Taking Harry never crossed his mind.

The possibility of taking Harry Horcrux-hunting only occurred to Dumbledore when Harry himself suggested it.

Up until that point Dumbledore was acting solo.

The idea of taking someone else with him simply never occurred to him.

"I think...

perhaps...I may be close to finding another one.

There are hopeful signs.

" "And if you do," said Harry quickly, "can I come with you and help get rid of it?"

Dumbledore looked at Harry very intently for a moment before saying, "Yes, I think so.

" "I can?

" said Harry, thoroughly taken aback.

"Oh yes," said Dumbledore, smiling slightly.

"I think you have earned that right."

Harry felt his heart lift.

It was very good not to hear words of caution and protection for once.

(Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23, Horcruxes) .

Note that Dumbledore had to think about it when Harry asked him whether he could come the next time.

He looked intently at Harry, judging whether he was ready or not.

That suggests to me that he had never considered taking Harry on a Horcrux mission before that point.

If Harry hadn't asked him then Dumbledore would probably have gone into the cave alone as well.

When Harry did ask him he was happy to take him.

But he needed a prompt for the thought of working with somebody else to even cross his mind.

This is very in-character for Dumbledore.

He's at his most comfortable acting alone.

He also likes keeping his secrets close to his chest.

He only told Harry about the prophecy because he was forced to after it became clear that Voldemort was using Harry's ignorance against him.

He only began teaching Harry about Voldemort and the Horcruxes because he was forced to after he realised he had only a year to live.

There are some supplementary points:

Harry didn't know what a Horcrux was at this point.

Harry would've been thoroughly confused if he'd gone to the Gaunt shack.

What is this place?

What are we doing here?

And so on.

It was far better to explain Voldemort's past to Harry gradually so that Harry understood the significance of the Horcruxes and how to hunt for them rather than just taking him on a mission he didn't understand.

Harry was an emotional wreck who wouldn't have been able to help much.

Harry was cut up over the death of Sirius.

He wasn't in much of a position to help Dumbledore.

Harry was supposed to be at the Dursleys anyway.

Maybe a day-trip wouldn't have broken the Privet Drive charm.

But Dumbledore wouldn't have wanted to take that risk.

If that happened then Dumbledore would have to, like, look after Harry himself.

The Ariana affair shows he would've seen that as a waste of his time.

Maybe he only decided to bring along a wingman after he semi-failed with Marvolo Gaunt's ring and realized he wasn't invincible?

Flip your question around.

Dumbledore knew he was seriously powerful.

Remember when talking about the boat he told Harry that it measured magic and with him in it Harry would barely register.

He was also prepared to go toe to toe with V, there is no doubting his ... lack of doubting his ability.

Therefore why would he feel the need to take a 15 year old along with him?

It would just be someone else he would need to look after and handle.

Also, Dumbledore tended to not tell people things unless he had to (remember his brother saying of Dumbledore's expertise in lies and secrecy - he was not an 'open' person).

After getting his finger burned ( snigger ) with the ring he seemed to realise that he had underestimated V's cunning and allowed his emotion to cloud his judgement, therefore he took along someone he trusted whom he could rely on to keep him straight.

He had seen the ring in the Pensive, so he might have been wondering if it was the Resurrection Stone.

If he was correct, then he would no doubt want to be alone to use it.

Another thing is that, at that time, he had not explained everything to Harry and nor did he need as much help to retrieve the ring.

I can think of a few good reasons in this case.

He wanted Harry to figure out the stuff about the Horcruxes on his own.

Harry had no idea what Horcruxes were at the time, and Dumbledore wanted to take him through all the backstory before introducing Horcruxes to Harry.

It might be dangerous for Harry.

Who knows what kinds of traps and curses Voldemort might have put on the ring.

This shrewd idea turned out to be a good one, as the ring was in fact cursed.

He doesn't want to introduce Harry to the hallows.

He's trying to save Harry from what happened to him as a child.

Here's a quote to back me up: "

And if you do," said Harry quickly, "can I come with you and help get rid of it?

Dumbledore looked at Harry very intently for a moment before saying, "Yes, I think so.

" "I can?

" said Harry, thoroughly taken aback.

"Oh yes," said Dumbledore, smiling slightly.

"I think you have earned that right."

Question: Leaving aside the plot convenience of Dumbledore being near death for the entire Sixth Year, is there any good reason shown (or inferred from) canon as to why Dumbledore went alone - as opposed to taking Harry with him to retrieve Horcrux #2 (the Gaunts' ring, which turned out to be a Hallow as well) from the Gaunt shack?

Why didn't Dumbledore take Harry with him to the Gaunt shack to retrieve the Ring Horcrux?

Harry didn't know what a Horcrux was at this point and Dumbledore wanted Harry to figure out the Horcruxes on his own.

It never crosses his mind to take Harry and he wants Harry to work out what the Horcruxes are on his own.


Whether he will is answerable only by waiting for the next movie.

Whether he can is another question (and the one I'll attempt to answer).

The events of the J.J. Abrams movie created a new timeline, so many of the events we've seen in the original timeline will no longer occur.

But we've also seen plenty of events that were set in motion by things that happened before the timelines split, and that would not be affected by the events of the movie, either the destruction of the USS Kelvin or the later events.

Here are some examples of threats that should still be approaching Federation space, and that Spock could warn about: The Doomsday Machine .

The Space Amoeba .

Nomad V'Ger

The Borg (though the initial encounter, forced by Q, might be affected by the changed timeline)

The Whale Probe The "butterfly effect" might prevent some of these, but it hardly seems realistic that it would prevent all of them.

(Then again, realism isn't necessarily the deciding factor.)

The Temporal Prime Directive , as mentioned in Keen's answer, might theoretically prevent Spock from revealing this information.

On the other hand, I personally hope that he'd adopt the same attitude as Doc Brown in Back to the Future :

Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events?

The space-time continuum?

Dr. Emmett Brown:

Well, I figured, what the hell? UPDATE :

In the sequel movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness" , young Spock did consult with "Spock Prime" regarding the situation they found themselves in (avoiding spoilers):

As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information thatcould potentially alter your destiny.

Your path is yours to walk, andyours alone.

That being said, ...

followed by advice based on his knowledge of the original timeline.

He didn't literally say "Well, I figured, what the hell?", but it seems to be the same general idea.

Since Leonard Nimoy, sadly, is no longer with us, I presume old Spock won't appear in the next movie.

I have no idea how they're going to handle that.

In the IDW comic #09 " The Truth About Tribbles " (considered a canon source of information for the new Star Trek universe according to Robert Orci)

this issue is specifically addressed by the crew of the Enterprise.

Old Spock encounters a tribble at the start of the two-parter but fails to inform the crew about the threat they pose.

Later, nuSpock advises that he's discussed whether Spock-Classic is willing to give the Federation of info about impending threats.

The answer is a definitive "no".

We can reasonably assume that this also applies to the threats you've mentioned above.

He can't do so.

The Temporal Prime Directive prevents him from interfering in events in the past, as he's technically a time traveler.

I guess he showed me, given his warning the Enterprise about Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness .

However, given Leonard Nimoy's death, it's exceedingly unlikely for him to appear again.

No, because it's a new timeline (destruction of Vulcan, etc) so those events will not necessarily occur.

They may , but they will probably not.

Keeping in mind the apparent time logic, the events that occured in the early movies will not occur again.

First, like Spock said in the movie, because the destruction of Vulcan and the explosion of the USS Kelvin created a new course in time.

This change would prevent the director from repeating the story that was told before and give freedom to be creative.

You have to remember that the events leading to V'ger , the Whale probe and the Borg Threat start out way before Nero changed the timeline and will still happen.

V'ger is still on

it's way

and so are the Whale Probe and the Borg (since there was a signal sent from the 22nd century to the Delta quadrant).

No matter what Nero did by coming back at the time he did ( 2233 ), it won't affect those events.

Even if a new timeline was created, it's mostly a change to events immediately around Nero's arrival; it doesn't effect events happening before that.

Spock Prime logically might believe it is a moral obligation to prevent disasters that can be avoided, such as the future destruction of Romulus, the Klingon moon Praxis exploding, the whale probe, etc.

Billions of lives could be at stake, and the needs of the many...

The fact is that the timeline is so different now, what could it hurt to try and save that many lives?

Entire planets are at stake.

Isn't that what Kirk, Spock and the rest have always done?

Why would it be any different now?

Question: Did Spock Classic (in the new timeline universe) warn NuSpock of upcoming natural disasters? i.e. V'ger, the whale probe, Praxis and explosion, the Borg, violent first contacts, the wave from Generations, etc?

Did Spock warn of disasters in the new Star Trek universe?

Keeping in mind the apparent time logic, the events that occured in the early movies will not occur again. Even if a new timeline was created, it's mostly a change to events immediately around Nero's arrival - it doesn't effect events happening before that.

Spock didn’t warn of disasters because the new universe deals with a new timeline.


I believe it's implied that it wasn't a logical or conscious realization; it's a 'link' issue; being her family, she had a bond of some sort with them, and was able to realize that none of the proffered pigs were them.

Kind of consistent with a lot of moral stuff both in the movie and in the genre in general; if you notice, she didn't solve many problems in the movie with brainpower, so much as with 'heart', courage, or determination.

She was able to identify (or fail to, in this case) her parents because they were her parents, and there was a significant bond; had there not been one, she would have failed, and deserved to fail, as they weren't significantly a family.

(Slightly heavy-handed for a moral point, but it was a kids movie :) )

According to Rocket News 24 , this is what Miyazaki himself answered a few years ago: “I’ve never explained why Chihiro knows that her parents are not among the group of pigs towards the end of the film.

Those people who are constantly seeking explanations often say that it’s illogical.

However, I don’t think those kinds of things are important.

After all the things she’s experienced up to that point, Chihiro simply knows that her parents aren’t there.

