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Subject: Re: Flyer vs Falcon Author: capn hayes [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 03:33:26 09/10/02 Tue Author Host/IP: NoHost/207.14.48.2 In reply to: abc123 's message, "Re: Flyer vs Falcon" on 21:10:20 09/09/02 Mon >Plus, Han and Luke had problems killing 4 TIE Fighters >in ANH! 4!! HA! The flyer would swoop in and kill them >all with the 99.9% accurate phasers. You think? If Trek phasers are so damned acurate then why in [ST: Generations] did Worf need 10-15 seconds to lock on to a missile going in a strait line to a preditermined target, a sun! If phasers can "99.9%" acuratly hit a 500 meter ship from distances of 300,000 kilometers then they should have been able to instantly lock on to a 4 meter probe from orbit. Now it normally takes Star Wars targeting computers 1.5 seconds to lock weapons on a enemy ship. TIE fighters are fast and maneuverable enough to avoid this lock. Now I don't know how fast Star Trek targeting computers can lock onto a target but 10-15 seconds seems to mean they might have to take some time for the computer to track a target before it simply locks on and fires. I know the missile in Generations had to go to warp to reach that star so fast, i just know how Soran got the damned thing to go to warp it wasn't much bigger than a torpedo and they can't achieve warp on their own. But any way thats wasn't the point. Another Sub-light example would be Data targeting the Pheonix with 4 Quantum torpedoes (slight overkill) that took several seconds to acomplish and the Pheonix was only going about 15psl, and before you say it I know phasers and photorps are two diferent weapon systems but they both use the same type of targetign computer, the Threat assessment/tracking/targeting system (TA/T/TS). Anyway maybe phasers are 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% acurate, once they've tracked a target an then locked on to it. The hard part is sometimes tracking a target. 1.5 seconds is all a TIE/In starfighter needs and TIE Interceptors are even better! Now I'm not saying it would be impossible to hit a TIE fighter, but I think you guys really under score their capabitlities. You don't hear me talking shit about how unmaneuverable the ships were in "Yesterday's Enterprise" [TNG] do ya! Well I could but I reallize FX did the best they could, and if that battle were done with today's CGI FX the ships would look alot faster and maneuverable. Don't mean to bitch, but Trekies need stop feeding off of "trek"nobabble and start using common sense! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Flyer vs Falcon capn hayes 04:54:59 09/10/02 Tue Re: Flyer vs Falcon -- trekie, 16:10:41 09/10/02 Tue Re: Flyer vs Falcon -- capn hayes, 04:28:09 09/14/02 Sat Re: Flyer vs Falcon -- The Divine Shadow, 02:58:39 09/15/02 Sun Re: Flyer vs Falcon -- The Divine Shadow, 22:32:49 09/10/02 Tue