OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hmm...Could the energy shields in ST be artificial (Quantum) mass?

[Suicide Junkie]

Energy shields are pretty hard to rationalize.
But at the very least we can try to make them consistent.

Are they leaky or solid?
Limited charge, or work until the generator is damaged?
What is allowed to penetrate?

[NullAshton]

The shields in star trek use gravitons, projecting a force on incoming weapons. Beam weapons are refracted and disappated. Technically, they are leaky, as the more they are damaged the more leaks through. But armor dissapates the damage that goes through quite nicely. They work as long as energy can be fed to the shields, and can be redirected from other systems, such as weapons or life support. Subspace weapons penetrate them, however subspace weapons have unpredictable effects on life.

[Suicide Junkie]

Various episodes sure do like to throw in the solid-but-limited-charge thing though.

[NullAshton]

Bah. Leaky shielding when it gets into the 10% region.

[Suicide Junkie]

Of course, there are also many episodes that use the perma-leaky shielding.

Shields are almost certainly based on a plotiton field.

[Wolfman77]

What about the large battles in DS9? I don't remember seeing shields on anyones ships during them. I could understand if Dominion ships could penetrate Fed shields, but it didn't seem like there were any on dominion ships.