You ask why she knows, but knowing is human life.

That’s all it is.

If you can point out that something is lacking here or there, then the audience should fill in the gaps for themselves.

I don’t want to waste time thinking about those kinds of things.”

More recently, again from Rocket News 24 , a Studio Ghibli employeesaid that Chihiro could tell because she had obtained special abilities in the spirit world:

“Chihiro, as a 10-year-old girl, could understand the difference because she had overcome difficulties and had managed to acquire the ‘energy to live’ – which is something everyone can do naturally”.

methroach wrote : In fact, Haku told her to remember what they looked like.

She later dreamed that she would not be able to distinguish them from the other pigs.

But at the end, she was able to tell that they weren't part of the group she was shown because she grew up and gained confidence in herself during her adventures.

She got told by Haku that if she forgot she wouldn't be able to help her parents and would get stuck in the world of spirits, so she always tried to remember what happened.

That's how she could tell.

I think in the earlier scene when Chihiro's parents first eat much at the restaurant, they have some kind of hairs left on their head.

Meanwhile, the pigs were chosen by Yubaba seem had no hair on their head.

But of course it's also a family bond I think

For me, Since haku told her to not forget who she is so she may include how her parents looked like ... And her parents weren't pigs in the first place so it's understandable that her parents are not one of those pigs

Question: In Spirited Away, Chihiro is tested to identify her parents from a group of pigs. Chihiro answers that none of them are.  Good. But how did she come to that conclusion? Surely it made sense to say that none of them were her parents (they're pigs, after all ;D), but is there not a clue or any other hint about Chihiro's answer?

How could Chihiro tell that none of the pigs were her parents?

She was able to identify (or fail to, in this case) her parents as there was a significant bond - this is a "link" issue. Had there not been one, she would have failed, and deserved to fail, as they weren't significantly a family.

There is a significant bond with her parents which means she could innately tell.


2 options here: Food (and not "nourishment" as you phrased it) does not include water.

Hermione says: Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigura—".

In common English, water is usually NOT referred to as "food".

Since water - unlike non-water food - is super-plentiful and super-fungible, clearly it's easy for it to just be transported from somewhere, anywhere else, even if we don't assume that "food" excludes water.

It actually specified that "Food" cannot be created out of thin air, it doesn't specify water.

Additionally, the "air" itself contains quite a bit of water.

Put a cold glass down during hot weather and you can "Aguamenti" some water for yourself.

As far as what it actually does; it conjures up water from the tip of the wand in varying amounts (seemingly depending on the user's intentions and concentration).

These answers have pegged it pretty much, but this is something to add that may apply - at least, I've found no evidence that it cannot apply: You can't drink it.

The water produced by the Aguamenti charm may not actually be drinkable.

Never, as far as I can see, does somebody drink water made by that spell; and in addition, in Half Blood Prince, Harry cannot get the conjured water to Dumbledore's lips - likely this is Voldemort's doing to force people to go for the lake water, but then, it might be because Aguamenti water vanishes if it is to be drank.

A long shot, but a possibility.

edit: As @ibid pointed out, Wonderbook disagrees.

For some reason JK's canon is higher than mine (I don't get it either)

but there we are.

Augmenti is fully drinkable!

That doesn't technically mean Voldemort didn't put a spell on the cave to make summoned water undrinkable (seems weird to me anyway that it is drinkable considering food, and I would assume drink, cannot be produced magically, but that's another question entirely 《and one I could probably answer if I wasn't taking the opposite point of view here!

but that's clutching at straws here and isn't really even hinted at in canon so ... Yah, nevermind!

It's drinkable.

I think Aguamenti merely conjures a stream water , the same way

"Avis" conjures a flock of birds.

Now that water bay be real water summoned from a stream, or "magical water" that will eventually disapear just like leprechaun gold.

But as the name of the spell suggests, and if Luna Lovegood is to be believed , it results from the action of a water counterpart to helioapths the "spirits of fire".

I don't think aguamenti is such a powerful spell.

Even muggles can produce water from air, by cooling it down.

It's not really creating anything, it's just extracting it.

I'll tell you how I interpret this rule about nourishment

: I think it's a ban on making anything from air which it didn't already contain.

For example, a plate of sandwiches may be summoned from the kitchen, but so must a bunch of flowers, for they are nourishment of a form.

Or - let's say - a chair.

I know many wood-worms who are quite insistent on this point.

Such magic would be in the arena of potions and transfiguration, respectively.

(Although... if it's not banned to mention such hereticism in this page; Eliezer Yudkowsky in "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" deals very thoroughly with laws relating to, and dangers of turning inanimate objects into food.)

There is this thing called water vapour in the air.

There is also hydrogen and oxygen in the air.

Maybe the aquamenti charm just condenses water vapour, or it somehow combines the hydrogen and oxygen to form water (sorry, not at the level in chem where I know how this happens)

In my estimation, if the water is summoned from some other place, it would summon only the H2O molecules, not any substances dissolved in the water.

This would have the same net effect as distilling the water.

It would be completely pure on a molecular level.

It's not advisable to drink more than a small amount of distilled water by itself as it can upset the balance of electrolytes in the body.

It can still be used for cooking, of course, but beverage water should contain some degree of dissolved minerals as all natural sources of water do.

This could be why wizards don't typically drink the water produced by the spell.

Distilled (pure) water also has a taste that many people find unpleasant, due to the complete lack of dissolved substances.

At least, that's how I will approach the subject in any fanfics I write that discuss aguamenti.

As far as I remember, Gamp's Five Laws of Elemental Transfiguration state food, money and life cannot be created from thin air.

I suspect love is one of the other things (though this one is not a tangible, material thing) and I don't know the fifth one.

Question: Gamp's Five Laws of Elemental Transfiguration specifically state that nourishment cannot be conjured from thin air. Then how can the  aguamenti  spell work?  Does it just take water from somewhere else, or is this a chink in Rowling's armor?

Why does the aguamenti spell work?

It conjures up water from the tip of the wand in varying amounts (seemingly depending on the user's intentions and concentration).

It conjures up water from the tip of the wand.


I suspect this has more to do with the original historic images of Superman from the early covers of Action Comics and the Fleischer Superman animated films.

YouTube keeps a nice collection of the Fleischer films on hand with decent video quality.

In the early radio programs and even from the very first Fleischer film Superman (aka The Mad Scientist ) Superman was supposedly "leaping" from place to place.

But artistically having to show our hero jumping around was stylistically difficult given the film lengths and effort required to make them.

So his leaps would transition from a jumping movement where he would use his running momentum to jump and his hands to point skyward.

This often transitioned into a swimmer's pose with his hands at his sides as he would begin to "fly" and gain speed.

It was from this position he would streak to his target "like a speeding bullet."

Look at the Mad Scientist from 6:36 to 6:40 showing a jumping to flight transition.

He would often, however, have to deflect materials, bullets, shells, deadly beams of energy and would use his hands to do so.

This lead to a pose where he would have at least one of his hands out in front of him to catch or deflect incoming attacks.

He would also do this if he were carrying someone to protect them as well.

This ultimately lead to the later flying scenes where he would be shown flying and artists treated his flying as if it were a form of anti-gravity swimming where he would alter his direction by twisting his body and changing his leading pointing hand.

Today, I would consider it a matter of artistic style, not necessity as to why he might keep his hands out or at his side while flying since the character is so far removed from his origins, artists are likely to assume such poses for appearance sake, not even remembering how or why they came to be.

In universe: Just looking at his shape in the two illustrations you posted, I'd guess it is to reduce air resistance.

This is similar to why swimmers dive into a pool with their hands extended, so they can slice into the water with less resistance.

Out of universe

: It looks much more heroic to be drawn that way.

I always suspected it was to steer and maintain his balance.

It would be undignified to be sideways.

I read a theory that he was using the hand out front to keep a sightline with the horizon.

This is the same as glancing at the corner of the car hood to make sure you're not weaving.

Maybe he just wants to keep his flight level.

Getting pulled over for weaving is bad enough.

Having the Air Force think you're flying drunk would be worse.

To protect his face He may be indestructible, but there are other indestructible things and beings in the DC universe.

On top of that, invisibility is a thing.

If he's going to crash against Wonder Woman's invisible airplane midflight, it'll hurt less if he hits with his fist than if he hits with his face.

It's pleasant

Ever got your arms out of the window of a moving car?

I feel the windy senstion is really pleasant.

Maybe Kal-El just likes the way the air moves around his arms as he flies.

He's mimicking a swimmer When athletes jump in the water, and in at least one swimming style athletes will keep their arms in front of them like that.

Not only that, the whole body position is similar.

The difference is that Kal El looks head instead of downwards and sometimes he makes fists rather than having his palms open.

Maybe he saw people swimming before and he originally thought flying was like swimming in the air.

That stuck with him and he never had any reasons to change how he flies.

Compare with Marvel's doctor strange, which flies purely by magic, and also Marvel's Thor and the little prince, which fly by holding on to magic tools.

Aerodynamics of course.

It's like a stealth fighter jet...

It has a long needle on the nose to help break the sound barrier.

Same concept with superman.

But that's just my take on it.

Question: When Superman flies his typical position is either one arm, or both out in front of him (either flat palm or fist closed).   There are occasions where he does fly with his arms at his sides (usually when he's going for maximum velocity).   Obviously he doesn't have to worry about aerodynamics, is there ever an in universe or  "Word of God"  reason given for this pose?

Why does Superman put one or both arms up when he flies?

This is to do with the original historic images of Superman  and it looks much more heroic to be drawn that way. There is a theory that he was using the hand out front to keep a sightline with the horizon, or maybe he just wants to keep his flight level or he does this for protection.

Having his arms raised helps steer and maintain balance and protect his face.

Having his arms raised helps steer and maintain balance. In this way he can protect his face. Aerodynamics do appear to play a part.


