Monkeyman wrote:Heh. Yep, that's right, I'm back. Didn't think you'd see me again, did you? Please, hold your applause. As you all may have guessed, this particular topic is in the great ongoing who - is - stronger than who debate between the Star Wars universe and the Star Trek universe. As the Star Wars universe is supposed to have 200GT turbolasers and Star Trek is supposed to have something in the region of only 1 GW phaser power, you'd naturally think that Star Wars would wipe the floor with our brave boys from the Alpha Quadrant.
But what was it that a dear El - Aurian scientist of ours said in Star Trek: Generations?
"Oh do be careful, captain; that's a 50 GW forcefield. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt."
This was after Picard had walked into the thing. And IT DIDN'T KILL HIM. 50 GW of raw power, and he wasn't even knocked out. Now, from the Rabid Warsies, we are supposed to believe that our dear ENT - D has only 1 GW of phaser power. Yet, if 50 GW can't even kill a man, then how is 1 GW supposed to do significant damage to a ship's shielding?
I put it to you, my dear friends (heh) that our dear Warsie acquaintances are grievously mistaken. I would postulate that phaser power is at least 20 times greater than that of the 50 GW forcefield.
Whenever a Rabid Warsie jumps up and tells you all otherwise, swat him down with this.
See ya!!!
This guy actually thinks that we should be using the effects displayed in Star Trek as real world baselines? 50 GW is roughly the equivalent of 10 tons of TNT per second! Even if Picard was in contact with the forcefield for 1/24 of a second (the minimum observable timeframe for film), he'd have absorbed the equivalent energy of
half a ton of TNT! Do Trekkies ever
think before they write this shit down?
No, this dumbshit obviously assumes that any object which comes in contact with the forcefield will have energy delivered to it at the rate of 50 GW, regardless of size, which is simply absurd. More than likely, Soran was referring to the total power output of the forcefield, which had a fairly large surface area. If we assume a hemispherical shape of 50 meters high (high enough to cover the missile launcher) and a termination at an average ground level of 0, then we get a surface area of about 16 000 m^2, which means a radiative output of about 300 kW/m^2. However, we never observed Picard's clothes catching on fire when he touched the forcefield, either. Most likely, the forcefield is powered by a 50 GW generator, but delivers a repulsive force to whatever it touches, maybe accompanied by a small jolt of electricity.
