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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Ginger's pretty close to what I think is the mark. I think this was hammered out pretty well in the Treknology section some time ago. The [i]Ambassador[/i] was the first class to incorporate separate subspace driver coils into the impulse engine assembly. Prior to that, ships used the mass-reducing effects of low-powered subspace fields from the warp engines. So when the [i]Excelsior[/i]'s warp drive conked out, her apparant mass returned to normal, and her momentum wasn't sufficient yet to shift that bulk at more than a few metres per second. That may have been what inspired them to do what they did with the [i]Ambassador[/i]... As for other matters, in TNG times "full impulse" is limited to .25c for preactical reasons. This is not the functional top sublight speed of starships. If you pull out all the stops, you can run up to .99c if you feel like it, but will later have to compensate for relativistic effects. And a ship moving at nearly 300,000 kilometres per second is gonna do a lot of damage to whatever it runs into. Think cosmic rays, but about several billion times more massive. At warp, things become even more interesting. If simple impact is what happens, then the ship essentially becomes a giant tachyon. If the subspace bubble somehow prevents physical interaction with sublight objects (which I can't imagine it would), then drop out of warp [i]inside[/i] the target. Ick. Alternately, one could use the outlawed phasing cloak to similar effect.Or just pummel a Borg ship until its subspace field collapses (or at least becomes compromised) and have everybody start beaming antimatter inside. Getting back to realistic tactics, photon (and presumably quantum) torpedoes have warp sustainer engines. Do a warp 9.975 run-up in an [i]Intrepid[/i], drop a passel of torps, veer off, and watch them plow into the Cube at several thousand times light-speed. Hell, even some warp-capable probes would do nicely, due just to velocity and the antimatter they carry to power their microwarp engines. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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