Re: Revised Dominion vs Empire -- Star Trek vs Star Wars

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Subject: Re: Revised Dominion vs Empire

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TrekGOD

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Date Posted: 08:42:04 09/08/02 Sun
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In reply to: capn hayes 's message, "Re: Revised Dominion vs Empire" on 21:27:17 09/07/02 Sat

>>A Note to WarsGOD:
>>Rewatch Star Trek Generations
>>
>>Whenever you destroy a star (don't make me prove this
>>because it can be fatal to all of us on earth) the
>>"local" (being everything within 1.23ly) gravitional
>>forces are changed, granted the Bosman had to make a
>>course correction but their drives didn't seizes to
>>operate. And you very very very VERY clearly see the
>>Enterprise jump to warp right after the destruction of
>>Armagosa, tell me the gravitional forces from these
>>stars had the effect of rendering the warp drive
>>systems inoperative. Umm, no I just don't see that.
>>I can except Voyager because when you start to modify
>>the ship the ways Ba'Lona has it's very hard to tell
>>how the engines would react under these gravitional
>>stresses. Remember they hadn't been to an actual
>>Starbase in years (literally) and the engine's and the
>>[Swiss Army] Navigational Deflector are heavily
>>modified. Unlike every major refit that the
>>Enterprise had to go through twice a year.
>
>TrekGOD you amaze my with your attention to detail! It
>rivals my own I think. I obviously aknowledge your
>point and they are both valid. How ever Llike you said
>The Bozeman did have to make a (minor) course
>corection, clearly indicating that Gravity does at
>least effect Warpdrive. Your right about the
>Enterprise going to Warp after the star goes nova. But
>ships with Hyperdrives have managed to jump to
>"lightspeed" in similiar circumstances. So in
>conclusion you have only reafirmed what I have already
>said about inrensity. Yes I still think an Interdictor
>Cruiser could generate a field strong enough to
>disrupt warpdrives. Even though they work on different
>princaples, they are still both affected by gravity
>distortion. Even though in some cases it isn't enough
>to pull a ship outta warp, sometimes it is.

If a gravity field projected a scattering effect like you are talking about, then to produce the interference you are talking about would be more then enough to CRUSH the interdictor cruiser. If you want to argue this, show me in a movie where an interdictor cruiser was used to stop a warp drive. (oh wait) They wern't in the movies. There for I find that statement to be inaccurate. If you want to continue. The power needed to drop a ship out of warp would have to be highly localized and the TrekShip could then outrun your puney little interdictor cruiser, and reach the outer point of the scattering field and jump to warp to escape your little flyfigters.

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