• mercano@lemmy.world
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    “You left Spacedock without a tractor beam?”

    “Have you seen the size of an Excelsior-class shuttle bay? We don’t have any room for farm equipment.”

    • IninewCrow
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      no problem … transport buffer … any time they run out of room for things … transport buffer … even if you run out of room … transport buffer … need a part? it’s in the transport buffer … crewman died? we got a copy in the transport buffer … need a warp drive? transport buffer … earth blew up? we got a copy in the transport buffer … sun collapsed? we got one in the transport buffer

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    John Deere killed this form of the beam when they held back any technology that didn’t allow the crew to fix their own tractor beam.

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    I don’t know why I’m hung up on this, but it bothers me that it says Sir instead of Captain.

    I like the tractors though.