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Federation v Empire

In a war between the Federation and the Empire, who wins?


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Then explain how a FTL ship, firing photons at FTL target, its able to hit that FTL target.
The answer: A photon torpedo is, itself, a FTL weapon.

The other possibility is that the warp field is large enough that it extends the distance between one ship and the other, so the weapon never leaves it.
 
Not only does ST have "High intensity particle beams", but those particle beams are capable of being modulated/modified (thus, I think, the "phase") to more easily penetrate (or penetrate at all) defenses that resist them.

Indeed. Well, some ST weapons display particle beam behavior. Some don't. Like the phasers on the Enterprise D appear to be particle beams as they are continues. But the fire from the Defiant appears to be plasma. Nothing is being fired at the speed of light. You wouldn't need tracking computers if it was a "laser."

For that matter, I made the point somewhere in this thread (or was it perhaps it’s precursor?) that the Fed ships apparently use “plasma conduits” the way we use wires – to transfer energy from one point to another.

IMO that doesn't make much sense. Especially considering how control panels are fed by plasma. Sure, propulsion, shields and weapons require large amounts of energy, but control panels? There's alot within bot ST and SW that frankly makes no scientific sense.

If you want to see a real scientifically based show, watch Babylon 5.
 
I think the writers of ST just don't know **** about warp physics, unlike you, obviously... :mrgreen:

Since I've seen ST shows wherein torpedoes were launched from a ship at warp, hitting another ship at warp - It would appear that this "warp field" you speak of has no effect whatsoever on either torpedoes or phasers - seeing as there was no distortion in the phaser fire when it passed outside the "warp field" of the ship, and no apparent change in flight characteristics when the torpedoes passed through this "warp field"...

So that would seem to indicate that either:
  • ST weaponry can be either sub-light or FTL when necessary, instantly switching between the two, or.
  • ST weaponry is not FTL, but somehow is unaffected when it leaves or enters a ship's warp field, or.
  • ST weaponry is fully FTL, and any seemingly slow speeds are simply due to perspective, or.
  • The animators/writers of ST are far too lazy to try and research what actual physics would or would not affect imaginary ST weaponry, and thus wrote them as being both sub-light and unaffected by the warp field.
Personally, I'm leaning towards D.

But really, judging from the shows I’ve seen of ST, it would seem that either A or B is the case – if you ignore all possible writing errors and assume the ST universe is real, that is.

I think you have a point. In the pilot episode of TNG the saucer section of the Enterprise was able to jump to warp with out the drive section. This would mean that warp drives are themselves unnecessary to achieve warp speed.

Of course, the Dreadnought-class Enterprise was able to achieve warp 13, even though warp 9.99 is as fast as anything could move and the whole universe is your back yard. 'What? we can be anywhere in the universe in the blink of an eye? That's not fast enough!! We need faster-than-instant speed!!'
 
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