I think you didn't understand my point.Who is like God arbour wrote:No, they have had to drill through the crust and a huge part of the mantle to a magma pocket that was shortly above the core, they wanted to "restart". An earthlike planet assuming, that would be round about 2'800 kilometers and accidentally that was what Geordi has shown in the briefing:Mr. Oragahn wrote:There's something important to note.
Where does this 12% increase come from?
I've seen it in a script, but not in the episode in question.
Notice, that if this increase was mentionned in a longer variant of the episode - and we see that the cut is a bit blunt at this point in the episode - it would mean that the average drilling rate of 10 km / 19 s (~520 m/s) is above the rate when they increase the yield by 12%, that is, 2 km / 5 s (400 m/s).
There's no way to work around this. In the script I had found, the 12% increase is immediately followed by the drilling through the last two kilometers, and there's no evidence that they would have reduced the power - especially a second after pumping it up.
This would show that once again, someone screwed up.
So really, I'd like to know what's correct about the 12% increase.Even if they wouldn't have increased the power it would be still circa 2'800 kilometers in 19 seconds - minus the last 2 kilometers in 5 from these 19 seconds.
The screw up does exist if the 12% increase is in anyway canon.
2800 kilometers in 19 seconds, which would be an averaged rate, would mean 147,368 m/s.
2798 km/14 s means 199,857 m/s (the whole lenght, minus the 2 last km and the 5 last seconds).
2 km in 5 seconds, that's only 400 m/s. This latest phase was, according to the script with the 12% reference, precisely happening immediately after the 12% increase.
The point is fairly simple. They boost the drilling power by 12%... and the drilling speed comes down by 3 orders of magnitude.
This is simply why I asked if there was any canonical reference about the 12% boost. There better not.
The only way to rationalize this would be that the weapon lost efficiency to such a degree that it would mean that either it was going through some hard material, or that the phasers' quality was suddenly degraded.