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** Had one with Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
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** Had one with Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom Platform/SpaceBattlesDotCom for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Wong points out in his review of ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' that the fanbase's mocking of Riker using a joystick to pilot a ship is ill-placed; an analog-controlled joystick would actually be one of the best ways to control a spacecraft.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wong's ripping into ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' being about saving a MarySuetopia whose inhabitants somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish the Ba'ku would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wong's ripping into ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' being about saving a MarySuetopia whose inhabitants the Ba'ku who somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish the Ba'ku they would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
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* FandomRivalry: Had one with Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
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** Had one with Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly dieddown.down.
** There was a much nastier one with the [[http://www.st-v-sw.net/ Star Trek vs. Star Wars Technical Assessment]]. The rivalry slowly ebbed away after that site's creator, Darkstar, moved away from discussing the technical side of the debate towards the canon policies of the two franchises.
** Had one with Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died
** There was a much nastier one with the [[http://www.st-v-sw.net/ Star Trek vs. Star Wars Technical Assessment]]. The rivalry slowly ebbed away after that site's creator, Darkstar, moved away from discussing the technical side of the debate towards the canon policies of the two franchises.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Possibly the two most infamous debates on the site were the ones that Wong had with Darkstar and Stewart at SDI, both at least in part over the subject of whether the Death Star destroyed Alderaan with raw energy, or if it used some other method. While Wong's position that it was raw energy was probably the most defensible one at the time, changes to ''Star Wars'' canon in the aftermath of Disney's buyout of the franchise mean that Darkstar and Stewart were in fact right all along to insist a different method was used, albeit RightForTheWrongReasons.[[note]](Stewart's claim that the Death Star turned Alderaan's core into a giant nuclear bomb was demonstrably wrong since it would actually have taken ''more'' energy than just destroying the planet outright, while Darkstar never made any real attempt to explain his theory that the Death Star's superlaser used some kind of chain reaction-based weapon other than pointing out a few visual oddities in Alderaan's destruction, such as the PlanarShockwave that was created)[[/note]]
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The main site is essentially a time capsule of the ''Star Wars'' vs. ''Star Trek'' debate in the early 2000s, when the weapons specifications in the ''Incredible Cross-Sections'' books had definitively and overwhelmingly decided the debate in favor of the ''Star Wars'' side. With Disney disavowing the figures contained in the ''Incredible Cross-Sections'' after they bought out the franchise, the debate is now a much more open one, with ''Star Wars'' still generally being seen as the stronger side thanks to advantages in the areas of propulsion and ground combat, but it's nowhere ''near'' as one-sided as it was previously.
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* FanNickname:
** The site itself is frequently shortened to SDN, and the usenet group it grew out of is ASVS.
** "Force sub," presumably short for "force substitution," is a versus thread where you take a canonical conflict from a work (e.g. the [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong War]]) and replace one side with somebody else (e.g. swap the Vong with the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} tyranids]]).
** "Testingstan" is the "Testing" forum, which is mostly used for disposable threads consisting of random silliness that are auto-deleted after 24 hours' inactivity.
** The site itself is frequently shortened to SDN, and the usenet group it grew out of is ASVS.
** "Force sub," presumably short for "force substitution," is a versus thread where you take a canonical conflict from a work (e.g. the [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong War]]) and replace one side with somebody else (e.g. swap the Vong with the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} tyranids]]).
** "Testingstan" is the "Testing" forum, which is mostly used for disposable threads consisting of random silliness that are auto-deleted after 24 hours' inactivity.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Wong's ripping into Film/StarTrekInsurrection ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' being about saving a MarySuetopia whose inhabitants somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish the Ba'ku would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Wong's ripping into Film/StarTrekInsurrection being about saving a MarySuetopia whose inhabitants somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish the Ba'ku would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
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* FandomRivalry: Had one with {{Spacebattles}} for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Wong's ripping into Film/StarTrekInsurrection being about saving a MarySuetopia whose inhabitants somehow matter more than billions of other life forms and noting just how selfish the Ba'ku would have to be to hoard something that could save billions of lives.
* FandomRivalry: Had one with {{Spacebattles}} for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
* FandomRivalry: Had one with {{Spacebattles}} for a while, partly due to a much heavier focus on evidence-based debating on SD.net's end. It seems to have mostly died down.
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* GatewaySeries: Can serve as this to some of the science fiction series the debates bring up.
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* MemeticMutation: RAR! is an internal meme, coined by Mayabird in response to Zor's "Hipotheticle Senareos"[sic]. It basically refers to any thread featuring a highly complicated theoretical scenario. [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=115366 A good example.]]
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** RAR! is an internal meme, coined by Mayabird in response to Zor's "Hipotheticle Senareos"[sic]. It basically refers to any thread featuring a highly complicated theoretical scenario. [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=115366 A good example.]]]]
** Ahriman238's analysis/discussion thread for the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series at one point compared the Graysons to VideoGame/{{Kerbal|SpaceProgram}}s. It didn't take long for people to start posting "GLORIOUS KERBAL GRAYSONS" or some variation thereof.
** RAR! is an internal meme, coined by Mayabird in response to Zor's "Hipotheticle Senareos"[sic]. It basically refers to any thread featuring a highly complicated theoretical scenario. [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=115366 A good example.
** Ahriman238's analysis/discussion thread for the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series at one point compared the Graysons to VideoGame/{{Kerbal|SpaceProgram}}s. It didn't take long for people to start posting "GLORIOUS KERBAL GRAYSONS" or some variation thereof.
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* MemeticMutation: RAR! is an internal meme, coined by Mayabird in response to Zor's "Hipotheticle Senareos"[sic]. It basically refers to any thread featuring a highly complicated theoretical scenario. [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=115366 A good example.]]
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He dislikes the fans, not the series. Doesn\'t really apply.
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* FanHater: The owner of this site spent a lot of time bashing the Trek fandom, moreso than he did taking on the series itself.
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* FanHater: The owner of this site spent a lot of time bashing the Trek fandom, moreso than he did taking on the series itself.
