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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Neutrino 123: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Capt_Frank_Hollister: [qb] It's a possibility, but one I'm not particularly fond of for one main reason: That's the sort of thing that should be corroborated by on-screen evidence; my scheme is essentially "invisible" and thus would fit better with on-screen evidence. [/qb][/QUOTE]I like the forcefield idea since it explains the wierd positioning of impulse engines on some ships. Note that in the various brigs, air does not show up on the forcefields, so perhaps thrust wouldn't either. Of course, the forcefields would need to be rather powerful to contain the thrust, but combined with the subspace field, it would presumably be managable. [QUOTE]: [qb]There's also a more general problem I have with the switching-off-the-SSF-to-slow-down scheme. In order to slow the ship down from relativistic speeds to something that could in any way be considered "slow" would require an effective change in mass of many orders of magnitude. I had always been under the impression that the SSF only reduced the ship's effective mass by less than 50% and not more than 90% (figures I just pulled out of my... well, never mind). I figured it just made the ship a bit less massive, not light as a feather. [/qb][/QUOTE]On the first DS9 episode the station moved quite a bit with weak thrusters. The time without the subspace field would be two months, but with the field, the movement was fairly quick (under a day, but I don't remember exactly). This means that the subspace field reduced the mass by at least two orders of magnitude, and probably quite a bit more. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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