The Marvel Universe Wiki reads: Peter Parker graduated high school and earned a science scholarship to Empire State University (ESU) for achieving the highest scholastic average in Midtown High's history.

So while it doesn't say what the major was, it would have had to at least be science based.

ADDON:

At some point (in Amazing Spider-Man) adult Peter Parker decides to leave the Bugle and teach high school science.

There's a strong hint there.

There is at least some very strong indirect evidence.

To make his web shooters he needs some deep knowledge of chemistry.

Additionally, I think at the earliest in The Amazing Spider-Man 6 his teacher Curt Connors is introduced.

And it is stated clearly that he is a Professor of biochemistry .

Another piece of indirect evidence that Peter Parker's major is chemistry or biochemistry.

Later versions of the character differ from this.

But the Peter Parker of the original (Lee / Ditko) run studied chemistry.

(Click links to see the comic pages this information is sourced from.)

In Amazing Spider-Man #28, Peter graduated from Midtown High School with a science scholarship to Empire State University.

In various 1960s issues such as Amazing Spider-Man #31 , #45 and #47 , it was stated or otherwise indicated that Peter was a science major at ESU.

According to a caption in Marvel Team-Up #27 , Peter was specifically a physics major during his undergraduate studies, and a caption in Marvel Team-Up #28 said he was pursuing a bachelor's degree in physics.

In Amazing Spider-Man #243, he received a letter from Empire State University informing him that he'd been approved for second-year studies in the graduate program of the department of bio-physics, although he dropped out due to money troubles.

Peter demonstrated computer hacking skills in Civil War: Front Line #9.

He also developed Webware , a mobile Internet device with nanotech-based, self-reconfiguring software and hardware , while running Parker Industries in Amazing Spider-Man Vol.

And he's dabbled in electronics since his earliest appearances, in issues such as Amazing Spider-Man #2 and #11 .

He wasn't shown using computers much during his college days, but computers weren't anything like as ubiquitous when those stories were published as they are now.

According to the Game Spider-man.

Shattered Dimension.

He finished BS Physics.

In the amazing universe though.

Earth 616.

According to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 1 #10) Peter's major in college was Biophysics .

Latterly, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 4 #2) indicates that his Doctoral studies are in Biochemistry

From everywhere I've seen, It doesn't mention what his major is.

I would assume it was photo journalism based on his career with the Bugle, but he also showed an aptitude for biomechanics, engineering and biology.

He might have double majored.

SCIENCE!

Seriously, though, depending on which iteration of Spidey you pick, I would think something like mechanical engineering or (later) biochemistry.

I think his major was science because in the amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker was the 2nd in class in Science, the 1st one was Gwen Stacy.

And when he came to oscorp, dr curt Connors was delighted by his science knowledge.

But creating the web shooters has something with engineering

Question: In which area did Peter Parker major in at university?  Did he ever show any computer hacking skills or other computer-related interests (computer science)?

What was Peter Parker’s college major?

Peter Parker was a science student. In Amazing Spider-Man #28, Peter  graduated from Midtown High School  with a science scholarship to Empire State University, where he was the 2nd in his class in Science. In Amazing Spider-Man #243, he received  a letter from Empire State University  informing him that he'd been approved for second-year studies in the graduate program of the department of bio-physics.

His major is science; specifically biophysics.

In Amazing Spider-Man #28, Peter graduated from Midtown High School with a science scholarship to Empire State University.


You might find this list of comic book members of the US Navy to be of interest though it looks incomplete and I can't vouch for its accuracy.

Also, DC's Skyrocket was a Naval Aviator.

There seem to be quite a few Naval villians, though.

The anti-Captain America was a Navy SEAL.

Alpha One : A metahuman from a non-aligned DC Universe continuum, who gained his powers from a radiation accident while he was a sailor exposed to radioactive water.

He later gains superhuman abilities which make him appear to be as powerful as Post-Crisis Superman, replete with flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, super-senses and energy projection from his eyes.

However he is sorely lacking in the excellent moral sense we associate with Superman.

He appears in a 12 issue maxi series called The Mighty.

Cover for The Mighty Issue #4 THE MIGHTY was a maxi-series that ran from ’09 to ’10 and its plot upped the stakes significantly in the usual relationship between a superhero and his human allies.

It’s about a regular cop in Section Omega, a special police unit that aides the operations of their world’s

only superhero, Alpha One.

However, when that hero starts becoming corrupt with his own power, the cop’s faced with the impossible challenge of trying to take down a godlike immortal when he, himself, has no superpowers.

Paramount is considering optioning this character into a movie .

First one that comes to mind would be DC comics's Firebrand Wikipedia profile You can find more info about this character here

If it's for a gift, i would recommend the first isues of the All-Star Squadron were this character is wounded during the Pearl Harbor attack

When the members of the Justice Society decided they want to fight WWII in the military, almost all the male members joined the Army.

Except one.

Johnny Thunder joined the Navy.

As far as I remember in the series: Superman: Red Son, Hal Jordan is part of the US Navy as commander , under the presidency of Lex Luthor, as a intent for fight back Superman.

Question: I have been looking all over the internet to answer this question and I can't find anything. There's plenty of Air Force superheroes, but I can't find any Navy.  This is the start of a gift idea for a friend of mine who is more into comics than I am. He recently joined the Navy and I thought it would be neat to get him some HeroClix characters that served in the Navy.

Are there any comic book heroes (DC or Marvel preferably) that served in the US Navy (not marines)?

Johnny Thunder joined the Navy.  Also consider Alpha One: A metahuman from a non-aligned DC Universe continuum, who gained his powers from a  radiation accident  while he was a sailor exposed to radioactive water.  It is also worth mentioning Superman: Red Son, in which Hal Jordan is a US Navy Commander.

Hal Jordan and Johnny Thunder are part of the Navy. Moreover, Alpha One also discloses a hero who serves in the Navy.

Hal Jordan is part of the Navy. Alpha One also discloses a hero who serves in the Navy. Johnny Thunder is also in the Navy.


She stung him in the neck.

From "The Choices of Master Samwise" She's got more than one poison.

When she's hunting, she just gives 'em a stab in the neck

and they go as limp as a boned fish,

and then she has her way with them.

So the mail would not have protected him.

In support of DQdlM's answer , Shelob doesn't pierce Frodo's mithril chainmail at all.

While in the book she stings him in his unprotected neck, it's clear that this doesn't happen in the movie !

We see Shelob stinging Frodo from the front (since he turns to face her just before getting stung) and we can clearly see his neck is unhurt, so that's not the place.

(As a bonus, we can see Shelob has a stinger, unlike real-world spiders.

But that's neither here nor there).

However, I can still provide evidence that Frodo doesn't get stung through his chainmail.

In this scene just minutes before his encounter with Shelob, we can see the mithril coat is actually way below his neck.

Frodo's upper chest is unprotected!

Later we can clearly see at least two of his wounds: the wound from the Nazgul, and the other must be Shelob's attack, within his exposed upper chest. and Which makes us wonder why Frodo didn't wear his chainmail in a more practical fashion.

Disclaimer : evidence gathered from the forums of TheOneRing.net

Chainmail is composed of small rings, interlinked together.

Against some piercing weapons it was ineffective.

Arrows in particular could still injure the wearer.

And since the monster would only need to penetrate it enough to inject poison (unlike an arrow that causes more injury the further it goes through), it doesn't seem that this would be much of an impediment to Shelob.

Shelob was no ordinary foe.

It was of a "higher" (or lower) lineage than your average dragon.

Recall that Shelob was the "last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world", where Ungoliant destroyed more or less everything that's fair in Valar (together with Melkor).

Plus, a chainmail is not particularly effective against piercing weapons.

The Mithril only covers his torso, not his whole body, so unless it's explicitly mentioned where Shelob stings Frodo

we have to assume that she gets an uncovered area.

The final draft of the script was much closer to the book than the final film; Shelob stings Frodo in the neck, rather than the shoulder:

CLOSE ON: FRODO suddenly senses the LURKING MALICE...

he SPINS AROUND

: Before he can react, SHELOB VICIOUSLY STABS FRODO in the NECK with her monstrous abdominal STINGER!

Return of the King

(2003) As far as I know there's been no official comment on why this was changed in the final version.

I agree that logic takes a place in fantasy but so also does imagination...

I mean think in fantasy mithril is renowned for being extremely hard and durable.

and may even have "magical" properties.

But logically yes piercing weapons (including the fangs/stinger) would be effective against chainmail, normally.

but in the movie you get several good looks at just how fine the rings in Frodo's mail is.

we also see a troll attempt to kill Frodo with a hefty thrust with a spear of sorts.

the pressure alone would be enough to kill a Halfling without actually piercing his body.

we can assume that Frodo was not wearing his mail properly when the spider stings him.

you can get a good idea of the trajectory of the stinger going straight to his gut ....

I think its safe to assume that the spiders stinger has a point just fine enough to pierce Frodo's mail and puncture his skin.....

abet barely....

Question: Did Frodo take it off? Or was the fell spider's sting simply too strong to be stopped by Mithril?  If it is the latter, that would be pretty surprising, because that would mean Shelob could possibly sting a sleeping dragon! (I remember Gimli saying "Mithril... hard as dragon scales!")

Why did the Mithril coat fail to stop Shelob's sting?

In this scene, just minutes before Frodo's encounter with Shelob, we can see the mithril coat is not worn properly and is actually below his neck, leaving his upper chest unprotected.  Therefore, we can assume she stung him in an unprotected area, or in the neck. One may also assume that the spiders stinger has a point just fine enough to pierce Frodo's mail and puncture his skin.

While it is said Frodo was stung in the neck, it is more likely the mithril coat was not protecting his chest.

Frodo may have been stung in the neck. His mithril coat was likely not covering his chest. It is likely Frodo is stung in an uncovered area.


