...maybe the Defiant is 170 meters, its just travelling at 0.708c.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Oh, come on, I never smite people. I bludgeon! *bludgeons Krenim*
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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Ow!
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
*sends Krenim into one corner to write "I will not flog a dead horse" 1000 times; Frank into another corner to write "I will not bludgeon Krenim" 5000 times; Sternbach into another corner to write "I will think before I arbitrarily assign ship lengths" 1,000,000 times* I have one more corner left - behave yourselves, the rest of you. . . }B)
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Isn't it length *contraction* at relativistic speeds?
In the next exciting episode, F. "Defiant" Gerratana will shrink the Krenim Imperium by moving it away from the galactic core.
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Bernd, that's it. And if it's 170 metres, as they say, and in the FX it's 120 metres, then the Defiant is always moving at 0.708c. ("Fast little ship." "Little?" )
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
I see o:
It *seems* 170m*1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)=120m, while it *is* 170m. This is why the ship has multiple pairs of impulse engines
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
But now we're giving the FX people too much credit. It scares me.
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