## Star Trek: The Original Sequences

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/929801
* Score: 13

* Created: 2015-09-04T18:48:44

### Post:

[Link to content](https://archiveofourown.org/works/929801)

### Comments:

> **u/None** [+4]  (6 hours later)
> 
> To quote M de Bergerac: It is a little short, young man. One could have said, god, so many things...

> **u/scruiser** [+5]  *CYOA* (2 hours later)
> 
> I enjoyed it.  I remember another snippet with a similar chain of events but a different outcome.  In response to the challenge on the sig figs of his percent, Spock quoted a huge variety of relevant statistics he had memorized to come up with the most accurate estimate possible.  Does anyone remember the link to that snippet?

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2]  (8 hours later)
>> 
>> Footnote of [this Leftover Soup comic](http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=201).

> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+1]  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (30 minutes later)
> 
> "Never tell me the odds."
> 
> Edit: also, "maximum safe radius"? How does that even work?

>> **u/Transfuturist** [+2]  *Carthago delenda est.* (4 hours later)
>> 
>> A bubble effect they're trying to place themselves in, with an extra hazard they're trying to avoid.

> **u/want_to_want** [+1]  (22 hours later)
> 
> Nice riff on Eliezer's ["tragic fool" quote](http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/), but technically, that fic is the opposite of correct. As Shalizi [noted long ago](http://bactra.org/weblog/612.html), an actual Bayesian would give you as many significant digits as you have time for.

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