There is one thing I sometimes wonder about: How do they tow a ship back to a starbase at warp speeds without breaking it into thousands of tiny pieces? Most of the Trek TV shows never went into much detail about how they’d do that at all.
Simple. A tractor beam pulls the ship. Why would it break into thousands of pieces? the towing ship would use its deflector array (or as I like to think of it, the giant space umbrella) and they’d both hide behind it. Or if the ship under tow was bigger, they’d make something up about crosswiring the shields and whatnot to make the “umbrella” big enough for both ships.
I would assume it would have something to do with the Laws of Motion & Inertia. When you’re in your car, even though you are not physically held down to your car by anything more than gravity, your directional motion is equal and influenced by your car as if it was part of your car, the only way you can cease this phenomenon is an outside force tries to push you off the car (inertia if acceleration is too great, and/or wind resistance, or the car stops moving).
This principle remains even when towing an object with the car, either with a hitch, or with a rope. A rope has problems with turns, bumps in the road, and wind resistance, while a hitch will make it more secure against the bumps and wind, while also making turns easier. We don’t know if a tractor beam is like a rope, or a steel rod, but there are no bumps, or wind resistance in space. Turns would also be minimal as you would navigate a Warp course in the most straight line. So as long as the Muffin accelerates slow enough, the “rope” should hold strong
And watch: tomorrow the transporter will be broken
Yea, about that. In the March 28th installment, TAG says they probably will not be able to transport back as that is a Trope.
yeah probably some mirror universe bs coming up
Given that they’re still in the tropic anomaly, Bob’s Tempting Fate there was really not a good idea.
There is one thing I sometimes wonder about: How do they tow a ship back to a starbase at warp speeds without breaking it into thousands of tiny pieces? Most of the Trek TV shows never went into much detail about how they’d do that at all.
I think they extend their shields or something. The real answer: It’s in the script.
Simple. A tractor beam pulls the ship. Why would it break into thousands of pieces? the towing ship would use its deflector array (or as I like to think of it, the giant space umbrella) and they’d both hide behind it. Or if the ship under tow was bigger, they’d make something up about crosswiring the shields and whatnot to make the “umbrella” big enough for both ships.
Same way they normally fly about without tearing apart: Structural integrity fields.
I would assume it would have something to do with the Laws of Motion & Inertia. When you’re in your car, even though you are not physically held down to your car by anything more than gravity, your directional motion is equal and influenced by your car as if it was part of your car, the only way you can cease this phenomenon is an outside force tries to push you off the car (inertia if acceleration is too great, and/or wind resistance, or the car stops moving).
This principle remains even when towing an object with the car, either with a hitch, or with a rope. A rope has problems with turns, bumps in the road, and wind resistance, while a hitch will make it more secure against the bumps and wind, while also making turns easier. We don’t know if a tractor beam is like a rope, or a steel rod, but there are no bumps, or wind resistance in space. Turns would also be minimal as you would navigate a Warp course in the most straight line. So as long as the Muffin accelerates slow enough, the “rope” should hold strong
Bob is not genre savvy, he is genre jaded.
Why? Because from his comments this was routine.