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Originally Posted by Exoduselder
Alright for those of you who believe star trek is superior two words: Death Star. None of those Fed capital ships could get to the core of that thing and I have never Repeat and reiterate NEVER seen a single Fighter in star trek.
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Actually, there is a Federation fighter-like craft in the TNG series, but it's barely used. Apparently the Star Trek faring races think fighters are too worthless to use.
The Fed's fighters appear briefly in the one episode thingy where the Borg reach Earth - some base on Mars sends out a few of these little fighters and they go "WEEEEEEEEEEEE" and the Borg goes ">(" and blows them all up and they go "F**K! D:"
I don't know what they're called. I want to say Pengerine fighter, but I dunno.
The only other instance of a fighter-type craft in Star Trek that I can recall is the Jem Hadar fighter thingies.
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Originally Posted by RangerAidian
There are other types of plasmas that are cooler and less obtrusive, but have the same general characteristics of being made up of masses of charged particles.
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Yup. Just to add to that, there's a space.com article which touches in the creation of real-world "cold plasma."
http://www.space.com/businesstechnol...ma_000724.html
Apparently they think these condensed plasmas are the best shot at some type of force field like in Star Wars or Star Trek, and they say these things could lessen the damage dealt by lasers via scattering the light.
Or something like that.
About the Star Wars blasters and turbolasers and gahoozits - I support the idea that they're some kind of particle beam myself, and not plasma. Lasers, for one, do not give off a glow in space. Technically they can't give off a glow at all, but higher energy ones like weapons grade lasers can generate enough photons
(Edit: When in the atmosphere or another gaseous environment) to create the glow we see in science fiction, apparently.
Intuitor.com's "insultingly stupid movie physics" touches a lot on that and other "hollywood physics."
Now, here's one to boggle your mind... i don't know if it's already been brought up, though - how do you explain artificial gravity on Star Wars/Star Trek starships?