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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
1) How is it that the crew isn't splattered across the walls every time the ship accelerates and decelerates?
2) From what little I have seen, the ships appear to shake violently when hit. That being the case, why don't they just use high-yield nuclear-tipped solid munitions fired from a railgun or something. The kinetic force from that would do a lot more damage than a phaser, wouldn't it?
3) How is it that they can travel faster than light, and teleport people and stuff, but still miss a ship that's a kilometer long with a weapon that appears to travel at least the speed of light? Was there a 500-year hiatus on targetting-computer technology?
4) On that note, why are the borg such bad shots?
5) I'm having difficulty with the idea of Hanomag as Captain Kirk. Bear in mind, I only watched a few episodes from each of the series, but none of them mentioned a "save" function. Did I just miss it?  |
*cracks fingers and gets typing*
1) Every starship has
inertial dampeners, which work to counteract the force of acceleration and deceleration.
2) To quote Andre Burmanis, the show's science consultant:
"Well it is the same principle, ultimately. We do see on Star Trek, for example, the ship will get involved in a tussle with a alien and will be fired upon, and the ship shakes. Well, if we have inertial dampers how come the crew is feeling that shake? Presumably the inertial dampers have a certain response time. It’s not instantaneous, so there’s a little bit of a lag and it’s that lag that creates the shake that we momentarily experience when the ship is hit by phaser fire or a photon torpedo or something. " and as far as nuclear tipped missiles go, that'd hardly be as spacey-cool as a phaser. :p
3) Targetting computers or no, the ship still needs to be aligned with a phaser bank or torpedo tube in order to a) get a weapons lock and b) successfully hold the lock long enough for the torpedo or phaser to do maximum damage. Plus, you've got to take into consideration that if the ships could hit every single thing they targetted instantly, it wouldnt be much of a show
4) Because the Borg suck.
5) I hear he wants me as Spock.
Ohh man can you feel the nerdiness up in this thread
