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Saquist
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01-24-08, 02:44 AM
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Many Trek fans on Sci Forum have used this site before.
I've noted that the information they've presented has never actually occured on screen. I see the ditl as what trek fans consider a reasonable extrapolaion on screen. Things such as weapon types and classfications to ships that haven't actually occured on screen appear frequently.
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01-24-08, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnM81 Here is the crux of the matter. You are correct they don't in the star trek story. However in the trekwars saga as its being told on this forum they belong to the timeline as much as romulins and klingons.
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No. This is not a saga. Warsies do not belong to the Federation timeline. You cannot rewrite canon, much the same way my paraphrasal is "unacceptable". They are a breach of the timeline and would be fixed by the future Federation if Picard's era cannot handle it.
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01-24-08, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D No. This is not a saga. Warsies do not belong to the Federation timeline. You cannot rewrite canon, much the same way my paraphrasal is "unacceptable". They are a breach of the timeline and would be fixed by the future Federation if Picard's era cannot handle it.
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How can one breach the timeline if there is no time travel? ST canon is not violated if we integrate the two scifis. No where in the episodes does it say that there aren't other galaxies out there in the universe that have aliens never encountered.
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01-25-08, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnM81 How can one breach the timeline if there is no time travel? ST canon is not violated if we integrate the two scifis. No where in the episodes does it say that there aren't other galaxies out there in the universe that have aliens never encountered.
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Yes it has, the physics in each universe are different.
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01-25-08, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnM81 How can one breach the timeline if there is no time travel? ST canon is not violated if we integrate the two scifis. No where in the episodes does it say that there aren't other galaxies out there in the universe that have aliens never encountered.
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Therefore it cannot be considered canon. Nowhere in any of the fictions does it say that there is a race made of milk and cookies who fly ships made of glass. Doesn't mean we consider it a viable integration.
It is a temporal incursion because SW never invaded canon Trek. If they suddenly appear, and the future Federation has no timeline records of it, it is a timeline violation.
And, just to underscore the uselessness of your argument...if we integrate the two scifis and ST canon is not violated, by the same token, SW canon would not be violated when:
- Trek shields prove almost impenetrable to their standard laser weapons
- Wars shields prove useless against Federation phasers
- Wars hulls prove useless against Quantum Torpedos
- Vulcans, Betazoids, Ferengi and Starfleet trained humans prove invulnerable to the effects of the Force
- Suddenly, we find that Picard and Janeway are jedi masters on par with Yoda, and Dr. Bashir is a Jedi Master surpassing all of them since he is genetically engineered...after all midichlorians are SW canon, and since we're "integrating" the scifis, why not just go for the whole hog and create Trek Jedi Masters?
See, this canon business is very tricky and to add or integrate canon to facilitate your own argument leaves you open to the above silliness.
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01-26-08, 02:29 PM
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Yes, but an explosion can only happen in an atmosphere, as it needs something to burn. Unless the heat caused some gas to be released and it burned something like frozen methane or a similar gas, there no way there would be an explosion. The exception, of course, being a nuclear weapon. It would be smaller, to the point where it would look like a regular atmospheric explosion, but the heat and radiation it generates is likely to be enough to actually do some damage to an object. Still, explosions are severly hampered in space by their inability to cause a shockwave or cause fires.
In space the only way weapons can do damage is with heat, radiation, and kinetic force. One logically assumes a spaceborne vessel is likely to be resistant against all of those...
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01-26-08, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Fettman Ah more or less Lord oh and Canon dont forget about that.
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lol
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Saquist
Brought to you by... Sarcasm (2,817 posts)
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01-27-08, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by halo07guy Yes, but an explosion can only happen in an atmosphere, as it needs something to burn. Unless the heat caused some gas to be released and it burned something like frozen methane or a similar gas, there no way there would be an explosion. The exception, of course, being a nuclear weapon. It would be smaller, to the point where it would look like a regular atmospheric explosion, but the heat and radiation it generates is likely to be enough to actually do some damage to an object. Still, explosions are severly hampered in space by their inability to cause a shockwave or cause fires.
In space the only way weapons can do damage is with heat, radiation, and kinetic force. One logically assumes a spaceborne vessel is likely to be resistant against all of those...
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Ships are often that source of oxygen.
and yet see explosions all the time...curious especially out of Star Wars.
