Originally posted by Jack Daniels
so what happened to wesley....didnt some alien take him away to travel through time or something or was that just suppose to be in his future destiny? Or am I still buzzed from last night...lol
Wesely spent a while traveling through time and then he returned and served with Picard.
Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
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Or the suits that let the humans transform, but I might of imagined that.
Originally posted by jedi2187Captain Picard: Number One.
Commander Riker: Yes, Captain.
Captain Picard: Let me ask you something. If I whispered in your ear that Commander Worf's head looks like a fanny, would you join me in a laugh?
Commander Riker: Yeah, I could get in on that.
Captain Picard: All right! Here it comes! (Shouting despite using a whispering gesture) Commander Worf's head looks like a fanny!
(Everyone laughs)
Commander Worf: You can both suck my ridges.
Captain Picard: Oh, get a sense of humour, Rocky Dennis.
I didn't mean to say that ST is a definite vision of the future. I think I was the target of the arguing from ignorance thing, but I'm not sure what I'm ignorant about. The chance of ST EVER becoming real is basically nil, the science is just too badly butchered.
And as for that essay, most essays attempt to explore both sides of the issue, but what I read may have just been an excerpt. Certainly ST is fictional science, but as far as I can tell, SW isn't even based on science.
That argument does seem to be a standby of ST fans, including myself I guess, but it doesn't really make any sense to argue that; SO WHAT if it is more realistic, does it matter? All I was saying was that it had a slightly higher chance than SW - but you're right, the purpose of this thread isn't to argue how realistic they are.
Oh, come on!!! Star Wars is the best kind of science. Someone came up with an idea, now someone else has to figure out how to do it. There are actually people trying to figure these things out. ex. The Science of Star Wars and The Physics of Star Trek
just imagine a lightsaber that's a elongated donut (a cylinder wrapping in on itself to make a hollow space in the center) of magnetically sealed plasma.... Hyperdrive as artificial wormholes... great stuff!!!
Yes, but is there any practical method... no, ANY method of creating such an oddly shaped magnetic field? I know they can create magnetic fields shaped like doughnuts for a fusion torus, but they can't have such a field extend only in one direction from the generator. And wouldn't the plasma cool off? Air isn't affected by magnetic fields, so the air would enter and cool the plasma off - unless the power source is energetic beyond current methods.
As I understand it, wormholes bend two points in space until they are nearly touching; so wouldn't every trip no matter how far take the same amount of time?
However, I would definitely have to agree that all of the ideas people come up with are pretty interesting. But I still find things based on real science more interesting than real science based fiction.
Hey, how real was Jules Vernes writing when he wrote it. If the human race is still around in 25000 years maybe we'll see some of the Warsie type stuff.
We see things that look like Trek stuff now, but for real trek type tech, I think that would be out a little further than the trek universe makes it sound. Aren't we supposed to be in some sort of dark age according to trek?
I'm not sure where that Stardestroyer.net gets it's information from, because it is a lot different than what I've seen. I don't know why he based his torpedo payload on 1.5kg when they could easily fit 10kg of antimatter into a torpedo. My calculations are probably faulty, but this is what I got for a theoretical yield:
E=mc^2
E=20kg(10kg antimatter in the warhead + 10kg of matter from the object it impacts) x 300 000 000^2
E=1.8x10^18 J
Then I took that number and divided it by the Joules in one ton of TNT.
1.8E18 J / 4.184 GJ = 430 210 325 or 430 megatons, not 64 as stated on the Stardestroyer website.
If I made a mistake anywhere, feel free to correct me.
Photon torpedoes would seem to be incredibly powerful compared to some of the SW ships. It sounds like it would take an Acclamator Class ship about 6 seconds to reach that same output. I know that the Acclamator is one of the lesser ships, but that's pretty impressive for one torpedo. And those aren't even the most powerful torpedoes in ST.
As well, on an episode of ST, they state that the warpcore has a power output of 12.75 billion GW, not 4.
I suppose it is just for effect, but SW ships are pretty flimsy. I just watched ROTJ, and the SSD's shields went down after having one of their spheres destroyed. Then a fighter crashed into the bridge, there was a relatively tiny poof of smoke, and my favourite SW ship of all time was crashing into the DS! The rest of the ship was still intact, so why did it crash? They could have taught those upstart rebels a thing or two about real firepower if they had thought to distribute the control systems throughout the ship, and not in one comparably tiny spot.
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Maybe I should have read more closely... I see where he got his figures from now. I don't understand why the ST Technical Manual would contradict the shows, except for the fact that ST is chalk full of contradictions.
Originally posted by docb77
Don't feel bad, Star Wars has it's contradictions too... "made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. LOL. That's great, and then all the verbal acrobatics that lucas and other authors went to to explain it. Priceless!
Actually, that's Han Solo's horrible attempt at b's-ing, and as soon as he's done claiming it, you can see Obi-Wan's expression saying "I'm not buying it, Correlian', then Han quickly changes the subject to something else.