Per the original book the only power the Silver Shoes (not ruby slippers which Hollywood thought would appear better on film) had was to be able to transport the wearer anywhere they wish.

The Silver Shoes would also only pass to a new owner if he/

she had physically defeated the previous owner or the previous owner willingly handed them over.

In the original book final chapter after bidding her companions a tearful farewell, Dorothy holds Toto in her arms, claps the heels of the Silver Shoes three times, and says, "Take me home to Aunt Em!"

In three giant steps, they take her back to the Kansas farmstead.

There she finds that Uncle Henry has built a new house to replace the one the tornado had carried away.

But she also finds that the Silver Shoes have vanished forever."

In that respect, the Silver Shoes act something like Seven League Boots.

But, they are never again recovered/used in the Baum Books.

Hope this is helpful.

The silver shoes were actually omnipotent.

While it is true the only power they displayed were teleportation, Gaylette the Good Witch of the North alludes to the fact that they are much more in the very first sentence spoken about the ancient Ozian magic artifact.

"The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers.

And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, "

That is power(s)

plural and teleportation is only "one" of the most curious things.

And later in the first book Baum says of the Wicked Witch of the West and her recently spent magic:

"but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost."

Hope this helps.

the Silver Shoes (changed to Ruby for the 1939 film version of the Wizard of Oz) give the wearer the ability to travel anywhere they wish to go.

This is the only ability outlined by L. Frank Baum in his writings about Oz.

In the movie the Wicked witch says that with the ruby slippers her power would be the greatest in Oz.

The witch can already teleport so she really wouldn't need the slippers for that purpose.

So possibly the shoes grant the owner the power to do what they really desire .

Dorothy wanted to go home and the witch most likely wanted to enslave all of Oz.

Glinda didn't tell Dorothy how to use them because later she said she had to find out herself.

Dorothy had to first go and find what she wanted.

In the book the silver shoes must have had incredible power.

The other powers they could have offered could just be making that person more powerful than they already are .

Also the wicked witch of the west almost ran away when she saw Dorothy with the shoes but realized she didn't know how to use them.

The Ruby Slippers, in the movie had another power that I can think of.

The witch said that she would not be able to remove the slippers from Dorothy as long as she was alive, her attempt to do so caused sparks to come from the shoes.

This also gave the shoes the power to encourage the murder of the wearer by someone who wanted them badly enough.

I wonder why the witch would want these slippers so badly, her broom seemed like very fast transportation.

Did she want to leave Oz and maybe wreak havoc on the other side of the rainbow?

Question: They were clearly powerful but what exactly could the ruby red slippers do?

What powers did the ruby red slippers have?

While it is true the only power they displayed was the ability to transport the wearer anywhere they wish, Gaylette the Good Witch of the North alludes to the fact that they are much more.   In the movie the Wicked witch says that with the ruby slippers her power would be the greatest in Oz. However, the witch said that she would not be able to remove the slippers from Dorothy as long as she was alive, as her attempt to do so caused sparks to come from the shoes.

The Ruby Shoes give the wearer the ability to travel anywhere they wish.


Sort of.

We know something happened, but offhand

I don't recall any onscreen conflict:

The Borg Cooperative included former Romulans, Klingons, and Cardassians.

Additionally, in Unimatrix Zero we saw the Klingon Korok : The Ferengi are known to the Borg as Species 180 , so they have at least encountered the Ferengi.

I do not recall if any have actually been assimilated; they may not have been considered worthwhile material to add to the Collective.

As far as I know, no Dominion species have been shown as part of the Borg Collective.

Yes, during the Borg Invasion of 2381 , there are non-canon invasions of the Borg attacking the entire Alpha Quadrant including the homeworlds of the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire and other planets.

This occurred in the novel: Star Trek-Destiny Book III:

Lost Souls

The Borg Invasion of 2381 was the historic attempt by the Borg Collective to completely exterminate the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Empire, and other allied worlds in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants and to subjugate the remaining worlds in local space.

It ended with the Collective being dismantled and subsequently absorbed into the Caeliar gestalt .

The invasion left dozens of worlds in the area of the Azure Nebula in utter ruin, decimating much of known space.

As a result of the invasion, upwards of 40% of the Federation Starfleet was destroyed, and over 63 billion citizens of the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Empire, Romulan Star Empire, Imperial Romulan State, and non-aligned worlds were killed.

In addition to what other have said, the Borg attacked bases on both sides of the Romulan Neutral Zone.

The Memory-Alpha page for the TNG episode 1x26

"The Neutral Zone" says this:

This episode is the only one in Star Trek referencing the Borg attacking the Romulans.

In VOY: "Unity", Commander Chakotay of the starship USS Voyager encounteres liberated Borg drones in the Delta Quadrant nearly a decade later.

Among them was a former drone named Orum who identified himself as Romulan.

The Borg attacked the outposts on the Federation-Romulan border during Season 1 of TNG.

The enemy which both Picard and the Romulan commander speak of during the season finale, which ripped their settlements from the surface, was confirmed as the Borg during the episode Q Who? .

So we know that some time after Annika Hansen's family was assimilated in the Delta quadrant, the Borg had at least basic knowledge of Alpha quadrant species and powers such as the Romulans, Klingons, Vulcans, Naussicans, etc.

They then set out towards the Alpha quadrant, and encountered the outposts of the Romulan Neutral zone, assimilating them.

Here is a non-canon answer.

One of the main antagonists in the William Shatner novel

The Return is a assimilated Romulan named Vox .

He was depicted as a Romulan version of Locutus.

Vox was a 24th century Romulan individual who had been assimilated by the Borg to serve as a Speaker to the Romulan Empire.

Never thought the story made much sense for the Borg but it does exist.

Question: As far as I remember, when Borg cubes attack the alpha quadrant, they always engage the Federation and Earth is their primary target. Have there been any mention of any encounter between the Borg and the Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, Ferengi or Dominion? Why target Earth when they could target Vulcan and weaken the federation?

Was there any mention in Star Trek canon or non-canon novels of any encounter between the Borg and Klingons or Romulans?

The Borg Invasion of 2381 was the historic attempt by the Borg Collective to completely exterminate the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Empire, and other allied worlds in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants and to subjugate the remaining worlds in local space. The Borg also attacked the outposts on the Federation-Romulan border during Season 1 of TNG. However, no Dominion species have been shown as part of the Borg Collective and it is not certain that any have actually been assimilated. They may not have been considered worthwhile material to add to the Collective.

The Borg invasion of 2381 is significant in that the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire and other planets were attacked.


This has been retconned over the years.

This is the most current version, that I know of:

This is the NASA insignia:

This is the United Earth Starfleet insignia (in the 2150s, ENT-era):

These are the TNG-DS9-VOY-era Starfleet insignias:

And one further variation from the future:

Originally, this was Starfleet's insignia in the TOS era (no explanation given):

The truth is, the symbol we all know was originally the assignment patch for Kirk's Enterprise.

In that era, each ship had their own symbol, and the pennant seen above was Starfleet's.

The Enterprise symbol was later adopted for all of Starfleet in recognition of that five-year mission (in-universe).

For alternate examples:

This is Admiral James Komack, wearing the Starfleet admiral patch/pin of that time :

This is Commodore Matt Decker, former captain of the USS Constellation , wearing the insignia for his ship: From left to right, these are the assignment patches for the USS Exeter , the USS Defiant , and finally, the USS Enterprise :

And there's a whole lot more , in every era prior to TNG.

It is my understanding that the symbol is a stylized version of the NASA emblem of our time.

Memory Alpha also leans towards a connection between Star Trek and the NASA badge:

In a form of fact emulating fiction (and vice-versa), the US Air Force Space Command badges have a delta arrowhead very similar to the 1960s-designed Enterprise insignia, while the 22nd century Starfleet insignia seems to be a deliberate synthesis between the TOS era pennant and the NASA logo.

I vaguely remember a Star Trek novel named "Federation" where both the TOS and TNG Enterprises are involved with Zephram Cochrane and in that novel a decsription of the insignia was given based on the physics of the warp drive.

In that book, the insignia represents how warp drive sidesteps relativistic mass dilation.

The top curve represents the energy required to continue accelerating at near-light speeds, which approaches infinity.

IF you could somehow exceed the speed of light, that would then work backwards

(higher energy would result in you moving slower.

Time would also run in reverse.).

The lower curve represents how warp drive cheats.

However, being a book, this is not canon

I seem to remember reading an article back in the early '70s

that attributed some influence on the emblem to the constellation Aquila, the Eagle.

I can not attest to the accuracy of this, but there is some resemblance.

I've figured it out...

it's an upside down harp.

Occurred to me while watching this video.

Its the USAF Space Command insignia prior to NASA. http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/web/2013/08/130821-F-AS983-002.jpg

Question: A consistent part of the Starfleet uniforms in the Star Trek shows and movies has been some version of this insignia:   I originally thought this was a stylized letter "A", but that doesn't really make sense.  What is this symbol supposed to represent?

What does the Starfleet insignia represent?

The symbol is a stylized version of the NASA insignia of our time.

This is a stylised version of the NASA insignia.


Data, being a pedantic sort, as artificial lifeforms often are, has actually answered Picard's question literally.

PICARD :

A missile complex? ...

The date?

Mister Data, I need to know the exact date .

Note that Picard asks for the date and not the stardate .

Data is simply answering the question with the information that he thinks Picard wants according to his internal logic/programming.

In addition it has been mentioned before that Data thinks at a much faster rate

so he has probably had time to come to the conclusion that they are in the past and therefore that it will be more useful for him to give an old style date.

Data could instead have explained, at length, that the date was before stardates began but probably thought that it was unnecessary.

Wether or

not it's an in joke, deliberate plot point, or simply good/bad script writing is open for debate.

