Ah, yes, i misread that. My bad.HUH?, i was agreeing with you, "No roids cannot usually do so"...was in regards to them being capable of speed up on their own.
No. I would look at the scene, and would recognize that you are right.If i said that you would scream about some sort of relative distance and velocity calculation.......
(corrected that quoting error for you).I would say the material is inconclusive and that claiming the falcon was not slowing down or speeding up as part of its evasive manouvers is hardly going to be accepted.We do not see it speeding up or slowing down. We do see that the asteroids do not actually move that much relative to each other. Thus, they are either not moving at all, very slowly or at about the same speed.
Why should it slow down? Did it have to evade any asteroids in front of it?
Either way - all that matters is the distance the Falcon had to the two colliding asteroids.
Provide your own backed up estaminate of that distance.
Ah - so naturally, he did not worry about them at all anymoreThey were no where near and not even close enough to fire on him.
Why not? We see the Falcon maneuvering without breaking trough DSII at high speeds by a pilot who is unlikely to be as good as Han.Dude Han is one of the best pilots in ANY franchise he would not limit his evasive manouvers to lateral and vertical combos, you have to accept that he would speed up and slow down as well to avoid roids, we see plenty pass by in front of the ship from above or other angles.
Khan limited his and look what happened....lol.
Why should the asteroids necessitate significant breaking
"Hardly moving"? Where did you get THAT idea?Sure.
If i was going to show that the falcan was hardly moving and the distance i would point out that the momemt the roids hit and the surviving one appears ouit of the flash and explosion that it closes the distance to the falcon and passes below...or the falcon approaches it.
Besides, that asteroid just vanishes from our field of view by traversing downwards. It is not moving straight towards the Falcon.
So - where is your actual estaminate?Either way the surviving fragments size barely changes from the point it exits the explosion to the point is passes below the falcon.
If the falcon had been approaching from a 1000m distance or even been stationary and the roid had been approaching from 1000m distance then it would have looked visably larger as it passed below them compared to when it first apreared after the collision/flash explosion ect....
If you had actually done the work, you could give us one. It doesn't have to be precise - but not even an estaminate that is accurate to +-100 meters?
But they are still as heavily armed as their neighbors warships. Not to mention that exploration is still damn bloody dangerous.The defiant is a warship, so are a few other of the new classes?, happy?....the others like the E-D are ships of exploration by canon.
Yes, i do actually understand that. You don't have to quote every of my lines (not that you do so anyway) - however, you do have to address their content. Doing so in a summary is absolutely no problemI assume you will understand why i did not respond to all the above questions regarding the prime directive considering my final camment regarding "Star fleet captains should be allowed to judge each situation on its individual merits."
But here, you did not actually address my point:
A law that has to be broken constantly to be moral is a bad law.
Simply including a line that allows them to intervene in the case of natural disaster would be a great improvement.
Do i need an excuse for that?What is your excuse for us seeing ST ships being capable of the same thing?.
They are obviously capable of leaving a planetary gravity well as well. That gives us an minimum amount of generator capacity. It might even be similar to what SW-ships need (depending on the actual speed ST does it).
Go ahead, calculate it. It could be interesting.
The time for the Star Destroyers in the field is not based on any of the Falcons activities.I doubt he expected to be in the floor of the falcon fixing for days while they were getting shot at and chased by at least 3 ISD's and multiple TIE fighters (before he noticed they hit summat rather than getting shot).
Instead, it is depending on how long they search.
If i lead you into a forest and you believe that i am still in that forest - you can search for days while i am back home.
At the very least is was an incredibly ignorant argument.Not a lie as wee see the VAST AREA around the SSD and ISD's and it is sparse.
Yes, but we also see the overall density of the field.He flew through dense pockets to lose the ties.
What makes you think you would see the small asteroids at all?We do not see them blow up lots, in fact quite the oposite.
A dense belt would have a densly covered background that cannot be denied.
The belt was sparse apart from the occasional pocket of density likely cause by the occasional collision of larger roids and the falcon flew through them to lose the ties.
The bridge was NOT immediately destroyed (if at all).Irellavant as the KE from it could have been many millions of times more than was required to knock off the bridge tower.
