Should I point out that 'corollary' is misspelled? No - I'm better than that. I won't mention it...

Why not? Wii've been doing this all day to each other.

__________________
Numbers are not case sensitive. (me)

What do you mean wii sir? Oh, maybe just a wii bit.

Mine is when the aliens attack and they are automatically immune to everything that humanity can throw at them.

I have a feeling that the new transformers movie is going to be bad this way. The dont have to do much, but getting a 120mm APFSDS shot into you should at least be inconvienent.

Whenever you fly into or out of the solar system you *always* pass Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

When the Borg first attacked Earth, I remember some character saying something about the "Mars defense post"

in my opinion, the point is drive home an idea which is very close to the hearts of most Hollywooders, that "violence never solves anything." See all those tanks and guns that you have? We told you they were worthless, and so they are.

Oh, it's not just in James Bond. Personally, I think Vicki Vale was a pretty serious offender, too. Ye Gods, she was supposed to have been a war correspondent. Can you imagine how many deaths she caused?

__________________
Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I actual think a Mars Defense post would be useful. Sure, you are not always going to be "in the way" of an attacker. But some rough "back of the envelope" calculations suggest that Mars is at most going to be about 60 light-minutes away. And hour to renforce Earth at Warp 1 and about 10 minutes at Warp 2 (assuming speed = Factor^3 * C) seems pretty convient to me.

This is why in Babylon 5, Sheridan's Fleet had to neutralize the EarthForce Fleet at Mars Colony before jumping to Earth. If they hadn't, they would have been counter attacked by the Mars Fleet while they were engaged with the Earth Defenses.

__________________
Carl Matherly

Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

That Star Trek reference was actually about a "perimeter", not a post.

So why not keep the Fleet at Earth and than it doesn't have to take any time to get here?

__________________
'The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to accept'

There is the dumb father/husband cliche, and all guys think about the same all the time.

__________________
If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Here's the problem with a "Mars Defense Post" (drawing NTS):



You just always attack from the equivalent of direction "A", each time taking Mars out of the equation.

That's for two dimensions. If the attackers are really advanced, they'll attack from above or below the plane of the Solar System, once again taking Mars out of the equation every time.

__________________
A person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.

A lot of the stuff in this thread I agree with, but I'm going to nitpick this one since according to memory alpha (no I'm not admitting to knowing of it's existence, I'm not that big a geek, honestly! ) the reference was to a " Mars defence perimeter" which could be acceptable if they were referring to a series of space stations or ships maintained in a sphere with a radius equivalent to approximately Mars orbit, something like that could quickly acquire the name the "Mars defence perimeter" to distinguish it from any other defence perimeters in the system, and would be as good a way of naming it as any (except maybe a numerical system starting from either the edge of the system or from Earth).

Great , I never thought I'd see the day I started apologising for Star Trek. I'm normally too much of a Star Wars fan but I like both.

To keep Mars colony from being turned into a smoking crater?

__________________
Carl Matherly

Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

Did you read what I said about Mars to Earth in 10 minutes at Warp 2?

__________________
Carl Matherly

Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

One other cliche that the Bond films tended to be guilty of was the vast, sprawling but secret bad guy lair built under a volcano...or on a desert island, or in the Amazon Forest, or in space...but always somehow constructed, completed and paid for in complete secret, so no government knows of it's existence. Must just be a matter of paying off the right people.

A couple more:

Risking everyone on a ship/in a city/in the world on an almost impossible scheme to save one person. The crazy scheme works, and the person who almost killed everybody is congratulated for thier insanity rather than put away somewhere safe.

Along the same lines: Taking time to help an injured person, and talking as if it really matters, when based on the evidence everyone is going to die in about a minute anyway.

__________________
I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

What? You've never taken the scenic route in any of your travels? If you're going somewhere far away, you might as well take in the local sites.

A movie I love is "The Green Slime". It is the first sf movie I ever saw at the show, and two things about the move I find amazing. The first is Robert Horton's indestructable, immovable hair, no matter what he does, no hair gets out of shape. And the fact that EVERYONE in the movie makes the wrong decisions.

David.

They're available for rent in the Kim Possible universe.

__________________
Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Contractors. Ever seen Clerks?

__________________
N6MAA10816
'Forensic anthropologist! That's why no gun'
Are you a Bright?