Sure.

It's because, as originally designed, the saucer impulse engines are only activated when the saucer is separated, which holds throughout TNG and the use of the practical model. It's not until the CGI model in DS9 that the saucer engines are consistently lit up.

Well that could've gone better.

Yeah, scaling. I think you'll find that when people are deciding whether or not to buy your services, they'll think of it in terms of paying a percentage of the price of the ultimate purchase. Psychologically, there's some magic number where they'll think, "It's worth it to spend 10% of my ultimate purchase towards making sure I get the right thing, but not 11%." I don't know what those numbers are and I doubt they'll consciously be doing the math, but I bet that's the thought process. The trick is figuring out what that number is for most people and getting as close as you can without going over. There must be scientific studies somewhere out there that explore the topic.

I'd recommend finding something you can give away for free up front and right at the beginning. The free sample/gift is a time honored sales trick that primes your customer to be receptive to the idea of spending money.

It totally worked on me the other month, as a matter of fact. They were selling sets of knives in the grocery store, but you got a free gift just for coming over at the start of the presentation and standing through the first part. By the end of the first part, I was hooked enough to hang around for the whole thing and by the end of it...well, they got me.

The more interesting or novel the free gift, the better. In the steak knife case, it was this little orange plastic thing that was an apple corer. It was just really goddamn neat. In your case, maybe something like a PDF about picking an iPad cover. Or maybe a PDF that has a couple general research tips and tricks, something that says "Here's a taste of the expertise I have, which I will teach you for free. For the rest, my rates are very reasonable."

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Mostly fluffy B-roll, but holy moly that one spaceship shot. Very pretty.

Can that be my macro?

Repeat after me.

One experimental result does not settled science make.

One experimental result does not settled science make.

One experimental result does not settled science make.

But that would be pretty amazing. I guess we'll find out in a couple years. Maybe.

Jaws was never my scene.

My god, you're right.

*commits Sepuku*

Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer.

Ah, I didn't know it was written by them. Makes me feel like perhaps I did judge it a little too harshly.

It really does all come down to what your expectations are calibrated to before you even sit down. I think I definitely did have a certain amount of "Pegg and Frost in a non-Edgar Wright film. Okkaaaaay, let's see what you've got..." Crossed arms and a harumph.

It was embarrassing enough realizing how much Star Trek stuff I have. To literally have the Protector...yeesh.