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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] So does that mean that we can use the quote tag? [QUOTE]test[/QUOTE] Dangit, I just saw "Friendship One" and it pretty much trashes Masao's theory about antimatter propulsion and the Romulan War and all that... just as I'm getting ready to publish a series of articles on the war based on his material. Argh! [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/frown.gif[/IMG] While I really do appreciate the writers' attempt at historical references like this, the fact is that they really didn't think things all the way through. The use of antimatter technology so soon after the Third World War makes very little sense. Furthermore, I did a few calculations regarding distance and time. Based on the launch date (2067), the current date (2377) and the date the admiral said they lost contact (130 years ago, but that's debatable -- see below), I came up with some figures. In order to travel 30,000 light years in approximately 180 years, [i]Friendship One[/i] had to travel at a velocity between Warp 5 and Warp 6. Um... excuse me? This probe could travel at a sustained speed (at least 125 c) for almost 200 years? When warp drive had only been invented three years previously? (Yeah, I suppose you could say a wormhole, but read on...) The other problem is the admiral's line: "We lost contact with [Friendship One] about 130 years ago." Excuse me? They were able to maintain long-distance contact with a probe that had travelled thousands of light-years, but they still have trouble sending messages to Voyager. Does anyone else see a contradiction here? *sigh* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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