This is perhaps circular, or at best, descriptive rather than explanatory, as it uses your very question as its reference point, but from Memory Alpha : Stardates ... do not apply retroactively instead of Gregorian or Julian calendars either: for example, the first contact with Vulcans still took place on April 5, 2063, not on a stardate.

In-universe, TOS/TNG versions of Stardates can't be applied that far in the past , and they were the only two versions of Stardates that existed at the time that movie was created.

TNG/DS9/VOY-style Stardate 0 is the year 2323

TOS-style Stardates ran from 1312.4 through 4731.3, so Stardate 0 can be roughly estimated to be somewhere around 2263

Four possibilities occur to me, which haven't been said yet...

Local context

I think the simplest answer is that when you're dealing with time travel and your Captain asks for the "exact date", you give it to him in the context in which it makes the most sense.

In this case, the Earth date, since they've traveled to a pre-stardate period.

Just like if we'd traveled to ancient Rome and you asked me "when is this," I might say, "the reign of Augustus Caesar."

I'd be using local context to describe the time period.

Stardates may be more useful for ships than planets

According to the Star Trek Guide ...

We invented "Stardate" to avoid continually mentioning Star Trek's century (actually, about two hundred years from now), and getting into arguments about whether this or that would have developed by then.

Pick any combination of four numbers plus a percentage point, use it as your story's stardate.

For example, 1313.5 is twelve o'clock noon of one day and 1314.5 would be noon of the next day.

Each percentage point is roughly equivalent to one-tenth of one day.

The progression of stardates in your script should remain constant but don't worry about whether or not there is a progression from other scripts.

Stardates are a mathematical formula which varies depending on location in the galaxy, velocity of travel, and other factors , can vary widely from episode to episode.

According to that description, stardates sound like a naval tradition, but not necessarily one that would be associated with planets.

On Earth you have no "velocity of travel" aside from the planet's natural movement, and your location in the galaxy is a given.

Combined with their presence in the 21st century before the "stardate era" began, it might render the formula irrelevant, or even incomputable.

At the very least it probably renders the idea of a stardate less useful and important, since those other variables aren't in play.

For example, a NASA scientist might say something is going "483 meters per second," but a cop on the highway would just say, "he's doing 95."

In the latter example, the unit of measurement isn't stated because it's understood in context.

Stardates might similarly be more useful for ships in transit than on planets, or on Earth specifically.

Stardates require computation Even if stardates are seen in the canon being used on Earth (and I'm sure they are), it might be more useful to give the Gregorian date in a pinch: as stated in the above quote, stardates are the result of a complex formula.

Even if Picard is capable of back-tracking a negative stardate into a Gregorian date equivalent to the era in which they've arrived, Data may just be saving time by doing the calculations for him.

The information source could be local When first estimating their arrival date, Data mentions taking measurements of the atmosphere, etc.

However, when Picard demands to know the exact date, Data doesn't elaborate on his methods for deducing it.

Given that the previous "natural scans" were accurate but imprecise, he could have accessed a computer on Earth or on a satellite, and pinged it for the current timestamp.

If this was so, it would likely have returned either a Unix timestamp, or a date/time string.

Either way, the most natural and efficient way to relay that information would be in the parlance of the time, which would be the Gregorian calendar.

To expand on @Nerrolken's first point, note that Picard explicitly asks for the date they went to, not the distance they were sent back in time.

This suggests that his concern isn't getting back, or judging the capacity of Borg time travel - he's worried that there's something

specific they've been sent back to .

In that case, he needs a date that he can easily compare to what he remembers of history.

As for why he would learn history using Gregorian dates, there are two important reasons.

One, as @Izkata points out, is that stardates are troublesome that far out of their epoch.

More importantly, the prevalence of primary sources (Riker quotes directly from Cochrane, and Kirk actually met the man) that would naturally not use stardates would make it confusing to apply them to history.

So, if the Federation typically studies pre-Federation Earth history in Gregorian dates, and if Picard suspects that there's a historical event in progress that the Borg are going to interfere with, the Gregorian date is far more valuable in the moment than a stardate.

Question: In the movie Star Trek: First Contact the Enterprise enters the past through a temporal vortex created by the Borg. Upon arriving there is the following exchange:   PICARD : A missile complex? ...The date? Mister Data, I need to know the exact date.  DATA : April fourth, two thousand sixty-three.   Surely when the Earth converted to using  stardates  they converted all past dates into  stardates  as well. It isn't as if we refer to things in the  Olympiad  dating system.

Why didn't Data give Picard the stardate instead of the Gregorian date?

Data is simply answering the question with the information that he thinks Picard wants according to his internal logic/programming. Stardates involve a complicated mathematical formula that requires computation. Even if stardates are used on Earth, it might be more useful to use the Gregorian date. Similarly, stardates might be more useful for ships in transit than on planets, or on Earth specifically.

Data is simply answering the question without overthinking complex dating systems. Stardates could be more useful for ships than planets.


The Doctor is still married and technically the soon-to-be companion is the one who did the kissing, not the Doctor, he just stood there, kind of surprised, looking all doctor-ish...

River Song is dead in the timeline.

There were a few minisodes that took place between the 6th and 7th season which showed the Doctor and River going on their final adventures.

(Together the series was called Night and the Doctor )

Yes, you might have seen River after that point, but all of Doctor Who is wibbley wobbley.

Probably not.

For one, he didn't initiate it.

For two, he and River seem to have an open relationship, as the Doctor is also married to Queen Elizabeth I and Marilyn Monroe, and River once mentioned having dated a Nestene duplicate.

For three, the legitimacy of their marriage is questionable since it took place in an aborted timeline that even River has said was irrelevant to the real world, when she tells Amy not to feel guilty about killing Madame Kovarian since it never happened due to the timeline's negation.

The doctor is over a thousand years old, he also married queen elizabeth the first in the fiftieth

so we have astablished he is some form of polygamist, did he marry anyone else?

And just to make it clear

the doctor is probably most in love with the tardis out of everyone, seriously

in a sense they are married, the problem was stated by river that they were two time travelers going in opposite directions, their cases were

the married river meets the doctor before he married her, and a married doctor meeting river who is yet to marry the doctor.

The sad thing is that they probably remember the one day that they were married and that their wedding day, and the days before they leave to do their own work, which means that their married selves ended meeting their unmarried younger selves.

it's sad when you think about it.

The only other day, i would believe River and Doctor lived as man and wife, was when he finally took her to the singing towers, he knew that day was coming, and realized how much he loved her, that he gave her his sonic as a subtle message to 10 to save her in the end by uploading her into the CAL, and preserve the timeline.

The Doctor is married to River, but the first time he ever met her is when she died.

So to him, she's dead.

Therefore, not cheating.

He was, in some way, married to Queen Elizabeth, but she's dead too now.

Same thing with Marilyn Monroe.

He dated (kinda) Rose before he was married and kissed Amy when he still wasn't married.

Kissing anyone else now still wouldn't count as cheating.

Just a thought guys, but has anyone else realised that the Doctor and River aren't really married?

In the weding the Doctor was suposed to tell her his name but he didnt.

He told her to look in his eye!

DOESN'T

THIS MEAN THEY

ARENT MARRIED?

Question: In “The Snowmen” the Doctor kisses his new-found companion-to-be... but isn't he still married to River Song? Is he essentially cheating, was there another purpose to it, or is there something else I've missed?  I did wonder if it was something to do with the timelines getting mixed, but from memory it's her timeline that's going back while his goes forward, not the other way around.

Is the Doctor still married?

The Doctor is married to River Song, but the first time he ever met her is when she died. River is   dead   in the timeline.  He was, in some way, married to Queen Elizabeth, but she is now dead, too.

The Doctor is still married to River but she was dead when they first met. He also married Queen Elizabeth but she too is dead.


Yes , although anything further than 'stress relief' (relationship-wise) was frowned upon.

An example of someone having (implied) physical relations with a holodeck character is in the Voyager Episode: Human Error .

Seven of Nine, who (in the pursuit of honing her social skills) dates, kisses and then wakes up next to a Holographic version of Chakotay.

Whilst we don't see anything, it is strongly implied that they have relations.

The following is a quote from

The Voyager Transcripts .

Information surrounding the scene has been added in.

SEVEN

: Remain still.

You have an intriguing facial structure. HOLO-CHAKOTAY

: I'll take that as a compliment.

(they kiss) SEVEN:

I require more practice.

HOLO-CHAKOTAY : You're doing just fine.

(Seven hears an electric zizzing sound)

What's wrong?

SEVEN : Nothing. [Cut to Seven's dream] <snip

[Cut to Holodeck - Seven's Virtual quarters] (Seven wakes up with the holographic Chakotay draped over her on the couch.

The real Chakotay is hailing her over the com-system)

CHAKOTAY [OC] :

Chakotay to Seven of Nine.

Chakotay to Seven, respond.

SEVEN:

Go ahead.

CHAKOTAY

[OC] :

Report to Astrometrics.

We've found something.

SEVEN :

Yes, Commander.

HOLO-CHAKOTAY :

Good morning.

Another example would be the Vulcans on-board Voyager, having to deal with Pon-far.

Both Tuvok and another Vulcan are shown trying to deal with the symptoms using the holodeck.

It works for Tuvok, but not for the other Vulcan.

Potential Psychological problems/ Unhealthy attachments to holographic characters :

In Star Trek: Voyager, Reginald Barklay (Main contact character of Earth to Voyager) struggled with "Holodeck Addiction" in his past (and suffers a bit of a relapse at one point).

It is a prescribed mental illness, complete with the whole she-bang: drugs, counselling, removal from sources of stress, de-tox etc.

Whilst in Reg's case

it wasn't a relationship in a sexual way to any of the characters, he had re-created virtual embodiments of the entire Voyager crew, and he mentioned that he didn't get a good night's sleep unless he slept in his (virtual) quarters on Voyager.

Some examples are: The Doctor woos a virtual partner (in a 60's style car on an overlook, no less).

