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Subject: Re: Revised Dominion vs Empire


Author:
trekie
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Date Posted: 20:02:07 09/04/02 Wed
Author Host/IP: NoHost/65.163.170.48
In reply to: WarsGOD 's message, "Re: Revised Dominion vs Empire" on 04:45:43 09/03/02 Tue

>>>
>>>Hate to break the bad news to TrekTARD but
>Turbolasers
>>>aren't simply glorified flashlights. You go ahead and
>>>stick with PhysicsTARD. Let me break this down for
>>>you, If a Turbolaser were in the "real life" Star
>Trek
>>>universe, according to you it would look like this!
>An
>>>idiot Starfleet ensign would say "Sir,their weapons
>>>while large and powerful looking, are nothing more
>>>than light amplified through the stimulation of
>>>emmitted radiation, ancient 20th century technology
>on
>>>a large scale. Our navigational deflector is designed
>>>to block that form of EM Field frequency bandwith
>>>captian."
>>
>>well that's exactly what they are!(Here is another
>Trekling wet dream, realized!)
>>
>>I even used the long technical explanation
>>>just like they would use. Now heres what would happen
>>>once negotiations breakdown. The Star Destroyer
>levels
>>>her sights on the Federation starship, and in a
>awsome
>>>light show all the laser light is brilliantlt and
>>>harmlessly shunted away from the mighty navigational
>>>deflectors. Oops! Did we forget something oh yeah?
>Hey
>>>Star Wars people I think we should let our good
>little
>>>Starfleet captain in on little error his tactical
>>>officer just made. Like the
>>
>>731,500 Petajoules of anti-proton particles
>>
>>sorry to bust your bubbles but the nav dish is charged
>>with anti-protons... per ST:FC(Bad example Trekkie,
>the only thing busted here is your starship's shield
>bubble.)
>
>
>>AND! Yeah it was, what is your point Trekling? It was
>also stated that if it were to be hit with even a
>phaser rifle blast it would destroy half the ship!
>Which by your own addmission would indicate that
>antiprotons are indeed powerful. There are other
>little examples of antiprotons being mentioned in
>Trek, antiproton beams can also be used to detect
>cloaked ships "Defiant" [DS9]. Again they were
>mentioned in Voyager when they were used to destroy
>mutant DNA it Tom Paris's body, "Threshold" [VGR].
>They were also shown in "The Q and the Grey" [VGR] to
>be able to increase shield strength by ten fold. My
>point Trekling is this. There are aparently many uses
>for antiprotons some (like use in weapons and
>defensive systems) are beyond Federation technology. I
>backup that claim by refering you to the examples
>above "Doomsday Machine" [TOS] and later in "The Q and
>the Grey" [VGR]. Both give the impression that
>Starfleet doesn't have the weapons technology. But
>they can use antiprotons in medical, scanning, and
>navigational deflectors, as long as the dish ain't hit
>by phasers they'll be okay, otherwise BOOM! TrekTARD
>loses again.

The dish is charged with Anti-Protons that are projected into the sheild grid to protect the ship from anti-proton weapons such as turbolasers.

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