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Fair enough, I forgot about the whole sub-space thing. It's the catch all for a lot of cod science in Trek.

See also: Inertial Dampeners.

Don't forget the Heisenberg compensators.

And That's a good point Molch-R, I had forgotten about Quantum entanglement, that would be a better explanation than the sub-space McGuffins

(It's a bit early in the day for me. Late shifts be damned)

Fair enough, I forgot about the whole sub-space thing. It's the catch all for a lot of cod science in Trek. I suppose the relativistic differences would be fairly negligible anyways. I stand by my point about instantly adapting to different g forces though

I was only using Star Wars to illustrate my point, as those planets would be fairly well known examples of this silly sci-fi trope.

Another thing that bothers me about alien planets in Sci-fi, they always seem to have gravity comparable to Earth's. In Star Trek, it's been implied that the Gravity on both Vulcan and the Klingon Homeworld is much stronger than Earth's, yet the Humans who visit these planets seem to be able to acclimatise to them instantly (also, they can communicate with their ships without making relativistic compensations, probably because that would be shite TV).

I will have your silence, you Romulan p'tahk!

Maybe the other mods grew weary of their responsibilities, and this was their forum self-destruct protocol?

It bugs me when sci-fi presents us with planets with just one global eco-system. Star Wars is one of the main culprits. Fair enough, a planet like Hoth could exist (snowball Earth theories:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth), but how the hell would a large predator like a Wampa survive? Also a planet that is entirely a swamp? Or even worse, a desert? Worse still, a planet completely covered by a city? There's no way life (as we know it) could survive on those last two, there're no oceans.

Hancock 2? Really???

Here's a link: http://www.dosbox.com/

Definitely. I only played X-Wing but it was bloody great. I'd even settle for a patched version that I could be certain would run reliably on a modern PC.

Do you still have the CD?

There's a program called Dosbox, it's a dos emulator  it's freeware, and it'll run old games like X-wing, it worked for me. Since PC's these days have so much memory, you don't even need to mess with config.sys and make boot disks and whatnot.

I used it to play the original Dark Forces about a year ago. Boba Fett was bloody impossible in that game

I've played Beneath a Steel Sky. I did not know that Dave Gibbons did the art, must give it another spin

Downloaded ScummmVm a while back, I've been enjoying games from the now extinct genre of point and click adventures, like The Secret of Monkey Island^TM and Day of the Tentacle

Here's the BBC's coverage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13339512

It's bloody amazing. Well done those doctors.

I enjoyed Nextwave. Proper batshit insanity by Warren Ellis

X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter.

Does anyone remember Bravestarr?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BraveStarr