Albeit the virtual partner was just a holographic representation of a living being at the time, so she could be considered 'real'

but the doctor isn't- although I don't think anyone would object to him finding a virtual mate.

Harry Kim believes he's fallen for a virtual character (it turns out to be a hoax).

But Tom Paris warns him about holodeck addiction before they figure that out.

Needless to say the holodeck programs are definitely used for this sort of thing - I can see them replacing (or supplementing) real... ahem, 'Ladies of the Night' in a non-military setting.

But anything further than 'stress relief' would be frowned upon, and in extreme cases treated as an illness.

Yes.

There were many references to sexual programs available in Quark's holosuites on DS9, featuring slave girls of various species.

Probably the most infamous one (featured in the episode "Meridian") was a custom order from a rich alien named Tiron, who wanted a holosuite program from Quark based on the physical specifications of Major Kira.

This clip from the TNG episode " The Perfect Mate " depicts Riker heading to the holodeck immediately following a sexually charged encounter.

It is implied that he is headed to the holodeck to resolve the tensions brought about by the encounter - similar to a "cold shower". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lobo3c0NFg

In the TNG episode " Booby Trap ", Geordi develops feelings for a holographic representation of Leah Brahms, one of the engineers who built the Enterprise.

In the later episode " Galaxy's Child ", the real Brahms discovers that Geordi had created a hologram of her and assumes that Geordi used the hologram for sex, though there is no indication that he did so.

The TNG episode " Hollow Pursuits " explores Reginald Barclay's holo-addiction.

Barclay creates a hologram program that includes an embarrassing depiction of Riker as well as sexually-suggestive depictions of Troi and Dr. Crusher.

When Riker discovers the program, he attempts to delete it citing "protocol", but it is not made clear what the exact protocol in question is.

The program could be violating protocol for depicting a senior officer in an unfavorable light or for depicting crew members in overtly sexualized positions.

It is obviously not against protocol to recreate members of the crew on the holodeck, since holographic crews are used during training simulations regularly.

To add to the above answers, I believe Riker attempted to re-visit "Minuet" in the episode with the Binars.

The first time he met her, he was with Picard.

He returned without the captain at the end of the episode, only to find her diminished without the Binars extra programming.

And even Geordi created a copy of Leah Brahms.

When discovered by the real Leah Brahms, his reasons are questioned.

From the Voyager episode "Fair Haven" , referring to Janeway's holodeck boyfriend Michael Sullivan: Janeway: too bad

he's only photons and force fields.

Chakotay:

I've never let that stop me before.

Translation, "

oh yeah Katherine, I get wild in the holodeck all the time."

I think there is a Pon Farr program in Voyager for carnal stress relief.

Seen in Body and soul (for Tuvok) and Blood Fever (for Vorik)

Question: Carnal release is a valid stress relief; and unless the Federation uses hormonal suppressants, it doesn't take a 'perv angle' to realize that the holodecks may be considered for this.  I can also see potential psychological problems with this, as the enhanced 'reality' may create unhealthy attachments.  Some may feel less need for actual human interactions, and social issues may occur.  And of course, the choice of 'programs' may be a problem for some.  There would likely have to be rules.  Or further monitoring.

Have there been any canonical references to the holodeck/holosuites being used for virtual physical 'partnerings' with holodeck-produced constructs?

The holodeck programs are definitely used for this sort of thing, although anything further than 'stress relief' was frowned upon. In an attempt to hone her social skills, Seven of Nine dates, kisses and then wakes up next to a Holographic version of Chakotay. Harry Kim believed that he had fallen for a virtual character, Reginald Barklay struggled with "Holodeck Addiction" and the Doctor woos a virtual partner.

Holodecks have been known to be used for the purposes of physical intimacy and ‘stress relief’ in various episodes of Star Trek. There is indeed the risk holograms will replace human interactions.

Holodecks have been known to be used for the purposes of physical intimacy and ‘stress relief’ in various episodes of Star Trek. There is the risk holograms will replace human interactions.


Captain Decker showing Ilia the ships named "Enterprise" in Star Trek: The Motion Picture :

And from Enterprise history on Memory Alpha: First image: The Enterprise was a noted sailing frigate , either of the Royal Navy or of the US Navy.

She was active in the late 18th century.

(ENT: "United")

Second image:

The USS Enterprise (CV-6) was an aircraft carrier that served in World War II.

(ENT: "Storm Front")

Its successor was the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Third image:

The first space shuttle was the Enterprise OV-101 .

(Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Note: Also featured in the opening of Star Trek:

Enterprise Fourth image:

An early Warp starship was the USS Enterprise (XCV 330) .

(Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Notable for

not having the traditional nacelles+saucer design of usual Starfleet ships.

Fifth image:

The original NCC-1701 from The Original Series.

(At least according to Memory Alpha.

I don't recognize it from the above screenshot..

Odd shadows.)

Not in the above, but featured in the opening sequence of Star Trek:

Enterprise : The HMS Enterprize was a noted sailing ship of the British Royal Navy.

A galleon, she was active sometime between the 16th century and the early 18th century.

Additionally, I'm

fairly certain Captain Archer had a similar scene as the above, where he explains the history of the name "Enterprise" to Commander Shran .

I don't recall which episode, though..

George Kirk, Kirk's father, convinced his friend and Captain Robert April that the appropriate name for the ship was the Enterprise after so many famous ships in history.

The novel is Final Frontier from Diane Carey published in 1988.

The ship was experimental and they were to secretly take her out to test her systems.

Often time the name Enterprise is given to the first or second vessel of a line, or a vessel involved in exploration.

As such they are often the most advanced vessel in a fleet technologically or design wise.

Even the word Enterprise has connotations of difficult undertakings, taking on new ventures, initiative, leading the way.

Also Flagship does not only refer to the best or most important ship in a fleet, but the ship that carries the commander of a fleet or subdivision of a fleet.

As such the Defiant served as the flagship of the second fleet on occasion.

In the movie First Contact, the Entrprise-E is not the flagship, but the unnamed vessel of Admiral Hayes.

Once it is destroyed Picard takes command of the fleet.

Also, as far as I can find searching the transcripts the only time the Enterprise is referred to as a "flagship" in The original series era is the reboot.

The word flagship is mentioned in TOS in the Balance of Terror and Enterprise Incident referencing Romulan Flagships, and the Corbomite Maneuver in reference to the Fesarius.

(If I have missed something from the TOS era comment on it and I will remove this section) Here are some historical examples culled from wikipedia: HMS Enterprise 1774 - first of a class of 6th-rate frigates commissioned by the British Navy USS Enterprise 1775 - first sloop-of-war captured by Colonial Navyand acted as flagship of the Lake Champlain squadron.

Enterprise 1814 - first steamboat to successfully navigate the Ohio river from Louisville to Pittsburgh opening up a new trade route.

HMS Enterprise 1848 - Arctic discovery ship making voyages to the arctic from both the Pacific and the Atlantic. Enterprise (balloon) 1858 -

Originally built for a transatlantic crossing, eventually put to use with the Union Army during the AmericanCivil War.

Enterprise 1862 - first in a line of sternwheelers that would travel the Fraser River in British Columbia HMS Enterprise D52 1918

- One of 2 Emerald class light cruisers with prototype twin 6" turrets.

Lead ship in Assault Force "U" during invasion of Normandy.

USS Enterprise CV-6 1938 - US aircraft carrier regularly used asa flagship during WW2, equipped withadvanced radar.

USS Enterprise CVN-65 1958 -

First nuclear powered US aircraft carrier HMS Enterprise A71 1959 - Echo class survey ship Space Shuttle Enterprise

1972 - Prototype orbitermodule HMS Enterprise

H88 2002 -

Multi role survey vessel of the Royal navy.

VSS Enterprise 2009 -

First Virgin Galactic commercialspacecraft

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According to a primary source - the United States Navy - "the first ship of the new Continental Navy was named Alfred in honor of Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex."

( http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm ) All eight ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise, and their stories, are on the United States Navy site for Enterprise (CVN-65) at http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/enterprise/Documents/Enterprise/the_legend.html

The Enterprise was the first US ship ever created.

There is therefore a tradition that at all times in the US fleet a ship named Enterprise.

I'd surmise that the original ship was named after this tradition, and then Starfleet made a tradition like the US's tradition.

The Enterprise (NCC-1701) was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser.

By naval tradition, the class shares its name with the first ship of that class.

For example, the first Nimitz-class carrier was the USS Nimitz, the first Kitty Hawk-class carrier was the USS Kitty Hawk, etc.

So, the Enterprise was actually the SECOND ship of its class.

The first ship of its class was...

the NCC-1700 Constitution, of course.

The NCC-1701-A was actually the NCC-1798 Ti-Ho, a refitted Constitution-class starship which was a testbed for transwarp technology alongside the USS Excelsior.

After Kirk was exonerated, it was given a new name and number.

The NCC-1701-B, NCC-1701-C, NCC-1701-D, and NCC-1701-E were Excelsior-class, Ambassador-class, Galaxy-class, and Sovereign-class.

So, in every case (except for the NX-01), the Enterprise was NOT the first ship of its class.

Thought

I'd better point that out, for anyone who thought that the Enterprise had some sort of special importance from being the "first of its class" or any such nonsense.

Question: All of the flagship starships of humanity/the Federation get the name Enterprise: Enterprise NX-01, USS Enterprise NCC-1701, USS Enterprise NCC-1701 D,  etc.  Flagships of the United Federation of Planets could be named under a naming convention following from the first Warp 5 starship of humanity, the Enterprise NX-01 (humans were the dominant race in the Federation after all). But, how did Enterprise NX-01 get its name? And how did this naming convention arise?  What's the in-universe history behind this naming?

Why did flagship starships all get the name Enterprise?