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01-27-08, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Saquist Ships are often that source of oxygen.
and yet see explosions all the time...curious especially out of Star Wars.
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Yes, Exeter asked me that once, and I told him that. Also Shatner had that happen in one of his books,
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...and the blaze lit up the hull as the leaking atmosphere escaped.
~Star Trek Preserver
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01-27-08, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Saquist Many Trek fans on Sci Forum have used this site before.
I've noted that the information they've presented has never actually occured on screen. I see the ditl as what trek fans consider a reasonable extrapolaion on screen. Things such as weapon types and classfications to ships that haven't actually occured on screen appear frequently.
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Here is something I have found from www.ditl.com
During this episode the Enterprise-D confronts a Borg cube which initiates an attack with a tractor beam and cutting beam. The cube is unshielded. Captain Picard orders Lieutenant Worf to 'bring whatever force necessary to terminate that beam'. The Enterprise fires several shots at the cube, damaging it and terminating the tractor beam. Of the visible damage to the surface, one shot into a face of the cube has vaporized a roughly hemispherical volume who's diameter is close to that of the Enterprise Enterprise, i.e. about 600 metres.
We don't really know the composition of the Borg ship. For our first pass at the energy required accomplish this feat, I'll assume it is a solid cube of tritanium. From the tech manual, page 134, we know that vaporizing a 3 cubic metre block of tritanium takes 7.2 x 1012 Joules (see the 'materials' link on the left for further details). The volume of a 300 metre radius hemisphere would be greater than the 3 cubic metre block by a factor of :
F = (0.5 x 4/3 x pi x r3) / (3 x 2)
= 56,556,000 / 6
= 9,426,000 times larger.
The energy required is thus :
E = 9,426,000 x 7.2 x 1012
= 6.8 x 1019 Joules
Now of course, the Borg cube is not a solid block of Tritanium - in fact, from both the exterior views and what we have seen of the interior, much of a Borg cube is unoccupied. Say 50% of the cube is unused empty volume, and say that of the remaining 50%, only about 0.2% is actual walls and floor - the rest being corridors, crawlspaces and the like. Overall, the cube would be about 0.1% solid metal. So a more realistic value for the energy required to do the damage we see is around 6.8 x 1016 Joules.
The phaser blast lasted around 1 second, so this equates to a total power output of :
P = 6.8 x 1016 Watts, or :
= 68,000 TeraWatts
Although this site uses some data from non-canonical sources, what do you think about it?
Last edited by JohnM81; 01-27-08 at 01:10 PM..
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01-27-08, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D Therefore it cannot be considered canon. Nowhere in any of the fictions does it say that there is a race made of milk and cookies who fly ships made of glass. Doesn't mean we consider it a viable integration.
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No, that is why it is canonical to make an assertion that in the ST universe there are other galaxies with undiscovered peoples. Do the st episodes ever consider that there are aliens "out there" that they know nothing about? Yes. Is it canon that these unknown species might attack the federation? Yes according to TNG: Conspiracy. In fact this very episode deals with an unknown alien race attacking the federation. A story that would be identical to an imperial invasion.
So you see, according to the ST episodes it is very much a canon supported possibility.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D It is a temporal incursion because SW never invaded canon Trek. If they suddenly appear, and the future Federation has no timeline records of it, it is a timeline violation.
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If the imperials traveled to the milky way without time travel, then it isn't a temporal incursion. SW attacking the federation might have no bearing on the existance of the future feds also. After all maybe the federation wins! If they did, and your future feds still exist, where is the temporal incursion? Thats right, it doesn't exist.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D And, just to underscore the uselessness of your argument...if we integrate the two scifis and ST canon is not violated, by the same token, SW canon would not be violated when:
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D - Trek shields prove almost impenetrable to their standard laser weapons
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No this would be violation of sw canon due to their weapons obviously not being lasers.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D - Wars shields prove useless against Federation phasers
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If this was to happen, no it wouldn't violate sw canon as sw canon doesn't address phasers vs sw shields. But it sounds more like a rabid trekkie's personal wet dream than what would happen.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D - Wars hulls prove useless against Quantum Torpedos
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See above reply.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D - Vulcans, Betazoids, Ferengi and Starfleet trained humans prove invulnerable to the effects of the Force
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SW canon gives force immunity only to a race of non intellegent lizard creatures. So that would be a violation of sw canon.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D - Suddenly, we find that Picard and Janeway are jedi masters on par with Yoda,
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If Picard/Janeway were force sensitive, had midi counts as high as yoda, were young enough to start their training, and showed the symptoms to being force senstive in their respective episodes then yes it would be canonically allowed.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D ....and Dr. Bashir is a Jedi Master surpassing all of them since he is genetically engineered.
