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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] Of course, combat in Star Trek is completely unrealistic: 1. As was mentioned, detonations of photon torpedoes should be massive: 300 Hiroshima bombs (at around 14,000 tons of TNT each) would be equivalent to 5.2 million tons of TNT, which would be enough to destroy everything within a fairly wide radius. Explosions on screen look like a few gallons of gasoline. Also explosions should not billow in a vacuum. The gases would just keep expanding outward. 2. Unfortunately, ships seem to be firing at each other from only a few hundred meters or less. Even modern fighter planes and naval ships often fight at ranges of 10s or 100s of kilometers. 3. You can't fly through an exploding ship and expect to come out undamaged. Ship parts are not immediately converted to a vacuum. 4. I don't need to mention (but I will) that ships travelling at a high fraction of the speed of light cannot bank and turn like fighter planes and that you don't need to fight in only two dimensions. I'm sure I'm not the first person to mention this kind of stuff, but it's always bothered me. Sorry for ranting. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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