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[li]How is it that Malcolm’s torpedoes are faster than Malik’s?[/li][/QUOTE]
To tell the truth I didn’t think much about this when I saw it but I don’t think this is necessarily a flaw. Malik probably lauched something more along the lines of a probe, intended for an upper atmospheric burst. Excessive speed may be a liability. Whereas Malcom’s torpedoes (I would hope) are specifically designed to be as fast as possible while still being accurate.
Remember Trip’s comment earlier about travelling so fast? ‘The nacelles are going to fly off the ship.’ The structure that attaches the ship to the nacelles would have to be one of the strongest parts of the ship.
The grapplers attached to the Klingon’s nacelle and started pulling. That section of the nacelle would be pulled one way with entire mass of the Klingon ship resisting. Think of what would happen if you attached something to the hood of a car and lifted the car with it. It would probably rip the hood off. The graplers ripped out a chunk of the Klingon nacelle.
OMG :eek: I’m defending Enterprise plot points… I’m going to take a couple of asprin and lie down.
Hey, hey, hush. I didn’t send one when you were in the hospital, because there’s no way that it would have gotten to you before you were discharged. Florida - Oregon takes more than a couple of days. I’m getting one at work tomorrow to send your way. I don’t post much in here, but I still love ya.
At least one TNG episode (I can’t remember the title. A redshirt commits suicide. Worf and Troi fall in love. Scanners find a human skeleton entombed in the hull) has crewmembers stationed inside the nacelles.
Lungs And Space
I think there have been GQ threads on this. The short answer is-empty your lungs. In a vacuum, air your lungs will expand. This will burst the aveoli and cause a lot of problems.
The BioWeapon
I was shocked and disappointed. I thought for sure this was what started the war.
Andromeda did that grappler-as-weapon thing a few weeks back. Of course, the damage to the Andromeda was conveniently ignored in the very next scene. Sigh.
Show of hands…how many people were quoting TWOK in the scene in which Muad’dib crawls across the battered bridge? I was half-expecting the first corpse in the scene (the one he turns over) to say “yours…is superior…”, and when Data was talking to him, I was expecting “From hell’s heart, I stab at thee.” Heh.
I just wonder how Malik/Khan/et.al can pull themselves up out of the rubble, scarred and battered; drag themselves over bodies and equipment; reach the console; and then lean for all their length over the console to barely reach the controls they need.
After all that exertion couldn’t they take one more giant step[sub]Mother may I[/sub]and lean comfortably at the console?
Lungs and Space - thanks Doc
Nacelles - There is so much room to invent plausible deniability. The TOS Schematics show that halfway up the Jeffries Tube into the nacelles is the point beyond which radiation suits must be worn As technology marches on into the 24th century ([Buzz]and beyond[/Buzz]) you can expect better shielding. Then there’s the Structural Integrity Field that can prop up even the silliest mechanical structure. Then there’s the (unsubstantiated) idea that the warp field can create envelopes that aid in supporting the ship; in fact you could argue (no, not argue, uh … dream, WAG, etc.) that there is always a subfield around the nacelle and there’s a pinch point and that’s why you need a thin arm holding the nacelle to the ship. As technology improves and/or size decreases the nacelle could be pulled in closer.
But it is a difference of only one atmosphere. I don’t scuba dive so have never dove (dived? diven? I hate this language!) 10m, stayed down there a while to get all my pressures evened out, took a deep breath, then tried to reach the surface very quickly without exhaling but I suspect I would be too uncomfortable to continue holding my breath long before any significant damage was done. Also, why the burst blood vessels? In the same scuba situation I would not expect to step out of the water with burst blood vessels around my eyes. You need a sudden change of more than one atmosphere to do that. Nor should the water vapor in the air expelled with Archer have collected on him–he was the HOT object in the area. Not that I am nit-picking, of course. I long ago learned that was a losing battle when watching Star Trek.
Daughter: Why are you paying attention to this episode? I thought you hated Enterprise.
Me: This is a story arc I’ve been following for 38 years. I have to watch it closely.
Why would he be cold? In a vacuum there is nothing to which heat is transferred so, except that you would lose heat through infrared emission, you would maintain your temperature for quite some time. The “cold” of space is a misnomer. It cannot be cold or hot because there is nothing to BE cold or hot.
Anyway, he was beamed up so fast it wouldn’t have mattered.
We need Chronos or Cecil as I am not a scientist, but my lay opinion is…
When Archer is launched into space his exterior pressure drops to zero. Water vapor in the surrounding air and on his skin experience this too. PV=nRT says the temperature drops too and molecule vibration at the surface of vapor and skin now have no impediment. So some water vapor sublimes off and some is just cooling from the dispersal due to loss of pressure. All will also be emitting infrared and losing energy. Some water vapor will be freezing when it is transported along with Archer.
The lighting in the scene was uniform so there must have been exterior lights around the facility domes and on the asteroid. Either that or they forgot that without an atmosphere, light is not difracted (nah, never happen). So some of the water is absorbing light energy, but it should be insignificant.
Archer is experiencing a rapid drop in exterior pressure. The capilaries near his skin would be under “high” pressure and push against the skin. It cannot take the pressure differential and pops. That’s may be why he limps onto the bridge too after escaping sickbay - other parts of him may have popped too :eek:
Enough theorizing! What we have to do is find someone to toss out of the Shuttle. Without that, though, we have Joe Kittinger, who jumped out of a balloon at about 103,000 feet. His right glove didn’t pressurize so there was considerable swelling but it also took him an hour and a half to go up and another twelve minutes to come down and a lot of that time was at very low or nearly nonexistant air pressure. Archer was in the vacuum for seconds at most.
The consensus seems to be that a person would have a pretty good chance of surviving a brief exposure.
During the teaser for next week, my wife commented, “They seem to be becoming fond of these multi episode ‘events.’” but she agreed when I noted that reasonably well written multi-episode “events” are a heck of a lot better than the previous single episode crap despite the extra commitment required to follow multi-episode arcs.