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So are storm troopers in the attack of the clones but that doesn't give them any special abilities so Dr. Bashir's genetic engineering giving him special abilities is not canon supported.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D ..after all midichlorians are SW canon, and since we're "integrating" the scifis, why not just go for the whole hog and create Trek Jedi Masters?
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Once the integration takes place there is no reason why ppl from the st universe couldn't become jedi with the appropriate training assuming they are force sensitive.
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Originally Posted by Enterprise-D See, this canon business is very tricky and to add or integrate canon to facilitate your own argument leaves you open to the above silliness.
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Actually its quite simple. And it really doesn't facilitate "silliness" like seen above it just might seem that way to some.
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01-27-08, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnM81 If the imperials traveled to the milky way without time travel, then it isn't a temporal incursion. SW attacking the federation might have no bearing on the existance of the future feds also. After all maybe the federation wins! If they did, and your future feds still exist, where is the temporal incursion? Thats right, it doesn't exist.
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But think about it. No future federation if the current one is destroyed. To protect the "right" timeline, the future federation MUST intervene. Unless, of course, the 24th century Federation can handle the Empire by itself. Which it can.
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01-28-08, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by FoolFromHell But think about it. No future federation if the current one is destroyed. To protect the "right" timeline, the future federation MUST intervene. Unless, of course, the 24th century Federation can handle the Empire by itself. Which it can.
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I understand what you are saying. Its canon that the future feds exist. Its also canon that the future feds travel back in time to rectify paradoxes. But if no time travel has taken place, no paradox can exist either. What you have to understand that if the empire did take over the galaxy there is no way for us to know if the future feds would be destroyed. How do you know how the time line would play out? Maybe the empire would lose. Maybe the empire would win but the federation eventually over throws the empire. Maybe the empire is overthrown from within and this galaxy is given its freedom back. Maybe the borg exact such a terrible toll on the empire they have to retreat.
The point is for the future feds to intervene a paradox must exist and their existance must be threatened. We all are assuming that the time line will play out without the future feds being created and I think those who are pushing that idea need to justify it.
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Saquist
Brought to you by... Sarcasm (2,817 posts)
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01-28-08, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnM81 Here is something I have found from www.ditl.com
During this episode the Enterprise-D confronts a Borg cube which initiates an attack with a tractor beam and cutting beam. The cube is unshielded. Captain Picard orders Lieutenant Worf to 'bring whatever force necessary to terminate that beam'. The Enterprise fires several shots at the cube, damaging it and terminating the tractor beam. Of the visible damage to the surface, one shot into a face of the cube has vaporized a roughly hemispherical volume who's diameter is close to that of the Enterprise Enterprise, i.e. about 600 metres.
We don't really know the composition of the Borg ship. For our first pass at the energy required accomplish this feat, I'll assume it is a solid cube of tritanium. From the tech manual, page 134, we know that vaporizing a 3 cubic metre block of tritanium takes 7.2 x 1012 Joules (see the 'materials' link on the left for further details). The volume of a 300 metre radius hemisphere would be greater than the 3 cubic metre block by a factor of :
F = (0.5 x 4/3 x pi x r3) / (3 x 2)
= 56,556,000 / 6
= 9,426,000 times larger.
The energy required is thus :
E = 9,426,000 x 7.2 x 1012
= 6.8 x 1019 Joules
Now of course, the Borg cube is not a solid block of Tritanium - in fact, from both the exterior views and what we have seen of the interior, much of a Borg cube is unoccupied. Say 50% of the cube is unused empty volume, and say that of the remaining 50%, only about 0.2% is actual walls and floor - the rest being corridors, crawlspaces and the like. Overall, the cube would be about 0.1% solid metal. So a more realistic value for the energy required to do the damage we see is around 6.8 x 1016 Joules.
The phaser blast lasted around 1 second, so this equates to a total power output of :
P = 6.8 x 1016 Watts, or :
= 68,000 TeraWatts
Although this site uses some data from non-canonical sources, what do you think about it?
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Intriguing...to say the least.
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