Thursday, March 28, 2019

Starfleet Versus Most Other TV And Movie Space Navies Is Just Dumb

And yes, I know this clip is from a Scandinavian comedy and shit, but everyone else always underpowers the Starfleet vessels, too.  Star Trek shields are magical, except when lazy writing demands they not be, but in the world of Starfleet, those shields, even the navigational deflectors and structural integrity fields alone without the defence shields, would stop any and all weapons from Earthforce and the aliens, the Galactic Empire, the Peacekeepers, the Colonial Fleet without a problem.  And the Federation weapons would instantaneously destroy any of those opposing vessels as well.  Once again, the writing on Star Trek was often awful and some things wouldn't look good on television screens, but phasers travel at light speed and can hit a moving target within one meter of said target at a distance of one lightsecond, which is about 300,000 kilometers.  Photon torpedoes also travel at relativistic velocities, so basically any target closer than one lightsecond gets hit the instant the torpedoes are fired, are guided and can maneuver to track targets, have on-board deflector shields to help get through energy shielding, and deliver yields hundreds or thousands of times conventional nuclear warheads--maybe more, we don't really know because the lazy writing and plot demands and shit.  That means that this dumb comedy movie could have had any one of these Starfleet ships obliterate the entire opposing armada without suffering any damage whatsoever.  I know, I know, but still.


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