Cpl Kendall wrote:Wait a sec. If Bajorans have the same strength as humans (and Kira doesn't appear to be an exceptionly fit soldier based on her muscle definition in the pilot) but gets stronger with adrenaline, shouldn't a Klingon (already bigger than her and stronger than a human) be ahead of her because of a similar burst of adrenaline or does that not happen to them?
I would presume that in Trek biological life, when not talking about humans or earth based creatures, there is some equivient to adrenaline based on the self-preservation principle. There's enough of it on earth to reasonably think that if there is life on other planets, it's got something like adrenaline, too.
We can also assume that the 'self-preservation' enhancement of adrenaline/similar chemical combinations is proportionally the same, depending on the type(s) of chemicals involved for each species. But, for each case, not everyone would have the same amount of 'super' chemicals running through them. There are some fighters that regularly control how their body reacts to adrenaline/stress and it transfers over to when they get into a street fight. But, there are those that will also often let themselves go and just become animalistic.
Whether or not klingons would be super chanrged, too, would be a case by case basis when you bring in specific instances in the canon. Some might be more active movers, crossing greater territory in a fight, while others stalk more and take a longer time to cross the same distance.
But, you also can't assume that even a super charged, chemically flooded klingon is gonna have the best chance of deflecting any and all atempts to up root them just because they are super charged. Being high on adrenaline doesn't make your soft tissue as hard as rock. It just lets you keep going with those injuries. It doesn't increase the force of gravity that's on your body. You can't just be high on adrenaline and squat down, tense your muscles and think you've changed your mass.
When someone is 'hard' (where there is rigidity somewhere in the body), it's much easier to push that area because it is ridgid. Putting force on one area of the body moves another because the ridgid area is connected to the surrounding tissue that's either pliable or ridgid. Where as, when one pushes against an area that is 'soft', the body of the one being pushed moves around the thing that's pushing them more than the area that's 'hard'.
When you look at professional fighting, like MMA, even the more skilled and stronger oppoent can loose because it is all about the situation. Was there a misstep or just a little too much extension of an arm when punching?
Praeothmin wrote:And we know that adrenaline doesn't automatically transform humans in the Hulk everytime someone is stressed, or even fearful for their lives...
If it did, then everycop facing a criminal with a weapon, every soldier on the field would be able to flip human beings like rag dolls and throw them around like they were nothing.
No, but it doesn't mean that it's so useless that wind will knock you over, if someone sneezes on you.