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From: atoy@watnot.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: FTL weapons (and 'otherspace')
Message-ID: <11668@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 18:18:23 EST
Article-I.D.: watnot.11668
Posted: Thu Mar 27 18:18:23 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 20:54:20 EST
References: <4609MW9@PSUVM> <185@hope.UUCP>
Reply-To: atoy@watdcsu.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mapping Analysis and Design Group, U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <185@hope.UUCP> spock@hope.UUCP (Chris Ambler) writes:
>Gentlemen! The issue here is *NOT* FTL!!! The weapons used by the Feds
>(and for that matter, all) that travel FTL (phasers are at C) are not
>in our space!

BTW, can the Enterprise fire phasers while travelling at warp speeds?
Also, is it correct that phasers can't be fired while the deflector
shields are up.  I seem to recall quite a few episodes where the
phasers can't be fired because the shields are up (I don't know why
they didn't use photon torpedoes instead).  Are there any other major
limitations to phasers?

> Take a look at the explanation of 'warp' speed. The ship
>projects a shell of 'otherspace' around it so as to slip into an alternate
>space (known, again, as 'otherspace'). When one fires a torpedo, it, too,
>is in 'otherspace'. A common tactic for evading a torpedo (I know this
>because I am in the porting stage of an advanced starship simulator) is
>to drop out of otherspace when you see it coming. It then, goes 'right
>through you' (actually, this is a paradox, but it sounds good to describe
>it this way). In 'otherspace', C is a different value...

I don't recall this tactic ever being used by any ships in Star Trek.
Is this space that you call 'otherspace' also known as 'subspace' as
mentioned it the series?  What are your references of the above?
Particularly the torpedo scenario and the "c is a different value" bits.

>|-Spock!  (Christopher J. Ambler, University of California, Riverside)|


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