Semi-OT: The Icaran Empire Preview (the book one)

[Starhawk]

Uh Dogscoff I've mentioned this before it is a Cannon statement "From Riker" that the Entire E-D did not produce even ONE terrawatt not EVEN One.

For a ship the size of the ent "Which btw is smaller then a modern Aircraft carrier and WTF is up with that?" that has to generate shields, warp, phasers, photon torpedoes Producing less then a terrawatt is BS.

Let's face it ST ships are pathetic when it comes to energy output (or at least the math behind it) as I think someone pointed out the Warp core makes less power then it would take to power a modern Attack Submarine.

Now we also see phasers constantly bouncing off of buildings and the like and not vaporizing everything in sight, not even a black mark for that matter (that's a hand phaser/disruptor yes but just scale up the armor on a warship and there yah go)

Yeah they shrug of micro-meteors with deflectors I forgot about that.

And given the fact that the Defiant which has no windows employs armor that works to reinforce the defense once shields fail as do later Akira and Steamrunner class ships it seems stupid to have your CAPITAL SHIPS like the Ent-D have and Galaxies have chock full of windows with no armor.

I mean no offense here but a warship does not need windows at best it should have "projectors" if you have so much spare room for mini "window shield" generators.

There are examples in many different sci-fi worlds with much more powerful weapons of armors made of advanced composites and metals that give the ship SOME survivability.

As far as "power outages" we've seen a few eps where a ship lost power at least for a few minutes and that's all it would take to go wooosh out your bedroom window.

As far as redundancy LOL what have we EVER seen on Star Trek that makes you think Starfleet has any form of redundant systems? I mean they forgot what a fuse or circuit breaker is for cryin out loud.

[Hunpecked]

I'm both surprised and disappointed that such a sophisticated science fiction fan as Starhawk has so badly misunderstood the Star Trek ficverse.

Take this "windows" stuff, for example. No, the Enterprise DOES NOT HAVE windows. What it has are inside and outside scene projectors. The inside projector simulates the outside view; the outside projector either simulates the inside view, or just emits light so the audience and the Federation public get the warm fuzzy illusion of a ship with lit portholes/windows. The outside projector's simulation capability is especially useful when unwelcome visitors drop by; even if you have a wild party going on inside, they just see an empty cabin and go bother someone else.

If Starhawk still isn't convinced, tnen perhaps he'd care to explain THOSE STUPID MOVING DOTS we see through the "windows" when the ship is in warp drive. Stars? HAHAHAHA! Gimme a break! Obviously they're just a graphic construct added to the simulated scene to give the compartment occupants the illusion of motion.

As for the supposed "terawatt" paradox, it's so excruciatingly obvious that it pains me to explain it. You see, just as a "star date" has nothing in common with a 21st Century Terran date, a "star terawatt" is completely different from a Terran terawatt. I suppose the scripts should have explicitly included the "star" part of the term for the intellectually impaired, but I can't blame the writers for assuming at least a minuscule level of intelligence in their viewers.

I could go on, but I think I've made my point. No need to embarrass Starhawk any more.

Oh, and for the humor-impaired: