"David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:08:49 -0400, NeverMindWho
> <NeverMindWho@NoWhere.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:17:02 GMT, David Johnston <david@block.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:39:55 -0400, "80 Knight" <nospam@nospam.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>"David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:11:38 -0400, "80 Knight" <nospam@nospam.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>"David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT),
>>>>>>> "trigonometry1972@gmail.com
>>>>>>> |" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Apr 24, 9:18 am, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:01 -0700, Tim Bruening
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <tsbru...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >In this episode, Trip is stranded on a moon with an alien named
>>>>>>>>> >Zorgon.
>>>>>>>>> >It gets up to 170 Centigrade on that moon in the day, so Trip and
>>>>>>>>> >Zorgon
>>>>>>>>> >must get themselves rescued before they bake. Even worse, the
>>>>>>>>> >alien
>>>>>>>>> >doesn't sweat, so he's more vulnerable to the heat than Trip.
>>>>>>>>> >When
>>>>>>>>> >Trip
>>>>>>>>> >establishes contact with Voyager, why doesn't he ask Voyager to
>>>>>>>>> >beam
>>>>>>>>> >down a lot of water containers?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Giving Enterprise a transporter at all was a mistake.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>They should have dropped the transporters, I agree.
>>>>>>>>And they should have had shields
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They did have shields. Worked exactly like the ones in the rest of
>>>>>>> Star Trek. Just called them by another name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The NX-01 had "hull plating", not shields.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How was hull plating different from shields?
>>>>
>>>>I honestly don't know, but there was an episode where Trip and Reed were
>>>>trying to create a stable force field.
>>>
>>>Yes, but they were idiots. Seriously the only difference between what
>>>they were trying to create and what they had, is that they were trying
>>>to create a forcefield at a distance.
>>Hull plating was physical material
>
> No, it wasn't. Hull plating would get hit and go down to "45%", then
> "12%" and then it would be down. Physical material doesn't do that.
If you take a piece of hard metal, and start shooting a gun at it, it will
start to loose it's strength with each shot. "Enterprise" had the best F/X
of any Trek series, so if they were actually shields, why weren't they ever
shown as they were in all the other shows? Even in "Star Trek: Nemesis",
when the E-E was taking hit's, you could see the torpedoes hitting the
shields. With Enterprise, they would directly impact the hull.
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