We see the captain of that ship during the holo conference. The asteroid hit's the bridge, and we still see him at the holo conference (tough his image has worsened in quality). We see how he recoils from what appears to be a secondary explosion, and his image is cut off.
That does not indicate that he is dead, just that the transmitter is broken,
If that asteroid had so much more energy than required, then it would have vaporized the bridge while plowing straight trough it.
Instead, the asteroid vaporized and the bridge remained at least somewhat intact - or the captain would have vanished immediately.
It is not mine.Nope your site says that.You say that the Empire can create some kind of fusion within heavy metals within their reactors.
So where is your evidence that they can DO it.Not just from that but essentially correct.
Alderaan doesn't count, since that would be circular reasoning.
Also, if that would be the case they would not need a Death Star. If you claim that they have an exothermic chain reaction, they could just shoot part of the planet, and it would still explode. Sure, it would take longer - perhaps a couple of minutes - but that hardly matters, because you still blew up the planet.
We never see this. Whenever they blow up a planet, they do so with incredibly large ships.
The Empire actually HAS planet-destoying chain reactions. They look like this (Galaxy gun projectile:
It takes minutes, not seconds. It is a warhead, not a beam. It is very different from what we see the Death Star do.Having reached its target, powered by the missile's power core, the particle disintegrator warhead exploded, triggering immense nuclear cloud reactions that encircled the targeted world's surface within minutes. At the projectile's full power setting, the nuclear reactions were sustained until all matter had been converted into energy, effectively wiping the planet and its inhabitants off the face of the galaxy. However, there were low power settings allowing them to destroy selected cities and military bases while leaving the rest of the planet untouched.
So, how many do they have?You now know what picard was thinking?, and who says the federation has thousands of them?.
Even a thousand won't be enough to defeat the Empire.
First, you have to DELIVER them.
If we take the standard wormhole szenario (the most favorable for Trek, since SW can travel between galaxies while Trek can not), you will pop out at some random point in the SW-galaxy.
You will take months or years to reach your target, and the important worlds are widely dispersed. Furthermore, they are heavily defended.
During that time, the Federation will already be conquered - and if you use WMDs, the empire can do that with ease as well. The Federation only has a couple of important planets, and they are all clustered into a very small (for SW) region.
The Death Star could simply start to jump in and start annihilating worlds with impunity.
And the Federation never lost one of it's main worlds. They lost a couple of colonies, they lost soldiers during wars - but they never saw how someone blew Earth or Vulcan apart, killing billions within seconds.
Do you REALLY think that the Federation would be suicidal enough to go trough something like that?
But instead, Picard destroyed it.You have no proof that he was a member.
In fact if i was from the future and i had a WMD like that hiding it on a planet that was part of a federation that could make them would mean if it was discovered it would be a big deal but not like if a race without the tech found it.
A bit like hiding a nuke in a country like the USA, the USA find it and its YAY a free nuke....after a WTF IS A NUKE DOING UNDER ME DRIVE!!!!....obviously.
Why do that, if they already have many similar weapons?
As you said "yay, a free nuke" - but instead, Picard destroyed it. Why?
Neelix carried it in the DQ - how did they aquire it?Well if nelix carried a flask that could contain it id hardly call it rare, and readily available to the federation is hardly the same as ir grows on trees..
Hey, it would actually be GOOD if it contained no protomatter.Maybe maybe not we do not get a description of what it contains, however other WMD's did.
No. They somehow influenced helium fusion, and that increased the temperature.Well they were trying to increase helium fusion by artificialy heating the stars core that in turn would cause more heat and more helium fusion.
Now if i understand it helium fusion increases at around 100 million K and they heated the star to over 250 (last comment before they ran off and it was climbing fast). So what is to stop them heating a normal star to 100 million K and inducing helium fusion and allowing the process to increase. You cannot say that main sequance stars do not have helium in them to allow the process now can you?.
Or do you know claim that a normal torpedo (modified or not) can contain EXATONS of energy?
The core of a sun has a denisty of 1.5×10^5 kg/m3 and is many times as large as the earth.
We do not see a single photon torpedo vaporizing planets, do we?
In a normal star, they can not influence HE-HE fusion (it doesn't exist). The star would not heat up. Nothing would happen.