Go play with a cat somewhere
Submitted 1 year ago by Stamets@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 year ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
Something that I started wondering, when I watched that TNG episode where someone tries pointing lasers at the Enterprise, is if they could still be a viable weapon in the star trek universe if you put enough energy into one. Like, barely-space-capable species laser weapons might barely be noticable to the shields, but if you had like, a laser with a significant fraction of a star’s energy output pumped into it, or just a billion of those primitive laser-wielding ships, surely the shields have got to give eventually
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see we are going with the 40K “flashlight theory”
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
According to Memory Alpha, the borgs in TNG use lasers to cut through hulls of ships and even planet rocks
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Theoretically you can put any amount of energy into a laser, as long as you can redirect and synchronise waves. And as several stars and black holes have gravities and stuff that can affect the starships, it seems evident you should be able to charge a laser enough to damage any USS starship.
And as the phase cannons seem to output 80-500 GJ, you should be able to match that fairly easily with 10 grams of matter annihilation or a second of about 10e-15 of the energy output of a sun type star.
Interestingly enough, phase modulation of a laser weapon makes more sense than of a particle beam (which the phaser weapons are), and also you don’t suffer from recoil like from phasers.
veroxii@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Polarize the hull plating!
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fun fact: all starfleet ship’s hulls are now constantly polarized, mostly to deflect random space dust, debris, etc. while traveling at sub-light. Not sure if it’s stated in canon when they started doing this, but in a few episodes, before walking in the hull, it gets mentioned that they have to depolarize it first.
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
Not sure if it’s stated in canon when they started doing this
2150s. No, seriously. That’s been a thing since Archer. Hull polarization actually started as the first line of defense before shields became common place and much stronger. The NX Class and the Shuttlepod both had polarized hulls. They even make a mention in one of the episodes that while they’ve been away from Earth for months that Earths polarization tech has improved efficiency by 12%. But when shields started gaining more ground and traction, hull polarization wasn’t needed as much so it slowly slid to the background and was only used when necessary like when Voyager needed more stability or when the Delta Flyer was trying to be located. I remember something else about using it to modulate against a tractor beam too somewhere in DS9.
That being said, I’m not sure where you’re getting the information about constant polarization and deflecting space dust. Typically that’s what the deflector array was for. I’m not saying you’re wrong or anything, it’s Star Trek. There’s tons of inconsistencies and backups and redundancies. I’m just curious so I can add it to my giant folder of useless Star Trek info that’s buried in the back of my brain.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Wouldn’t polarizing the hull basically mean magnetizing it? That always bothered me.
paholg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I would assume it’s an optical polarizer. Like on sunglasses or LCD screens.
shasta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Out the window you go!
famousringo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If a big magnet protects spaceship earth from cosmic rays, a smaller magnet should protect spaceship enterprise from death rays.
But seriously, my take was always that there was something like an inner and an outer hull, and by polarizing them with opposing charges you might reinforce them so explosions are less likely to blast the outer hull off. Kind of like a magnetic lock around the entire ship.
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish we had a spin-off series of all the incorrectly reconstructed voyager tales from that future museum this would definitely be a scene LOL
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
We really would come to think of it.
What a great episode too. Loved seeing Evil Tuvok and by love I mean was scared shitless by seeing him smile.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 1 year ago
Smiling Spock in SNW channels the same energy.
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Lets beam some photon torpedoes into their crew quarters.
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
swap their coffee reserves for tri-cobalt devices
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Widdle waser beams
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Janeway really needs to moderate that coffee addiction. I don’t drink the stuff personally, but I don’t think it’s worth some of the stuff she did for a better cuppa
auraness@lemmy.world 1 year ago
She only drinks tea now.
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
as long as it’s not Nescafé Gold Blend. that stuff makes me want to vomit from a sip.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Nescafé anything is shit. Literally the worst coffee.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It wasn’t even for better coffee, just coffee.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“Remember how it goes:
You throw a rock, I throw a spear. You throw a spear, I fire a laser. You fire a laser, I personally beam on into the bridge and single handily kill your crew.
Understood?”
Restaldt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes Dr Ms The Monarch