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Subject: Re: Galaxy class vrs Victory class.


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capn hayes
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Date Posted: 04:30:44 08/31/02 Sat
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 >>>Well maybe.....if this thread was about fleets rather
>>>than just two ships!
>>>
>>>Nice try....no cigar! :)
>>
>>Well try this on then, they wouldn't need the first
>>shots with sheilds and weapons that have no
>>modulations, thus offense and defense cannot be made
>>more or less effective through the use of techno
>>babble, the Empire will be Victorouis!
>
>Every type of energy operates on a frequency no matter
>how powerful.. it has to operate on specific
>frequencies for proper opertation.. The human brian
>for instance. Every here of "Brain Waves" well, this
>is the a mount of energy put off by the brain (usually
>in watts) that is combination of chemical reactions in
>your body.
>
> How does this relate you ask?
>
>If star trek ships can modulate their shields to block
>at certain frequencies, conceivably they can block all
>energy in the freqencies range. If the frequency of
>the energy being generated is beyond the capabilites
>then the ship will take normal damage from the power
>of the weapon of choice. Now if it is true that the
>borg can adapt to freqencies as rapidly displayed in
>the TV Shows and in some of the books, then they could
>modulate their sheilding to deflect that of star wars
>turbo lasers and blasters even if it has a trillion
>terrawatts of destructive nuclear force behind it, if
>they adapt it the freqency of weapon being fired then
>the sheilding will be able to block it. Unfortunatly
>for this though it goes both ways, they maybe able to
>block the attack but they would have to redirect power
>from different area's to the centeral proccessors to
>increase the freqencies at which there sheilding
>operates and reduce the fire power of their weapons so
>even if they won't get hurt, the still can't do much
>damage to the opposing vessels.
>
>(Just like overclocking a computer proccessor for a
>program that won't run right unless you do)
>
>If the power core of federation starships where ion
>reactors like that of a star destroyers and SSD's and
>so on it could generate enough power to deflect any
>bonbardment.
>
>This isn't techno babble.. this is real life science
>applied to this situation.
>
>A mushroom star base for example could deflect the
>fire power of a SSD if the sheild modulators can
>handle the power requirments, which on a the larger
>bases they should with no problems. Where as the
>smaller ones like the one in ST:III won't because they
>are about the size of SSD and they only generate power
>for ship refiting and self repair if needed.
>
>hope this puts things into a mach "Real Life" scenario
>for this discussion. please remember these points
>during your discussions about modulating sheilds.
>
>Just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth.

Umm this is Trek-PhysicsMAN it already talks about all this in the TNG tech manual. With enough power to block certain EM frequencies Trek ship's do seem to have impressive shields. But it doesn't help them with suns does it. Now imagine that same raw power (scary thing ain't it) being poored down a invisible straw between a Turbolaser and the shield wall of a trek ship (or any shielded star cruiser). The straw in trek terms would be a annular confinment beam ACB. No a Star Destroyer doesn't have the power matching a G class star coming out its turbolaser gun port. But it would have enough power to overwhelm a trek ships shields with enough applied energy even with the shields EM FM modulation blocking capability in place. Why do say this? Because based on what you're saying (which is discussed in the tech manual, if you choose to accept that as cannon)the shields could block out the energy given of by a sun and become immune to its energy, heat, and radiation. The same things emmited by a turbolaser, although not to that degree. We know that this simply not true unless you're in the Sun Crusher. Trek ship's can and do modulate their shields to protest themselves from al sorts of EM and nuclear radiation effects but this has limits. I'm quite sure that both star wars & trek have ways around this that our 21st century physics cannot comprehend. Artoo would know what I'm saying. Right Artoo?
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