though.
The distinction is at the time pedantic and fundamental