Star Trek: Impending Warp Core Breach! [Video Compilation]

“We’re losing antimatter containment” is something you never want to hear when you’re on a starship, because this means a dreaded warp core breach is imminent (and ejection systems are almost always offline). While not intended to be comprehensive, this video features several examples of impending core breaches (some averted, some not) ranging from TOS to Enterprise.

[John DiMarco]

A Gold Star: When An Alien Proposes to Destroy Earth – A Short Sci-Fi Story

“ARE YOU F***ING INSANE?!”

The muscle-bound Tarraken warlord looked at his newly seated counterpart with an expression that was equal parts terror and rage, the needle-like spines running down his thickly scaled back vibrating audibly.

It wasn’t out of the ordinary for a new power to join the table and make a big declaration of intent as a show of confidence or cockiness depending on how viable the proposal actually was. Most of the time it was all big talk and the senior members of this underhanded alliance talked the enthusiastic newcomer down before any real damage could be done. But this idiot had just suggested something that he clearly didn’t understand the implications of.

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