The Enterprise was the first US ship ever created. George Kirk, Kirk's father, convinced his friend and Captain Robert April that the appropriate name for the ship was the Enterprise after so many famous ships in history.  In addition, the name Enterprise is often given to a vessel involved in exploration.

The name Enterprise was the first US ship created and it is now, thanks to Kir’s father, the name given to a first or second exploration vessel.


He is blind, although it is not always obvious.

This was particularly the case for me since I saw this movie on a plane, which had been edited (the movie, not the plane).

Some of the subtle clues to demonstrate

he is blind: When he flicks the lighter open and flicks it, he moves his hand over the flame to prove to him it works because he's blind.

He kept clicking the iPod even though it said battery low.

If he could see, he'd realize the battery was low.

Only after clicking like crazy did he realize it was low.

He kicked the bottom stair before walking up the steps to the old folks house.

He didn't see the no trespassing sign because he was blind.

At the beginning of the movie, he shoots a hairless cat only when he hears it move.

It is only after Eli is fired upon from the guy on the roof that Eli takes cover and fires back.

And each time someone fires on him, Eli turns in that direction and returns fire.

Eli accidentally shoots Carnegie in trying to shoot the guy running in Carnegie’s direction.

When Solara first comes to seduce Eli

she is obviously dressed for solicitation

and she says "don't worry you don't have to pay.

Eli replies "pay for what," since he can't see all the visual clues that Solara is giving him.

Just before he cooks the cat, Eli searches the house he's in.

While he does so, he touches the contents of a shelf in order to glean what its contents are.

In the Bible, Eli grew gradually more blind, from partial sight up to the stage of 'his eyes were set so he could not see'.

I'm not sure that would happen over the brief duration of the film, but maybe he wasn't fully blind in the film, but had learnt brail in 'the world before' so as to better be able to read.

I agree all the things above could prove he had bad eyesight or possibly even be blind, but there are parts in the film that make me think he could see at least slightly, like when the motorcycle gang attacked the two travellers, granted he could hear them, but he looked around the rubble to better see, and then pinpointed the gangleader in the bar in town.

From a technical point of view.

it's possible to have enough sight to shoot at moving targets as shadows on a bright background but still not be able to read at all.

Using sound to identify targets versus friendlies helps.

Eli knows when there are people there, but waits for them to declare their intentions.

Once that is established, he simply aims at the body mass.

Targets at a gun range don't need faces or hair styles to get shot in the chest.

If you just knew the order of the books in the bible, you could learn braille by just learning the letters of the names of the books.

I bet you could get most of the braille alphabet from just the names of the books, which are on every page of each book if you already know the names and order of books.

Thirty years is a long time.

Helen Keller was reading braille at a younger age than that and she was born blind.

He is not totally blind, for the reason that when they go back in the old cannibal couple's house and ask for weapons Eli looks at the window to check the surroundings.

This takes place around minute 77.

When he was leaving the house at the beginning, after eating the cat and feeding the mouse, we see his eyes.

Then at the end his eyes are obviously white and blind.

He was partially blind, not blind.

Due to the 'flash'.

There are hints that he had trouble seeing, the use of the glasses throughout shows the light hurt his eyes.

But if you watch again with the sole purpose to see if he is completely blind, the movie fails to show this.

Eli is blind throughout the whole movie.

How he became blind is up for debate.

He is not the last living blind person; Solara's mother tells him that she was born blind.

He asks her whether it happened after or during the war, which may give the reason for his blindness.

He walks for thirty years because that's how long it takes for him to remember the entire Bible and to understand its message, which he tells Solara toward the end.

If you notice, throughout the movie, he uses his senses a lot except for the sense of sight.

Everyone wears glasses because of the glare, not just him.

He tells Solara that the message is to treat others better than yourself.

This message rings loud and true at the end when the villain tries to get Solara's mother to read the book.

She tells him that she's forgotten how, which is not true.

He treated her so badly, why should she do this for him?

Question: In the Movie " The Book of Eli " we discover at the end that the Bible Eli has been carrying the entire movie is written in Braille.  Does this imply that he is blind (and has been living completely "by faith" his entire life)  or is the punchline of the movie that he is the simply the last living man on Earth who can read Braille?

Is Eli blind, or can he just read braille?

Eli is considered to be blind, although it is not always obvious. There are hints that Eli had trouble seeing, the use of the glasses throughout shows the light hurt his eyes. It seems that he is not totally blind, as when they go to the old cannibal couple's house and ask for weapons, Eli looks at the window to check the surroundings. Also, throughout the movie, he uses his senses a lot except for the sense of sight.

Eli was blind before the war but after finding the Bible he regained his sight upon hearing God’s voice. This is why Eli could read Braille because he had had to learn it before regaining his sight.

Eli was blind, or partially blind, before the war but after finding the Bible he regained his sight upon hearing God’s voice. Eli could read Braille because he had had to learn it before regaining his sight.


Lumiya used a Lightwhip , which was same technology.

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The unfinished, but canon, Star Wars: The Clone Wars arc Crystal Crisis on Utapau features a giant green kyber crystal.

Yoda mentions how giant kyber crystals were used in ancient super-weapons: Long ago in forgotten times when the Sith and Jedi fought for control of the galaxy, weapons there were of unimaginable power.

Always at their heart a kyber crystal was.

It's also heavily implied that a similar crystal was later used in the Death Star.

The canon novel Tarkin confirms this.

The designers are also debating the optimum configuration for the Kyber crystal assembly.

Additionally, The First Order Star Destroyer Finalizer , and possibly other First Order Star Destroyers used kyber crystals in their turbolasers.

Her turbolasers are more powerful and faster to recharge than Imperial-era weapons, a product of kyber crystals harvested in the Unknown Regions.

Yes, there is.

Darksaber.

Currently, it is owned by Darth Maul who won it from Pre Vizsla ( Star Wars: The Clone Wars ).

The Death Star's super laser was developed with Lightsaber technology, along with an ancient array of weapons of mass destruction.

According to legend, the ancient Sith used massive kyber crystals to create superweapons; during the Clone Wars, the Geonosians revived the superlaser design.

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This is a new addition to Disney Canon, though.

In Star Wars Battlefront 2 there is a downloadable character that wields lightsaber nunchucks.

Video .

Question: I know Darth Maul used a lightsaber staff which was basically two lightsabers end to end.  I had thought that lightsaber nunchaku would be amazing, but the fact that you'd rather quickly lose your own hand during a change over would be problematic!!   So are there any other weapons designed using this technology?

Are there any other weapons designed using lightsaber technology?

The Lightwhip and the Darksaber used the same technology.  Yoda mentions how giant kyber crystals were used in ancient super-weapons. It is  also strongly implied that a similar crystal was later used in the Death Star and in the turbolasers on First Order Star Destroyers.

The other weapons used include: Lightwhips, Kyber Crystals, Super Lasers, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Darksabers and Turbolasers


I have a theory regarding this.

My theory is that the Observers are originally from the alternate universe.

The reason we don't see them invade the alternate universe in the show is because invading your own past is silly and could cause all kinds of trouble.

See below for a more detailed answer with reasonings and even a picture: I think that the observers in Fringe that take over the past in the last season are all from the alternate universe.

Something that really bothered me in the final episodes is that the alternate universe appears to be completely untouched by the observers.

Perhaps they just didn't know about the universe?

That seems implausible.

They are masters of time and space, surely they would would have rediscovered the alternate universe.

Even if they didn't, they would know about it from the reports of the research team which September was part of.

They can even travel there with apparent ease, we see them teleport there much in the same way they teleport through regular space.

This leads me to conclude one thing.

My theory is that the Observers are originally from the alternate universe.

We know that they are logical and calculating.

The chief observer in the future does not want to alter their plans as they have all the probabilities worked out.

They will only do something which benefits their own kind.

If they were to go back and take over the start of their own timeline, then they could risk disrupting their own creation.

Also, if they were to live in their own past, wouldn't it make things worse in the future (less resources etc).

Another thing to think about is why did they choose to come back and take over 2015?

Why not earlier?

2015 is only a few years after the bridge is closed.

It is possible that it would be the last time the two universes would have any major interaction.

If the observers were to go back pre-bridge closing then they would have an effect on their own timeline.

This theory leaves some questions however.

First, what becomes of humanity in the non-alternate universe and why couldn't the observers take over there?

It's possible that non-alt universe humanity is too much of a challenge for the observers to invade in 2609.

In the timeline that the observers are in, the observers could have already taken over the non-alt universe (they would know the outcome of their actions instantly since they are in the future).

Secondly, why does taking Michael to the future end the observer's reign?

I think that perhaps he was taken to the alternate universe future (since the future of the non-alt universe would be under observer rule).

Donald doesn't explain this to Walter or the gang either because he doesn't think it's important or he doesn't think the others would understand (he knows physics that they can't even comprehend, it's plausible that he wouldn't want to overload their minds with unnecessary details).

I believe the observers didn't enter the alternate universe to take over because they were more technologically advanced.

The alternate universe would have had an easier time fighting the observers.

Clearly whatever the reason it was a choice made by the observers, since we can see Observers entering the alternate universe without difficulty in 5-13.

If the observers were from the alternate universe, how would sending the child observer and Walter into the future (in their universe) change the plan that occurred in the late 22nd century (suppressing emotion to benefit intelligence)?

To me, it does not make sense that the observers are from the other universe.

Obviously observers can enter the alternate universe, as evidenced by September interrupting Walternate's successful attempt at finding a cure for Peter, but generally, the observers interference in the alternate universe seems to be minimal.

Further, in the show, the observers seem to be more involved with time travel than with travelling between universes.

Is this accidental?

I don't really have a theory as to why they haven't invaded the alternate universe, other than perhaps they want to take on one at a time.

One of the observers states that they chose the time period they did because there was a 99.999% chance of success.

Perhaps it is simply that this universe at this time is where they concentrated their efforts based on probability.

