A TIE rams a Federation ship...

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-20 02:28am

Their weapons yeah, but apparently the technology applied to solid objects, like when that Jem'adrwssname walked thru the force field. The original "ship ramming" where they crashed for the first time depicted the thing going thru the shields like it was toilet paper.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-02-20 02:36am

Slartibartfast wrote:Their weapons yeah, but apparently the technology applied to solid objects, like when that Jem'adrwssname walked thru the force field. The original "ship ramming" where they crashed for the first time depicted the thing going thru the shields like it was toilet paper.

The poloron beams used by Dominion ships were capable of pbypassing shields. However the ships themselves did not have any shield penetrating capability.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-20 12:24pm

You say that, but the episode made a big deal of the Jem' walking thru the force field in the DS9 bridge.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2004-02-21 08:37pm

HRogge wrote:
Ender wrote:Actually, we do. They, like all big weapons, are nuclear weapons. Thermonuclear to be exact. So the missiles wouldn't explode.

Neither should the fuel. Its just matter to be ejected, there is no need to make it reactive and in fact a lot of excellent reason to make it inert. Hell, even JP5 jet fuel isn't explosive because it only starts to burn at 500 degrees and you aren't going to get it up that high from a crash or anything other then the engines.
Proton torpedos are no nuclear weapons,

Yes, they are. OTICS states so quite clearly.

so I don't see any reason why concussion missiles should be nuclear ones.

Maybe because the ROTJ novel descrives "thermonuclear" explosions and the nuclear nature of the explosives is again stated in AOTCICS?