^_^ Half A Life: Faster then light, or just FTL ^_^

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^_^ Half A Life: Faster then light, or just FTL ^_^

Post by Lucky » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:34 am

Does TNG: Half a Life depict faster then light photon torpedos?

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Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 4 Episode: 22 Title: Half a Life wrote: [Bridge]

WORF: I have completed long range scans. There are no other life forms are present in this system. 


RIKER: Spacecraft? 


WORF: None within sensor range. 


PICARD: Picard to Engineering.


[Engineering]

PICARD [OC]: Mister La Forge, the system is clear. 


LAFORGE: Final pre-launch diagnostic, level five. 


TIMICIN: All systems verified. 


LAFORGE: We're ready here when you are, Captain.


[Bridge]

PICARD: Very well. Mister Worf? 


WORF: Photon torpedoes armed and targeted. 


PICARD: Fire in sequence. 


WORF: First volley released. 


DATA: Tracking torpedoes. Entry programme confirmed. 


WORF: Second volley released.


[Engineering]

LAFORGE: Torpedoes now entering the stellar core. 


TIMICIN: Their shields are holding. Guidance systems normal. 


LAFORGE: Ignition sequence, six seconds


[Bridge]

LAFORGE [OC]: Five seconds. Four.


[Engineering]

LAFORGE: Three seconds. Now. Shock wave patterns within predicted range. Seventeen hundred percent rise in gamma radiation levels. Helium fusion rate increasing. 


TIMICIN: What about heat and pressure levels? 


LAFORGE: Steady so far. Density at eleven hundred grams per cubic centimetre. Temperature approaching sixty million degrees Kelvin. 


TIMICIN: We want it to stabilise at two hundred and twenty million.


[Bridge]

DATA: Pressure wave harmonics dispersing. Temperature in target zone increasing to eighty one million degrees, sir. 


LAFORGE [OC]: Still rising.


[Engineering]

LAFORGE: Temperature at ninety million degrees Kelvin. And now one hundred ten million. Looking good. One hundred thirty seven.


[Bridge]

DATA: Radiation and pressure levels still stable. 


LAFORGE [OC]: Temperature is one hundred and seventy million degrees Kelvin.

[Engineering]

LAFORGE: One ninety. And now two hundred million. 


TIMICIN: It's happening. 


LAFORGE: Two oh seven and rising. Two nineteen. And twenty. Two twenty. And holding. Looks like congratulations may be in order.


[Bridge]

PICARD: Mister Data? 


DATA: Turbulence patterns are within predicted parameters.


[Engineering]

(Composite sensor analysis 4077 display) 

LAFORGE: Two twenty two.

[Bridge]

DATA: Temperature is rising in the core again, Captain. Two hundred and thirty million degrees Kelvin. 


LAFORGE [OC]: Still rising, Captain.

[Engineering]

LAFORGE: Two fifty one.


[Bridge]

DATA: Rate exceeding critical level. Core density is becoming unstable. 


RIKER: Let's get the hell out of here. 


PICARD: Ensign, warp two now! 

(a bright new supernova lights the heavens)

It seems that the screen caps below might be useful for determining range.
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