Towards the end of season 5, the origin of the Observers became clear: The human race rewired the emotional centers of the brain to instead increase human intelligence.

This work began in Oslo, Norway, in 2167.

It always was pretty clear that the other universe was more technologically advanced than this one.

But they're not just more advanced, they also had to deal with some problems that our side never had to.

Most significantly, the vortexes and the resultant need to amber them probably left the alternate universe more reluctant to embrace some technologies.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a back-to-basics culture in the years after the bridge was closed and the universes were healed.

That's just speculation, but it's pretty clear that there are some societal differences between the two universes, and it's hard to say how much more they might diverge in the decades between the series and the creation of the Observers.

Alternatively, perhaps that means the other universe does, eventually, decay from the remaining damage before they could develop, meaning it doesn't have a sustainable future for them.

I believe the Observers only invaded this universe because this is the universe which evolved to create them in the future of this universe.

So in order for them to have an origin environment that suits their particular and specific needs, they would need to invade the universe, which eventually spawns themselves.

Since they know and live in this universe in the future, they already know that it’s the correct environment for themselves.

I also think it’s impossible that they could be from the alternate universe because when Walter, Peter, and Olivia wake up after being in the Amber all those years, it was in their own universe that was being invaded, when they met with their daughter and such.

So since it was happening in their own universe, I highly doubt it was the alternate that the Observers were from.

These are just guesses of course!

Question: In all of Fringe, we only see observers from our universe.  Why aren't there any observers from the other universe?    (If there are no observers in other universes, that means our observers are the only humans from the future who have issues with their environment.  The humans in the futures of other universes must have no issues like that and never want to invade their "past".)

Why are observers only from our universe and not from other universes?

There is a theory is that the Observers are originally from the alternate universe, although not everyone agrees with this. In the timeline that the observers are in, the observers could have already taken over the non-alt universe (they would know the outcome of their actions instantly since they are in the future). One of the observers states that they chose the time period they did because there was a 99.999% chance of success.  Perhaps it is simply that this universe at this time is where they concentrated their efforts based on probability.

The universe and the time period chosen by the Observers was based on probability of success rate. There is some belief that the Observers are from the alternate universe and not our universe, or may have already taken over the other universe since they are in the future already.

The universe and the time period chosen by the Observers was based on probability of success rate. However, there is some belief that the Observers are from the alternate universe and not our universe, or may have already taken over the other universe since they are in the future already.


From the Bruce Banner Wiki entry "Bruce Banner Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test.

He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics."

So basically he has one degree mentioned on the marvel site

but he actually has studied beyond that but apparently didn't receive a doctorate in any other field.

The TV version of Banner was definitely a physician.

I don't remember the comic books mentioning a medical degree.

In the movies, he's a physicist rather than an M.D. Update - in Thor:

Rgnarok, he mentions having 7 PHD degrees in one scene.

It’d be strange for him to not mention an MD at that point, if he did have one.

In the comics before after completing his undergraduates at Desert State University in Navapo New Mexico he went to medical school.

He started dating Angela Lipscombe while he was there.

In their final semester Angela got a research grant for her neuro-psychiatric research but Bruce could find no one interested in his medical applications of gamma rays.

He left abruptly presumably without officially graduating.

He also studied at Harvard and Pennsylvania State University.

It was after this, that Bruce went to the California Institute of technology and gained his doctorate in physics and applied his interest in Gamma to weapons tech.

most of Bruce's medical training is revealed as back story when He encounters Angela in later comics.

Incredible Hulk Vol.

2 Issues 12 through 20 are good examples.

So in cannon he has MD level medical training.

He was a polymath so it is quite possible that he had medical knowledge without having a formal MD.

He was not necessarily conning anyone, merely helping out where he could.

The short answer would be no, he's not specifically an MD.

Does that make him a con artist though?

Through all the different writers interpretation of the Hulk story, Banner is a genius physicist and has worked with biologists specializing in human gamma ray exposure.

It's quite likely that a genius could pick up a lot of the skills needed to act as a doctor in a third world country.

He also needs to hide since he's being hunted and not work as a genius physicist, so he definitely would need to be able to "con" people to be able to hide effectively.

So it just follows the story line for most marvel superheros.

A lot of them do have to hide their true identity making them seem that much more "human" than the "white knight" type hero's of other stories.

He isn't called Dr. Banner by accident.

As a child Bruce was withdrawn, possibly developing a split personality to help deal with his pain and rage.

His only happiness came from spending time with his cousin Jennifer Walters.

Bruce found it hard to develop friendships and often found himself on the receiving end of physical abuse at the hands of school bullies.

One such incident sparked him to build and plant a bomb in the basement of his school.

The bomb was a dud, and Bruce was expelled, but the military took notice of his genius.

Eventually, Bruce earned a doctorate in nuclear physics and started a career with them.

Question: In the Avengers movie, Dr. Banner is discovered treating patients for some unspecified, possibly unknown, disease in what looks to be the slums of India. From my recollection, Banner is a gamma physicist and not a medical doctor (Ph. D not M.D.). While it can be argued that the Indians may or may not know the difference, Banner hardly seems the type to con people for a quick buck.

Does Banner have a medical degree?

Despite conflicting opinions, it is said that Dr Bruce Banner's medical training is revealed as back story when he encounters Angela in later comics.  However, Banner is a genius physicist and has worked with biologists specializing in human gamma ray exposure. After completing his undergraduates at Desert State University in Navapo New Mexico, he went to medical school.

Banner doesn’t appear to have a medical degree per se, though de did attend medical school for a brief period. It is possible he acquired knledge of medicine through other disciplines.


It was never shown in the comics, upon which the series was based.

The words were written there presumably before the hospital was abandoned, possibly after a large number of patients had been moved into that one area (to better concentrate care) and one or more passed, raising as walkers, and began turning the others.

The person who wrote it was warning others that there were no more living patients past that point.

They presumably left the hospital when it was abandoned by the living (or were killed there, when it was overrun by the dead).

Edit: As pointed out in Blake's answer, written May 28, 2013 (please, upvote that answer), the video game

The Walking Dead

: Survival Instinct features two characters who write this on the doors of the hospital.

Your character can watch as Merle spray-paints it there.

Your character (Daryl) and Merle are important characters on the show, but do not feature in the comics (at least not prominently).

This leads to a question surrounding the canonicity (which, if it isn't a real word, should be ) of the games.

My personal (unsourced) expectation is that the games, show, and comics each have their own unique canon.

The comics and show are dramatically different, so they certainly have distinct canon.

The games, though, may be canon (possibly of a 'lower level', a la Star Wars) with either the TV show or the comics.

My guess is that they would be tied to the show if anything at all - the appearances of the few crossover characters seem to match the show better than the comics.

According to Wikipedia, Survival Instinct is tied closely to the show, while TellTale Games

The Walking Dead is tied to the comics.

Whether these are actual canon for their respective tie-ins, however, is unclear.

In the video game Survival Instinct where you play as Daryl Dixon you see Merle spray paint it and then lock the door up.

It is the same hospital where Rick was in a coma.

In the webisode

The Oath , you can see that it is actually sprayed by Paul.

This is based on October 2013.

The answer is; I did, along with Robbie Martin, the on-set Scenic.

This is a production photo of the turn around shot, the second set of doors I did for the hospital set.

Notice

the font is different?

This version came from the Comic, that we used mostly as story boards.

At the last moment, someone decided that, whoever it was that painted it?

Wouldn't have taken the time to find a brush, so the spray-painted version was done to camera.

It was a bit of a running joke on set "Who painted those doors?" to which they would reply "Johnny, or Robbie, depending on which one of us was around".

Robby's version, fatter to cover mine.

You know when we did this, all we were thinking about was how awful this old gacky hospital was.

And if we would get a disease for just being there!

Who knew that that the show would turn into anything...

Looking back, it was really pretty work, given the time frame we had to produce it in, this is nice!

This can be seen in

The Walking Dead Webisodes: The Oath .

The character Paul sprays "Don't Open, Dead inside" on the doors to the kitchen.

He sprayed this after recovering from near death and escaping walkers (or decays lol), to find his friend Katrina dead, killed by lethal injection from a nurse.

The real crazy thing is that this would make that before Rick wakes up, possibly making Rick there still in a coma while all this took place.

The military could have been keeping them in there prior to shooting them.

There are bodies lined up outside the hospital and evidence that the military was there.

It seems like the military was shooting the walkers and placing the bodies there.

It's right after Rick uses the matches to find his way out of the hospital using a stairwell.

Also, in a later episode it shows how Shane went to check on Rick.

The military can be seen in the hospital as I recall.

There's no reason to guess, AMC explained this ages ago in

The Walking Dead: The Oath .

The Walking Dead: The Oath is a three-part web series based on the television series

The Walking Dead.

It aired in its entirety on October 1, 2013, on AMC's official website.

This series tells the origin of the "Don't Open, Dead Inside" paint on the cafeteria doors of the hospital Rick Grimes awakes in, post-apocalypse.

It follows Paul and Karina as they escape their zombie-overrun camp in search of a medical station.

The central theme of the series examines the will to persevere in the face of inevitable death.

Question: Who wrote "Don't Open, Dead Inside" on the doors in the hospital that Rick sees after waking? Do they ever show it?

Who wrote "Don't Open, Dead Inside" on the doors inside the hospital?

The words were written there by the Walking Dead, presumably before the hospital was abandoned, possibly after a large number of patients had been moved into that one area (to better concentrate care) and one or more passed, raising as walkers, and began turning the others.   They must have left the hospital when it was abandoned by the living (or were killed there when it was overrun by the dead).

Though this was never explicitly shown in the comics, the understanding is it was the walking dead. However, in the video game, Merle is seen spray painting it.

Though this was never explicitly shown in the comics, the understanding is it was the walking dead. The on-set scenics painted it on. In the video game, Merle is seen spray painting it.