DOH!
So, I am forced to ask for help on this matter.
If anyone could be helpful enough to list for me the acceleration of say, the Galaxy class, Defiant Class, and the Intrepid (if any is known at all), I thank you.
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Originally posted by The Antagonist:If anyone could be helpful enough to list for me the acceleration of say, the Galaxy class, Defiant Class, and the Intrepid (if any is known at all), I thank you.
Well, the TNG:TM lists the Galaxy Class acceleration as something on the order of 10,000 m/s^2 . . . or around a thousand g.
We hardly ever see any representation of awe-inspiring acceleration of such a calibre . . . though some have mentioned the Enterprise in ST:TMP after leaving dock, the "Kumeh Maneuver" in "Peak Performance"(TNG), and a few other examples.
[ November 26, 2001: Message edited by: Phelps ]
(That's not technobabble . . . that's physics.)
Impulse engines are non-Newtonian, though, insofar as they use a small subspace field generator (spacetime driver coil) of below 1000 milliCochranes to give the ship an extra kick and better fuel efficiency.
A subspace field of better than 1000 milliCochranes is necessary for superluminal flight.
(That's not physics . . . that's technobabble.)
Also, it prevents the entire rear-facing area of the ship from having to be a big frickin' sublight engine, like you see on Star Wars Star Destroyers.
(At one point many presumed that the impulse engines provided forward thrust at warp speed, with the warp engines merely providing the continuum distortion effect . . . an episode of Next Gen added to this presumption, when Picard ordered an increase to warp six and Geordi replied "Aye, sir, full impulse". However, the tech-deities that be seem to have settled on the notion that the warp drive's continuum distortion effect is selectively created against the fabric of spacetime to cause the ship to have the necessary acceleration.)
Guardian 2000
I gather that there could be physical reasons for not attaining lightspeed even through a non-Newtonian type of acceleration. There might simply be an interstellar medium that creates a drag proportional to some positive power of speed, so at some point the drag becomes too much for any ship to defy. The drag might be "real", from interstellar gases or something, or "technobabble", from a subspace ether of some sort.
Timo Saloniemi
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Originally posted by Timo:
Which is a good conclusion to come to. After all, Kirk was happily flying at warp speeds in TOS "Obsession", while his impulse engines were down for repairs. Those repairs in fact were the reason the gaseous monster was able to enter the otherwise airtight ship: some sort of a vent had been left open in the impulse engines. (I assume there was a semipermeable forcefield or film in place there, to prevent the air from leaking out...)
Quite true! (I never got in on that debate . . . I was fairly fresh on the scene when the TNG TM came out, and was quite starstruck with all things spoken by technodeities Sternbach and Okuda.)
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I gather that there could be physical reasons for not attaining lightspeed even through a non-Newtonian type of acceleration. There might simply be an interstellar medium that creates a drag proportional to some positive power of speed, so at some point the drag becomes too much for any ship to defy. The drag might be "real", from interstellar gases or something, or "technobabble", from a subspace ether of some sort.Timo Saloniemi
Well, short of making the spacetime driver coils have more than 1000 milliCochrane field distortion (thereby making them warp engines anyway), there would always come a point at which Newton and Einstein would catch up to you.
Even if I can achieve distortion up to 999.99999999999999 milliCochranes, I'll still never hit lightspeed because of that last wee little bit missing . . . my mass will still approach infinity . . . it'll just take longer.
Guardian 2000
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Originally posted by Timo:
There might simply be an interstellar medium that creates a drag proportional to some positive power of speed, so at some point the drag becomes too much for any ship to defy. The drag might be "real", from interstellar gases or something, or "technobabble", from a subspace ether of some sort.
What was the TNG episode where they were trapped in a nebula & there was a major drag problem? FGC-47, I think it was..."Imaghinary Friend," I believe.
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Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay:
Yes, because The Technical Manual is the source for canon information, yessiree Bob!
Compared to the DS9TM, plus the fact that Sternbach and Okuda worked on it? Hell yeah!
where is the .96 from? The only figure I've heard of is .75.
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Originally posted by J:
I'll ask again...where is the .96 from? The only figure I've heard of is .75.
It is really 0.92 c, and it comes from the TM on page 2, in the secondary propulsion section. This is of course achieved only with added umphh from the saucer impulse engines 