I would like to see where you got the maximum out put for a federation ship. All I recall is numbers for when the ship is sitting in orbit, and Q is messing with stuff.
Normally I go with the power figures quoted on darkstars site actually, which is something like 5000 terajoules or some such per second. An impressive number, but not qutie as impressive as the sun.
Shields have to be powered, and activated, there Star Trek shields have limits.
Excellent, we can put that to rest then.
We are talking about a series where the ships dive in and out of black hole, create wormholes, and travel faster then light by warping space-time.. The UFP has mastered gravity pure and simple. Voyager was able to make a Gravitational singularity by bouncing gravitons off the main deflector dish, then there is was the gravimetric torpedo that was theorized to be to make wormhole, and all the talk of lasers being useless just proves what the UFP can do with gravity.
Oh, I don't question the impressiveness of these shields and their capability to tank quite a bit of firepower (including nearby exploding planets even). As I said: Lasers are nigh useless against said ships, but not infinitely so. I'm glad we have come to consensus and can move on.
As for Univeral Netguru... Your posts make me long for the days of Jason and I wish youngla was here.
But you didn't say what they are, so my original statement stands.
I need not declare what they are, that is true. I have simply declared what they are not. I'm sorry if that displeases you in some way.
It's not a no-limits fallacy, its simply observing the fact that you have not met yoru burden of proof.
All you claim is that "they're not lasers," which is a null-argument... or magical.
I am honestly starting to wonder if you're reading even what you're typing...
I didn't know I had to provide evidence of the fact that they don't act like lasers.. I presumed we all had an understanding of how a laser acts and an education above seventh grade. I'm not often asked to provide evidence for such an absurdly obvious thing but if I must...
http://www.nolettershome.info/images/CG ... idge03.jpg
As you can see, it does not look, act, nor function at all like a laser.
Yeah, a healthy skeptic-- unlike warsie fanwankers you may be used to, your bull won't fly here.
I was presuming a teenager with too much time on his hands. But sure, if you want to call it that we can. As far as my quote unquote bull.. that's laughable looking at your posts...
Ah, I get it-- it's a DOOHICKEY! And it does what you say it does, because you SAY so!
Based on pure unsupported claptrap, you're claiming that space-dust is tougher to push out the way than "things."
How perfectly... nonsensical.
Okay, now I'm mad.. you've hurt my feelings..
Look, it's clear you didn't understand. IF the deflector is capable of pushing rocks and space dust out of the way while the ship is traveling at warp speeds it should have exactly ZERO trouble moving magnetic mines, solar flares, and asteroids while at sublight speeds. It clearly is incapable of doing so. I provided evidence for you several posts back where these supposed powerful generation would have been useful.
Instead you've ignored the evidence and claimed I've not done anything of the sort. Lucky has actually been engaging in debate with me which is why I'm taking him seriously and you not at this point. Your out to prove the absurd, that a turbo laser simply can not hit the ship because of the navigational deflector, which you haven't provided any evidence for since you would first have to prove that a turbo laser can be effected by it. That burden of proof is upon YOU. I simply pointed out that we couldn't hold that claim on the basis of them being lasers, which they clearly aren't.
You have now moved into the realm of near insanity.
Also: Space dust, rocks, satellites, the whole nine yards.. being pushed out of the way while you're moving at the speed of light.. is a hell of a lot harder than pushing THIS.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Deflector_beam.jpg
I said NAME them, not "describe the anecdotes."
I have yet to see a name.
Oh for the love of, are you that incapable of doing any independent research. Here I'll name TWO of them for you right out.
ENT: Minefield
VOY: Message in a bottle
And in regards to the last one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS9lv1pR ... re=related
Around 4 minutes.
The rest, if you had even bothered to watch star trek, you would remember since they are all from relatively famous episodes.
Not that big? Could you be a little-- um... LESS VAGUE?
It coul hahve been Earth-sized for all we know; there's no way to know how far the Enterprise was from it in comparison, or the aperture, magnification and distance of the lens etc.
I provided a picture for you up there... just judging by the beam width were talking a relatively small asteroid, unless you want to claim the enterprise is kilometers high and actually has an insane number of decks.
"No limits?" You're confusing gravitons and photons; if you think they're the same, try moving something with a flashight-beam.
I don't recall ANYONE saying that the Enterprise was capable of generating infinite power-- just more than the silly fusion-powerd 'Wars toy-boats with the huge A-R thrusters on back.
I confused nothing: You claimed straight up that the deflector magically had the power to deflect incoming turbo laser bolts and then the infamous laser quotes were brought out, which I then said THOSE were a no limits fallacy...
You have NO proof of that; and the warpfield only surrounds the ship, it doesn't reach out ahead of it.
I do actually: The warpfield HAS been extended beyond the ship and even combined with other warp fields. I believe I even mentioned the whole, "in order to push a moon with the deflector they needed to use the warp field."
But hey, lets just ignore that.
Yes, in the D-enterprise, with some help from Q telling them how to use the engines to change the gravitational constant of the Universe!
So you're saying the deflector requires Q's help as well as the engines?
ROTFMLAO!
No that sounds like a statement you just wrote. I never once mentioned Q. Really, try to keep up with what you're writing at least.
*SNARF*
Did you-- REALLY-- just say that?
OMG, I can't believe it.You claim that the ability of the MAN-- DEFLECTOR-- to DEFLECT things, has has absolutely nothing to do with the energy it can produce OTHER THAN to deflect things?
ROTLFMAO!
(POUND POUND POUND ON FLOOR)
YA HAHAHAHA!
Ah, so you HAVE proven you aren't reading or are incapable of understanding basic english. Got it. Oh look, over here is lucky, someone actually debating and not blowing smoke out of their mouth.
Since the rest of your post is you repeating stuff.. over and over again and simply more evidence you don't read what I or even what others have posted already... I'm gonna bid you farewell, as all you're doing is derailing the topic now and if you continued to act like this I would ask for a mod to intervene. I'm pretty sure I've been more than reasonable to you at this point.
To Youngla and JasonB: I take back all the mean things I ever said about you.
Back to Lucky:
I still haven't gotten your opinion on the idea that the warpfield can enhance the capability of the deflector. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the ML effect it generates, and it nicely explains away the STL stuff effortlessly.
In fact, I think this might be a good time to start a second thread on the subject.