Cool new Iconian or Ciadan idea

posted on May 28th, 2010, 11:27 pm

Your post solves it of course then - it's a sustainer, not a generator Therefore the torpedoes would not be unaffected by the weapon, right?

posted on May 28th, 2010, 11:36 pm

Off-topic Tyler, but was the picture from an episode? If so, which one?

I always got the impression that torpedos could travel at warp if they were launched at warp, but not if they were launched when the ship was at impulse...

posted on May 28th, 2010, 11:38 pm

The image is from Nightingale.

posted on May 29th, 2010, 12:30 am

Your post solves it of course then - it's a sustainer, not a generator Therefore the torpedoes would not be unaffected by the weapon, right?

Well, from what I've seen in episodes, 2 warp fields meet, they merge.  So if it's carrying it's own warp field, meets the special reverso-warp field, it would most likely just merge fields with it, and be in it's little warp bubble.

Unless, of course, they just deploy Wesley's Quantum Warp Bubble, and it makes torps disappear by turning their warp fields into a seperate decaying mini-universe.

posted on May 29th, 2010, 8:52 pm

Probably just Momentum that keeps them going at Warp, a Warp Field would require the Warp coils used in nacelles.
So where are those Torps hiding their Warp coils?

you said momentum keeps them going at warp, momentum is a concept for our laws of physics, which may not apply at warp.

warp coils are big yes (i already knew what they looked like from that ep, i thought harry was extra stupid in that particular ep) but presumably sustaining an already generated warp field (from the launching ship's large warp coils) is a lot easier than generating a new field.

so i believe the theory on MA that says that when fired at warp they "steal" a little of the launching ship's field for a short distance (enough to get to the enemy and explode) and when fired at impulse (in the absence of a warp field) they travel at impulse.

it seems we are agreeing on a lot of this is there any of this you disagree with?

nowhere in my posts did i suggest that a torp could enter warp from impulse or generate its own warp field.

posted on May 29th, 2010, 10:34 pm

They used momentum from Warp in the TNG episode "Force of Nature", the one where Warp was damaging subspace. They had to use the warp momentum to get thru a region where warp wouldnt work so they could rescue trapped crewmembers.

posted on May 29th, 2010, 10:52 pm

i think that was a silly idea lol. canon but silly. i dont think warp drive just makes a ship go faster, i think it does technobabbly stuff such as entering subspace.

unless they meant momentum in a different way, such as pumping a lot of power in the warp field so it will exist for a while unpowered.

[Tyler]

posted on May 29th, 2010, 11:16 pm

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From what I remember, it was a short burst into high Warp before shutting it down.

Memory Alpha puts it better than me:

Data suggests to Captain Picard that the Enterprise "coast" into the rift by initiating a brief but intense warp pulse from their current position where they'd be able to reach a high enough velocity to enter the rift, beam the crew of the Fleming on to the Enterprise and leave the rift without using the warp engines inside of it.