Where is it stated in "Little Green Men" how the U.T. works?MauriceWindows wrote: Or just sensor-beams and MRI's.
But I don't think they work that way; in DS9's "Little Green Men," Quark showed that the UT was a little thing implanted in a person's ear, that allows them to hear and speak in foreign languages. This doesn't "read thought" from a distance, it's hooked right into their brain.
Meanwhile on DS9 station, a new aliens species came to the station from the Gamma Quadrant, and the station's computer had to observe them for a while in order to learn more and more of their language, by observing their speech and actions together; and then after a few days or so, everyone was able to communicate with them normally.
This indicated that the DS9 crew's UT implants were wirelessly connected to the station's LAN, in order to automatically download automatic updates of language-files as soon as they became available.
This also doesn't "read thought," but rather the computer just watches and observes in order to learn languages from the correlations between actions and words.
What model universal translator does Deep Space Nine have? It was a Cardasian station first, and being brought up to Federation standard for a while. I doubt a working U.T. even if not as good as a Federation U.T. would be high on the list of things to fix or improve.
Show Spock was wrong or lying, and Spock being right is kind of required for the episode to make sense.
The warp threshold was a minor plot point in "Star Trek; First contact". There is a threshold that needs to be reached before a ship can actually go to warp, and that threshold is about the speed of light if not light speed. It only appears that ships go straight to warp because of how fast they can accelerate to the threshold so fast.MauriceWindows wrote: No, they can just go from full stop to warp in one move.
Yes, but in this case we are talking about tiny little under powered shuttles going .7c through atmosphere. The energies are insane, and the point was ships normally have no trouble reaching near light speeds or higher.MauriceWindows wrote: And? If they can go faster than light, then obviously they can go slower.
That quote says nothing about wormholes.MauriceWindows wrote:That's also the only thing that would explain the speed of the transmissions, and over the distances covered; nothing else even comes close.http://www.startrek.com/database_article/subspace-radio wrote: subspace radio
Method of communication that sends electromagnetic signals through subspace, boosting the signal's range and speed to translight velocities. Subspace signals can carry audiovisual data as well as text messages. Within Federation boundaries, a network of relay stations augments subspace communication and amplifying and rerouting messages as needed.
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/231.htm wrote: LAFORGE: Good question. The emissions are coming from a tertiary subspace domain, but subspace has an infinite number of domains. It's like a huge honeycomb with an endless number of cells. We need to isolate the exact cell that these emissions are coming from.
The point is that torpedos accelerate after being fired, and they don't need the ship they are fired from to be at warp to reach faster then light speeds. They don't just sustain the warp field.MauriceWindows wrote: It's just common sense. To go to warp on the torpedo's own power would drain it, reducing both speed and potential damage.
However it needs a space-warp to either go to FTL speed, or maintain it, and both shields and space-warps work on the same principle.
I know of no evidence that stronger shields can penetrate weaker shields. Everything seems to come down to matching frequencies(what is being measured is never explained), and disrupting the shields. More power doesn't work well as seen in "A Taste of Armageddon" where a weapon throws more energy at the Enterprise then seems to exist in the known universe.MauriceWindows wrote: Presumably, a stronger shield can also penetrate a weaker one by cancellation; and torpedo-shields should be stronger than ship-shields, because they've got more power-area ratio and they can be designed for 100% power (ala the Orion warship in "Journey to Babel" which was only the size of an ordinary scout-ship, but could stll beat the Enterprise for that reason).
TNG "Up the Long Ladder" has the Enterprise-D transport 200 humans, and an unknown number of livestock(goats, pigs, chickens) in one go. That would be about 600 gigatons with humans alone I believe.^_^MauriceWindows wrote: I doubt it. You're talking about an awful lot of M-E conversion to contain-- and move: over a 2000 megaton's bomb's worth, to transport a single average-sized person.
That's more than I can accept to be handled by a teeny little transporter-pad.
Rather, particles would need to stay intact, and the only energy transmitted would be the weak binding-forces between atoms and electrons. Even the strong nuclear forces would be too immense to disassemble the core-particles and then re-assemble them at the terminus. Treknology is powerful, but not that powerful.
In "Our Man Bashir" Sisko, Dax, Worf, Kira, and O'Brien are stored in the holosuite database, and stored as holograms.
At the very least the thing being transported is broken down into electrons, protons, and neutrons, sent through sub-space, and then reassembled at the other end. They would not have a Heisenburg compensator unless transporters work on the quantum level.
Honestly you can make a reasonable argument that Star Trek is a very high powered setting without using the silly high ends like "A Taste of Armageddon"..
