RE: [FT] Kra'Vak Changes

Heck, the engineering in ST is insulting to all us engineers.

JimC B.S.E and Forensic Engineer

----Original Message Follows----
From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca>
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 23:05:50 -0500
Subject: RE: [FT] Kra'Vak Changes
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Steven spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> Correct me if I am mistaken, but Human Beam batteries are a 
development or
> offshoot of particle accelerators? Regardless of what you call them -
> Phaser, lasers, particle project cannons, fusion cannons - they are 
all
> energy weapons designed to eat armour, hull and anything eles that 
gets in
> their way. If Kra'Vak armour acts like energy shields, when hit by 
Human
> beams, whos to say, that they don't also act like nuclear dampers, or 
have
> other special features..

Or maybe they have the dreaded "Structural Integrity Field" (a ST PSB 
field designed to hold together ships that would otherwise apparently 
fly apart... mighty scary engineering - it seems obvious to me why no 
engineers at starfleet academy wear iron rings....). 

Tom.  
> Steven
> 
> 
> 
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