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From: atoy@watnot.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: FTL weapons
Message-ID: <11652@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 10:30:06 EST
Article-I.D.: watnot.11652
Posted: Mon Mar 24 10:30:06 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 03:45:07 EST
References: <656@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: atoy@watnot.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mapping Analysis and Design Group, U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <656@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>Note that in the Star Trek universe, FTL is some sort of abnormal state.
>"No natural object can travel faster than light!" (I don't remember the
>episode.)  It strains the engines to _continue_ to travel at warp 10;
>they can't just coast.  In fact if they turn off the engines, don't they
>revert to sublight?  Perhaps even "stop"?  (Relative to what?) Given
>this, one would expect that the weaponry must have its own propulsion
>system, once it leaves the field that propels the ship.  Has there ever
>been any mention of such a system?  (I remember that the Romulan weaponry
>had a tracking device.)

I recall some episodes where the the Enterprise is going *really* fast
and they have to reverse engines to slow down.  I think one of them is
the one where they mix matter and anti-matter *cold* because the
engines were shut down and they didn't have time to get them to
operating temperature since they were trying to get out of a decaying
orbit.
-- 
  Andy Toy, Mapping Analysis and Design Group (MAD), 
  Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo,
  Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1   (519) 885-1211 x6592
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