Transparent aluminum, dude.
Don't
Say
"Transparent Aluminum"
or Aluminium!
Cary will give us a huge lecture on how impossible it is!
Sorry Cary...
Will the New Enterprise's Bridge Dome be Transparent ?
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Don't
Say
"Transparent Aluminum"
or Aluminium!
Cary will give us a huge lecture on how impossible it is!
Sorry Cary...
Transparent aluminum would still be a weak spot in a hull composed of ultra-durable alloys, and would let in all kinds of EM radiation due to its transparent nature. Hope you like gamma rays. The first time a photon torpedo goes off nearby, everyone on the bridge will be exposed to lethal levels of the hard stuff - and I don't mean tequila.
I always thought that was just a way for the camera to continue to pan from the wide shot of the Enterprise all the way into the bridge. Pan through the wall, so to speak. Kind of an establishing shot, so folks could see where the bridge was on the ship and get a sense of scale.
I'm pretty sure this is correct. The "pan/zoom in through the wall" was a type of shooting device used fairly often in television during the decade or so previous, (another innovation from the Ernie Kovacs Show crew?) and I'm not sure that most people watching then would have automatically assumed a transparent dome.
Bolio also has a valid point about the drawbacks of such a dome.
I concur.
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The entire of the ship will be velvet.
I don't see how that's relevant unless they've invented transparent velvet by the 23rd century.
Hmmm...
Hmmm...
Just because something is transparent for visible light doesn't mean it will be transparent for all EM radiation. I'm not even sure if such matter exists.
Even if you could manage to make a transparent bubble that will reflect or absorb UV radiation, you're still leaving yourself wide open for high-intensity laser shots anywhere in the visible or IR spectrum.
At any rate - aluminum is still just aluminum. A few inches of that will NOT protect you from bomb-level gamma rays.
At any rate - aluminum is still just aluminum. A few inches of that will NOT protect you from bomb-level gamma rays.
It was invented the year ST 4: TVH was released.
Wouldn't sheild's protect from any bomb grade UV rays?
Probably, but starships don't cruise around with their shields up all the time. To say nothing about surprise attacks, there's plenty of very deadly natural radiation floating around in open space as it is. Right under a big skylight seems like a bad place to put a command and control center - that's all I'm sayin.
Well we know for certain the Ent D had a dome, how were they protected?
Oh yeah, I remember now; it's made of an alloy of 50% Handwavium and 50% Magicus-Wandikom.
in the changling the shields automatically snapped on when they sensed a threat.Probably, but starships don't cruise around with their shields up all the time. To say nothing about surprise attacks, there's plenty of very deadly natural radiation floating around in open space as it is. Right under a big skylight seems like a bad place to put a command and control center - that's all I'm sayin.
though considering the circumstances they should already have been up.
I assure you, I only just now read your post. My edit was done mere seconds after my original post was completed, and there was no subsequent post at the time. I hadn't even refreshed the page yet.FOUL, you edited after I posted making it look like I copied you.
...and in "Errand of Mercy", the ship took half a dozen Klingon disruptor hits with shields down despite sensing an incoming craft during a period of high alert.
It sounds to me more like a transparent dome would have to be made of pure unobtanium.
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